#tumblr tornament

[firefighterbracket]

The Bracket

The bracket has been seeded and organized and built a few hours early, which means you get to see it a few hours early!

Round one will start tomorrow, Sunday, April 2nd - also a little bit ahead of schedule. Eight polls - four from each side of the bracket - will be posted at 6am pacific and run for 24 hours, and will be considered round 1A. The other eight polls, round 1B, will be posted at 6am on Monday, April 3rd.

All polls, once posted will be tagged as #polls, as well as #round 1 for easy access.

The rules are pretty self explanatory:

Don't be rude. It's a silly tumblr poll, not a judgement of character. If there is any threats or tomfoolery in the notes, the block button exists and I'll use it.

A continuation of the first rule: don't. be. rude. For now, anon messages are turned on, and they will stay on for as long as it's reasonable. If I get hate or rude messages, that privilege will get taken away. Don't be the reason everyone else loses anonymity.

Have fun! This was created for exactly that reason, so we should all enjoy it!

Plain text match ups under the cut

One Chicago:

Stella Kidd vs Christopher Hermann (1A)

Mouch McHolland vs Wallace Boden (1B)

Kelly Severide vs Leslie Shay (1B)

Matt Casey vs Darren Ritter (1A)

Grey's Anatomy/Station 19:

Ben Warren vs Diane Lewis (1B)

Andy Herrera vs Jack Gibson (1A)

Maya Bishop vs Travis Montgomery (1A)

Victoria Hughes vs Dean Miller (1B)

911:

Eddie Diaz vs Judd Ryder (1A)

Chimney Han vs Hen Wilson (1B)

Bobby Nash vs Ravi Pannikar (1B)

Evan Buckley vs Marjan Marwani (1A)

Misc:

Ricky Matsui vs Eve Edwards (1B)

Galo Thymos vs Carlos (Zero Escape) (1A)

Fireman Sam vs Bailey Nune (1A)

Marshall (PAW Patrol) vs Smokey Bear (1B)

[best-colored-character-tornament]

Welcome to the best-Colored-character-tornament

Choose your favorite Colored characters here

Rules:

Dont submit the same person more then once

Only colored people (Hispanic, Black, Pacific Islander, blue, gray etc.)

Must be from a tv show or movie

Have fun!!

(BTW it has to be there skin not just blue clothes or smth)

[borf-borfs]

The takes agreeing in the notes of this are absolutely pathetic oh my god. “It’s wrong to hate men b-because it’s anti queer and and misandrist and🥺🥺🥺-“ they should’ve beaten Ken to death with hammers ❤️

But for real this take smells of MRA ideology. “radfem undertones” in what fucking world. It is literally the most basic of feminism to say “women shouldn’t have to perform for men under patriarchy and they should lift eachother up to escape its unrealistic standards”. Honestly if you don’t agree with that you just hate women. You want an excuse to not have to unpackage why you find feminism uncomfortable / threatening, so you just use the excuse that it’s apparently radical feminism. Lmfao radical feminism is things like female separatism, which did NOT happen in the movie. Submitter, please take a moment to ask yourself why you insist a man forcing women into submission for his own gain is just him being a poor misunderstood little baby who had no other choice. That’s the patriarchy speaking, baby! It’s always the women’s fault for driving the men to violence and domination through rejection, disobedience, etc.

Also the Barbies did not??? Want the Kens dead??? Actually where did you get that from. The Barbies reassured the Kens they were good at what they did and were kind to them. They just weren’t as relevant because that’s how it is for a little girl playing with Barbies. The Kens aren’t as important as the female characters you project your dreams and weird ideas onto. Also going “what if Ken was a trans girl??” is straight up weird and inappropriate as many people in the notes have pointed out. Besides, women are already treated much, much worse than him in media all the time! They are constantly objectified and seen as nothing but toys! That’s kinda part of the point!

