Glad that Solemn isn't sugarcoating it and denying that we are in a Tier 0 format. When the casters at the YCS said more than once that Snake eyes isn't T0, I was mildly loosing it.
I think day 2 will start in the afternoon to accomodate for the elections. Belgium only does a top 16 (they're allowed top 32 but they barely ever do), so it's just 4 rounds to be played. The people for whom this really sucks is the people who are forced to work at polling stations. Granted, there's only a miniscule overlap between "people making top 16" and them, but the fact that it's even possible is horrendous. The idea of playing Nats in 1 day is an option that could be explored.
While obviously not everyone will make top16 and thus be affected, the fact that you now need to plan around the potential of topping (IF the organizers can even do this for you), is a massive burden. People also travel together, but now won't be able to EVEN IF the voting stations are open early enough. And finally; some queues in certain cities take HOURS, so you're still rolling the dice whether or not you can safely attend. Where I'm from, for example, I'm very certain I'll be in line for at least an hour. Having to go vote, be in a line that could very well take an hour or more, then sprint to a train station, then catch a train and then still make it for top16 is such a ridiculous undertaking (or even risk), it makes me consider going to a different nationals altogether.
Does it even matter that we vote? I mean, the current gouvernement is made from losers instead of winners. They seem to do what they want no matter if we vote or not 🤷♂️
That awful for the Belgium players. I live in the US and we have a primary election in my state today but a majority of the primaries are uncontested or not competitive so I don't feel like wasting my time. Forced voting is terrible
Snake Eye is the exact reason I switched from Yu-Gi-Oh to Pokemon. I like being able to actually have a turn without someone stopping me. There's no complex set up that takes 10+ minutes and if I have a full board, there's no Nibiru-equivalent to wipe my entire board off the table.
Lmao pokemon is the definition of solitaire. I only need to watch my opponent to see what cards he is playing and to make sure he doesn't cheat. There is 0 player interaction.
Sounds about right. They were probably looking through the list of available dates and saw that one weekend was significantly cheaper than the others and just didn´t question that.
Pretty funny for a company that makes their product in Belgium. Couldnt they just ask someone in the factory if there was anything important that weekend?
When it comes to National Tournaments on the same day as the Election, is there a pre-polling station where people who are not able to vote on the day of elections instead go to a pre-polling station in the week leading up to election day and cast their vote there instead???
I recently quit yugioh because it wasn't fun anymore since I can't play on my turn or they lock me out of any summoning and the mechanics are hard to learn p.s cardfight vanguard and digimon are way more fun to play then this horrible game of yugioh tcg
If you do not vote, you have to pay a fine, the ONLY way to not vote would be to be actually working during that time frame, and even then, some employers are making sure you can go vote.
Worse than pointless, a low-information voter is actively bad for making decisions relating to politics. Think about it, if you were to make a financial decision would you rather ask 10 financial analysts, 100 people who are interested in economics but may or may not have official jobs relating to it, or 1000 random people on the street? Obviously you may have one preference but the reasonable answer would be "not the random people."
@@Zetact_ That’s just how it is. I’m French but I live in Belgium. And I cannot vote for everything, but voting in Belgium is particularly useless when political parties are forging alliances to then be able to govern the country. Imagine you’re a democrat and you’re allying yourself with a republican. That’s the amount of bullshit belgian people have to put up with. It renders the vote of the citizens completely useless. It’s a tad complicated to explain this in english though…
I can't wait for the eternal ferris wheel of hitting the best payoff, to get new best payoff, to hit the best payoff, to get new best payoff. Instead of hitting problematic engines because they are being broken on purpose to sell the packs.
Just vote before the nats? Voting places open from really early to really late for the working people in the Netherlands, is it not like this in Belgium??
No There’s also massive lines depending on city size so even if this was possible, you’re rolling the dice whether you’ll make it in time. It’s simply ridiculous to not double-check dates like this.
