So in other international tournament news...

Germany and Indonesia both have their qualifier results in.

Champion of Germany is a GARmore/Ezel Golds build, with Goku&Friends.dek coming in the runner-up position.

[Top 8 Decks]
1st Gold Paladin
2nd Kagero
3rd Spike Brothers
4th Kagero
5th Nova Grappler
6th Narukami
7th Pale Moon
8th Gold Paladin

Indonesia's top four were all Gold Paladin builds as well, the champion being a GAR/Duke build, the first runner-up being Ezel/Duke, the second a Duke.dek with a splash of GAR, and finally the GAR/Ezel style that became number one in Germany.



Meanwhile, Royals are nowhere to be found on these listings.

Discuss.

EDIT: Here are the links for the builds that won, I'm too lazy to screenshot/Google images of them.

http://cf-vanguard.com/en/cardlist/deckrecipe/WC2012_Germany
http://cf-vanguard.com/en/cardlist/deckrecipe/WC2012_Indonesia

Dallas Qualifiers resulted in Duke winning, with a top 8 of the following...

2nd Ezel
3rd Spike Kagero
4th Duke
5th Tsuku
6th + 7th Duke
8th Ezel

So Duke is pretty much top tier from these results. Also, Spike Kags are boss. Just thought you guys would like to know in addition

Also how in the world were Naru so popular

Kokonoe wrote:Dallas Qualifiers resulted in Duke winning, with a top 8 of the following...

2nd Ezel
3rd Spike Kagero
4th Duke
5th Tsuku
6th + 7th Duke
8th Ezel

So Duke is pretty much top tier from these results. Also, Spike Kags are boss. Just thought you guys would like to know in addition

Also how in the world were Naru so popular

I'd love to see this SpikeKag decklist. I'm sure it's Kags + Brakki and Jug and stuff, but Brakki's done well in a lot of decks that can allow soulblasts and resets.

Narus are popular because Vermillion hype and the fact that Kags and Royals can't do as much in the current environment due to a lack of proficient players running the Galahad engine, in addition to the fact that apparently, RetKag gets run over by all the things.

Like, no offense to the ECG, but the resources are available to make RetKag work. How has it not made any sort of a dent?

He plays Reckless Express > Bahr and Brakki iirc

Switch Koko's 3rd and 4th place and you've got the rankings.

Have a statistical analysis of decks.

Update: Canada, Mexico, Seattle and Chicago have their results in. Duke topped in Canada and Chicago, but...Narukami took home first in Mexico and Seattle. And Novas were first runner-up in Mexico.

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Narukami what?

...

what

Best part about it was one of those decks ran 2 Thunder Break, 2 Plasmabite, and 1 Vermillion.

And one of them admitted to doing nothing but sacking the entire time. He's... not really going to make it that far now, since that was the case.

Was that the Seattle guy, or the one from Mexico?

I'm assuming it was the Seattle guy.

Mexico guy was the one that admitted to it. He has a video up or something with that deck-list.