The Barbie Movie wasn’t perfect, but if anything that’s because it didn’t push the feminist ideas far ENOUGH. You would crumble and die if you read actual feminist theory OP. Spoilers: they’re not always that nice to men!

note: this take actually adresses some sensitive topics, including some that i didn't know how to tag, but may require content warnings - so just be careful

also, i had to post this early because for some reason tumblr kept deleting this specific post every time it was queued or saved as a draft

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT

TOURNAMENT OVERTIME #182

Submission 527

the Barbie movie (2023) was horrible

[SUBMITTED JUSTIFICATION UNDER THE CUT - PLEASE READ]

Propaganda is encouraged!

Also, remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

Submitted justification:

unfortunately this is a dead serious take of mine. that movie was a story of a horrible tragedy portrayed as justice. and the subtle violent radfem undertones were deeply uncomfortable. my reasons for disliking it are very complicated and personal, so I'm going to try and keep this brief and try to avoid saying anything too charged.

i understand liking it— it was a very fun movie! the way they did the practical effects and props and setting were all genius and very cool!

but.. the way they handled Ken and his struggles felt extremely minimizing, cruel, and violent. I've *been* the reject kid before. I *know* what that's like. I've been humiliated and degraded before for being too much, for having ADHD, for being autistic, for wanting to be included in friend groups that didn't want me.

ken's story is a *tragedy* of a person who dared to ask for love and inclusion, who dared to ask over and over until the only option left to him was to be made into a villain for it. and instead of realizing that maybe, just maybe, this was a cry for help... that maybe, this was the last straw in a long long long line of instances of horribly cruel social bullying and humiliation.... that maybe Ken never wanted to hurt anyone, that maybe he just wanted everyone to see how much he was hurting, that maybe he never wanted power or violence, but empathy instead.... instead of considering any of at, the movie has Barbie and her friends *laugh* at his suffering, and watch him on the brink of tears with the grim satisfaction of a bully that got away with it.

i came away from this movie thinking, what should Ken have done better to avoid this? what could he have done to be truly accepted? what was the "good" choice, if what he actually chose was actually so evil?

and the answer is, nothing. he was spending his entire life serving and worshipping a group that wanted him quiet, polite, and dead. from personal experience, this is the kind of friend group that would probably find it at best a personal irritant, if he had attempted suicide.

this movie was so hurtful. it really felt like they said "people like you are better off dead or behaving like perfect mindless dolls, because when you try to get what you want, you just bother the people around you." conform or else.

i know people get icky when people claim that misandry exists, but.... consider the plot of this same movie, if ken had been one of barbie's girl friends. or if ken had been a trans girl. or hell, even a trans girl egg. i just see people only praising this movie and... no one seems to acknowledge how unnecessarily, brutally cruel they were to Ken, and how little empathy he received both from the general audience and from the writers and Barbie herself.

[wip]

Is there a chance Tumblr could make a "custom feeds" system, like reddit and twitter has? The point is to add accounts (or subreddits, or hashtags) in this or that list, and instead of going to your regular dashboard, you can go to this special list you made. I personally would use that to put all the tornament accounts I follow (seriously, I must have over 50 that are active right now) into one list, I'd have one list for activism, I'd have one list for my fandoms...

I also picture people use this to sort by mood, like one list for when they need cute things, one for when need to laugh, one for when they want to debate with people...

Answer: Hey there, @kyriad-iel!

Interesting question, and this isn’t the first time we have looked at this.

You can catch the wider discussion here for all the details, but in short, we are delighted to show you all a demo of this “blogpack” feature which you can find right here!

So, if you’re on web, you can edit the URL to list what blogs posts you want in the feed. Consider it another secret feed for you good folk that will hopefully get turned into a real feature someday…

Thanks for your feedback, and have a lovely day!

Love,

—Cyle

[ejsuperstar]

WASTELAND FOR THE WIN! MY TORNAMENT OF TRIUMPH COMMS ARE OPEN!

If I could get that golden wreath I would die I need it so bad

Digital Painting Examples:

Payment is accepted via SKY Cotl IAPs (and Steam Games/Giftcards)!

