Update + Raffle Results (Apr/Mar)

First of all, congrats to winners of the raffles for last two months (batched together)

YC Tier Winner: Richard x2

SV Master Tier: Dr Her0 x2

Supporter Tier Winner: Framework

Contact me on Discord to organise a session.

It reached a point where I had forgotten to do the raffle in March, so I decided to just bundle them together.

General thoughts and summary

I just came back from a trip to Perth for One Piece Regionals, finished 26th, which was okay. All trips to Perth are always worth it, regardless of how I do at these tournaments, since I'm there to see friends and family as well. But I guess it's nice when the trip is paid off by the prizing.

That said, I'm finding that somehow I always seem to get sick whenever I go to Perth. This time around, I caught a cold towards the end and even had to cancel some plans as a result. One of them is a doctor and works at a hospital, and this is actually the second time I've had to cancel on him because if he gets sick, he has to cancel his shifts.

So in any case, while recovering and travelling, I played a bunch of Hundred Defense Line, which is an insanely good new VN/RPG that just came out. But I think I'll be shelving it once I've recovered and saving the rest for when I go travelling for various events.

Worlds just concluded for SVE. Very proud that 3/8 of the top 8 were from Australia, including Jason and Chappers, who are both friends of mine. I am rather surprised Chappers made 3rd, he's probably one of the best SVE players in Sydney, but I was... sceptical of his deck choice tbh. I also had a convo around Jason's Sword list, but I conceded that it was a good pick to worlds because it smashes Bats and, based on testing, it was shown that a not-so-bad dirt matchup vs most decks (as Dirt was not teching adequately for it).

In April, I put out an article on how to play Dirt Rune. To be honest, this took a huge amount of effort, as I may have mentioned in the article. The deck is not easy to play, and I took quite a lot of time to learn the intricacies of the deck before I was able to put out a guide for it. The other thing I didn't mention is that I lost all my work on that guide once as well (which was exceptionally tilting).

In May, I'm planning to put out another article on fundamentals, this one will probably be centred around the concept of "what it means to want to win." It's a topic that isn't talked about too much but is critically important to success.

In addition, we're currently building a bunch of stuff for a future release:

Looks kinda nice, right? Well, when it's ready, it'll get shipped!