Trend of Decks from the result of Asian Championship 2011 Finals

Hey, guys! Last week I have updated the result of Asian Championship 2011 Finals in Malaysia and today I will continue to share my observation for the deck types which appeared in this tournament. In Asia(exclude Japan), most of the promo cards(Shueisha Magazines and comics), Duel Terminal cards and also cards others than booster are forbid to be play in the official tournament. Thus, lot of the powerful cards such as Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Thunder King Rai-Oh, Dark End Dragon, Mist Wurm, Tech Genus Hyper Librarian and etc were not seen in any of these decks.

Basically, the trends of deck is quite variety. Majority of the deck types are Six Samurai, Machina Karakuri(including archtype), Blackwing and Fairy decks. Next is OCG Gravekeeper, Sin Zombie, Gladiator Beast, Psychic OTK, Quickdraw Junk Doppel, Lightsworn, Junk Synchron and others. As I can say, the major trends deck gained more advantages in this championship with the applied of chaos battle mode. Thus, I saw a lot of main stream decks occurred in the Malaysia quarter final.

In this tournament, I find a deck which I think is quite interesting to share with you guys. This deck is owned by the Yu-Gi-Oh! Taiwan 2011 Champion, Liu Hsiao Wei's and it is a Fairy deck. I think it is quite interesting due to it is a bit differ with the Japanese style Fairy deck that we had saw for a long time. It is a far more structure deck based and emphasize on the attack power of Fairy monster. Moreover, it does not depend on the super draw engine. With the aid of The Agent of Miracle - Jupiter in the Fairy deck, they can kill almost all the synchro monsters without synchro summoning by using this cards. Below is the Taiwanese Fairy deck list:

Monster(18):
Archlord Kristya x1
Dimensional Alchemist x3
Herald of Orange Light x3
Honest x1
Master Hyperion x3
Nova Summoner x1
The Agent of Miracle - Jupiter x3
The Agent of Mystery - Earth x3

Magic(10):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Pot of Duality x3
Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen x1

Trap(12):
Bottomless Trap Hole x2
Dimensional Prison x2
Fiendish Chain x1
Mirror Force x1
Royal Oppression x1
Seven Tools of Bandit x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Ancient Sacred Wyvern x1
Armory Arm x1
Avenging Knight Parshath x1
Black Rose Dragon x2
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Colosseum Fighter x1
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth x2
Magical Android x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Apart from that, some of my friends requested me to post the deck list of 1st runner-up of Asian Championship 2011 too. Thus, I also had attached the Korean Champion, Noh Jea-Yeong's Six Samurai deck list as below. This deck is not much differ with the common Six Samurai deck and the biggest difference is just the add of Neo-Spacian Grand Mole in main deck. Below is his deck list :

Monster(13):
Grandmaster of Six Samurai x2
Hand of the Six Samurai x1
Kagemusha of the Six Samurai x3
Legendary Six Samurai Kageki x3
Legendary Six Samurai Kizan x3
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole x1

Magic(14):
Book of Moon x1
Dark Hole x1
Gateway of Six x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
Reinforcement of Army x1
Shien's Smoke Signal x3
Six Samurai United x3

Trap(13):
Dimensional Prison x2
Double-Edged Sword Technique x3
Mirror Force x1
Musakani Magatama x2
Royal Oppression x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Colosseum Fighter x1
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth x2
Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En x3
Magical Android x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Our brand new Malaysian Champion's Tan Sung Lee is a guy whose playing Quickdraw Junk Doppel deck in this tournament. This deck is quite stable and competitive compare with those main stream decks but it is a bit losing hand card advantage due to the special summon of Quickdraw Synchron from the hand card requires a monster in your hand send to the graveyard so that it can be special summon. His deck list is as below:

Monster(22):
Card Trooper x2
Chaos Sorcerer x1
Debris Dragon x2
Dark Armed Dragon x1
Dandylion x1
Doppel Warrior x2
Effect Veiler x2
Glow Up Bulb x1
Junk Synchron x2
Level Eater x1
Lonefire Blossom x2
Mystic Tomato x1
Quickdraw Synchron x2
Sangan x1
Spore x1

Magic(12):
Dark Hole x1
Foolish Burial x1
Giant Trunade x1
Mind Control x1
Monster Reborn x1
Mystical Space Typhoon x2
One for One x1
Pot of Avarice x2
Reinforcement of the Army x1
Tuning x1

Trap(6):
Call of Haunted x1
Mirror Force x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Solemn Warning x2
Torrential Tribute x1

Extra Deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x1
Armory Arm x1
Black Rose Dragon x1
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Drill Warrior x2
Formula Synchron x2
Junk Destroyer x1
Junk Warrior x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Shooting Star Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Turbo Warrior x1

*All these countries champion's deck list may not be 100% correct.