If you want to be the first to vote you have to get there at least 1 or 2 hours early on… queues for everything administrative is a nightmare in Belgium…well at least in the walloon part, I don’t know if it’s the same in Flanders.
i think that the is format is yet to be solved. the results of the YCS were from a banlist that dropped a week prior. Let’s let the format develop more. not saying that snake-eye isn’t the best deck, i just think people need to test more before finalizing the format as tier 0
The pros spent probably 100+ hours (per person) testing the new format. They picked snake eye for the event and topped/won. These people don't just log casually onto db for 2 hours before their event. I'm not gonna cope myself into the 5 stages of grief. :/
I mean legacy of destruction will shake things up because without omni negates tenpai can just start swinging,yubel will become better, centurion will improve and other things. Snake eyes is still best deck but it's not going to be almost 50% of top cut post legacy of destruction. I'll say 25-30%.
Hot Red is an omni negate. Yubel is not a competitive deck until phantom. Tenpai joining also is not an improvement to the format. If anything, it’s the opposite.
Ah yes, getting cheesed by Numeron part 2 otk'd but with 24 handtraps, getting outresourced and handlooped by snake eye, and getting superpoly'd for everything I own against Yubel. The three states of yugioh that still just end up folding to snake eyes in game 2 and 3.
LA regional with a bit over 1000 participants had Snake Eye variants take up 45% of the top cut. TCG players and delusion/coping. Struggling to name a more iconic duo atp.
Did nothing? This banlist made fire decks stronger by banning their biggest answer! They just need to ban Flamberge and OSS, and let the deck play without a mon that is basically 6 bodies in one, and getting rid of the 7 One for Ones the deck runs in OSS and that engine.
@@solemnyugioh Oh no!!! Then Belgium Yu-Gi-Oh-players are in a real pickle. Then they have to protest or convice Konami otherwise to postpone the tournament by a day or week or so.
There’s no way Exodia is gonna save us from this tier 0 format 😂 mass ban list later this year, this time next year a lot of those cards will be limited
I'm a Belgian, too. Solution => vote by post To be honest. I do this since several years. I would recommend it. Part of the truth is. Yes the law says you have to go, but the government do not care since many years. I do not remember a case when someone was picked up by the police or something like this.
@@solemnyugioh Hm ok. I thought it would be easy to register for this like for example in Germany. I can do this, because I live next to the border to Belgium, but it is Germany. So I'm registered by the consulate.
Konami making ths tourney the same day as the elections is not cool, they need to change that date imho. On the other hand, you Belgians need mail in ballots.
To be fair, with the new tcg banlist, I believe baronne and borreload savage needed to be hit. It's a step in the right direction.....a baby step, but it's a step.
Here in Belgium, we promote the champion and all top players to be other nationality.
Come, come and play! Eat our chocolates, drink our beers!!!
you forgot the fries
@@thotslayer9914 A country?
@@thotslayer9914 I think they are some kind of sea life form 🤔
I read it "drink our bees". Lmao
Glad that Solemn isn't sugarcoating it and denying that we are in a Tier 0 format. When the casters at the YCS said more than once that Snake eyes isn't T0, I was mildly loosing it.
I think day 2 will start in the afternoon to accomodate for the elections. Belgium only does a top 16 (they're allowed top 32 but they barely ever do), so it's just 4 rounds to be played.
The people for whom this really sucks is the people who are forced to work at polling stations. Granted, there's only a miniscule overlap between "people making top 16" and them, but the fact that it's even possible is horrendous. The idea of playing Nats in 1 day is an option that could be explored.
While obviously not everyone will make top16 and thus be affected, the fact that you now need to plan around the potential of topping (IF the organizers can even do this for you), is a massive burden.
People also travel together, but now won't be able to EVEN IF the voting stations are open early enough.
And finally; some queues in certain cities take HOURS, so you're still rolling the dice whether or not you can safely attend. Where I'm from, for example, I'm very certain I'll be in line for at least an hour. Having to go vote, be in a line that could very well take an hour or more, then sprint to a train station, then catch a train and then still make it for top16 is such a ridiculous undertaking (or even risk), it makes me consider going to a different nationals altogether.
Does it even matter that we vote? I mean, the current gouvernement is made from losers instead of winners. They seem to do what they want no matter if we vote or not 🤷♂️
@@solemnyugiohBelgium has lines for voting? Here in Czechia, I never had to wait for more than a few minutes.
