Twin Triple Triad Tournaments! It's over, you can all go home now. grats jiro & shads

[Jiro]

Thank you Psychotic for hosting such a grand set of tournaments!

[Raistlin]

Worst Match:
Quin v Loony BoB I hate BoB and Quin's defensive style.

Wow, that is awful.

I'm surprised that I didn't win the D'oh Award for my 3rd place match.

[Ultima Shadow]

Might as well take this opportunity to mention the awesome new game style me and Jiro thought of (potential candidate for a future "Fira" tournament maybe?), currently named "Commander".

Basically, 4 of your cards can be level 1 to 4. But your final card - the "commander" - can be level 5 to 10. In other words, you are playing a level 1-4 match, but each player got a single big boss/trumph card to turn things around with/beat your opponent's ass even more badly with.

We playtested it a few times, and it's actually pretty awesome. It's also a style that's available to pretty much everyone since you don't need lots of powerful level 7+ cards to have a good shot at winning. Yet, it still allows you to play your favourite Boss, GF or Character card.

[Citizen Bleys]

I like the sound of that idea, as long as the "Commander" card is limited to the highest level of cards possessed by the player for whom that level is lower.

[Jiro]

I beat Shads' Eden (Lvl9) with Ifrit (Lvl8) so it's not even about how strong your commander is.

[Ultima Shadow]

I like the sound of that idea, as long as the "Commander" card is limited to the highest level of cards possessed by the player for whom that level is lower.

If you posses higher level cards than your opponent, I'd say you should at least be able to use "the highest level of cards possesed by your opponent +1 or even +2", so people with GF cards can get an opportunity to use those. The power difference between level 6 and 7 cards, 7 and 8 cards or level 8 and 9 cards isn't big enough to make a huge difference when the majority of the cards are still level 1-4. In fact, I'd say that cards such as Ultima Weapon and Catobeplas are probably better than many level 8 GF cards for this mode. Not to mention the same and plus rules can screw more powerful cards over too.


...a good example is that one match where both me and Jiro saved our GF cards for last, and I was in the lead and just put down my Eden card as my final move without thinking (shoul have double-checked the stats of Jiro's commander cards >_>). And lost because Jiro's commander (final card) triggered a nasty same combo through my Eden card. So, actually using my commander cost me that game.

[Quindiana Jones]

Ouch. Jesus Christ, Paul. xD

Is there one of those nifty award posts for the other Tournament, perchance? I may have just missed it.

[Faris]

After both these tournaments, I think I should go blonde.

Congrats Shads and to all the other winners!

[Psychotic]

Ouch. Jesus Christ, Paul. xD

Is there one of those nifty award posts for the other Tournament, perchance? I may have just missed it.

It's more BoB than it is you. He won the worst match in Firaga too, which answers your question I guess. You can see both sets of awards in the first post.

[Jiro]

Shads is the true tournament MVP. One 1st and one 2nd, nicely done!