Buford Goes Brain-Dead
Zac “Buford” Richards
Outer Limits Comics
Madison, TN
May 18, 2003
45-50 Participants
$5 Entry Fee
Hi, I’m Zac Richards, although on the Pojo chat, Im Buford, and for the purpose of this report, I’ll refer to myself in that manner. Anyways, here’s my deck:
Monsters(18)
Tribute Monsters(1)
Jinzo (the ‘Zo)
4 and below (17)
Hysteric Fairy x3
La Jinn
Squirrel x3
Penguin Soldier
MoF x2
MEB
Goblin Attack Force x2
Gemini Elf
Witch (Madam Sir-A-Lot)
Jirai Gumo
Cyber Jar (a savior)
Magic(17)
Raigeki (mwahaha)
Offerings to the Doomed (not a bad card at all)
SoRL
Pot of Weed
Change of Heart
Heavy Storm (no HFD yet)
Confiscation
Delinquent Duo
Axe
UWS
Dark Hole
Scape Goat
MST
Graceful Charity (need 1 more)
Monster Reborn
Nobelman of Crosscut
Snatch Steal
Traps(5)
Dust Tornado (hopefully an MST soon)
Imperial Order
Skull Lair (just too good to be common)
Call of the Haunted
Mirror Force
Total: 40 cards
On to the report. Pre-tourney stuff: I got up, twinked with my deck a little, and decided to go with momongas. Then, having stayed up late watching animé the night before, trudged off to church ½ asleep. I usually go to sleep at church, but this week, the sermon proved interesting, so I stayed awake and listened. This proved to hurt me later on...After church, I head off for the 1:00 tourney at Outer Limits. My dad and I stop for some Arby’s. Gotta love Arby’s roast beef!
When I get to the tourney, it’s already packed, and I spot some familiar faces. I pick up my TP-3 pack and get jank. I do some trading and manage to secure a 2nd GAF which I promptly add to my deck. Then, the pairings were announced and we started.
Tourneys at Outer Limits are swiss for the first 3 rounds, and then the top 16 advance on to single elimination. Duels are best 2 out of 3, and the tourneys are sanctioned. Anyway, on with the games!
The TD announces my name with a kid named Jake...so I sit down to play.
Round1:Game 1 Buford vs. Jake (Relinquished beats)
Buford:8000-7000
Jake:8000-6200-4400-2300-0
Basically, I slap him around with a Hysteric Fairy and a Magician of Faith. He drew 1 monster, which I promptly NoC’d. Only damage I took was from my own Confiscation..
After this game, the TD announces that the computer has crashed and that we must start over with new pairings. I’m thinking “WHAT, I JUST WON THE FIRST GAME!” Anyway, the new pairings are announced, and I’m paired with a kid named Will.
Round 1 (the real one)Game 1 Buford (0-0) vs. Will (0-0 and approx 100 card deck)
Buford:8000
Will:8000-7000-6000-4200-0
Pretty easy. This kid ran Lightning Congers and Girochin Kuwagatas. I just Raigekied away his defenses and attacked directly with a Nimble on opening turn. He then set a monster and I Nobleman’d it. It was Big Eye. ?_? I then summoned Jinzo, equipped UWS and Axe, and you know the drill.
Game 2
Buford:8000
Will:8000-6700-3100-0
I felt sorry for this kid....a deck with 100 cards just can’t hold up...especially when you run terrible cards. Needless to say, a Hysteric Fairy with a full field, axe, and UWS. Finished him off.
Record:Duels:1-0 (2-0 overall)
I then sat around for about 25 minutes as the rest of the round finished up. I watched two pretty good players go to a stalemate, at which, when time ran out, one of them won by 100 life points. An interesting duel, really.
Anyway, on to round 2...
Round 2:Game 1 Buford (1-0) vs. Jake, the kid I was originally paired with for Round 1 (1-0)
Buford:8000-7000-6000
Jake:8000-6200-5200-4200-4100-2700-300-0
On the first turn, I played Confiscation and took 1 of the two Black Illusion Rituals he had in hand. He said, “Awww, I can’t get both out now.” I kinda smiled and kept on. I set a momonga and went right on. On his turn he set something, and passed. Sorry, the details of this are really fuzzy, but I do remember that he summoned Relinquished once, and absorbed my momonga and slapped me for 1000. I then Raigeki’d, reborned a random monster, and summoned Jinzo. I then proceeded to K.O. him.
Game 2
Buford:8000-6200-6000
Jake:8000-7900-2500-0
This one went pretty smoothly, as I didn’t take a whole lot of damage. The only damage I took was from a 7 Colored Fish attacking directly and his Hayabusa with an axe taking out my La Jinn. I won the game with 2 Hysteric Fairies, and a Squirrel equipped with an axe and UWS. It wasn’t pretty for him.
Record:(2-0)(4-0 overall)
While I waited for the next round to begin, Jake showed me his Dad’s cell phone. It was one of those new kind that has the camera on it. I was like, “Cool.” He took my picture....I guess to show his parents who beat him...I dunno....but what really shocked me was that his dad trusted him with that phone. After all, Jake couldn’t have been over 9 or 10.
Anyway, I’d gotten lucky through the first two rounds of pairings. I knew my luck was bound to end soon. Then, I heard who I was paired against.
Round3:Game 1 Buford (2-0) vs. T.J. Combos(2-0)Momonga Beats
Buford:8000-9000-8300
T.J.:8000-6100-2200-0
When I heard his last name, I wondered if that was really his name or if it was a joke about his playing skills. I guess he was around my age (15). This game was pretty easy, he attacked my squirrel on the first turn that I’d set. I then got out the other 2. I beat him with a Gemini Elf for 1900. Then, he set a monster. I had a penguin soldier set. I flipped it up and sent his card back to his hand. It turned out to be a Cyber Jar. Whew, that could’ve turned the duel around. I then attacked for the win.
