How the hell am I supposed to win on the Blitzball Tournament?

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Originally Posted by Firo Volondé

Don't worry about it too much. All you get a Strength Sphere for winning, though it is very handy at this early stage of the game, it is far from vital. If you do plan to try and win, though:

1) Pass around and keep possession as much as possible in the first half, partly for the experience, but mostly to stop them from scoring freely. Have Tidus pull off a pass at least once to put him to Level 3, so he can use Jecht Shot in the second half. At the four minute mark, get the ball down to Tidus quickly and try to score, so that they won't have time to counterattack.

2) In the second half, you will only have three minutes before Tidus comes off. It will interrupt the game and restart it as a blitzoff. You MUST get Tidus down AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE and score with the Jecht Shot. When Wakka comes on, you should be ahead or even. If you're behind, reset your PS2 and try again. If you're ahead, just get the ball and stall until time runs out, if scores are level, you could try to score with Wakka, he's also good at scoring. Again, make your move with a minute to go.

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I remember doing that in my first run, and winning 1-0 in the first game, but that was because I made a strategy because It is a lot like soccer and football.

But yeah, that is the best strategy

You get a Strength Sphere for doing this, you know those things that create a Strength + 4 node? The kind that you can get in abundance from the Species Conquest bosses at the Monster Arena, when you really need to boost your stats for the Dark Aeons?

Not worth it. Oh, and when Wakka would hand the Aurochs the ball as he leaves Luca, he instead hands them the trophy. That's it. That's all you get for winning this.

I was well disappointed.

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Originally Posted by Ender

It doesn't matter if you win that game or not. The only difference is some short in-game cutscene differences and your personal satisfaction AFAIK--there are no other item, story, or character "bonuses" for winning.

If you play enough times I can pretty much promise that you will either get good enough, or lucky enough, to win (I'm sure it helps if you've played the game successfully in the subsequent league-play and tourney options on a previous playthrough). It's a matter of how much commitment you are willing to make towards an ultimately pointless aspect of the game.

IMO breaking is pretty much worthless in that game. Pass the ball to Tidus and have him swim close to the goal and do a Jecht Shot.

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Couple things wrong with your post:
1. You do get a reward for winning besides a different looking cutscene, its called a Strength Sphere, which this early is VERY helpful.
2. You fail to mention you can only do the Jecht Shot once this entire match, and it is very unlikely (though possible) that Luca will not score when they get the ball back.

As for tactics, do what Ramza said. If you are winning, you can hang out behind your goalie, if no Luca player is near you they will not chase you (at least they never have for me)

I may sound cheap for saying this but...USE ACTION REPLAY MAX!!!!!

heres my strategy, except it doesnt seem to be working. can someone please improvise it? or tell me what im doing wrong?

first half: i try to get the ball and i can manage to keep the score 0-0, and i even once got tidus + 2 other players to level 3. (weirdest thing, one of the players didnt have a tech, even tho they were lvl 3.... errr idk what went wrong.)
second half before tidus leaves: i equip everyone's techniques and i put on jecht's sphere. yet, when i get into the game and use it, it always fails.

for ex: i had 16 SH, being blocked by an 8, which only really took 5 damage off. then it got to the net and i had 10SH. and still the goalie blocked it. i was pretty upset.

i dont think ff10 likes me very much >.<

ive gotten up to the point when wakka comes, but normally i just restart the game before then if im at 0-0 still or worse... x.x

someone please help. thank you! :confused::confused::confused:

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