Weekend was soooooo awesome, except for the fact that I got super sick the day of the tournament lol. Woke up with a fever, headache, sore throat, muscle pains... it's a miracle I managed to play well. My pool was unreal, it had Souji, Brice, Kaeru, Lich, TheBiter... Souji wiped the floor with me lol. He is simply invincible, during all weekend I only managed to steal one round off him. And it's a good matchup for Rachel too! I never thought the difference in level would be so huge... but then again nobody knows how to fight Arakune here. Nobody was a match for him, I was afraid he'd get bored haha. In comparison, Dora was much more manageable, I even managed to win a match against him lol (not to say that he wasn't strong because he's gdlk as well, it's just that Bang is much more played here).
I was nervous against Xie and autopiloted a lot... he did a couple of reads that scared me and got in my head. Apparently it's all your fault Dave, he knows the matchup because of you!
But yeah overall I'm extremely happy with how I did minus that match in top 8, everyone came to this tourney and the average level of skill was incredibly high... West Coast, East Coast, Japan, Canada... fun times! Still sad that Dave, TD and Gli couldn't make it
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But yeah to stay on topic, who is that Rachel that Sakaku posted here? When landing CH 6a, he adds 5b 6a 236a before or after kerokero lol. Overall he looked really solid.