I wish snake eyes wasn’t a tier 0 deck and instead, it was a fun deck that could keep up with the meta.
Same, mostly because the little ones are gonna get hit before I can get the pieces for a silly Ghostrick Purrely list I wanted to try.
Please do more of these videos. I didn’t know you made this as content. I think the videos would do well
That awful for the Belgium players. I live in the US and we have a primary election in my state today but a majority of the primaries are uncontested or not competitive so I don't feel like wasting my time. Forced voting is terrible
fun fact: belgium had a champion from Luxembourg before :) in 2019.
Snake Eye is the exact reason I switched from Yu-Gi-Oh to Pokemon. I like being able to actually have a turn without someone stopping me. There's no complex set up that takes 10+ minutes and if I have a full board, there's no Nibiru-equivalent to wipe my entire board off the table.
Extreme but sure
Bro what snake eye is annoying but tearlaments was worse
Tears at full power was mentally taxing especially at higher levels of competition where mistakes are very unforgiving.
Lmao pokemon is the definition of solitaire. I only need to watch my opponent to see what cards he is playing and to make sure he doesn't cheat. There is 0 player interaction.
@@privatepika2052 pretty much
My guess is Konami had no idea about the elections. They probably saw that they could rent a venue for cheap on that date.
Knowing Konami has been complaining about expensive venue prices in EU... actually very likely.
Sounds about right. They were probably looking through the list of available dates and saw that one weekend was significantly cheaper than the others and just didn´t question that.
Pretty funny for a company that makes their product in Belgium. Couldnt they just ask someone in the factory if there was anything important that weekend?
Has there been any news about why we don't get YCSes in EU by the way?
When it comes to National Tournaments on the same day as the Election, is there a pre-polling station where people who are not able to vote on the day of elections instead go to a pre-polling station in the week leading up to election day and cast their vote there instead???
"Oh here is herald"
Ayo hold up!
glad i'm not a competitive player but i like getting some new generic support reprints to upgrade my favoriye decks
They killed speed duel in EU for no fkn reason
I recently quit yugioh because it wasn't fun anymore since I can't play on my turn or they lock me out of any summoning and the mechanics are hard to learn p.s cardfight vanguard and digimon are way more fun to play then this horrible game of yugioh tcg
Can't a Belgium national kid win the event
What if you're apolitical? Is there an option for "nobody"? Seems like a pointless law
You can choose to vote for no party, but you still need to be physically present to make that choice
If you do not vote, you have to pay a fine, the ONLY way to not vote would be to be actually working during that time frame, and even then, some employers are making sure you can go vote.
Worse than pointless, a low-information voter is actively bad for making decisions relating to politics. Think about it, if you were to make a financial decision would you rather ask 10 financial analysts, 100 people who are interested in economics but may or may not have official jobs relating to it, or 1000 random people on the street? Obviously you may have one preference but the reasonable answer would be "not the random people."
@@Zetact_ That’s just how it is. I’m French but I live in Belgium. And I cannot vote for everything, but voting in Belgium is particularly useless when political parties are forging alliances to then be able to govern the country.
Imagine you’re a democrat and you’re allying yourself with a republican. That’s the amount of bullshit belgian people have to put up with. It renders the vote of the citizens completely useless. It’s a tad complicated to explain this in english though…
It's not like voting takes up the whole day. If they want to play, they can just vote before traveling to Nationals.
Nationals takes up the whole day.
Does Belgium not have proxy vote?
I mean, it's weird to be required to do a proxy vote to play Yu Gi Oh (and totaly Konami's fault), but still
The day I’m forced to vote is the day I vote for the craziest most hated candidate or the candidate that campaigns to abolish compulsory voting.
2:06 Good. The more people keep bringing it up, maybe Konami will hit those cards as well. No skin off my ass either way.
I can't wait for the eternal ferris wheel of hitting the best payoff, to get new best payoff, to hit the best payoff, to get new best payoff.
Instead of hitting problematic engines because they are being broken on purpose to sell the packs.
RIP. 🌻🎴
Just vote before the nats? Voting places open from really early to really late for the working people in the Netherlands, is it not like this in Belgium??