One more news to share to you guys especially Malaysian before I ended my post  here is the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011 Malaysia Qualifier Tournament will be held for each Sunday at Game Arena, Sungei Wang Plaza until end of June 2011. Besides that, there will be another Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011 Malaysia Finals in this coming July 2011. So guys please be prepare for the tournament start from now.

Okay, that's all for today! Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

Asian Championship 2011 Finals Result

 

Hey, guys! As I mentioned earlier, Asian Final Championship was first time held in Malaysia and it is an unforgettable tournament for me. Overall, the tournament is consider good enough. However, I think the organizer did made some mistakes. The time of game to start the tournament suppose to be 9am but the actual time of tournament was on 8:30am and there are still a lot of players have not successfully register themselves due to the lack of manpower for handling the registration process.

 The name tag for all Yu-Gi-Oh! players to wear during the Asian Championship Final 2011.

This caused a bit of unfair to those whose arrive during 8:30am and unable to register themselves on time. Besides that, the tournament applying Chaos mode battle which means that each player will only have a single duel rather than match and each player should try to gain enough of win result so that they can proceed to the next game. The minimum requirement for proceed to next round is at least 4 stamps and those whose gain 4 stamps of lose will be disqualified immediately. Thus causing some of players just duel for several duels and did not collect enough of winner stamps so that they can proceed to the eighth-final in Malaysia.

Apart from that, I think I did not heard any explanation of the Chaos mode battle and they start the tournament right after 8:30am. As a result, some of players still did not understand of their situation and made them lose their advantages. I hope this situation can be improve on next time. This time the head of judge was came from Hong Kong and he did made a good job of it. He did create a fair judgment to all of us and I think it was no any unfair judgment towards any players regarding the rules and regulations of cards. I think most of you guys did not know that there was a rule for asking question to judges and I had saw and heard several comments from those players.

Special Card Sleeves just for all Yu-Gi-Oh! players whose have compete in the Asian Championship 2011.

As a judge, they cannot gave us any advice regarding the usage and combo of cards. They are not allowed to help us unless we have reveal our cards information to our opponent and only when we requested the help from them. Thus if your opponent did any mistake(for example special summon Doppel Warrior from the graveyard through the effect of Debris Dragon), then you should raise your problem to your opponent first. If the problem still cannot be solved, then you only raise it to your judges. In order to avoid such problem occurring during the tournament, you guys should keep on improving your cards ruling.

The Malaysian Asian Champion was Tan Sung Lee and he is the only one Malaysian who managed to reach into the semi-final. He is the player who play Quickdraw Junk Doppel deck. However, he defeated by the Singaporean, Soh Jun Yuan who officially became the Asian Championship Final 2011 Champion in the end. During the final, Jun Yuan versus the Korean, Noh Jea-Yeong who play Six Samurai deck and win in the event with the result of 2-1. He plays Junk Debris Doppel deck. Noh Jae-Yeong almost defeated by the Taiwan Champion, Liu Hsiao Wei whose play the Fairy deck during the semi-final. Luckily, he able to won at the last duel and he win with the result of 2-1 with Liu Hsiao Wei. The final of this game is very interesting and worth to be watch.

Before you guys view the video of Asian Championship Final 2011 final rounds from the link below, I had also attached the deck list of our Asian Final 2011 Champion in this blog. This deck is much more similar to the Japanese style Junk Debris Doppel and quite powerful as I watch his deck at live. Here are the full deck list(excluding side deck):

Monster(24):
Blackwing - Zephyrus the Elite x1
Card Trooper x2
Chaos Sorcerer x2
Dandylion x1
Dark Armed Dragon x1
Debris Dragon x2
Doppel Warrior x2
Effect Veiler x2
Glow-up Bulb x1
Junk Synchron x2
Lonefire Blossom x2
Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress x1
Mystic Tomato x1
Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter x2
Sangan x1
Spore x1

Magic(9):
Charge of Light Brigade x1
Dark Hole x1
Foolish Burial x1
Giant Trunade x1
Monster Reborn x1
One for One x1
Pot of Avarice x2
Reinforcement of Army x1

