4th Trials - Phase 3 - Community Vote

[EvaRia]

This is a favourite among my card ideas, and as an Air Card I thought it would be a shame to not mention it among those who back Air.

NAME: Pierce ELEMENT: Air COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 6 damage and destroy your opponent's shield.	NAME: Pierce ELEMENT: Air COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 8 damage and destroy your opponent's shield.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/172656 IDEA: EvaRia NOTES: You do not have to blow up a shield to do damage. Reflective shields will reflect this and be unaffected by the destroy effect. Protected shields will of course be unaffected. Only one bonewall will be destroyed. SERIES:

How would this card affect Air?
How would this card affect the other elements?

[DrunkDestroyer]

Q3.
All Masters have a deep and enriched understanding of their element and its card pool. If zanzarino allowed all the Masters of an element to pick one card from the forum's Crucible System (Crucible, Forge, Armory, and Archives) to be added in 1.30, which 1 card idea would you select?

Design 3 hypothetically -effective- decks around the selected card. All decks must contain 5 copies of the card and contain at least 35 cards. The first deck must be Mono Air, the second deck must be a Duo using Air and an element of your choosing, and the last deck must be a Rainbow with a Mark of Air. Use code AIR for the card should you use the deck image generator to represent the deck.

I have finally chosen Scouting Hawk as the card for Air. ( http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,25758.0.html ) . It's an altogether new mechanic for the game, probably most similar to GoTP as in, it's primary effect is decided on something not actually in the field of play, and it's just very different to everything else.
(Personally though, I would be looking for a buff, meaning it being able to use its ability more than once, perhaps for a cost or every X turns, before it made it)

This amazingly simple mono is a quick use for it, basically getting pillars out, and blitzing a lot. (Scoring 2 or 4 damage from the Hawks as well.)

by DrunkDestroyer

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5op 5op 5op 5op 5op 5op 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 8pr

(Pends are Hawks for clarity. Pillar-pend split is reccommended)

Yeah, lots of quanta means drain all spells to me. Fractal is interesting, but Miracle is better. I bet this could become one hell of a light-air stall

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5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5li 5li 5li 5li 5li 5li 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5op 5op 5op 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 8pq

And rainbow, well, this ones a little ridiculous.

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4t6 4t6 4t6 4t6 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 592 592 592 592 5l9 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5ro 8ps

All cards are unupped because, well, I'd rather not give up which upped cards I own. But the shields are definitely upped there (otherwise useless), and the Shards are SoDs.

And of course, I just read mark of air.  So I threw in two animate weapons and two Owls Eyes. Meh, not much else would fit honestly, apart from actual dragonsflies, which I can't really put in.

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4t6 4t6 4t6 4t6 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 592 592 592 592 5l9 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5ro 8pr

Q4.
Self-respect is always seen as an important characteristic of a leader. Naturally, one would think that self-respect is a characteristic of a Master. What do you consider to be self-respect? What are some examples of self-respect in your forum posts? How do you think people become respectable? Do you believe self-respect is necessary to be a Master?
Quote anything from the forum that in your perspective shows that the member who posted it has self-respect. What characteristics about the quote represent self-respect? Then quote anything you have posted (not considering July 10 - August 10) which shows the *most* self-respect. How could your post improve?
Self respect. Huh.
On one hand, I can make some pretty stupid posts. (Anyone remember the Wigs guy? I made an amazing post on that, and to this day I'm still bummed that it got deleted).
Yeah, self respect is necessary, at least a degree of it. Otherwise, they bring the whole title of master, and the element down.

I find it difficult to *show* self-respect in a post, it's not really a characteristic that comes through so much I personally find. Perhaps more in a chat session. But most likely brought on by collective posts and personas of people.

This is a favourite among my card ideas, and as an Air Card I thought it would be a shame to not mention it among those who back Air.

NAME: Pierce ELEMENT: Air COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 6 damage and destroy your opponent's shield.	NAME: Pierce ELEMENT: Air COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 8 damage and destroy your opponent's shield.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/172656 IDEA: EvaRia NOTES: You do not have to blow up a shield to do damage. Reflective shields will reflect this and be unaffected by the destroy effect. Protected shields will of course be unaffected. Only one bonewall will be destroyed. SERIES:

How would this card affect Air?
How would this card affect the other elements?

