Judge Ken Jackson placed the match slip onto the feature match table, prompting Bryan Coronel to examine the one in his hand. “Oh. This isn’t mine.” He blinked, and the judge scurried off to run the match slip back to a very confused table 12.
Both of these legendary competitors were on the “bubble.” With 6-2 records, the winner would stand a chance of making Day 2, while the loser would most certainly not. Luc won the die roll and opted to go first. He opened with a set card to each zone and Coronel was up.
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Evan Vargas, of constant Internet community fame and infamy, is the very vocal mouthpiece of Team Savage. Chad Justice is the creator of the Armed Samurai - Ben Kei deck. A Top 8 finisher at Shonen Jump Championship Houston, his deck building ingenuity has earned him a quick reputation."
Justice won the coin flip and opted to go first. “42 cards?” asked Vargas as he counted out Justice’s deck in a pile shuffle. “It’s too good to cut anything!” grinned Justice from below the brim of his white cotton Sundevil cap. He opened with two set spell or traps and passed. Every big event has a few pieces of tech—splashable, single cards that people are experimenting with either to expand and protect their own options or to hinder the opponent’s. Sometimes, the single card trends at major events carry on and become accepted parts of the global metagame. Other times, they fade straight into obscurity, and these articles are the only record of their existence. Either way, they’re always fascinating and often highly indicative of player attitudes. The magic number usually seems to be four, and sure enough, four major pieces of tech have emerged from SJC Indy.
Kevin Hor made very quiet news when he left Team Comic Odyssey a few months ago. I noticed something was up when he didn’t attend New Jersey. I asked around and eventually found out that he had parted ways with CO as a matter of mutual agreement. “Things just didn’t quite work out,” said a representative of CO. For what seemed like ages, I was left to wonder what had happened between the greatest team in the game and perhaps one of its greatest players—Hor had, after all, won two Cyber-Steins for CO during his tenure there.
Now finally, I have my answer. Hugo Adame and Jae Kim are both longstanding members of Team Savage. Well-recognized figures in the Internet community, both are respected for their deck building and dueling skills. Today, only one was in attendance.
For personal reasons that Team Savage does not yet wish to publicly disclose, Adame was not in attendance at today’s competition. By his wish though, Jae Kim is playing his friend’s favorite deck: “I figured if I played his deck he could sort of be here in spirit.” And that’s why Jae Kim is playing . . . wait for it . . . a Dark Magician deck. It’s all over, folks. After two days and eleven intense rounds of competition, one duelist has risen above the rest. That duelist is Osman Ortiz, who claimed the final Cyber-Stein for Team Comic Odyssey. After defeating Luke Chen in the quarterfinals, he went up against teammate Michael Fukuyama. Finally, he clashed with Robert Lim, winning by an overwhelming margin in two games to become the Shonen Jump Seattle Champion.
This is it. It all comes down to this final match. Osman Ortiz is taking on Robert Lim for the final Cyber-Stein to be given away in a Shonen Jump Championship. The match began with a race to see who could get to the seat facing the windows first. Robert won, but since he’s such a nice guy, he let Osman have it anyway. After inspecting each other’s decks and shuffling up, they rolled the dice and began the match.
As the players prepared for their match, they congratulated each other for their victories in the previous rounds. After a quick clarification of the prize structure, the match began with both players verifying each other’s decks. With the formalities out of the way, they rolled a die and began the match.
Both players were given an opportunity to check through each other’s decks before the match began, and after doing so, they shuffled up in silence. At the word from the head judge, they rolled the dice and began the game.
Game One Osman won the roll and opted to begin the game. He started off with Delinquent Duo, causing Luke to lose both Heavy Storm and Sakuretsu Armor. Osman continued with a set monster, then ended his turn. Luke set a card to each zone and passed back to Osman. Osman flipped D. D. Assailant, then played Nobleman of Crossout on Chen’s face down monster. It was Gravekeeper’s Spy, and all copies of it were removed from the game. |
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