 Today we had the largest Goat Format Championship tournament (and the largest online Goat Format event period) ever! 266 players entered for a chance at over $1,000 in prizes and the following eight came out on top! Read on for some stellar insight from the finalists of the most successful modern tournament our format has seen yet!
If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today?
Think deck was solid.
Did not look forward to playing anyone good. I don't want a difficult time. I don't want to put my skills to test. I want easy prizes.
What card had been overperforming for you today? Same answer as last year: Sinister Serpent. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? I love this match from round one because it provides so many teaching points about the nature of mastery and how (poor) mentality shapes (the lack of development of) mastery. Read the chat and observe how this player's mind attaches to the ego. In the face of undesired outcomes, the ego immediately leaps in to protect itself with thoughts about losing to luck. This ensures that he will fail to properly evaluate his own good luck, as well as card choices, deck choice, and technical play. Card choices: He has some suboptimal card choices, especially post-siding, that made him more fragile to being disturbed by my good luck. Deck choice: CT gets "lucky" more than most decks because it has more lucky synergies. His deck does not have so many synergies, so if we played 1,000 games, it would appear as if I would win more due to "luck" on the microcosm when really I chose the luckier deck on the macrocosm. Technical play: When the ego attaches to a narrative like "I got luck sacked," it blinds the user to proper evaluating whether they could have improved, regardless of whether it would have affected the individual game. Finally, the broader understanding to consider is that when one chooses to play a game with high variance (as opposed to, say, a fighting game), they enter into a contract in which they agree that they wish for luck to determine certain situations. You can see in the fragility of this player's emotions that he wants the upsides of the contract without its downsides. If you agreed to play YuGiOh, you agreed to accept variance. Replay: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=6322-38270666 If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? I would not have sided certain cards for matchups I didn't end up facing. But this kind of thinking presupposes that my opponents wouldn't change in response to myself changing the past, which I don't think is a safe assumption when you consider the non-Newtonian layer of reality. You cannot alter the select aspects of the past while keeping everything else the same, and if you can truly internalize this assumption (regardless of whether or not it's true), then you'll live a life without regret. Everything that happens, even the mistakes you make that feel so dumb in hindsight and have traumatic consequences, happens for a reason. See through the illusion of regret and you'll see through the illusion of suffering. Refuse to learn from the pain, and it will come back to teach you again.
What card had been overperforming for you today? Mystic Swordsman LV2 has been putting in a lot of work for me today. The second copy in the side has been great. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? My favorite moment was getting to take full advantage of Golem Sentry after using Snatch Steal on it. It was a very powerful card for me when I did! If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Cliff underperformed, but I think he was worth having anyway. I'm satisfied with the deck I brought.
What card had been overperforming for you today?
Mobius was MVP in the Burn matches. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Definitely having four Rampage members in the top eight. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Why change a list that has gotten you to 6-0? I came into this with a game plan & will finish it off today. ;) Thank you to all the staff on the GF discord & all the players that entered this tournament. Team Rampage is the best :)
What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Securing my third world's invite and making top eight at a GFC four times in a row. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? I'd cut Dustshoot. It's too high-risk-high-reward for me. I prefer consistency.
What decks or players were you NOT looking forward to playing against?
Chaos Turbo, it's an alright matchup but I'm just so sick of high roll Thunder Dragon decks. Anything else is fine. What card had been overperforming for you today? Creature Swap got Judgmented quite a bit. It's basically the third and fourth Nobleman against Chaos, while also being good against Warriors. You obviously take them out against anything with Goats, but since they're rather the exception you can main deck them with good conscience. Also Tomato just does everything for the deck. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? I'm really proud of the play when I summoned Apprentice Magician into Lukaz' Breaker, giving it another counter and throwing the game in the process. Seriously though, it's probably the moment when TKG told me I was Top eight, which I wasn't aware of before. Getting to World's is quite nice. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Would really like to fit Ring into the main somehow. One might add a Mimic LV3, but I'm not running it since I figured it wasn't worth, since drawing it isn't so great and you'd usually rather go into Sangan and Apprentice Magician with your first and second Tomatoes anyway. Also, the second Zaborg would probably seem better than Parshath, and I was playing that for a while. But the one-of Airknight rounds out the Deck much better, mainly because it synergizes really well with Decree. It also gives the deck more options to deal with Goats, and makes Premature a lot better. Last but not least, it makes the deck a bit more resilient to Tsukuyomi, which is already pretty good against this deck.
What decks or players were you NOT looking forward to playing against?
For this event I cut MST from my fifty-five cards, so I suppose Burn. What card had been overperforming for you today? Spirit Reaper (it's the boss of the deck), DD Warrior Lady, and Divine Wrath. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Round five against my teammate Mattuber: I surprisingly brought Old Vindictive Magician on the field with Apprentice, avoiding an OTK. Last round before top cut against JamesArc was also amazing. It was very skill intensive, back and forth all the time, with lots of technical plays If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Deck runs very well. Also, the sideboard is good. We have been working on TDCC for four or five months, so it is quite developed.
What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? To be honest? lol. My favorite moment was watching the stream and hearing you guys be confused by some of my plays, but I enjoy being unconventional and seeing the game differently. You've probably never heard of me because this was my first time playing in your premiere event. It's been awesome. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Yes, but I'll tell you after I win World's 😁
2 Comments
Solaris
4/27/2022 05:44:14 am
I want to be coached by Johnny. Such an interesting view on the game and beyond.
David Hume
4/27/2022 02:03:48 pm
Slashtap is such a bum hunter! Leave a Reply. |
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