As another effort to reach out to any existing non-OCG communities in the country, Courtside has hosted another non-sanctioned Open Tournament. Store credit was put up for grabs in this awesome event, in the hopes of helping possible non-OCG winners to convert and start competing in more serious environments. This tournament, held at Robinson’s Galleria, had 76 participants.
Also included in this article are results from the previous weekend (August 08 – August 10).
(Writer’s Note: There will almost always be context dumps in almost every article for the benefit of non-frequent readers. You can always just skip to the Decklists at your leisure.)
The “Open Format” in the Philippine context is just allowing any original Yu-Gi-O! cards in any language to be used. Being a non-Japanese country mandated to use OCG cards, many fans of the game are not happy that the competitive scene involves using cards they can’t read. Open Format events are held sporadically to invite these players to check out and play in a more challenging environment and hopefully convince them to make the competitive shift and disregard the language barrier between them and the OCG. As usual, no fake cards can be used in any of Courtside’s events (evil taunting laughter), and we still follow the OCG lists, the latest being applied last July.
For the usual players, the “Open Format” may have had less meaning ever since Konami Asia has allowed the use of the rest of all the Duel Terminal expansions, leaving every non-TCG exclusive card in the game available to use in any sanctioned event. We’re still waiting for any DT theme to place themselves in weekly Pods, but I was glad to see some DT theme users in this event (though sadly they’ve not come up top).
(Context dump ends. Thanks for reading it/scrolling past it.)
First up will be the Open Tournament Top 8 Decklists, then weekly winners by date.
Spells: 13 Traps: 10 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 15 Traps: 9 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 15 Traps: 6 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 16 Traps: 10 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 12 Traps: 8 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 15 Traps: 5 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 12 Traps: 6 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 21 Traps: 9 Extra Deck: 14 Spells: 6 Traps: 15 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 15 Traps: 5 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 12 Traps: 13 Extra Deck: 8 Side Deck: 15 Spells: 10 Traps: 12 Extra Deck: 15 Side Deck: 10
Courtside Open Tournament (August 16, 2014)
Open Tournament CHAMPION: Abiel Alejandro
Deck: Shaddoll/Star Seraph
3x Shaddoll Beast
2x Shaddoll Falco
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Dragon
3x Shaddoll Hedgehog
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
2x Mathematician
3x Star Seraph Scepter
3x Star Seraph Sovereign
2x Shaddoll Fusion
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
1x Super Polymerization
2x Soul Charge
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Heavy Storm
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Pot of Avarice
3x Sinister Shadow Games
1x Shaddoll Core
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Vanity’s Emptiness
3x El Shaddoll Construct
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x El Shaddoll Egrystal
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Moonlight Rose Dragon
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x HTS Psyhemuth
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Stellarknight Delteros
1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight
3x Fire Hand
2x Ice Hand
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Morphing Jar
2x Penguin Soldier
2x D.D. Crow
2x De-Fusion
1x Imperial Iron Wall
Open Tournament FINALIST: Elvis Agoto Jr
Deck: Infernity/HERO
3x Infernity Archfiend
2x Infernity Necromancer
1x Dark Grepher
1x Armageddon Knight
2x Summoner Monk
1x Archfiend Heiress
1x Elemental HERO Stratos
1x Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
1x Elemental HERO Bubbleman
1x Shaddoll Dragon
2x Stygian Street Patrol
3x Soul Charge
3x Mask Change Second
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
2x A Hero Lives
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Foolish Burial
1x Infernity Launcher
2x Infernity Barrier
2x Infernity Break
2x Vanity’s Emptiness
3x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Masked HERO Dark Law
1x Masked HERO Acid
1x Masked HERO Kamikaze
2x Lavalval Chain
1x Diamond Dire Wolf
1x Number 66: Master Key Beetle
1x Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
1x Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight
1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Gagaga Cowboy
1x Leviair the Sea Dragon
2x Night Beam
2x Spiritualism
2x Prohibition
2x Dragged Down into the Grave
2x Light-Imprisoning Mirror
1x Shaddoll Dragon
1x Forbidden Lance
1x Dark Hole
1x The Transmigration Prophecy
1x Crevice Into the Different Dimension
Open Tournament SEMI-FINALIST: Merix Bartolo
Deck: Shaddoll/Star Seraph
2x Shaddoll Beast
1x Shaddoll Falco
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Dragon
2x Shaddoll Hedgehog
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
2x Mathematician
3x Star Seraph Scepter
3x Star Seraph Sovereign
2x Dark Armed Dragon
1x Metaion, the Time Lord
