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Jiyuna's Bushiroad Rant
11 years ago
General
Went to the New York regionals for Vanguard on Saturday after a 3 hour drive from Philly to White Plains NY. from what I heard only 150 teams of three pre register but close to another 200 just showed up at the door while Bushiroad was only really prepared for about 50. After about an hour of wait after the cut off time they announced round 0 where it was single elimination before you could go into the proper 2 loss tournament.
The pairs were completely randomized after being divided in half by alphabetical order. So sadly many of the Invader factions faced each other and our team lost to anther Invader team.
My problem is that even thought Bushiroad was nice enough to not change entry and gave away cards in the free-play and just coming in, round 0 punished those that preregister and traveled more then an hour to the event and arrived on time. Also since the push of this event was Invaders, which was only 10% of the teams there, versus Defenders, Invaders were facing against each other at the start. Pairing itself was again was a problem with "technical difficulties" with mis pairings that had affected the single regional last year.
Hopefully this can be solved by the "last in first out" when people that came in the door are the ones that face single elimination before those that pre registered and took the time to get there early. Imagine that you're the team from Vancouver Canada or Texas, spent thousands of dollars to get there and told that you have a chance of not making it out of round one of an event that is supported to be a double elimination?
Also New York traffic leaving NY is a nightmare no matter when you try to leave with every bridge entrance clogged up and at least one bridge or tunnel closed for some reason. I heard rumors about starting in Philadelphia and the convention center can easily hold the numbers as YuGiOh is played there.
I love Vanguard and Bushiroad, but hopefully they can pull the events together better as well as post ahead of time contingency plans so those that decide not to pre register can know what the consequences are.
The pairs were completely randomized after being divided in half by alphabetical order. So sadly many of the Invader factions faced each other and our team lost to anther Invader team.
My problem is that even thought Bushiroad was nice enough to not change entry and gave away cards in the free-play and just coming in, round 0 punished those that preregister and traveled more then an hour to the event and arrived on time. Also since the push of this event was Invaders, which was only 10% of the teams there, versus Defenders, Invaders were facing against each other at the start. Pairing itself was again was a problem with "technical difficulties" with mis pairings that had affected the single regional last year.
Hopefully this can be solved by the "last in first out" when people that came in the door are the ones that face single elimination before those that pre registered and took the time to get there early. Imagine that you're the team from Vancouver Canada or Texas, spent thousands of dollars to get there and told that you have a chance of not making it out of round one of an event that is supported to be a double elimination?
Also New York traffic leaving NY is a nightmare no matter when you try to leave with every bridge entrance clogged up and at least one bridge or tunnel closed for some reason. I heard rumors about starting in Philadelphia and the convention center can easily hold the numbers as YuGiOh is played there.
I love Vanguard and Bushiroad, but hopefully they can pull the events together better as well as post ahead of time contingency plans so those that decide not to pre register can know what the consequences are.
