My favorite part of day 2 was that the judges lost my ID after I gave them my deck box. When I informed them that my ID was missing they blamed me for misplacing it. It wasn’t until the player next to me also noticed his ID was missing that they took it seriously. Turns out they left a bunch of IDs on a table and forgot about them. Would have been screwed, but I had already realized by that point that they don’t care of me as a person
yeah the judges seemed more short tempered than i was used to, for reference i was playing in the digimon main event. i can fully understand it tho it was a long day and a long process for everything.
I paid about $600 for round trip flights and hotel just for side events to be sold out before we even had a chance to get into the building because of the massive 2-3 hour long line we had to stand in day 1, got cut off from buying things from the Bandai booth inside, then day 2, again with the massive 3 hour line for side events that when we finally managed to get to the front of the line the 3v3 (the main one we wanted to do) was already sold and they have only a few others, then got to barely participate in 1 side event and barely in a 2nd cause the guy in front of me was nice enough to give me his spot before they shutdown side events altogether. I really want them to make these things more accessible, not app based that people run scripts and bot programs to ensure they get in, there are people who have to work and can't look at the app when the event goes live, just for it to be sold out in 2 minutes. I like you, also want them to care more. The game is great and the community has been great and fun and friendly, with a few exceptions of course. When people pay for flights and boarding, spend vacation time to come to these events and for them to just be ran fucking awfully just saddens me.
Everything that was stated here was completely well structured and totally conveyed accurately. This was my wife and i’s first ever major One Piece event together, and I was so happy playing games with her teaching and training together in our home in the weeks prior to Bandai Card Fest. We both have never ever competed in any tcg, so we were both excited and extremely nervous, but that was all good adrenaline highs to look forward to….then the event came…my god, I’ll tell you one thing, the ONLY positive I can see from this event is, if you can stay married after this, you found the ONE! Or your boys/group are tight…..LINEUPS everywhere….grueling….my wife was 4-4 amazingly, but we had to end her run bc we just weren’t cut out for this that day so we had to drop since we didn’t eat anything and didn’t get much sleep on the night prior. Just praying Bandai at least addresses this bc it could’ve really turned away new players like ourselves from attending future events!
Was also at the event as a spectator , it’s good to hear somebody as big as you voice their frustration. Waited in line for about three hours just to not get in as well and the side events took about two hours to fire this event was horrible to be honest 😭
Took my second loss in round 10 and missed top cut by something like 1% opponent match win difference compared to 64th. Even if I still wouldn't have made it, it just felt terrible to be denied the chance to play for the top spot for reasons that were out of my control as a player. Was honestly the most disappointing aspect of the entire weekend for me, and might keep me out of organized play until they make some serious changes
It’s actually pretty nuts too that we went so late and they never gave us time to drink or get food. Everything closed inside at about 7 and they were kicking none players out. So the only way some people were getting food was to Uber it. Run down stairs to the door and grab it. Then Hope the next round didn’t start yet. I felt so bad my 10th round opponent had to leave mid game so she could get some water because she was about to pass out.
Core Tcg normally runs most California events and run them to great success. Hearing from some of them. For most things they were given extremely vague directions if any and were to standby and assist a crew of people who were obviously overwhelmed and inexperienced at running a bigger event
I agree the staff were all power tripping hard. I told one of them to their face too lol. Glad you brought that up, I wasn't sure if my group were the only ones facing that bs literally all weekend.
Went as a spectator, I had fun but it was definitely disorganized. If you did the scavenger hunt you had to wait 30 min - 1 hr minimum in line to get the completion stamp, and staff would cut lines off because the sheer volume of people gathering was causing a fire hazard. Staff barely knew where lines started or ended. Retail booth line was pretty much the same. They were selling op05 boxes at $108 for a minute before they realized they were going to run out immediately, so they imposed 5 pack limit OR 1 starter deck, plus figurines. 1 hr + line for 5 packs! It would have been great to have some of the feature matches play on the stage projector so we had something to do while waiting in line. No singles vendors was a huge miss for me too. Side events were filled before I got in the building day 1. Day 2 I was in the line for side events for over 3 hours and the system booted me out of my event. I had to get shoehorned into a smaller event which I at least was able to play. If the ticket to get in the event cost $50 I doubt we would have gotten so many people and so many no shows for the main event (I heard there were ~800 no shows). I want as many people as possible to enjoy the event, but it needs to be a manageable number. Otherwise I'm happy with the promos I got, all the booths were cool, the mini concert was cool, and I got to try out the Union Arena game which was actually pretty fun.
i feel that a nationals should be limited to only those residing in the country. The fact that other players played annoyed me. Also 500+ no shows and no last chance entries when they couldve easily sent out a app message to those there to come between like 7-8 pm to enter wouldve been easy. Poorly run event in general. Problems we've know about all year. They need to step their game up seriously asap for events.