To be completely and totally honest, it seems like a bit of a Purify card to me. Very specific use (shield destroying) with a little bonus added on to make sure its never a dead card (the attack).

It would probably make mono-air slightly more appealing, and maybe a little throw in for the last two cards in a duo, but honestly, it really lacks the versatility to make it have impact. However, it is definitely a nice little addition. Shields are just so, varied (dimshield/bonewall/hope/none) that it is hard to really see it consistently being used.

It would probably make a very slight shift in the effectiveness of shields, and make air a little more threatening. Not game-breaking.

[Hyroen]

As the last couple of days to vote for the ideal candidate approach, I felt the topic of Time Management would be the most appropriate for this question. I've noticed that all of you have not had the time or have had quite the delay in answering some of the questions (e.g. Q4). As a fully active member of the community you should be answering the questions almost as fast as they are asked. I have also noticed that all of you have wanted to complete certain activities when you "had more time on your hands". This really brings up the concern if you will have enough time to be Master of Air.

How will you answer to Time?

Q5.
To be in existence is to face the current of elemental Time. Mastership will be as time-consuming as you want it to be, however some time --will-- be required of your day. Considering that the day only has 24 hours, how do you plan on managing your time properly? List your main time-consuming activities that may interfere with the responsibilities of Mastership. Will you be able to tend to your responsibilities effectively? What will you consider priorities?

While promises may mean something to some people and nothing to others, how much time do you think you can reasonably promise to the community that you'd be active? (on chat, posting comments, sending PMs, participating in events)
Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

As time to vote dwindles down, the rate at which questions will be asked will pick up!! Time to test your time management!! Questions 6&7 will be coming at you soon and 8-10 will be the most challenging questions. Prepare yourselves.

[Hyroen]

I had hoped to ask question 6 once someone had answered question 5, but here it comes at ya!!

Hopefully, should one of you become Master of Air that you will be more active than currently.
As a person, one must have valuable qualities which makes for the best contender for Master, however while one's characteristics can be a major factor of who'd be the best Master, how well you do on the battlefield affects just as much. While the tournament against yourselves showed a sliver of your true power, sometimes Lady Luck is just not on your side.

Time to let your best side shine!!
Q6.
Some consider in-game strength to be relevant to Mastership while others don't think its required. Though regardless of what some may think, the ability to do well in PvP is a sign of a respectable player and thus a powerful tool in your arsenal as Master, especially considering War and the Master's Tournament. This is why it is crucial for effective Masters to show skills with their element.

Construct a deck using the forum deck builder tool that has a win rate of 80% or greater against AI3, which:
1) has not been yet posted. A few cards different will still make the deck different,
2) has been tested for at least 20 matches and
3) contains 50% or more Air cards.

This should be an adequate test of deck building skills.

This time, do exactly the same as you did with Q6 but with an added detail. You will make another deck (different than the one from Q6) that has a win rate of 80% or greater against AI3, which:
1) has not been yet posted. A few cards different will still make the deck different,
2) has been tested for at least 20 matches,
3) contains 50% or more Air cards and,
4) has an average stw (seconds to win, the amount of seconds it took for your deck to win) of 100 seconds or less.

Enjoy ^_^
Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

Questions will now be asked regardless of whether the previous have been answered or not. Come on contenders, stick with it!!

[Hyroen]

Ignore the triple post mods. I'm trying to get all 10 questions within the time limit.
In anything you do, how well you stick with it is crucially important. We (at least I) want to see a Master that will stick with it from start to end, and in some of the cases from the past, it simply hasn't been so. Dedication is admirable in anyone, and while something may leave your time in a knot, I'm sure the community wants the trustworthy kind who will find a way, and still manage to keep their sanity [Reference (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1)] relatively intact.
Q7.
Fortunately/unfortunately this question may be easier for some of you than for others, as a higher post count correlates with a longer forum life quite well.

It's quite difficult to find evidence of dedication, but hopefully this will be a decently fair manner. As best as you can, provide to the community 3 examples from your posts where you stayed dedicated to whatever task someone gave to you, whether it was self-assigned or assigned to you by someone else. The amount of time that you worked on it will also affect the amount of dedication your example conveys.

Interpret this question as best as you can. Good luck.
The following Bonus Question will give you a glimpse into the next phase, Questions 8-10 which I've euphemistically named Final Test: Contender Breakdown.

