Competitive · tournament reports
How the day actually went
274 tournaments as the people who ran them described them: who turned up, what the format did, and what decided it.
- 274reports, 2012–2025
- 70%name their top three
- 181largest reported field, at Rise of the Bladers 8: Multiversal Legion
About this page
Organisers post a write-up after an event on the WBO's tournament-report board. We read 274 of those threads and condensed each into our own words, keeping only what the organiser stated: the place, the field, the format, the finishers and anything they flagged as worth knowing. Nothing is inferred — a report that does not give a date, a format or a player count leaves those blank here.
A report is linked to an event listing only when it links that event's thread itself, which 2% of them do. Read on September 19, 2026; the threads themselves are on worldbeyblade.org.
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Fizz Head Bowl 22
Run by Temak
This 3-on-3 Swiss event ran smoothly and finished in under four hours despite forecasts of bad weather that never materialised, drawing several first-time competitors. Judges had to stay alert for players trying to counter-pick after deck order was already locked in, a problem the organiser says was successfully shut down without further incident.
- 1st XtremeInferno
- 2nd YURIINTHEHOUSE2
- 3rd BladerDan21
- Judges caught and stopped attempts at counter-picking after deck order had already been set
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Voxel X Beyblade Tournament #5
Run by The_Gotham
The fifth Voxel X tournament was announced with a date and a link to its event thread, alongside a single listed combination using WizardRod on a Ball bottom. No attendance figures, standings or additional detail were shared.
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Fizz Head Bowl 20
Run by Temak
A 3-on-3 Swiss event finished quickly, running from first match to a crowned champion in about two and a half hours despite mixed feelings about its four-point match format. A judge caught a player using counterfeit parts during pre-match inspection, and the organiser provided a full set of new packaged beys to help the player, a first-time minor, build a legal deck.
- 1st TotesRider
- 2nd Whalehunter
- 3rd XtremeInferno
- Judge caught a first-time minor competitor using counterfeit parts at inspection and organiser supplied replacement parts on the spot
- Event ran unusually fast, finishing in about 2.5 hours despite mixed feelings on the point format
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Nook Arena 4
Run by Jely
Results from the fourth Nook Arena event at the Salmon Run Mall in Watertown, New York, listing the top three finishers and their decks; the runner-up had also placed third at the prior week's Nook Arena 3.
- 1st InfernoJoe HoverWyvern 5-60 Kick, StealSamurai 5-70 Hexa, DranBuster 1-60 Rush
- 2nd Lalo LeonClaw 4-80 Dot, CoboltDragoon 5-60 Elevate, ScorpioSpear 9-60 TransPoint
- 3rd NeyBlade PheonixWing 9-60 Ball, GolemRock 3-60 UnderNeedle, SilverWolf 5-80 FreeBall
- Runner-up Lalo also placed third at the prior week's Nook Arena 3
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Nook Arena 4
Run by Jely
A second, duplicate posting of the Nook Arena 4 results from the Salmon Run Mall in Watertown, New York, listing the same top three finishers and decks as the original results thread.
- 1st InfernoJoe HoverWyvern 5-60 Kick, StealSamurai 5-70 Hexa, DranBuster 1-60 Rush
- 2nd Lalo LeonClaw 4-80 Dot, CoboltDragoon 5-60 Elevate, ScorpioSpear 9-60 TransPoint
- 3rd NeyBlade PheonixWing 9-60 Ball, GolemRock 3-60 UnderNeedle, SilverWolf 5-80 FreeBall
- Duplicate repost of the Nook Arena 4 results under a second thread
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Nook Arena 3
Run by Jely
A top-8 double-elimination deck-format final to seven points decided this Watertown, New York event, with the host winning using a three-part deck spanning attack, stamina and balance archetypes.
- 1st Jely PhoenixWing 3-60 LowRush, WizardRod 1-60 Hexa, SilverWolf 9-60 Ball
- 2nd VG93 SilverWolf 5-60 FreeBall, OptimusPrimal 3-60 UnderNeedle, TailViper 9-60 Elevate
- 3rd Lalo ScorpioSpear 9-60 Hexa, ColbaltDragoon 5-60 Elevate, SilverWolf 0-70 FreeBall
- Top-8 double-elimination deck-format finals played to first-to-seven
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Rise of the Bladers 8: Multiversal Legion
Run by zhoujian
The eighth Rise of the Bladers event in Cebu drew a large field of 181 participants, run as Swiss groups feeding a Top 64 single-elimination bracket. Match detail was published as a Challonge bracket and photographs rather than written out, and another regional organiser wrote in to congratulate the team.
- Drew 181 participants, an unusually large turnout for the region, run as Swiss groups into a Top 64 bracket
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Game 3 Ultimate Battle 2025 Vol. 1
Run by AUTOTUNEAJ and BENDO
A shopping-centre event drew 54 of a possible 64 competitors under a B4 format, but a site outage during the day kept the organisers from updating registrations to the full capacity. The report lists a range of combinations in play, including several PhoenixWing, WizardRod, SharkScale, KnightMail and HoverWyvern builds, without final standings.
- A site outage during the event prevented registrations from being fully updated to the 64-player cap
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Fizz Heads 9
Run by Temak
Thirty-two bladers kept this Swiss event moving briskly, wrapping the Swiss rounds in under two and a half hours including a lunch break. A new judge handled her first event well under the supervision of more experienced staff, and a father-son pair among the five newcomers ended up battling each other for third and fourth place.
- 1st RedWizzard
- 2nd Superpixel3D
- 3rd Stellarcell
- A new judge worked her first event under supervision and performed well
- A father and son among the newcomers ended up facing each other for third and fourth place
- Swiss rounds finished in under 2.5 hours including a lunch break
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VyonXcustoms Come Play MFB After
Run by VyonXcustoms
Thirty-seven bladers entered a B4-format event in Woodbridge, Ontario, with results and decklists posted straight through to the top four. The winner ran a five-piece rotation that leaned on CobaltDragoon and Hover Wyvern through the swiss and final stages, while the other finalists mixed WizardRod, PhoenixWing and PegasusBlast combinations.
- 1st Bond PhoenixWing 9-60 R, TyrannoBeat 7-70 K, PegasusBlast J 1-60 LR, CobaltDragoon 5-60 E, Hover Wyvern 7-60 L
- 2nd SoruNoSky WizardRod 1-60 H, CobaltDragoon 5-60 E, PhoenixWing 3-60 LR
- 3rd Okin Hover Wyvern 9-60 LR, AeroPegasus 1-60 L, TyrannoBeat 3-60 R
- All four finalist decklists were shared in full, not just the winner's
- The champion swapped between two closing combinations across the swiss and final stages
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This 3-on-3 event ran to five points in the early rounds and seven points in the finals, closing with CinnamonSkywing on top of the podium. The report gives only the final standings and a results spreadsheet link, with no other details about how the day unfolded.
- 1st CinnamonSkywing
- 2nd Ralfbalf
- 3rd Aurousx
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The largest Beyblade event in Michigan's history drew sixty players, including thirteen from Canada and one from Wisconsin, for a 3on3 Beyblade X event run as six rounds of Swiss into a top-16 playoff. Semifinal and higher matches were overseen by a certified Beyblade X judge. Flamingopapi took first place, winning a CobaltDrake and other prizes along with the title.
- 1st Flamingopapi AeroPegasus 360 Level / WizardRod 160 Hexa / PhoenixWing 960 Kick
- 2nd Joehipsterson PhoenixWing 960 Wedge / Hover Wyvern 160 Low Rush / CobaltDragoon 560 Elavate
- 3rd Shetani KnightMail 960 Point / Hover Wyvern 160 Low Rush / PhoenixWing 360 Rush
- Largest Michigan Beyblade event on record
- Drew competitors from Canada and Wisconsin in addition to Michigan locals
- Semifinal and higher matches were run under certified judging
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Fizz Heads 8
Run by Temak
Forty bladers took part in a return of the 5PackDeck format, a hybrid of five-on-five and deck-format rules where each of five unique beys can only be used once except in a tiebreaker. Top-eight finishers received prizes, and a black CobaltDragoon was raffled off separately during the event.
- 1st Alpacaranger
- 2nd DeVice
- 3rd Yuriinthehouse
- 5PackDeck format returned, refined so a 6th tiebreaker battle suspends fault points and reuses discarded beys
- A black CobaltDragoon was raffled off during the event
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Voxel Academy X Beyblade Tournament #4
Run by The_Gotham
The fourth Voxel X event drew thirty-two entrants into a three-on-three swiss group stage feeding a top-eight deck-format bracket in single elimination. Standings and a bracket link were shared, but no player results made it into the write-up itself.
- Thirty-two entrants made this the largest Voxel X event reported in the slice
- No player names or placements were actually given, only the bracket structure and a single combo
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Fizz Heads 7
Run by Temak
This unranked event trialled an experimental format called 5PackDeck, which the field responded to well, though a bracket-software bug forced the organiser to seed the top eight by hand once Swiss rounds finished. The experience prompted a rule change going forward: rather than an automatic loss on a fault in a deciding tiebreaker battle, that battle will simply be replayed without awarding points for the fault.
- 1st Totes.Rider
- 2nd Archonic Ghost
- 3rd Gavin Ash
- Trialled a new unranked format, 5PackDeck, which the field wants to see run again
- A bracket-software bug forced manual seeding of the top eight
- Rule change adopted afterward: a fault in a tiebreaker battle now causes a replay rather than an automatic loss
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A ranked Brooklyn Beyblade X event ran a 3v3 double-elimination first stage into a deck-format finale, with the recap posting only the top three decks and Challonge links rather than naming which players used them.
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Voxel X Beyblade Tournament #3
Run by The_Gotham
The third Voxel X gathering in Brooklyn ran a three-on-three swiss stage followed by a deck-format finale, with a top three posted alongside a link to the full event thread. The champion's listed combination paired AeroPegasus with a Hexa bottom.
- 1st Shawn514 AeroPegasus 9-60 Hexa
- 2nd Techiecreek
- 3rd Ajeeblade
- Results were posted as a short standings list with almost no narrative detail
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Fizz Heads 5
Run by Temak
Competing events in the city pulled down expected numbers, but 29 bladers and roughly 16 spectators still turned out for an intense round of matches, with eight of the competitors new to the format. The top six players all carried records of 4-1 or better into the cut, with only two 3-2 records squeezing into the top eight.
- 1st Ben
- 2nd InfernalTroll
- 3rd Panini
- Competing local events reduced turnout but the field stayed strong, with the top six all holding 4-1 records or better
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Erm, What the Plastics? 2 / Bouncy Castle
Run by knee
A birthday-themed pair of Plastics Format events combined a Deck Format main tournament with a novelty side event held inside an inflatable stadium, reportedly its first competitive use. The host gave away eighteen 3D-printed reproduction Beyblades built around rubber flat bases and hand-machined bearing shafts, continuing an ongoing loaner program meant to lower the barrier to competitive Plastics. The write-up centres on the local scene's attacker-versus-survival metagame rather than on final standings.
- The licensed inflatable Bey Air Stadium used competitively, apparently for the first time ever
- Ongoing loaner program of 3D-printed combos with hand-machined bearing shafts
- Local metagame favours attackers on rubber flat bases over bearing-based survival builds
- Print quality improved markedly after switching from 0.1mm to 0.08mm layer height
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Voxel X Academy Tournament #2
Run by The_Gotham
The second Voxel X Academy event drew twenty-one players for a five-round Swiss stage feeding a deck-format top eight, run without burst priority and under the usual metal-needle ban. Moms Spaghetti took first over Cam120611 and Pinkdust, with the results confirmed and lightly corrected in the replies after a formatting issue in the original post.
- 1st Moms Spaghetti AeroPegesus.1-60.LowRush, PheonixWing.3-60.Level, CobaltDragoon.9-70.Elivate
- 2nd Cam120611 CobaltDragoon.9-60.Elivate, TyranoBeat.5-60.Level, WizardRod.9-60.Ball
- 3rd Pinkdust WizardRod.9-60.Ball, AeroPegesus.3-60.LowRush, KnightMail.1-60.Rush
- Ran without a burst priority rule, alongside the standard metal-needle ban
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Fizz Heads 4
Run by Temak
Turnout exceeded the original cap of 32 to reach 36 participants, with some travelling more than three hours to attend, and twelve of them at their first-ever tournament. The whole top eight left with prizes, and the organiser notes that the event's optional rule set was well received by the field.
- 1st AzureRedBlader
- 2nd SamE_68
- 3rd Dreadlyre
- Attendance exceeded the planned cap, drawing players from more than three hours away
- Twelve of the participants were attending their first-ever tournament
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Fizz Heads series 3
Run by Temak
Twenty-eight bladers competed under an added house rule awarding two points for knocking an opponent's bey out through the launch area, running five rounds of Swiss into a top-eight cut. A wide, roughly four-foot stadium in the free-play area let spectators and side matches run alongside the main event, and the day only slipped slightly due to traffic delaying a few competitors.
- House rule awarded two points for a knockout through the launch area specifically
- A roughly four-foot-wide stadium was available in the free-play area alongside the main tournament
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Voxel X Academy Tournament #1
Run by The_Gotham
Nineteen players attended the first Voxel X Academy event in Brooklyn, running a five-round Swiss stage into a deck-format finale, with byes handled due to the odd player count. Recently released ShelterDrake and Rock Golem barely showed up in decks despite being new. The_Gotham won the event outright, with RockBladeCesar and Devii.7 rounding out the podium.
- 1st The_Gotham SilverWolf.0-80.hexa, WizardRod.9-80.Ball, CobaltDragoon.9-60.Elivate
- 2nd RockBladeCesar CobaltDragoon.5-60.Elivate, AeroPegesus.3-60.LowRush, WizardRod.9-60.Ball
- 3rd Devii.7 WizardRod.9-60.Ball, PheonixWing.3-60.LowRush, KnightMail.1-60.Rush
- New releases ShelterDrake and Rock Golem were notably underrepresented in decks despite being recent
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Fizz Heads 2
Run by Temak
Out of 22 sign-ups, two withdrew sick and three failed to show, though one who arrived 45 minutes late due to a time-zone mix-up was accommodated by substituting him into the organiser's own competitive slot, after confirming no other blader objected. Sixteen players ultimately competed across five rounds of Swiss followed by a single-elimination top eight.
- 1st Gavin Ash
- 2nd Kort8112
- 3rd Kersayvidge
- A late arrival caused by a time-zone mix-up was subbed into the organiser's own competitive spot, with judges and other bladers' consent
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A weekly Beyblade X series in the Dallas-Fort Worth area posted its results through a Challonge bracket link, naming CampSquatch as the winner over Alanaramirez, with no further match detail given.
- 1st CampSquatch
- 2nd Alanaramirez
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Fizz Head series 1
Run by Temak
A heavy snowfall made travel difficult, but twelve bladers, several brand new to the hobby, still turned out for this organiser's first-ever WBO tournament. The format was switched from Swiss to group round robin without any pushback from competitors, and the venue's roomy space drew praise as a good fit for growing the local scene.
- 1st Kort8112
- 2nd Isaac Ash
- 3rd Redwizzard
- First tournament in this organiser's ongoing series, run despite heavy snowfall
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The Nerd Mall Beyblade X Celebration Tourney
Run by PraiseMo
A 3v3 deck-format double-elimination event drew 22 bladers and saw surprisingly little use of top meta decks. The winner went undefeated with an unconventional WizardRod-on-Level build, while several stock builds pulled off shocking upsets in the loser's bracket. A cramped venue led the organizer to plan an attendance cap for future events.
- 1st 2Blue09 WizardRod on Level
- 2nd Fearbola
- 3rd MexicanTwix
- Very few of the established meta decks appeared despite a strong turnout of 22 bladers
- The winner went undefeated with an unconventional WizardRod-on-Level build
- Stock DranSword, WizardArrow, HellsScythe, SilverWolf and SteelSamurai builds pulled off upsets in the loser's bracket
- Cramped venue space prompted plans for an attendance cap at future events
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Cold weather cut a ten-person field down to six at this quickly-run cash-entry event, held on a skatepark half-pipe with enough stadiums for everyone to play simultaneously. A Dram Buster damaged a stadium's cover mid-event, prompting the writer to consider banning the part for the wear it causes. The final finished 2-0, with the runner-up taking home a bey he didn't already own as a consolation prize.
- 2nd Xanderh5
- 3rd BladerWitch stock parts only
- Held on a skatepark half-pipe with a leaf pile catching ring-outs to prevent part damage
- A Dram Buster damaged a stadium cover, prompting consideration of a ban
- Runner-up received a prize bey he lacked as a consolation
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Crescent Midsummer Shodown #1 - Celebrating 25 years of Beyblade
Run by doublestar and bsquared (Team Oversoul), with judges Csey and WillyActual
Two organisers from Team Oversoul ran the first ranked local event at a TCG shop in Ashland, Ohio, using a custom point system inspired by Bakuten Shoot that valued burst and X finishes over plain spin-outs. A round-robin miscalculation forced a bracket reset about 25 minutes in, switching from single to double elimination so fewer players would be limited to one match. Bladers travelled from across the state for a rare local Ohio event, and Draconic Blader beat bsquared in the grand final after both had come up through the losers side of the new bracket.
- 1st Draconic Blader HellsChain on Ball
- 2nd bsquared
- Custom point system reduced win values to reward closer, more nuanced battles
- Bracket had to be reset and reformatted partway through after an early planning error
- Bladers travelled from across the state, citing how rare regular Ohio events are
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Bey-X-Andria
Run by Kuruin
Thirteen bladers, several of whom had travelled considerable distances, competed in a Beyblade X Deck Format event using first-to-seven-points group round robin. TheAnnihilator remained undefeated throughout, sticking with a PhoenixWing combo all the way to the title over a resilient FlameIncendio. Akuna took third after a back-and-forth tiebreaker against galaxylonginus that went down to the final exchange.
- 1st TheAnnihilator PhoenixWing 9-60 P / HellsScythe 3-60 B / SharkEdge 3-80 LF
- 2nd FlameIncendio HellsHammer 3-60 P / DranSword 3-70 R / WizardRod 5-60 H
- 3rd Akuna TyrannoBeat 4-60 P / SharkEdge 3-60 T / WizardRod 5-60 O
- Combo mislabels from the event video were corrected after the fact
- Third-place tiebreaker between galaxylonginus and Akuna went to the very end before Akuna prevailed
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Imaginary Launch Technique: RNG Purple (BBX)
Run by Bladerdoc and LegendV3
Nineteen of twenty-two registrants turned out in Bellville, New Jersey for one of the earliest Beyblade X events, held right as the Rod, Buster and Hammer UX parts debuted. Rod-based combos were spammed heavily and performed well, while the host's rare Buster combo needed real launch skill to work. Mr. Memes went undefeated to win with a DranDagger on Taper combo, beating newcomer EliFRFX in a tight final.
- 1st Mr. Memes DranDagger on Taper
- 2nd EliFRFX
- First Beyblade X event to include the Rod, Buster and Hammer Unique X parts
- Newcomers EliFRFX and APSTANZ both reached the final four in their first events
- Host's first time running a sizeable event, with early bracket-setup delays that smoothed out after round two
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Nineteen of twenty expected bladers turned out for this Swiss event, run as 3-on-3 in the first stage and deck format in the finals, finishing about an hour ahead of schedule. WizardRod on Hexa and Ball dominated the deck-format finals to the point that matches often became two Rods repeatedly tapping each other out of caution, leading some players to argue it was starting to outclass HellsScythe. This marked the community's first tournament run under the Beyblade X system.
- 1st Cinnamon Skywing
- 2nd Mlgbower
- 3rd AndréHerrera
- Community's first tournament using the Beyblade X system
- WizardRod builds dominated deck-format finals, sparking debate over whether it now outclasses HellsScythe
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Lemon Sharks
Run by KIO
Vancouver's first ranked Beyblade X event drew seventeen players into a Swiss first stage using 3on3 Match Type, moving to Deck Match Type for the finals. KIO abandoned an early Stamina-leaning deck build after realizing X's Xtreme Line gimmick made Stamina combos unreliable against Attack, switching to an all-Attack approach for the rest of the day and winning the event. Three of the eight finalists, including second- and third-place finishers BadLck and Dezmain, were competing in their first tournament.
- 1st KIO DranDagger 4-60LF / DranSword 3-60F / SharkEdge 3-80R (First Stage); SharkEdge 4-80R (Final Stage)
- 2nd BadLck
- 3rd Dezmain
- Region's first ranked Beyblade X tournament, run four months after the format's Japanese launch
- 43 percent of the region's X players across two events were newcomers to WBO tournaments
- SharkEdge was widely owned but rarely used, which the organiser felt hurt several players' decks
- The X event finished roughly an hour faster than a comparable Burst tournament
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Twenty entrants ran a five-round Swiss with random seeding, since the region still has no working ranking system for the newer format. The reporter ran the same three-piece lineup through both stages, losing only to eventual champion Friedpasta in the first stage before meeting him again in the final. Several regulars used to Burst-era strategy voiced growing frustration with how much the new format hinges on chance, even as others, including the runner-up, said that unpredictability is exactly its appeal.
- 1st Friedpasta
- 2nd DeceasedCrab Hell Scythe 3-80T, DranSword 3-60LF and WizardArrow 4-80B
- 3rd The Supreme One
- Seeding stayed random because the region has no established ranking system for the format yet
- Long-time competitive players voiced growing frustration with how much luck decides matches under the new rules
- Parts were already showing rapid wear, with ratchets and tips damaging quickly during play
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Nineteen bladers ran a five-round Beyblade X swiss under worsening weather, finishing the first stage by phone-camera light before a storm hit during finals. With no rankings yet to seed by, pairings were essentially random, producing an unusually competitive spread; the reporter went 3-2 with a strong Buchholz score, and the finals came down to close attack-heavy matches decided by Xtreme and Over finishes. Hell Scythe and DranSword stood out as the day's strongest attack pieces.
- Random seeding, since no Beyblade X rankings existed yet, produced unusually tough early-round matchups
- Ground rules gave three automatic points for jumping the start and made burst priority override an otherwise-tying exit
- Hell Scythe and DranSword were the standout attackers of the event; self-knockouts were notably rarer than at earlier X events
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Still Waiting!
Run by CrisisCrusher07
A five-round Swiss Burst GT event with a 3v3 first stage and deck-format finals started an hour earlier than usual to dodge the summer heat, and still ran under a shared pavilion the organisers nearly lost to a birthday party. Knockouts worth two points, including no-contact self-knockouts, again drew criticism from the reporting judge, who self-knocked-out twice himself. In the finals, Dragreus111 came back from a 1-4 deficit to win 5-4 and carried that momentum to an unbeaten finals run.
- 1st Dragreus111
- No-contact self-knockouts scored two points under the newer ruleset, drawn out as a continuing complaint
- Free-play area saw early hands-on testing of Beyblade X gear, described as far more chaotic than expected
- Bending of Vanguard's interior plastic by hand to resist bursting was widely used and criticised as bad-faith tampering
- Dragreus111 recovered from a 1-4 deficit to win a finals match 5-4 and finished the finals stage unbeaten
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X Marks The Spot
Run by Dan
A rain-delayed gathering at a park brought newcomers who had seen an earlier Beyblade X demonstration out to try the game for themselves, running a one-on-one bracket with a seven-point final format. The reporter singled out a travelling opponent's use of the Dranzer S beyblade and another player's stock WizardArrow as standout performances, while noting DranSword felt slightly overrated against skilled stamina play. The host was credited with keeping the day running at a good pace despite the weather delay.
- A rainstorm delayed the start until conditions cleared
- Newcomers attended specifically because of an earlier Beyblade X demonstration the group had put on
- The reporter argued DranSword was somewhat overrated against skilled stamina-focused opponents
- A travelling player's use of the legendary Dranzer S beyblade was a highlight of the day
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One Last Hoorah!
Run by CrisisCrusher07
Billed by attendees as the region's send-off for Burst Standard before the move to Beyblade X, this five-round Swiss event ran with just two stadiums after the venue double-booked the room with card-game tournaments. New scoring rules made every knockout worth two points, including no-contact self-knockouts, and the wall-bounce rule was gone entirely, producing a noticeably faster and rougher tournament than usual. The reporting judge went 3-2 in the first stage running a five-bey deck built around Guilty, Wind, and Vanish combinations, undone partly by a self-knockout and a drift-related loss.
- New-for-2023 rule made all knockouts worth two points, including no-contact self-knockouts, drawing criticism from the reporting judge
- The wall-bounce rule was dropped entirely this event
- One attendee learned about counterfeit Beyblades sold on Amazon and how to spot them
- Sharing the venue with a card-game tournament limited the event to two running stadiums instead of the usual three or four
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Beyblade World Cup 2023
Run by Beyblade Premier
A three-day, Beyblade Premier-run weekend opened with a Dark Horseman invitational for 12 of 16 regional qualifiers, using a bracket-elimination format called Total Domination where opponents ban one bey from each other's five-bey deck before play; Armor won it over Crisis in a single deciding match. Saturday's headline event, King of the Hill, was a 74-player double-elimination Pick 3 Choose 1 bracket seeded randomly because so many entrants lacked ranking history, which sent several strong players out in the early rounds. The reporting player, running a Wind Lucifer-led deck nicknamed the Maryland deck, beat Armor and then faced Papabey, visiting from the Philippines, in a tense match still underway as the report breaks off.