NOTES

I will draw non sky kids/any oc!

I wont drawing NSFW or excessive gore.

I wont draw real people.

I will draw blood and injuries though, just nothing excessive.

I will draw multiple skids/ocs in one image BUT it will cost 50% more. (IE- Triumph Violin turns into Triumph Violin + Sparrow pack. If a suitable cosmetic IAP cant be found for the 50% pricing increase, candle packs can be used instead.)

I will need references of anything you want me to draw.

I will be posting commission artwork to my online pages as examples of commission work I have done.

Discord will be needed to send the final image in order to avoid tumblr image compression.

You have permission to repost commissioned artwork, as long as it is properly credited.

SKY IAP PROCESS

Send me a dm mentioning the commission you want.

Send me a sky friend code (I will unlock fistbump for us)

During the 3 days sky needs to allow you to buy me IAPs, I will work on the sketch, but no further.

After I receive payment I will continue work on the commission.

Once the commission is done I will send it to you.

Throughout the whole process I will be giving updates and requesting feedback.

HEART PROCESS

Send me a dm saying you want a heart commission

Send me a sky friend code (I'll unlock gifting for us)

Send me any necessary refs

After each heart I finish and send an individual stage of the process

Once the Chibi is done I will send it and you keep sending the remaining hearts.

STEAM PROCESS

Send me a dm mentioning the commission you want.

I will work on the sketch but no further.

After I receive payment I will continue work on the commission.

Once the commission is done I will send it to you.

Throughout the whole process I will be giving updates and requesting feedback.

[advice-from-glados]

What's your opinion on the Tumblr SexyWoman tornament which crowned you the ultimate Tumblr SexyWoman ?

As expected. Not that I care.

[shygirl4991]

Tumblr Sexyman Tornament

Summary: The crew receive  a letter from SMG3 to join a tournament that can change the boys into men, the great tumblr sexyman tournament. The crew must go through multiple challenges to win tumblrs votes. Who will be victorious in this grand tournament? 

A gift for @alianarepasa

Tags: humor,silly, adventure, tumblr sexyman,

Everyone at the castle was running around excited, a mail toad arrived giving everyone letters to some event. SMG4 opens the letter and scoffs  “Tumblr sexyman? This is 2024 who even cares about this stuff!” Bob rolls his eyes hearing SMG4 “THAT’S WHAT SOMEONE WHO ISN'T SEXY SAY!” 

Four put the letter away and was ready to toss it till he heard Boopkins speak up “Oh but SMG4 Don't you know the host for the event is last year's winner!” hearing this SMG4 looks at the host name and goes pale “What...SMG3 WON SEXYMAN!” jealousy started to build up at the thought the internet found SMG3 of all people sexy. He snaps his fingers and turns to his crew “What are waiting for we have a competition to get to!” Everyone cheered as they ran through the portal. SMG4 eyes go wide seeing so many familiar faces in the crowd, then his eyes settle on the host himself.  Ignoring his friends calling out to him he stomps up to the host “So you manage to win tumblr sexyman huh? Must have been because true sexyness wasnt around!” he smirks at Three making the man roll his eyes. The man turned to face four “Oh i didn't expect tumblr’s pathetic man to be showing up!” 

The tension rises as the others watch the pair bicker on the stage, Boopkins frowns “Why can't we just get along and have fun with this?” SMG3 and four get close their bodies almost pressed against each other as they smirk “Just you wait and see im taking your title, no one can beat my level of sexy,” SMG3 chuckles leaning forward at this rate any wrong step and the pair would end up kissing  “Then show me how sexy you can be, cause a loser like you don't know how to rizz anyone up.” Mario, seeing the tension between them steps forward, everyone gave him a confused look “HEY YOU TWO SHOULD KISS!!” 