In the Contender Breakdown phase, many more personally aimed questions will be asked and may catch you off guard. It tries to show the community the true nature of each contender and in the end, throw the final surprise!!

Anyways, back to the question.BONUS Q7
I've noticed that all 3 contenders for the Trials of Air have been in a ---major--- lull (~43 hours of silence from all 3 contenders). Due to the nature of the job as a Master, more time, and naturally, dedication is expected of all of you. Normally, I notice, contenders of the Trials --jump-- at the chance to answer questions and gain "points" for themselves. I'm not seeing that in this thread, which is partly the reason for my triple post.

Without giving too much personal information, explain for each of yourselves why this lull has occurred. Could it happen again should you become Master? Do you think these types of lulls could be a problem for a Master?
Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

With the glimpse of what Questions 8-10 will be like in the Bonus Question, hopefully you prepare yourselves -well- for the finish of the marathon. You're almost there!!

Keep at it and answer as soon as possible. I hope you all answer soon. I'm sure you have great answers for all of my previous and upcoming questions!! ^_^

[DrunkDestroyer]

Q5.
To be in existence is to face the current of elemental Time. Mastership will be as time-consuming as you want it to be, however some time --will-- be required of your day. Considering that the day only has 24 hours, how do you plan on managing your time properly? List your main time-consuming activities that may interfere with the responsibilities of Mastership. Will you be able to tend to your responsibilities effectively? What will you consider priorities?

While promises may mean something to some people and nothing to others, how much time do you think you can reasonably promise to the community that you'd be active? (on chat, posting comments, sending PMs, participating in events)

I'm interpreting this as basically a question on whether or not I will be active enough to be a master/for War.
And repeated again, (although for future reference I'd wish they would put it on the poll so every single person would know and have a fair vote), I will not be General for war.

Things that interfere with elements in my life, are, everything that is not Elements forums (and I will stay this vague with most/all non-interned related questions). On the forums themselves, I don't really have to do much (apart from the very occasional light modding in GS&F).
Question 6 has been deliberately ignored. I'm sorry to do this, but as seen in my Trial Duels, deckbuilding isn't my strong point, and I'd rather keep any winning concept to myself for the final battle, since thats where I'll need it most.

Ignore the triple post mods. I'm trying to get all 10 questions within the time limit.
In anything you do, how well you stick with it is crucially important. We (at least I) want to see a Master that will stick with it from start to end, and in some of the cases from the past, it simply hasn't been so. Dedication is admirable in anyone, and while something may leave your time in a knot, I'm sure the community wants the trustworthy kind who will find a way, and still manage to keep their sanity [Reference (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1)] relatively intact.
Q7.
Fortunately/unfortunately this question may be easier for some of you than for others, as a higher post count correlates with a longer forum life quite well.

It's quite difficult to find evidence of dedication, but hopefully this will be a decently fair manner. As best as you can, provide to the community 3 examples from your posts where you stayed dedicated to whatever task someone gave to you, whether it was self-assigned or assigned to you by someone else. The amount of time that you worked on it will also affect the amount of dedication your example conveys.

Interpret this question as best as you can. Good luck.
The following Bonus Question will give you a glimpse into the next phase, Questions 8-10 which I've euphemistically named Final Test: Contender Breakdown.

In the Contender Breakdown phase, many more personally aimed questions will be asked and may catch you off guard. It tries to show the community the true nature of each contender and in the end, throw the final surprise!!

Anyways, back to the question.BONUS Q7
I've noticed that all 3 contenders for the Trials of Air have been in a ---major--- lull (~43 hours of silence from all 3 contenders). Due to the nature of the job as a Master, more time, and naturally, dedication is expected of all of you. Normally, I notice, contenders of the Trials --jump-- at the chance to answer questions and gain "points" for themselves. I'm not seeing that in this thread, which is partly the reason for my triple post.

Without giving too much personal information, explain for each of yourselves why this lull has occurred. Could it happen again should you become Master? Do you think these types of lulls could be a problem for a Master?
Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

With the glimpse of what Questions 8-10 will be like in the Bonus Question, hopefully you prepare yourselves -well- for the finish of the marathon. You're almost there!!

Keep at it and answer as soon as possible. I hope you all answer soon. I'm sure you have great answers for all of my previous and upcoming questions!! ^_^

Dedication:  http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13750.0.html
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,19007.msg263927#msg263927 (Bad time to link to a death trial, but read the circumstances in which I joined up : P ) - scroll down for more.
And honestly, even though I didn't finish, I'd like to throw in my Task I of Phase one. I must have been the unluckiest person alive not to score platinum.