Game 2
Buford:8000-7000-6000-5500-4500-2700-0
T.J.:8000-9000
He absolutely destroyed me. It was a complete role reversal. I couldn’t get a monster for the longest time, and he attacked me 2 straight turns with a squirrel. Finally I got some out, but he Raigeki’d and mirror forced them away. I was a bit sad, as this was the first game I’d lost.
Game 3
Buford:8000-7300-6800-6400-4400-2400-0
T.J.:8000-7000-5100-4300
This was the game that my brain went dead. It started off slow for both. We both just sort of traded blows. Then, he got out Skull Lair, which started killing every monster I summoned. Lets fast forward a bit in the duel to my blunder. He has down a Hayabusa Knight and a Goblin Attack Force. I have a witch of the black forest set. It’s my turn, and I notice that he has 7 cards in his graveyard. I have Jinzo in hand, and ponder summoning him, but then remember skull lair is out, and I don’t. I know, I know, he would’ve negated the trap, but my mind farted out, and I just passed. Anyway, he then attacked with the hayabusa knight, and I once again make a stupid mistake. I forget that hayabusa wouldn’t have destroyed the witch, and I put it in graveyard. He doesn’t say anything either, and he attacks for the win. About 5 minutes later, I’m still kicking myself for the Jinzo blunder, and I rethink the game. I then realize that the witch wouldn’t have died to the hayabusa. The GAF would’ve destroyed it, and then his hayabusa would’ve attacked me for 1000 damage, leaving me with 1400 life points remaining. I tell him about it, and he laughs. I was angry with myself for not realizing and him for not telling me about it either. The next card in my deck was reborn. I would’ve reborned the witch and summoned Jinzo. I then could’ve proceeded to win.
Record:(2-1)(5-2 Overall)
Well, I figured, I won’t make the top 16 now. So I stood around and listened to them announce it. It turned out that I was in the last game they announced lol. I was thinking, “I’m ok, just gotta shake off that last game.” I find out that my opponent is kid named Ryan, who was probably 12 or so.
Top16:Game 1 Buford vs. Ryan (A beatdown of sorts)
Buford:8000-5500
8000-7300-5400-4600-0
This game was pretty uneventful. I pretty much beat him down with little opposition. He smacked something with a Summoned Skull once. I then Rageki’d it and Reborn’d it, along with my GAF for the win.
Game 2 Buford vs. Ryan
Buford:8000-7500
Ryan:8000-7300-6600-5900-4100-2300-0
Not much happened in this duel. He just couldn’t handle Hysteric Fairies out the wazoo. I finished him off with a Hysteric Fairy and a Penguin, after flipping the penguin to get rid of his facedown monster.
So, I advance to the Top 8. Before this game, I have to take a whizz, so I go to the can. While in there, I see a cool Spider-Man drawing above the toilet that reads, “Be a man, not a kid, Hit the pot not the lid.” I laughed pretty hard at that.
Anyway, I hear the pairings, and I get put against an old friend/rival of mine, who I met at Books-A-Million during Yu-Gi-Oh! league a while back. Last time we played, I beat him 2 games straight, and I hoped it would prove to have the same outcome today.
Top8: Game 1 Buford vs. Randy (I’m 3-1 vs. him lifetime)
Buford:8000-3600-3400-1150-0
Randy:8000-4900-4800-1900-1100
On his first turn, he smacked me for 4400 total damage. I was hurting. I then mounted a comeback with a Hysteric Fairy equipped with UWS. He finally Fissured it and began taking me out again. At the end, I couldn’t draw a monster, and he topdecked a Neo (yeah, he was using Neo) to attack for the win. That game was awesome. I wish I could’ve had 1 more turn, because my next card was a Squirrel.
Game 2
Buford:8000-7000-5200
Randy:8000-6100-2600-0
Ok, I figure that I’ll be ok, one loss is nothing. I draw my hand and see my Delinquent Duo. I use it, and take out his Magic Cylinders. He discards something, I can’t remember what. I then set a monster. He dark hole’s it and summons a Gearfried. He attacks me for 1800. I then offerings to the doomed his Gearfried and summoned Gemini, and kept beating from there.
Game 3
Buford:8000-4000-2000-1000
Randy:8000-7500-5300-4600
Ok, I gain control early, and attack him with a Jirai Gumo a couple of times. Once was directly, but 2 of the 3 attacks, I miss the flip and cost myself ½ of my lifepoints. He then just attacked me with a momonga for the win. I wasn’t pleased with that stupid coin at all. Anyway, I had fun, and earned some points towards store ranking.
Now on to the props and slops:
Props to me for trading Right Arm for a Bazoo and Kycoo
Props to Randy for making Top 4. I’m not sure if he went to finals, as I left.
Props to Steak and Shake for a GREAT chocolate shake.
Props to .hack. It’s an awesome animé and fun game.
Props to Outer Limits for a fun tourney.
Slops to me for staying up late the night before, causing my mind to fart out.
Slops to T.J. for not telling me about the witch mistake until after I told him I’d realized it.
Slops to John Huff, the guy who played T.J. in the Top4. He’s loud.....VERY loud.
Slops to the little kids at Outer Limits who smell. Have you ever heard of deoderant?
If you’d like, contact me at ZBRichar@bellsouth.net OR IM me on AIM at MrMullet654321