Man watching everyone’s videos about their experience really makes me glad I couldn’t go. I can’t believe someone actually got robbed at gun point thats so sad, hopefully they didn’t get hurt
The event was crazy, I didn’t get to experience the second day but from all the bright lights and playing for hours consecutively non stop, no chances for eating, constant repairs, the website having ridiculous load times, day 1 was an event to remember
Sorry to hear you had such a rough experience, especially with the frustration of having to deal with staff that is disorganized and seemingly uninformed. Personally, I had a great time despite the absurd hours-worth of delays, re-pairs, and general incompetence of the showrunners. I'm happy I managed to get into Top 256, but I'm sure I would've felt much differently if I was depending on R11 (which they assured us multiple times WOULD happen).
My favorite was on Friday during pre-registration being told to go into single file then told to go to 2 by 2 then getting yelled at for not being in single file: repeat
I'm very sad to hear about your experience at the event :( I was so excited to see you and the crew and even moreso that you made it into top cut. I hope that next time the event runs smoothly for all involved. We all love playing this game and searching for the one piece
Event was a mess, but a lot of the time based stuff came as a result of the the massive delay at the start of the day. The event HAD to get everyone out into their cars by midnight because la convention center shuts the parking lot at 12, so I think a lot of policies were put into place to try and make that deadline. That being said, it’s mind boggling that none of the organizers thought to test how to give out byes beforehand. It’s common knowledge at this point that bcp malfunctions in regular circumstances, so why would you think it would go smoothly in a more complicated scenario.
Friend of mine still arrived before 9, not only did he not get his participation pack which they refused to issue him once he noticed, somehow he wasn't in the tournament judge claimed he was late despite the round being delayed like 2 hours
For those of us who got the 2 round byes, it definitely made it feel like more of a disadvantage. I myself like most was playing sakazuki. Easily one of, if not, the deck that requires the most brain power use in the game. I was mentally EXHAUSTED by the time I had to start. Didn't help that right off the bat I had to play another invite player as the first opponent. Even though I won, it felt like an uphill battle right then and there. After that 2nd repair in round 5 I think it was, I went from a good hand a favored matchup, into a bad matchup and horrible hand (even with mulligan). By the end of it all, my head was pounding it hurt so bad. Love the game, but this tournament was just unacceptable.
I completely agree with what you mentioned about bandai fest. BCP worked fine for BSS and Digi but thats because they had less players, if they used RK9 it would have been much better. I ended up 8-2 as well and was looking forward to win my way into top 64. I think it's ridiculous to not be told the number of rounds for a tournament only the day of for it to be changed after. Congrats on the placing and hopefully someone at bandai/PlayTCG watches this and does better next time. Looking forward to the tournament report!
I know not a major focus of the video but I also agree that there shouldn't be a single x-1 not getting top 8. Sucks to miss out on a serial from tiebreakers.
Thank you for making this video, I was very disappointed with a ton of things how it was ran and you hit most of the concerns I had. Also the time rules for top cut and honestly time rules in general need to be adjusted.
they should hold this somewhere besides LA they should hold these events in somewhere in the midwest. LA was gonna be way too much for me, lol and someone got robbed of coarse lol
I was a player and what I experienced at this event makes me not want to join another ever again but probably will cause I love this game. Overall hated it and hope they get their shit together in the future
Well, clearly is the organizers fault, EU managed to organize basically the same event with even more players, and it was smooth, also, not to mention it was streamed!
I really wish you'd been at the Columbus, Ohio regional last year. Really surprised no one made a video on that one. Sounds like Nats was a similar experience but with air conditioning
I’ve heard nothing but horror stories so far on the one piece side but I’m curious if the other 3 games going on had any difficulties or if they used a different TO
Been playing TCG events since 2008, and this is the worst ran event I've ever attended lol Congrats to you and Impact on top 64! Eric Quintana and I had a rough day at 7-3
Right there with you brother it wasnt just a you thing. Wouldnt let my wife in after 5 minutes past 5 for spectators and the whole ordeal just left a bad taste despite the visual appeal just didnt seem like a professional event.
