The Australian Buddy Challenge

So I entered the buddy challenge in Australia and man it was a great experience so today I'm going to tell you all of my experiences. However, this is just a brief overview, I will have my entire thoughts will be on the next episode of the Future Fighters Cast podcast.

So first, I did not win, but I did get to the top 8. There were about 37 players with about half playing Dragon World, about another quarter playing Wizards (am unsure if there were any 72 Pillars entered), and the rest were split between Katana and Danger with no Ancient World. The top 8 consisted of 1 magic world deck, 3 Danger world decks (including my own) and 4 Dragon World decks. I think all my games were against Dragon World, put it was fun anyway. One battle I had would have me lose through Galvanic Feather Dragon burning me to death as I tried to kill it with Khan only to be stopped by an endless stream of dragon shields. I won the next two matches against that player, but man that was a fun loss that I didn't even think was possible. The games were really tough (except for one preliminaries match), the giveaways were in the plenty and the set up was professional and had no problems with judging, between matches or the set up. On terms of players skills, i was one of the better players there, with the top player beating me through top deck and the 3rd place player completely thrashing me, I find it difficult to imagine there were many more players that where of their level. However, for the average, casual player, you weren't going to win often. Out of what i saw out of the Weiss side of things, they had twice as many players but ran just as smoothly, Neko Cards employees and volunteers know how to run a smooth event.

So thats just an overview of the event, if you want my deck list its here: http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/showDeck/deck_id/528862 and I will have more to talk about in the podcast, which will be on YouTube on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI-g6hJUYqw-lzCQ_9SMa5Q my slightly more updated deck list is also on that channel, but it didn't change much. I might even have an interview with the winner.