Sacksquad ARG Results!

Sacksquad in the house!

Feed placing 3rd with Ripples AKA Cancer

ARG weekend has come in gone and I hope everyone played to their fullest potential or at least got some good games in. Sacksquad was able to attend ARG Watsonville and with a field of about 50 people we did alright. One of our members (Feed) managed to fight through the crowd and get into playoffs with a 4-2 record and placed 3^rd overall. A big congratulations to him and we’re proud to have him as a part of our team! I ended up going 3-1-2 with Revengers and I wanted to share my experience:

Round 1: Ripples (2-1)

Definitely one of the toughest matches of the day. Even though I knew the match-up very well, I couldn’t stop his Ripple shenanigans game 2. However both victories came due to my control of the pace and he had to stride multiple times, at that point I knew the game was mine.

Round 2: Sanc Guard (0-2)

First game I had complete control over the game: the board was in my favor, I had at least +5 hand advantage and I was up 4-2 in damage. He swings with Regalie and I eat the attack (with PG in hand) thinking I can punish him with Diablo then…CRIT!, CRIT!, CRIT!…FUUUUUU! My Sodium levels were way over 9000...

Round 3: Angel Feather (1-1)

I’ve played this match-up plenty of times with my brother to know that this is a toss-up. Most Angel Feather matches go to time so I thought that if I could clutch out the first game I’d be sitting pretty. I was wrong. Instead the first game was completed within the first 15 min with me setting up two rounds of Diablo and grabbing the win. Second game was a grind and went to time. On the 4^th turn I decked out and it was tied up. I should’ve checked the rulings to see if time was called does the person with the win get the match? Or do you finish the 4 rounds and then decide? Either way it was my fault and I took the tie.

Round 4: D-Robos (1-1)

First game he guard-breaks me 3 separate occasions, but I was able to hold on with guarding early and getting a couple lucky heals. Second game was very volatile game with triggers being hit back in forth, but he was able to get the win 20 seconds before time is called. TIME IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE TODAY SENPAI…

Round 5: Touken Ranbu (2-0)

At this point I was pretty pissed that I dropped my last 3 matches and I was probably not going to make it with only 2 points over 3 games. So I played much more aggressive and blew caution to the wind. This didn’t bode well for the next guy which I felt a little bad for now that I’m reflecting on the match. Both games I proc’d Judgebau then strode Doomed, Diablo, Diablo and he had no chance of coming back.

Round 6: Tachikaze (2-1)

My last match was pretty fun considering I’ve never played against Dinos before. First game I tried to retire his units while he had counterblast which was a pretty big mistake considering he can just call them back. He was able to sack me the first game with Tyrranolegend. I quickly picked up on his gimmick and for the next two games I suffocated his resources by attacking his rears and retiring is backrow with my Blasters while he didn’t have CB. With Judgebau and Swordbreaker I definitely noticed the difference in card advantage and then I went in for the kill with Abyss.

Our Top 8: Revengers, Revengers, Ripples, DiaBuster, SancGuard, Chaos Breaker, SancGuard, Ripples

Overall I think Sacksquad had a decent outing at our first ARG. I've been to plenty of tournaments throughout my Pokemon and Yu-Gi career and I have to say that the ARG tournament was well executed, shout-outs to Gamer’s Den for a job well done! Everyone was pretty friendly and I was able to get a few trades in as well as these awesome Marth sleeves! I hope everyone had a good weekend and I look forward to seeing some familiar faces at our next event (which will probably be Springfest in Anaheim).

See you all next week, kooj signing out.