yugioh champion of the world!!!

yeah right!!! i wish!!! today i went to the yugioh tournament and...well i have to say something first. first i want to say sorry. i was in a bad mood yesterday. it is true my life sucks but i can't name one person who doesn't have a reason why thier life sucks. so i shoudn't have said that but i'm NOT taking it off. and no, my mom did not make me write this apology, i wanted to and so i am. but now i'm having a good day even though i just got my butt kicked by a bunch of kids.

let me tell you about the yugioh tournament. i spent all morning preparing my deck and re-reading the rulebook. and then after that i went out with my dad to put up posters for our corp opening (march 26th, be there or be square! or is it be square or be there? or...). and then i went in to the place where the tournament was. i was around 10 minutes early which was good becuase i got to check out other peoples cards and they checked out mine. and i found a kid who would translate when needed. so after having the rules and setup explained to me i entered and had my name randomly paired up with someone else. and then i find the kid and i see that hes like only 9 or 10. most of them where. and i sit down and i'm all like confident and ready and it sounds so stupid now but i sat down, shuffled my cards, and went "lets do this!!". now you guess who was desperately trying to sound cool and desperately failing. so i sit down accross the table from this guy, we cut our decks and start. i draw my 5 cards and look at them. "wait a minute" i think to myself "these cards aren't in my deck!!". but i had already started the duel (yugioh terminology for round of the game) and just decided to play anyway. let me explain a bit about yugioh, a game consists of three duels, best 2 out of 3 wins.

so first duel. BOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!! i got blown away. i didn't even touch the guy. i swear it took him 5 minutes. next duel. KABOOOOOOSH!!!!! i held out longer, did a little damage, but in the end i went down. so we were the first done. he was quick, eficient and skillful. so in the break i had waiting for everyone else to be done i started to look through my deck and noticed something. half the cards in there weren't supposed to be in there!!! one of my decks of cards to trade had gotten mixed in, meaning my deck was half full of good cards, but half full of bad also. and so far, i had gotten bad. i asked the lady behind the desk and she said that once i entered the tournament i wasn't alowed to change my deck. so there i was, in a tournament stuck with a bad eck. so i decided i'd just make the best of it. so next game, i'm against someone older this time, but still not quite my age. BOOOOOM!!!!! BAAAANNNNGGGG!!!!!! i held out longer than with the first guy but i was still beaten really badly. so in the break i watched the other players and tried to learn their stratagies. third game i'm against this younger kid who looked pretty new to the game. every else there kept thier cards in nice plastic sleeves, he kept his in a plastic bag. i keep mine in rubber bands but...still, he looked new to the game. so first duel. CRABOOOOOOMM!!!!!! blasted, truly blasted. but he was obviously inexperienced, which actually made me feel worse becuase i've been playing for 2 years... but then, next duel, we start out in a bit of stalemate and then i pull out some of my best cards (about time i started drawing something good!!) and BOOOOOOOM, win for me. so we were 1 to 1. we play again and i drew well yet again and beat him horribly. i almost felt bad for him. he was never able to hurt me and(if you understand yugioh) i got a total of 14000 life points! i mean, just getting 10000 is good but i've never heard of anyone going as high as 14000. i finally had won one game.

so now i had won 1 game and lost 2, but i still had one more guy to face. this guy was my age (finally someone my age) and had a broken arm. i felt bad for him with the broken arm and everything but i'd already lost enough and he had been doing quite well. so we start the first duel. i pull out a aweful hand and he pulls out a great one and i still can't figure it out but...BOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHH!!!!! i beat him. i beat him so closely, but i do beat him. and the reason why it was so close and what was kind of bugging me was...he was using the exact same stratagy and cards as me!!! we kept pulling the same cards on each other, then using the same cards to block each other. it was actually kind of funny. and then we play again and boom (i'm sick of putting the sound effects in all caps) i get squashed. so now, once again, we were even, the result of this next duel would decide it all. so we play and once again we use the same strategy, only this time, i got all the perfect cards at all the perfect times and sent him flying. it was an extremely well fought match. i felt like shaking his hand, but, i didn't. it took forever though and we were the last ones done. and so then i find out i didn't come in first, second or third (so i didn't win a prize =( ) but i didn't come in last either =). and then there was like a door prize type thing and i could have won something but didn't =(. seems luck wasn't really with me today.

so now i'm done. i'm gonna go rework my deck in my new room. which rocks because the floor is heated and i have a ton of room. i even have room for a friend to move in so if anyones interested... the only 2 bad things things today were these a. i usually wear a black pullover fleece with a black fleece jacket, but even i have to wash clothes sometimes. so today they were dirty and had to be washed. i had hoped they'd be clean in time but...that didn't work out. i had hoped to look kinda like some dark lord and when i walk in have people run in fear and drop thier cards. i mean i have the look, i have dark eyes, dark hair, a unibrow (which no matter how much you make fun of me for it i still think its kinda cool, meaghan and sarah), and i hadn't shaved in a few days. so i certainly looked kinda evil dark lordish, i just was missing my black fleeces. so to make up for it i wore a black t-shirt that said "mida oli?" and below it the english translation "what's up?". i doubt a dark lord would wear a t-shirt that says "what's up?" but...who cares. and b. the other bad thing was that there was a sad shortage of girls!!! as in none!!! i mean i didn't really expect a dark haired, pierceingly blue eyed, eerily fair skinned, gothic looking Amy Lee clone to challenge me to a duel but still...i was hoping for some sort of girl!!! well thats it for today, i'm going now, Cya.