- 1st Armor Dynamite Bdr
- Opening ceremonies introduced the Dark Horseman qualifiers to the crowd before their bracket began
- A new elimination format, Total Domination, had opponents ban a bey from each other's deck before each match
- Random seeding of the 74-player King of the Hill bracket, driven by many entrants lacking ranking history, knocked out several favourites early, including Papabey and CrisisCrusher07
- Attendees travelled internationally for the event, including a competitor from the Philippines
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Super Star's Battle Bladers!
Run by CrisisCrusher07
A ranked Burst Standard 3v3 event drew 24 of an expected 32 players for a five-round Swiss stage. The reporter served as head judge rather than a stadium judge for once, resolving disputed footage only three times all day, and noted a marked personal improvement in attack launches that had previously been unreliable. A stadium level-check overturned one contested point in the first round.
- Reporter served as head judge rather than a stadium judge, an unusually light review workload for the role
- A stadium level-check overturned one contested first-round point after the stadium was found unbalanced
- Reporter noted a marked personal improvement in attack launches after long-standing trouble with them
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A ranked Burst Standard P3C1 event drew 31 players for a five-round Swiss stage on a pleasant, cloudy outdoor day. A player intentionally mixed a Hasbro layer with a Takara Tomy tip to test whether the inspecting judge would catch it, prompting a debate about penalizing deliberate rule-testing, and most successful decks followed a predictable Guilty/World Drift/Dynamite-or-Wind pattern.
- A player intentionally combined a Hasbro layer with a Takara Tomy tip to test the inspecting judge, raising the question of whether intentional rule-testing should be penalized
- Most successful decks followed a predictable Guilty attacker plus a left World Drift and a right Dynamite or Wind stamina pick
- The reporter went 4-1 for an unusually strong personal result against a historically tough regional field
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Whirl Cup
Run by KIO
Vancouver's fifth bi-monthly Burst Limited event arrived as the newly released Whirl QuadStrike blade became widely available, capping six months of Hasbro parts reshaping the local Limited metagame. Five of the eleven entrants ran the same Whirl Tapered-Q Bearing combo and dominated the first stage, but the combo could not carry into the final stage once opponents built decks specifically to beat it. KIO won the event using a Gambit and Arc Bahamut deck, narrowly surviving a low-teeth Arc Bahamut against Nightmare Longinus and Bloody Longinus in the final.
- 1st KIO Gambit Dragon Tapered-Q Assault-Q+Kick-10 / Arc Bahamut (MGC) 00Cross Atomic'
- Whirl QuadStrike blade's tournament debut, drawing comparisons to earlier Wind and Driger V2 Bearing-Drift metagames
- Five of eleven players ran an identical Whirl Tapered-Q Bearing combo and all placed in the top half after first stage
- The Whirl combo scored zero points in the final stage despite its first-stage dominance
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Silver Springs Tries out WBBA Rules!
Run by Dragreus111
A twenty-two-player unranked Burst Standard event tested a variant of Singapore's WBBA 5G ruleset, using five beys per deck and awarding two points for KOs and bursts, adapted to allow more than sixteen players and a non-elimination early stage. A birthday party occupying the usual pavilion delayed the start, and the first-place match had to be redone after video review overturned an initial call, letting JCMakeEmBurst come back to beat Broyeeto. The author again criticised the rule voiding battles over brief midair bey contact before both beys land.
- 1st JCMakeEmBurst
- 2nd Broyeeto
- 3rd The Supreme One Dynamite Illegal / Wind Over HXt+' / Vanish Bahamut Giga Metal Drift / World Wheel Drift / Guilty Atomic'+Spread'
- Tested a modified Singapore-style 5G ruleset extended beyond its usual sixteen-player, single-elimination format
- A birthday party occupying the venue delayed the start of the event
- The first-place match was replayed from a 1-1 tie after video review overturned the original ruling
- Continued criticism of the midair-contact voiding rule, now flagged across five consecutive reports
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Dragreus111's First tournament! Let's get fired up!
Run by Dragreus111
A player-perspective account of a twenty-seven-entrant ranked Burst Standard 3v3 Swiss event held outdoors in cold, windy weather, with one competitor needing to borrow legitimate parts after showing up with counterfeit ones. The author reached the quarterfinals with a mixed deck built around Dynamite and Prominence combos before losing to a regular top contender, finishing with a typical mid-table record for the region's strong field. CrisisCrusher07 won for a second consecutive event, followed by geetster99, Broyeeto and JCMakeEmBurst.
- 1st CrisisCrusher07
- 2nd geetster99
- 3rd Broyeeto
- A player was found using counterfeit parts and had to switch to legitimate loaners
- The midair-bey-contact voiding rule forced roughly five battles to be voided, drawing renewed criticism as overly punitive to younger or soft launchers
- CrisisCrusher07 won back-to-back events in the region
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ROUTE TO BWC: MARYLAND REGIONALS
Run by CrisisCrusher07
Run as the region's Beyblade World Cup regional qualifier, this ranked Burst Standard P3C1 event drew 25 players for a five-round Swiss stage with plenty of tie calls. A counterfeit chip went undetected until round four, and several rounds were voided over midair bey contact before both beys touched the floor, a rule the reporter strongly disliked. The top two finishers earned tickets to represent the region at the Beyblade World Cup.
- 1st CrisisCrusher07
- 2nd Broyeeto
- 3rd RED NINJA 0829
- Served as the region's qualifier for the Beyblade World Cup, sending the top two finishers on to represent it there
- A counterfeit chip went undetected until round four despite pre-round inspections
- Several rounds were voided over midair bey contact before both beys hit the floor, a rule the reporter called counterproductive
- Same-spin matches were unusually hard to judge alongside the normally-difficult opposite-spin ones
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Held on the honoree's birthday, this 12-person group round robin ran two stadiums with a late start after a newer blader needed to borrow legal parts. The reporter, judging much of the event, wrestled with a newly enforced rule requiring both beys to touch the stadium floor before contact, calling it hard to officiate consistently on camera. Kirito1696 took first over CrisisCrusher07, and after the tournament a Guilty part reportedly snapped clean in half during casual burst battles.
- 1st Kirito1696
- 2nd CrisisCrusher07
- 3rd Dragreus111
- Newly enforced floor-contact rule for launches proved difficult and inconsistent to judge
- A Guilty part reportedly broke in half during post-tournament casual battles
- Event was held on the honoree's birthday
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Only five bladers turned out for a bitterly cold outdoor gathering, too few for a ranked WBO event, so the group ran an informal round robin under WBBA 5G rules with a fixed five-bey deck per player and double points for knockouts. The small format kept things moving quickly, and after a three-way tie for the top spot a mini playoff and a final tiebreaker settled the winner. The higher value placed on knockouts pushed several players toward more aggressive, attack-oriented picks than they might normally use.
- 1st Dragreus111
- Too few players attended for a ranked WBO event, so the group used WBBA 5G house rules instead
- Doubling the point value of knockouts visibly pushed players toward more attack-focused decks
- A three-way tie for first required a mini round robin followed by a final tiebreaker match
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P3C1 Seattle!
Run by Zektor
Cold, overcast conditions at an outdoor park didn't stop fourteen players from completing seven rounds of group round robin in this ranked event. The day's standout upset came in the semifinals, when Mejdouli clawed back from a 2-4 deficit to beat a heavily favoured Greatest Raphael counter-pick, then beat CodyDragonLane's Vanish-on-BDR build in the final. The host missed the finals on a tiebreaker despite a winning record.
- 1st Mejdouli
- 2nd CodyDragonLane Vanish on BDR
- Host is actively scouting an indoor venue due to worsening winter conditions at the outdoor park
- A semifinal comeback from two points down decided a finals spot
- Event thread also promotes a Black Friday sale from a community sponsor
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It Is Cold In Space
Run by DeceasedCrab
A ten-person round robin ran unranked because Zero-G results swing rank too unpredictably for most players' taste. Stadium choice for each match was decided by ranked-choice voting between the two competitors rather than a coin flip, which spread play evenly across all three Zero-G stadium types and won over several bladers who had avoided the less common ones. The final between LJ-Blader and Friedpasta came down to the last launch, and a mid-match part breakage triggered a rulebook-mandated replay that LJ-Blader won by knockout.
- 1st LJ-Blader
- 2nd Friedpasta
- 3rd BearsFTW25
- Stadium selection used ranked-choice voting between opponents instead of a coin flip, spreading play across all three Zero-G stadium types
- A bolt breaking mid-final triggered the rulebook's void-and-replay rule, and the redo ended in a knockout
- The event stayed unranked by design because Zero-G's swingy outcomes can cost players a lot of rank quickly
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Gumu Gumu No: Super Red Roc!!
Run by UnseenBurst
A twelve-player ranked 1v1 event in a public library meeting room nearly stretched to ten rounds of round robin before a last-minute walk-in evened out the bracket. The runner-up cycled through several combos to counter right-spin and Guilty picks before losing the final to Lyriq's Guilty on BDR. A disputed rematch call during the final's judging led the runner-up to publicly apologize and commit to re-reading the rulebook.
- 1st Lyriq Guilty on BDR
- 2nd Zektor Wind Sword / Twizzler Dragon (Vanish Longinus) on BDR
- A late walk-in filled the bracket to avoid a full ten-round round robin
- A disputed rematch call during the final prompted a public apology from the judge
- One player travelled from Vancouver, BC to attend
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Seven three-person teams, some patched together with substitutes, split into two round-robin groups for a ranked team event. Mandatory mode-change turnarounds were enforced this time to keep matches fair, and a three-way tie in one bracket needed an extra round before BC Night Burst clinched a spot in the final, where it beat Mr pokee's substitute-heavy Modern Crusaders lineup. The reporter, filling in on a short-handed roster, argued that scheduling makes recurring team formats hard to sustain for a casual hobby.
- 1st BC Night Burst
- Judges enforced mandatory turnarounds during mode changes to stop players from copying an opponent's telegraphed switch
- A three-way tie in one bracket sent BC Night Burst through an extra round before it beat Modern Crusaders' substitute lineup in the final
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An 11-person round robin ran the Pick-3-Choose-1 deck format, with a tight top group forcing three bladers into extra tiebreaker rounds for the last finals spot. Friedpasta took the title over Meow!, whose Leone R2F run through the semifinal came down to a single point, with Broyeeto and RED NINJA 0829 rounding out the podium. Mid-tournament talk centred on rising attack usage in the local Metal Fight Limited meta and a proposed twist where an opponent picks which of your three beys you must play.
- 1st Friedpasta
- 2nd Meow! Leone R2F
- 3rd Broyeeto
- LJ-Blader pitched a Pick-3-Opponent-Chooses-1 variant that drew immediate interest from other regulars
- A three-way 6-4 tie needed extra tiebreaker rounds before Broyeeto advanced to the semifinal
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A twelve-person, two-group round robin in cool, blustery weather gave several newer-to-Plastics players a rough introduction to the format, including the reporter, who borrowed parts and still finished under .500. Manta emerged as an unexpectedly strong attacker despite a weak launch reputation, while several low-profile stamina tips created effective walls that kept opposing beys from making contact at all. ICrazyEater won the final over Neo, The Supreme One and liwfie.
- 1st ICrazyEater
- 2nd Neo
- 3rd The Supreme One
- Manta turned out to be a strong attacker despite a weak reputation at release, surprising much of the field
- Several low stamina tips created wall-like barriers that blocked contact from opposing beys, a defensive trick with no real Burst equivalent
- A six-year-old blader attended on his birthday with his own plastics collection
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Six three-person teams ran a round robin after a seventh team dropped last minute, with invite-only registration meant to keep out anyone who couldn't follow sign-up instructions. The five-hour event left organisers and players alike exhausted, and a three-way tie among mid-table teams needed a mini round robin to decide the second finals spot. Modern Crusaders beat BC Night Burst in the final, and the reporter's own team, weakened by a late substitution, finished the day at 2-3.
- 1st Modern Crusaders (Godly_Requiem, SPN_Z3R0, Mr pokee)
- 2nd BC Night Burst
- Invite-only sign-up filtered the field but left no backup bladers when a team lost a member last minute
- A three-way tie among mid-table teams needed a mini round robin to decide the second finals spot
- Bearing Drift saw wider use, with the reporter eventually running three different Bearing variants across one deck
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Twenty-five of thirty-six registrants showed up for a five-round Swiss held indoors soon after B-203's release, though the two bladers expected to bring full sets never arrived, limiting how much of the new King and Super R2 parts anyone saw. About a dozen newer bladers needed correcting on reused tips and discs, and repeated crowding around the judging tables eventually led the reporter to stop judging entirely after several warnings went unheeded. Mike.Nightwing took the title, beating the reporter twice along the way.
- 1st Mike.Nightwing
- 2nd JCMakeEmBurst
- 3rd Mr pokee
- Neither registrant who owned a full B-203 set attended, so the new King and Super R2 parts saw only limited use
- Persistent crowding around the judging tables led the reporter to stop judging for the rest of the day
- Newer bladers were caught reusing tips and discs between beys and were corrected on the spot
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TEAMPALOOZA: Battle Blader's Unite!
Run by CrisisCrusher07
CrisisCrusher07 ran an invite-only, ranked 3v3 Team Burst Standard event with seven teams of three, a number that forced an uneven group round-robin split of four teams and three. The newly released Wind layer made its community debut and was widely discussed as a strong, well-rounded stamina-leaning option alongside the long-established Dynamite and Vanish. DeceasedCrab's team went 1-1 in a three-team group and did not reach the final, which "The Beyblade Experience" won ahead of runner-up "#Other-Systems".
- 1st The Beyblade Experience
- 2nd #Other-Systems
- Seven teams produced an unbalanced two-group round robin (four teams versus three), leaving some teams with only two matches all day; both the organiser and a participant suggested requiring at least eight teams for group play in future.
- The newly released Wind layer was judged strong in both same-spin and opposite-spin play and expected to join Dynamite and Vanish as a format staple.
- Several attendees, including the report's author, tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after the event, and all attendees were urged to get tested.
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Seattle Invitational
Run by Zektor
A field considered stacked with the region's top-ranked players split into two round-robin groups for a P3C1-into-deck-format event. The report's author finished a modest 3-4 in prelims after a costly late switch to an unfamiliar wheel-drift Vanish build, while the event overall produced a hard-fought top four. ItzMJ took the title as a new champion.
- 1st ItzMJ
- Both round-robin groups were considered evenly stacked with top-ranked regional players
- Repeated losses with a wheel-drift Vanish variant lead the author to rule it out for this format going forward
- Report is paired with a video/deck-profile version on a new YouTube channel
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Teampalooza! Battle Seattle
Run by Zektor
A last-minute venue swap didn't dent turnout for this ranked 3-on-3 team event, part of a larger cross-state team series, with fifteen players forming five teams of three. The host's team went undefeated through round robin and met the eventual champions in a final that came down to a 6-6 tie and a sudden-death tiebreaker match. DynaF was the most-used Beyblade of the day.
- 1st PDX All Starz (Lyriq, Dmaster1292, ItzDro)
- 2nd Team Bent Prominence (Xorn23, Zektor, DeadChoc0) Devil Perseus F Over Hxt+ 0 / Vanish Bahamut Illegal Bearing 9 / Zest Longinus Tapered Bearing' 4 (author's deck)
- Community's first-ever ranked 3v3 team event
- Part of a larger nationwide cross-state team competition
- Final decided by a 6-6 tie broken by a sudden-death tiebreaker match
- Venue changed at the last minute due to a scheduling conflict
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Driger V2 for a Limited Time Only
Run by KIO
KIO's first hosted WBO event was also the region's second-ever tournament and its first Burst Limited event, held in an air-conditioned mall meeting room with stadiums taped to folding tables on the floor. Fourteen registrants dropped to ten after last-minute withdrawals, and many attendees lacked full Limited-legal collections since they were newer to the hobby. Driger V2 dominated the metagame so thoroughly that both finalists used it, and AUTOSEBB won the event mostly on its strength while ClubAmador2012 took second having gone undefeated in the first stage without it.
- 1st AUTOSEBB Driger V2
- 2nd ClubAmador2012
- Community's first Burst Limited tournament, exposing gaps in newer collectors' Limited-legal parts
- Driger V2 versus Geist Fafnir was a recurring, hard-to-judge tie matchup in both stages
- Borrowed Takara Tomy B-09 stadiums supplemented Hasbro Pro Series stadiums, which the organiser found less enjoyable to play on
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Ten teams of three, most playing team format for the first time, ran a two-group round robin outdoors in hot, rainy weather under a covered pavilion. A late cap of 36 entrants and several players registering without pre-formed teams added organizational strain, and judging duties were spread thin across four or five volunteers working multiple stadiums. One team's matches were saved for the very end of the day, a scheduling choice the reporter flagged as unfair to teams left waiting for hours.
- Most participants were experiencing team format for the first time
- A late-added 36-player cap and unregistered walk-in teams complicated setup
- Saving one team's matches for last drew criticism as a fairness problem for future events
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Blader's Kingdom: Season 2 / Round 1 (Hasbro-only)
Run by Mike.Nightwing
Fourteen bladers turned out for an unranked, Hasbro-only edition of the Blader's Kingdom series at Nightwing's Gaming Loft, a lower count blamed on the parts restriction. With weight advantages erased across most layers, shape and newer Hasbro tips carried the meta, and QuadDrive discs saw heavy play alongside older Wheel and number-disc setups. The open round ran a coin-wager elimination bracket before a double-elimination finals; the reporter finished with eleven coins after a mostly left-spin lineup, while a small top group pulled far ahead on coin totals heading into finals.
- Hasbro Riptide electric drivers were confirmed legal mid-event after organizer uncertainty
- Turnout dropped to 14 registrants, notably lower than typical Blader's Kingdom events, attributed to the Hasbro-only restriction
- Turbo Spryzen S4 was the standout combo piece among the top finishers
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One Punch Man VS Superman!
Run by Zektor
This first local run of a new ban list drew twelve of fourteen signed-up players. A Guilty combo broke through a previously cracked and taped stadium wall mid-match, forcing a swap to a spare stadium loaned by another family so the event could continue. The runner-up's Devil Perseus build ran unbeaten through the first stage before losing the final to a Roar-on-drift counter-pick, marking his first-ever runner-up finish at a ranked event.
- 1st Plot Armor Roar on Drift (finals)
- 2nd Zektor Devil F Perseus Over Bearing' 0
- 3rd Xorn23 Prominence
- First local run of the new PC31 ban list
- A Guilty combo broke through a repaired stadium wall, forcing an equipment swap mid-event
- Runner-up's first-ever second-place finish at a ranked event
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Just Sign Up!
Run by iCrazyEater
iCrazyEater's first time hosting a WBO event was a twenty-one-player unranked GT-format 3v3 Swiss tournament run in hot weather, with the organiser generally judged to have handled the workload well despite a few delayed match calls. A blader who arrived early but missed roll call was left unregistered when the bracket filled without them, prompting the reporting judge to recommend organisers stress at roll call that missed names mean missing the event. Several players needed to borrow legal parts after arriving with non-legal ones, and the tournament's youngest first-time competitor, Shredder9, reached the finals.
- A blader who missed roll call was left out of the bracket entirely, prompting advice for clearer roll-call announcements
- Young first-time competitor Shredder9 reached the finals in his debut event
- A driver left behind at the venue was being held for its owner to reclaim
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Nock Em' Out
Run by Cindercast
A casual Group Round Robin event drew twelve of fifteen registered bladers on a warm day with no rules disputes. The host ran a full offensive deck built around a Knockout combo to test how often the stadium's pockets produced ring-outs, judging it roughly seventy percent effective, and flagged that the pockets clustered on one side left an oversized wall that seemed to blunt attackers. JefftheWizard won his first tournament, and the host reached the final before losing.
- 1st JefftheWizard
- Host specifically tested a Knockout-focused offensive deck and tracked its ring-out rate
- Stadium's pocket clustering left an oversized wall that the host felt disadvantaged attack combos
- JefftheWizard's first tournament win
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Texas Circuit Ranked Event
Run by ZestyPhresh and Brynessa
This first-time reporter covered a double-header day: the unranked Blader's Kingdom South #4, which he reached the finals of before losing 5-0 to Thunderblade (won overall by raybuster), and the Texas Circuit Ranked Event immediately after. In the ranked event's Pick 3 Choose 1 first stage he went 3-1 to reach finals, then won a deck-format run through Romy, organiser Zesty Phresh, and a finals rematch against Blader union to take the tournament. Both events were held indoors to escape Texas summer heat.
- 1st USN
- First tournament report from this author, covering two back-to-back events on the same day
- A first-stage match mirrored decks almost exactly between two players sharing similar names, Unionblader and Blader union
- The reporter beat the event's own organiser, Zesty Phresh, in the semifinals before winning the final
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Attack of the Beystructicons!
Run by LoneBagelfafnir
This was the organiser's first tournament of real size for a British Columbia community whose social channels had gone quiet since 2021, run at a Port Moody recreation centre with playgrounds and parking nearby. Fourteen of an expected sixteen players showed, and the organiser candidly admitted running the event as single elimination for part of the day before realizing round-robin was intended, on top of balancing two young children throughout setup. Despite the mix-ups, feedback was positive, and the event helped revive the local Facebook group and Discord.
- Bracket-format mix-up meant part of the day ran as the wrong elimination style
- First tournament of this size the organiser had run, done while caring for two young children on-site
- Helped revive a local Facebook group and Discord that had been inactive since 2021
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The Direction Chooses You! Make Way For Same Spin
Run by Plot Armor
A random spin-direction wheel decided each round's launch direction instead of the players choosing it themselves. Diamond Blader fought through round-robin play into the final four, edged Xorn23 in a back-and-forth semifinal, then lost the championship match to Dylan2000 after a called rematch went badly. The gathering closed as a first hosted event, congratulated warmly by the small group of related players who attended.
- 1st Dylan2000
- 2nd Diamond Blader
- Format experiment: each round's launch direction was set by a spun wheel rather than by player choice.
- First tournament hosted by Plot Armor, congratulated by attendees at the close.
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If You Tie in the Game You Tie in Real Life
Run by The Supreme One
The Supreme One ran a normal 3v3 Burst Standard event with two experimental rules layered on top: first-stage seeding used total round wins rather than match wins, ties were recorded as 1-1 instead of replayed, and opposite-spin video review was optional unless a player specifically asked for it. Fourteen players competed in block round robin, finishing finals in about two hours, and the organiser reversed a prior day's deck choices toward combos more likely to produce clear round wins. In the finals, tied players re-picked their next Beyblade in secret, which the organiser found added an interesting extra layer of mind games.
- Seeded the first stage by total round wins rather than match record
- Ties were fixed at 1-1 instead of triggering a replay
- Players who tied re-selected their next Beyblade in secret during finals
- Opposite-spin video review became opt-in rather than automatic, easing judging fatigue
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[7/10/22] Metal Fight Beyblade 4D Format: Experimental Rules Tournament Report
Run by The Supreme One
A six-player Metal Fight Beyblade round robin tested an alternative 4D banlist that removed several Chrome Wheel Synchroms along with Duo, Phantom, Diablo, Flash, Death, BD145 and E230, played in the organiser's preferred Pick 3 Choose 1 match type. With only one stadium in use, everyone could watch every match, and the smaller legal card pool pushed players toward balanced decks covering Attack, Defense and mobile Stamina. FriedPasta swept the organiser in the final using an all-low-track deck the organiser's build could not adequately counter.
- 1st FriedPasta
- 2nd The Supreme One MF-M Scythe Horuseus (Attack Mode) 105 MF; Basalt Lyra B: D (Deck Format only); MF Fusion Hades SP230 RF (Deck Format only)
- 3rd MikeNightwing Scythe AD145 EDS (Deck Finals only); Gravity Perseus TR145 WD (Deck Finals only); Burn Leone T125 EDS (Deck Finals only)
- Tested an alternate 4D banlist removing several Chrome Wheel Synchroms plus Duo, Phantom, Diablo, Flash, Death, BD145 and E230
- Run in Pick 3 Choose 1 match type, which the organiser called his favourite over blind or 3on3
- Single-stadium six-player turnout let everyone spectate every match
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Boring Tournament
Run by DeceasedCrab
A ranked 1v1 Burst Standard event ran through steady rain, with about a third of the 38 people who signed up staying home and 27 bladers turning out for a five-round Swiss bracket. A family picnic occupying the usual stadium spots forced last-minute table shuffling, and the standings ended in an unusual six-way tie for two finals spots, settled by a full round robin. Vanish and Dynamite combinations dominated the field, though a handful of newer players found real success running attack drivers.
