capeandcowllogs | Tournament Semi-finals!

WHO: Anyone and Everyone (Peanut gallery/audience threads welcome!)
WHERE: Times Square! Blocking traffic!
WHEN: Official tournament time: Friday afternoon
SUMMARY: After the preliminary rounds are done, 4 duelists remain. Time to narrow it down to two.
WARNINGS: Card games
FORMAT: Anything you want

This was not where Kaiba intended to stand during the semi-finals. He had planned to be a part of the battle and not on the sidelines watching. At least he wasn't standing among the rest of the crowd. He was running this tournament, so he had a raised platform from which he could see everything and run the event.

The preliminaries had been mostly out of the way, but the final rounds were in the middle of the city, right in times square. The duels had been decided by random draw, and now it was just a matter of waiting for the outcomes. An opening had been made in the middle of the square, with the audience circled around it. The duel monsters would be clearly viewed by everyone in attendance.

Like the start of the tournament the semi-finals were met with an amount of aplomb. The same large screen from before was showing exerts from the duels leading up to these matches...though any scenes from one particular duel were suspiciously absent. After the crowd had been sufficiently roused, fireworks shot up again announcing the beginning of the first duel.

(ooc: you know the drill by now! Duelists have been told their opponent about 5 minutes ahead of time, so they know who it is but didn't have time to specifically prepare for them. I need the winners by Friday at 9pm CST so I can get the finals post up. Brackets can be found here)

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Juudai made his way to the center of the square, turning thoughts over in his head. His opponent was the kid who'd beaten Yuugi and Kaiba both this round... and one who played with some new kind of tactic, or so he'd heard from others. Which meant he'd have to be extra careful this time around. Shuffling his deck idly, feeling the mental rustling of the spirits that resided within it, he glanced around at the blocked roads, waiting for Rua to approach him.

Rua flicked through each card in his deck as he distractedly made his way towards the center of the square. He'd gotten through two rounds so far with his Deformers - everybody had been so surprised when he did, but he was just having fun dueling. Eventually he came to a white bordered card - Power Tool Dragon. His favorite card, and the card that had gotten him the victory the past two rounds. He stared at the card for a few seconds. He had never figured out if there was anything special about Power Tool Dragon...

After a minute, he smiled, and placed the card into his Extra Deck, then slapped his deck into his Duel Disk. Either way, he'd just focus on having fun. He walked into the center and stood opposite Juudai with a huge grin on his face.

"You're Juudai, right?" He smiled. "What kinda deck are you using?"

"Hey, if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?" Juudai chided with a laugh, completely unruffled by the fact that this kid couldn't have been more than eleven or twelve years old. A duelist was a duelist, after all. "So you must be pretty good if you beat Yuugi-san and Kaiba-san to get here," he added tangentially, trying to gouge his own situation as thoroughly as possible.

"Hee...I think I'm pretty good, yeah!" Rua said, in that completely unabashed but somehow not egotistical way that only someone so young could manage. "My sister and I have both been dueling since we were really young!"

"But both Yuugi-san and Kaiba-san were really strong too! I had a friend once who taught me about learning through dueling..." Rua said, recalling his duel with Yuusei before. "I think I learned a lot by dueling the two of them! And I had fun too, seeing their cards and stuff!"

"Well, that's good. You sound like a good kid, in that case." Rua's statement resonated with Juudai deeply, as he recognized the important lesson of learning through dueling himself quite well. "Tournaments are all about fun, after all. So let's have a good duel!"

He assumed a challenging stance, turning on his duel disk and letting the arm extend and click into position. "Alright, show me the power that defeated the legendary duelists! DUEL!!"

Rua hit a button on his Duel Disk, activating it and shuffling his deck. He grinned as he put a hand to his deck. "I don't know much about legendary duelists or anything like that, but I'll show you everything my deck's got to offer! DUEL!"

Our log is here. olesia was kind enough to moderate it for us.

tl;dr, Dark Bakura won ~~and we all had a good laugh about how all his opponents have been lolis~~.

Tournament Semi-finals!

Juudai VS Rua

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Dark Bakura vs. Aki