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Team AC Takes Paris! 🇫🇷 | KeyForge Paris Vault Tour Recap · Archons Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, what's going on, everybody? I'm the one, the
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  Speaker 1: only w o Okay, I e kind of giving you
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  Speaker 1: a little prelude to this. This was recorded quite a
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  Speaker 1: while ago. We're just getting it up to you guys now, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: but this one was from Vault Tour Paris. I believe
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be Ewok talking to zim Zudi, Lord
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  Speaker 1: Judo and Harmed some AC team members that went to
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  Speaker 1: that Vault tour. Kind of giving you a little recap
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  Speaker 1: so you might hear stuff that I may be dated
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  Speaker 1: at this point, but just sip back, relax, grab some
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  Speaker 1: pop parn and enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: I am the one, the only, the e w Ok
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  Speaker 2: Underscore Junior, and I am here today with some fellow
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  Speaker 2: AC members, not our cast of usual misfits, but some
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  Speaker 2: very very important and we are here to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Vault Tour Paris. And so with me coming in,
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  Speaker 2: you may have gone ahead and known. You may have
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  Speaker 2: seen him actually in our recent Shattered Realities preview, Italian
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  Speaker 2: Stalion himself. Zizudi, Hello guy, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be here, and thanks to York.
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  Speaker 2: And two other amazing members who I had the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of being able to spend some time with. At our
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  Speaker 2: last KFC, we have the Dutch deuce duo, Lord Judo unharmed.
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  Speaker 2: That is right AKA. You might have seen him as
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  Speaker 2: Flip Stalliard and dre Conis, so welcome Lord Judo.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for introducing me the Dutch Deuce.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, I mean it is a really really important
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  Speaker 2: title as I hold the deuce. So it is all
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  Speaker 2: that we are all together and draconis himself harmed.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome man, okay for community, very glad to be here.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Deuce. We have two deuces now, amazing.
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  Speaker 2: All the deuces. We'll go ahead and get into that
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  Speaker 2: real quick. We'll talk more on our usual cast is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the only usual member who is here today. We're
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  Speaker 2: recording during a time when well the usual colleagues are outworking.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to use my teacherability to help us out.
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  Speaker 2: And so right now, our game found campaign is going on.
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  Speaker 2: If you have not already gone ahead and back to keyboard, shadded,
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  Speaker 2: reality is happening. And right now we have three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty backers at one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So great job, guys, Are you excited about the new
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  Speaker 2: shatter reality that is coming.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, absolutely the newest spoilers by the time that
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  Speaker 5: this releases. Brobnara Mars look incredible. There's so much cool
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  Speaker 5: stuff in there, and I don't want to put too
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  Speaker 5: many spoilers out there if people want to keep are free.
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  Speaker 5: But they look really nice.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, I totally agree. I was kind of
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  Speaker 3: sure on what houses I wanted to pick from the
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  Speaker 3: from the campaign, but with the new spoilers, I re
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  Speaker 3: evaluated some of them.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I'm also quite excited. And I think
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  Speaker 4: our friends the Motility uh Dragons and the Motility five,
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  Speaker 4: they're into the lore and the aesthetics of it. And
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  Speaker 4: I saw a picture of a doorstep to Heaven that
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  Speaker 4: wasn't really doorseep to Heaven anymore. So there's the first
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  Speaker 4: time I'm like, hey, something, something's happening in the cruiseible,
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  Speaker 4: which it feels pretty cool. So I'm excited.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there is actually Lord to this game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is there is Lord to the game. We
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  Speaker 2: have seen some darkness approaching and I'm really curious to
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  Speaker 2: see what happened to that doorstep, but some great artwork.
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  Speaker 2: I know, not everyone follows along for that, Zui, you
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  Speaker 2: actually had a beautiful side of two cards that you
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  Speaker 2: want ahead and introduce. So if you've not checked that out,
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  Speaker 2: where should our listeners go ahead and take a peak?
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  Speaker 2: Because you recorded both in Italian and English, so it's
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  Speaker 2: going to hit a large chunk of individuals who could listen.
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  Speaker 2: But where should they find that radio?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on the TIMG channel, which is basically an
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  Speaker 3: Italian channel. Over All, we usually spotlight things like events
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  Speaker 3: or personality or lists of what we think are the
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  Speaker 3: best order worst cards of each set. But they've done
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  Speaker 3: quite a big, big job to keep people interested. I
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  Speaker 3: was saying Ales on the discord lately, the Italian community
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  Speaker 3: is growing a lot. We have quite a bit of
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  Speaker 3: people joining every week, so we wanted to share our
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  Speaker 3: spoilers both you know, we're native language, to increase the
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  Speaker 3: number of people's here, but you also felt like everyone
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  Speaker 3: should have them in I would say the native language,
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  Speaker 3: but something closer to.
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  Speaker 2: The very nice. It is great news to actually hear
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  Speaker 2: that internationally, especially in Italy, that the community is growing,
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  Speaker 2: because that's something that we often hear in America don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily hear about. And the game has been around for
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  Speaker 2: a number of years, so that is amazing news to hear.
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  Speaker 2: It's thriving, it's doing well, and you're growing it. So
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  Speaker 2: great job over there. Without further ado, boys, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to jump right in so I know it's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later, but on the third, fourth and fifth of July,
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  Speaker 2: you guys got a chance to go ahead and go
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  Speaker 2: to a Vault tour. So let's chat a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about it. What was your approach? Did you come in early?
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you stay? Talk to me a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 4: We came in early and late. I guess we came
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  Speaker 4: in a day early, but very late. So I drove
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  Speaker 4: with armed and we picked up Stephen Mann, another Dutch
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  Speaker 4: player along the way. So I think we left around
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  Speaker 4: four four in the afternoon and we arrived just before twelve.
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  Speaker 4: I think, nice detail through Paris, some sightseeing in some
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  Speaker 4: great neighborhoods because the highway was closed, so that was
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  Speaker 4: that was good fun. But yeah, so a they early,
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  Speaker 4: just get some sleep in so we didn't have to
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  Speaker 4: rush to make it to the twelve o'clock noon kickoff
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  Speaker 4: for Alliance, So I think, yeah, that was a There
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  Speaker 4: was an entry to the Vault Fold Tour we picked
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  Speaker 4: the hotel that was recommended they had to deal with.
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  Speaker 4: It was decent that air conditioning in the bed.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, is it traditional that there wouldn't be air
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  Speaker 2: conditioning when I'm traveling abroad?
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  Speaker 4: It's not that common, I guess for normal households in
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  Speaker 4: an Elands. Is becoming a bit more common. So last
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  Speaker 4: year we had an accommodation without air conditioning, this this
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  Speaker 4: year we had one with So I don't know, harm't
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  Speaker 4: you you go to more hotels? Is it not common
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  Speaker 4: to f AC?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why not trouble for business, it's definitely
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  Speaker 5: common to AC. But when I trafle personally, no, probably.
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  Speaker 2: Not interesting, okay. And I was actually fascinated with the
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  Speaker 2: drive time before the cast. I was talking with my
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  Speaker 2: eleven year old as you were coming back from soccer camp,
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  Speaker 2: and she was trying to be able to position how
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  Speaker 2: far it was from your drive time, and I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to explain because we just got back from a
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  Speaker 2: trip where we drove to Florida and that was twenty
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  Speaker 2: one hours and.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, so she.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she just sees it as different countries and
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  Speaker 2: she's like.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it must be way more than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So right now. Please know that all of my
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  Speaker 2: kids want to come over and we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: tour Europe. I said, I wish I could do this,
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  Speaker 2: but that is not in the plans right now.
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  Speaker 4: So it was a five and a half hour drive.
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  Speaker 4: And I think in the Netherlands, if we're like we
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  Speaker 4: have to drive somewhere for an hour, where like, oh man,
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  Speaker 4: it's a one hour drive. We tell this to people
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  Speaker 4: from America like what is around the corner? What are
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  Speaker 4: you complaining about? So, yeah, it was a five and
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  Speaker 4: a half hour drive, which is not that far, but
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  Speaker 4: it's a solid drive, but not twenty one hours now.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just the three of you guys that
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  Speaker 2: went down from your team.
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  Speaker 5: Total, but we decided to go with two different cars.
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  Speaker 5: The rest of the team already left in the morning
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  Speaker 5: because they were able to take the whole day off,
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  Speaker 5: and we just kind of sneaked out of work early.
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  Speaker 2: So you represent what I have to do. I have
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  Speaker 2: to work through the full day and everyone else is
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  Speaker 2: just hitting their watch as they're waiting for me, like
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  Speaker 2: why are you not done? I could leave in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: so I know that pain. I know that pain. Well,
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  Speaker 2: SUZUITI how long of a trip, is it from you?
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  Speaker 2: And how did you get into the Vault Tour.
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  Speaker 3: I actually had to start my trip two days prior
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  Speaker 3: because I'm in the far north east of Italy, so
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  Speaker 3: I had to move to west and then from there
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  Speaker 3: get to Paris. So I had done eight hours drive
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  Speaker 3: to Touring where Philo was, which I then remained in
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  Speaker 3: easy House for like a day, and then we had
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  Speaker 3: to take the train to Paris, which was another I
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  Speaker 3: think eight hours something like that, because last year I
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  Speaker 3: tried to go with the airplane, but we have quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit of strikes and they didn't want to risk
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  Speaker 3: it again, so we took the train. So we arrived
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  Speaker 3: at like one am in Paris and then we had
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  Speaker 3: to take an uber, so it was another an hour
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  Speaker 3: and something, but because the road was closed, as Juda mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: we had to move like one hour and a half.
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  Speaker 3: So I'd say the twenty one hours that you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: before was my total trip to get there.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that sounds like a brutal trip. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the benefit is you could practice on the actual
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  Speaker 2: train for the second part, but that does not sound
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  Speaker 2: as enjoyable as I was imagining.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not the best, but I'm not really that
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  Speaker 3: lucky in my region because the nearest thing I have
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  Speaker 3: is like Slovenia, and even to get to Florence, where
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  Speaker 3: the Italian Vall tour is, I'd have to take a
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  Speaker 3: trip of like four hours, five hours something like that
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  Speaker 3: with the car. So I'm not really that well adjusted
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  Speaker 3: to the rest of the work.
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  Speaker 2: So you say four to five hours, that's our trip
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  Speaker 2: from Wisconsin over to the game center in Minneapolis. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's an easy one. I'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you're not used to the drive, I
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  Speaker 2: get it. I get it. Okay, So you guys show
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  Speaker 2: up and you have a little bit different experience getting there.
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  Speaker 2: But Vaults Hotel was manageable, easy enough. How is the
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  Speaker 2: venue itself?
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  Speaker 5: Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, you go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I really liked the whole thing, honestly, even speaking to
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  Speaker 3: people during the morning. Even though the the breakfast was
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  Speaker 3: all right, the experience with other players there was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Plus I'd say that the pizza was nice.
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  Speaker 4: From an Italian, that's something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm given that, Like I'm not a eater, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, But.
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  Speaker 4: The venue of The Vault itself was a youth center
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  Speaker 4: image am I however they say it in in French.
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  Speaker 4: But we've been there last year as well, and this
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  Speaker 4: year it's a return and the staff is super nice
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  Speaker 4: and I think even like since it's a youth center,
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  Speaker 4: they did some promotion. I think also some members of
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  Speaker 4: the center joined the keyboards as well, so so some
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  Speaker 4: of them was the first time the owner even competed
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  Speaker 4: in the in the In the Vault tour as well.
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  Speaker 4: So the venue was amazing. It had some outdoors. It
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  Speaker 4: had mini football or football. I don't know, you say football,
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  Speaker 4: you walk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, football, Yeah, it's a little ball that you're playing
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  Speaker 2: kind of with some paddles, living yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, some basketball, some nice couches, sunny. It was great. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a bit hot, but yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And even a completely separate stream room. And it's always
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  Speaker 5: already a blessing to play on stream, but this one
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  Speaker 5: was air conditioned, so it was better to play on stream.
