Last week, our Discord users debated this topic: What is Goat Control's worst/hardest matchup? Assume that all players are competent and have fairly standard maindeck and sidedeck choices. For your convenience, we've given you a summary all of the impassioned arguments that our Discord users made below.

tway93: 1st place out of 10
​Deck: Thunder Dragon Chaos

spankthemonkey: 2nd place out of 10
​Deck: Anti-Meta Warriors

Delinkquent: 3rd place out of 10
​Deck: Flip Control

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Stream highlights are below. Check out winners, losers, and grand finals of our first tournament.
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December of 2018 was the first full month of ranked play since GoatFormat.com went live. A few players were able to make our "Master Duelist" rank with fairly impressive winrates. Without further ado, we present the top10 ranked players out of 94 total players for the New Year. Remember that you can find Goat Format games and track your own ranking by joining our Discord server.

​Alt-win, burn, and combo, collectively known as the ABCs, maintain a significant presence in the online Yu-Gi-Oh! Goat Format meta. In most control decks, a large portion of the sidedeck, typically about 10 cards, is dedicated to countering these ABC decks. Having the tools to beat the ABC decks are essential to achieving a high winrate in the format. All of the best counters to each of these hazardous decks are listed below.

GoatFormat.com is testing out tournament ideas, and we'd like to give you the opportunity to participate. This tournament pays out $20 to 1st place and is free for anyone to enter. All of the information about the tournament can be found below.

When: Saturday 1/5/2019 at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST
How to enter: Entry will be in the #tournaments channel of our discord server. Signups will start approximately 1 hour before the tournament does. You must submit your decklist when you enter.
Decks: Locked. You cannot change decks between rounds.
Rounds: Double elimination, no time limits. First round byes (if needed) will go to the highest ranked players first. All other seeding will be done randomly. All rounds are played "live." Once pairings are announced, you will have 20 minutes to find your opponent before you are given a match loss.
Prizes: 1st place = $20, by paypal or another payment app. 1st must submit a replay of the grand finals in order to claim their prize.
Glitch/disconnect policy: Opening hand glitches are a replay (do not reconstruct). Other glitches that render the game unplayable will result in a reconstruct. First disconnection for each player in the tournament is a reconstruct. All future disconnections will result in a game loss (unless they occur during sidedecking).
Expected total tournament duration: 7-9 hours

GoatFormat.com staff with serve as the judges for this tournament. Once a judge has given their ruling, it is considered final. Persistently arguing with the judges or other unsportsmanlike conduct will result in penalties being awarded, up to disqualification if appropriate.