- Six bladers tied at 3-2 with equal buchholz, forcing a 15-match round robin tiebreaker
- A competitor self-KOed twice in one match and still came back to win 3-2
- The organiser's Challonge account was IP-blocked mid-event, complicating bracket entry and spectating
- New spinning-rules interaction let a nearly-stopped Prominence pick up spin from an opposing left-spin bey and stay in play
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Crazy Slots
Run by StayCool
A small, laid-back block round robin drew about a dozen bladers to a shaded shelter on a hot summer day, with a passerby sharing grilled watermelon to help everyone stay cool. The organiser leaned on a set of loaner combos to cover one player showing up with non-authentic parts, favouring teaching over strict competition given the number of newcomers. The final came down to the organiser against Robert_loller's tapered-bearing Dynamite combo, which pulled out a 5-1 win after a tense back-and-forth near the battle-count limit.
- 1st Robert_loller Dynamite on tapered bearing
- 2nd StayCool
- Organiser keeps a set of loaner combos on hand so players with non-authentic parts can still compete
- Judges struggled to track battle counts near the 14th and 15th battle, prompting a call for a mechanical counter
- Organiser plans to host regularly in the Raleigh area going forward
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Slingshock for the Knockout: Takara Tomy Bursts Onto Hasbro's Turf
Run by UnseenBurst
UnseenBurst organised a fourteen-player Washington-area event originally planned around Hasbro stadiums before a change of plans put it back on Takara Tomy equipment, running Group Round Robin with some byes because of the odd player count. A last-minute scramble with a low-data phone and a supportive team of judges got the tournament underway about half an hour late. The final four were the tournament's own judges, Zektor, Xorn, Plot Armor and Cvie, and Xorn eliminated Zektor in a dramatic exchange capped by a Prominence Stinger Press finish that became the event's running joke.
- The event's own judges made up the entire final four, an unusual outcome for a fourteen-player field.
- A near-simultaneous collision between Zektor's and Xorn's combinations, followed by a Prominence-driven finish, produced the tournament's signature moment and catchphrase.
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The Nightwing Invitationals - Season 1
Run by Mike.Nightwing
This invitational used a custom 5v5 format with a six-round Swiss first stage and double-elimination finals, run in a gaming loft that grew unbearably hot over a four-hour first stage. The reporting judge questioned the invite process, noting several attendees who had never reached a qualifying event's finals were still invited and three of them reached the top eight, and criticised self-judged matches after several disputed calls. JCMakeEmBurst won the belt, and host Mike.Nightwing announced afterward he was considering stepping back from hosting due to the toll of running events.
- 1st JCMakeEmBurst
- Extreme indoor heat, over 89°F, forced the reporting judge to leave before finals
- Invite rules meant to limit entry to top-three finishers from prior qualifiers were not followed, letting unqualified players into the top eight
- Repeated Challonge data-entry errors in one round had a ripple effect on later-round seeding
- Matches were self-judged rather than judge-officiated, which produced at least a few disputed calls
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Worlds of Sport Convention
Run by Zektor
A two-day meet hosted inside a Portland convention brought a one-on-one Burst competition on the first day and the organiser's first-ever team event on the second. Day one saw close matches throughout the bracket, with new RB-series parts getting real play, before the host edged Jake Jones in a five-three final. Day two split fifteen entrants into five three-player teams for a new team format, though the surrounding write-up cuts off before the results are given.
- 1st Zektor Vanish Giga Metal Drift
- 2nd Jake Jones
- 3rd Dmaster1292 Guilty over Xceed
- New RB-series parts saw genuine competitive play, with Fortress standing out
- Zone' and Xceed' combinations appeared far more often than the region was used to seeing
- A convention partnership led to a return invitation for the following year
- The second day introduced the group's first three-player team format
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An unranked Burst GT 3v3 event drew 22 of 32 people who pre-registered, running as five-round Swiss under hot, mostly-shaded conditions. Younger attendees and unsupervised children required extra crowd control, including staff bringing out cones to keep people out of the stadium area, and at least one attempt to use banned Hasbro electric drivers was caught in round five. The reporting judge ran a mixed deck of Master Spriggan, Judgement Diabolos, and a returning Perfect Phoenix build, never changing it across the event despite rating Perfect Phoenix its weakest piece.
- An unattended child wandered into the stadium area, prompting a warning that parents are not being provided childcare
- A blader attempted to use banned Hasbro electric (Rip Fire) drivers in round five
- Debate over whether hand-bending Vanguard's interior disc to resist bursting counts as a rules loophole or intended design; a replying poster said it was intentional
- Organisers floated requiring bladers and parents to read and sign a simplified rules sheet at check-in
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An unranked Hypersphere-format event drew 15 of the 24 who pre-registered, split into two round-robin groups that each ended in three-way ties requiring extra tiebreaker matches. The reporting organiser loaned a newer player spare parts, including a Hasbro wheel disc that ended up carrying him all the way to second place. Mike.Nightwing swept his group with a Balkesh B3 combination and went on to win the tournament outright.
- 1st Mike.Nightwing Balkesh B3
- 2nd beymaster15963
- 3rd The Supreme One
- A newer player borrowed parts, including a launcher and Hasbro wheel disc, and still finished second overall
- Both round-robin groups finished in three-way ties, requiring extra tiebreaker matches before finals
- Wider, low-profile layers were noted as vulnerable in the Hypersphere stadium's upper wall, losing stamina on contact regardless of width
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Nightwing's Blader's Kingdom #8 - Final Qualifier || Bey Days 2022
Run by Mike.Nightwing
Roughly 30 of about 32 pre-registered players attended this custom Blader's Kingdom-format event, run with a 120-minute open stage followed by double-elimination finals. A bounty system, kept as a surprise until tournament day, gave past top-three finishers extra starting coins but barred them from initiating challenges, paying challengers 2-to-1 odds; most attendees proved reluctant to challenge the bounty players, leaving several of them with far fewer matches than usual.
- Introduced a bounty system unannounced until tournament day, restricting past top finishers to accepting challenges only at 2-to-1 payout odds
- Bounty players saw sharply reduced match volume because most other attendees avoided challenging them
- Reporter suggested announcing bounty rules ahead of time in the event thread next time
- Loud venue acoustics repeatedly drowned out the organizer's announcements
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BeyDays Perth
Run by th!nk
A first tournament in years for the local Perth organiser drew 19 players to a cold, windy pavilion, including one attendee who flew in from Sydney. A late surge in sign-ups forced a switch from Group Round Robin to Swiss on the day, and a sponsor supplied loaner current-release Beyblades so kids without their own gear could compete. The host went undefeated on a well-practised Guilty build, narrowly beating Calvin Mendoza in the final after a tense mirror match earlier in the day.
- 1st th!nk Guilty Longinus Giga MX-0
- 2nd Calvin Mendoza
- 3rd LeviathanFish
- No player drops despite one attendee travelling from Sydney, a considerable distance
- A sponsor's loaner Beyblades let newer players use current-release parts for the first time
- Host declines the physical first-place prize by personal policy, pushing prizes down to 2nd through 4th
- Guilty saw heavy representation on both Quick' and Xtreme' drivers
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Blading at the Lake
Run by froztz
A four-hour drive brought the reporter to a lakeside picnic shelter event that grew from about twelve scheduled players to eighteen on the day. Play ran at a noticeably slower, more relaxed pace than the reporter's usual region, and one player's complaint about supposedly rigged results was defused by veteran attendees. The reporter fought through several close single-point matches to reach the finals against the host, froztz, for a second time.
- Field grew from about twelve scheduled attendees to eighteen on the day
- A player's complaint that results were rigged was defused by veteran attendees rather than the organizer
- This was the reporter's first tournament report written as an attendee rather than as host
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WA's BeyDays
Run by Zektor
The host's first time running a full BeyDays event drew twenty-six players, including several from Oregon, through a bracket restart caused by an accidental duplicate name entry and rain arriving during the finals. Five rounds of Swiss preceded deck-format finals, and a rematch against a hard-hitting Guilty build ended the host's clean run before he came back through the semifinal and final to take first over Plot Armor.
- 1st Zektor Devil Perseus F-gear Over Bearing'
- 2nd Plot Armor
- 3rd Akajumo Guilty (flower pattern launch)
- Bracket restarted after a duplicate name entry
- A local Beyblade retailer sponsored the event's prizes
- Host's own well-used Devil Perseus blade shows visible wing stress after this event
- Four stadiums running let five Swiss rounds finish in about an hour
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Show Me Rock
Run by StayCool
Eighteen bladers gathered at a historic Raleigh park to compete in the DB stadium, with a father and son who had driven from Georgia since 3am among the standout attendees. A fake-parts issue was resolved during the day, and a mix-up over the finals format meant the organiser had to help several finalists rebuild their decks to meet the 5-versus-5 rules on the spot. The host's own son ultimately won the event, with the organiser taking third and the traveling Georgia blader placing fourth despite the long drive.
- 2nd Defaultnoobisme
- A father and son drove roughly two hours overnight from Georgia to attend
- Organiser forgot the finals used a 5-versus-5 format and had to help finalists rebuild decks mid-event
- Discussion of DB-stadium physics, including how its sloped pockets favour attack over stamina strategies
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Four-Gaming's The Circuit!
Run by CrisisCrusher07, sponsored by StayCool and 4Gaming
Fifty of 64 pre-registered players turned out for a six-round Swiss stage sponsored by StayCool and 4Gaming, run with a policy that only judges' own footage (not spectator video) could decide contested calls. Counterfeit parts were unusually widespread, and shifting weather brought heat, humidity and then rain by the end. Divine saw almost no play while Ultimate picked up first-stage use but underperformed against Nexus-S, with Guilty remaining the most consistent attacker.
- 3rd geetster99
- Counterfeit parts were unusually widespread, with a volunteer's spare-parts box needed to keep several players in the event
- New policy restricted contested-call review to judges' own footage only, excluding spectator video
- Divine saw almost no play while Ultimate rose in first-stage use but underperformed against Nexus-S
- Repeated reminders were needed about not crowding the play area or questioning judges mid-match
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Battle At The Entertainment District
Run by Cscramon
Thirty players registered and twenty-two showed for a smooth five-round event run across five simultaneous stadiums. Guilty Longinus with a Nexus+S extreme dash setup was a common and efficient knockout piece, usually slotted second in decks, alongside a popular Dynamite Perseus oval high extend+ build. Newcomer BiggieK1234 reached the top eight and JayAshindra went undefeated through the preliminary rounds.
- Guilty Longinus Nexus+S extreme dash was a widely used, efficient knockout combo in the second deck slot
- Newcomer BiggieK1234 reached the top eight in their first appearance
- JayAshindra went 5-0 in preliminary matches mixing high and low mode
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Lui's Rules
Run by Zektor
An unranked, experimental double round robin used a die roll each round to apply one of six house rules, including sudden-death spin, a bouncing sponge dropped into the stadium, and hand-only launches. The sponge rule produced an unusually high burst rate across every stadium and was singled out as the day's defining twist. Akajumo went undefeated through both the round robin and the finals to take the win.
- 1st Akajumo Guilty on Xtreme
- 2nd Zektor
- 3rd Plot Armor
- A die roll selected one of six novelty rules each round, including a stadium sponge and hand-only launches
- The sponge rule triggered a wave of unexpected bursts across every stadium
- Akajumo went undefeated across all seven rounds and the finals
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Mike Nightwing's Blader's Kingdom 7!
Run by Mike Nightwing
The seventh event in Mike Nightwing's coin-wager format ran at his converted warehouse venue in a business park, with roughly twenty to twenty-six bladers taking part in a ninety-minute open stage followed by a double-elimination final that ran far longer than planned. The author was eliminated from finals contention after opponents largely refused wagers above one coin, leaving them unable to make the big plays needed to climb out of a low-coin position. Discussion in the replies turned to whether decks should be limited to a single rotation-changing Beyblade, since some competitors ran two or three in the same deck.
- Finals ran nearly three hours longer than the open stage, well past the organiser's expectations
- Multiple rotation-switching Beyblades in a single deck exposed a rules gap discussed at length in the replies
- The venue's choice of a single Hasbro stadium for finals was seen as limiting attack-combo variety
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Apr-10-2022: "Unburstable Patches" and "Sol's Out Launcher's Out" reports
Run by DeceasedCrab and The Supreme One
A bitterly cold, windy doubleheader combined a ten-player Burst Classic 3v3 event, "Unburstable Patches," with a thirteen-player Metal Fight Limited 3v3 event, "Sol's Out Launcher's Out," both eventually moved from a picnic pavilion onto an uncomfortable basketball court. Starting the second event an hour early meant it grew past the usual round-robin group-size threshold, forcing an oversized thirteen-player single group rather than splitting into two. In Burst Classic, a near-unstoppable stamina "chaos" combo dominated most matchups and was only reliably beaten by an assault-and-kick attack combo.
- Extreme cold and wind repeatedly disrupted stadium and mat setup throughout the day
- Starting the Limited event an hour early pushed attendance past the usual round-robin group-size limit, creating an oversized thirteen-player group
- A near-unbeatable stamina combo in Burst Classic was countered only by an assault-plus-kick attack combo
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Dynamite Battle 2: The Legend Of Curly's Bey
Run by Zektor
This second Beaverton event doubled attendance from its debut three months earlier despite the meme it was named after having faded. Prominence was the most-played first-stage pick following the recent Ultimate driver's release, though Ultimate itself couldn't crack the final four. The host's Devil Perseus build carried through close matches to a 5-3 win over Jake Jones in the final, with Jake Jones's oversized custom stadium drawing praise for producing show-like knockouts.
- 1st Zektor Devil Perseus Over Bearing'
- 2nd Jake Jones
- 3rd Keeganhake2013 stock Raphael
- First event after the Ultimate driver's release; strong early showing that still couldn't reach the top four
- Attendance doubled from the venue's debut event three months earlier
- A player's homemade oversized stadium let bursts fly clear the way they do on screen
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You Can Only Choose 1!
Run by CrisisCrusher07
A cold, windy ranked Burst Standard P3C1 event drew 20 of an expected 32 attendees for a five-round Swiss stage cut to an eight-player single-elimination final. A shared pavilion with an unrelated private party caused a smelly, disruptive distraction, and the reporter argued in the write-up that WBO Deck Format produces too many opposite-spin ties and should give way to 3v3 or 5v5 formats.
- 1st CrisisCrusher07
- 2nd geetster99
- 3rd Allen Schaffer a three-Xtreme finals deck: X on Astral Left, X' on Rage, XM on Guilty
- Argued that WBO Deck Format produces excessive opposite-spin ties and proposed replacing it with 3v3 or 5v5
- Cold, windy weather and a shared pavilion with a smelly private party disrupted the event
- The reporter's Dynamite picks went undefeated for the day while the Roar picks went winless
- A third-place finisher ran an unconventional three-Xtreme finals deck and won
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Battle On The Hilltop
Run by Zektor
A last-minute venue change from a booked park shelter to a nearby high school didn't stop 18 of 23 registered players from competing in this ranked Burst Standard event. The host worked a Devil Perseus build through the first stage before losing a close semifinal to Lowshki, who then beat CVie in the final. The event still finished faster than usual despite the disruption.
- 1st Lowshki
- 2nd CVie
- 3rd Zektor Devil Perseus F Over Bearing' 9
- Forced venue relocation about ninety minutes before start due to a scheduling conflict
- One of the host's fastest events to that point despite the disruption
- Guilty was the most-played Beyblade of the day
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Shin LA
Run by Shindog
A late arrival forced a switch from the planned Swiss format to group round robin for this Burst GT event, run across two stadiums with three judges juggling both matches and bracket updates. The reporter walked through a run of close individual matches, including a tense mirror match decided by a single point, before losing his semi-final and finishing outside the top spots. A raffle for a Beyblade Burst Quad Drive set capped off the first stage, and the final standings were not fully recorded in the report.
- Late arrival forced a format change from planned Swiss to group round robin
- Organiser ran a raffle for a Beyblade Burst Quad Drive set after the first stage
- Report ends before giving complete final standings
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Freezing temperatures around 32 degrees tested a 30-person Swiss field feeding into an 8-person single-elimination final, with at least two players dropping out early because of the cold. Mid-event, judges caught repeated armour discs used across a single deck in violation of the 3v3 and deck-format rules, a mistake found on both newer and experienced bladers. Maxrod took the win after a three-way tie forced a mini round robin for the last finals spots, with opposite-spin ties again dragging out the final rounds.
- 1st maxrod
- 2nd Allen Schaffer
- 3rd CrisisCrusher07
- Extreme cold caused at least two players to drop out mid-event
- Judges caught duplicate armour discs on multiple decks, a rule many players overlook
- A three-way tie required a mini round robin to fill the last finals spots
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Spinless In Seattle
Run by Zektor
A double-tournament day opened with a smaller thirteen-player random-starter Hasbro side event before the main twenty-player ranked event. Good weather held through five preliminary rounds that narrowed a tightly-bunched field to a final four, and one player completed a sweep of both events with a dominant 5-0 finals win. The runner-up in the main event finished third after several avoidable errors, including an unfamiliar driver that stalled repeatedly.
- 1st Plot Armor
- 2nd Hpyher Vanish on drift
- 3rd Zektor Vanish Longinus over Bearing'
- Same host and day produced two separate tournaments; one player won both
- An unfamiliar driver variant performed noticeably worse than the host's older copy, costing a semifinal
- A new player used a homemade Achilles combo to beat much more experienced opponents
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Vero Beach Blading #3
Run by JCE_13 and -Fireblaze-
A small, cold-weather Ranked Standard event co-hosted by JCE_13 and -Fireblaze- drew six of eleven registrants after some no-shows. The host went undefeated, closing with a tight finals win over King_Hyperion, his own brother, and -Fireblaze- took third after a very close rematch earlier in the day.
- 1st JCE_13
- 2nd King_Hyperion
- 3rd -Fireblaze-
- Finals were a family matchup between two brothers
- A Rage combo narrowly missed the back wall and burst against a Guilty combo in one close match
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Zektor's Oregon Open
Run by Zektor
Nine bladers gathered at a Beaverton park for a round-robin Burst-standard event held in cold, windy conditions that twice blew stadiums off their tables. With no tenth entrant, the format shifted from bracket play to a nine-round round robin decided by record. The host beat a longtime regional rival in the final, five to three, and the group closed the day with an informal battle royale.
- 1st Zektor
- 2nd Jake Jones
- Cold wind repeatedly knocked stadiums off the tables during play
- A missing tenth entrant forced a switch from bracket play to a nine-round round robin
- An informal battle royale exhibition followed the main event
- The host planned to return to the same venue for a summer event
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A cold, roughly five-hour ranked event ran a 35-person Swiss stage into an 8-person single-elimination final following the release of Greatest Raphael, though the reporter saw little use of that new part on the day. Same-spin Guilty match-ups turned up again and again in the early rounds, wearing on the judges, and the reporter's own run ended when a mirrored Guilty-versus-Guilty match went against him instead of producing the rematch he expected. Roar Bahamut and Vanish Fafnir stood out as reliable performers across the field, while opposite-spin ties continued to slow down the finals as they always do.
- Venue closed its indoor bathrooms and replaced them with a port-a-potty
- Same-spin Guilty-versus-Guilty match-ups repeated unusually often through the early rounds
- A strict house rule against repeating armour discs between beys in deck format was enforced only loosely until later events
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Two round robins ran back to back on the same wet, windy day, a 12-person Burst Classic event followed by a 9-person Zero-G event, both wrapped in about ninety minutes each. Rain before noon and strong wind throughout made the Zero-G stadiums especially hard to manage, with mats and cardboard blowing around all day. Broyeeto took his first tournament win in the Classic event, edging out The Supreme One, while a beystadium was damaged badly enough during play that it had to be retired.
- 1st Broyeeto
- 2nd The Supreme One
- Persistent wind through the Zero-G event scattered stadiums and mats and forced constant adjustments
- A B-09 beystadium chipped badly enough during a burst that it could not be repaired
- Broyeeto picked up his first tournament win in the Classic event, with The Supreme One finishing second
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A 30-person Swiss stage feeding an 8-person single-elimination final ran under the just-repealed one-driver-per-family deck rule, letting most finalists stack duplicate drivers such as Bearing and Metal Drift. A single permitted direction change per dual-spin layer, plus unlimited high/low mode changes, stretched matches long enough that the event took roughly five hours and finished near dark. World was a surprise standout, holding up in high mode across both stages while producing several bursts even on the wider DB beystadium.
- Ran under the newly repealed one-driver-per-family deck rule, letting finalists stack duplicate drivers like Bearing and Metal Drift
- One allowed direction change per dual-spin layer stretched several matches and pushed the whole event toward five hours
- World on a 1S core saw heavy use in both stages and produced multiple bursts despite riding the wider DB beystadium
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DB: The Most Dangerous!
Run by LJ-Blader
Only thirteen of twenty-four registrants showed up for a group round robin plus four-person final, held near a busy airport shared with active soccer leagues, which meant judges had to fend off sports families cutting through the tournament space. The event ran under newly added tie-limit and one-driver-per-family deck rules, and a tiebreaker mishap nearly cost the reporter a match when both sides briefly forgot how the sudden-death scoring reset worked. A separate reply thread worked through a dispute over an earlier judging call using video review.
- Sports families repeatedly cut through the tournament space to reach the bathrooms, prompting cones and other workarounds
- A tiebreaker replay nearly went wrong when players and judge briefly forgot the sudden-death scoring reset before the correct ruling stood
- A dispute over an earlier judging call was resolved afterward with video review rather than left unaddressed
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Vero Beach Blading #2
Run by JCE_13
Despite heavy cancellations the day before, attendance surged right as the event began, pushing an intended eleven-person round robin into an eighteen-person Swiss with new registrants arriving on the spot. Conce7 went undefeated at 8-0 and beat the organiser in a close final that swung from 4-0 down to 4-4 before a knockout decided it. The organiser recorded his first-ever top-three finish at the event.
- 1st Conce7 several combos through the day, finishing with Vanish Tapered Bearing
- 2nd JCE_13 Guilty on Drift
- Attendance nearly doubled at the last minute when several more people registered right as the event was starting
- The eventual champion went undefeated across the whole event
- The runner-up recorded his first career top-three finish
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Hyper HyperSpheres 2
Run by Cheetoblader
A nine-person round robin followed by a four-person single-elimination final ran on open grass after both the intended library and gazebo venues fell through at the last minute, forcing judges to level stadiums by hand with mats. The event had already been rescheduled once due to rain, and several no-shows on the new date were later found to be spambots or people who simply could not make the change. DeceasedCrab took first with a stamina-leaning deck built around B3 and G3, narrowly favoured over Friedpasta, CheetoBlader and supernova85.
- 1st DeceasedCrab B3 Outer Linear-H, G3 HasbroWheel Rise-H and right-spin Sr3 00Cross Keep-H
- 2nd Friedpasta
- 3rd CheetoBlader
- A last-minute venue change to open grass forced judges to level the stadiums by hand
- The event had already been postponed once due to rain before this date was set
- A Takara-Tomy layer was mistakenly allowed into the deck-format final before being spotted and swapped out
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UnseenBurst Strikes Back! 10-23-21 Tournament Report
Run by Zektor
Nineteen bladers took part in a swiss event that gave one player a bye each round, leaving the reporter at three wins, two losses and a bye, enough for ninth place but short of the finals. A later reply from another attendee walked through the standings math, explaining how buchholz tiebreaks and an odd number of entrants shaped the cut. The reporter's closest match of the day was against a friend running a nearly identical deck, decided by a single rotation after a part failure.
- An odd number of nineteen entrants meant one bye per round throughout swiss play
- A community reply explained the standings and argued for changing the tiebreak order to record before buchholz
- A part failure mid-spin decided the reporter's closest match by a single rotation
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A cold, windy 27-person Swiss event ran six rounds plus a finals stage that saw a lot of tied matches. A three-way tie for the last finals spot needed an extra round robin, which MamaBey2122 won using both Drift and Metal Drift in the same deck, living up to the event's title. The reporter used the write-up to push staff to bring back a rule limiting a deck to one copy of a given tip variant, arguing the current freedom to stack duplicate Drift and Bearing tips has gone too far.
- 3rd geetster99 a double Bearing deck
- 4th MamaBey2122 Roar and Guilty, each paired with a Drift-family tip
- A three-way tie for the last finals spot was settled by an extra round robin among the tied players
- The reporter argued for restoring a rule limiting decks to one copy of any given tip variant after seeing duplicate Drift tips stacked together
- One beystadium cracked during play and had to be patched with tape
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DeceasedCrab reported on a 36-player, six-round Swiss Burst Standard event whose venue had to be relocated to a different park on the day itself, pushing the start back an hour. Persistent ties on standard beystadiums continued despite Guilty's release, and a four-way tie for the last three playoff spots was resolved with a short single-elimination bracket after the organisers checked the rulebook. The tournament's closing standings were Ardmore first, beymaster second, Sniper third and TSO fourth, with DeceasedCrab also reaching the elimination rounds on his usual Dynamite Drift combination.
- 1st Ardmore
- 2nd beymaster
- 3rd Sniper
- Two late arrivals were still admitted mid-Swiss; one who missed his first two rounds was cited as a cautionary example of how lateness skews Buchholz tiebreakers for everyone paired against him later.
- New cardboard-box stadium mounts kept the beystadiums from shifting during play, a first for this community's events.