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  Speaker 5: You would just want to stay in the room because
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  Speaker 5: I think it was like thirty two degrees outside right.
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  Speaker 4: Which is like ninety something fairnheed, I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: It was hot.
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  Speaker 2: It was very hot, so I think one of the
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  Speaker 2: main differences between the International vaults and the US vaults
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  Speaker 2: is that you guys get a chance to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play all three events versus our kind of Alliance.
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  Speaker 2: For us, we have to make a choice, which is
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  Speaker 2: why oftentimes you're not seeing the numbers on Alliance.
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  Speaker 4: True.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true? So if I look back, I believe
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  Speaker 2: that you guys had Alliance first, or was it Sealed first?
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  Speaker 4: It was Alliance first. I think we had thirty six
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  Speaker 4: people there because it was on a Friday, so you'd
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  Speaker 4: have to take a day off of work or maybe two.
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  Speaker 4: So thirty six Alliance, which definitely beats by a factor
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  Speaker 4: of four even sometimes in numbers in the US vaults,
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  Speaker 4: because you get to do both of the events, right,
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  Speaker 4: So that's that's that's really great. The side effect is
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  Speaker 4: that the field is very stacked, to be honest, because
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  Speaker 4: people are going to play Alliance and are cons They're
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  Speaker 4: investing into Alliance just as much as you would argue,
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  Speaker 4: and because both give you an opportunity to qualify for Worlds.
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  Speaker 2: So talk to me, how did you guys end up
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  Speaker 2: doing so harmed? How did you end up doing for Alliance?
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  Speaker 5: So for me, it was a special event because I
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  Speaker 5: was the defending champion of Alliance and going into the event,
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't actually sure what build I wanted to bring.
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  Speaker 5: Always a good thing, always a good thing. I knew
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  Speaker 5: PV was dominating, and last year PV was just released,
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  Speaker 5: so people were still really playing around with it, figuring
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  Speaker 5: out what works. And then if you had like a stable,
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  Speaker 5: older set build that usually would do really well, even
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  Speaker 5: though people back then bought displays. On the day itself
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  Speaker 5: of PV built an Alliance and did really well, and
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  Speaker 5: I felt like, being a defending champion, I'm just going
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  Speaker 5: to bring my own own old builds that I've put
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  Speaker 5: a lot of time in. I brought it to Worlds.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just going to play that, which is a Bryo
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  Speaker 5: cup cup built with triple retrotechnician Lee a lot of
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  Speaker 5: efficiency into the Star Alliance as well, and then a well,
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  Speaker 5: the most disgusting guy story that you've ever seen, with
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  Speaker 5: both Well of Memory and Island of Misfit Toys Double
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  Speaker 5: Boo in Here Somewhere br guys wins of that pretty
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  Speaker 5: much everything that you want to see, and then even
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  Speaker 5: purging on top of that with like Mender and singing
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  Speaker 5: Sithe to get rid of any kind of combo dex
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  Speaker 5: and I felt kind of good going into it. I
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  Speaker 5: hadn't really played my Alliance built for a couple of
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  Speaker 5: months or so, and to be honest, I don't remember
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  Speaker 5: much from my wins, but I do remember both of
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  Speaker 5: my losses, and I ended up going four into throughout
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  Speaker 5: the day. My first loss was against JOCKI, one of
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  Speaker 5: the German players, and that was like one of those
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  Speaker 5: typical Keyford games where just every thing went wrong, like
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  Speaker 5: the draws didn't line up, you do a mulligan. I
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  Speaker 5: drew back into my best turn one play, which was
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  Speaker 5: playing a Wins of Death with a discard pip and
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  Speaker 5: discarding singing Sife. That was the best I could do
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  Speaker 5: with my turn one. I don't think I did anything
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  Speaker 5: for the first three or four turns of that game,
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  Speaker 5: not because I was disrupted, just because I didn't really
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  Speaker 5: draw into anything. And then at some point I had
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  Speaker 5: a decision to play boo on myself and Boo on
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  Speaker 5: my opponents. I picked myself first, and I played the
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  Speaker 5: second one of my opponents, and I literally discarded the
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  Speaker 5: ten worst cards in his entire deck. So that was
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  Speaker 5: kind of the kind of game. It went still a
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  Speaker 5: close game. Yoki went up to me afterwards and told
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  Speaker 5: me that he actually practiced the matchup online and it
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  Speaker 5: was like losing to him ninety percent of the time.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, it's one of those games.
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  Speaker 2: That always makes you feel much better when people come
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  Speaker 2: after like, yeah, ninety percent of the time. I have
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  Speaker 2: a local who's like, I had not run our deck
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  Speaker 2: against his at all, and he's like, yeah, I read
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  Speaker 2: it against all of your decks, and this this one
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  Speaker 2: wins at this percentage, so I anticipate that I'll win this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, that's my story championship. Thanks, I got it.
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  Speaker 5: And then you proceed to beat his as anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, No, it was close, but no, I still lost
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  Speaker 2: in that matchup. And I will say shout out to
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  Speaker 2: Noke because Snoki did qualify for Alliance as the pass
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  Speaker 2: down of her top four spots, so awesome, awesome job.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he did really well, and out of
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  Speaker 5: all the PV builds that I played, I think one
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  Speaker 5: hit his one was one of the best. And I
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  Speaker 5: did play against six other PV decks that day, which
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  Speaker 5: is incredible. Like if you look at the Alliance field,
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  Speaker 5: it was pretty much only PV, and I was quite
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  Speaker 5: proud that we, as the six Dutchies, actually didn't bring
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  Speaker 5: any PV. We had like a mix of amber Sky's
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  Speaker 5: g R Crucible Clash even and I'll talk more about
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  Speaker 5: that built later because that one is quite interesting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then one of my final games I played against
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  Speaker 5: Lorenzo on stream and he just completely wrecked me and
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  Speaker 5: furnaced all my key pieces away. So four and two
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  Speaker 5: lost two times against two top eight players. So I
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  Speaker 5: had still had a little bit of hope with thirty
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  Speaker 5: six players that I might get in with the four
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  Speaker 5: to two, but I got I think ninth place based
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  Speaker 5: on strength schedule, so I couldn't defend my title unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Judo, how did you end up doing an alliance?
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  Speaker 4: Well? Good, but not that good, I guess. So I
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  Speaker 4: have a nemesis at the French fol Tour, and it's
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  Speaker 4: a teammate of ours. It's Matility five. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: For some reason, the French vaulter is his vaulture and
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I get paired up at the most unfortunate moments against him,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and then yeah, I already know what time it is.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: So I started pretty well. I brought Drakes by the way,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: because I opened Abrupnar pod with two ember Drakes inside
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: the pot itself, which is pretty crazy, so I felt
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I had to lean into that, so went well. I think.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I started against a World's colde build, which I also
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: considered because I thought maybe it would do well, but
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: got the better of that one then two more PV
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: so I'm three to zero. I'm like, okay, all right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: here we go. And then I faced my nemesis Multility
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: five with his Crucible Clash build, which harmed will probably
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: talk about a bit more, but is super fast, disgusting.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: But I had my winning combo in my hand for
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: two turns, but only to be controlled the week twice
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: in a row and then not being able to stop it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: It feels pretty bad. So my nemesis struck again. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: then I also faced Lorenzo I think, and he he
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: would by ass And that's four two also down on
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: strength of schedule, so four two not too bad, I guess.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'll pay your donation to the swear ter
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I got.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: You, did I swear?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I didn't even didn't even realize with this cat tonight
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: big donation.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but Untilly five made it to the top eight
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: and even further than that with his crucial Clash, So
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I was really bummed the last that game, but he
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: did he did really well again at the French Walter.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Sizouri. How did the Alliance show up
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: for real?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Honestly better than I expected because I was going into
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: it without any expectation. So I went with Tokens of
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Change deck an Alpha Gamma, which was not really reliable
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: on the talk in itself. It was more of a
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: value play kind of deck. So I had the three
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: pole war More double red line three pole against woll
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Legs and the quadra routine job, so it was basically
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: just spamming and and stealing as much as it would.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I went with twenty to Amber Tootal I think, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I went for to losing to PV basically, which was
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: one from J Philippeg which crushed me with the cover fires.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: He was able to replay them like three times and
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I couldn't really do much because I was trying to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: get ahead of him and did it basically with the prophecies.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: He tried to get away from Steel and did amazingly
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: so and then I lost to Lorenzo as well, which
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: basically purged all my value, so at some point I
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: had no more routine job to steal more against All
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: flags were gone. Pretty much all my amber was eaten
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: by the infurnaces. So it was rough.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll say, shout out to our counter Canada,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: because I can kind of follow along with our top eight.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: This this is interesting. Lorenzo got the better of this
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: group here, and since I'm going through it, shout out
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: to our winners and qualifiers. So Fat going ahead and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: taking PV with a win. Runner up was Ellie mack
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: on g R with some brow brow brio. And then
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: we said earlier Nocchi the p V. I love the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: name here, Schnitzel almost f Yeah, it's basically fries with
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: fries with ketchup, So I love it. And then go ahead.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: That was it own a ketchup or mit ketchup's let's
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: oh field ketchup.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: A lot of ketchup, but a lot of ketchup.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Their funny thing is that the finalists, there's more more
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: than one funny thing, so it was like a feud
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: within the house. Let's say, so there is Fed and
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Elly mec are like a pair, but there were also
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the two that made it in on strength of schedule
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: with four twos in seventh and eighth place and then
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: somehow making it to the finals. So that is very interesting.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: See that's interesting in that we've seen it happen essentially
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the four to two. It's it happened at Saint Louis,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: happened here in Paris, and then I believe it happened
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: also in Baltimore. So you're seeing a couple of these
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: set like essentially the two L O system, they would
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: have been ruled out because but here they're coming in
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the seventh and a slot and they end up actually
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: playing in the finals. That is fascinating.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I feel like that could happen more in the lines
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: than an ARCon though, or or in sealed, because it's
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: much more matchup dependent in the Alliance. It's just a theory.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Now I know I'm gonna go out on a limb here,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna say that. I think even in ARCon
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: it is very heavily dependent on the matchups. If you
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: have a clean run, it can really just who did
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you face. Because x Ray from Boltmore who qualified in second,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: he was one of our seventh or a slots. So
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I've just seen that, whether it was at KFC for Worlds.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: You know, I ended up facing a small pool at four,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: so I went four and oh and then I faced
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: someone again in essentially one of the top eight planes,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: or there have been opportunities where I don't know just
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: who I face in the deck construction. There are other
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: decks I look across and go man, I would have
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: been absolutely destroyed if I had faced this build. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that's interesting both for Alliance and Arkon. I mean for
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: me at least, but you're saying more for Alliance that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: you're seeing it as potentially dependent on the build.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Talked about it in the little Italian group that we
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: had there, and honestly, I think it's mostly based on
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: field approach. Like the Vuci that you told before Judo,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: it was played by one of the other Italians and
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: it had a terrible field day because it went one
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: three drop if I remember right, And our approach to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the whole thing was like, okay, you choose that deck.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It didn't work, so you were really far from what
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: the field is playing. So instead of like the general
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: mashups or whatever you can find that you will have
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: positive we were also graduating like Okay, I did the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: four twoe or I did three free, or I made top,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: et cetera. And aside from that, I think there's also
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: quite a bit of luck included. So from my perspective
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in particular, if you're doing the top quite a bit
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: of quite consistently, I think you're still playing a deck
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: that could be the winner of that tournament. And we
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: had quite a bit of a discussion about it.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I think you're right there. And I
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: wasn't disappointed because I played to the best of my ability.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I didn't make any major mistakes that cost me the game.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: So then that's just what it is on that day.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: You know, if you had a little bit better matchups
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: or different routes to the top, ay, you would have
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: made it. When I do make mistakes, though, then then
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I will be a bit upset. But yeah, I think sometimes,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: especially in the lines, it feels like picking the right
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: deck for the meta on that day and a little
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: bit of a coin flip some times in the matchups.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: And I feel right now, with PV being so dominant,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: that there is some random what was discarded from yours
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: at what time? I mean, harmed, you were talking about
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: actually going ahead in cycling and kind of just getting
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: rid of essentially a dead hand for your opponent. That's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: a really big win where you're like, okay, I gotta
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: actually take a dead turn to play it, and now
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: here you basically can punk or wins of death and
