capeandcowllogs | DUEL MONSTERS TOURNAMENT ♠ ROUND 1

WHO: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
WHERE: Central Park and Harbor
WHEN: Saturday March, 20th early afternoon
WARNING: Swearing and card games
SUMMARY: Round 1 of the duel monster's tournament.
FORMAT: Whatever you want!

Months of planning and recreating an empire from the ground up was finally reaching its climax. Fireworks shot into the sky as the workers ran out of the way trying to avoid the large screen to which the firework stands were attached. If there was still anyone who had not heard that a Duel Monsters Tournament was being held in the city, the sights and sounds quickly informed them.

The same set up was found in the two locations. One at the center of Central Park and the other stretched next to the water by the harbor. The rules the duelists had been given told them where to meet and when to be sure they would be there for the beginning. Since Kaiba couldn’t be in two places at once, especially as he had his own duel to prepare for, a video had been pre-recorded to start the event. The screens turned on at the same time, the KaibaCorp logo flashing across the screen. It disappears to show a montage of duels fought by different monsters. Those who are paying close attention may even notice cards that Kaiba could have only found out about in the City. The montage ends with a Blue Eyes White Dragon destroying everything in its path and causing the screen to fade to white.

The blank screen suddenly changes again to a video of Kaiba. “Welcome to this City’s first chance at a Duel Monster’s Tournament!” it started. “You have had plenty of time to prepare, and now it’s time to show exactly what you can do. At the end of this announcement the tournament will officially start.

“Find your opponent and duel! The winner will go on to the next round. The loser can go home. You have all been given copies of the rules. Any cheating will be punished.”

The Kaiba in the video paused, emphasing a big-brother idea about how cheating would be caught and punished. The look changed into a smirk as he threw his hand forward and dramatically proclaimed,

“Game Start!”

(Make your own threads here for your individual duels. You can log as much of the action as you want. Remember you need to PM me with the winner of each duel before Sunday 11pm CST (whether or not the log is finished). If I don’t have a winner I will proclaim one for you to keep things moving. In case you've forgotten the brackets are here)

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Crow snorts, crooking his head slightly. This duel was more than interesting. It was fun. Pity that his opponent seemed too uptight to enjoy it.

"I still got plenty. But I'm not hasty enough to show it all in just one turn. Let me warn you though: If your dragon attacks my Armored Wing next turn, it's gonna be destroyed. Turn end."

"What?!" Kaiba asked enraged by the idea. He didn't know whether to believe Crow or not. He wasn't familiar with the cards, but it very easily could have been a ploy to keep him from attacking the clearly weaker monster. On the other hand, his opponent had shown he wasn't stupid, and leaving a card out like that against his dragon didn't have any other word.

He ignored the thoughts and started his turn. "Draw!" He smirked at the card and instantly revealed it. "I activate Pot of Greed, which allows me to add two more cards to my hand." He drew the cards and his smirk widened. "I place a card in defense and one card face down...and end my turn." He still wasn't sure if the other was telling the truth or not, but he did now that his monster couldn't defeat the Blue Eyes, if he tried his face down card would take care of that. He didn't like to play defensively, but would if it achieved his purpose.

So his opponent wasn't that easily goaded into an attack. To bad for him, but it just proved Kaiba's skill as duelist.

"Draw."

His eyes flickered to the reverse card and the defense monster, wondering shortly what purpose they would serve. In the end there was only one way to find out. Kaiba wasn't the only one, who didn't like defensive play.

"Oh well attack's the best defense, right? Armored Wing! Attack his Blue Eyes!"

Kaiba may have hated defensive play but in this case it turned out for the best. "You said my dragon would be destroyed if it attacked you, but what if you attack it. Reveal trap card!"

The holographic card on the field lifted to show it's face. "Ring of Destruction," Kaiba announced. "This card destroys one face up Monster on the field, and I chose Armored Wing!"

A fiery ring came out of the card and surrounded the Armored Wing. "This doesn't come without a price. Both players take damage equal to the amount of the card destroyed." He flinched as the cards other effect caused his life points to decrease.