Both mens faces go red at that moment realizing how gay they must have looked as they step away from each other, then in sync yell “SHUT IT YOU ASS!”  SMG3 takes a deep breath “Alright everyone! Let the games begin and SMG4 get off my stage!” he shoves Four off the stage making the man glare at him. SMG3 takes out a whiteboard and starts drawing on it, everyone watches excited for their first challenge. He points to the board and smiles “Okay everyone now that we have all invited accounted for let's begin! Your first challenge will be confidence, to be sexy you must be confident in all you do!

Everyone was taken by Ugandan knuckles to a personalized booth, each contestant had different prompts that will help them show their confidantes. SMG4 walked into the booth ready to show his stuff, looking around he noticed a computer with his youtube channel pulled up. He gets closer to the computer “My channel?” he hears a chuckle as the lights turn off, SMG4 jumps in fear “Uh hello? What's the challenge?” with a blink the lights turn back on. He looks down to notice he was now wearing a dress, then a camera comes out of the wall with a note “Well four, I'm sure your fans are excited for your new video!” 

Hearing this, four panics “What i'm not making a video in a dress!” Another note appears catching his attention giving him a warning if he doesn't he will be kicked out. He sighs looking at the camera “Hey everyone it's me…Princess SMG4…” he could feel himself cringing, he needed something to spark a fire. Remembering that his rival did these challenges with no issue he smiles at the camera placing his hands on his hips “And i'm about to show you some royal class memes!” After passing the challenge he was ready to get out of the dress “No no SMG4, real sexyman will finish the whole thing in a dress!” Hearing the smug tone in SMG3's voice  angered four as he stepped out of the booth. To his surprise half of the people that started are gone, he walks up to the crew that gives him different looks “Don't ask.”

Mario gives him a thumbs up “You make pretty bride!” he glares at Mario for his comment. Meggy giggles and pats his back “Hey it's not bad you have to wear a dress, i was in a battle with no splatgun!” Everyone talks about their first challenge, they all sounded intense so why was he making a youtube video in a dress. A bell rings catching the crews attention “The votes are coming in hot guys time for challenge two!  The internet is a sucker for bad boys, so your next challenge is to show how bad you all can be!” 

Everyone nods getting ready, SMG4 glares at Three “How am i supposed to do that in a dress?!”  Three laughs at the man “Not my problem! Alright viewers at home get ready to vote!” SMG4 walks up to the stage confusing three, suddenly four jumps three and they start fighting, knocking over the camera and ruining the set. Three gets up rubbing his head to notice he was now wearing the white dress they put on four “OI! GIVE ME BACK MY CLOTHES!” SMG4 running off in threes outfit sticks his tongue out as he attempts to catch up with the others. He was already falling behind as he watched the others rob banks and pirate movies, he looked around thinking how he can be a bad boy.  An idea comes to mind as he sneaks up to Mario, he just robbed a restaurant of all its spaghetti. He was laughing and not paying attention to the bag, SMG4 grabs the bag and starts running “IM SORRY!” 

Mario turns looking at his best friend in shock before getting angry and starts charging after the meme guardian. Four started screaming as he was being chased, he did his best to avoid the fat Italian as the votes started coming in. Three fixes his dress annoyed that it was dirty and smiles at the camera  “Times almost up everyone you have five more minutes to commit your crime!”  SMG4 slides in a small gap knowing that Mario wouldn't fit, he lets out a sigh of relief until he starts hearing singing. He starts to shake as he turns looking through the hole. That's when he saw Mario’s arm stretch towards arm. Panicked, he grabs a chair and starts to smack Mario’s arm away till the timer rings letting everyone know the challenge is done.

SMG4 fixes threes hat to make sure it doesn’t fall off his head, he drops the bag of food which Mario jumped the moment he saw it. SMG3 walks up to the final contestants “DUDE WHAT IS WITH THAT GAY AS DRESS?” SMG3 glares at him “Shut it bob, and I know lots of people love seeing someone as sexy as me rock a dress!”  Three glares at his partner before pointing the letter in his hands “Everyone has placed their votes, we know the winner!”