2x Shaddoll Fusion
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
2x Super Polymerization
2x Soul Charge
1x Monster Reborn
1x Heavy Storm
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Foolish Burial
2x Sinister Shadow Games
1x Shaddoll Core
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x El Shaddoll Construct
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x El Shaddoll Egrystal
1x Vision HERO Adoration
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Moonlight Rose Dragon
1x Arcanite Magician
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Stellarknight Delteros
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Traptrix Myrmeleo
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Dust Tornado
2x Fairy Wind
3x Thunder King Rai-Oh
1x Super Polymerization
Open Tournament SEMI-FINALIST: Vincent Maquiling
Deck: Qliphort
3x Qliphort Tool
2x Qliphort Genome
2x Qliphort Disk
3x Qliphort Archive
1x Qliphort Shell
1x Performapal Trampolynx
3x Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon
3x Pot of Duality
3x Summmoner’s Art
3x Qliphort Sacrifice
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
3x Night Beam
1x Heavy Storm
2x Skill Drain
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Threatening Roar
3x Compulsory Evacuation Device
1x Vanity’s Emptiness
1x Number 103: Ragnazero
1x Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
1x Number 61: Volcasaurus
1x Constellar Ptolemy M7
1x Evilswarm Ouroboros
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
1x Gagaga Cowboy
1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight
1x Number 11: Big Eye
1x Artifact Durendal
1x Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack
1x Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight
1x Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
1x Number 85: Crazy Box
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
2x Forbidden Chalice
2x Spell Shattering Arrow
1x Light-Imprisoning Mirror
2x Nobleman of Crossout
1x Dark Hole
2x Dimensional Prison
2x D.D. Crow
1x Threatening Roar
1x De-Fusion
1x Fiendish Chain
Open Tournament QUARTERFINALIST: Jan Erich Agulto
Deck: Shaddoll
2x Shaddoll Beast
1x Shaddoll Falco
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Dragon
3x Shaddoll Hedgehog
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
2x Mathematician
2x Dark Armed Dragon
3x White Dragon Wyverburster
2x Black Dragon Collapserpent
2x Eclipse Wyvern
2x Shaddoll Fusion
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
3x Super Polymerization
1x Allure of Darkness
1x Heavy Storm
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Foolish Burial
3x Sinister Shadow Games
1x Shaddoll Core
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x El Shaddoll Construct
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x El Shaddoll Egrystal
1x Vision HERO Adoration
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x HTS Psyhemuth
1x Arcanite Magician
1x Daigusto Emeral
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
2x D.D. Crow
2x Fire Hand
2x Ice Hand
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Fairy Wind
1x Dust Tornado
2x The Monarchs Stormforth
1x Caius the Shadow Monarch
1x Dark Hole
Open Tournament QUARTERFINALIST: Louren Vidad
Deck: Shaddoll/Star Seraph
3x Shaddoll Beast
1x Shaddoll Falco
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Dragon
3x Shaddoll Hedgehog
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
3x Star Seraph Scepter
3x Star Seraph Sovereign
1x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Summoner Monk
1x Traptrix Myrmeleo
2x Shaddoll Fusion
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
2x Super Polymerization
3x Soul Charge
1x Monster Reborn
1x Heavy Storm
1x Allure of Darkness
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Foolish Burial
1x Solemn Warning
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x El Shaddoll Construct
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x El Shaddoll Egrystal
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Moonlight Rose Dragon
1x Number 103: Ragnazero
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Stellarknight Delteros
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Maxx “C”
1x Mind Control
1x Super Polymerization
2x Torrential Tribute
2x Time-Space Trap Hole
2x D.D. Crow
2x Rainbow Life
Open Tournament QUARTERFINALIST: Jeffrey Madrid
Deck: Shaddoll
2x Shaddoll Beast
1x Shaddoll Falco
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Dragon
3x Shaddoll Hedgehog
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
3x Mathematician
2x Dark Armed Dragon
1x Eclipse Wyvern
1x Felis, Lightsworn Archer
3x White Dragon Wyverburster
2x Black Dragon Collapserpent
2x Shaddoll Fusion
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
2x Super Polymerization
1x Heavy Storm
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Pot of Avarice
1x Foolish Burial
3x Sinister Shadow Games
1x Shaddoll Core
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
3x El Shaddoll Construct
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x Vision HERO Adoration
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x HTS Psyhemuth
1x Arcanite Magician
1x Leoh, the Keeper of the Sacred Tree
1x Daigusto Emeral
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
2x Thunder King Rai-Oh
2x Maxx “C”
2x Fire Hand
2x Ice Hand
1x Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
