Colorado Springs City Championship Report

[SteveP]

We had at total of 33 players at the Colorado Springs City Championship today. Ages were:

10-under: 7
11-14: 14
15-over: 12

The top decks were:

10-under
1st - MukEX/RaichuEX
2nd - Steelix/Sandslash

11-14:
1st - Amphy/AmphyEX/Wobuffet/Xatu/Absol tech/bench support deck
2nd - AmplyEX/Kid/Buzz speed deck

15-over:
1st - Gardy/GardyEX/Wobuffet
2nd - Gardy/GardyEX/Wobuffet
(these two decks were almost identical. the main difference was the winner had 4 boosts and 2nd had only 3 boosts, just enough to make the 1st deck a bit faster.)

Other Notes:

- We did 4-round, best-of-3 match play for the 10-under
- We did 5-round, best-of-3 match play for the 11-14 and 15-over
- We separated the 3 age groups, so no one had to play outside their age group
- Rounds were 45 minutes
- 10-under and 15-over produced undefeated swiss-round champs
- 11-14 swiss-rounds ended with 2 players tied for first who also tied in their swiss match, so instead of using the tiebreaker, we did a 1-match (best-of-3) playoff. The tiebreaker leader won the playoff match.
- Thanks to the Lakewood CC Champs for volunteering to help staff instead of playing. Great sportsmanship guys!!!
- Thanks to the PTO for providing an additional box of boosters for the staff support.
- No Blaziken/something decks, but LOTS of water in the two younger groups. That's why the two Amphy decks rose to the top.
- We used a freeware tournament software program I developed to run the tournament. We could actually PRINT!!!
- Thanks to mysterioustrainer (Craig) for judging the 15-over so I didn't bias any rulings (my son was playing).

[mysterioustrainer]

I swear I must have had a record breaker in rulings to answer. Thankfully the compendium never had to be summoned. Yes it was a fun time. If there was only more time, I would love to have the opportunty for some free-play battles or draw however we just had to keep things going in order to get done by 3pm, even then I was temped to pull out my sword and shield (if I had them) to keep the impatient Yu-gi-oh players out of the room before we were done.

Now only one City Championship remains. Which is in Littleton, CO. This Saturday (2/28) at Sports Cards Etc. (http://www.sportscardsetc.com)

[dld4a]

wow 5 rounds of 2/3 45 min each. must be nice I've been to 3 cc's, 1-5 round 30 min. 1game match, 1-5 round 25 min. 1 game match, and 1-6 round 25 min. 1 game match.

[mysterioustrainer]

wow 5 rounds of 2/3 45 min each. must be nice I've been to 3 cc's, 1-5 round 30 min. 1game match, 1-5 round 25 min. 1 game match, and 1-6 round 25 min. 1 game match.
By giving adequete time for each round to have two/three game matches, we feel that the true winners for each match can be determined, also this allows more games played which allows for more fun to be had.

[bulbasnore]

- We used a freeware tournament software program I developed to run the tournament. We could actually PRINT!!!

Cool. What is the software? What did you write it in? Does it read/write the Nintendo format tourney files?