SMG4 eyes go wide surprised “what two challenges and that's it?!” Three scoffs at the comment “Sexyman isnt about skill its about being sexy to the viewers, we can have all the challenges wont change the mind of fans you of all people should know that idiot.” Four sighs looking down, SMG3 would know better than anyone about how fans can be given the creepy fan mail the man gets. The drum rolls and as three opens the letter “In fifth place Mario…which is surprising he ranked so high when he mostly ate paste,” he sighs as he changes the card to see the next person. 

“Fourth place is Toad! Many people watching loved how you hacked into SMG4 channel and posted that video of him in a dress!” SMG4 eyes go wide as he turns to Toad who was laughing, flipping him off, in a panic he takes out his phone and curses to himself. The internet graveyard has no internet beside the starbucks, he was going run to the cafe close by only to get grabbed by Three. “Third place, Meggy for her display of confidence in the badass showdown against the infestation of rat memes that i didn't want to deal with!” SMG4 struggles against Threes hold “Let go bitch i need to delete the video!!” ignoring his partner he flips to the next card his eyes going wide. Looking up he stares at Bob “Uh Bob..for his sick raps…and dad body? The fuck?” SMG4 stopped struggling to look at the card alongside Three. The card showed they recounted the votes multiple times to make sure it was correct. 

Now it was the time everyone was waiting for, SMG4 seeing how he was the only one, got excited. He expected to hear his name only to be surprised “It’s me again! Wow I'm shocked you guys find me so sexy you voted for me when i wasn't even a part of this!” Four grabs the note reading it “That's bullshit then what about me!?” SMG3 smirks “I did say your tumblr’s pathetic man congrats!” Four stares at three “What…WHAT DO YOU MEAN PATHETIC WHAT ABOUT ME IS!” The two start fighting as the crew congratulates each other for their placement. Then they turn to watch the pair fight, Bob decides to make it fun by starting bets as the men argue through the night. 

[hazes-art-doings]

Still on haitus, but this is a special occasion!

DEATH BATTLE IS HAVING A TORNAMENT POLL AND SANS VS JUDGE (from OFF) ARE IN THE SEMIFINALS

Go over to the death battle youtube channel and vote for them so we can see them on an official death battle! If you need to make a membership, you can pay $5 for just the one month then cancel after the tournament ends in 2 weeks (it's ok if you don't want to lol)

TUMBLR, LETS GET SANS TO WIN ANOTHER POLL (and the judge by extention lmao)

[dreamtydraw]

Did i spent 30 min drawing Valentin for a tumblr mc tornament ? Yes, yes i did…

Now look at my beloved child and be blessed by the innocence of her happy smile.

That was it, look at her again, they are happy, love and laughter in the air, life is nice and my little baby is lovely

[ilovebarty]

easy they come easy they go(Jegulus) - Chapter 1-Regulus (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1368746066-easy-they-come-easy-they-go-jegulus-chapter-1?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Pinkpuffyrainbow&wp_originator=W4UGj%2FysZ%2BIeSHEMtNE3%2FYW12GqwtNZFkAwq4Mv4Qsclj51hWJKextR1Bm37%2FGh3ZcaY5YJP3UkGJoMkscEgdTymzbpo%2F9NQW6bBN6xcoVeAoi5D%2FxVW%2BWnPcZPEi5WN Regulus had a lot to handle a brother who left him alone in a household now he was the heir of the noble house of black and he had no more freedom. Then one night he starts to talk to James Potter and it ends up in late night talks. And that is not the only problem he has potions with the 6th years because he was a really good student, however that ment he had to go to class with his brother and co.But the real problem was that he had to compete in the triwizard tornament lets see how that goes.Jegulus endgame (i like lily i'm sorry that i made her unlikeable.) updates every week atleast once

[thegleampt3]

DNI if you voted phoenix over beatrice in the 2023 tumblr visual novel character tornament im being so serious

[monstershowdowns]

I would have liked a tornament with only eldritch monsters, so if after this you'd like to do it, that'd be cool. Me? Oh I'm not often enough on tumblr to be able to host that.