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: just move them out of that hand. So I don't know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I feel that there's a bit more randomness with PV,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and it can just have this well, did my cards
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: hit your good card or did it miss and hit
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: something that was meaningless? So that's interesting.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I think that's true for BV, and that effect is
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: even extrapolated an alliance, where things just need to come
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: together in the first two or three turns of the game,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: especially if you're very lockout oriented or combo oriented. You
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: just need to have the stability of the deck and
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: the efficiency to make things happen, and if it doesn't,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: then you're heard for a rough game. Let's just call
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: it like that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I have to say, as I'm heading over to
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Vietnam in a couple of weeks, I'm excited to be
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: able to play in all three events. So it did
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: have me actually thinking about alliance and I have built
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: a deck and actually gotten a couple of plays in it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: So PV.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I am playing a deck in Alliance that that's a
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: big thing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, the problem or the problem is that I think,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: so there's these decks that are beautifully crafted. You search
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: for the right parts, and I think Donkey Forge, one
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: of our other teammates from Allan's, is a master in
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: creating unique Alliance decks that do something as you would
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: have seen in the past with like June and Cap
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Marrow and or other like I think Camera did, those
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: renowned American Alliance players that really find something cool and unique,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: you know. But then now you have PV, you smack
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: together a couple rage resets, a hoodwink at tranks, maybe
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: some discs with dramatic echoes, and then yeah that works
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: as well, you know. So a bit sad. They need
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: to be more restricted, I think on BV.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I do think that the list will be updated after
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the season and you'll see a couple more cards added
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: to restrict I will say it was frustrating to have
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: to play around cards that come in at a common
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: slot that I don't really care about in my deck,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: but by having one of them, it made the deck
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: or that pot and I'll avoid. So that was something
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to be able to be interesting. But I think if
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: we add too many cards it can be a little
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: bit problematic for the Lions players too. So we'll have
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to see. But yeah, yes, i'll share offline because it
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: is not out yet. But I am enjoying the builds.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I want to actually be able to play it, so
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: we'll see and have some fun.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll have some practice games, but Ben PV
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: from Alliance that would do some good.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: There you go. Speaking of the top eight, so we
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: had one, two, three, four, five, five. Five of the
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: top eight were PV and then we had gr CC
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: and MM, so I'll kind of go on the backside.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Seven and eight. Well, the top eights were Lobot on MM,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Elvid and PV, Bielio on PV, and Lorenzo and nine
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and PV and kind of you talked a little bit
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: about two of those members from the Italian squads Zuiti,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and I know you guys want to talk about CC.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: We actually saw CC show up and make a top eight. Boys,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: it happened.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: It happened top four even, which is incredibly impressive. Yep,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: it is really impressive. I played it with my build
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: against his CC as well, and it was a super
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: close game, but that wasn't a leading up to the event.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: And yeah, shout out to Mutility five because he built
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: something incredible. The deck completely revolves around infernal terrain and
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: his disc is absolutely perfect for that. So he has
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: double infernal terrain in the deck and then arise just
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: to get them back and triple control the week, so
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: he can lock you into any house. And the whole
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: idea is you lock them, you discard the terrain, and
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: you use all the pips in the rest of the
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: houses to steal as much as possible and they cannot
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: do anything about that. And to kind of supplement that builds,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: he has a yeah, a skyborne that goes like the wind.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: It goes really quick with double silver lining, which just
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: generates tons of amber triple against all flags, just to
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: put some more additional steel in there, and a ton
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: of pips, discard pips, draw pips, extra amber pips. This
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: is a it's a really good pot and even an
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: untained pip because the third house is untamed and this
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: is where most of the sea is in there, so
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: double nature call double unatural selection does come also with
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: the extra pips. It's extra sy. You can also just
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: scrapt them with the terran and steal more and a
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: cauldron for really wacky stuff which of the world for
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: extra efficiency, and it just works incredibly well together because
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: even if you're locked out, you just scrap the terror,
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: you steal five and you're still locked out, but you're
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: going to forge that third key anyway, so who cares.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: It's a it's a beauty.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: It is a beautiful build. I like it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's it's lovely when you get Controlled
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: the Week two times in a row with the winning
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: combo on your hand. Love that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I will say back in the day, I
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: think this was the Dallas Vaults a couple of years ago,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: at least two I was playing essentially a triple Control
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: of the Week with the artifact to cycle it. Screaming
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: came and so yes, when you can just keep cycling it,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: it becomes pretty vicious. So it's a good card.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: We had it even rougher in Italy because we had
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: both Christian and Player bringing the Screaming Cave with the
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: quadra copy of a Control of the Week, and he
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: had multiple backs like that, so you could also do
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: try it with that combo, and I think he won
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the first national in twenty nineteen using basically just the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: screaming caves, which was really nasty.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So after day one, I believe you guys played just
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: straight through on that first day, so you had thirty
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: six players, but you played six rounds and then you
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: did top eight, top four right away on that Friday.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe. So this was for every event the
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: case now.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, So yeah, you get to claim your
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: winner right away and it's nice pass down. So congrats
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to everyone who qualified and Movedan, did you guys do
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: anything fun after going ahead and surviving that first day
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: of Alliance?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Maybe? One small note because at the end of the
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: event there was also a Fantasy League, which was a
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: lot of fun. You could pre select who you thought
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: would do well in that event. I think you could
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: put like four players in there and a captain and
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: a captain would give you double points. The points you
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: get per player was based on both the wins but
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: also the amount of times they got picked, and at
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: the end of every event, they would announce a Fantasy
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: League winner, and I think they gave them a Geo
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Tech deck if I'm not mistaken.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, I m twenty six geoteched. Maybe
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: that the treasure deck indeed, yeah, and paired with the
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: fancy league, so you would have the number one pick player, two, three,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: and four they would all get a bounty. So let's
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: say there was a ticketing system, so every time you
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: won a game, you got one ticket, and then there's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the prize wall where you can substitute it tickets pretty
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: much for half a dollar let's say, or let's say
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: a dollar because he was the dollar. So then if
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: you were the number fourth most picked player, you would
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: get the bounty for two tickets, and the number three
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: as well, and there'd be the mega bounty for the
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: most pig player that would be worth for tickets. And
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: because it was six round Swiss, it was only valid
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: til round five. Because they undefeated until the full six rounds,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: that's quite tough. So there was another incentive to beat
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: the players with the bounty on their heads. So that
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: was that was pretty cool. And even if you were out,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: you could still root for the people in your fancy league.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: So there were people saying, hey, what's your score. I'll
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: be like three zero, great, great way keep going on
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: they other way around like I lost, Like what are
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: you doing? I'm sorry, you're my captain. H So that
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: that added a nice little flavor to it. And they
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: put in so much work, especially Ushitaka. Big shout out
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: to Aushi. He set up a lot of things revolving
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: the Fancy League and organizing and judging. It was amazing,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: And I'll say second shout out to Ashtaka. I know
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: that he even opened up the league to a number
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: of Americans are like, hey, I want to participate too,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: even though we're not in the vault, So he went
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: out of his way to include others. Again, he's just
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: such a friendly, easy going guy. I love him. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: shout out well run vault. There on the actual tickets,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: so the bounty if I want to ahad him pick
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: to you judo and then you want does that mean
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: that you're going to get the tickets or I'm going
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: to get the tickets?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: So if if I win, like my match, there's just
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: there's twenty tables or whatever, and there's a ticket in
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: each table and the winner just takes a ticket. So
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: if you picked me in the Fancy League and I
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: kept them winning and the other three people you picked
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: as well, that well, you could win that geoteched.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So it was just for the geotech y yeah yeah, yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: But if I had the bounty and you were playing
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: me and you beat me, you get the ticket for
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: winning that game and also the bounty tickets. Yeah exactly.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's where the bounties. I like it. It's another
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: little side game. It's a way to engage even if
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: you potentially are not necessarily in the running for that
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: top eight. So yeah, for sure, something I could see,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: like those little nuances to the game really provide something
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: special at a vault, So I'd love to see that
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: make its way over here. That'd be pretty amazing.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: And they gave the little pins. I think there was
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: this little yodap in or some Star Wars figure pins
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: that people could wear and put on the table, kind
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: of like intimidating, look I've cut this bounty.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very nice. Odd After words, did you guys go
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: get some food for dinner? And did you just go
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: home and crash because a long day.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: I think we went back to the hotel because it
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: was a long day. Your lines day ended at like
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: nine or ten in the evening and we didn't read
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: have dinner yet, so we went to the hotel, ordered
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: some pizzas. Ye chilled with everyone else because almost everyone
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: was actually staying that at that same hotel. We played
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: some more games and then I think we went to
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: that pretty quickly afterwards.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, correct, Yeah, we we ordered the pizza at
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: the hotel, even the Italians. You guys did and you
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: said it was okay, so y pizza.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: What time did you guys start in the morning, were
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: you able to start.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Earlier or nine thirty?
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: And we usually the first day it'll be later at
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: eleven and.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Then so Thursday was twelve thirty and then the two
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: days after it was nine thirty.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ok so, I mean if you're coming in, it
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: still gives a chance for some people to travel and
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: make it there by kind of that noon time. But yeah,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: that's going to be a long day. I know, when
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: we run our six rounds and then we'll play the
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: first top eight match for which is what we do
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: on our first day. If you make that top eight,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: it is it's a long day where you're finally sitting
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: down to eat at eight thirty nine o'clock at night,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: which is or.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: If you have to wait for your teammate to go
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: all the way to the finals then, and you're already
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: out after three games. That's a long day, I can
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: tell you.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know. We talked about ark on later lords.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Oh man, there's some love there. So we get up
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: for day number two, and day number two we end
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: up going ahead and going into Sealed if I'm correct,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: And it looks like from Marconnocanna that there were fifty
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: five players. Yep, So you guys are playing DM. Let's
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: start with harmed. What will kind of go in there?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: How did your pool of decks? How did they look?
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: They looked as DM looks, but they were above average
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: DM dex, I would say so in general, I had
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: like two Equodon, which you always loved to see. One
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: shadows and I was hoping for a bit more. But
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: I'll get back to the shadow spot later. A guy
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: story double unfathomable some mars. I think the only thing
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: that I didn't see was Skyborne, And it's a shame
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: because I do think Skyborne does really well in Sealed.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I think it's like undervalued for what it actually can
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: do and the board president that can bring. But other
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: than that, when I opened the decks, I definitely couldn't complain.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: I think I was doubting between six different pots, which
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: they were all above average, but there was only one
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: really standing out to me, and that was the shadow spot.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: So that came with double pinching, malloy too much to protect,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: double cutch napping some useless creatures, and a few other
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: really good actions actually, and I was trying to see
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: how can I start building around this. I think I
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: overvalued unfathomable a little bit, especially checking on sas the
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: day after when I actually scanned in those decks. But
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: I ended up building a deck with shadows, Fathomable and equedon,
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: because I mean, you have to go for equedon that
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I think that was the difficult choice, which one of
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: my Acadon pots do I actually want to go for?