- A four-way tie for the last three Top 8 spots was settled by single elimination among the tied players rather than another round robin.
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DeceasedCrab organised and helped judge an unranked Burst Standard event held in DB-style Beystadiums shortly after Guilty's Canadian release, running a fifteen-player double round robin split into two groups. The steeper, differently-angled DB bowls produced far fewer ties than standard stadiums but were rough on rubber-flat attack tips, while pocket geometry made most knockouts fall straight in rather than bounce back out. DeceasedCrab took the round-robin seeding on tiebreaker wins and then edged Ryanthedragon in the final to take first, with Allen third and LJ fourth.
- 1st DeceasedCrab Dynamite Belial+F Over Drift-10
- 2nd Ryanthedragon
- 3rd Allen
- DB Beystadium's steep centre bowl cut down ties sharply compared to standard stadiums, and wall-bounce knockouts became rare enough that judges considered dropping that rule for DB play.
- Rubber flat attack tips performed poorly in the DB bowl, especially with a flower-pattern launch.
- A round-robin tie for the top qualifying spots was broken purely by head-to-head wins among the tied players rather than a playoff.
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Fifty people crowded under a single gazebo whose only clear entrance had been partly blocked by furniture, with a separate fallen tree blocking an alternate path and a nearby library's closure leaving the group without bathroom access for the day. A twenty-four player, five-round Swiss stage across three stadiums ran long and was dominated by repeated same-part standoffs that produced an unusually high number of drawn-out ties, one of which was disputed on video by a parent and had to be rerun. The write-up closes with pointed criticism of the current Standard meta as slow and tie-heavy, alongside detailed personal deck notes from one competitor who reached the final four.
- 1st AJL Blader
- 2nd LJ-Blader
- 3rd DeceasedCrab Dynamite Belial+F Over Drift-10, Vanish Fafnir Giga Bearing-6, Tempest Solomon (MCC) Ignition' 1S
- Venue had one usable gazebo entrance, partly blocked by seating and a table, with a separate fallen tree blocking an alternate path.
- No bathroom access on site after the nearby library closed for the day.
- A parent's video of a disputed call led to one match being fully rerun and a judge being reassigned.
- Author's write-up argues the Standard meta has become excessively tie-prone around one defensive part paired with certain top attack types.
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A 30-person Burst Standard swiss ran long into the evening, pushed further by an epic fourteen-launch tie in round five, before a same-day MFB round robin followed with 13 entrants. A checked-in player was missed at roll call and left out of the bracket until midway through round one, and a mis-entered match result had to be corrected after round two closed. CrisisCrusher07 beat the reporter in the Burst Standard finals to take first, with AJL Blader placing third for a second consecutive event.
- 1st CrisisCrusher07 Roar Bahamut
- 2nd DeceasedCrab
- 3rd AJL Blader
- A round 5 tie between the reporter and AJL Blader ran fourteen launches before resolving
- A missed roll-call check-in kept a registered player out of the bracket until round one was underway
- A round 2 scoring mistake credited a win to the wrong player and skewed the standings until caught
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Overly Complicated Rules
Run by DeceasedCrab
The organiser's first outdoor tournament ran a twenty-four-player 5-round Swiss under a modified 3v3 format, based on WBBA rules, where a tie simply advanced both players to their next Beyblade instead of triggering a replay. The organiser supplied fifty custom deck boxes ordered online after struggling to find the right size commercially, giving them out free to all entrants. Shota won his first tournament even though it was unranked, LJ-Blader finished third with a strong deck build, and the organiser finished fourth after mostly ignoring bey-order strategy.
- 1st shota
- 3rd LJ-Blader
- 4th DeceasedCrab Dynamite Belial+F Over Drift-10 / Vanish Fafnir Tapered Bearing-2 / Astral Spriggan (Right) Nexus+S Quattro-0 (First Stage); swapped Astral Spriggan for Rage Longinus 3A X' in Deck Format
- Ties advanced players to their next Beyblade automatically rather than triggering a replay
- Five of twenty-four entrants left before the event ended, several without notice, and were ruled as losses under Swiss departure rules
- A parent's offer of a substantial cash prize for the top three was declined pending discussion with WBO staff
- Custom deck boxes, sized and ordered specifically for the event, were given free to every entrant
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Hyper HyperSpheres
Run by CheetoBlader
CheetoBlader's first hosted event tested Hasbro's HyperSphere format with nine players in a round robin followed by a four-player single-elimination final. Rain forced an unplanned move from the outdoor venue into a nearby library partway through, and the group agreed on the spot to value bursts at one point instead of the format's printed two, finding bursts common enough to justify the change. A relatively new blader who had to borrow HyperSphere-legal parts still finished second after going undefeated in the round robin.
- Weather forced an impromptu move into a public library, which then expressed interest in hosting future Beyblade events
- Group consensus changed burst scoring from two points to one mid-event after finding bursts too common
- Judge found Turbo Spryzen and Turbo Achilles especially strong in this format despite not owning either
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A Burst Classic event drew 30 entrants out of 43 registered, run as five-round Swiss, with the judge-turned-competitor going 3-2 and missing the cut. The report weighs in on part legality (Drift judged too dangerous for Classic, Zone'+Z rated below Bearing, Venture+V prone to self-destruction) and spends real space on venue conduct: several younger entrants showed up with newer generation parts after skipping the format rules, and the loosened COVID mask policy required reminding attendees not to argue about masks either way. A three-way tie at 3-2 was broken by a small round robin to decide the last finals spot.
- Roughly a third of entrants showed up with parts illegal for Burst Classic, including mixed Takara Tomy and Hasbro components
- Mask policy had shifted from requirement to recommendation, with a pointed instruction that no one argue about it either way
- Someone left early without telling staff for a second event running, and won their first match before disappearing
- Concerns raised about bladers taking too long selecting beys for deck-format finals despite a nominal three-minute limit
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DeceasedCrab reached the finals for the first time in a while, running a Roar Fafnir combination through the first stage before falling to TSO in the quarterfinals. The write-up spends more time on conduct than combos: a parent's sideline complaint about a loss, a blader caught with counterfeit parts before play began, and someone leaving mid-event without notifying staff. Several rules questions came up mid-match, including whether a single low-to-high driver mode change should be allowed once per match and how an accidentally-triggered Hybrid switch should be handled.
- A blader was found using entirely counterfeit parts and was given legal replacements before competing
- Parent sideline sportsmanship complaints prompted a warning that repeat offenders could face penalties
- A ruling question arose over disassembling a bey mid-match to flip a Hybrid spin-direction switch after it activated by accident
- A second blader left early without informing organisers, prompting talk of a standing rule at future events
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This Toy Life Beyblade Tournament 02
Run by superrobotking
A second This Toy Life event in Connecticut drew a good turnout of seven players, with the organizer stepping back from competing to run the day. Poor cell service forced the bracket onto pen and paper instead of Challonge, and only one player failed to show, later found to have a nonexistent account. Entering the results into Challonge afterward proved awkward, since the software's tiebreak handling didn't match how the day had actually played out.
- Ran on pen-and-paper brackets instead of Challonge due to poor cell service at the venue
- The lone no-show turned out to have a nonexistent account
- Entering results into Challonge after the fact exposed confusing tiebreaker handling in the software
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This Toy Life Beyblade Tournament
Run by superrobotking
Held outdoors in the parking lot of the This Toy Life store, this event drew players from beyond the immediate area, running a round robin into deck-format finals that dragged past 3:30 due to slow Challonge service. Adult players tended to self-knock-out from over-aggressive attack launches, and a comment thread afterward confirmed a stock Salamander combo did well largely because it faced mostly right-spin opponents in defense mode.
- 1st Ace0113 Flame Sagittario 00Proof Keep', King Helios Atomic 1B (deck format only), Mirage Fafnir Zone 2S (deck format only)
- 2nd Vik T Mirage Diabolos Mobius 2S (deck format only), Knockout Valkyrie Gravity Weight Sen (deck format only)
- 3rd superrobotking Knockout Diabolos Wheel Nothing Go (deck format only), Tempest Diabolos Spiral' 2A (deck format only), [Level Chip] Air Knight Around Keep' (deck format only)
- Slow venue internet service delayed Challonge updates and stretched the event past 3:30
- Adult players were particularly prone to self-knockouts from overly powerful attack launches
- A stock Salamander combo's success was later attributed to facing mostly right-spin opponents in defense mode
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ChoZ Bladers Choose Limited
Run by DeceasedCrab
The region's first tournament after a long COVID-19 pause drew seventeen of twenty-four registrants, with the rest no-showing. Compliance with the WBO's distancing and mask rules was mixed despite taped six-foot floor markers, and attendees who travelled from as far as Alabama during a regional outbreak raised safety concerns for the organizer. An alt-account registration was resolved by having the player compete under their known name, and a borrowed Bloody Longinus was thrown down a hill and damaged during unauthorized free-play between matches.
- First tournament after a long COVID-19 pause, with mixed compliance to distancing and mask rules despite taped floor markers
- Out-of-state attendees, including two from an area with a COVID-19 outbreak, raised safety concerns for the organizer
- A previously known player's alt-account registration was resolved by having them play under their established name
- A borrowed Bloody Longinus was thrown down a hill and damaged during unauthorized free-play, prompting a promised investigation
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A short set of personal observations from a Bakersfield Classic-format event, with no standings or bracket details given, just impressions on part performance. The reporter noted Driger S sapping opponents' stamina in a way that resembled a Destabilizer but through a different mechanism, and flagged a testing goal that did not pan out.
- Driger S was observed draining opponent stamina similarly to a Destabilizer, though by a different method
- A minimum of three judges was found necessary when no dedicated non-playing judge is available
- Trans' driver was noted as strong on stamina layers despite being rarely used
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Beys With Juice @ The Juicy Monthly
Run by joyos
A smaller-than-expected venue space turned out to be a lesson for future bookings, as the number of accompanying parents and guardians outstripped what the room could comfortably hold. Twenty-one bladers competed with only two of four available stadiums in use, and a taped boundary line on the venue's carpet proved effective at keeping spectators clear of active matches. Cscramon won the grand final over the host in a close 5-3 set, capping a run that also included a top-eight finish and a third-place result at other Florida events that same stretch.
- 1st Cscramon Judgement Diabolos Around Destroy' (deck finals); Lord Spriggan Vanguard Bearing (first stage)
- 2nd joyos Judgement Ashura 0Bump Xtreme' Sen; Lord Longinus 10Wall Bearing and LC Perfect Phoenix 00Cross Xtend+ (deck finals)
- 3rd ssjr0118 LC Hell Salamander 0Expand Destroy'; Master Bahamut Around Xtend+ and Zwei Diabolos Blitz Hold' (deck finals); Lord Spriggan Vanguard Bearing (first stage)
- Venue's parent and guardian turnout was larger than the space could comfortably fit
- A taped boundary line on carpet effectively kept spectators out of the play area
- Winner Cscramon completed back-to-back strong finishes across three Florida events in consecutive weeks
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TAMPA NEVER STOPS BLADING @ TNS8
Run by joyos
Held alongside video-game tournaments at the same convention, this six-round Swiss event required players to check in and out around their commitments to other events. A young attendee was caught taking community-owned beys, souring the host on lending equipment out for free play going forward. UnionAchilles broke out for his first title, beating the host in the grand final and earning the nickname 'The Legend of Onion Akele' from the community afterward.
- 1st UnionAchilles Master Spriggan Sting Xtend+ and Cosmo Dragon Convert Revolve Gen (deck finals); Knockout Odin Blitz Atomic Retsu and Lord Spriggan 00Proof Xtend+ (first stage)
- 2nd joyos Lord Hydra 10Wall Bearing and Lord Longinus 10Wall Bearing (deck finals); Lord Spriggan 0Cross Bearing (first stage)
- 3rd Cscramon Judgement Dragon Around Destroy Dash Sen (deck finals); Master Diabolos2 Generate (first stage)
- Ran alongside separate video-game tournaments, requiring flexible scheduling for shared participants
- A young attendee was caught taking loaned community beyblades
- First-time winner UnionAchilles earned a lasting community nickname after his breakout win
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Papabey's Winter Solstice Classic
Run by Papabey
A parent who had only discovered Beyblade that year organised a large forty-seven-player event at a Toronto elementary school, run as double elimination to keep things moving within venue time limits. The host, new to organising, leaned on experienced regulars Kei and Oldschool to run the bracket smoothly while he handled announcements and crowd logistics. Justin TC won the event over Kei in the finals, with Mitsu taking third and OliKAOS reaching his first finals appearance from the losers bracket.
- 1st Justin TC LS.0C.Xt+; IA.St.Ds' (Finals); LC pP.Outer.At (Finals); TL.00W.Br Goku (Finals)
- 2nd Kei JD.0G.X'; LLD.Bl.Ds' (Finals); IA.10E.Ul' (Finals)
- 3rd Mitsu TL.0C.Xt+ Retsu; LP.0W.Br (Finals); TL.00C.At Retsu (Finals)
- Largest event the first-time parent-organiser had run, requiring double elimination for forty-seven entrants
- OliKAOS reached his first finals appearance
- A handful of registration hiccups were resolved during the event
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RIP 4 CHARITY! @ GoTE XL19
Run by joyos
Run inside a larger 25-hour charity gaming marathon, this Swiss event moved briskly through five rounds before a top-eight stream on Twitch closed the day out. The runner-up, AdmiralFunk, stuck with a single Beyblade for every match of the entire tournament and still reached the grand final. The host narrowly won the title in a close final, coming back from a self-inflicted knockout to close it out with his Lord Spriggan combo.
- 1st joyos Lord Spriggan 10Cross Xtend+ and Judgment Dragon 0Bump Xtreme' Zan (group and deck); Lord Spriggan Sting Bearing (deck finals only)
- 2nd AdmiralFunk LC Hell Salamander Vanguard Octa (used the entire event)
- 3rd NearlyFatal Perfect Phoenix 10 Atomic and Cho-Z Valkyrie Zenith Spiral
- Ran as part of a larger 25-hour charity gaming marathon
- Runner-up AdmiralFunk used only one Beyblade combination for the entire event
- Full top-eight bracket was streamed live on Twitch
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Beigoma Blues
Run by Wombat
Thirty-three of thirty-four registered players ran a six-round Swiss feeding an eight-person deck-format final, held in warm weather that made setup easier than at previous events. One judged match between opposing stamina combos dragged through seven or eight ties before a result could be called, renewing the organiser's long-standing call for a rule that forces a reselect after too many consecutive ties. The organiser lost his own first-round match to an underdog opponent before recovering to finish 4-2, narrowly missing the cut on tiebreakers.
- A judged stamina-versus-stamina match went through seven or eight ties before a result could be called
- The organiser again raised the idea of forcing a combo reselect after a long streak of consecutive ties
- One entrant dropped out rather than borrow parts after leaving his own at home
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BEYBLADE NORTH 2019
Run by Kei
Anime North ran Beyblade tournaments in three formats across three days for a second year running, with the full write-up published online. Discussion afterwards turned on which Burst Classic parts still needed testing before an initial ban list, and on whether opening the weekend with the least familiar format put off newer and younger entrants.
- Full write-up published off-site rather than in the forum thread
- Replies debate testing priorities for an upcoming Burst Classic ban list
- A commenter argues that leading the weekend with Burst Classic disadvantaged newer players
- A separate commenter estimates about 64 of an 85-player cap actually attended
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Avenge the Fallen
Run by JoJo
The event was delayed after the park double-booked its usual space, but still ran a group stage that favoured Hell Salamander, Crush Ragnaruk, and Perfect Phoenix combinations. The reporting player's heavily-tested Slash Valkyrie attack combo underperformed all day despite prior success, which he attributes to worn contact points on the launcher base from excessive testing. He and Mitchjett ran the same three-combination deck through to the grand final, which the reporting player won twice by narrow margins built around a favourable Perfect Phoenix matchup.
- 1st Shindog (LC)pP.OOC.Xt+, oE.0B.O, hS.St.At
- 2nd Mitchjett
- The venue was lost to a double-booking and the event had to relocate mid-setup
- A heavily-tested attack combo underperformed all day; the reporting player suspects a worn launcher base from over-testing
- Both finalists ran the identical three-combination deck in the grand final
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Jimmy Zeutron 2: Blast from the Past
Run by Wombat
The region's first Burst Classic event drew thirty-six players and ran unranked because the format was still within its ten-tournament trial window, with some entrants showing up skeptical of the change. Wolborg on Eternal emerged as the standout combo, used by several different players deep into the later rounds, while steady wind kept blowing the unsecured stadiums around since no one had brought tape to anchor them. Feedback on the new format was largely positive by the end, even from players who had arrived doubtful.
- Was the region's first Burst Classic event, run unranked under the format's ten-tournament trial period
- Wolborg on Eternal became the standout combo of the day, used by several different players through the later rounds
- Unsecured stadiums kept blowing around in the wind, forcing judges to hold them steady by hand during matches
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A NEW BEYGINNING
Run by Kei
Kei reported on a 62-player Burst event at Toronto's High Park, the community's first outdoor tournament of the year, where the newly available Perfect Phoenix layer immediately shaped much of the top-eight field despite the real risk of its armour piece popping off mid-match. Attack types were judged the most reliable counter to Perfect Phoenix since same-spin mirror matches against it were seen as close to a coin flip. BladerBeast won the final over three-time runner-up OldSchool™, with Kei taking third and MDK Shady fourth.
- 1st BladerBeast
- 2nd OldSchool™
- 3rd Kei 超V (Cho-Z Valkyrie) attack deck
- Perfect Phoenix's debut was the defining talking point, valued highly for power but seen as risky because its armour piece could detach mid-battle.
- OldSchool™ extended a personal streak to three consecutive second-place finishes.
- Kei's 24-match winning streak, the second-longest of his career, ended in the semi-final against OldSchool™.
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BEYBLADE SHOGATSU 2019
Run by Kei
Kei reported on BEYBLADE SHOGATSU 2019, which drew a record 166 entrants to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, making it the second-largest event in the WBO's first decade and by far the largest the Toronto community had run, more than doubling its previous best of 77. A recent rule change for large fields let a record 32 competitors reach the Deck Format finals, where Kei described a wide mix of top combinations including multiple Cho-Z Achilles, Balkesh B3 and Cho-Z Valkyrie builds. Voice actor David Reale, who plays Tsubasa and Kai, attended and was interviewed, and Kei used the scale of the turnout to reflect on how much more seriously the event now needed to be run.
- A record 166 entrants made this the second-largest event in the WBO's first ten years and more than double the previous Toronto attendance record.
- A rule change for large fields let a record 32 players advance into the Deck Format finals.
- Voice actor David Reale, who voices Tsubasa and Kai, attended and was interviewed at the event.
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Happy Burstsgiving!
Run by kjrules17, with judges LazerBeamz, RED NINJA 0829 and RandomBlader64
Twenty bladers ran a Swiss stage at the organizer's first hosted tournament, who chose to judge rather than compete. More Hasbro combos saw play than Takara Tomy combos overall, several succeeding, including Balkesh B3 builds across multiple drivers; one judge deliberately avoided his strongest Takara Tomy parts to handicap himself and was then beaten by a Hasbro matchup he hadn't prepared for.
- 1st NewRocChampion1 primarily Balkesh B3 on 0Bump Bearing, with Buster Xcalibur and Hazard Kerbeus also in the deck
- Organizer's first hosted tournament, choosing to run and judge rather than compete
- More Hasbro combos were played than Takara Tomy combos overall, with several succeeding including multiple Balkesh B3 builds
- A judge deliberately avoided his strongest Takara Tomy combos to handicap himself, then lost to a Hasbro matchup he hadn't prepared for
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Geist Town
Run by Wombat
A Friday-night event drew twelve players into a block round robin split across two groups, run off a phone after the organiser's laptop failed to connect to a hotspot. The write-up frames the event against roughly a year and a half of steady growth in the region's tournament scene since its first event in early 2017. Several matches turned on choosing the correct driver frame rather than the driver itself, and the organiser lost a close semifinal to a Hasbro-only opponent who had studied the matchup in advance.
- A hotspot failure forced the bracket to be run from a phone instead of a laptop
- The write-up traces roughly a year and a half of steady growth in the region's tournament scene since its first event
- Several matches turned on choosing the correct driver frame rather than the driver itself, favouring players who had tested combos closely beforehand
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With Hell Salamander, Revive Phoenix, and Archer Hercules all newly released, this 18-player event became a showcase for that trio, with Hell Salamander in particular carrying the reporting player through the group stage and winning 14 of 16 rounds across the finals. He argues the format's balance-type dominance made most attack picks and older God-series beys uncompetitive outside a few specific matchups, and that first-stage results can be misleading since part-choice mistakes matter far less against weaker opposition than in finals. He closes without claiming the top layers deserve a ban, citing rock-paper-scissors-style counters between the three.
- Hell Salamander, Revive Phoenix, and Archer Hercules, all released only weeks earlier, dominated the event almost completely
- The reporting player's Hell Salamander combo won 14 of 16 rounds across the finals stage
- No left-spin coverage from most opponents let Hell Salamander run largely uncontested in several finals matches
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Revival of the Phoenix
Run by Kei
Toronto returned to Dufferin Grove Park for the first time in about a year and drew 22 players for the first event to feature the regular release of Revive Phoenix. Archer Hercules and Hell Salamander kept the stranglehold on the metagame they had shown at the previous High Park event, leaving Attack types struggling to find a consistent answer. The organiser's four-tournament Burst winning streak was on the line and extended to five after wins over SUGOI-KONICHEWA, 1234beyblade and Justin TC in the finals.
- 1st Kei Revive Phoenix (Level Chip) 7 Bump Atomic / Archer Hercules (Level Chip) 0 Eternal / Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Bearing / Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Atomic / Revive Phoenix 7 Cross Destroy (Deck Format Finals)
- 2nd Justin TC Archer Hercules 10 Eternal / Revive Phoenix 7 Star Atomic / Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Bearing (Deck Format Finals)
- 3rd OldSchool™ Hell Salamander (Level Chip) 0 Bump Atomic / Archer Hercules (Level Chip) 7 Eternal / Archer Hercules 7 Eternal (Deck Format Finals)
- First tournament with the regular retail release of Revive Phoenix in circulation
- Continued the Archer Hercules / Hell Salamander dominance first seen at High Park Throwdown 10
- Organiser extended a personal Burst winning streak to five straight tournaments, a Toronto community record for the format
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HIGH PARK THROWDOWN 10
Run by Kei
The tenth running of a long-running Toronto series split into an unranked Metal Fight Club Format leg and a separately ranked Burst Format leg on the host's birthday. The Metal Fight side tried full Deck Format for the first time in Toronto, while the Burst side extended the winner's streak to four straight events and his first undefeated run. Replies turn into a metagame debate over whether Hell Salamander and Archer Hercules, which counter each other depending on build, should be banned outright or left for a future stadium redesign to address.
- 1st Mitsu
- 2nd OldSchool™
- 3rd Kei MF Kreis Hades 100EWD / MF-H Flash Escolpio X:D (unranked Metal Fight leg)
- Tenth edition of a tournament series dating back to 2009
- Metal Fight leg drew seven players in its first-ever Deck Format running; the Burst leg drew nineteen
- 1234beyblade's fourth consecutive tournament win and first fully undefeated run
- Host's post-event testing found part-manufacturing variance, not matchup theory, explained an unexpected loss
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another day, another bey
Run by Kei
The first Toronto event after Beyblade North 2018 to feature Hell Salamander, this tournament helped the community work out that the 0 disk, not the usually-favoured 7, was the strongest Stamina choice for it. A range of drivers, Revolve, Bearing and Atomic, were tried on Hell Salamander throughout the day, with Bearing and Revolve dominant early before Atomic combos showed strength later on. BladerBeast took the title, beating the organiser's Bloody Longinus build for third with a Hell Salamander/Winning Valkyrie deck.
- 1st BladerBeast Hell Salamander 0 Bump Bearing / Winning Valkyrie 7 Glaive Atomic (Deck Format Finals)
- 2nd 1234beyblade Emperor Forneus Polish Bearing (Deck Format Finals)
- 3rd Kei Bloody Longinus 4 Under Orbit (Deck Format Finals)
- First Toronto tournament with access to Hell Salamander, released at Beyblade North 2018
- Community discovered mid-event that the 0 disk outperformed the usually-favoured 7 disk on Hell Salamander
- Organiser began taking overhead, disassembled photos of Deck Format combos to better show Core Disk choices
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BEYBLADE NORTH 2018
Run by Kei
Anime North's tenth year of Beyblade events was deliberately scaled back to a single Friday and Saturday tournament, after earlier years grew to as many as five across one weekend. Results were published as recap videos and a spreadsheet rather than written out. Afterwards a volunteer offered to build a Challonge-API bracket display, and one blader asked about competing with Hasbro parts alone.