Yes, this could definitely happen with me as a master. As it already has. I'm not perfect (notice my vague answers to questions, and complete avoidance of others.  (But I still think I am best suited for the role)

[Hyroen]

In the last remaining hours, the final phase has arrived. Prepare yourselves to face the Contender Breakdown!

Also, thank you DrunkDestroyer for having kept up with the questions until now! Good job man!!
Q8: Contender Breakdown - Part I
For many Masters, the element that they go for in the Trials is their favourite, and by favourite I mean that it almost seems that they would die for it (for Death, dying doesn't mean much but I digress.)

Interestingly enough though, for all contenders in this Trials of Air, there is some sort of other allegiance at some point in time.

unit: While you have been Master of Air before, I was surprised to find on your Profile page that your favourite element is Entropy. Why did you not try to go for the Trials of Entropy instead? Has your favourite element changed? What pulled you back to the Trials of Air?

[/li]Noobiecakes: Though I do not know much about you, I do know that you were the creator of Lionheart, which I find amazing. Good job!! Similarly to unit though I found on your Profile page that your favourite element was Entropy. Why did you not try to go for the Trials of Entropy instead? Has your favourite element changed? What pulled you back to the Trials of Air?
[/li]DrunkDestroyer: As I've noticed, you do not want to bring up that you participated in the Trials of Death. When you had participated, I was left a little shocked. To you the questions are slightly different? Why did you not try to go for the Trials of Death instead? Has your favourite element always been Air? Has it always been Death? What pulled you back to participate in the Trials of Air?[/li][/list]Do you believe having your Mastery element being your favourite element is necessary? Ask 2 current Masters via PM or Chat if their Mastery element is the same as their favourite element. Quote the applicable responses from the PM in your response to this question.

Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

Enjoy!! ^_^ Phase 9 and 10 are ready to launch. Good luck contenders!!

[Hyroen]

In the last remaining hours, the final phase has arrived. Prepare yourselves to face the Contender Breakdown!
To put yourself to the test means not only to show off your good side. Acknowledging your weaknesses can be humbling and at the same time empower you. In knowing where one's weaknesses are is that we can grow as people and be better than who we are.

In these Trials of Air, hopefully we can work together on finding our weaknesses and improving them.

Nobody's perfect.Q9: Contender Breakdown - Part II

Noobiecakes: Though the community has not had a great deal of time (or posts) to get to know you well, I've had enough time to learn some very interesting things about you.

While the other 2 contenders have put in a lot of effort into appreciating Air, you have only been on their War team, once, and even then, you had Air as your 3rd option. You have however put a --lot-- of effort into adoring Entropy, and yet you have not participated in the Trials of Entropy. Sometimes people join anyway they can only to get a shot at participating and in both cases (War and Trials) to me, it seems like you have done this. Should you become Master I believe your main weaknesses will be this fickle nature and your lack of activity on the forum. Do you believe that, should you become Master, these qualities will translate into your duration as Master of Air? Would you like to change things? Should you want a change, how do you plan on changing things?

Also, how do you explain THIS (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28891.msg400969#msg400969) quote of yours? Do you still want people to vote for you even after this statement of yours?[/li]DrunkDestroyer: In many of your posts, I time and time again read a negative undertone in your posts. Pessimism, lack of self-confidence, and just complete disbelief in the world permeate. Do you believe that, should you become Master, these qualities will translate into your duration as Master of Air? Would you like to change things? Should you want a change, how do you plan on changing things? [/li]unit: Those who have been here for a while know who you are and know who you have been. Having been with you as a mere soldier, I know you did your best as General of Air in War I, and we, our best as Team Air.

You were the 1st Master of Air.

Since then you've lost your title and I was surprised to read somewhere that you "get easily annoyed", you "are easy going when nothing needs to be done", and that you don't really care about the opinions of others. Do you believe that, should you become Master, these qualities will translate into your duration as Master of Air? Would you like to change things? Should you want a change, how do you plan on changing things? I'm not quite sure if you may all know this, but I too have tried for the Trials of Air and unfortunately failed. Though I have pointed out all your weaknesses, I always enjoy justice and therefore am giving you all an opportunity to point out my weaknesses!!