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: And in the end, the goal of the deck was
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: to rush. It generated tons of amber. It didn't do
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: that much on board because in all my parts I
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: had very little C, which I think you see quite
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: often in the end.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: That's a that's a DM issue that we're seeing.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: That is a issue. Yeah, So I tried to pick
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: all the C that I could get except for the
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: kaboom that that was in the marspot. Other than that,
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: I tried to get as much C as possible and
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: the first few games went actually really well. First game
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: against j Philippack, I think he could have built his
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: bild a little bit better and the game was over
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: in like fifteen to twenty minutes and really just started
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: talking about his deck and how he could optimize it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: So that's always good feeling to get that first quick winning.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: The next two games were also wins, so I was
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: three to zero, pretty confident, and game four was against
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: your VERI own C twot and I mean, I think
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: you're going to talk about the game later as well
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: as UTI, but I feel like I was very much
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: in control in that game up until the end, and
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: I'll leave it as this. I feel like I should
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: have won, and then in the end he pulled out
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: something incredible combo and he took it. Yeah, and a
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: little bit shaken from that performance, I went into game five.
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: But before I went into game five, I actually switched
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: out the Unfathomable pots with the Mars pots after talking
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: to Motility Dragon and Motility five because I wasn't sure
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: what to do. But I did see that I needed
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: the Kaboom, I needed the extra ce I needed a
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: little bit more board presence, and the unfamvmable just wasn't
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: really doing it for me. And I'm glad I made
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: a change because the next game was on stream and
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: I barely scraped by, but I did manage to wind
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: up one in the end. And then Game six was
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: actually also on screen on stream against six or Klab,
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: and that one was rough again. Kaboom being my biggest CEE,
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: he abyssle sided it out of my hand. He made
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: sure that I discarded it, and all his deck did
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: was pretty much built an insane board with psychic case
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: and then the Mars creature that if you leave it exhausted,
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: your keys cost plus three, and I think he had
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: like two or three of those, so with the psychic
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: case you cannot even attack into those, and then if
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: you don't have enough c out of hands, well you
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: can see where that's going. I tried to keep in,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: but I had to exactly. I had to forge keys
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: for like twelve to fifteen member every time, and I
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: think I managed to forge two and that's it, or
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: maybe even one. I don't know anymore. So that was rough.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Again four and two. I was hoping to get a
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: little bit further, especially since my parts looked actually quite
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: decent for DM standards. And again because of strength of schedule,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: I came in not ninth, but tenth this time, I believe. So, yeah,
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: that was my silk run.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: So you had the kind of death and alliance and
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: now you missed it by two at that four to
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: two good runs. But yeah, I do feel that one
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: of the things that I'd like to see is still
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: that play in match. But I understand why it adds
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: an extra hour that we cannot go ahead and add
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: that time. But yeah, finishing on nine or even ten,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: it it feels rough, but I guess the short answers
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: of it was too l oh, you would have been
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: out on that second loss. So I live with what
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: we have. I think it is a better system, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I'm very very happy with that. I'm excited to be
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: able to hear about ZUZUITI with that that talk for
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: round five. But all right, and so harmed, that was
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal run. Let's go ahead and take a peek,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Lord Judo, how did you see your decks as you
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: opened it up?
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: I was I was quite happy I had one shadows
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: that I insta pick, did that two times TMTP too
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: much to protect two pincher Malloy's, so all right, I
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: got that one. Then there was a pretty decent aquedon
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: with now and later two Nada Texas, some hoist operations,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: authorized requisitions, and Zavo the Archaeologist, which might not be
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: super cool by itself, But then I was presented with
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: a tough choice. So I had a Uboros with a
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: syn dynasty. So with Syn dynasty the keys colus plus
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: two for each of us. So with the TMTP, it's like, hmm,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: that sounds like a plan. And then when they do
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: manage to forge through it, then I can just use
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Zavoo to play it again and have a lot of
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: fun that way. It makes me draw cards, gives me amber.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: So that that was my like, it's just this is
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: a trap, because and Syn dynasty is a trap. Should
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: I do it? And I did it, But there were
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: three other unfathomable parts that I could have taken. So
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: game one pretty tough actually against the owner of the center,
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: but I got that one. Then two slightly easier games,
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I think, and then again my nemesis of the French
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Vulture Matility five, completely different build from everyone else. He
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: just spammed the board with tribute collectors, mets, holographic, Benshie,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: crap rais, and of course again I had little to
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: know see in my deck, and I was like, okay,
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: well there we go again three to one classic. Now
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: we've got to win two times. And then I reconfigured
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: my deck back to actually an ARCon deck with an
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: unfavomable that had a little bit more c It had
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: like triple call of the Void, a figurific rod abyso
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: side fathom share, which would be quite useful to capture
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: amber on the creature, have them capture it back.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I cast half of your opponent's amber, Yeah, exactly,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: distribute amongst any number of friendly creatures.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And then if they get it back, then I
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: just team top them for a lot. That was the idea,
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: and that actually went quite well. I won two more games,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: I think somehow I faced two times Wasp Scream and
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: I had no creatures on the board except for the
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: one that I fathom shared all their amber on, and
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: then just like, hey, here you go take it back.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: That is you do like wasp Spreen especially a turn
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: one yeah, really be a pain. So the phase two
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: is pretty impressive. But yes, if they capture Amber, it
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: is a card you cannot play.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah, So I managed to do that actually twice
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: a thinking game five in game six, so I was
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: happy I had that fathom share and then top eight,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: so yay, top eight game. I think it started quite
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: okay against Lobot, but he had double jump start on
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: I think Turned two or something on his Skyburne creature
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: who went to a lot of Amber, and then also
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: with I think the navigated guitar or something, I don't know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: he got a pretty big lead, but I was still
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: confident I could pull it back. He played a Wasp
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: scream as well. It's like here we go, but I
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: had to kill it. And for some reason, I mistook
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: the plus one power counters on the Wasp screen for
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: a damage counter because it was kind of red and black,
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: and I was like, it looks like a damage counter
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: to me, but it was a plus one power counter.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: So I did a play where I was like, I
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: killed the off scream and he's like, oh that's a
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: power counter. Oh oh oh boy, I'm in trouble now.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: And then it went a little bit downhill managed to
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: claw back. It was a pretty tight game in the end,
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I think that that error on my side
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: probably cost me the game. I'm not sure how it
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: would have ended otherwise. So pay attention to what tokens
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: the other person is using and internalize them very well.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: Because if you used to just your own token, someone
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: uses slightly different ones and you assume that it is
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: of type A, but it turns out to be type B. Yeah,
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: that's that's tough. I also didn't want to ask to
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: take it back because it was it was too far
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: along and in the game was a top eight match
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: as well, So you make a mistake, you you's got
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: to take it and learn from it, even even though
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: it was very painful.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: So top eight game, Yeah, congrats on top eight. That's
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: still nothing to sneeze at. So you get some nice
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: geo tag decks. But yeah, that is frustrating to be
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: able to have happened. I'll say. In my locals yesterday,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: there was a red token that was put on one
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: of the creatures I was facing, and I understood that
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: that was a damage as well. It was not. Yeah,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: it was a plus one token. I'm like, can I
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: give you some plus one tokens? This individual did not
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: have plus one tokens.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: So that I think earlier in the game he clarified
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: their their tokens. So if I paid more attention, I
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: probably should have caught it. But yeah, in we're calculating
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: all the decisions, you know, and you look, you glance
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: at the board, stay, you're like, okay, do that, do that?
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Do that that? You don't want to take too much time,
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: and then yeah, you commit to it. So it was
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: a shame I loss because I've looked at the rest
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: of the field. I think, my again, what is it
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: you mentioned earlier? If you make top eight slightly goes
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: slightly different, you could in the whole thing now, So
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: there was this chance to get that qualification, I think,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: but it wasn't meant to be. But good Rund. Nonetheless,
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: topic should be happy.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: So I want to go back to you, said Zebel. Archaeologists.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: So that's a four power equadon human scientist. Each time
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: you play an artifact from your discard pile, gain one
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: pretty cool, and then play after reap you may play
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: an artifact from your discard pile, and then you were
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: actually partnering that up with Sin Dynasty, where is an
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: artifact power keys cost bus too after opponent fource is
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: a key game two Amber, draw four cards and destroy
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Sin Dynasty, but it is dual sided. It is Yeah,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: what it looks like you played it for the first
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: was that.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: Just for the first four I played it?
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: And why why did you back away from that? Was
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: it more?
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: I faced Moutility five with a big board and I
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: needed a bit more board control. And then with Fathom
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Share it was one of the parts I was considering
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: as well. And then the the Oboros wasn't doing much
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: in that game, so I started doubting as like okay,
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: and Utility five kind of convinced me to switch. But
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: it does sound magnificent, right, Sin Dynasty with TMTP and
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: with Zavo and even two tmtps.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Like it sounds amazing, but it also sounds a little
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: bit more Christmas tree Land, Like yes, I were like, okay,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: I can play this, but depending on what's in for
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: your oboros, Like it's very possible that the rest of
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: the house is just kind of eh. And it was.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: It was, It wasn't it, but it was I think
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: there was even a pip to pill for in it
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: was some more steel and capture, and I think also
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: like the clock Cloaks swiper, something like if exhausted creatures
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: capture won, They're a lot more capturing there as well.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: So it synergized quite well with the Shadows. But I
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: had myself convinced that I had to pick that unfathomable
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: and it worked well for the two other games. If
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: I swapt the Oldborros in for the top eight game again,
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: probably that would have been better. But in hindsight, there's
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: always twenty twenty so well.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: And typically what we're seeing is Obos doesn't show up
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: in the top eight. Neither does Mars, which was interesting
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: when Harmon was talking about that earlier. Now Mars can
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: be old code of Mars where it's just real bad
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: or real real good. So if you have a solid pod,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I can see that happening.
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: Oh we have. We actually had four Mars pots show
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: up at the top eight, so I actually did show
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: up quite a long.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: Did someone have a solid Mars pod?
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Who knows?
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Shall we go and talk, uh missus ZOUI, how did
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: when you saw your decks, how did they look to you?
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Honestly, when I first opened them, I was really happy,
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: but really really happy because I had two Skyborns, two Shadows,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: two Equidoms, one Mars and one Unfuckable. I think, lots
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: of choice, so yeah, but I was like, Okay, Skybourne
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: is great in sealed, so I will probably pick them.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Also Shadows that is pretty much a master, so I'm
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: happy I can choose between two pots. And the aquedon
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: are nice as well. Usually they are what they wanted
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: for the speed similar. The one thing I was sure about,
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: and I told it to the other Italians and I
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: think to lerd J, you do as well, is that
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: I wasn't going to play Mars because I really don't
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: like them in the end, I don't think they usually
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: have what it takes to Yeah, and then in the
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: end I had that I had to pick that Mars pot.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: It was basically a Martian propagation with the nine creatures
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: in Mars, so you could basically play them and get
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: to draw a lot. The other two actions where a
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: destroyed which is nice for artifact control, and the transmutation
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: the EQ we don't wear nice. The mid year saved
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: me a lot because I had no caboom in Mars itself,
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: so that was my way of controlling the board and
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: forged currency, which actually saved me against Heart because otherwise
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: I would have taken the too much to protect in
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: the face. And the last house was a Shadows, which
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: honestly was not that great because I missed pretty much
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: all the good cards aside from a double pincher malloy
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: and putting apping, which did synergize with the take a Break,
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: But aside from that not muchell Si had the easy marks,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: the Grammy tops and the actual MVP of the tournament,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: which was oxs Aarbain.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: And MVP pay.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah Serving So yeah two power Elf politician creature. Each
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: enemy creature gains after fight after exhaust each friendly creature
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: that shares a house with this creature, so it is
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: it's which status you got to deal with it for sure.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: Honestly, it was amazing. He totally saved me in later games.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: He also saved me during the qualifying rounds and well
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: doing the quite fine rounds. I went five to one,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: so top eight and all the matches there were really tense,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: mostly because, as I said, I don't have that much
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: value in Shadows, so not having what you usually want,
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: like the TMTP or the counterfeit really put me in
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: some awkward spots.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: But.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Drawing a lot is what helped me to get to
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: the top. I think game three I was able to
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: draw fourteen cards against Armed I think eighteen if I
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: remember correctly.