- Tenth anniversary of the venue's Beyblade tournaments, prompting a deliberate scale-back from five events to two
- Full results delivered via linked video and spreadsheet rather than written up in the thread
- A community member offers to build a live Challonge-API bracket display for the venue's TV
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Beyblade Zone
Run by Kei
Kei reported on a 29-player Swiss Burst event at Toronto's High Park held just after Spriggan Requiem, Maximum Garuda and Garuda G3 were all banned, opening up the format considerably; Emperor Forneus on Bearing and various Destroy-driver attack types were the strongest first-stage picks. Judges caught several fake or badly worn parts mid-event, a problem made worse under Swiss because the earlier rounds affected by them could not easily be redone. The final was replayed after the original winner admitted an undeclared borrowed part, and OldSchool™ won the rematch to take first over Justin TC, with Cam77 third.
- 1st OldSchool™ Emperor Forneus 7 Glaive Atomic; Drain Fafnir 4 Glaive Atomic
- 2nd Justin TC Nightmare Longinus Vortex Xtreme; Emperor Forneus 0 Glaive Bearing; Deep Chaos 7 Orbit
- 3rd Cam77 Drain Fafnir 4 Flow Destroy; Twin Nemesis 5 Revolve
- Judges found multiple fake or excessively worn parts in play during the event, which was especially disruptive under Swiss because the affected earlier-round results could not be cleanly redone.
- The tournament final had to be replayed after the winner admitted to using an undeclared borrowed part, and the result flipped on the rematch.
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Z Comes Before A
Run by Kei and OldSchool™
Delayed by freezing rain, this event drew a record 57 players, the community's largest turnout since a 2011 event at Anime North and its second-largest ever at High Park. Having learned from a similarly huge crowd at a previous tournament, the organisers introduced pylons and barriers to keep spectators back, a megaphone for announcements, two-person registration, and more free-play and match stadiums. The metagame was defined by newly-arrived Garuda G3 and continued Spriggan Requiem dominance, with newcomer Justin TC reaching the finals on stock G3.
- Record attendance of 57 players, the community's largest turnout since 2011 and second-largest ever at this venue
- New crowd-control and registration procedures introduced: pylons/barriers, a megaphone, two-person registration and a messaging-app match-reporting system trialled for the next event
- Garuda G3's Toronto debut, with roughly nine copies purchased and sold on-site before the event began
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Beywar: Mithila
Run by Adarsh Abhinav
Bihar's first-ever Beyblade tournament ran in club format with just four players after two of them arrived without their own Beyblades from their home villages. The organizer lent out spare beys and beystadium parts on the spot, and one player who ended up with a mismatched single bey lost every match, prompting the group to promise him a replacement part afterward.
- Bihar's first-ever Beyblade tournament, run in club format with only four players
- The organizer lent his own spare parts to two players who arrived without Beyblades
- One player lost every match while stuck with a single mismatched bey and was promised a replacement part
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Jimmy Zeutron: Blast Zone Jenius
Run by Wombat
Sixty-eight entrants made this the region's largest Burst event to date, run as a double-elimination bracket across four judged stadiums with the organiser calling matches from a table with a borrowed megaphone. Drain Fafnir combos were surprisingly more common than the expected Spriggan Requiem and Garuda G3, and a Destroy-tipped combo that would not spin freely was ruled fit for play, costing its owner an early match. Leftover donated prizes were raffled off to the non-finalists still on hand once the field thinned out.
- Became the region's largest Burst event to date at sixty-eight entrants
- A Destroy combo that spun poorly was ruled fit for play rather than swapped out, and its owner lost the resulting match
- Leftover donated prizes were raffled off to remaining non-finalists once the field thinned out
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Down The Drain
Run by TrainiacJ
A last-minute scramble after two confirmed players dropped out the night before still produced seven entrants, three of them new to the game, for a round robin into a four-player semifinal bracket. TrainiacJ beat ExtremeBlader3 in the final after each had won their semifinal, with CookieLonginus taking third over KerbeusPrime. A post-tournament prize minigame fell flat when most attendees had already left by the time it started.
- 1st TrainiacJ Drain Fafnir 7Glaive Destroy; Alter Chronos 2Cross Orbit (deck format only)
- 2nd ExtremeBlader3 Lost Longinus 2Glaive Orbit; Nightmare Longinus Destroy (deck format only)
- 3rd CookieLonginus Alter Chronos 7Cross Atomic
- Two confirmed players dropped out the night before, but the field still reached seven, three of them first-timers
- A planned post-event prize challenge lost most of its intended participants before it could run
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BEYBLADE SHOGATSU 2018
Run by Kei
Kei reported on a 31-player Burst event at Toronto's Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, where the newly released Spriggan Requiem paired with the Destroy driver was expected, and proved, to dominate the field because its mode-switching let players adapt to whichever spin direction they needed with no real downside in short first-stage matches. The final came down to a mirror match between two Spriggan Requiem Destroy users, won by Crimsonlemon over Cam77, with Kei taking third partly by switching away from the mirror matchup where he could. Kei used the report to propose banning mode-changes on parts requiring disassembly in first-stage matches going forward.
- 1st Crimsonlemon Spriggan Requiem 0 Bump Destroy; Drain Fafnir 7 Glaive Ωcta; Twin Nemesis 4 Meteor Atomic
- 2nd Cam77 Ark Bahamut 7 Star Atomic; Beat Kukulcan 7 Star Xtreme
- 3rd Kei Spriggan Requiem 0 Bump Bearing; Nightmare Longinus Star Xtreme
- Spriggan Requiem on Destroy was judged strong enough, largely because of its penalty-free mode switching in short first-stage matches, to prompt a proposed rule change banning mode changes on disassembly-based parts in that stage.
- The tournament final was an exact mirror matchup between two Spriggan Requiem Destroy combinations.
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Last Battle Of Saints
Run by mleunc
Held in two of the organizer's own vacant apartments after severe Delhi-area smog made an outdoor venue unsafe, this was the first tournament run by its host and the first in the Delhi/NCR region. It was also the group's first exposure to Beyblade Burst, so players shared borrowed and spare beys throughout, and the organizer's Driger S combo won the final 5-0 against an opponent's Roktavor.
- 1st mleunc Driger S with a Fusion driver
- 2nd Beyexpert_hamza
- Held in two of the organizer's own vacant apartments after severe smog made outdoor play unsafe
- The group's first-ever Beyblade Burst matches, with players sharing scarce borrowed beys since most only owned older-generation parts
- A competitor using a proto launcher pulled off unexpected upsets against better-known combos
- The event doubled as a beyblade carrying-case design contest, judged by group vote
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WELCOME TO A&C GAMES VI
Run by Kei
Held exactly one year after the community's first event at this venue, this tournament played out much as the organiser expected: dominated by Destroy, following its breakout the event before, and swarmed by newly-purchased Nightmare Longinus copies after both the organiser and a rival vendor sold out their stock. The organiser countered with a freshly-discovered Lost Longinus on Destroy build that carried through to the finals, but ultimately lost the title match to OldSchool™ after switching away from it under pressure.
- 1st OldSchool™
- 2nd Kei
- 3rd 1234beyblade Deep Chaos 7 Revolve / Sieg Xcalibur 5 Meteor Orbit (Deck Format Finals)
- One-year anniversary of the community's first event at this venue
- Widespread new ownership of Nightmare Longinus after both the organiser and another player sold out their stock that week
- Organiser discovered and debuted Lost Longinus on Destroy as a counter to left-spin Drain Fafnir Destroy builds
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WELCOME TO A&C GAMES V
Run by Kei
Coming a month after the previous Toronto event and just after the organiser's three-week trip playing in Japan, this Swiss-format tournament brought back several retired players alongside regulars and newcomers. It was the first Toronto event since Maximum Garuda and Outer were banned, and the first with newly legal parts like Nightmare Longinus, Deep Chaos, Bump, Destroy and Bearing, several of which the organiser compares directly to how they performed in Japan under different local rulings. Jamie topped the Swiss rounds undefeated and advanced to the final against the organiser, with OldSchool™ finishing second behind further wins over Alter Chronos and Drain Fafnir based decks.
- 2nd OldSchool™
- First Toronto event after Maximum Garuda and Outer were banned from WBO play
- First appearances of Nightmare Longinus, Deep Chaos, Bump, Destroy and Bearing under the new ruling set
- Organiser compares Toronto's results directly against tournaments played in Japan weeks earlier, citing rule differences like Deck Format scoring and out-of-stadium bounce-backs
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Kei vs. The World: NYC
Run by Sniper, with Yami co-hosting
Travelling in from Toronto, the reporter used a 24-player Swiss event at Kings Games in Brooklyn to scout an unfamiliar regional metagame more thoroughly than usual, winning all seven Swiss rounds before taking the deck-format final. Newly tested Outer and Octa parts proved decisive, reinforced by reports the same combination had been dominating tournaments in Japan, and the write-up used the result to reopen debate about banning Maximum Garuda as a centralizing Random Booster prize part.
- 1st Kei Maximum Garuda 7 Glaive Atomic, Guardian Kerbeus Ωuter Revolve, Drain Fafnir 2 Cross Ωcta, and Drain Fafnir Ωuter Ωcta (deck-format finals)
- 2nd Yami
- 3rd Foxer
- Went undefeated through seven Swiss rounds and the deck-format final
- Newly tested Outer and Octa parts proved decisive, echoing reports of the same combination dominating tournaments in Japan
- Reopened debate about banning Maximum Garuda, a Random Booster prize part seen as centralizing the metagame
- A closely-fought Round 5 match against a long-time rival came back from 0-2 down to win 3-2
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BEYBALDE TOURNAMENT
Run by Kei
Kei's report, one of a backlog of four from 2017, covered a Toronto Burst event at Dufferin Grove Park named after a real misspelling of the game's name on one of its own social media accounts. Maximum Garuda was less overwhelming than it had been at the previous event, and testing during the day suggested Galaxy Zeus could reliably outspin the popular Guardian Kerbeus, a matchup insight the community carried into future events. Kei won the tournament ahead of 1234beyblade in second and Newtype in third.
- 1st Kei Maximum Garuda (Metal God Chip) 4 Glaive Atomic; Drain Fafnir (Metal God Chip) 4 Glaive Atomic; Legend Spriggan 7 Meteor Impact
- 2nd 1234beyblade Guardian Kerbeus Heavy Revolve; Drain Fafnir 4 Meteor Atomic
- 3rd Newtype Legend Spriggan 7 Meteor Xtreme; Guardian Kerbeus Heavy Revolve; Drain Fafnir 2 Cross Orbit
- The community discovered during this event that Galaxy Zeus could consistently outspin Guardian Kerbeus, a matchup that later shaped strategy at bigger events.
- The event's name referenced a real misspelling of the game's name on one of its own social media accounts.
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Wait, what? This isn't High Park...
Run by JesseObre
Hosted by JesseObre at a different park than usual, this twelve-player block round robin event marked Maximum Garuda's debut in Toronto. The organiser, its only owner in the community, describes being cautiously effective with it through the day and lays out a rough rock-paper-scissors chart of how it stacked up against Guardian Kerbeus, Legend Spriggan, Alter Chronos and Drain Fafnir at that point in the metagame. A new player, Tahoor, placed fourth in his very first tournament.
- 1st Kei Maximum Garuda 4 Glaive Orbit (Deck Format Finals)
- 2nd Newtype Guardian Kerbeus Heavy Revolve (Deck Format Finals)
- 3rd 1234beyblade
- Maximum Garuda's first appearance in Toronto competitive play
- Organiser lays out an early informal power chart between Maximum Garuda, Guardian Kerbeus, Legend Spriggan, Alter Chronos and Drain Fafnir
- First tournament for new player Tahoor, who placed fourth
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This 11-player event marked the debut of Maximum Garuda in the London community, and the newly-released layer immediately looked dominant in the reporting player's hands, carrying him to an 8-2 group stage. In finals he lost his opening match to Mana's L2 combo after declining a rematch out of caution, a decision he later judged a mistake once Mana's L2 failed to burst Maximum Garuda again in five further attempts. He recovered to take third place, beating Mr LT's own Maximum Garuda in a mirror match that came down to whichever bey stayed upright longest.
- 3rd Basedsamuraij Maximum Garuda
- Maximum Garuda made its first appearance in the London scene and dominated group-stage play
- Extended discussion of what could reliably burst Maximum Garuda, with L2 and Legend Spriggan singled out as the most consistent counters
- The reporting player attributes his only finals loss partly to declining a rematch he later judged he could have won
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Revolution of Generation
Run by FIREFIRE CPB, with AaryanBITW co-hosting
A UK-based guest blader joined this small Mumbai club event, prompting special combo-building rules limiting each member to one heavy (ZRG-class) combo per deck. A single stock Reviser Dragoon BD ran undefeated through the club format, out-spinning and knocking out several stronger decks. The group then played its first-ever Beyblade Burst matches using beys donated by the visiting guest, and separately noted a Scythe BD plus Duo 230WD combination that out-spun higher-tier decks.
- 1st Snidmist Reviser Dragoon BD (stock, single Beyblade)
- A visiting UK blader guest-starred, prompting a one-heavy-combo-per-deck house rule and shared combo-building
- A single stock Reviser Dragoon BD went undefeated across the club-format matches, an unusually strong stock-part result
- The group played its first-ever Beyblade Burst matches at this event, using beys donated by the visiting guest
- Discovered a Scythe BD plus Duo 230WD combination that out-spun higher-tier decks including Girago Dragoon and Balro
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Rowdy in the Dish 2 & PLASTIC'S NOT DEAD! 4
Run by Lani and Mitsu
Lani and Mitsu hosted a double header on the same day: Rowdy in the Dish 2 in Burst Format and PLASTIC'S NOT DEAD! 4 in Plastics Format, the community's annual HMS and Plastics remembrance event. In the roughly fifteen-player Burst event the organiser went undefeated through block play on Alter Chronos before losing a lopsided final to JesseObre's anti-meta deck; it was also the first Toronto event to feature Guardian Kerbeus and Legend Spriggan. The separate ten-player Plastics event was won by 1234beyblade over pyrus10000 and JesseObre, and included some equipment breakage from the format's characteristic recoil.
- 1st JesseObre
- 2nd Kei
- 3rd 1234beyblade
- Combined report covering two same-day tournaments in different formats at the same venue
- First Toronto appearances of Guardian Kerbeus and Legend Spriggan, both in the Burst event
- The Plastics event broke two of the organiser's attack ring parts and a Blade Base clip due to the format's recoil
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HIGH PARK THROWDOWN 9
Run by Kei
This ninth annual running of the series' Metal Fight leg used full Deck Format for the first time, producing finals dominated by Synchrome-driven Low-Track EWD builds and a newly popular E230MB counter-pick. The recap closes with a complete list of every prior year's top finishers back to 2009. Replies debate whether Girago or Genbull belongs on the bottom of an E230MB stack and note the surprising survival of Wyvang on BD145RSF against Dragoon builds.
- 1st 1234beyblade MF-F Revizer Killerken SA165 (Attack Mode) EWD / Killerken Dragoon SA165 (Attack Mode) EWD, plus MSF-L Genbull Genbull 90EWD in Deck Format Finals
- 2nd OldSchool™ MSF-L Wyvang Dragooon BD145RDF and MSF-F Genbull Girago E230MB in Deck Format Finals
- 3rd Kei MF-L Gravity Perseus BD145RDF, MF-H Duo Cygnus W105EWD and MSF-F Genbull Girago E230MB in Deck Format Finals
- Ninth annual running, with every previous year's full podium listed for reference
- First time Deck Format was used for the series' Metal Fight leg
- E230MB emerged as a fresh counter to the dominant Low-Track EWD
- Replies debate the ideal Genbull/Girago stacking order for E230MB
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Rowdy in the Dish
Run by Kei
Named after an off-hand comment from Bey Brad, this block round robin event followed a run of tournaments that had felt saturated with Drain Fafnir. The organiser used the win to argue against overreacting to any one dominant part, noting that Atomic-based combos no longer felt automatically dominant and that opposite-spin Hold builds were starting to answer them. Sixteen players took part, with the organiser beating out JesseObre and 1234beyblade for the title.
- 1st Kei Alter Chronos 2 Cross Atomic (Deck Format Finals)
- 2nd JesseObre
- 3rd 1234beyblade
- Organiser argues against knee-jerk bans of newly dominant parts, pointing to emerging counters to Drain Fafnir and Atomic
- Event name traces to a remark made by Bey Brad in conversation with the organiser
- Result feeds directly into the following weekend's Rowdy in the Dish 2 event
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U Wot m8?! LMAO's Burstday Beynanza
Run by Kei
Named for a community member who couldn't attend his own namesake event, this Swiss-format tournament was overwhelmingly shaped by Drain Fafnir 4 Glaive Atomic, which the organiser lost the final to at 5-4 after trying a creative alternative build instead. The report flags two organisational problems for other hosts: a seeding error in Challonge left some late-added players under-seeded, badly skewing Buchholz scores through the Swiss rounds, and a judging dispute over whether Drain Fafnir was still legally spinning or had started rolling during one contested round.
- Drain Fafnir 4 Glaive Atomic was the dominant combo of the day, including in the finals
- Late Challonge seeding corrections were missed, unfairly skewing Buchholz scores for several rounds before anyone noticed
- A rules dispute over the difference between a Beyblade 'spinning' versus 'rolling' arose during a contested round and is discussed against the WBO rulebook's wording
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MORE GRIP! MORE RIP!
Run by Kei
Toronto's second ranked Hasbro-only Burst event, run as a follow-up to an earlier unranked Hasbro trial, exposed how narrow the Hasbro-only metagame actually was. Survive-based Stamina builds on Yegdrion and Kerbeus outperformed every Attack combo the organiser had tested going in, leaving the winning combinations list dominated by the two Layers. 1234beyblade took first with OldSchool™ and cadney rounding out the podium.
- 1st 1234beyblade
- 2nd OldSchool™
- 3rd cadney
- Second Hasbro-only Burst event; results showed far less diversity than the first
- Yegdrion and Kerbeus (Survive-based Stamina) proved close to unbeatable for Attack types in testing and in play
- Organiser concluded the format needs another, unranked, chance before drawing firm conclusions
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BEYBLADE NORTH 2017
Run by Kei
Kei's write-up of the three-day BEYBLADE NORTH 2017 weekend at Anime North covered Team Burst, standard Burst and Metal Fight Limited brackets, but consisted mainly of Challonge bracket links and a large photo gallery rather than a detailed match account, with a fuller written report and video promised for later. Kei described the weekend as drawing an unusually international and experienced mix of players alongside newcomers, thanked a long list of helpers, and credited Hasbro with sponsoring prizing for the event.
- The weekend combined three separate brackets, Team Burst, standard Burst and Metal Fight Limited, across three days.
- Hasbro sponsored prizing for the event.
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RATHER LOST LONGINUS
Run by Kei
Delayed a week by weather, this nine-player round robin turned out to be the last Toronto event before the WBO banned Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther from organized play, and players openly joked about getting one last use out of them. Drain Fafnir made its first real showing here, with Polish Hold and Polish Yielding builds tested the night before and used to beat several mid-tier decks. Kei and JesseObre both went 7-1 through the round robin, joined by jameschaos and 1234beyblade at 5-3 to fill out the Deck Format finals.
- Last Toronto tournament before the WBO ban on Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther took effect
- Drain Fafnir's competitive debut in Toronto, with Polish Hold and Polish Yielding both tested for the first time
- Nobody yet had the Atomic driver that would go on to matter heavily at the following month's Beyblade North event
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Ray of Hope
Run by FIREFIRE CPB
Repeatedly postponed and nearly cancelled again on the day when most confirmed participants dropped out, this small Mumbai club event ended up with only four attendees. The group used Challonge for the first time to manage pairings instead of tracking them by hand, and a stock Burn Phoenix ultimately took the win over the organizer's Bakushin-based deck after a back-and-forth final that came down to a special finishing move.
- 1st Burn_Phoenix Burn Phoenix (stock)
- 2nd FIREFIRE CPB Bakushin Leone 85CS
- 3rd Eurekaboy Flame 230CS and Bakushin Leone 85CS
- Nearly cancelled again on the day when most confirmed participants dropped out, leaving only four attendees
- First time the group used Challonge to manage bracket pairings instead of tracking them by hand
- Screw-based combos (Screw Striker, Screw Capricorn) dominated the small field, narrowly out-spinning most opponents including the eventual runner-up's Bakushin
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Hasbro Bursts RARELY Onto the Scene
Run by Kei
Kei reported on the WBO's first Hasbro-parts-only Burst event, created because earlier cross-brand testing had shown Hasbro's toothless Burst layers generally losing to Takara Tomy equivalents; the format let Hasbro-only players compete on equal footing. Only eight players turned out despite good weather, and Kei went undefeated through the round-robin first stage using a single Yegdrion Knuckle Zephyr combination that nobody else present knew how to beat. Kei lost to Mitsu in the Deck Format semi-final but won the third-place match against 1234beyblade.
- 3rd Kei Yegdrion Knuckle Zephyr
- This was the WBO's first tournament restricted to Hasbro-only Beyblade Burst parts, created specifically to give Hasbro-only players a level playing field.
- A single combination, Yegdrion Knuckle Zephyr, went undefeated through the entire round-robin first stage before finally losing in the Deck Format finals.
- A counter to the dominant Yegdrion combination, using Kerbeus, was discovered only after the event had already finished.
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LIVE ACTION REBOOT
Run by Kei
Held just after Takara-Tomy retired Dark Deathscyther from Japanese tournament play, this event let Toronto players run the Layer one more time before its own ban discussion caught up. Fifteen players split into two block round robin groups; one block turned into a Lost Longinus showcase while the other was dominated by Deathscyther and Dark Deathscyther pairings. 1234beyblade and JesseObre finished their block nearly unbeaten, and the organiser went undefeated in the other block behind Dark Deathscyther Gravity Revolve.
- Ran days after Takara-Tomy moved Dark Deathscyther to its Japanese 'Hall of Fame', ending its legality there
- One block was largely a Lost Longinus proving ground while Deathscyther/Dark Deathscyther set the pace in the other
- Organiser recommends posting event ads on classified sites like Kijiji to reach players outside the existing community
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JORMUNGAND JAILBREAK
Run by Kei
Toronto's first outdoor Burst event of the year arrived days after the God Layer System launch, so the block round robin (14 players) doubled as a live test of God Valkyrie and the new Deathscyther frames. The organiser nearly ran the block unbeaten but fell into a three-way tie that needed a mini round robin tiebreak to sort the finalists. JesseObre took the title while Naru Blader reached the top three for the first time, using a Lost Longinus deck to eliminate the organiser along the way.
- 1st JesseObre
- First outdoor Toronto event of the season and the debut weekend for the God Layer System parts
- A three-way 5-1 tie forced a mini round robin tiebreak before the four finalists were set
- Naru Blader placed in the top three for the first time
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WELCOME TO A&C GAMES IV
Run by Kei
Written by a guest reporter standing in for the usual organiser, this fourth A&C Games event drew 20 participants despite several top-ranked regulars being unable to attend, and welcomed newcomer doginmylense along with a visiting player from Maryland. Five Swiss rounds set an eight-player Deck Format bracket topped by an undefeated Tempest546, who went on to claim third place in his best-ever finish. The final between Mitsu and the organiser was still being decided as the account cuts off.
- 3rd Tempest546
- Report written by a guest contributor rather than the usual organiser
- Tempest546 finished the Swiss rounds undefeated at 5-0 and earned his first-ever third-place finish
- A visiting player travelled from Silver Spring, Maryland to attend
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WELCOME TO A&C GAMES III
Run by Kei
Short on time to write a full narrative, the organiser instead built this report mainly from contributed photos and video from three other community members. JesseObre took the title over 1234beyblade and cadney. The closing discussion covers Neptune's quiet resurgence as a safer Stamina/Defense pick than Dark Deathscyther, and notes growing use of Hasbro's Beyblade Burst line as new players joined the community.
- 1st JesseObre Valkyrie Knuckle Trans (Deck Format Finals)
- 2nd 1234beyblade Victory Valkyrie Triple Zephyr (Deck Format Finals)
- 3rd cadney Victory Valkyrie Knuckle Accel / Dark Deathscyther Gravity Defense (Deck Format Finals)
- Report format shifted to mostly photos and video, contributed by multiple community members, rather than a full written recap
- Neptune's comeback as a Stamina/Defense option is discussed after being overshadowed by Dark Deathscyther the previous year
- Growing presence of Hasbro Beyblade Burst combos attributed to an influx of new players
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WELCOME TO A&C GAMES II
Run by Kei
The second Toronto event held at the A&C Games venue drew 21 participants, including a returning long-time member and a visitor who had travelled from New York. Five Swiss rounds across several simultaneous stadiums set an eight-player Deck Format single-elimination bracket, and a tie for the final spot needed an unranked round robin tiebreak to resolve. The organiser's newly-arrived Lost Longinus, tested that week as Lost Longinus Heavy Weight, made its Toronto debut in the first round of finals against a teammate.
- Lost Longinus made its first competitive appearance in Toronto, as Lost Longinus Heavy Weight
- A tie for the eighth and final bracket spot was broken with an unranked round robin tiebreak
- Swiss seeding meant the tournament's top two ranked players met each other in the very first bracket round
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The Name Changer!
