Thursday, February 23, 2012

Hi guys! As you all might have known, this year's Yu-Gi-Oh! Asia Championships will be held in Singapore on the 15th of April 2012! Singapore's own qualifiers will be held on the same day, after which the Asia Championships will be held immediately after it. Below here are the info that has been provided to me.




Date: 15 April 2012(Sunday)
Venue: SCAPE warehouse, level 2
Registration time: 0930hrs - 1000hrs

Note: Late comers will not be entertained

1st Place: Rights to represent Singapore in the Asia Championships 2012 regional finals held immediately after the Singapore qualifiers
Remainder prizes to be updated

Entry Fee per player: Free
Door Gift for all participants: Asia Championship 2012 Goodie Bag


Single Elimination
*For seeded players, information as follows
Division D Seeded players will enter round 3 of the Single Elimination directly
Division C Seeded players will enter round 4 of the Single Elimination directly
Division B Seeded players will enter round 5 of the Single Elimination directly
Division A Seeded players will enter round 6 of the Single Elimination directly
Note that all seeded players are still required to do online registration as per normal. Failure to register online will be treated as no interest to participate

Seeded players are as follows: (To check, view http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi/event/seeded_player_2012.php?lang=en&ct=sg )
Division A - 333-XXX-963 ANG CALVIN
Division A - 333-XXX-852 HO SHU MIAO
Division B - 333-XXX-175 CHEW KAH MENG
Division B - 333-XXX-502 LEE LIANSENG
Division C - 333-XXX-917 BENJAMIN LIM BAI CHUAN
Division C - 333-XXX-852 BRYAN CHUA
Division D - 333-XXX-659 BRANDON CHEW
Division D - 333-XXX-828 CHUAN ZHI
Division D - 333-XXX-677 CHOO WEE MIN
Division D - 333-XXX-816 MICHAEL SANTOSO


1. Deck Construction Rules
Deck must be between 40 to 60 cards, inclusive.
Extra Deck, while optional, must be between 0 to 15 cards, inclusive.
Side Deck, while optional, must be between 0 to 15 cards, inclusive.

2. Time limit of each match: 45 mins

3. No Fake cards or Proxys allowed in the event.

4. 1st MAR 2012 OCG Ban and Restricted list used in Tournament.

5. 19th March 2011 Priority Ruling in effect.

6. Card Legality
Only legally distributed Japanese cards are legal for use in sanctioned tournaments in Asia (excluding Japan and South Korea), namely:

* Booster Pack
* Duelist Pack
* Extra Pack
* Gold Series
* Tournament Pack
* Premium Pack 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14
* Yu-Gi-Oh: Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcend Time Movie Pack
* Starter Deck / Structure Deck
* Video Game Promotional Cards
* World Ranking Promotional Cards
* OCG Duel Terminal 1 & 2
*OCG Duelist Box 2012

Asian English cards are legal.

The following are illegal (unless reprinted in at least one of the above*):

o Premium Pack 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12
o Limited Edition Pack
o Duel Disk Promotional Cards
o OCG Duel Terminal 3 and onwards
o Anniversary Pack
o Shueisha Promotional Cards
o Weekly Jump
o V Jump
o Valuable Book
o Master Guide
o Video Game Guide
o Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! R Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D Manga
o Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Manga

*If the card is reprinted in at least one of the legal sets, you may use any version of that card. For example, Jurrac Guaiba was reprinted in Tournament Pack 2011 Vol. 3, hence you’re allowed to use the Duel Terminal version of Jurrac Guaiba.
**Even though Return of the Duelist is released on 14 April, it will not be legal to be used in the Asia Championships 2012

7. Any players who are found cheating or changing of cards during the tournament will be disqualified immediately.

8. All players are to submit their deck list online to register for the tournament prior to the event and ensure that their decks fulfill the rulings above.
*All players are to note that submission of decklists does not mean that responsibility of having a legal deck or not goes to the judges. Players not complying to the deck legality as per above rulings may be disqualified even if already mid game.

9. Only original Konami Deck Protectors can be used with the exception of deck protectors from Duel Disks or character deck protectors which are not allowed to be used in the tournament. [E.g. no Prisma or Starlight Road duel disk deck protectors]
*Will be strictly enforced as we will be hosting the Regional finals this year, please take note.

10. Double layer deck protectors are allowed, provided the outer layer must be a transparent deck protector. Players must use same color protectors for their decks, extra deck and side deck. No markings are allowed on protectors

11. Judges have the right to disqualify duelist who misconduct or violate rules

12. Judges decision is final

More rules and regulation can be found in http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_rule.html

13. Players who join must be a Singapore Citizen or Singapore PR. You may participate if you are none of the above mentioned but you will NOT be allowed to represent Singapore in the event that you win.