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so at least.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So my qualifying rounds were basically all around that
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: Martian propagation and being able to pop off the forge
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: currency later with the epiden. So the whole strategy relied
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: around the Martian propulation itself.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: I mean in the end, you just had like half
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: you're decking your hand, right, so that helps?
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Did you make a choice to hold on to some
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: of the creatures so that you would play them and
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: then just immediately blow up your board or were you
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: content playing those nine mars and basically when Martian propagation hit,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: you know you're gonna blow it up and keep psych.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Usually I just blow them up. I think just in
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: game five I did remain with my board because it
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: was more valuable that way. But aside from that, I
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: don't really have that much value in the board itself.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: And even if you destroy all the creatures, that are
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: down and you get to redraw into your deck. You're
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: still going to take those creatures back, so you're drawing
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: your entire deck plus.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: All right, sorry about some of the technical difficulty there, Zui,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: you're just talking about that sweet Mars board and talk
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: to us. What did you have with all these creatures?
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I usually just destroy them to draw into them.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I think the only valuable creatures that you get out
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: of here are the Triple Operator Oluke, which actually paited
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: quite a bit of money opponents because adding shadows in
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: the deck, I could get the key cost high here
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: and they wouldn't get that much high due to the
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: MP risk.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: Would have been my question as well, Like they did
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of opponents like we're scheduled, we'd go to
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: like seven or eight and then like.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Eh, yeah exactly. They kind of slowed down because they
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: didn't want to get too much of MTP in their game.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: So and there wasn't anyone who just pushed and said
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: if it happens, it happens.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Interesting. I think he did in game five as well,
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: But then I just played the Triple Operators, so I
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: was like, hey, you were.
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: That you're going to forge, So this is an interesting strategy, right,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: like would this work better against a good player or
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: would it be worse against an average player. He'd be like, eh, silled,
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: I need to forge for nine, So we'd just go
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: to nine and you know, and a good player might
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: go like, hmmm, he's got shutouts. Yeah, I see what
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: you're trying to do here, and then play around it
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: and then actually not having to play around it because
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: it's not even there. It's next level of mind games.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: I think that's what Sarcastic did in a way, because
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: my only loss was in the sixth round and they
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: just played his board and went to check without caring
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: about what I did. So his war game plan was
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: that was just it was just like going over me
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: in value in general, and that was my goals. Plus
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: he decided to discard the Martian propagation each time, but
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: with the abistol side or the latteral shift to play
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: him on himself. So yes, saying what the Martian propagation does?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, lateral shift such a good card. Yeah, all right,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: so you made top eight. How did your top eight
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: game go?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: My first game was against the calib and honestly, it
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: wasn't that rough because it's worn, it's whole deck dependent
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: of the word, and my board was just bigger. So
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: even if he tried to compensate with the Kaboom, it
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: was just giving me more value for the Martian propagation
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: because my creatures will get archived and I would play
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: them and get the whole deck in end by them.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: That's the real problem with with kaboom is that if
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: you face against Mars, it essentially doesn't become see anymore.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I was kind of set to not have
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: it in my pood, but in the end, I'm fine
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: with what it is actually, and Top four was actually
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: where boxes are being resplended, because I was thinking that
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: I was going to lose that game because Gnocchi found
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: an amazing deck. I saw it in the susper view.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: It was something like a one hundred and six of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: an Alliance. The gistoids there were insane and they did
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: a turn where it basically played his whole pod and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: they couldn't do anything about it. They didn't have the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: cards that they needed do the trash hip discarding my
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: Martian hand, so I couldn't make him pay more, and
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: the ox serveain as I was saying was what saved
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: me because one time he decided to reap and his
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: whole board got exhausted. So on the next turn it
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: decided to trade him up, but with another really trashy
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: card of this, which is Grammy taps, I gave exclusive,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: so that costed him another turn and that was when
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: I was able to actually make a comeback. So this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: are being there was what changed the game for me.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Otherwise I would have totally lost.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so with that win, you qualified for World
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: So congratulations and you go into the final game. Let's
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: talk a little bit about you're now playing for all
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: the marbles to walk away as a vault warrior or
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: to be a deuce. I've been there before. A couple
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: of us have. How did this? Did you play one, two,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: three games? Well? Did you play two or three games?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: And what happened? Talk us through the finals?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't play two games in total, and it
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: was me against the Sarcastic. So the only match I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: was doing the Swiss rounds. And the one thing that
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: actually helped me a lot is that I knew what
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: he was going to play, so I knew that he
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: had against all flegs. Actually I believed that you only
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: had two of them. He had the three in the end,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: plus the Narth forge to block my forge, and he
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: was relying on board. So what I needed to do
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: and what I needed to know was that I wasn't
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: going to let him get ahead of me on the board,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: and I tried to fight with the mars as much
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: as I could. And I didn't really play the propagation
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: in the finals, mostly because one time he decided to
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: discard it with the abystal side and then purge it
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: with the hunting back, and in the second game he
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: played it himself with the letter shift, so there was
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: no way for me to actually play it.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: But I was looking at the stack. So the unfailable
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: that playing against at lateral shift, double vissil sites, it
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: had triple against all flags, the triple prop dusting, it
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: had crepticular rays, the demater like man just this is
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: a solid bill to go against. So using your knowledge
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: and again everyone here is a phenomenal player, but that
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: really goes ahead and helps you to know when I
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: should be keeping my board, when I should be saving it.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: And I think the knowledge of being able to play
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: in that fifth round that was huge.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I think the knowledge there was what changed
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: my whole approach to the game itself. And as I said,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I tried to be as bushy as possible on the bullerd.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: In other cases I would have just reap and gain Youmber.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: In that case it was no, I'm going to fight you,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: so you'll have to steal my amber and find some responses.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: One other thing that I needed to change was my
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: approach with now and later, because during the Swiss rounds
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: I usually used it to get back in my hand
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: pincher malloy and archive it for a leader turn in
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: that game. Then now and later was more crucial to
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: eliminate cards like putting up being or the pinture itself
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: from his latter shift. So it was more of a
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: protective play rather than something that you want to keep
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: for your future turns.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: Nice, but this is knowledge you gained fairly, right, So
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: what sometimes happens you stuff starts going around, right, So
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: I heard people they knew that I doubled him TP
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: for instance. You know, and now we play sealed finals
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: on the same day, so that eliminates a little bit
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: of it. Where from the top A, you have your
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: some teammates that played against it, and they tell you
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: you have first hand experience. So if not in Swiss,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: you probably would have because you're a great player, would
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: have noticed game one in the finals, and maybe it
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: would be game two and three where you change it.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: But there is something to be said for I heard
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: it somewhere that they said top eight sealed, you get
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: three new decks and then no one knows who has
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: what you know otherwise at some point almost I don't
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: know how it is in the States, but in Europe
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: people kind of know what people have, especially if it's
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: a day after where you do the final. So this
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: is a very intriguing thought to me, where for the
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: top eight you get three new decks and you do
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: your sealed all over again.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would make absolute sense because as I will,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: as I was saying before, I kind of knew what
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: he was going to play into and what his game
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: plan was, so I tried to stop his game plan
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: based on what he did doing our game in the Swiss.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: I mean I can say from stateside, yes, we are
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: aware of what if we played against someone, there's definitely information.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: There is information that travels from any any player, anyone
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: who knows that's why. I was a little surprised when
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: you're saying the city that you didn't have the TMTP
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: and like it didn't really get around because typically that
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: information it's going to go ahead and people are going
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to be aware of it. But I love that you
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: played straight up. You're able to kind of know and
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: kind of lean into it. So well done. You got
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: the vault warrior status of congrats think you. That's a
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: huge accomplishment, something I have not accomplished myself. So hey, hey, honestly,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: just making top eight is a real It requires a
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: lot of work and practice and some luck. There's no
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: question about it. To be able to do it more
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: than once, it requires so anyone who can make it
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: all the way and finish it's a big accomplishment. So
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: well done, Thank you. All right, So that was your
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Saturday boys. Did you get out at a reasonable times Zudi?
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: I assume it was late because you're playing in the finals.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Did you just go ahead and go back and crash
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: again or did we do anything fun?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: We need to get a under pizza in Yotel, but
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: mostly because everything else was closed so we had no
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: other It.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: Wasn't France playing whatever, Germany or something. No, no, no,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know. The world Yeah, World Cup match, what's
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: going on? So the French were all watching that instead
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: of opening their shops or something. I don't know. We
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: managed to get some food. Don we were earlier, Yeah,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: we were.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: In twenties except when I hadn't opened it and also
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: played in the lobby, and I know six got absolutely
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: mental by the deck that he opened, saying every time
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: he's flip the card, he was saying, oh is this
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: in set? Oh my god, is this also in set?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: This deck is insane? And I think he went ahead
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: and brought it to Ark on the next day and yeah, right, yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: And I think it went as expected where you feel
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: like completely overwhelmed by how good the deck is and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: then you use it in practice. And I think it
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 5: didn't match up to his expectations, but it did really.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: Actually yeah, it went for two. I think, Wow, so
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: better than expected.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, four to two is pretty crazy with deck you
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: opened the night before at ten o'clock and then just
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: sleeping on it and playing it the next day. That's
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: that's crazy.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: I think, even better than his prophetic vision that he
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: was going to play, because he's prophetic vision went three
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: three if I remember, and.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Then you're not playing PD too, so there's some benefit
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: to that.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: So first sealed with the fifty five players, Zooti taking
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: it down, qualifying for Worlds runner up being Sarcastic who
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: also qualifies the world. So congrats to both of you.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Top four casnochie again name we're seeing a little bot
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: four top four, and then our top eight is that
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: it's x ki x Is that kicks kicks, So it's
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: gonna go with Okay, I'll go with that Mobility five
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Flash Skindy.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: Or Motility five, and don't say mobility multil.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: I thought I said motility but I apologize if I
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: did not Motility five. I mean we've heard your your
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: arch nemesis.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I want to name him. Right, it's
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: Motility five.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I apologize if I said anything different Motility five.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: And then Lord Judo and congrats to all of our
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: top eight. So you guys then wake up and Sunday
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: did you go out did you grab a beverage to celebrate?
