Good
morning, Duelists! Yesterday’s dust has settled, we’ve had a good night of
sleep and we’re good to go again. We’re moving into the elimination part of
this year’s National Championship with the top 32 players. Just who will win
and who will lose? Keep your eyes peeled, because we’re in for a real treat!
Kicking off
day 2 we have Carl Vanhaelemeersch running Geargia playing against Ho-Ming Wong,
who we saw in yesterday’s last Feature Match. They were both successful
yesterday, but only one of them will get the opportunity to move into the top 8.
It’s time to Duel!
Ho-Ming won
the first dice roll of the day, kicking this Day 2 off with 3 set cards. Carl
drew and set a monster and 2 cards. Ho-Ming’s turn again, and he passed. Carl
flipped up his Geargiarmor, which got hit by fiendish Chain. He summoned Geargiano
MK-II, and activated its effect, to which Ho-Ming chained Maxx “C”. Geargiano
came down on Carl’s field, and he Xyz Summoned Ghostrick Alucard, who was
immediately sent back to the Extra Deck due to Ho-Ming’s Compulsory evacuation
Device. Carl set a new card and ended his turn.
Ho-Ming
played Reinforcement of the Army to search out Evilswarm Castor, and Carl activated
Mind Crush to discard it. Ho-Ming then summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh, which
attacked over Geargiarmor. Ho-Ming set 2 new cards before ending his turn. Carl
attempted to activate Geargiagear in the End Phase, but Ho-Ming had Wiretap!
Carl had
Dark Hole, which he activated! Ho-Ming Chained Safe Zone, protecting Thunder
King Rai-Oh. Carl then Summoned Geargiarsenal, tributing it to get out Geargiarmor,
which got flipped face-down. Ho-Ming attacked it with Rai-Oh to flip it
face-up, set 1 new card, and ended his turn.
Carl drew
and set a card, then flipped Geargiarmor face-down. Ho-Ming played Soul Charge,
reviving Evilswarm Castor. He Normal Summoned Evilswarm Kerykeion, and Carl
flipped Needle Ceiling! Ho-Ming made sure none of monsters would get destroyed
using Infestation Pandemic. The 2 Evilswarms were stacked for Lavalval Chain, who
got hit by Fiendish chain when he tried to activate his effect.
Carl drew,
set a card and passed his turn. Ho-Ming did the same, but in the End Phase Carl
had Geargiagear, which got negated by Solemn Warning. Carl simply passed his
turn. Ho-Ming summoned Evilswarm Helitotrope, and used it to kill Geargiarmor.
Carl drew Mind Crush and set it. Ho-Ming Summoned Evilswarm Mandragora and
attacked with both his Evilswarm Monsters. He then stacked them to form Diamond
Dire Wolf, who tributed himself to destroy Fiendish Chain. Lavalval Chain then
put Rescue Rabbit on the top of the deck.
Carl drew
and set. Mind Crush discarded Rescue Rabbit in the Draw Phase, so Ho-Ming just
attacked directly with Lavalval. Carl Summoned
Geargiaccelerator, attacked and
ran into Dimensional Prison, but Carl saved his Monster by chaining Book
of Moon to flip it face-down, after which he set 1 card.
Ho-Ming
attacked Geargiaccelerator with Thunder King Rai-Oh, Lavalval direct, leaving
Carl at only 100 Life Points. Carl drew for his turn and scooped up his cards.
Ho-Ming
controlled the game with a well-protected Thunder King Rai-Oh and a wide array
of Trap Cards! Both players took out their Side Decks, and only a few minutes
later we were ready for the second game of the Match.
Carl
started this game by setting 4 cards! Ho-Ming remained calm and proceeded to
Summon Ice Hand! He attacked with it, which went through. Ho-Ming then set 2
cards, and Dust Tornado destroyed Torrentialm tribute in the End Phase. After
this, Carl used Geargiagear to go into Geargiano and Geargiano MK-II.
In his
turn, Carl stacked his Monsters to summon Number 50: Blackship of Corn, who got
hit by Bottomless Trap Hole! Carl then set a Monster and passed the turn.
Ho-Ming Normal
Summoned Evilswarm Heliotrope, and he got saved from Bottomless Trap Hole by
Infestation Pandemic. Heliotrope attacked Geargiarmor, whose effect got Carl
Geargiaccelerator. Ice Hand’s attacked was stopped by Fiendish Chain. Ho-Ming
Xyz Summoned Lavalval Chain in Defence Mode, whose effect put Rescue Rabbit on
the top of Ho-Ming’s Deck.
Carl drew
his third Geargiaccelerator! He summoned Geargiano MK-II, which brought back
Geargiano, after which Carl Special Summoned Geargiaccelerator, and proceeded
to overlay his geargianos for Soul of Silvermountain. Another Accelerator came
down, and Carl overlaid for Gear Gigant X! He added Accelerator from the Graveyard
to his hand.
Soul of Silvermountain attacked over Lavalval Chain, and its effect brought back Geargirmor. Gear Gigant X attacked directly, and Geargiarmor got flipped face-down.
Soul of Silvermountain attacked over Lavalval Chain, and its effect brought back Geargirmor. Gear Gigant X attacked directly, and Geargiarmor got flipped face-down.
Ho-Ming
summoned Rescue Rabbit, whose effect Special Summoned 2 copies of Evilswarm Heliotrope
from the Deck, which were used to Xyz Summon Evilswarm Exciton Knight, whose
effect whipped out the field. Gear Gigant X’s effect Special Summoned
Geargiano, who then got destroyed by battle.
Carl Normal
Summoned Geargiarsenal, and Special Summoned 2 Geargiaccelerators from his hand.
He then proceeded to overlay his 2 Accelerators for Gear Gigant X, who attacked
over Evilswarm Exciton Knight, after which Geargiarsenal attacked directly. In Main
Phase 2 Gear Gigant took back Geargiano MK-II, Geargiarsenal got tributed for
Geargiarmor, who then got flipped face-down.
Ho-Ming drew
and summoned Evilswarm Kerykeion, whose effect allowed him to banish Evilswarm Exciton
Knight, and get back and summon Evilswarm Heliotrope. He overlaid his Monsters
overlay for Evilswarm Bahamut! This allowed Ho-Ming to discard Evilswarm Mandragora
and take control of Gear Gigant X, which attacked Geargiarmor, allowing Carl to
search for Geargiarsenal. Bahamut attacked directly, leaving Carl with 3250
Life Points.
MK-II got
back Geargiano, and Carl overlaid his monsters for Wind-Up Zenmaines, which
attacked Gear Gigant X. Carl set a card and took out Evilswarm Bahamut in the
End Phase.
Ho-Ming had
Fire Hand! It attacked Zenmaines, which then got destroyed by Gear Gigant X.
Ho-Ming set a new card and ended his Turn.
Geargiarsenal
came down, it attacked Gear Gigant X, and Carl had Book of Moon to take it
down. Gear Gigant X’s effect kicked in, getting back Geargiano, who got tributed
to get back Geargiaccelerator. Carl tributed Geargiarsenal to Summon
Geargiarmor from his Deck, and flipped it face-down.
Ho-Ming
summoned Evilswarm Castor, overlaid it with Fire Hand to Xyz Summon Number 82: Heartlanddraco,
and Carl offered him the handshake.
This match
goes back and forth in a spectacular way, but Ho-Ming manages to take Carl down
in the end, advancing to the Top 8!
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