Crow instinctively threw up his arm to shield his eyes from the explosion, mourning the loss of his ace for a moment. He frowned down at his cards, deciding to get himself a bit of a hand boost.

"I activate the Magic Card Allure of Darkness. Thanks to that I can draw two cards and then remove one DARK monster from my hand from the game."

He drew his cards, eyes narrowing in speculation as he saw what his deck had given him. There was a bit of a risk involved but if he played this right then he would be able to reverse tables. "I remove BF - Mistral the Silver Shield from the game. Then I activate the effect of Black Feather - Breeze the Gentle Wind. When Breeze is added to my hand through the effect of a spell, trap or monster I can special summon it."

The monster appeared and Crow gave his cards another glance. He couldn't rush this now. "Then I activate another spell card: Feather Wind Attack. By returning Breeze from the field to my deck I can add another Black Feather Monster from my deck to the hand. I'm choosing Shura the Blue Flame."

"And since I haven't normal summoned yet, I'm summoning Shura. Now my permanent magic Black Whirlwind activates and I can add another Black Feather monster to my hand. This time I'm adding Black Lance-Blast."

He took another moment, contemplating whether he should summon Black Lance-Blast, but deciding against it. He just might need it later. "I'm setting one card face down. Turn end."

"Draw!" Once Kaiba was fully invested in a duel, he had to struggle to maintain a poker face. The entire duel he had been going back and forth from anger to excitement. His opponent had to use quite a few cards to end up with that low attack on the field. That meant he had to have a strategy behind it, and if the rest of the duel showed anything it was likely to use it to get even more crows on the field. The card he just drew would take care of that.

"Your monsters are only a force when you have a swarm. When it's one on one I have the clear advantage!" Kaiba said in reference to the huge disparity between the attack points. "But it's even better when I have the advantage of two against one! I change Kaiser Sea Horse from Defense to Attack mode. Kaiser Sea Horse attack Shura directly! Leave his life points wide open for the Blue Eyes!"

Crow couldn't quite suppress a grin - this attack was exactly what he had waited for. Sure he had hoped that it would be the Blue Eyes that attacked, but this was just as good.

"You've got my Black Feather's figured out, don't you? From my hand I activate the effect of Black Feather - Kalut of the Moon Shadow. By sending this card to the graveyard Shura gains 1400 ATK!"

Kaiba's smirk didn't lessen even when Crow sprung his trap. "You're not the only one who can play a card from their hand," Kaiba said almost like he was explaining instead of taunting. "I play the quick spell card Enemy Controller!"

A large game controller appeared in front of him on the field. "By entering the correct code I can tribute one of my monsters and take control of yours. I tribute Kaiser Sea Horse and take control of your Shura!"

The hologram of Kaiser disappeared from the field making room for Shura to take its place next to his dragon. "Thanks for increasing his attack for me," Kaiba mocked. "Shura! Blue Eyes White Dragon! Attack his life points directly!"

Crow stumbled for a moment, looking very stunned to the ground as the rest of his live points were blown away. However he caught himself quickly enough. While he did feel slightly irked at himself for losing this quickly already, there was no shame in losing to this particular opponent. And he wasn't that much of a sore loser.

His expression slowly changed back into a grin again as he looked slightly awed at Kaiba. "Damn, you are as good as they say. This sure was a fun duel."

Kaiba watched with satisfaction as the his opponents life points reached zero. He would never admit this to him, but that had been a hard duel. He had not been expecting to have to do much more than bring out his Blue Eyes once. He would have to take these 'future' kids more seriously in the future, but at least now he had proof he was still superior.

"Hmpf," Kaiba said, closing some of the distance between them but still staying on his side of the field. He could have deactivated his duel disk, but he liked having his dragon standing beside him. "Your birds were no match for a dragon," He said not un-kindly. "You earned your defeat." This was as close to a congratulations as he would give.

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Winner: Kaiba