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: We just went back. We watched the World Cup game
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: and it was it pretty much.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't really celebrate it that much that evening,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: mostly because we had the ARK on the next day.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: So yeah, apretty eight.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: I mean there's there's no draftscore experience in Europe. We
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: have the snore Forge experience where we just go to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: bed and sleep.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: So if US Americans come over, would there be a
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: draftscore experience?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so that that I mean, it is possible
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: to start one. It's a good time.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: Barnaby come over, right, Yeah.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: Barnaby is so good. As long as we put it
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: on reservest Jones tab, we're good. Nice all right. So
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: then you guys went into Sunday and arcan with fifty
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: two players. Now what decks did you select? And where
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: are we going? So let's let's start here with Judo.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: What did you choose? Since we just talked with.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: So, I said, if I do really well in sealed
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: ore lines, I will not pick PV. I will pick
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: my DM deck. Top eight was okay, but it wasn't
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: like top four or qualified. So if I was qualified
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: for something, not pick PV. Unfortunately I didn't, So I, yeah,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: I had to pick a PV deck that I've been
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: holding on not selecting for worlds, where in hindsight, I thought, oh, man.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: If I only selected this deck, it would have been
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: it would have been great. So I chose a PV deck,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: which was kind of.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Horn I'm gonna I'm gonna plut a time out here, harmed.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: You let your duo do this? Was this an acceptable
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: answer that you know he top eighted, but it wasn't
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: good enough. I mean I did hear it correct.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: Very high standards in our team on top eight. Well,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: it's not a qualification.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: I guess you're often you get to go ahead and
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: not play DM. But sure, go ahead to playing your PV.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: You give into the devil.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 5: It happened.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: But but, but, but but this PV is not your
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: classical PV. It had Sanctum with four obeyed, the Grims
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: or three and the Corpulent Collector. So those are my
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: star stars of the show because it also has double
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: spend drift.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: That is not a statement that I typically hear from.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: Sanctum is corpulated Collector, yes, Graham, Okay, okay, fair.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: So it's a pretty cool deck where it's like it's
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: got tribune pompatus, so it makes your creatures with amber stronger.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: So Corpulent Collector could capture one hundred member and wouldn't die.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: A lot of warding in it with pedogene Imperium, double
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: spend Thrift, that this has crypto collapse, it's got traumatic echo,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: it's got too long, I've worked.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not playing this card Trank's Creed, but the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: other card, Cryptic Collapse, it's also there.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I he I mean it's it's not as
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: good as Trank's Creed because it's just click the button
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: and you know I'm in t c O. Yeah.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Great, thanks boys.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: So my first game, I was like, okay, first game,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 4: round one, let's let's start easy. No no, no, no,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: no no no, that's that's not in it. I face
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: Jim James battle. He's playing a Trank's Creed deck with
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: all kinds of I think, triple traumatic echo, all the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: nasty stuff, the constant even which is like the constant,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: what do you mean? So I I tried to play
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: mind games putting playing a Spendrift and then holding the
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 4: other one and not putting it under the fate, and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: but he was kind of onto me. A very stressful game,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: to be honest, with all these fates triggering not triggering.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: That's a that's a theme in PV where you're constantly
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: on edge and you're hoping for the stupid ask again
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: to not trigger or do trigger or yeah. So so
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: it was dancing around. I think at one point my
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: Marcello singlers.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you said the constant. So this is an artifact. Yeah,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: it has a pep the constant. Each player skips their
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: draw card step at the start of your turn, remove
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: a time counter from the constant, then destroy it. If
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: there are no time counters on it, play put two
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: time counters on the constant. So you're playing around that.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the pretty much my deck is now r
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: by the way, but it's pretty much if they play
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: it on their turn, then they don't get to draw up,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: but neither do you for two turns and then they
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: get to go against it. That's really scary. It didn't
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: happen that game, luckily, but my Marcella got shranked for
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: ten twelve Mber or so, and then I just managed
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: to keep warding it and just keep reaping. I think
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: I had a hand of like twenty cards or so
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: at the end, and then I could lock it out
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: with well time traumatic echo. He wasn't playing any more
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: creatures because of the crypto collapse in the twenty pard.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 5: Hand underneathge oh yeah, get you all on the back.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: I spent drift underneath there as well, so we've gotten
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: me like a bazillion number. Very close game and I
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: was like, okay, okay, got that one out of the way.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: Onto the second one against Jim from Wales, I think
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: as well, another crazy PV deck. All of it was
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: crazy PVD cks. We played on stream. I stacked four
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: emberor Marcella and turned two and then put a potential
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: spend drift on the look before they come, and he
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: was thinking there for five minutes of a play creature
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: or not, and he did it wasn't spend drift, so
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: he took. He took the gamble. Very close game. Can
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: watch it back on stream. I lost that one, kind
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: of bummed. Didn't make any mistakes, so I was like, okay, fine,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 4: Game three were still in it. My deck is good
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: enough to face the one once. And then they got
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: paired up against Jalapenos, which now puts me in a
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: very difficult position because you go one two you're pretty
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: much out of it. There's no way on strength of schedule.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: It has to be a miracle yeah.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: The loss early is yeah huge.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: And then paired up. I was like, okay, the game
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: was going great, and Neil bider game, but he his
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: deck is very nasty. Honestly, those two also made the
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: top eight the way. I just managed to face them
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: in round two and three paired up. I lost that game.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: So now I'm one two and I'm just hating life.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, so I played my PV I didn't
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: have that much fun. I didn't play my DM, and
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: now I'm one two and harm this three zero. He's
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 4: probably gonna go all the way. I'm sitting here waiting
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: for the day to end, which is still like nine
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: hours away. I was not loving it at that time.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 4: That yeah, yeah, yeah, and then and then the game
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: after I didn't really care too much. So yeah, I
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: still managed to go three three in the end because
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: I was there anyway. Yeah yeah, that was that was that?
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: So what's the lesson here?
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know say that that was the lesson? You
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: should have just played your DM.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed, I should have played my DM. I probably
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: would have gotten the same or better result, But it
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: was an unfortunate route to the top eight, if there
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: even was one to face. I think the top four
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: they played each other in the top eight match or
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: top four the ones I lost to. Yeah, that that
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: happens paired up, Yeah is what it is. And then
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: I just cheered on my teammates cheered on.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, very well. Let's go over to Zazouri. What
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: did you choose as your ark on deck?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: Sudenly prophetic vision as well, mostly because I think they
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 3: feel this prophetic visions.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: Now, okay, is it that you think they field this
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: prophetic vision and that's why you played it, or that
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: gave you the best chance to.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: Win, or honestly, I think.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: It's the same reason why I played it at say
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: those boys and I was also with you, or or
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, why am I playing this? I actually just
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: played DM and it was my name Doak and I
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: would have roughly finished the same. So yes, sadness, but
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like I needed to play it, But
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: I do not enjoy the side itself. The deck is
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: pretty nasty because you have the traumatic aco, the atrocity
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: tranks create the cover fire wood wing double chummy, and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: the prophecies are not bad because you have the lookalt
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: far when you play a creature and trust your feelings
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: in different cards so I could prop them pretty easily.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: The matches were nice up until the third game, where
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: I lost to a prophetic vision as well, and it
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: was an untamed loop, so basically the whole thing relied
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: on punctuary to detly and drawing into more maintained the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: end forge with the Prince Buffo. I could have gone
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: out of that situation with either the color Fire or
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: the trunk Stuit, but I didn't have them in end,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: so I lost the three two to Tonio, and I
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: think I also lost the fifth game to Lorenzo, which
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: was playing Deck with the Rage Rizet recursion cryptic collapse
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: with the Sarian people, so really nasty as well, and
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: he had to trust your feelings, and in both the
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: games in which I had to select this, it discarded
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: all the dist that I had in the end with
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: the Rage Riseet, so it was basically, okay, I'll just
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: put this under the prophecy end pass.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: Did Antonio before I kind of bounce off that game,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: did he have I mean that was pipped and untamed.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: No, that's that's another hotel.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that's why I'm like that Deck has
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: left a few scars, so that's why I was just recalling.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: But okay, Untamed Loop, I hear it's there.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: Actually I play a lot with him, and it's one
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: of our usual matches, and it's a nightmare for me.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: The only way I can try and stop him is
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: with the broken intent on the niasma itself. Otherwise it's game.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, so what did you end up finishing that?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: For archive?
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: I was four two and I was like twelve, I
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: think something around it, So it wasn't really.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, boys, all these scores are great. Well it's three three, four, two,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: four to two, lots of four twos. We're just the
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: cost there, Dutch use over there. Just settle down, settle down.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: You're fine, all right, they're all right. Is there any
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: games that stood out to use the city before we
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: go on?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: I think the one against Lorenzo because it was pretty
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: balanced up until the Ridge visits and I basically got
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: the full profiting vision experience, which is in gream reminders. Yeah.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: In gream reminders you had to sit down and watch
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: your opponent play, and in profitting Vision you have to
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: sit down and watch yourself and not be able to.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: I actually agree with that statement that yes, for the
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: most part, it is okay. Did they hit at the
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: right time and discard the key cards I need?
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: Great? You know.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: You know what the worst part is that Lorenzo is
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: a runner up in Worlds, right, so it is worse
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: or best worst PV deck wasn't even allowed to be played.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: So I think he went ahead and bought the Chinese
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: deck that he was playing.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean we're we're degenerate, so yes, we make sure.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: And on top of that, it's not just a deck.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: Lorenzo is just a really good player.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: So yeah, he as a phenomenal player. There's no question
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: about that. All right. Uh, mister Harms, I believe it
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: is time for you. How did Arkon? How did it
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: look for you? Did you know your deck ahead of time?
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: Do you feel comfortable with it?
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: It was it an o two day and he just
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: went home crying.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 5: N was the reason that I definitely wanted to go
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: to Paris. I mean I was going to go regardless,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 5: but ARCon was my day. And that's because I've been
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 5: on a quest to look for, well, the best deck
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: in the world or the perfect deck. I know, such
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 5: a thing doesn't exist, but it does not exist, No,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: does not exist. But I think I got pretty close
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: because there was this deck and it's also opened by
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: an Italian, so I sense a theme here, and when
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 5: it was opened, I immediately laid my eyes on it,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 5: but I didn't really reach out to holdish to it.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: Who opened the deck Originally, I believe I just left
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: it as this, and at some point I got like
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: this notification saying it is for sale. I was thinking, Okay,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: I need to jump on this. I feel in my
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: own collection I don't have anything that would be able
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: to take a fall tour, and this deck definitely can.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: So this is set Tom the Pickkeeper of Embrology. It
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 5: comes in at a whopping one hundred and twenty seven
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: sass as usual PV does right. It has all the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: great prophecies in ask again later outlook as a good
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: signs point z yes. So everything that you want five
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 5: house pips and every single house is disgusting. It builds
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: a board out of nowhere because all those house pips
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: are placed on creature, so it goes. It just builds
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 5: a board really quickly, and it has all the broken
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: rare cars that you're looking for such as Strength's creed
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: to there. It is on top of that harmonic ritual
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: that is actually a foil mercurial wormhole, Exotic Bivot. Triple
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: Scorpion is actually also MVP because it does so much
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: work in this deck enough to see disruption. This was
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: like the deck that I feel could take any other
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: PV deck, and I was actually more scared of gr