Should I apply in the future for the Trials of Air again, what do you believe my main weaknesses would be? How could I improve as a contender?

Feel free to answer as much as you want. Let's help each other out. ^_^

Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

Phase 10 will rock all your sox!! It's been a pleasure writing these questions and reading your responses. Afterwards I will PM each of you a review of all your answers.

Good luck contenders!![/li][/list]

[Hyroen]

In the last remaining hours, the final part of the final phase has arrived. Prepare yourselves to finish the Contender Breakdown!
The final question has come and I think it's such a shocker that I'll have to put it in spoilers. I must say that it's been enjoyable writing up all these questions and though I think they would've been more effective with more participation, I think they've done enough.

Enjoy!! ^_^
Q10: Contender Breakdown - Part III

This question while I thought it would be a simple question, may actually be very difficult for the human to answer, especially when a lot of effort has already been put in. How will you answer?

The hardest part about seeking to win something is giving it up. It is why this question will not ask you why you think you are the best candidate to vote for but instead:

Who, if you were not in these trials, would you vote for?

If you so wish, do not answer this question. I think it would take a lot of confidence to answer this one.As a connection to Q10, including yourself this time rate all the contenders from 1 to 10 where 1 would represent the worst candidate overall and 10 would represent the best candidate overall. There is no need to label anyone a 1 or a 10, simply judge based on if there were 7 other imaginary contestants.

Where would they fall? Where would you?

Please try to complete each component of a question and make your answers as detailed as possible.

Congratulations to any contender who has made it this far in the questions. I would like to remind you all that I will be sending you all a PM reviewing your answers and also there will be the explanation for who I vote for.

Thank you participants and good luck to all who continue in the Trials. Enjoy Phase 4.

[Newbiecake]

I am very sorry for this delay. The reason is explained in one of the questions.

Going in depth now, I see. I don't believe I've revealed this to anyone in the community yet, but now i will: I am a high school student. During the school year, a way of managing my time was to set myself schedules and limits on everyday activities. To make sure I could follow these schedules completely, I've done deliberate things to restrict myself, such as using a program to limit my own computer time when I am supposed to be studying, etc. In a normal school day, I will have to contribute seven hours towards school. Following that, I will spend between an hour or two studying the materials given that day. No, I am not just a nerd studying my butt off everyday. I also have several extracurricular activities such as tutorage, drumming, and badminton. On an average day between afterschool and bed time, I have approximately three to four hours to go on the computer to tend to my responsibilities as a Master and playing Elements, going on facebook, etc. My priorities are school over Master's duties over staying fit (playing badminton) over my music (drumming).
I can promise at the very least half an hour a day viewing the forums, answering to PMs and posts, and most importantly, going on chat. I should have a lot more than that on an average day (as I said above I have 3-4 hours computer time). I know it is not much, but things that jeopardize my future are much more important.
I have no time this week to do the hands-on and paperwork, only answering these questions to the best of my abilities; I have a full week of intense badminton training session at a club. Just this week for the summer though.
I hate digging mindlessly through my posts, so please take my word or it: Metamorphosis (before the unfortunate cancellation), War III as the Deck Builder for the team, and several card designing competitions (Mythology).
A few people (Terroking) already knows in this community that I've fancied myself by playing the game League of Legends lately. This is part of the reason I needed to devote some tome to play the game with real life friends (What a fail I am that I manage to persuade a friend to play Elements, then they left and persuaded me to play LoL). Also, the badminton training sessions this week as I mentioned is not helping. It will definately happen time and time again but I'll do my best to maintain that promise in Bonus Q5.
LOL. My favourite element was  Entropy and will always be  Entropy. I know that's very contridictive to why I joined the Trials of  Air, but I have reasons. Here they are.

I've joined Team  Air for War III, therefore I have familiarized myself with  Air more than  Entropy, as well as great War mates! I would love to participate alongside with my War mates again in War IV. Secondly, as I've mentioned laready, my favourite Master is QuantumT. Also, from many of Zeru's posts, I don't find him a worthy Grandmaster because I see him to be arrogant, a tad unfriendly to people and has that "sick humour". For these reasons, I've always wanted to battle my favourite Master over Zeru, and that is the reason I joined the Trials of  Air! I am quite disappointed that QT stepped down, but I will have my battle once I am finished with the Trials, victory or not!
Don't have time to do that right now, sorry!
Yes, it definately will. My friends would describe me as the type of person that likes to go with the flow<-- (Haha, get it? XD) I can be very easily swayed when I make a decision and will follow the favouralbe circumstances. When I got rejected for Team  Entropy but QT was willing to bet on me, of course I accepted! I'm sorry. I don't understand the second part of the question. Change what things?