Run by RagerBlade and Neo
A newcomer to Tennessee spent two weeks recruiting the area's first event and reached the minimum needed with a late arrival who had to be worked into the bracket mid-play using Challonge screenshots. A round-robin group stage produced several upsets before a tie at third forced an expanded four-player final bracket. The host called it a success and hopes it seeds an ongoing Tennessee scene despite losing access to the venue planned for the following month.
- 1st Neo
- 2nd RagerBlade
- 3rd ZachBob
- First WBO event run in Tennessee.
- Late arrival worked into the bracket mid-event via manual screenshot re-entry on Challonge.
- A tie for third forced an expanded four-player finals bracket instead of a separate tie-break.
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Before the Burst Tournament Report
Run by TimeOut
Twenty bladers gathered for a full day mixing four formats: a double-elimination Team Plastics event, a Zero-G swiss and finals, a block round-robin HMS session, and a low-key single-elimination Limited event to close the day. Team ACE went undefeated in Team Plastics while a team of three top-ten ranked players was eliminated early, Arupaeo dropped only two matches across all of Zero-G, and the HMS finals came down to a three-way tie broken by a deciding rematch.
- Team Plastics saw a team of three top-ten ranked players eliminated early despite their rankings
- Zero-G was won with only two losses across the entire swiss and finals
- HMS finals required a tiebreaker rematch after two players tied for first
- Team rankings from the earlier pilot team-format event still had not been processed by this point
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MFB BeyBattle Revolution (Anime North 2015)
Run by Kei and Kai-V
Anime North 2015's Friday MFB BeyBattle Revolution ran an 18-blader block round robin across three blocks of six, organised by Kei and Kai-V with volunteer help, and finished with a Toronto sweep of the top three placings behind 1234beyblade's five-combo deck. The reporting organiser went 2-3 after an experimental Rev-Up Launcher made his stamina-focused Libra combo too easy to knock out, while runner-up LMAO's recently-unbanned Libra 230RS proved a strong defensive standout through the block stage. The write-up also covered the following day's Team BeyBattle Revolution and a community-built BeyStadium Tower side event.
- 1st 1234beyblade MSF-H Dark Knight Wyvang T125RSF / MF Libra 85EWD / MF Libra CH120RSF / MF Libra TH170D / MF Meteo L-Drago B:D
- 2nd LMAO Libra 230RS / MF-M Scythe Cancer CH120EWD
- 3rd JesseObre MF-H Lightning L Drago CH120R2F / MF-H Lightning L Drago CH120RB / MF Libra TH170D
- An experimental Rev-Up Launcher caused unfavourable matchups by making a stamina Libra combo move (and get knocked out) too easily
- Libra 230RS's dominant defensive showing followed the wheel's recent unbanning
- Toronto bladers swept the top three placings in the Friday event
- A community-built BeyStadium Tower side event ran for attendees not in the tournament
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TBR Qualifier
Run by Leone19
Seven bladers took part in a Limited-format event, with several first-timers trying the format and enjoying it. BradB and Fireblaze tied for second before Fireblaze won a tie-breaker and advanced to a close, intense final against the host. The host called it another strong outing for the Connecticut scene.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd Fireblaze
- 3rd BradB
- Several players tried Limited for the first time and reacted well to it.
- A tie-breaker was needed to settle second seed into the final.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Salamamders
Run by Leone19
Short on players at first, the group opened with an informal Limited Zero-G round before enough bladers arrived to run a sanctioned Zero-G event. A friend who texted in at the last minute made it just in time and took third place in his first sanctioned outing. The host called it a surprisingly good way to close out the year.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd Fireblaze
- 3rd Brad
- Ran an informal Limited Zero-G round first due to low early turnout, then a sanctioned Zero-G event once numbers grew.
- A last-minute arrival placed third in his first sanctioned event.
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The Leaves have Fallen and Frost Approaches
Run by Shido
Hosted by Shido with special permission to run below the usual six-blader minimum, this Metal Fight Limited event went ahead with just seven attendees after no additional players could be reached. Matches moved quickly, with Priscient finishing his six matches in short order, and the event wrapped in under half an hour. Kei beat JesseObre for first place, after which Jesse lost a follow-up match to Bladerkid2414, handing Bladerkid2414 his first-ever podium finish.
- 1st Kei
- 2nd Bladerkid2414
- 3rd JesseObre
- Ran with only seven attendees under a special exception to the usual six-player minimum
- Bladerkid2414 earned his first tournament podium finish
- Linked separate threads for winning combinations, event photographs and a discussion on the minimum-attendee rule
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MockingBey: Part 1
Run by Leone19
With eight bladers on hand, the group voted to run Zero-G over the other formats offered and finished inside about ninety minutes. An informal Limited Zero-G round followed for those who stayed, though it ran out of time before every match was played. One latecomer arrived just as the sanctioned event wrapped up but still caught the informal round afterward.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd Infernik
- 3rd Bullchamp
- Format chosen by player vote among three options.
- Unfinished informal Limited Zero-G round played afterward for those who stayed.
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BEY OR DIE (Team Format pilot)
Run by Kei
Twelve bladers split into four three-person teams for the first trial of a team-battle format, running a full round robin scored by individual round wins within each team match. Team DAY BREAKERS went undefeated to take first, ahead of Team Blitzkreig Boyz and Team ApexBeyDragons, with Team Destroyer finishing winless. The organizer flagged judge availability as a real problem when many of the available judges were also competing, and floated switching future scoring from team-match wins to cumulative round totals.
- 1st Team DAY BREAKERS
- 2nd Team Blitzkreig Boyz
- 3rd Team ApexBeyDragons
- First trial of the team battle format, testing round-robin scoring by individual round wins rather than match wins
- Judge shortages arose because most available judges were also playing in the same team matches
- A suggestion to score by cumulative round wins instead of team-match wins was raised for future events but not adopted here
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Guaridans of the Galaxy (Pegasus)
Run by Leone19
A relaxed Berlin gathering saw one attendee buy a custom part on the spot to use going forward, while the rest tried the host's spare Beyblades before settling on their picks. Regular play wrapped in a little over an hour before a drawn-out final decided the placings. Everyone left keen to return for another event.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd Xtracorruption
- 3rd BladerBlock
- One attendee purchased a custom Synchrom part at the event itself to use in future play.
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Thirst for Beys and Plastics Resurrection
Run by LMAO and daniel
Two separate brackets filled one Toronto meetup: a thirteen-player Zero-G event that ran roughly an hour past schedule after a stadium shortage, followed by a smaller Plastics bracket with two brand-new members trying the format for the first time. Both brackets advanced two players per block, and parts were lent freely to players who lacked the right generation of gear. Posting to the organisers' area for the first time, the host promised more write-ups to come.
- 1st Kei
- 2nd LMAO
- 3rd JesseObre
- Zero-G bracket ran an hour long after two attendees' stadium pieces went missing, leaving only one stadium available.
- Two brand-new members debuted in the Plastics bracket and beat more experienced players.
- Plastics Resurrection bracket finished Kei 1st, DSiks 2nd, JesseObre 3rd, and LMAO 4th.
- Host's first post in the organisers' area after a long wait for access.
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Transform and Roller(Defenser) Out
Run by Leone19
Last-minute cancellations shrank the field to six before the two hosts filled it back to eight. The group ran Zero-G first in a relaxed atmosphere that produced varied combinations, then moved to Plastics, a format only the host owned parts for and lent out for the day. Everyone came away calling the Plastics matches, with their bigger hits and knockouts, the highlight of the day.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd TheSupremeOne
- 3rd ElementChris
- Host lent out the only set of Plastics parts and launchers present so the whole group could try the format.
- Plastics matches, with more knockouts than the Zero-G round, were called the day's highlight.
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Turnout nearly killed this event outright, with only a handful of attendees present at the start after several regulars cancelled and the group falling one short of the stated eight-player minimum. Enough people arrived shortly after to run the event anyway, giving the group its first chance to try the Hasbro Max Stampede and Destroyer Dome stadiums alongside the usual Super Control. Winning combinations were logged for three players in the Super Control stadium, with the organiser blaming the light turnout on a generally slow week for the community.
- The event nearly did not run at all, falling one player short of a stated eight-player minimum before a few late arrivals saved it
- First use of the Hasbro Max Stampede and Destroyer Dome stadiums for this group
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Naijalak's Early 33rd "BeyDay" Celebration
Run by Naijalak
A shaky start with only six confirmed players was rescued when two parents registered on the spot to reach the eight needed to keep the event sanctioned. The relaxed round robin, full of shared tips and swapped parts, wrapped in about ninety minutes, and a first-time player who joined at the last minute still finished well. The gathering also picked up three new sign-ups and two players who said they intend to return.
- 1st charliebey
- 2nd daddybey
- 3rd akalajian
- Two parents registered and played to reach the minimum needed to keep the event sanctioned.
- A first-time, last-minute entrant finished well ahead of expectations.
- Three new registrations and two stated intentions to return from the session.
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BeyDays
Run by Thunder Dome
A children's birthday party had already claimed the usual park shelter, forcing a last-minute move to a nearby one that still worked out. Several lower-ranked players unexpectedly beat more experienced opponents during the round robin, and the finals came down to a close three-way playoff decided by narrow, sometimes tied matches. Prizes were mostly bags of candy, with the winner also receiving an extra beyblade.
- 1st TheBlackDragon Scythe BD, beating Jade Capricorne AD145WD in the final
- 2nd Wombat Jade Capricorne AD145WD in the final; Earth BD in the semifinal
- 3rd Tite Burn Aquario BD
- A children's birthday party had claimed the usual shelter, forcing a last-minute venue change that still worked out
- Several lower-ranked players unexpectedly beat more experienced opponents during the round robin
- Prizes were mainly bags of candy, with the winner also receiving an extra beyblade
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The host went undefeated through the main round robin before a three-way tie at the top forced a full restart of the finals among the same three players. In the redo, one finalist beat both remaining rivals to claim the title after starting the day as an underdog against the host's near-perfect record. The write-up closes calling it a strong event worth repeating, with photos and match footage added later.
- 1st ExtremeBlader3 MSF Wyvang Dragooon B:D
- 2nd 6 God
- 3rd Demontre
- Three-way tie at the top of the finals forced a full restart of the finals round.
- Photo album and match screenshots added to the write-up months after the initial post.
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GBT2: Connecticut Qualifier
Run by Naijalak
Twenty-one bladers split into four blocks for a strong turnout that also brought four new passport sales and, unusually, food shared among the group. Two of the four blocks needed tie-breakers, and the fourth semifinalist was eliminated purely on having the fewest wins among the top four. The final qualifying match came down to a single battle, won narrowly by the host over the closest rival, while a sponsor's donated prize product was split between placement prizes and random giveaways.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd i break yo bey
- Fourth semifinalist eliminated from the final by tiebreak on win count rather than a played match.
- A sponsor donated prize product used both as placement prizes and random giveaways.
- One competitor won multiple matches with an otherwise unmodified stock Beyblade.
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RagerBlade wrote up a last-minute GBT2 qualifier in Sterling, Virginia that nearly fell through after three cancellations but still filled out to eight players. A scoring mix-up during the preliminaries forced organisers to reconstruct the bracket from screenshots, and an error over how many players should have advanced let four bladers into the finals instead of three. RagerBlade fought through two rounds of ties to reach the final but lost decisively to Time.
- 1st Time
- 2nd RagerBlade
- A results-entry error meant the bracket had to be manually reset and rebuilt from screenshots of earlier matches.
- Four players advanced to the finals when only three should have, and a forum commenter argued afterward that the extra finalist should have withdrawn once the mistake was noticed.
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Episode I: The Phantom (Orion) Menace
Run by Leone19
A Limited event ran first, decided by a tight final between the top two seeds, followed by a twelve-player Zero-G event that had to relocate outdoors under a library overhang when the venue's room time ran out and rain began. A visiting parent and her son who arrived partway through were nearly worked into play but had to leave before the Zero-G round started. Both events finished inside about three hours combined, with the host promising a follow-up post on the unusual combinations that did well.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd ElementChris
- 3rd TheSupremeOne
- Zero-G event was forced to relocate outdoors under a library overhang mid-tournament due to a room-time limit and rain.
- A visiting parent and her son were nearly added to the Zero-G bracket but left before it began.
- Several unconventional combinations placed well, with details promised in a separate winning-combinations post.
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Blade Breaking into the Zoo!
Run by Coach
A months-long search for an indoor Michigan venue finally landed a comic and sportscard store willing to host, and a weather-forced no-show from two regulars still left nine bladers for each of two back-to-back formats. New attendees drove four hours to attend and had to be walked through the ban list and the difference between formats, having brought illegal parts and gear more suited to Limited than Standard. Both formats crowned different champions after close finals, and the host praised the venue enough to expect a return visit.
- 1st Trickstar20
- 2nd Wyatt V2
- 3rd Snoop Dog MS
- Venue search took months before a comic and sportscard store agreed to host.
- New attendees drove four hours and had to be taught the ban list and legal-parts rules on site.
- Slick tabletop surfaces caused stadiums to slide during attack-heavy matches.
- Standard bracket finished FangDestroy 1st, Wyatt V2 2nd, and Snoop Dog MS 3rd.
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Year of the Bey
Run by Naijalak
Eighteen players ran through a three-judge, three-block Zero-G bracket in about an hour, settled by an intense final that came down to a single battle, before fourteen of them stayed for the group's first Limited event. Limited play ran noticeably closer than the Zero-G side, mostly ending 3-2, and eight new passports were sold on the day. One combination swept most of the Limited bracket, prompting parents afterward to ask where they could get the parts for it.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd akalajian
- 3rd Nohzone
- First Limited-format event run by this community.
- One combination dominated the Limited bracket, prompting a wave of parent interest afterward.
- Eight new passports sold on the day.
- Noticeably less reliance on the usual go-to defensive part than in past events.
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Yatesville Bey Tournament!
Run by Tri
A private, family-hosted round robin at the host's grandmother's house ran from early morning through seven rounds before a lunch break, with a tie needing to be broken ahead of the finals. The tournament wrapped in time for everyone to prepare for a New Year's Eve gathering that evening, and two attendees kept battling on their own after the placings were decided. Replies afterward discuss this as one of a handful of private, family-run events the organisation allows each year, conditioned on documentation such as photos and video.
- 1st Tri
- 2nd Liz
- 3rd TMNT Bob
- Held as a private, family-run event at the host's grandmother's house, a category the organisation limits to a few per year with a documentation condition.
- A tie ahead of the finals was resolved before the event closed for a same-evening New Year's Eve gathering.
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Before the Big Bang
Run by Leone19 and TheSupremeOne
With internet access on hand for the first time, bracket-building went quickly for a compact nine-player round robin that wrapped in under two and a half hours, including a three-way tie-breaker for third. Nearly everyone chose to play Pre-4D parts with the occasional Zero-G match mixed in, and no one left early despite the holiday timing. The hosts called it a smooth improvement over their previous event.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd Haspro
- 3rd BladerBlock
- First event with reliable internet access on site, which sped up bracket generation.
- Three-way tie-breaker required to settle third place.
- Held on a holiday weekday with reduced venue hours, which replies say explains an unusually early start time.
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LTD & STD Niles Illinois
Run by Ultramarine and Coach
A time-zone mix-up sent the host to set up an hour early in cold, slushy conditions with no power outlet, prompting the co-host to fall back on a manual spreadsheet when his phone hotspot dropped. Cold weather appeared to favour stamina and defense combinations in the Limited bracket, while two new attendees left partway through the Standard bracket to go shopping, forfeiting the rest of their matches. A four-way tie for third forced an extra round robin ahead of the Standard finals, which came down to a stall-heavy last battle decided by a lucky ridge bounce.
- 1st Scout25 MF-H Basalt Kerbecs S130MB
- 2nd Shining God MS
- 3rd Coach
- Time-zone mix-up put the host on site an hour early in cold, snowy conditions with no power.
- Wireless hotspot failure forced a manual spreadsheet for match tracking.
- Two new attendees forfeited the rest of the Standard bracket to go shopping.
- Four-way tie for third required an extra round robin to settle the Standard finalists.
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OK, alright, mirai~!
Run by *Ginga*
Heavy rain flooded the intended park shelter, so the small group relocated to a participant's garage to run the event on Challonge. A four-way tie for first place at the end of the round robin sent four bladers into a finals bracket, and a further tiebreaker round was needed to settle the final order. Pizza arrived partway through courtesy of the organiser's father, and leftover prizes were given away in a drawing afterward.
- 1st Transfat
- 2nd *Ginga*
- 3rd ShinobuXD
- Flooding forced a last-minute move from the park shelter to a participant's garage
- A four-way tie at 5-2 required both a finals bracket and a follow-up tiebreaker round to settle the podium
- A reply debated dropping the event's compulsory post-match handshake on hygiene and sportsmanship grounds
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LakeSide BeyBattles
Run by Yuko Ray14
Run as a block round robin with six finalists drawn two from each block, this small event went smoothly by the organiser's own account, with only two matches needing closer judging out of the whole day. One of those calls involved a blader who had launched a bey to test stadium levelness while already under a stalling clause. Fang Wolf won overall with a 7-2 record, and the event ran about three hours start to finish despite the loss of several expected attendees to illness.
- 1st Fang Wolf
- A test launch to check stadium levelness became a judging question because the blader was already under a stalling clause
- About six expected attendees, travelling together, dropped out due to one member falling ill
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The Bey Brawl 1.5: RagerBlade's B-Day Brawl
Run by RagerBlade
A small birthday-themed Zero-G event drew seven regular attendees plus one additional player, run under a simple bracket system the host found in another thread. A mid-event mix-up caused some matches to repeat, requiring the host and a co-judge to identify and correct the errors before continuing to a three-player final. Despite calling Zero-G fun, the host said future events would likely switch to Standard format to draw a bigger crowd.
- Mid-tournament scheduling error caused repeated matches that had to be manually corrected
- Four judges rotated duties, including the host judging most of his own matches
- Host considered moving future events to Standard format for wider appeal
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The Bey Brawl!
Run by RagerBlade
A projected eight-player turnout doubled to sixteen, and every attendee stayed through the whole event, which ran across four judged blocks. Several veterans revealed some of the format's strongest combinations mid-tournament, and one new blader signed up on the spot. The host reported no scoring disputes and closed by asking for ideas on future events, including a possible joint meetup with a neighbouring state.
- Field grew from an expected eight to sixteen, all of whom stayed for the full event.
- One new member recruited on site.
- Host floated a cross-region meetup with a neighbouring state's community for a future event.
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Beyblade Challenge!
Run by nik1392
Expectations of seventy to eighty attendees drew organisers to scout the venue with store staff the day before, and turnout was strong enough that registration alone took an hour. Age-grouped early rounds avoided parental disputes, and a store employee's failure to flag counterfeit parts nearly went unnoticed until another organiser caught it and the match was redone with a warning. The finals had to be repeated after every finalist lost once, and the rematch used the same combinations by agreement, ending in a surprise win.
- 1st ashton pinto
- A store employee overlooked counterfeit parts in a match; another organiser caught it and the match was replayed with a warning issued.
- Finals restarted after every finalist lost once in the first pass; the rematch used the same combinations by mutual agreement.
- Several attending parents were excited enough to register and compete themselves.
- A relayed reply from a non-organiser attendee raised concerns about the venue's ban on Zero-G parts and about a sponsor's limited contribution to prizes.
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Beyblade Challenge
Run by Justaway
An event expected to draw thirty people instead pulled forty-eight, forcing a switch to a first-time double-elimination bracket on the fly once only twenty to twenty-five had shown up by the scheduled start. Once the rest of the field trickled in, brackets were reshuffled so early arrivals kept winners'-side status and late arrivals filled the losers' side. About half the players had no Beyblades of their own, and one dispute arose after a strong combination made a competitor's parent insist on keeping the part between rounds.
- Turnout nearly doubled the expected thirty, reaching forty-eight and forcing an on-the-fly bracket-format switch.
- First time the group ran double elimination.
- About half the field arrived without their own Beyblades and had to borrow spares.
- A parent refused to return a strong-performing borrowed part between rounds, citing their child's chance to win with it.
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Beyblade Warzone and Beyblade Spirit:Reincarnation
Run by Justaway, Relic and BladingSpirit5
A planned sponsorship fell through, so two smaller Plastics and HMS events ran on borrowed parts and launchers, with left-spin combinations dominating the Plastics side for the first time after enough left-spin launchers were scrounged together. The following day's Beyblade Warzone drew only twelve of an expected fifteen to sixteen, run as a round robin block using improvised chit-draw grouping after a weak venue signal ruled out the usual bracket software. Two Beylaunchers broke mid-event, adding further delay to an already smaller-than-hoped turnout.
- First Plastics event in the group's memory where left-spin combinations dominated, due to a launcher shortage forcing a shift away from right spin.
- Weak venue signal ruled out the usual bracket software, so blocks were assigned by chit draw instead.
- Two Beylaunchers broke mid-event.
- Turnout for Beyblade Warzone fell well short of the fifteen to sixteen expected, with only one new member attending.
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A follow-up event held right after a larger Revolution Qualifier still drew ten bladers, which the author took as a strong sign for a second outing. Younger bladers, including Wade246, performed well, a local store owner and manager gave good support, and a brief computer internet outage nearly cost the tournament its results. The report frames the event as part of reviving the Richmond, Virginia Beyblade community after it was thought nearly impossible to restart.
- Part of an ongoing revival of the Richmond, Virginia Beyblade community, with attendance growing event over event
- A lost internet connection briefly threatened to erase tournament results
- Store support from One Eyed Jacques helped host the event
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Richmond Revolution Qualifier
Run by Pruebame
Twenty-three bladers set a new attendance record for the Virginia community despite a mid-setup computer crash that briefly stalled registration. Play across three stadiums moved smoothly, and the qualifying final came down to a best-of-five decided on the very last launch. The host closed with a proposal to cap entries at one qualifying event per blader to keep multi-region players from stacking wins across neighbouring communities.
- 1st Geetster
- 2nd Bazooka
- New attendance record for the Virginia community.
- Qualifying final decided on the last launch of a best-of-five.
- Host proposed limiting bladers to one entry among neighbouring qualifying events to spread regional representation more evenly.
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Chaos Rising 3.0 and Chaos Rising Zero-G
Run by Pruebame, with Primus and Dark_Mousy judging
Eighteen bladers split into three six-player blocks ran considerably faster and smoother than previous events thanks to three judges working the room, followed by an eight-player Zero-G event run with the required minimum. One player swept both brackets outright, in a Zero-G field that leaned almost entirely on one part class over any alternative. The host floated sticking with the older, standard format going forward to ease the cost of entry for younger players without access to newer parts.
- 1st Dark_Mousy
- One player won both brackets on the same day.
- Zero-G field leaned almost entirely on Synchrome-class parts, with little else competitive.
- Host proposed staying with the older, cheaper format to keep entry costs down for younger players without access to newer releases.
- Attendees travelled in from five different states.
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Beyblade Colosseum
Run by Dark_Mousy
Held as a sponsored side event at the Carolina Game Summit, this tournament grew out of a series of regional qualifier events and drew 48 bladers from six states. Registration at the summit ran well behind schedule, pushing the start back to around 1pm, and some latecomers had to be turned away once the double-elimination bracket was already seeded in Challonge.
- Hasbro and The Beyblade Geeks served as prize and promotional sponsors for the event
- Forty-eight bladers travelled from six different states to attend
- Convention-wide registration delays pushed the tournament's start back roughly four hours
- Some latecomers had to be turned away once the bracket was already seeded
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Diwali Beyblast 2: Metal Mania
Run by Justaway, with Janstarblast, ashton pinto and christophermk assisting
The event moved location mid-morning after two members insisted on a shadier, smoother site, and struggled from the outset for volunteers to judge, record and log results, leaving the host to shoulder nearly all of it alone until other organisers arrived. Once help came, two members repeatedly disrupted the schedule by cutting in line and mocking other participants and the community by name, and, most seriously, took the host's own parts from his bag without asking and damaged one of them. The Zero-G stage ran an hour over its planned length, the host lost track of his own combination piece entirely, and the day's HMS stage had to be cancelled outright once time ran out, prompting several community members to call for the two disruptive members to be disciplined or barred from future events.
- Two members took the host's own parts without permission, damaged one, and repeatedly disrupted the running order.
- HMS stage cancelled entirely for lack of time.
- Multiple replies called for formal discipline or a future-event ban for the two members involved.
- Venue changed mid-event at member request for better shade and ground.
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FIGHT CLUB: Dual Impact
Run by Mtwo and Uwik
Two brackets ran back to back in one day, a round robin for Metal Fight Beyblade and a block round robin for Zero-G, with only eleven bladers turning out to what the hosts called their smallest crowd yet. Attack-type builds dominated the Metal Fight side, while the Zero-G side, being everyone's first exposure to the format, saw most competitors default to one defensive setup and get eliminated once outweighed. Both co-hosts declined their own prizes so the custom and limited-run rewards could pass down to other finishers instead.
- Smallest turnout the community had drawn to that point, framed as a symptom of Beyblade's declining local popularity.
- First Zero-G event for the group; unfamiliarity with the new stadium physics shaped which players advanced.
- Mtwo won the Metal Fight bracket outright but declined the prize, passing it down to the 2nd through 4th finishers.