It feels like every single part of the One Piece TCG is mismanaged, I swear. Tournaments, the app, the production, balancing, a lot of it is getting out of hand and I think it's coming to a head. Either we see some changes quick, or this game is dead after OP-10 imho.
I agree with everything you said Worst event I’ve ever been 2 Made me rethink if I really want to keep playing this game Of course I am because I’ve been to other great events
Definitely fair to criticize but I would cut Bandai some slack. Bandai gave participants and spectators a bunch of free, valuable promos just for showing up. The organizers themselves outside of Bandai were pretty trash though for sure. We can probably expect them to not be there again next year.
@@Rcastro3392 Not really, need I explain the difference between singular and plural? also it does not compare to event's participation packs each championship card being about $80-90+
@@berlinglasgow9585 if you want to go off on a technicality through semantics then sure, but my point still stands that you still received something for free that has clear monetary value. In the same pack there were two other cards included, so yes, there is multiple instead of singular there, since you want to be precise. Additionally, all of the demo decks for digimon, one piece, union arena were all free and have monetary value. The packs they gave away for digimon? Free for all. The sleeves and gold don for one piece? Free for all. And yet all of those things hold monetary value. You must be pretty salty for not having been picked as a participant, sorry bout it
@@Rcastro3392 all that has no value outside of luffy either way you want to cut a million dollar company slack for a horribly run event because they gave out free card board?
Why is it such a difference to Europe. We use a different Plattform from Raid´n Trade. We had no Problems. Only at the Begging The website took a long time to load due to the high number of players
Because non players went to scalp items and sell. XD this was a seller event and it is sad. But, was happy to hear Bandai said reprint :D. Sellers are not happy and ranting hard.
I’ve been to several events of course some run top cut some don’t. Yes the time rules have always been there but I think the TO’s don’t have to follow it.
It wasn't Bandai running the event though dude. It was Best Coast Pairing's systems and I believe it was CoreTCG that was officially running the event IIRC.
My favorite part of day 2 was that the judges lost my ID after I gave them my deck box. When I informed them that my ID was missing they blamed me for misplacing it. It wasn’t until the player next to me also noticed his ID was missing that they took it seriously. Turns out they left a bunch of IDs on a table and forgot about them. Would have been screwed, but I had already realized by that point that they don’t care of me as a person
yeah the judges seemed more short tempered than i was used to, for reference i was playing in the digimon main event. i can fully understand it tho it was a long day and a long process for everything.
You murdered me with Nami!
Bandai judges are usually bad. Theres no standards
I firmly believe that chess clocks should be implemented into ALL card games if their gonna place a huge emphasis on timed rounds
more like worst coast pairings
I paid about $600 for round trip flights and hotel just for side events to be sold out before we even had a chance to get into the building because of the massive 2-3 hour long line we had to stand in day 1, got cut off from buying things from the Bandai booth inside, then day 2, again with the massive 3 hour line for side events that when we finally managed to get to the front of the line the 3v3 (the main one we wanted to do) was already sold and they have only a few others, then got to barely participate in 1 side event and barely in a 2nd cause the guy in front of me was nice enough to give me his spot before they shutdown side events altogether. I really want them to make these things more accessible, not app based that people run scripts and bot programs to ensure they get in, there are people who have to work and can't look at the app when the event goes live, just for it to be sold out in 2 minutes. I like you, also want them to care more. The game is great and the community has been great and fun and friendly, with a few exceptions of course. When people pay for flights and boarding, spend vacation time to come to these events and for them to just be ran fucking awfully just saddens me.
One judge was telling me to wait outside while my son (12 years old) was playing in the tournament. No class from that staff at all.
I was frustrated the my babysitter canceled last min but after hearing how bad it was by multiple ppl I'm glad she did canceled.