I am a very competitive person. I go bigm or I go home. When I saw that the situation was not favourable, I made the foolish mistake to back out. Cowardice. But after some warm encouragements by another one of my favourite Masters, Higs, and several members, I've decided to do a LongDono and join right back in. I don't expect people to still vote for me, but I would appreciate it if they do.
This is easy! DD all the wau! I believe I've already said that he's one of my closest members of this community.

Sorry Unit. I have not yet joined the forums when you were the Master so I know very little about you, and we have not have an opportunity to familiarize with each other yet.
Unit: 4. Didn't show up for our battle and not yet answered all the questions.

DD: 9. Phase I was flawless for him. Most questions answered. I'm jealous.

Myself: 6. Failed Phase I miserably. Some questions not answered.
Thank you to anyone who have voted for me!

EDIT: I now have a full set (6 of each) upgraded Air cards plus one non-upgraded and one upgraded Nymphs for Air!

[Hyroen]

Impressive work Noobiecakes. I hope you manage to answer Bonus Q9 as well. ^_^

I'll give a reasonable amount of time for people to answer the questions in this thread if they should still want a review, and were not just posting for the vote.

Congratulations to DrunkDestroyer who won Phase 3 - Community Vote. The community is behind you.

Regardless of who comes out of these Trials of Air with the title, let's keep supporting and loving Air always!! ^_^

[DrunkDestroyer]

Probably a bad time to admit that I miscounted the amount of time left in quite an important phase with a very simple timer mechanism.

But you guys have already voted, so I can admit to anything terrible I want! (On the subject, thanks to every single one of you for your votes. Very much appreciated, and I hope I can make your individual votes count in the final battle. That means YOUR vote in particular)


Air has been my favourite since War #2 - with death being second. Now, in those trials, I wasn't going to go for any of them. Both of Air and Death were stacking up nicely, looking like the best competition for both of them since, ever. And being an avid spectator, I was extremely happy.

Then, one by one, the death contenders dropped out until it was just MrBlonde and TNG. And, quite simply, that sucked.
So, I entered. It was already halfway through phase I, and there was no indication of whether it would be okay. I just started working on phase I before I was officially entered. Because of both MrBlonde and TNG seeming to be supportive, xdude let me in, and I was suddenly in the trials of Death.

These trials, I just decided to do the right thing, and (hesitantly) sign up for the element that I really wanted to be part of.


Bonus Q: You got the the final battle (considering that one of your opponents was truddy02, who I actually voted for, and QuantumT - who I could imagine dominating the trials of most elements this time around, thats quite impressive). The only thing left to do was win.
And in the end, thats the hardest part, and the same part I'm facing now.
A balance between variety of deck types/counters and going with what works in the end is the best. Not slowing yourself down by using mediocre decks just to be unpredictable, but not setting yourself up with only one or two working decks.

Pessimism is partly me. I try to hide it, but on some topics, it just comes right out. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever been negative with respects to airs potential. In fact, I like to think I encourage people to play air. (And original decks. Always)
I would vote for Noobiecakes. I've played him a few times in CL, honorable opponent, great games, good sport. While I haven't gone through every single one of his posts he seems like a responsible guy, who knows when to talk.

unit - while he was the only other contestant who didn't quit, he never really seemed to be putting all of his efforts into these trials.


As for the 1-10

10 - 3/3 to higher quality than necessary to pass the phase, going over and above the requirements. Strong duelling phase, creative decks, good sportsmanship and everything going as smoothly as possible to make it enjoyable for everyone. Answering all questions in phase 3, honestly and respectfully, not attacking the other candidates or other players. (I'd like to show however that there is a distinction between attacking and critiquing)

1 - No effort whatsoever in any of the tasks.
0- Same as number 1 which took the place (and would not give up at any point) to a candidate who was willing/able to do more and make the trials more enjoyable for themselves and everyone else.

Inbetween are harder to classify as there can be different performances in all 3 tasks. I personally would give myself a 6 or 7.