The Meta Doesn't Apply to Everyone by Baneful

 

The metagame doesn't apply to everyone.  For those who do not know, a metagame is basically a set of advanced tactics that competitive players use.  Usually, it's is one set of tactics that is dominant, leading to some immitating it and others looking to counter it.  What strategies prevail varies on the format, and the metagame changes every couple of months.

 

Coverage of the metagame today is much less than it used to be.  Right now Konami owns a blog that officially reports tournament news, but before that, years ago, Metagame.com was the main site to go to for this kind of information.

 

 The coverage was massive and the hype it created toward the Yu-Gi-Oh community was big.  Since Konami took over, it was moreso cut-and-dry basic facts about the tournaments and the writing became much less frequent.  Still, the mentality of the little guy trying to copy the big successful guy is there.

 

Part of it was the novelty.  Tournaments always existed, but the Shonen Jumps and increased journalism made the metagame craze explode.  A lot of the articles on Pojo from 06 to 08 are largely meta focused to capture that novelty, though after the end of the craze, there was a bit of emptiness on here.

 

We often looked at these people who won these tournaments as role models for us to emulate but there's something to keep in mind.  For example, risk management.

 

Assume deck A is super risky and deck B is safe.  Let's say 100 people apply and 50 people are using each for simplicity.  Deck A will dominate the top 10 players, but will probably be very common in the bottom 20 players as well.  And deck B will be sandwiched in between.

 

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