Everything that was stated here was completely well structured and totally conveyed accurately. This was my wife and i’s first ever major One Piece event together, and I was so happy playing games with her teaching and training together in our home in the weeks prior to Bandai Card Fest. We both have never ever competed in any tcg, so we were both excited and extremely nervous, but that was all good adrenaline highs to look forward to….then the event came…my god, I’ll tell you one thing, the ONLY positive I can see from this event is, if you can stay married after this, you found the ONE! Or your boys/group are tight…..LINEUPS everywhere….grueling….my wife was 4-4 amazingly, but we had to end her run bc we just weren’t cut out for this that day so we had to drop since we didn’t eat anything and didn’t get much sleep on the night prior. Just praying Bandai at least addresses this bc it could’ve really turned away new players like ourselves from attending future events!
Was also at the event as a spectator , it’s good to hear somebody as big as you voice their frustration. Waited in line for about three hours just to not get in as well and the side events took about two hours to fire this event was horrible to be honest 😭
Took my second loss in round 10 and missed top cut by something like 1% opponent match win difference compared to 64th. Even if I still wouldn't have made it, it just felt terrible to be denied the chance to play for the top spot for reasons that were out of my control as a player. Was honestly the most disappointing aspect of the entire weekend for me, and might keep me out of organized play until they make some serious changes
It’s actually pretty nuts too that we went so late and they never gave us time to drink or get food. Everything closed inside at about 7 and they were kicking none players out. So the only way some people were getting food was to Uber it. Run down stairs to the door and grab it. Then Hope the next round didn’t start yet. I felt so bad my 10th round opponent had to leave mid game so she could get some water because she was about to pass out.
i was trying to look for water around 10:00 pm and they told me if i left to look for water I would not be allowed back in. LOL
Core Tcg normally runs most California events and run them to great success. Hearing from some of them. For most things they were given extremely vague directions if any and were to standby and assist a crew of people who were obviously overwhelmed and inexperienced at running a bigger event
It was nice to meet you bro!
I agree the staff were all power tripping hard. I told one of them to their face too lol. Glad you brought that up, I wasn't sure if my group were the only ones facing that bs literally all weekend.
heard the same from multiple people staff was trippin
Went as a spectator, I had fun but it was definitely disorganized. If you did the scavenger hunt you had to wait 30 min - 1 hr minimum in line to get the completion stamp, and staff would cut lines off because the sheer volume of people gathering was causing a fire hazard. Staff barely knew where lines started or ended. Retail booth line was pretty much the same. They were selling op05 boxes at $108 for a minute before they realized they were going to run out immediately, so they imposed 5 pack limit OR 1 starter deck, plus figurines. 1 hr + line for 5 packs! It would have been great to have some of the feature matches play on the stage projector so we had something to do while waiting in line. No singles vendors was a huge miss for me too.
Side events were filled before I got in the building day 1. Day 2 I was in the line for side events for over 3 hours and the system booted me out of my event. I had to get shoehorned into a smaller event which I at least was able to play.
If the ticket to get in the event cost $50 I doubt we would have gotten so many people and so many no shows for the main event (I heard there were ~800 no shows). I want as many people as possible to enjoy the event, but it needs to be a manageable number. Otherwise I'm happy with the promos I got, all the booths were cool, the mini concert was cool, and I got to try out the Union Arena game which was actually pretty fun.
i feel that a nationals should be limited to only those residing in the country. The fact that other players played annoyed me. Also 500+ no shows and no last chance entries when they couldve easily sent out a app message to those there to come between like 7-8 pm to enter wouldve been easy. Poorly run event in general. Problems we've know about all year. They need to step their game up seriously asap for events.
could've spent that 2+ hour delay letting spectators in!
Its not USA nats, its NA... Continentals?. Nats is honestly kind of a misnomer lol.
Man watching everyone’s videos about their experience really makes me glad I couldn’t go. I can’t believe someone actually got robbed at gun point thats so sad, hopefully they didn’t get hurt
The event was crazy, I didn’t get to experience the second day but from all the bright lights and playing for hours consecutively non stop, no chances for eating, constant repairs, the website having ridiculous load times, day 1 was an event to remember
Sorry to hear you had such a rough experience, especially with the frustration of having to deal with staff that is disorganized and seemingly uninformed.
Personally, I had a great time despite the absurd hours-worth of delays, re-pairs, and general incompetence of the showrunners. I'm happy I managed to get into Top 256, but I'm sure I would've felt much differently if I was depending on R11 (which they assured us multiple times WOULD happen).