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 5: NPV in this field. That was what I was thinking
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 5: when I came in. Interesting, it turns out everyone brought
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: anti PVPV decks. Everyone was rocking Sorry and and sanctum,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: and there was actually very little shadows this logos that
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 5: you would usually see, so that was quite an interesting
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 5: matter change. Yeah, and start of the day I immediately
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 5: hit friendly fire. So game one was against Stephan Mann,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: one of our teammates, and that game was rough for him.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: I don't think he got to forty KI and it
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 5: was over in ten or so minutes, which was sucked
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: for him. But for me, it was a very comfortable
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 5: first round. I didn't have to put too much effort
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: into it, and I feel like I could go easily
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: into game two. And before game two, I was actually.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna stop and say I'm sorry sepf a man,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: that this is your teammate, and he just, yeah, it
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: was I'm sorry for you that I'm gonna say tapping
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: We actually did play in the prep, but yeah, he
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 5: knew his faith unfortunately for him. Yeah, that was a
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: rough first round matchup and it was so much friendly
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: fire happening. And I remember walking up to my team
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: afterwards and I said, there's one matchup that I want
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 5: to avoid, and every time I do this, that's the
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: man the matchup I end up getting. And I said,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: I don't want to play Alie Mac. Like it's not
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 5: because I love Allie Max. She's amazing, she's a great player,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: but I knew she was using Dictatur, which is like
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 5: a wats cat gr deck as disgusting Mars Combos and
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: actually comes close pastor as Nimrod, and I feel like
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 5: that's the kind of deck that I would lose to.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: I open play style. And there we go round two
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: against Alie Mac. I definitely call it just the worlds
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: where I said I don't want to play Emperor Ricu
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 5: and round one was Emperor Ricu. I did it again,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: and that game went very different than expected. Because things
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: did not line up well for her, and things lined
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: up incredibly well for me, where I feel like I
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: already got an overwhelming board on turn two because of
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: all the house pips and a well placed mercurial wormhole
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: that I can time well with you ask again later,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: because I know what's on top of my deck, so
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: I know what my house is going to change into.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: And I think that game also lasted five turns or
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 5: so because I could just burst so much emberor with
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 5: using the boards, reaping out with the mercurial wormhole in
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: two houses, and then also using harmonic ritual. I think
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: I went up to like forteen number or so on
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: turn three and that was pretty much the game. Yet
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: one really really quick Game three was on stream, and
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 5: all I remember about that game is that my opponent
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: had three miasmas in his deck, So throughout the whole
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: game he played Miasma six times, which was pretty incredible.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, I have enough, I have
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: enough Amba control, so he would generate like two or
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 5: three Mber every turn that he played the miasma and
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 5: just stall it out, but not much he could do
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: in the end. Of course, with Strength's screed, you can
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: also just capture on yourself, wipe it all with the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: Benevolent Charity. So that game lasted a long time, but
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: I don't think it was really close. My close games
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: actually started from game four onwards, and yeah, I felt
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: pretty comfortable going through to zero. Game four was rough
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: because that one was against two of Spears and they
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: brought the highest sas DM deck in the world that
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 5: comes in at one hundred and twelve SaaS and this
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 5: is a monster. This deck is incredible. Just to get
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 5: a taste, it comes with three now and Laters, four
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 5: catt You Nappings, double all Switcheroo, and the Mother and
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: the Gigantor and a whole bunch of other good cards.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 5: This deck is absolutely disgusting. I thought it would be
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 5: a very rough matchup, and well in the beginning it was.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 5: I pulled out barely and I got the win, and
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: I would end up having to face it again later,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: but I'll talk more about that later. So barely scraped
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 5: by four zero, felt pretty comfortable after that, and then
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 5: I had to face Alberto Campos, which was basically just
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: a showdown of and GFL Diamond. I know he's an
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: incredible player, He's really good and I looked at his
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 5: deck and I said, I'm not sure what this deck does,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 5: but I found out it was a PV deck. Of course,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: it just generated massive amounts of amber. He uses the
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 5: reiteration to to generate efficiency, put crap cards on the bottom,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: and then he would use reverse time so he would
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 5: never have to see those cards again. So he would
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: just keep going through his deck generating amber, never actually
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 5: playing any creatures against my trengths obviously, and that game
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: five was incredibly close. In the end, I pulled up
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 5: barely because at some point I just got the over
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 5: end on board I could purchase delta P and he
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: was just lacking board control. So I scraped by and
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: won a game. And then game six against Jilapenos. So
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: there he is again on stream, and I kind of
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: forgot what happened in the game. All I remember is
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: that after turn two or three, Klapenos was already saying
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 5: this game is over because things just didn't work for him,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: and they worked really well for me. I think I
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: got like triple scorpion on the field, and I can
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: just keep reaping out with them and destroy anything that
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 5: he put on the board. He tried to call back
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: quite a bit, but in the end it was no use.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I went six and zero being the only
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 5: undefeated player of today.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: Congrats, that's a huge accomplishment. And that that was a
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: triple scorpion against triple scorpion match. Oh wait, they were
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: actually hard. But yeah, well, honestly, when you can go
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: ahead and have the sea which is typically missing from PV,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: it was funny when you were talking about your amber control. Yeah,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: just a little bit of amber control here, d ok
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: showing twenty one with tranks, you know, just at the top,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: then benevolent charity, zada, pivot in furnace or rachnoid. Yeah. Interesting.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: It's quite horrible to practice again, so I can tell
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: you there's always first and.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 5: Experience there too, though twenty one is even underestimated from
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: my experience.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty one is. There's more. There's more twins that.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: You can our custom with the COYX researcher, and you
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: can almost guarantee to hit with usk again later. But
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 5: it doesn't count for that. Okay, it doesn't see it,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: but I think it will be closer to like twenty
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 5: eight or something.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do okay, miss is a couple different things, so
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: you got a good eye'd be able to look for
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: the deck and then wait for it. So well done.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: So after going six and zero, well, first.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: Of all, we had a little bit of a team
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: dilemma because we came with two cars. We had four
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 5: teammates that were out of the running, and the only
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 5: two players that went to top eight were both the
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 5: owners of the two cars, and it was already getting
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 5: a little bit late, so a few of the teammates
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 5: wanted to go back, and we were kind of discussing
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 5: about it, and Lord Judo was gracious enough to offer
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: himself that he would stay with the one that got
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 5: the farthest, so at least he had someone to drive
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 5: back with, because you need two drivers for six hours,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 5: or at least we do at the middle of the night,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 5: and Motility Dragon top eight match, I believe, and then
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: the Duchies went home.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but Multiley Dragons not my nemesis, Mantilly five Mutility
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 4: Dragon as was his first top eight appearance, if I'm correct.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 4: So he crawled back from a zero one or something
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: position and then one all all of his matches.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: Afterwards, so that's impassive.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So that was a very impressive run. Making the
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: top eight, I think he could be happier. So he
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 4: joined the top eight.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: To see that it is the first On the beginning
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 5: of the game or the day, he was slightly disappointed
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 5: with his first game loss, and as the day progressed,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 5: he got more and more cheerful.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen those players frequently.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 5: And then for me, the top eight was mostly rematches.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: So the top eight game I had to phase two
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: of Spears again. So again this highest DM deck in
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: the world. And actually after the first game, we were
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 5: chatting a little bit talking about odds and matchup. Where
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: as they said they thought it was a fifty to fifty,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 5: I said, well, I think my deck wins the matchup
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 5: and would have the upper hand, and then we played
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 5: on stream, and yeah, that turns out to be true.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: This one wasn't as close as the first game. I
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 5: feel like I got a better sense for the matchhop
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 5: I had a better strategy going in and I think
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: in the end they managed to forge aky but didn't
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: get much further than that. So the top eight in
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: the pocket and onto Top four, and then Top four
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 5: was also again a rematch. So in game five I
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 5: played Alberto compos and my Top four game was Alberto
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 5: compos So I was kind of sensing a theme there,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 5: and it actually went very similarly where I went into
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 5: the match. I feel like I got a better sense
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 5: of the matchup. I knew what I was going to
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: look for. I knew he was never going to play
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 5: any creatures, and what is main c was, of course
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 5: I knew in the first game, but I could play
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: around it even a little bit better this time. I
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 5: used Strength's Creed with Benevolent Charity to just again wipe
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 5: like nine or ten of his member and that was
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 5: pretty much the nail in the coffin. I don't think
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 5: I actually played Shrank's Creed the entire day for creatures
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: or an ember on the opponent's creatures. I basically only
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 5: used it to capture creatures ember on my own creatures
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 5: because no one was playing any So that was quite interesting.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: That is very interesting, and with a double reverse time
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: for Abert like, that's an interesting Dack build. But yes,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: with crypto collapse and trengths being so prevalent right now,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: there are a number of people who just like it
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: is not even worthwhile to go ahead and put a
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: creature down. I believe Judo. There was a Marcelo that
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: took ten. Is that correct?
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So I'm fine with trenks, to be honest, because
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: I have all those wards and creatures and also treat
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 4: each action as your last, so usually they cannot get
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 4: trenks wipe the ward and kill the creature.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: It's very hard in that house. But I think most
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: decks cannot do that, and so as a result, people
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: are just unwilling to play creatures right now.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, so, So I think my deck's and exception
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: to the rule. Yes, but I think this volter was
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 4: before the buff to greedy reprise or right harm because
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: your deck has got.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 5: Much better because with greedy reprisal you can kill creatures
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 5: that are awarded now. But that's only a very small puff.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: I don't think it would have been relevant on the
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 5: vault itself. So yeah, moving on to the finals, and
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: I thought I sensed the theme. I thought, okay, I
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: already played against my game four end Game five opponents,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 5: so the finals has got to be against Kalapenos. I
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 5: fully went into the final expecting that, and he came
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 5: out of the stream room and had a disappointed look
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 5: on his face and turns out someone beat him, and
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 5: this person was Dark Chorus, a new player from France
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 5: who actually I believe bought his deck fairly recently, just
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 5: started playing with it and immediately made it into a
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 5: Vault final. So really well done from him.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 4: I guess who we practiced against the most.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: With act about the neck? You guess what.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: Is Italian?
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: Another Italian? You were physically all at our national last year,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 3: all these things.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 4: So I heard that Dark Horus practiced with Kialapenos a
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 4: lot before the Vault were and they played their top
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 4: four match against each other. So yeah, that must be
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: a bittersweet one for Calapans to see his his rookie
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 4: or apprentice make it to the final, but at the
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: cost of him not getting the qualification.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's a bittersweet because you're excited for them,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: but you're like, I just lost and it's your body too,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: So I get it.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 5: But I did not know about that though. That's interesting.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 5: I feel like I missed quite a few things on
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: the day. I was just completely locked in in.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 4: Then hey, if you're if you're out of it, you
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: have a lot of time to socialize. And the only
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 4: thing I was winning all the time was the foosball?
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I think.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: Now is it table tennis or foodsball? Battle?
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 5: It's okay.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: So so you came into the finals. You're actually facing
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: someone who's new now, and how entering into this game
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: did you feel comfortable? I mean, well, first of all,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: congratulations because by making it in the top two you
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: qualify for Worlds. So one, that's a huge task right
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: there to be able to go ahead and all right, weightlifted,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not qualified for Worlds. But how did you like
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: this matchup or did you not like it?
