Event: USA vs. The World (Rules and Signups)

[Essence]

USA VS. THE WORLD

Signups are over!


Rules:

• Signups are open for a week, starting today.  The larger team will be trimmed down to the size of the smaller team by eliminating players who were the last to sign up. Competition will take place over the week after the signup (the 18th through the 26th).  Each round will be announced and given 72 hours for the matches to be completed.  Players are responsible for making their own arrangements to meet their opponents.
• This will be a Swiss competition; all players will compete every round against a seeded player from the other team.  Seeding will start based on a mysterious and deliberately unannounced process, and proceed based on wins/losses each round.  After the third round, the total score of each team will be added together, and a victor will be decided.  In the event of a tie, each team will be given one week to nominate one of their top-scoring players to be their "champion", and the two champions will battle for ultimate victory.
• Each player will submit a decklist (via the On-board Deck Generator (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5036.0.html)), and a 'sideboard' of exactly 10 cards and 1 different mark (also submitted via a second Deck Generator shot.)  Decks may be altered between rounds only by substituting cards (1 for 1, no adding or subtracting) and mark from the sideboard. Yes, this means that everyone knows what everyone else is going to play before the game starts.  Once posted, a decklist cannot be altered except to upgrade cards on your existing decklist.  Anyone caught breaking this rule will be kicked out of the tournament.
• The first fight of each BEST-OF-FIVE match MUST be played with your unaltered deck (no sideboard switchouts.)
• The first three rounds of the tournament will take place in the week after signups are closed.  If it's necessary, the final fight will happen shortly thereafter.
• This is an Event, not a Competition, so anything goes in terms of deckbuilding, including upgraded cards, rare cards, and Holy Cows if you got  'em.  To that end, talking smack during matches is encouraged, especially if you can get a screenshot to post afterwards (preferably with a screenshot of the reply as well.)  There will be a side competition for most creative smacktalking, with no particular prize and judged entirely by me.
• MASTERS ONLY: You MUST use the mark of your chosen element exclusively (no second Mark in your sideboard), or 51% of your Deck AND 51% of your Sideboard (rounded up) must be from your chosen element.  All other deck construction rules are left open to you.
• Any USA player who scores a victory with a Fire/Light/Water deck earns double points for his team.  Any World player who scores a victory with a Mono-Other deck scores triple points for his team. (just kidding!)
• Have Fun!

I'll begin  (Please use the following format to sign up):

I'm signing up for Team USA.  Here is my deck:

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6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gp 7gt 7gt 7gt 7gt 7gt

And here is my sideboard:

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7go 7go 7go 7go 7go 7gp 7gr 7gr 7h1 7h1

I currently have 923 posts.

[Essence]

CURRENT TEAM ROSTERS:


USA:

1. Essence (923)
2. Kamietsu (952)
3. Tea Is Good (289)
4. Terroking (498)
5. Gl1tch (872)
6. Acelink (149)
7. PuppyChow (763)
8. Bailey18 (239)
9. PhantomFox (128)
10. Unit748956 (563)


THE WORLD:


1. Ender241 (33)
2. Killfer8 (71)
3. XDude (770)
4. Yaladilae (344)
5. Jangoo (142)
6. Antagon (97)
7. Mafidufa (70)
8. Bloodshadow (1265)
9. Ohmega (289)
10. Pervepic (21)

[xdawnbydeath]

I am in for team USA, and will post my deck and sideboard in approximately 2 hours.  (I am currently at work)

[Kamietsu]

Crappiest rules I have ever seen. They are just completely terrible. Regardless Sign me up. I'll post my deck later, no time now.

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592 592 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5l9 5l9 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 7dh 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7dq 80d 80d 80d 80h 80h

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5f4 5f4 5f5 5f9 5f9 5fc 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9

[Tea is good]

Fighting for Team USA

My deck

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6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u6 74b 74b 77g 77g 7ah 7am 7dq 7dq 7k2 7n3 7q2 7q2 7t9 7t9 80b
My sideboard

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719 71b 77f 7am 7do 7gv 7k2 7t7 7t8 80b
Yeap, I'm pretty proud of it.

Post count: 289

[Ender241]

I'll signup for the world!


Here's the deck!

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593 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5f6 5f8 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9

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5f2 5f2 5f2 5f3 5f3 5f5 5f7 5f8 77e 77e
Only a few upped cards sadly... 

[Terroking]

Meh, this is probably a joke. But w/e. Sign me up for USA... Will get the deck & Sideboard later

Also, I think I found a loophole in the deck restriction. But making masters use only one ele mark is stupid, the mark doesn't even have anything to do with the deck. What functional deck has mark of earth and works?

Oh well... Decided to stick mono.

Deck:

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74d 74d 74d 74d 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 77a 77a 77b 77b 77b 77b 77f 77f 77i 77i 77j 77j
Sideboard:

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749 749 74a 74a 77f 77i 77j 77j 77j 77j

[Scaredgirl]

• Any USA player who scores a victory with a Fire/Light/Water deck earns double points for his team.  Any World player who scores a victory with a Mono-Other deck scores triple points for his team.

Is this a joke?

[Glitch]

Signing up for the U. S. of A.

Deck!

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5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5c3 5cg 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7al 7am 7am 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp
And my sideboard:

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5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5li 5c0 5c0 5c0 7am
EDIT: Fixed deck up a bit.  Should be winrawr now.  I was hoping to trap people into making anti-adrenaline decks, and then smack them with dragons.

[Essence]

Crappiest rules I have ever seen. They are just completely terrible.

Well, no one else stepped up to the plate, so you get me and my rules.  If you have a specific critique, I'd be absolutely happy to hear and address it.

• Any USA player who scores a victory with a Fire/Light/Water deck earns double points for his team.  Any World player who scores a victory with a Mono-Other deck scores triple points for his team.

Is this a joke?

Of course it's a joke.  Sorry if I didn't make that clear.   8)



And Terroking, no one said anything about using an Earth deck - just an Earth mark.  Lava Golems, Trident, any permanent-heavy deck with mark-powered PAs...your options are endless. 

[Terroking]

? Lava Golem is the only really effective deck I can think of there, splashing just for PA isn't a good idea, especially when people will know you can have them. I don't have enough tridents for a deck like that, and RT means I lose. I'm guessing that'll be fairly common

[Essence]

Well, you're the Master of Earth -- get creative.  Show us what Earth can do without Graboids and Pulvy.  If you can't find something, you're not really trying.  Get away from standardized archetypes.  Run Gemfinders+Adrenaline+Granite Skin, or an Antlion/Steel Golem/Shrieker uber-rush (notice how everyone is saying how powerful the revised Abyss Crawler is -- well the revised Steel Golem is the same cost, the same power, and 3 more HP!  Show the world what it can do!), or an Oty+Heavy Armor/Armagio+BBlood deck.  Being the master is about knowing your element well enough to work under more challenging strictures than the average player, and really, using a mark of your own element is just about the SMALLEST restriction I can think of.