- Uwik and Mtwo placed 1st and 2nd in the Zero-G bracket and declined those prizes too, leaving only the 3rd-place prize awarded.
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FESTIVE FALL
Run by Priscient
Eleven players turned out for a smoothly run event notable mainly for two returning faces getting back into competition and one player adding another strong finish to his record. Results were submitted about a week later without issue, credited to legible, organised judging. Replies afterward dug into the host's method for tracking round-robin match order on paper.
- Two long-absent players returned to competition.
- Follow-up discussion detailed the paper-based method used to track round-robin match order without bracket software.
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Summer's Last Blast
Run by Coach
Word-of-mouth recruiting turned a modest local gathering into a twenty-seven-confirmed field, with carloads travelling from as far as Cleveland. A last-minute Challonge scoring mix-up briefly sent a losing player into the winners' bracket, but the host caught and corrected it before it affected the results. With four no-shows leaving twenty-three actual attendees, the host ran a double-elimination bracket that wrapped in under two hours.
- Attendance grew via word of mouth from a small expected group to twenty-seven confirmed, drawing travellers from as far as Cleveland.
- A Challonge scoring error briefly advanced the wrong player to the winners' bracket before being corrected.
- Host realised only afterward that the actual turnout would have supported a block round robin instead of double elimination.
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Spin It Like It's Hot [BeyDays 2022]
Run by #Fafnir
#Fafnir wrote up BeyDays 2022 from both sides of the table, having organised an eleven-player P3C1 round robin of ten matches each while also competing in it. Several of #Fafnir's toughest matches came down to reading opponents' likely combinations and switching between stamina and attack modes at the right moment, including a rare attack-mode win and a hard-fought decider against an undefeated opponent. Four players advanced to the finals with near-identical records, and as organiser #Fafnir singled out the constant LAD ties and the judging load they created as the day's biggest running problem.
- Running nearly sixty individual matches under the P3C1 format took far longer than expected, prompting the organiser to consider changing formats for a field this size in future.
- The dominant complaint from participants was the tie rule, which came up so often that one judge said afterward he would not referee LAD matches again.
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Bey Meets World
Run by Leone19
A last-minute round of cancellations nearly shrank the field further, but two extra players arrived to keep the event on track. The host and a rival finished the round robin tied at the top before a tense final decided first place, and a third player claimed a podium finish for the first time. Fair combinations were the norm, with spare parts lent to anyone without their own beys.
- 1st Leone19
- 2nd ElementChris
- 3rd Bullchamp
- Nearly lost multiple players to last-minute cancellations before two extras arrived.
- One player earned a first-ever podium finish.
- Combinations were kept fair by lending parts to players without their own.
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The Bey Empire 4
Run by Justaway
No one showed by the scheduled start time and the event looked headed for cancellation until one attendee talked his friends into joining, eventually assembling the eight players needed more than six hours late. Most of the recruited players had no working Beyblades of their own, having let old ones break or fall out of use, so the host supplied everyone with 4D combinations and a launcher for the day. Despite the delay and gear shortage, the round robin ran smoothly through to a seven o'clock finish.
- Event nearly cancelled outright before one attendee recruited enough friends to reach the eight-player minimum, six hours late.
- Host supplied loaner 4D combinations and launchers to nearly the whole field, most of whom had no working Beyblades left.
- Some new recruits were sceptical that the host's own WBO-earned prizes had not simply been purchased.
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Battle for the Blue Shell
Run by Rymac
Twenty-four bladers competed in a Swiss stage feeding a single-elimination final, with most of the field running the same CobaltDragoon setup on an elevated combination that made matches noticeably tenser than the previous month's event. Khaeotic came through the group stage with a losing record before sweeping the single-elimination final undefeated to take the title. The host praised the venue's practice space but noted a lack of seating and a slow opening stage as points to fix.
- 1st Khaeotic
- CobaltDragoon on an elevate/level setup dominated the meta, credited with raising match tension.
- Winner had a losing record in the Swiss stage before running the table undefeated in the single-elimination final.
- Venue had ample practice space but no seating.
- Some attendees travelled in from as far as Sacramento.
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[report] double shot kirin
Run by laidbackblader and [Pyro]
Two tournaments were run back to back in a single day and wrapped up more quickly than expected, with the hosts calling it one of their smoothest events yet. They noted plans to host again soon after parents asked for more frequent chances for kids to earn ranking credits. No results or standings were included beyond the hosts thanking each other and the attendees.
- Two separate tournaments were completed in a single day
- Parents specifically requested more frequent events so kids could earn ranking credit faster
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Legends of X
Run by SimplyEmu, with Rymac co-hosting the series
Thirty-three registrations produced twenty-three actual competitors in a five-round Swiss stage feeding a sixteen-player single-elimination final, with a handful of latecomers turned away from competing but welcomed to watch and free-play. The winner ran the table with a perfect finals record after a solid group stage, in a field that leaned less on one dominant combination than the host's previous events had. Running the event solo as main host for the first time after twice co-hosting, the organiser credited extra volunteer judges with keeping the schedule moving faster than before.
- 1st SonicMovie3
- Field size grew mainly through word of mouth and the public WBO site listing rather than promotion.
- Host's first time running an event solo after two prior co-hosted events.
- Extra volunteer judges freed a host to run score-keeping and call matches full time, speeding up rounds compared with earlier events.
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Richmond, 2.0 Chaos Rising
Run by Pruebame
Signage and heavy direct messaging pulled in ten walk-ons alongside the confirmed field despite several planned attendees dropping out, and a shortage of extra stadiums pushed the host to run a full round robin rather than the intended block format. The host judged this the right call given the unexpectedly large field and a single available stadium, and the day closed with a three-way tie decided cleanly for third place. Both pros and cons were logged for next time, from excited new families to a few kids leaving partway through.
- Only one working stadium available; format changed from block to full round robin on the fly to compensate.
- Three-way tie for third resolved without dispute.
- Possibly the largest Virginia community tournament held to that point, per a reply from another organiser.
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X-Treme Team Tournament #1
Run by Rymac
Twenty-four registrations produced eighteen actual competitors split into six three-player teams for a round robin feeding a single-elimination final. Nearly the whole field ran the same two dominant combinations, which the host said made matches unusually tense since knockouts or bursts were the only reliable way to beat them. A late start caused by slow arrivals still let the event finish in about three hours, despite a venue with limited parking.
- 1st Team Lab Rats
- Almost the entire field converged on the same two dominant combinations, leaving knockout or burst as the only reliable win condition.
- Fast group stage suggested the team-round-robin format would likely be repeated.
- Limited parking at the venue was flagged as a problem despite no in-event issues.
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Roll Call 2 / Beyblade Crusade 2
Run by Kei
A months-delayed first-person account of travelling to Toronto for two Anime North events describes badge mix-ups, a pen-and-paper bracket that broke down once the field grew larger than expected, and general convention chaos rather than a clean competitive recap. A reply from the organiser explains that an uneven number of players surviving the winners bracket after two double-elimination rounds caused the scheduling confusion. No clear final placement is given for either event.
- Bracket run entirely on pen and paper broke down over an uneven number of advancing players
- Writer admits to sneaking into part of the convention rather than paying full entry
- No clear final result is given for either event
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A brief results post for a Chicago-based 3on3 Beyblade X event lists only the top three finishers and the combos each used, with no further narrative on how the day unfolded.
- 1st Pickachao UnicornSting 1-60 Taper / SharkEdge 3-60 Rush / KnightMail 7-70 Point
- 2nd Nemo PhoenixWing 3-60 Point / WizardRod 9-60 Ball / AeroPegasus 5-60 Level
- 3rd Squidd CobaltDragoon 7-60 Elevate / BlackShell 5-60 Low Rush / WizardRod 1-60 Ball (finals only), WizardRod 1-60 Rush, Roar Tyranno 9-60 Low Flat
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A repeated results post for the same Chicago 3on3 Beyblade X event lists only the top three finishers and the combos each used, with no further narrative on how the day unfolded.
- 1st Pickachao UnicornSting 1-60 Taper / SharkEdge 3-60 Rush / KnightMail 7-70 Point
- 2nd Nemo PhoenixWing 3-60 Point / WizardRod 9-60 Ball / AeroPegasus 5-60 Level
- 3rd Squidd CobaltDragoon 7-60 Elevate / BlackShell 5-60 Low Rush / WizardRod 1-60 Ball (finals only), WizardRod 1-60 Rush, Roar Tyranno 9-60 Low Flat
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Another repeated results post for the same Chicago 3on3 Beyblade X event lists only the top three finishers and the combos each used, with no further narrative on how the day unfolded.
- 1st Pickachao UnicornSting 1-60 Taper / SharkEdge 3-60 Rush / KnightMail 7-70 Point
- 2nd Nemo PhoenixWing 3-60 Point / WizardRod 9-60 Ball / AeroPegasus 5-60 Level
- 3rd Squidd CobaltDragoon 7-60 Elevate / BlackShell 5-60 Low Rush / WizardRod 1-60 Ball (finals only), WizardRod 1-60 Rush, Roar Tyranno 9-60 Low Flat
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A fourth copy of the same Chicago results post confirms the match type as 3on3 Beyblade X and repeats the same top-three finishers and combos with no additional narrative.
- 1st Pickachao UnicornSting 1-60 Taper / SharkEdge 3-60 Rush / KnightMail 7-70 Point
- 2nd Nemo PhoenixWing 3-60 Point / WizardRod 9-60 Ball / AeroPegasus 5-60 Level
- 3rd Squidd CobaltDragoon 7-60 Elevate / BlackShell 5-60 Low Rush / WizardRod 1-60 Ball (finals only), WizardRod 1-60 Rush, Roar Tyranno 9-60 Low Flat
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Armor Saga: I Really Hate SlingShock
Run by Mr. Memes and Bladerdoc
New York City's first indoor Beyblade X event of the year doubled as Bladerdoc's second time co-hosting alongside Mr. Memes, splitting round-calling duties between them. PhoenixWing combos saw heavy, successful use throughout, with Bladerdoc's PhoenixWing Point ultimately beating Ajeeblade's stock SharkEdge in the final after Bladerdoc had already survived a reversal against Mr. Memes in the semifinal. Mr. Memes took third over Bigburst with a late switch to a SharkEdge Rush combo.
- 1st Bladerdoc PhoenixWing (PW) Point
- 2nd Ajeeblade stock SharkEdge (SE)
- 3rd Mr. Memes PhoenixWing (PW) Point / SharkEdge (SE) Rush
- Several New Jersey newcomers, including Orichalcon, Bigburst, Ajeeblade and Kingy GSD, reached the top eight in their first Beyblade X events
- A seeding mistake from an earlier round win being recorded as a loss was only discovered after the event ended, altering the final bracket
- An early-launch foul in the third-place match went unnoticed until reviewed on video afterward
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Attack of the Beystructicons! Rise of the Seventh Gate!
Run by LoneBagelfafnir and KIO
The organiser's third event for a growing British Columbia community was its largest yet, with eighteen players attending alongside family and friends at a well-equipped community venue that offered free-play stadiums on the side. Having arranged childcare this time, the organiser focused mainly on management rather than personal play, going 2-3 in the swiss rounds, and recorded matches on video for the first time. The finals came down to Guilty mirror matches after other top-four bouts were dominated by stamina-heavy exchanges.
- Largest turnout to date for this community, up from earlier smaller events
- First event where matches were recorded on video
- Two non-blader judges and a newly trained judge helped keep the event running smoothly
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A three-day, six-tournament weekend at Nightwing's game loft covered an unranked 1v1 HMS event, a 19-player Burst Classic swiss, a 20-player MFB and ZeroG day, and a joke double-elimination "Limited 2.0" side event with a huge banlist. The reporter described the doubleheader schedule as physically exhausting, resolving to cap future weekends at one or two tournaments, and flagged recurring issues with traffic, late starts, and mis-entered match results. HMS play was heavy on knockouts and burst part failures, described as a clear bridge between the Plastics and MFB eras.
- Reporter described the three-day, six-tournament schedule as unsustainable and pledged to limit future attendance
- HMS parts proved fragile and burst-prone, reinforcing the format's reputation as a transition between Plastics and MFB
- A joke "Limited 2.0" tournament banned nearly every strong wheel, track, and tip and ran double elimination for fun
- A mis-entered match result (a no-show incorrectly recorded as a win) had to be corrected mid-event
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Beyblade Returns to River City
Run by Garishi
A rented library room kept twelve players comfortable and dry for Garishi's tournament, run with his wife The H.I.P. as co-host. Two blocks of round-robin group play fed into a WBO deck-match top cut, where the release of Bearing Drift was noted as having pushed left-spin stamina almost entirely out of the meta. No fake parts turned up despite roughly half the field being newer bladers, and Beybladeblast11 beat Kirito1696 for third place ahead of a close finals.
- 3rd Beybladeblast11
- Bearing Drift's release was described as having driven left-spin stamina combos almost out of the meta
- No fake parts were spotted despite about half the field being new WBO tournament attendees
- A launcher failure mid-match was resolved by borrowing a spare from the host
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BeyDays ThunderStorm
Run by ronitnath
Kolkata's first hosted BeyDays event drew only seven of twelve confirmed players, dropping it from ranked status to an informal club-format gathering. New members, including an eight-year-old, got their first taste of the game with help from experienced attendees, but the host described feeling discouraged by the poor turnout before the local community talked him into continuing to host.
- Only seven of twelve confirmed players attended, forcing a downgrade from ranked to club format
- The youngest participant was eight years old
- The host considered quitting after the low turnout but was encouraged to continue by the local community
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BeyWar!
Run by FIREFIRE CPB
A new, more accessible Andheri park venue helped the Mumbai group reach a full turnout of eight confirmed regulars for the first time. The Burst bracket's final saw AaryanBITW's D2-based combo out-stamina Snidmist's Drain Fafnir setup, while the separate Limited finals went the other way, with Snidmist's Scythe Cygnus BD beating AaryanBITW's Gravity Perseus combo by a single point.
- Burst finals: AaryanBITW's D2 combo beat Snidmist's Drain Fafnir on stamina
- Limited finals: Snidmist's Scythe Cygnus BD beat AaryanBITW 5-4
- The new Andheri venue's accessibility grew the Mumbai group to a steady eight regular members
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BladgeFridge's Blizzard Blunder
Run by Mr. Memes
New Jersey's last event of 2023 doubled as Bladerdoc's first turn co-hosting as a WBO organizer, run alongside Mr. Memes despite Mr. Memes managing the day with a mobility-limiting foot condition. Only one of sixteen expected players dropped, and after Mr. Memes ran the first half of group play he handed the bracket over to Bladerdoc for the rest. Mr. EXE upset two higher seeds with a Judgement-on-Octa combo before losing the third-place match to ICrazyEater.
- 3rd ICrazyEater
- Doubled as Bladerdoc's first tournament co-hosting as a WBO organizer
- Host ran the event while managing metatarsalgia limiting his mobility
- Mr. EXE upset two higher-seeded players with a Judgement-on-Octa combo before falling in the third-place match
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A friendly Bologna gathering mixed longtime and new bladers testing combos rather than focusing purely on competition, with a leaderboard and photos shared afterward. Attendees reportedly kept launching and testing new Burst parts even after the event's results were settled.
- 1st Jaizer
- 2nd MasterOfFuria
- 3rd abbard
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Empire City Strikes Back
Run by LazerBeamz
Steady rain didn't stop twenty-five players from competing under umbrella-covered stadiums in a double-elimination bracket. Careful seeding by Bey Rank was credited with giving newer players fair early matchups, letting two unranked newcomers, CitrusNinja3 and supremeboss57, reach second and third place. Ardmore Bladers ran the same combo through the entire winners bracket and finals to beat CitrusNinja3 6-4 in the final.
- 1st Ardmore Bladers hS.10P.At
- 2nd CitrusNinja3 czS.St.Br
- 3rd supremeboss57
- Rain forced judges to shield three outdoor stadiums with umbrellas throughout the event
- Seeding by Bey Rank into double elimination was credited with letting two unranked newcomers reach second and third
- Prioritizing the loser's bracket kept eliminated players from waiting hours in bad weather
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X GON GIVE IT TO YA
Run by HouDeani9204
A weather delay pushed the start back half an hour before 17 of 20 registered bladers split into two round-robin groups, with the top four from each group carrying into a bracket final. An extra tiebreaker match was needed to separate third place, which RyokuSatori won over Neoblader126. The event's winning combinations spanned a mix of PhoenixWing, WizardRod, DranBuster and DranSword builds across the different placements.
- 3rd RyokuSatori
- Weather pushed the start time back by 30 minutes
- A dedicated 8th tiebreaker round was needed to settle third place
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X-plosive
Run by HouDeani9204
A low turnout at a park meant this first-time host's event ran as a club-format round robin among just four bladers instead of the planned bracket, moving into a round robin followed by a bracket for the second stage. A newcomer, Dragon2024, stood out by going undefeated through the round robin in his first-ever tournament.
- Low sign-up forced a switch from the planned format to a small club-style round robin
- A first-time competitor, Dragon2024, went undefeated through the round robin
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Eight regulars from the Toronto scene put together a same-day, second tournament right after finishing an earlier event, running a fast block round robin that wrapped in about an hour. Odin-based defensive builds were the most common pick given how little time there was to plan, though the eventual runner-up stuck with a Deathscyther attack combo throughout. A string of tiebreakers decided the final order, with Mitsu edging out the host for first after both had gone 6-1 in the round robin.
- 1st Mitsu Odin Heavy Defense
- 2nd 1234beyblade Deathscyther Spread Accel
- 3rd Kei
- Whole event, from round robin to finals, was organized and finished in about an hour
- Prizes were hand-made crowns from a local craftsman rather than anything bought
- A new blader who travelled a distance to attend said she planned to buy her own Beyblades afterward
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Fizz Heads 6
Run by Temak
Held the same day as the Indy 500 nearby, this event still drew 34 of 36 signed-up bladers despite heavy race-day traffic in the area. Judges caught a couple of younger competitors attempting to counter-pick by swapping deck order after it had already been revealed, and the issue was resolved after a conversation with the players and a parent.
- 1st Temak
- 2nd Alexandreous
- 3rd Issac Ash
- Ran the same day as the Indy 500, with heavy nearby race traffic affecting arrivals
- Judges caught younger players attempting to swap deck order after it was already set, resolved with the help of a parent
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A 5th Dimensional Classic
Run by FireKingArd
A first-time run of a Classic 5G format in Florida went more smoothly than the organiser expected, despite neither he nor anyone else having run that format before. A single rules incident, a Takara Tomy driver used on a Hasbro layer, was corrected on the spot and the match replayed. -Fireblaze- took the win over strong competition, with the organiser noting the group round robin format made for genuinely tight matches all the way through.
- 1st -Fireblaze- Wolborg on Yell Charge / Victory Valkyrie on Heavy Quick
- 4th rockstarpilot
- First time this organiser, or anyone he knew of, had run a Classic 5G event
- A rules violation (a Takara Tomy driver on a Hasbro layer) was caught and corrected mid-match
- No parts were lost despite a number of hard bursts during play
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Killerken Game
Run by Trsal
Inspired by a Squid Game-style survival theme, this solo-run event put 28 of 37 registered bladers through a series of elimination challenges before the finals: one-handed assembly under a time limit, a launch-accuracy archery round, a music-and-parts elimination mixer, an endurance spin test, and a stadium-roulette round with swapped combos. A hidden bey let one eliminated player revive both themselves and ten others partway through, keeping the field alive for later rounds. Rirokashi ultimately beat Nelsoph in a back-and-forth three-set final that ended on a knockout finish caught on video.
- 1st Rirokashi CobaltDragoon 1-60L
- 2nd Nelsoph Venom 3-60LF
- 3rd Bones KnightShield / KnightLance / KnightMail (exact ratchets and bits not recorded)
- Extra entry slots were awarded to the first people to solve a posted math problem
- A hidden-bey mechanic let one eliminated player revive themselves and ten others mid-event
- Games included a one-handed assembly challenge and a beyblade-launch archery round, both unusual formats for the community
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Florida's Revival
Run by The Supreme One
The first WBO tournament held in Florida in years took place inside a convention's tabletop-gaming room, drawing an estimated 30 passersby to try the stadiums even though only a smaller group competed in the round robin. Six players dropped out after the first round, but two more arrived after searching for the room for half an hour, keeping the event alive with eight total round-robin competitors. Brisky won her first tournament, upsetting the previously undefeated host with a Dragooon attack build.
- 1st Brisky Dragooon attack combo
- Held inside a convention's tabletop-gaming room, which drew a much larger casual crowd than the eight-player competitive field
- First WBO tournament in the region in several years
- Convention staff invited the organiser back for the following year
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MAD DASH #1
Run by Forest City Beyblades, jointly with WBO, BBAX, Realm Hoppers, and Game Knight Leagues
Fifteen bladers took part in this new club's first global ranked event, run jointly with several other groups and organisations. The event used a round-robin first stage cutting to a top-four round robin, with results and standings posted through a linked bracket site.
- First global ranked event for this newly formed club, co-run with multiple partner organisations
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Forget About F230
Run by daniel
This tournament ran without the F230 part, which had recently been banned, splitting twelve players into two blocks whose top finishers advanced to a short finals stage. A late arrival delayed the start, and the organiser recruited a spectator's father to help run a second block so both groups could finish faster. The author won a tiebreaker over 1234beyblade for first place, while the community's reaction, debated at length in the replies, was split over whether the ban would meaningfully shift the metagame toward Bearing Drive.
- 1st daniel
- 2nd 1234beyblade
- 3rd JesseObre
- Tournament served as an early test of the competitive metagame after the F230 part's ban
- Replies debated at length whether Bearing Drive or Zero-G Attack builds would dominate without F230
- Organiser recruited an attending parent on the spot to help run a second block of matches
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Welcome to the Bey Area!
Run by EpicTurtwig
Organisers had prepared for a modest turnout of 18 to 25 people but ended up with 50 bladers after many unregistered walk-ins showed up, forcing a switch from the planned Swiss bracket to double elimination to keep the day moving. A bracket-math error, cutting 12 finalists down through 6 semi-finalists to an unworkable 3, led the host to disqualify himself rather than delay the event further. The eventual champion was a walk-up entrant who trusted a single stock Spriggan Requiem build through the whole bracket, swept the final, and chose the on-the-spot username 'WeiwenTheChamp' once asked what he wanted to be known as.
- 1st WeiwenTheChamp Spriggan Requiem 0 Zeta
- 2nd Mage Spriggan Requiem 7Meteor Bearing
- Turnout of 50 vastly exceeded organisers' expectations of 18 to 25 players
- A bracket-math error forced the host to disqualify himself from his own finals
- Walk-up entrant swept the final using a single stock combo and picked a new username on the spot to match his win
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New Year New Rivals
Run by Rymac
Turnout doubled from the group's previous event to 18 bladers, running a Swiss stage into a single-elimination final. CobaltDragoon on Elevate saw heavy use and made matches noticeably more stressful, with almost every match finishing as a clean 5-0 sweep. Lyonbeats won the event after a 4-1 group stage and a clean 2-0 run through the final bracket.
- 1st Lyonbeats
- Turnout doubled from the group's prior event
- Almost every match in the event ended in a 5-0 sweep
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The Gift of X
Run by Rymac
A small, supportive field of eight bladers, many new to the game, ran a round robin into a single-elimination final. WizardRod on Ball, in both its stock and modified 9-60 form, was the most common build seen. The organiser himself won the event, going 5-2 in the group stage before a clean 2-0 run through the final.
- 1st Rymac
- Small field of newcomers described as supportive of one another win or lose
- Organiser won his own event
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FROSTY DRIVERS
Run by daniel
A group of Toronto regulars built a tournament around a surprise birthday celebration for Bey Brad, arranging pizza after an initial cake plan fell through and timing their arrival to surprise him with a Happy Birthday sing-along. Two blocks played into semi-finals, and Bey Brad and Kei ended tied for the top spot, forcing a tiebreaker match that Bey Brad won. The group closed out the day, as usual, with a trip to McDonald's.
- 1st Bey Brad Valkyrie Heavy Accel
- 2nd Kei Deathscyther Heavy Defense
- 3rd daniel
- Event doubled as a surprise birthday celebration for one of the regular players
- Tiebreaker match was needed to separate first and second place after both finished with one win apiece
- Group thanked a helper who ran one of the blocks and encouraged him to become an organiser
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A short post links out to the Swiss and finals brackets for QGTM Throw Down #3: Roaring Times and notes the poster finished in second place, with no further detail on how the day played out.
- 2nd jeremiah2003@
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The Sesh 2.0
Run by Ultra
Organised on short notice, this 10-player event still drew a full field despite the reporting player missing two newly-released layers he expected to face. Maximum Garuda again proved close to unbeatable through the group stage, losing only its mirror match, and carried him to a finals win over Balanceblader and Beybread. He calls out Beybread's second-place finish as the standout result of the day, noting the player was seven years old.