OH, this is a wonderful idea! I'll prob have to take a break of a few days after this first tournament ends, but I'll HAVE to make an eldritch monster showdown!

[pawpunkao3]

(Image description: tumblr tags reading "I hope people know this is real and true. Hema tornaments are famously full of dumptrucks because using your whole lower body to leverage a sword gives you a LOT of exercise in the glutes". End description.)

Worldbuilding tip for aspiring fantasy authors! Give that swordsman a bigger ass

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Having a huge internal debate with myself currently. Just mulling things over and needed a space to have it written out.

Anyone who's followed me for a while is probably aware that when tagging pokémon trainers, I have a tendency to go with Japanese and OG 1st-2nd gen names in referring to characters and tagging them. I prefer this name scheme because it seems more consistent to me personally, but also I don't like the idea my my headcanons being assumed to be for or based off of the PokeSupe (ポケスペ) versions of the characters. Things have gotten particularly complicated with the introduction of "Green"/"Blue" in Let's Go and the time olf debate (akin to Kris vs. Lyra and RGBY!Red vs FRLG!Red, but worse as PokeMas makes canon quite screwy, despite how much I enjoy certain epilogue-esque stories).

Personally, my most preferred headcanons lie in RGBYGSC timeline because that is what I've developed the most, regardless of what posted headcanons might imply. For me:

RGBY => GSC => "BW => BW2"** => XY => SM => SwSh => SV

*with the World Tornament, the implication is that FRLG/HGSS is the connected canon, but if there were a Gray version ala Yellow Crystal Emmerald that (and Z) would be my actual canon

Don't ask me how Hoenn and Sinnoh fit into the timeline because as much as I want to say they fit in just like how they do with FRLGHGSS, remake connectivity and (U)S(U)M make things screwy and confusing. I'll figure it out eventually... maybe.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I'm heavily debating referring (or at least tagging) my Blue stuff as Leaf and Gold stuff as Ethan because I actively dislike how they choose to characterize everyone. Crystal being a smart was a characteristic I already had, but didn't care for her stuffiness. My view of Gold was basically poisoned for a really long time because I didn't really have opinions on him (as he has a practically identical depiction as Kris) and PokeSupe was basically the first time I saw him characterized in a defining way and I really didn't like it. A lot of my headcanons were based off of that and I really don't like a lot of them looking back on them.

RGBY/GSC game only headcanons are my thoughts in their purest form based on interaction text and inflicting my own personality traits onto my blorbos.

I may, at some future point, delete old headcanons or just edit them to better reflect actual game characterization of Gold as well as potentially changing my tagging system for Blue/Leaf and him. I'd say I've already done that with Silver/Kamon, but I basically stopped referring to him as such a looooooong time ago, pre-tumblr, for accessibility reasons (it's still his name, but he doesn't go by it).

[birdie-ghost]

I took a day off and I come back to so much stuff im gonna cry its so sweet I love yall thank you!! This weekend may be hard for me to update at all because i have a really big soccer tornament coming and ill be working all day saturday and sunday!! BUT FR I GOT ON AND CHECKED TUMBLR PROPERLY FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY AND IM LIKE, ALMOST IN TEARS RN YALL ARE SO SWEET HHHH

[fuzz-onyx]

Tl;dr - A cardgame almost made me cry for the first time in years (and I hated it)

Greetings, think of this as an animated storytime video but this is a rehearsal for my hopeful maybe non-existent youtube channel where I can vent onto the internet void with 🎇✨*~style~* ✨🎇

I guess tumblr is not just an art posting website for me anymore. This place has become so quiet, so I feel the most comfortable here. Anyway! Here’s the story!

So I thought I could rely on my ✨toxic masculinity✨ to not cry and embarrass myself in public. Well APPARENTLY not on THAT day.

It was on the previous weekend when I decided to go to a small card tournament to play some Yugioh. I have been going there on and off for a couple of years, and I have been losing almost. Every. Single. Game.