Trap(7):
Call of Hunter x1
Limit Rebirth x2
Torrential Tribute x1
Solemn Judgment x1
Trap Stun x2

Extra deck:
Ally of Justice Catastor x2
Armory Arm x1
Black Rose Dragon x3
Brionac, Ice Barrier Dragon x1
Chain Dragon x1
Chimeratech Fortress Dragon x1
Formula Synchron x2
Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth x1
Scrap Dragon x1
Stardust Dragon x1
Trishula, Ice Barrier Dragon x1

Video links for Asian Championship Final 2011:
1st game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUGDze0m2g
2nd game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-y3fzDFPUc
3rd game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OoN7gfAzqE

Moreover, I will share another news regarding the structure deck of Dark World(SD21). The ace card of Dark World have been revealed and its effect is as good as the fairy's structure deck ace monster-Master Hyperion. As I predicted in my previous post, this structure deck did have a field spell for Dark World and its effect is all face-up Dark World monster will increase 300 attack point while this card is face-up on the field. Once per turn, you can removed from play 1 Fiend type monster in your graveyard and select 1 Fiend monster from your hand to discard. Then you can draw 1 card from your deck.

However, the details of reprinted rare cards other than Dark Bribe has not reveal. Hopefully, the reprinted cards will be Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, Stygian Street Patrol, Gold Sarcophagus and Escape from the Dark Dimension. With these reprint cards, OCG will be much more interesting and more variety of deck can be play in the Official Tournament soon. Thus I hope my wish list will became true in this coming June 2011.

Okay, I will ended my post here! One more thing before I ended my post, let us congratulate our new Asian Championship Champion, Soh Jun Yuan and wish him to win in the coming Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2011. Thanks for your precious time and wish you guys have a nice day! Please stay tuned for my next post.

Asian Championship History in Malaysia

Hey, guys! Sorry for being a long time not updating my blog and today I will share the small history of Asian Championship of Malaysia Final. In this coming Sunday(17th April 2011), we will see almost all Asian region top Yu-Gi-Oh! players excluding Japanese will be gathered in Malaysia due to the Asian Final Championship is going to be held in Malaysia and this is the first time Malaysia become the host of Asian Final Championship.

Before the Asian Final Championship 2011 is held, our main venue for Asian tournament was held at the top floor(6th) of Sungei Wang Plaza and it is located beside the Green-Box karaoke. This venue only able to support maximum 68 players to duel at the same time. Thus every time we having the Asian Championship, we will be divided into 2 section of duels and the format we used are knock-out based and it continue applied until the quarter-finals. As a result, a lot of players have very little chances to enter to the quarter-finals and it is time-consuming because they can only match the next duel players after the two section of elimination ends.

Apart from that, the judges quality is a bit unbalance and some of the judges are just Yu-Gi-Oh! players and they totally never have a formal training on Yu-Gi-Oh! rules and regulations. This means that their basic knowledge may not be good enough and some time they pretends to be profession in giving explanation of cards effect. This will arose the problem of unfair to some of the Yu-Gi-Oh! players and making them disappointed towards the national judges. Apart from that, most of these inexpert judges tends to not asking the rulings and advices from the head of judge when they are unsure of the cards effect and rulings.

This is a bit unfair to some of the Yu-Gi-Oh! players and this situation has been occurred for several years. Thus I hope Konami can concern of this problem and try to give some judgment guidelines to all the tournament judges so that they can give a fair judgment to us. The actual role of judges was to preserve a fair game to all the players and avoided some of the players from cheating. They are the one whose suppose to helps us to make judgment and solve our confusion on cards effect. In simple words, they are the one whose helps to reduce problems and making sure of fair game is happen during the tournament period.

I think this is the first time we having tournament at the concourse area of Sungei Wang Plaza and usually concourse area is use for others purposes others than having cards tournament(I'm not sure Sungei Wang Plaza had held this kind of event before). By having tournament at the concourse area, players will felt more pressure and once again this card game is re-introduced to public. Thus this card game may have more potential players after the end of this event. In addition, parents, youths and elders can learn of this card game and influence their mindset of "simplicity of this game". 

Okay, that's all I gonna share today. For more details of the tournament, please enlarge the picture and view it. Thanks for your time and wish you guys good luck. I will see you guys in the event soon. Please stay tuned for my next post.