 Our first Goat Format Championship of the year has come and gone, and your author must admit this is the most excited I’ve been about Goat Format in a long time. A couple times a year, we run a massive online free-to-play tournament. Players compete for a plethora of worlds invites (usually 4 or more) and the glorious title of “Goat Format Champion.” You can enter this event and our other events via our Discord here.
GFC’s have a reputation for bringing out the weirdest players with the weirdest decks, and GFC 25 was far from an exception. In Swiss pools we saw everything from Dark Return, Fire Cat, and the hot new Benkei OTK deck made a pretty deep run! Better still was how many awesome decks made top 16, and the decks only got cooler and cooler as bracket narrowed.  It seems that the dark side was too enticing for Geist D, since they decided to enter Goat Format Championship 25 with a Dark Return list sporting some casual favorites, like D.D. Scout Plane and Skull Lair! Are you afraid of the Dark (attribute)?
 GFC 25 proved to be an amazing event with some creative decks being showcased in one of the largest events of the year. Just look at Void's cool take on the Rescue Cat OTK strategy!
 GGP Ludwigshafen was truly massive, with 202 players vying to be the finest on the Rhine. Organized by one of the pillars of German Goat, GameYard24, this event featured something novel too: treacherous traps awaited duelists, as mixed among the ranks of the opposition were “pros” who granted prizes upon defeat, but made claiming that bounty no trifling matter. By the end, those featured in the top cut were many familiar faces, or at least names, to anyone who has glanced at the pulse of Goat lately especially in the region.
 Wow! Another two-invite PWCQ has come and gone, and boy was it a sick one. Most of the top 8 was Chaos Turbo and Warrior, but there were certainly some highlights to marvel at.
RESULTS AND MODIFICATIONContinued from Part 1: I entered the earlier of the two weekly Goat Format Friday tournament time slots to give it a test run against people who were motivated to point out weaknesses in the theory, and that they did. A brutal 0-3 run with a few games won was instructive. But there was time for the second tournament as well, which meant time to adapt and try again, see if the changes made improved the odds. A few things stood out. Back To Square One was unsatisfying to use on powerful monsters and is pretty inflexible in practice because of it. Nobleman of Crossout was sorely missed; Sets need to be answered efficiently. The 55 for the second tournament:
Welcome to [No] Bad Cards, a new series that seeks to challenge, or confirm, the assumptions around cards seen as difficult to use profitably in Goat Format. Each article will consist of three sections: a background section explaining the reason the card was chosen, a section dedicated to the theory driving a proposed optimal utilization of the card and the deck formed from it, then, finally, a section detailing the results of testing in competitive environments and deckbuild changes that followed with explanations of those as well. Submissions welcome! Episode One: The Theban Menace |
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