3x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Fairy Wind
Open Tournament QUARTERFINALIST: Karlo Bonillo
Deck: Masked HERO
1x Elemental HERO Stratos
2x Elemental HERO Blazeman
2x Elemental HERO Bubbleman
3x Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
2x Summoner Monk
3x E – Emergency Call
3x Mask Change
3x Soul Charge
2x A Hero Lives
2x De-Fusion
2x Miracle Fusion
1x Polymerization
1x Super Polymerization
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Foolish Burial
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
3x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x Call of the Haunted
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Dimensional Prison
2x Masked HERO Dark Law
1x Masked HERO Kamikaze
1x Masked HERO Acid
1x Vision HERO Adoration
1x Elemental HERO Escuridao
1x Elemental HERO Absolute Zero
1x Elemental HERO Great Tornado
1x Elemental HERO Nova Master
1x Number 86: Heroic Champion – Rhongomiant
1x Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
Other weekly results:
August 8, 2014
Ongkeco Hobby Shop
Winner: Raphael Benedict Luta
Deck: Ghostrick
3x Ghostrick Jiangshi
2x Ghostrick Doll
2x Ghostrick Nekomusume
3x Ghostrick Lantern
2x Ghostrick Mary
2x Ghostrick Specter
3x Tour Guide From the Underworld
3x Kuribandit
1x Edge Imp Scissors
1x Kinka-Byo
2x Soul Charge
3x Pot of Duality
1x Ghostrick Mansion
3x Ghostrick Go Round
3x Ghostrick Vanish
1x Ghostrick Night
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Solemn Warning
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x Ghostrick Alucard
3x Ghostrick Spoiled Angel
3x Ghostrick Dullahan
3x Ghostrick Socuteboss
1x Wind-Up Zenmaines
1x Downerd Magician
1x Number F0: Future King Hope
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Caius the Shadow Monarch
2x Lava Golem
2x Maxx “C”
2x Dimensional Prison
2x Fiendish Chain
1x Compulsory Evacuation Device
1x Ceasefire
August 9, 2014
Courtside Robinsons Galleria Pod 2B
Winner: Merix Bartolo
Deck: Shaddoll/Star Seraph
2x Mathematician
3x Star Seraph Sovereign
3x Star Seraph Scepter
1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning
2x Dark Armed Dragon
2x Shaddoll Hedgehog
2x Shaddoll Dragon
2x Shaddoll Squamata
2x Shaddoll Beast
1x Shaddoll Falco
1x Metaion, the Time Lord
1x Heavy Storm
1x Foolish Burial
1x Pot of Avarice
2x Shaddoll Fusion
2x Super Polymerization
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Soul Charge
3x El Shaddoll Fusion
2x Sinister Shadow Games
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
1x Shaddoll Core
2x El Shaddoll Winda
1x Vision HERO Adoration
2x El Shaddoll Construct
1x El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
1x El Shaddoll Egrystal
1x Arcanite Magician
1x Black Rose Dragon
1x Moonlight Rose Dragon
1x Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Stellarknight Delteros
1x Number 16: Shock Master
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
3x Thunder King Rai-Oh
2x Traptrix Myrmeleo
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Torrential Tribute
1x Dust Tornado
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x Fairy Wind
1x Time-Space Trap Hole
August 9, 2014
Courtside Robinsons Galleria Pod 4B
Winner: Christopher Tecson
Deck: Gravekeepers
3x Gravekeeper’s Spy
3x Gravekeeper’s Commandant
3x Gravekeeper’s Recruiter
2x Gravekeeper’s Descendant
1x Gravekeeper’s Assailant
1x Gravekeeper’s Nobleman
2x Malefic Cyber End Dragon
3x Necrovalley
2x Gravekeeper’s Stele
2x Pot of Duality
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Forbidden Lance
1x Dark Hole
1x Book of Moon
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Torrential Tribute
3x Fiendish Chain
1x Solemn Warning
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Imperial Tombs of Necrovalley
1x Starlight Road
1x Number 66: Master Key Beetle
1x Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
3x Cyber End Dragon
1x Stardust Dragon
1x Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight
1x Number 103: Ragnazero
3x Light-Imprisoning Mirror
3x Effect Veiler
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Heavy Storm
3x Nobleman of Crossout
1x Soul Drain
1x Gravekeeper’s Shaman
2x Black Horn of Heaven
August 16, 2014
Anaheim Hobby Shop
Winner: Cloyd del Puerto
Deck: Tellarknight/Star Seraph
Monsters: 18
3x Satellarknight Deneb
3x Satellarknight Altair
1x Satellarknight Unukalhai
1x Satellarknight Vega
1x Satellarknight Alsahm
1x Satellarknight Procyon
1x Satellarknight Sirius
3x Star Seraph Scepter
3x Star Seraph Sovereign
1x Effect Veiler
3x Soul Charge
2x Night Beam
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
1x Reinforcement of the Army
1x Book of Moon
2x Stellarnova Alpha
3x Compulsory Evacuation Device
3x Call of The Haunted
1x Vanity’s Emptiness
2x Fiendish Chain
1x Ceasefire
1x Stellarknight Delteros
1x Stellarknight Trihiver
2x Number 16: Shock Ruler
1x Number 86: Heroic Champion – Rhongomiant
1x Number 80: Rhapsody in Berserk
1x Daigusto Emeral
1x Number 101: Silent Honor ARK
1x Number 50: Blackship of Corn
1x Number 106: Giant Hand
1x Gagaga Cowboy
1x Caingorgorn, Antiluminiscent Knight
1x Castel the Skyblaster Musketeer
1x Lavalval Chain
1x Diamond Dire Wolf
2x Forbidden Chalice
2x Imperial Iron Wall
1x Soul Drain
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Effect Veiler
(Feel free to holler in all caps down at the comments for anything you see wrong in the lists. As always.)