Now, some of you may ask:

“Why haven’t you bought any new cards and get better at the game?” - I have, I bough 3 decks, one of them I abandoned for other people to have for free because I don’t like that archtype and I’ve felt the pain of throwing cards away in the bin and I swore never to do it again.

“Why don’t you just quit the game if you’ve been losing a lot?” - Its one of my only chances to have a social interaction in real life. Otherwise I’m starved playing video games and watching tiktok comps on youtube. Loneliness can make you go a little bonkers I can tell you. But then again, I don’t go often.

Back to the story:

So I was going off the more competitive tournaments and playing the more chill ones because they’re more fun, I could actually experiment with my cards and played with decks that I knew could not win with regularly. And last weekend I decided to give the competitive thing another go.

Oh god.

I’m not ready.

Like not at all. Far from it. Fucking hell.

So the main difference between the regular competitive tornaments and the casual tournament is that the chill ones have mostly younger people, they’re either new or just having fun, and most of the decks that I’ve faced from there - while cool and tactical - are some I feel like I can beat (but I usually don’t).

The competitive tournaments however, are mostly made up of older dudes with too much time on their hands, oh, and their meta decks. Now for those that don’t know, meta-decks are supposed to be the most powerful, and give you the easiest wins, like, give them a turn and you lose kinda easy, and very broken.

So I technically had a deck that could become meta, but I’ve never been good at building them, and I don’t wanna waste a hundered dollars to have fun playing cards - this is why you scavenge the cards that people don’t want and use it against them like tHE FOOLS THAT THEY ARE!

I thought that I had built this deck, after two years of scavenging, building, researching, trading, I thought that I could at least reach the middle rank, maybe higher. I’m not super dedicated to the game, but I really thought that after getting used to what I have, and how I grown, that this time would be different.

First round, I play 2 duels one was a loss, the second made it a draw. I was fast and tactical, even during the loss I felt kinda proud that I made the duel last for a while. I don’t think my opponent was using a meta-deck that I know of, but it was pretty tough. Very scaly, lots of reptiles.

Round 2, I’m playing against a guy that’s coming back into the game, but he has a meta, Shaddolls. It pretty notable to me that what used to happen, whenever the shop runner would announce the 1st place and ask what kind of deck they’re using, everyone would groan and complain when they said Shaddolls. So I bought the deck, I thought about using it someday, but I didn’t think I would be going against it so soon.

So what? Even if the guy was new-ish, I wasn’t going to go easy on him. Even though it was a pretty chill duel, it was the first time I felt like I was holding back tears in a while - the last time being watching the first Frozen movie with my cousin 6-7 years ago (oh god, I’m cringing 🤢). Anyways, I lost both duels, it was alright, I think, not too bad.

Round 3, the opponent was playing with a pretty neat deck - Zoodiacs, I was curious about the archtype and seeing it in action manage to overcome the feelings of loss. I don’t think this one is completely meta, but it was pretty powerful.

Last round: The deck itself wasn’t familiar at first, they were using a few different cards, then brought out an abyss, and I thought oh cool, something I’m sorta familiar with, but then he brings out a card I thought was banned. It was the link monster for Phantom knights - Phantom knights of rusty bardiche.

It was another deck that I’ve bought, but it was also one that I tried to play, with that card. I straight up asked the dude about that card specifically, calling him out as others have done to me, he said it was fine. We continue dueling, I lose the first bit, I started stuttering, trying to concentate, trying to not ball my eyes out and I had no idea why.

Seriously, I was just playing the game, and I got progressively sadder and sadder and I didn’t know shit. But I did know that I was playing a meta-version of a deck that I grew to like. It felt weirdly personal. I could not speak after that, I was just wishing I didn’t exist at that moment. I know it sounds kinda cringy reading this now, but it really did feel like not so great day. Even after the tournament I was still feeling down in the dumps, basically lying to my mum about how ✨*good*✨ my ✨~*day*~✨ was.

So yea,. fuck meta. You know what? Fuck yugioh in general 👎 I might still like it, but I’m gonna be moving onto a different game.