No
There’s also massive lines depending on city size so even if this was possible, you’re rolling the dice whether you’ll make it in time.
It’s simply ridiculous to not double-check dates like this.
If you want to be the first to vote you have to get there at least 1 or 2 hours early on… queues for everything administrative is a nightmare in Belgium…well at least in the walloon part, I don’t know if it’s the same in Flanders.
@@solemnyugioh thats insane, in the netherlands its a quick process and never waited longer then 15min… just 1 country aways and such a diff wow
Vanguard has a lot of issues atm but I'm feeling very grateful that it's the game I'm playing honestly
💀 cap
@@vollied4865 nah I'm enjoying myself and am grateful
i think that the is format is yet to be solved. the results of the YCS were from a banlist that dropped a week prior. Let’s let the format develop more. not saying that snake-eye isn’t the best deck, i just think people need to test more before finalizing the format as tier 0
The pros spent probably 100+ hours (per person) testing the new format. They picked snake eye for the event and topped/won. These people don't just log casually onto db for 2 hours before their event.
I'm not gonna cope myself into the 5 stages of grief. :/
I mean legacy of destruction will shake things up because without omni negates tenpai can just start swinging,yubel will become better, centurion will improve and other things. Snake eyes is still best deck but it's not going to be almost 50% of top cut post legacy of destruction. I'll say 25-30%.
I am on the same opinion as well.
Hot Red is an omni negate.
Yubel is not a competitive deck until phantom.
Tenpai joining also is not an improvement to the format. If anything, it’s the opposite.
Ah yes, getting cheesed by Numeron part 2 otk'd but with 24 handtraps, getting outresourced and handlooped by snake eye, and getting superpoly'd for everything I own against Yubel. The three states of yugioh that still just end up folding to snake eyes in game 2 and 3.
LA regional with a bit over 1000 participants had Snake Eye variants take up 45% of the top cut. TCG players and delusion/coping. Struggling to name a more iconic duo atp.
Can't they do early voting?
no , opens at 8 and lines can sometimes be ridic
Did nothing? This banlist made fire decks stronger by banning their biggest answer! They just need to ban Flamberge and OSS, and let the deck play without a mon that is basically 6 bodies in one, and getting rid of the 7 One for Ones the deck runs in OSS and that engine.
3:44 Voting via mail beforehand is hopefully possible in Belgium. (Problem solved.)
No. You cannot vote by mail in Belgium.
@@solemnyugioh Oh no!!! Then Belgium Yu-Gi-Oh-players are in a real pickle. Then they have to protest or convice Konami otherwise to postpone the tournament by a day or week or so.
There’s no way Exodia is gonna save us from this tier 0 format 😂 mass ban list later this year, this time next year a lot of those cards will be limited
remember than silly billy say on a match, look at the diversity is not 100% snek eye is not tier 0
I'm a Belgian, too.
Solution => vote by post
To be honest. I do this since several years. I would recommend it.
Part of the truth is. Yes the law says you have to go, but the government do not care since many years.
I do not remember a case when someone was picked up by the police or something like this.
How are you allowed to vote by mail? It's normally not a thing unless your specific employer takes care of it. It's quite rare.
@@solemnyugioh Hm ok. I thought it would be easy to register for this like for example in Germany. I can do this, because I live next to the border to Belgium, but it is Germany. So I'm registered by the consulate.
snake eyes eventually gona get tear treatment? ouch
I hope they delay Belgium nats lmao
God damn
Cant wait to snake eyes in duel links
Konami making ths tourney the same day as the elections is not cool, they need to change that date imho. On the other hand, you Belgians need mail in ballots.
That's awful but hilarious for Belgian players lmaooo
Cant Belgian People Vote by Mail?
To be fair, with the new tcg banlist, I believe baronne and borreload savage needed to be hit. It's a step in the right direction.....a baby step, but it's a step.
we need a banlist that bans all omni negates at once
Can't they go vote before the event? Or vote via letter? :)
Voting only opens at 8, queues can be an hour+, voting by mail is not a thing in Belgium for an overwhelming majority of citizens
Snake eyes is really fun to me sucks everyone else can’t have chance to play it for fun.