Eastern Tournament - March 19th - Two is a Pair - Upgraded

[TheIdioticIdiot]

well, I guess I can't go fully upgraded for this tourney...
I tried to use only my upped cards to make decks
which constrained myself to only , , and ...

[Onizuka]

I've made ~4 decks, with varying amounts of unupped cards. I think I'll FG farm a bit, so I can upgrade some of the key cards.

[Spiraler]

I know I'm not gonna win, but I'm gonna play anyway. Mostly becayse I don't have upgraded cards, but hey! Worth tryin' right?

[Higurashi]

'Tis. People have gotten second place with plenty unupped cards in the past. Nothing's impossible.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

'Tis. People have gotten second place with plenty unupped cards in the past. Nothing's impossible.

my heart stopped when I saw this...
second place was what I got last upgraded tourney, and I barely used much upgrades at all...
but then realized that higs wasn't talking about me...

[TheForbiddenOracle]

2nd Place? Has anyone ever won the whole tourny with a mostly unupgraded deck?

[TheIdioticIdiot]

2nd Place? Has anyone ever won the whole tourny with a mostly unupgraded deck?

funnily enough, I almost did...
I used my only almost full upgraded deck (which I used like 2 times throughout eastern and western) in the third tiebreaker
and I failed... if i had used my other fully unupgraded deck I would have had a chance

(my memory is pretty foggy, so don't trust this, though I think this is what happened...)

[Higurashi]

Not yet. A decent amount of unups though. It's all about deck matchups in the end.

[hammythepig]

I'm going in with only 6 upped cards

I probably won't make it far, but I'm going to try!!!

[agogo]

I have... lemme count.... NO upgraded cards.
Fellas if you're matched up with me, you got a greater chance (my score is pretty low too).

Wouldn't air have huge advantage in having a good number of direct damage cards?

[DesertKnight]

Nothing is impossible, everything is possible

Any chance to practice being in the tournament environment is always a plus.

*Get a feel of how tournaments are run, what you need to do to prepare in the future tournaments, who to look for, etc.

Can I get a final ruling on these two ideas?

1. Playing 2 SoG, 2 SoD, and 2 SoR are allowed (since they are different shards?) or only 2 from a SET of a type of shard.

2. Having one upped and one unupped is allowed  for this tournament? (or is this a forced two is a pair rules?) 

example: one phoenix and one minor phoenix is allowed in a deck?

[Higurashi]

1. Yep.
2. Yep.