Today was the day - the Winter Cup.
Well, day one, at least. The Team event. Myself, another of the shop's Professors, and a friend of theirs teamed up, my Dragoons, the other Professor's Mono-Water Monsters, and their friend's Refia WoLs.
And the short version is that we got destroyed today. I didn't keep any sort of track of my teammates' games, because the sheer volume of people around me made it difficult enough to keep notes on my own games.
Round 1 vs Mono-Fire Warriors - Lost 1-7
I overextended hard on turn 1, and didn't have an Alus to give back the resources that I burned. I paid for that dearly over the course of the game, since I was unable to get anywhere close to taking them out before they got established and swiftly dominated the game.
Neither of my teammates won their games, either.
Round 2 vs Ice-Fire Warriors - Lost 4-7
I had what was a nearly ideal opening, ending with Alus and a second backup in play, and with a 4-drop Freya in hand. Honestly, all things said, I don't think I made any misplays either. But the additional control elements from the Ice kept me locked down unfortunately well. I spent a lot of my game with my field being dulled, frozen, and in one case had a Freya I targeted with LB Kain get stripped out of my break zone.
This was enough to keep me from finishing the game out, unfortunately. At the risk of sounding like the "If only I had drawn better" style of sore loser, I needed a second Freya. I had a 3-drop Freya in hand, and through my backups I had the resources to play her and - if I'd had a second Freya available - could've easily paid for Cherry Blossom to wipe my opponent's board and likely taken the win.
But, unfortunately, I didn't have a second Freya, and my opponent took me out on their turn.
Round 3 - Bye
A bye round, my team's only "win" for the day. And truly, we were the winners, as there was a lunch break after this round, and we were able to head for the mall's food court before the rest of the tournament descended upon it.
Round 4 - Mono-Fire - Lost 3-7
I didn't see an Alus until too late into the game for the Prince to really offer enough value to be truly useful. After what happened in round 1, I tried to avoid overextending to the board, and as such we both spent a couple of turns mostly setting up backups.
Unfortunately, one of my opponent's early plays was a Sazh that searched up a copy of Amaterasu, so I spent my entire game playing around the knowledge that they had an Amat in hand. This unfortunately lead to me playing perhaps too conservatively, though I did manage to make use of Cherry Blossom a good half-dozen times.
Unfortunately, despite a half-dozen Cherry Blossoms, there was nothing I could do to remove their Phoinix, so the fiery bird and a 6-drop Ace knocked me down over the course of a few turns, with a Clive priming into Ifrit as the final nail in the coffin as the mighty Eikon blew away my only blocker on the final turn.
Round 5 - Mono-Ice - Lost 2-7
The only copies of Alus I saw were sent to damage. My hand was stripped bare by discard effects, and the few things I was able to get into play were kept on lockdown with dulls and freezes.
This was not a close game, by any stretch of the term.
Conclusion
There was another round of play after this, however with our record being as abysmal as it was, my teammates both wanted to drop. While I would've gladly kept playing in the last round just for the sake of getting to play more, I was unfortunately outvoted, and honestly, that's fair enough.
Tomorrow is Day 2 of the event, and a singles tournament. I plan to play my Scions for that. I am hoping desperately that things go better for me tomorrow than they did today.
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