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 5: So funny story in my search for one of the
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 5: best decks in the world, where I ended up getting
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 5: set up. This deck also popped up and I have
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 5: played with it online and all I remember from this
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 5: deck is that it just didn't work for me. It
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 5: didn't click. Well, if you don't get aboards, then you
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 5: don't get very far. So I already knew going into
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 5: the matchup the double greedy reprisal was going to be key.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 5: And seeing as I have in my minds at least
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 5: more creature control than he does, and we both really
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 5: care a lot about the board, feel like I got
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 5: the one in the pocket and maybe I got a
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: bit overconfident and then going into game one. It's on
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 5: stream if you want to watch it back. But that
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 5: was a complete blowout I think again, I played an
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 5: incredible logos hand turn one into like a huge diskboard
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 5: turn two. Again, the scorpions were MVP. They were reaping
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 5: and destroying his board while also generating tons of amber,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 5: and with the PV efficiency you still get through your deck.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 5: I think I got very far ahead, and the nail
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 5: in the coffin was basically him putting what was it
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: if evasive maneuvers underneath a prophecy so if it triggered,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 5: which I think it was us Again, if it triggered,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: it would have damaged my entire board.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: Yep, deal to to each friendly creature is the thing.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 5: Fact he actually put it on the early birds who
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 5: are triggered at the end of his turn. But to
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 5: damage was not enough to kill my board like a
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: few smaller creatures like the Digitalia, but it would damage
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 5: most of the rest of my board. And I actually
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 5: had a Tielner under ask again later which triggered, which
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 5: basically means that it healed my entire board. It fully
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 5: healed each creature and your opponent gains one amber for
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 5: each creature healed this way. I think that one generated
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 5: me eight Mber rooms.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: Which you never hear that. Tielnar is like that a
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: card that saved you.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never seen this before and this was absolutely incredible.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 5: I don't think it was necessary because I was quite
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: ahead already in the game, but this just closed it
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 5: down immediately generated way too much ember, so that was
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 5: kind of like a barrel or just completely run through
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: them in the first game. The game two was actually
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 5: the closest one.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 4: But before you go to game two though, like it
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 4: was like fifteen minutes that game one, right.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 5: It was very sure.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: It was like super fast if I record.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 5: It was between and I remember you saying that you
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: wanted me to end it fast because then we can
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 5: get it.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Then you can get out.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: I was like, this place, we're going to be home
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 4: before midnight.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: And so what I'm finding is that with both of
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: you boys, don't say who you think you're going to
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: play or what the worst matchup is because that's going
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: to come true. And don't say that quickly because then
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: it won't.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 5: So we have ourselves the entire weekend. Yes, because I
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 5: believe game two even went to time or we finished
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 5: it like half a minute before time was cold or
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 5: something like that.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just before it. But those games.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 5: Two was the most game out of close game out
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 5: of three by far. It was just a complete back
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 5: and forth. None of us could completely get on the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 5: board as both of our x wanted to. We had
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 5: huge ember swings. I believe he stole a lot with
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 5: his embellished by killing my board and stealing a lot
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 5: of amber. I could get a lot of it back
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: again with either inter dimensional graft or trenks one of
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 5: the two. And it was just a constant back and
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 5: forth until the end where his prophecy triggered and he
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 5: ended up stealing two amber with predatory landing, and that
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: allowed him to forge his third key. And by that
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 5: time I wasn't sharp enough anymore. I didn't see that coming,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 5: So I feel like I kind of gave it away
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: and I should have been able to play around it.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 5: But he pulled game two barely out, really really close, And.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: So now you're forcing into a game three. You felt
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 2: pretty comfortable and confident after game one, I've been okay.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: Game two then is like that was heartaching. So you
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: come into game three. Did you did you take a
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: little bit of time, because they do actually I know
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: a state side whir allowed a little bit of time
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: to kind of walk away, kind of recompose yourself.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 5: Did you take a moment, grab some water. I had
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 5: some nuts and some snacks because I didn't eat and
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 5: it was already like eight in an evening. I took
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 5: like five or ten minutes and then got back to
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 5: the table. We start playing again. Yeah, I feel like
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 5: I feel like after such an intense game and then
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: barely losing, you need a little bit of distance and
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 5: kind of control and stabilize yourself again.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. I would actually even state if
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: you win, to also do the same so you're not
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: riding a complete high, and then that you can basically
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: believe in yourself a little bit too much and you
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: kind of overcompensate. So I recommend that to anyone. And
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: it's a long day when you've been playing, and then
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: it's top eight game, top four game, and you're excited
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: you made worlds, but you also want that final, like
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: I want to take down this vault. So memory starts
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and fade just slightly decision making.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: So I was starting to make mistakes in game two,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 5: just very small things like when I played the Exotic Pivot,
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 5: which I knew was going to hit, he only had
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: two amber and I could have destroyed one of my
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 5: creatures to steal three instead of two, Like those kind
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 5: of things, and I feel like that's why I lost
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 5: game two, even though I completely agree with you say,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 5: like after game one, I also took a breather. I
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 5: took like five to ten minutes again, walked around chitch
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 5: had a little bit, still being very confident when I
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 5: came back to the table, and yeah, you just need
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: that time. You need to step away from the game
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 5: for a bit because else it's too much and games.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: So you've now entered game three. In game three, it's
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: basically games one and two are gone. This is the
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: best of one here.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 5: Did you get to pick the starting player? And I
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: feel like with PV you always want to be the
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: starting player. So with that, I feel like I got
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 5: super minuscule but still a small advantage where you're allowed
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 5: for the mulligan, you get to put a prophecy immediately underneath,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 5: you get to play cards, so I feel like usually
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 5: you want that first player. I drew my seven cards,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 5: and let's just say they weren't good, which is fine
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 5: instant mulligan. I put them away. I redrew my cards,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: and I don't remember my exact hand, but all I
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 5: remembered was after turn two or three, I was stuck
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 5: in my hand with greedy reprisal trends and harmonic ritual
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 5: where you don't want to throw away those cards for
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 5: zero value, even though sometimes you try. But that allows
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 5: your opponent to just completely get on board and they
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: don't have to hold back at all, which he didn't do.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 5: That was quite surprising, Like in none of the games
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 5: he held back. He just fully went through it, went
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 5: for it. And then at the time where I actually
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 5: needed the greedy reprisal, he played try hard and he
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 5: discarded out of my hand. So the rest of the
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 5: goal for the game, I was thinking, I'm so much
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: behind on board because he immediately put down a lot
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 5: of creatures. I need to get to that second greedy reprisal,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 5: So I optimized for efficiency. I went through my deck
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 5: completely and at some point he was already very far ahead,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 5: but I got the trenths in greed reprisal again, I tried,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 5: I did both. I almost completely wiped his board. I
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 5: trengsed him, turned back to him, and he immediately smashed
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 5: down five or six sorrying creatures all at once, and
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 5: I knew I didn't have any of my greedy reprisals anymore.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 5: I didn't see my eddy of disses, which would have
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 5: allowed me to shuffle my discard well back into my deck.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 5: So I feel like, Okay, I'm cooked. I need to
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 5: get through my deck as soon as possible and either
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 5: find the trenks again or the greedy reprisal again. I
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 5: held on for longer than I thought I would. It
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 5: was still quite an intense and long game, but it
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 5: was really hard to get back in that and it
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 5: felt like a complete reversal for Game one where he
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 5: completely steam rolled me. So it happens. That's also key forge.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: I'm still very proud of getting a second place and
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 5: huge congrats to Dark Chorus for taking it all down.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean congrats, and I'll quickly run through so
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: Dark horas going ahead and being your ARCon Paris Vault
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  Speaker 2: Tour winner Harmed coming in as second, so the Dutch deuce,
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  Speaker 2: but honestly, it's huge accomplishment. Top four went til Bert's
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  Speaker 2: Accomposts and Albinus and then top eight going to Motility Dragon.
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  Speaker 2: See how I did that. Judo two of Spears, bott
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  Speaker 2: Orknot and Jim twenty three thirty so talked about many
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  Speaker 2: of these decks, you guys face. So congrats to everyone
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  Speaker 2: who made top eights and who ah, sure, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's actually easier if I just count the decks that
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  Speaker 2: are not PV. And there was one and it was
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  Speaker 2: a DM happens to be the top rated DM deck.
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  Speaker 2: We'd have to put it in a draft score in
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  Speaker 2: order to really verify that that's true or not.
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  Speaker 4: It's more accurate, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It is more accurate. But yes, PV was prevalent, to
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  Speaker 2: say the least for Paris.
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  Speaker 4: And I read somewhere that we didn't get the memo
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  Speaker 4: in Europe or something that there was this unspoken rule
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  Speaker 4: to not bring PV, but.
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  Speaker 5: That did happen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it would be better if everyone did, but
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  Speaker 4: you know it's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, some people want to win, and we'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to keep playing for it.
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  Speaker 4: We want to win. They're just there to have fun,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 2: We are there to have fun, but winning is also
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  Speaker 2: an important part. So you finished. Uh did you let's see,
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  Speaker 2: let's start, Suzuti. Did you end up going ahead and
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  Speaker 2: leaving earlier make it home in a reasonable time?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, because it was it was essentially two days for
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  Speaker 2: you to get there with Did you have to take
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  Speaker 2: another two days to get back?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, yep. I had to wait for the next
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 3: day to actually get back to touring. Then I had
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 3: to take well the train to get there, and then
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  Speaker 3: I had to get back home with the car, which
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  Speaker 3: is another eight hours.
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  Speaker 4: Eight hours by yourself. Yeah, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Did you at least get a chance to celebrate your
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: sealed win while waiting?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah. The final day of Farcon, after the
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: whole thing was finished, we decided to go and eat
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  Speaker 3: a steak. So it was fun.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, delicious.
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  Speaker 2: And Judo, did you make it home in a reasonable time?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you were such a good friend that you
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  Speaker 2: waited for Harmed ye who made it? Who made it
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  Speaker 2: all the way to the finals? So the longest he
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: cot a get he went to almost time, is what
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  Speaker 2: I heard, just a few seconds off and then he
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: douced it, so he didn't even come away with that
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: Vault Warrior winning. I know, I'm teasing him, but I
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: As I know Harmed was had his eyes set on
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 4: ark On. So I was actually almost more routing for
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 4: him to get to the finals than myself because I
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 4: know how much he practiced and put the work in,
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  Speaker 4: so I was I was happy for that. The consequences
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 4: was that we arrived at two thirty or so, even
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 4: dropped me at home, so that was nice twenty minute
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  Speaker 4: due to her if he.
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  Speaker 5: Put it in maybe half an hour in the end, sure,
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  Speaker 5: it was like I was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so say earlier that memory and thought processes was.
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  Speaker 5: Like yeah, sure, So.
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  Speaker 4: From my house to arms house on a on a
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 4: good night, it's like eighteen minutes. Maybe something I don't
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 4: know turned out a bit longer, but yeah, two thirty.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got home at night and the next
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 4: day is a normal work day with the kids and work,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of I have held you guys on this
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: middle of the week where you got to get to
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: work and it is it's getting late. You're almost at
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: ten thirty over by you, guys, any final statements comments
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  Speaker 2: you want to say before we go ahead and wrap
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  Speaker 2: this up.
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  Speaker 4: I guess a huge shout out to the organizer of
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 4: the French Folter. It's always nice seeing those those those
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 4: guys showing up Tonio Jalapenos, is fit Ashitaka and everyone
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 4: at EMI's am I Culture Center there. They did such
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 4: an amazing job. It's a great atmosphere. I think it's
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 4: probably similar to what you guys have in the stage. Right,
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  Speaker 4: the first folter you go to, you I don't really
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  Speaker 4: know that many people, but afterwards the second one you
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 4: go to, you are visiting your your friends more or less.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 4: So if that like, we were playing with friends in
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 4: a very well organized water, so huge, huge shout out
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  Speaker 4: to all of those people.
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  Speaker 5: What else is there left to say? I think Lord
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  Speaker 5: Juda said it all like, huge thanks to everyone who
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 5: organized the entire French team, Portuguese team, all the different
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 5: countries that were there. It was an absolute blast. And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I hope it happens again next year because it's always
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 5: fun to me together, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The zooly final comments, same thing for me.
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  Speaker 3: It was really well organized and honestly, if I might
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 3: add something, but it's more personal, I'd want to think
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 3: it's also Harmed and Judo because they were the one
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 3: to help us get to the volletmore.
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  Speaker 4: In the car. Yeah, so it was fun. It was
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  Speaker 4: good fun. We somehow we hung out with you guys,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 4: which I didn't expect to not because of some swings,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 4: but I didn't expect to hang out with the three
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 4: Italians that much at the Voter, which was a nice change.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 4: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pleasure for us as well. So
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 3: thanks again for everything.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I will say that every time I get to
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: see you guys at KFC, I've enjoyed my time, whether
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: that's swimming or playing keyboards or just hanging out. So
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: one day, hopefully in the future, I'll actually be able
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: to make it over to a vault in Europe.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 4: Because Nationals' just shameless plug. The Dutch Nationals is coming
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 4: up in September and it's said to be a big
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 4: one because we've got people from Germany, We've got people
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 4: from France, Great Britain, Italy.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 3: Maybe I was thinking about it, Oh yeah, I have
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 3: issue with the news yea. Honestly, it's such a bad
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 3: timing this year.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Nationals are coming up. If anyone from
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 4: the States still wants to come, we're gonna probably stream it.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 4: It's a stacked field so if you're hoping to get
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 4: a qualification there, it's going to be as tough as
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 4: a vaultur, I think, but it's gonna be good times
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 4: because our friends from the French Vulture are coming over
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 4: and the Germans. So yeah, shameless plug, I was.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 3: I was sore that with theles.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a stroke waffle any walk?
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: I have not heard of this cave.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 4: See if we're coming and there's a chance we should
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 4: bring some stroke waffles. We'll get the whole AC team
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 4: hooked on stroke waffles.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: I mean I like food and drinks, so this is
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: great for me. Yes, more stroke waffles signing up. But
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: I will also say just a shout out to the
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: three of you guys, thanks for taking time in your evening,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: for being able to go ahead and walk through the
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 2: Vault Tour. We don't oftentimes get a chance to be
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: able to count what's happening internationally, so I appreciate you
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: taking time and being able to talk about it in Congrats.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 2: Whether you want ahead and did bass, whether you qualified
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: or you became a volt Warrior, or uh anything in between,
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: you guys are amazing. So I really did appreciate it.
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: But I should probably let you guys get to sleep now,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 2: Joe with that, good night everyone, that's your final. May
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 2: the Forge be with you. Goodnight everyone, Just loud.