As a spectator it was the worst event I’ve ever attended
My favorite was on Friday during pre-registration being told to go into single file then told to go to 2 by 2 then getting yelled at for not being in single file: repeat
Sad to hear that there was next to no reasons being communicated for everything that happened... It shows a lot must have went wrong.
I'm very sad to hear about your experience at the event :( I was so excited to see you and the crew and even moreso that you made it into top cut. I hope that next time the event runs smoothly for all involved. We all love playing this game and searching for the one piece
Event was a mess, but a lot of the time based stuff came as a result of the the massive delay at the start of the day. The event HAD to get everyone out into their cars by midnight because la convention center shuts the parking lot at 12, so I think a lot of policies were put into place to try and make that deadline.
That being said, it’s mind boggling that none of the organizers thought to test how to give out byes beforehand. It’s common knowledge at this point that bcp malfunctions in regular circumstances, so why would you think it would go smoothly in a more complicated scenario.
Friend of mine still arrived before 9, not only did he not get his participation pack which they refused to issue him once he noticed, somehow he wasn't in the tournament judge claimed he was late despite the round being delayed like 2 hours
For those of us who got the 2 round byes, it definitely made it feel like more of a disadvantage. I myself like most was playing sakazuki. Easily one of, if not, the deck that requires the most brain power use in the game. I was mentally EXHAUSTED by the time I had to start. Didn't help that right off the bat I had to play another invite player as the first opponent. Even though I won, it felt like an uphill battle right then and there. After that 2nd repair in round 5 I think it was, I went from a good hand a favored matchup, into a bad matchup and horrible hand (even with mulligan). By the end of it all, my head was pounding it hurt so bad. Love the game, but this tournament was just unacceptable.
Thanks for the vid!
Was there too, crazy how terribly run it was.
It's nuts that buy player didn't play until after the lunch break
Had fun getting cutoff at 8:59am and hearing the tourney got delayed 3 hrs
I completely agree with what you mentioned about bandai fest. BCP worked fine for BSS and Digi but thats because they had less players, if they used RK9 it would have been much better. I ended up 8-2 as well and was looking forward to win my way into top 64. I think it's ridiculous to not be told the number of rounds for a tournament only the day of for it to be changed after. Congrats on the placing and hopefully someone at bandai/PlayTCG watches this and does better next time. Looking forward to the tournament report!
Love how you are openly talking about the problems while most content creators for OP are just avoiding the bad stuff like nothing happen.
Don’t talk about it we can’t fix it
I know not a major focus of the video but I also agree that there shouldn't be a single x-1 not getting top 8. Sucks to miss out on a serial from tiebreakers.
It was a terrible experience for sure but I was happy to meet you Will
Damn imagine saying that USA was gonna take worlds pretty easily and then not even getting top 4. Ooof
Didn’t Jackson make top 4?
@@WillToWinGaming yup ahahaha
Thank you for making this video, I was very disappointed with a ton of things how it was ran and you hit most of the concerns I had. Also the time rules for top cut and honestly time rules in general need to be adjusted.
they should hold this somewhere besides LA they should hold these events in somewhere in the midwest. LA was gonna be way too much for me, lol and someone got robbed of coarse lol
Gunpoint robbery has to take the cake
Then they were like…y’all have to wait outside you can’t be in here. Absolutely no regard for the safety of their players
I was a player and what I experienced at this event makes me not want to join another ever again but probably will cause I love this game. Overall hated it and hope they get their shit together in the future
That’s the problem right. The game is amazing and the player base is amazing.
Well, clearly is the organizers fault, EU managed to organize basically the same event with even more players, and it was smooth, also, not to mention it was streamed!
Best coast is trash 🗑
I really wish you'd been at the Columbus, Ohio regional last year. Really surprised no one made a video on that one. Sounds like Nats was a similar experience but with air conditioning
I’ve heard nothing but horror stories so far on the one piece side but I’m curious if the other 3 games going on had any difficulties or if they used a different TO
Heard digimon had a small hiccup other than that I’m unsure
BSS had 0 issues, but it was a $250k cash prize pool invite only event. Can't let that have hiccups.
You had it down to the T. It was a terrible event cutting the last round last minute with no explanation was crazy
Been playing TCG events since 2008, and this is the worst ran event I've ever attended lol
Congrats to you and Impact on top 64!