14. Players are reminded to bring along the following

. Pen
. Paper
. Playmat
. Duelist ID card
- Decklist
. Calculator
*Players are reminded to bring either pen and paper or calculator to calculate life points.

15. ALL THE PLAYERS MUST HAVE DUELIST ID TO JOIN, CLICK HERE TO APPLY
http://www.konami-asia.com/th/yugi5d/en/event/dk_duelist_id_apply.html


Hope this helps people! I will update again if there is any occurring changes!
If not, you can always visit this link here to get the information yourself too!

http://sg-ygo.userboard.net/t8458-asia-championships-2012

Labels: Tournaments, Updates

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Hey there to all readers out there! Ever since the leak about the banlist has appeared for around 1 and a half weeks or so. Many had a lot of disbelief for the scans at Shriek's website about whether it was real or not. But too bad to say people, it is real and we have to face it! Hard times are ahead! (Well perhaps not too much to duelists that uses more of Inzektors since its one of the most powerful and autopilot decks around!)


 - Perhaps Konami is trying to put an end to all the decks out there that is still trying to abuse Synchro monsters to its fullest, example would be like [Debris Junk Doppel] and decks that like to use [Phantom Skyblaster] for easy tuning with [Spore] or [Glow-Up Bulb] for synchro summoning out [Trishula , Dragon of the Ice Barrier]
But with this done, your graveyards are probably much much safer with the disappearance of Trishula. Inzektors will be able to rule the world with much more ease.

True though people will say that Junk Doppel decks can still have [Effect Veiler] around as their level 1 tuner monster. But still though, it will not be as fast as it is now with effect from 1st of March 2012!

- Personally I feel its good that this card is banned. I feel so much safer now having 4 or more cards in my hand without the fear of my opponent having the chance to peak at it! This allows Control type decks to try to predict more on what do you have in your disposal before trying to make any wrong moves that will lose their control over the field with you.


- The above 2 has just spouted the end of T.G Angel decks as it wouldn't be as consistent as before with these 2 cards both restricted to 1 copy at the same time. Reason being you won't be able to spam [Tech Genus Striker] for ease of special summon and to synchro for various synchro monsters but mainly being [Tech Genus Wonder Magician]. Or to even pair up with [Tech Genus Warwolf] perfectly!

With [The Agent of Mystery, Earth] to 1 copy, consistency of the deck will be that [The Agent of Creation, Venus] will not be so frequently seen on the field that quickly because it will not be able to be searched out by Earth as soon as possible. While this also means 2 lesser banishing fodder for [Master Hyperion]! Whether it would be banishing Earth for its summoning or for its destruction effect, it still proves to be a big hit for Agent Angel type decks now.



- Um... I've no comments about this really. Would you prefer playing [Spirit Reaper] or this card? Perhaps you can place this card in your Agent Angel decks as replacement for[The Agent of Mystery, Earth]! *laughs*

- Looks like Konami would like to bring back Lightsworn decks with a little more buff than before! How about mixing in the new archtypes brought in by [Galactic Overlord]? The [Lightray] theme sounds cool!

Emergency Teleport [緊急テレポート]
- This card was very good about 4 years ago when Tele DAD decks were rampaging around. However, even with this card back to 2 copies. It'd probably will not be seeing as much play as the era 4 years ago. Or even a year ago when [Mental Master] was still around. But now that its banned. The few good psychic type monsters to call upon would be like [Krebons]. Other than that, I could be wrong about the lesser play but.. it would be fun to see psychic decks trying to make their revival debut into the meta! =D

- This increases consistency for the Legendary Six Samurai decks! However with Inzektors coming about with even more resources and advantage generating effects. Even with this card back to 2 copies. The Legendary Six Samurai will still find it harder to gain the edge over the Inzektors in speed for control.

- The same when [Gravity Bind] gained its freedom. With cards like [Mystical Space Typhoon] at 3 copies. I don't really feel that this card will make any impact towards the current meta. With Xyz monsters not affected by this card as well.

- More upon-summon destruction traps would be useful against Inzektors or The Legendary Six Samurai to prevent them from trying to gain the edge over you. However, will this encourage more people in placing [Starlight Road] in their main/side decks?

- Offering Gadgets decks will slow down just by abit. They'd probably would be able to kill even without the final copy of this card.

- Even though the OCG hasn't gotten this card into our arsenal. By restricting this card first beforehand could be a good move as this means that this card will not be as powerful as it should be when it enters the OCG.(Means that it will be so much cheaper to get in 2s rather than 3s! Oh yea!)


- More Inzektor love! Enough said.

Well thats it for today's post! Been trying out the new archtype released in [Galactic Overlord] recently! Hope that it will be good enough for me to publish it soon! See you guys soon!

Labels: Banlist