Eric Quintana and I had a rough day at 7-3
best coast pairings wasnt too bad for me in digimon but i would so much rather use something else, especially after the app stopped working.
what was bad was someone in the app having a 4-0 score....... in round 3
btw i like your intro :D
As much as I don't want to blame judges, I have so many horror stories of judges supporting cheating during this event.
Nami and Usopp's clothes were taken 😂
You said the quiet part out loud. Everything you said was true as I saw it as well, and likewise, I just want this fixed.
Well said. Tournament was trash.
Concert saved the weekend for me. Easily would of traveled for that.
wasn't the tournament cut short from the venue itself kicking out everyone?
Right there with you brother it wasnt just a you thing. Wouldnt let my wife in after 5 minutes past 5 for spectators and the whole ordeal just left a bad taste despite the visual appeal just didnt seem like a professional event.
It feels like every single part of the One Piece TCG is mismanaged, I swear. Tournaments, the app, the production, balancing, a lot of it is getting out of hand and I think it's coming to a head. Either we see some changes quick, or this game is dead after OP-10 imho.
Just a fyi rob Lucci 4C doesn’t have counter WTW
Yes I noticed. Meant to pitch the Rebecca XD
I didn't read any of these things happening on europe nationals so i thing they DO care but NA nationals were just under bad organization.
I will never recover from the psychic damage of this tournament and I didn't even play in it!
Y’all gotta go to Peoria!
Thank you for sharing !
It definitely wasn’t Core’s fault. CoreTCG never had these issues.
I agree with everything you said
Worst event I’ve ever been 2
Made me rethink if I really want to keep playing this game
Of course I am because I’ve been to other great events
Hard agree with everything you said
Definitely fair to criticize but I would cut Bandai some slack. Bandai gave participants and spectators a bunch of free, valuable promos just for showing up. The organizers themselves outside of Bandai were pretty trash though for sure. We can probably expect them to not be there again next year.
spectators definitely did not get valuable promos
@@berlinglasgow9585 you’re telling me the free gear 5 luffy that’s valued at $100 isn’t valuable? Good for you
@@Rcastro3392 Not really, need I explain the difference between singular and plural? also it does not compare to event's participation packs each championship card being about $80-90+
@@berlinglasgow9585 if you want to go off on a technicality through semantics then sure, but my point still stands that you still received something for free that has clear monetary value. In the same pack there were two other cards included, so yes, there is multiple instead of singular there, since you want to be precise. Additionally, all of the demo decks for digimon, one piece, union arena were all free and have monetary value. The packs they gave away for digimon? Free for all. The sleeves and gold don for one piece? Free for all. And yet all of those things hold monetary value. You must be pretty salty for not having been picked as a participant, sorry bout it
@@Rcastro3392 all that has no value outside of luffy either way you want to cut a million dollar company slack for a horribly run event because they gave out free card board?
85 X-2s missed top 64😤
Brutal
Why is it such a difference to Europe. We use a different Plattform from Raid´n Trade. We had no Problems. Only at the Begging The website took a long time to load due to the high number of players
Might as well do pen and paper saving the results.
Event was terrible. Worst card game event ever been at and i played Yu-Gi-Oh for 10 years
Because non players went to scalp items and sell. XD this was a seller event and it is sad. But, was happy to hear Bandai said reprint :D. Sellers are not happy and ranting hard.
I have a fairly large collection myself and am happy for reprints so I can finish out my stragglers
It was definitely a sellers event made over 1k in sales wish I could've played the event tho
BO3 rules is from Bandai's rules. Which is just absurd and shouldn't be that short.
It was pointed out to me in all of the rule books bandai has the TO has the final say.
Still set's a precedent no? @@WillToWinGaming
I’ve been to several events of course some run top cut some don’t. Yes the time rules have always been there but I think the TO’s don’t have to follow it.
It was terrible no way to sugar coat it!
why's your mic pick up your desk pounds so bad?
Accidentally had it off it’s stand. Was late
Imagine going through all of this just to play Bo1's lol
Yup this about sums it all up lol.
Wastimg time
thats LA for you
Yeah PlayTCG is the worst. Not worth playing their tournaments.
One Piece is a fun game. To bad its run by Bandi 😅
It wasn't Bandai running the event though dude. It was Best Coast Pairing's systems and I believe it was CoreTCG that was officially running the event IIRC.
I have been saying exactly thst. Best card game ran by worst company to run card games
PlayTCG! Is the only one to blame for how shit everything went, 10000%