- 1st Basedsamuraij Maximum Garuda
- 2nd Beybread
- Maximum Garuda again dominated, losing only in its own mirror matchup
- The runner-up, Beybread, was noted as being seven years old
- New releases Seig Xcalibur and Twin Nemesis had less impact on the meta than the reporting player had feared going in
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Beyblade West
Run by Shindog
Posted months after the fact, this first installment covers day one of a multi-day event, an MFB Limited tournament that opened with bracket resets after the organiser and a co-runner were delayed by a minor car accident on the way in. Eight players advanced to a bracket that split cleanly along regional lines, with East Coast bladers sweeping West Coast opponents 4-0 in the quarterfinals. The report, heavy with match-by-match video links, breaks off mid-way through the third-place match between the author and TSO, with the grand final between Kei and Yami still to come in a later part.
- The event's start was delayed after two organisers were involved in a minor car accident en route
- Quarterfinal matchups split cleanly by coast, and the East Coast swept the West Coast 4-0
- The reporting author jokes about two different recorded timelines of the same matches after his phone captured a repeated bracket reset
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LA Burst Classic #2
Run by Shindog
One of two events the organisers ran that weekend, this 27-player Burst Classic tournament saw the reporting organiser and a training partner deliberately test Baldur as widely as possible, judging it a strong defensive choice for both burst and knockout resistance despite some weaknesses. Plastic-remake layers saw notable play but were judged inconsistent for lacking either enough stamina or attack to reliably win. instaburst13 took the tournament overall.
- 1st instaburst13
- Baldur was deliberately run in as many matches as possible by two players to stress-test it as a Classic defensive pick
- Plastic-remake layers were used often but judged unreliable compared to dedicated Classic parts
- Attack-type play leaned heavily on Roktavor, Spriggan, and V2 layers paired with the X' driver
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LA HMS brawl #1
Run by Shindog
This was the group's first attempt at a competitive HMS-format event, run on Tornado Balance stadiums with 14 entrants and one early drop. The reporting organiser says he is still learning the format's parts and admits a costly misjudgement that a Bearing Core 2 combination would easily outspin a Metal Flat Core combination in opposite spin, which cost him the tournament. Mitchjett won what was his first tournament victory, and the organiser closes wanting to try BB-10 or Tornado Attack stadiums to bring more attack into future HMS events.
- 1st Mitchjett
- First HMS-format event attempted by this group, run on Tornado Balance stadiums
- The organiser misjudged an opposite-spin stamina matchup that ended up costing him the tournament
- Mitchjett's win marked his first tournament victory
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In a shorter-format write-up than usual, the reporting player places fourth after being caught off guard by Meteo L-Drago on a 105EWD/WD stamina setup, a combination he had previously written off as too easy to knock out. He credits the local meta's drift toward stamina-focused play for the combination's newfound strength.
- 4th Shindog
- A combination previously dismissed as too vulnerable to knockouts, Meteo L-Drago on 105EWD/WD, proved decisive against unprepared opponents
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LOs Angeles MFB Smash #1
Run by Shindog
Running his first event as host, the organiser was unprepared for the turnout: over 80 people showed up expecting an MFB Limited tournament, but many had assumed it was a Burst event and lacked legal parts, leaving 68 able to actually compete after loaner parts were handed out. Borrowing heavily from combinations shared by established players, the host and his training partner finished first and fourth. A parent's complaint that the event should separate competitors by age is addressed directly, with the host pointing out that all but one of the top eight finishers were minors, including a seven-year-old.
- 1st Shindog
- 4th Mitchjett
- Over 80 people arrived for an MFB Limited event, but many mistakenly expected Burst and lacked legal parts, cutting real participation to 68
- A parent argued for age-separated brackets; the host countered that the top eight skewed heavily toward younger players, including a seven-year-old
- The host and his training partner leaned on combinations borrowed from established competitors to finish first and fourth respectively
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Mandala Beybclash #1
Run by poliswag
Held at a toy shop that stocks Takara Tomy Beyblades, this brief report credits a shared Genbu Genbu 90EWD combination for carrying the reporting player and his training partner to first and fourth place, citing its stamina, opposite-spin performance, and useful recoil against attackers. Wyvang Dragoon BD145RDF is singled out as one of the most all-round combinations the reporter has seen across every generation of the game he has played.
- 1st Shindog Genbu Genbu 90EWD
- 4th Mitchjett Genbu Genbu 90EWD
- A shared Genbu Genbu 90EWD combination carried both the winner and the fourth-place finisher through the event
- Wyvang Dragoon BD145RDF singled out as offering an unusually complete spread of attack, defence, stamina and spin equalisation across generations
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Mandala Beyclash#2
Run by poliswag (venue), with Toy Mandala hosting
A Los Angeles-area event hosted with help from poliswag and Toy Mandala came down to Judgement, Zwei, Lord and Perfect Phoenix as the most-used layers, with the eventual winner leaning on Zwei and Judgement through several close finals comebacks. The write-up also flagged recurring confusion over a few WBO tournament rules and a first-time test of the Goku weight part.
- 1st Shindog leaned on Zwei and Judgement, coming from behind in two of three finals matches
- First-time use of the Goku weight by the winner and a teammate, judged weaker than Diabolos as a heavy option
- Recurring confusion about a few WBO tournament rules prompted a link to clarifying material
- Speculation that the three-part GT layer system rattles more than two-part designs like Diabolos and Lord
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Revive Phoenix Down
Run by JoJo, ThaKingTai and Alta
A hot, humid DTLA event was run by JoJo, ThaKingTai and Alta and is reported from the perspective of a parent new to Beyblade competing alongside his young son. The reporter worked through a rock-paper-scissors deck built around aH, hS, bL and a randomizing rP pick, eventually winning the final by out-spinning an opponent's hS with a heavy rP build. Replies afterward compared how differently Beyblade is treated by adults and families in Japan versus North America.
- 1st Shindog rP.10C.Octa in the final, after building around aH, hS and bL as counters
- Reporter entered as a parent alongside his six-year-old son in one of their first tournaments
- Deck built deliberately as a same-spin/opposite-spin/attack rock-paper-scissors, with a heavy rP pick used only as a random backup
- Discussion afterward compared Beyblade's acceptance across age groups in Japan versus North America and called for more Hasbro sponsorship of WBO events
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Van Nuys Bey Clash #2
Run by Shindog, with SpiderHazuki securing the venue and help from poliswag, AppleMcLaughter, Justj11., Kingz_hero_, Infinite.Zero and RacingCheetahz
Held again at MacLeod Ale Brewing thanks to SpiderHazuki, this event saw Lord, Judgment and Zwei remain the dominant layers even as Perfect Phoenix picked up more play. The organizer tried an experimental one-point-for-KO rule in the finals stage and flagged that wall bounces were still too hard to judge without video. Some late arrivals had to be turned away for missing the registration cutoff.
- Trialed a one-point-for-KO rule in the finals stage that the organizer was still unsure about after one event
- Turned away late-arriving players and asked attendees to respect registration cutoffs going forward
- Wall bounces remained a persistent, hard-to-judge issue without video review
- A little-used pP.Ω.Vl' combo was noted as versatile without being the best at any single job
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Van Nuys Bey Clash #1
Run by Shindog, with the venue secured by SpiderHazuki
Held at MacLeod Ale Brewing, this event trialed the WBO's experimental "P3C1" first-stage format (each player assembles three combos, reveals them to their opponent, then picks one) without allowing repeated parts, arguing it better mirrors WBO deck-building than a single-Beyblade first stage. A post-event poll of the 28 attendees showed strong preference for the format, which the group completed as a five-round Swiss stage in under three hours. Judgement on a rubber flat driver and Lord.Sting.Br were the most successful combos.
- Tested the experimental P3C1 first-stage format without repeated parts to better mirror WBO deck format
- A post-event poll of all 28 attendees showed strong preference for P3C1 over the standard single-Beyblade first stage
- Completed a 28-player five-round Swiss stage in under three hours despite the added reveal-and-pick step
- Only one player had an issue meeting the three-combo minimum, due to an illegal Hasbro/Takara-Tomy part mix
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Los Angeles Tournamnet Report: From Z to GT
Run by Shindog, with help from JoJo, Alta, Infinite.Zero, UltimateMaster, Justj11., RacingCheetahz and Kingz_hero_
Run for a second time at Alhambra Park, this event's host weighed the venue's free parking and reservable covered area against its pricier shelter reservations and poor night lighting. The reporter advanced through the first stage 5-0 before losing a quarterfinal, then won the third-place match against a teammate by out-spinning a heavier defense combo. Testing afterward focused on which upgrade chip variant best suits the pP mirror matchup.
- 3rd Shindog cR.7P.Ds', out-spinning Mitchjett's B3.OOW.Br in the third-place match
- Weighed Alhambra Park's free parking and covered area against its costly shelter reservations and weak night lighting
- A cR layer out-spun a heavier B3 defense combo in the third-place match, credited to cR's smoothness against wall/ridge contact
- Continued uncertainty over which upgrade chip variant (Ω versus 0/OOC) performs better in the pP mirror match
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Held as KingLoofa's birthday event with roughly 40 attendees, the tournament was won by KingLoofa himself. The reporter's pre-tournament testing of Xt+ in stamina mode showed it nearly matching Bearing for speed, echoing early Japanese videos, though the reporter and a teammate both had a rough day competitively. Right-spin Sr looked notably strong, and rP's rising popularity in Asia was floated as a reason for its growing local use.
- 1st KingLoofa
- Celebrated as KingLoofa's birthday event, which he then won himself
- Pre-event testing suggested Xt+ in stamina mode nearly matched Bearing's speed, echoing early Japanese "bearing dash" videos
- Right-spin Sr looked unusually strong against left-spin match-ups compared to the prior week
- Equipment (astro turf, tables, table cloths) was donated by a community member for the day
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A tournament report reduced to a single shared results spreadsheet link, with a follow-up reply asking that future results spreadsheets be posted on the originating event thread rather than shared here after the fact.
- A dispute arose over where results spreadsheets should be posted, after a related event's own thread had already been closed
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X Destiny 1
Run by GearSportsGuy and Ingulit
Hosted at Collector's Destiny, this was the Rocket City Bladers' first sanctioned Beyblade X Season 0 tournament. It ran group round robin for the first round to keep matches moving, then switched to deck format for the finals so competitors could show their blading style, and the organizer's first time managing a WBO event went smoothly enough to plan a bigger follow-up.
- First tournament the Rocket City Bladers ran as a sanctioned Beyblade X Season 0 event
- Used a group round robin first round to keep matches moving without a hard participant cap
- Organizer's first time managing a WBO event surfaced ideas for a spectator scoreboard and displayed brackets next time
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Underground Battle Series #1
Run by jamez23
Fourteen bladers began this event, with one leaving after the first round; it ran five rounds of Swiss to five points followed by a single-elimination top-8 bracket to seven points. The organizer called it a solid first turnout with a mix of new and familiar faces and noted refinements to make for future events.
- 1st xXtraCrispyXx
- Fourteen bladers attended, with one dropping after round one
- First event in a planned Underground Battle Series
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NE-X-CHQ: First Chance
Run by JesseLee
Held at a Lincoln, Nebraska HobbyTown, this 3v3 Swiss event cutting to a deck-format top 8 served as the season's first state-championship qualifier, sending its top four finishers on to the state championship later that month.
- 1st micah.ramage
- 2nd BladeZone_X
- 3rd MFSlime
- Served as the first of the season's state-championship qualifying events, advancing its top four finishers to the state championship
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Battle for the Snow Shell
Run by superrobotking
A first-time-organized New York-area event focused in its write-up mainly on COVID-19 safety notes rather than match results: mask compliance was inconsistent among younger attendees, and the organizer described home sterilization habits for shared beyblades. Replies afterward turned into a debate about how seriously to treat pandemic precautions.
- First tournament organized by superrobotking, with a named helper's support called essential
- Attendee handling of shared beyblades during the pandemic raised concerns, including one player disassembling another's entire deck without asking
- Replies became a debate about how seriously to take COVID-19 precautions
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Battle of the Roses
Run by FireKingArd
A first-time organiser ran the event with a secondary judge after four registered bladers failed to show, drawing twenty attendees under pandemic-era precautions including masks, hand sanitizer, distancing and bottled water. A Challonge setup problem forced the results to be tracked manually, a workaround the organiser learned partway through from another attendee. The secondary judge went undefeated through the swiss stage but was eliminated in the first round of the finals bracket.
- 4th Cdrago
- Ran under pandemic precautions including masks, hand sanitizer, distancing and prepackaged snacks
- A Challonge setup issue forced the organiser to track results by hand for the whole event
- The undefeated secondary judge was eliminated in the very first round of the finals bracket
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Eleven players ran a full round robin, playing every other entrant once, on a cold February day. The eventual champion swept the round robin stage with a Genbu Dragoon stamina combo before adjusting to Duo Cygnus and then a KO-focused Death Hades combo through the finals bracket, beating Common Pickle in the final and contrasting it with a middling finish at a much larger event the year before. Combo variety across the field was unusually wide for its size, with almost no repeated left-spin answers to the champion's lineup.
- 1st Ardmore Bladers Death Hades BD145 CS and Flash Hades H125 RF in the deck-format finals
- 2nd Common Pickle Balro Reviser E230 WD and Burn Leone 145 TB in the deck-format finals
- 3rd Kmuller Flash Sagittario 230 WD in the deck-format finals
- The eventual champion swept the round robin stage before adjusting combos twice more through the finals bracket
- Combo variety across the small field was unusually wide, with almost nobody countering the champion's left-spin lineup
- The champion contrasted the result with a middling finish at a much larger event the previous year
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The Big Apple Warrior: The Return of the Big Apple
Run by Mr. Memes and swaglakitu
New York City's first sanctioned gathering since the pandemic drew eighteen registrations but only thirteen competitors after poor weather and a location mix-up in Central Park cost over an hour. A weight-heavy defensive combination repeatedly saved its user from otherwise-favourable attack matchups through the group stage, and a tiebreaker was needed to settle the final spot in the four-player finals. The closing final swung on one player's committed use of a single stamina combination against a hard-hitting attacker, and the write-up credits the co-host's handling of rules and pacing on his first event running the community.
- 1st Armor Gravity CH120MF
- 2nd swaglakitu
- 3rd AJ23god Libra MF and Bakushin RSF
- First sanctioned New York City gathering since the pandemic.
- Weather and a Central Park location mix-up cost over an hour before play began, shrinking the field from eighteen registered to thirteen competing.
- Co-host's debut as an organiser for the community, praised for handling rules and pacing despite the late start.
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A modified-combination format saw competitors' Beyblades shuffled between each other under a separate rules document before the bracket played out on Challonge. Results were posted with no narrative account of individual matches.
- 1st grizz.adams
- 2nd DranzerDice
- 3rd ZEMblades
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Yami Tournament Episode 4: A New Bey Hope
Run by Yami
First-time reporter CheetoBlader wrote up a Yami-hosted local event, the fourth in a personal tournament series, where Hell Salamander combinations were the standout trend and carried several players into the top eight. An illegal tournament launcher had to be confiscated and swapped mid-event after a dispute, and a contested double-burst ruling in round five cost CheetoBlader that match. CheetoBlader lost the third-place match to Yami, who won it with a Crash Ragnaruk-based combination.
- 3rd Yami cR.??.Ds'
- An illegal launcher in use during the second round caused a dispute that the host had to step in and personally resolve by issuing a replacement.
- A contested double-burst call in round five became a minor point of friction afterward, with the host publicly asking the reporter not to characterise it as a bad call.
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Sway Central
Run by daniel
Daniel's belated write-up of the Sway Central event describes a ten-player round robin of nine matches each, with a mix of stamina combinations, sway-attackers and an F230GCF variant in play. Two attendees who arrived late had their matches held until later in the day rather than forfeited. Daniel finished first outright at 7-2, with Kei, Ultimate Blaze and The Sponge settling second through fourth via a mini playoff among their tied 6-3 records.
- 1st daniel
- 2nd Kei
- 3rd Ultimate Blaze
- Late-arriving players had their matches rescheduled rather than dropped, keeping the whole field intact.
- A three-way tie at 6-3 for second through fourth place was broken with a short round robin among just those three players.
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A short results post for the Texas Burst event lists three named competitors with their beyblade combinations, alongside a Challonge bracket link and a Google Sheets record, with no narrative account of how the day played out.
- 1st HalfOrcSteve Diabolos 2, Master, Sting, Distroy Dash
- 2nd EdCass76 Dragon, Retsu, cosmo, 0 disk, planet
- 3rd Eclipse 5 Diabolos 2, Master, Generate
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The Circuit: Dark Continent 2022
Run by StayCool
StayCool organised his first major tournament, a 56-player event at a Raleigh convention centre that drew competitors from across the Carolinas, Maryland, Florida, Indiana, Georgia and New Jersey, plus one traveller from Canada. A pre-tournament rules briefing from a WBO rules writer was needed to align judges who came from regions with different local interpretations, and a locked door and an uncertain security guard briefly complicated setup before doors opened only slightly behind schedule. T&J Make Em' Burst won the event outright, and StayCool's lasting impression was of the scale of the community that turned out rather than any single match.
- 1st T&J Make Em' Burst
- Competitors travelled in from at least six different US states plus Canada, an unusually wide geographic draw for the community.
- A pre-event rules briefing was needed specifically because judges from different regions had been enforcing some rules differently.
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The Direction Chooses You! Make Way for Same Spin!
Run by Plot Armor
First-time host Plot Armor ran an experimental event in which each preliminary round's spin direction was fixed in advance, defaulting to the opposite direction whenever one side repeated twice in a row; the rule gave left-spin attack combinations, especially Guilty and Savior builds, unusually free rein. Plot Armor advanced to the final on his own Guilty-based combination after early stumbles, then watched two lent parts, a Metal Xtreme driver and a Devil Bey blade, travel through the bracket and ultimately help decide the final. Dylan2000 beat Diamond Blader in the final for his first tournament win, with Xorn23 taking third over Zektor.
- 1st Dylan2000 Guilty combination, with dynamitef giga HXtend+' used earlier in the final
- 2nd Diamond Blader Guilty on Zone'+Z, and Vanish on Bearing in the final
- 3rd Xorn23 Prominence on Moment
- A pre-set, round-by-round spin-direction rule was tried for the first time and was credited with letting left-spin attack types dominate the preliminary rounds.
- Parts lent out earlier in the day by one of the semi-finalists ended up being used against him and others later in the bracket, which he later called a mistake.
- Dylan2000's win was his first tournament final and first overall victory.
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The Fire Festival
Run by FireKingArd
FireKingArd reported on The Fire Festival from both the organiser's and the player's side, running three tables of 5G-format play despite some early Challonge trouble and late arrivals. As a competitor, FireKingArd lost only once all day, in the final, to UnionAchilles, taking second place after two close matches between the pair. FireKingArd highlighted the format's variety of combinations, including a deck built entirely from Metal Fight Beyblade-era remakes, as the day's biggest draw.
- 1st UnionAchilles [MCC] Tempest Solomon Wheel Zone'+Z 1S; Rage Longinus Destroy' 3A; Brave Lucifer Xtend+ 2A
- 2nd FireKingArd Master Spriggan Wheel Zone'+Z; [MCC] Tempest Uranus Atomic 2B; Rage Helios II High Jaggy' 3A; Brave Lucifer Xtend+ 2A; Zwei Longinus Sting Xceed'+X Goku
- Assembling the 5G stadium boxes needed for three simultaneous tables was singled out as unexpectedly time-consuming.
- A deck built entirely of Metal Fight Beyblade remakes competed successfully in the 5G format.
- A young player's near-comeback from 4-1 down to 5-4 in the finals rounds was called out as one of the day's best matches.
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Top Cut Clash Jackpot $1k Tournament
Run by Phantom_Blur
Phantom_Blur thanked judges and the 81 entrants of the Top Cut Clash Jackpot $1k tournament, a seven-round event that cut to a top 32 and then a top 8. Requiem God won the tournament, with Cez second and Speak2Ryan sharing third and fourth place. Phantom_Blur closed by promising more monthly tournaments in the series to come.
- 1st Requiem God
- 2nd Cez
- 3rd Speak2Ryan [AWWC]
- 81 entrants made this one of the larger tournaments in this reporter's monthly series.
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Top Cut Clash Wizard Cup
Run by Phantom_Blur
Phantom_Blur recapped the Top Cut Clash Wizard Cup, a 62-player event held the previous Saturday with prize sponsorship from the Anti Wizard Wizard Club community. HandyMannyPorque won first place and the event's special one-of-a-kind AWWC hat, with Ashe taking second and Muffinmage third.
- 1st HandyMannyPorque
- 2nd Ashe
- 3rd Muffinmage
- The top prize was a one-of-a-kind hat supplied by an outside community sponsor rather than a standard prize.
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Luilas0520 posted the results of a Beyblade X event at Top Deck Games in Cherry Hill, naming Mrzen215 as the winner ahead of Peanuts in second and David B. in third, alongside a link to the Challonge bracket. A deck-recording error meant the third-place finisher's combination could not be included.
- 1st Mrzen215
- 2nd @Peanuts
- 3rd David B.
- A deck-recording system error meant the third-place finisher's combination went unrecorded.
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Luilas0520 posted the results of a Beyblade X event at Top Deck Games in Cherry Hill, naming Mrzen215 as the winner ahead of Peanuts in second and David B. in third, alongside a link to the Challonge bracket. A deck-recording error meant the third-place finisher's combination could not be included.
- 1st Mrzen215
- 2nd @Peanuts
- 3rd David B.
- A deck-recording system error meant the third-place finisher's combination went unrecorded.
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Luilas0520 posted the results of the third Extreme Battle event at Top Deck Games in Cherry Hill, with a melee.gg bracket link and no combination details due to a listing error. Pastel Clown won ahead of PauM in second and Panda Rockstar in third.
- 1st Pastel Clown
- 2nd PauM
- 3rd Panda Rockstar
- A listing error meant no decklists were available for this event's results.
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Thirteen bladers competed at a frozen yogurt shop that hosted the event for several hours, split into two round-robin blocks feeding a finals stage. Both the third-place and championship matches needed tiebreaker rounds to settle, with the eventual champion overcoming the block-two leader in a close final. The reporter also broke down each of his own block matches, citing a broken launcher partway through as a costly setback.
- 1st Thunder Dome Duo Aquario 230MB
- 2nd Stormscorpio1 Duo Cancer 230MB
- 3rd TheBlackDragon MSF-L Girago Dragooon SA165 (Attack Mode) EWD
- The venue was a frozen yogurt shop rather than a typical tournament space
- Both the third-place match and the final required tiebreaker rounds
- A launcher malfunction mid-event affected at least one match outcome
- The event followed up on a similarly named gathering held two years earlier
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Let's Play!
Run by StayCool
A first-time host's windy outdoor 3-on-3 event drew fifteen players ranging in age from seven to their thirties, including a volunteer parent who filled out an uneven group. Strong wind died down before the tournament proper and the finals were played outside on open grass once conditions cleared. The host narrowly beat a longtime rival in the final after switching combos mid-match, a win against an opponent he says he had never beaten before.
- 1st StayCool Vanish Longinus (switched from Vanish Fafnir)
- 2nd LJ-Blader Vanish Longinus, then Savior Valkyrie on Xtreme'
- 3rd Mamabey
- A volunteer parent filled an uneven bracket group at the last minute
- Host's first-ever win over a rival he had never previously beaten
- Wide age range reaching the final four, from a grade-schooler to an adult
- Wind forced the event to start under shelter and finish on open grass
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A returning Metal Fight-era player who travelled from Scotland built a deliberately low-risk, low-resource Beyblade X deck around PhoenixWing, WizardRod and DranBuster for an eighty-player London event full of familiar faces from years earlier. He won his opening match easily, then survived a nail-biting 7-5 win in a WizardRod mirror match before reaching a long-awaited match in the finals against a childhood friend who first introduced him to the WBO. The account breaks off mid-description of that final match before its result is given.
- Deck deliberately built to minimize prize-bey risk for a large field
- A years-long personal rivalry finally meets in tournament play
- Field included many familiar faces returning from the Metal Fight era
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WBBA 3on3 Seattle
Run by Zektor
An eighteen-person swiss event held in Tukwila, Washington to open the new year, run under three-on-three rules with judges pulled from the local community. Wind-attribute Xcalibur combinations were the most common choice in the field, and a five-way tie for first pushed the standings into the finals. The host came away with the win after a tense final round.
- 1st Zektor
- Traditional disk-burst stadiums replaced the smaller B-33 stadiums used at the group's Christmas event
- Wind Xcalibur was the most-played combination across the field
- A five-way tie for first forced a swiss finish before the top four were settled
- Turnout nearly doubled the region's usual winter numbers, suggesting stronger attendance ahead
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A South Florida meetup, only the area's third ever, drew more than twenty entrants to an indoor venue for a two-group swiss stage followed by same-day finals. An extra match was played to settle third and fourth place after the main bracket wrapped up. Full standings and brackets were shared through outside links rather than described in the write-up itself.
- Only the third organized gathering held in the South Florida area
- A separate match was played specifically to decide third and fourth place
- Results were shared through an external spreadsheet and bracket site rather than summarized directly
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Vero Beach Blading 1
Run by JCE_13
The first Vero Beach Blading event ran smoothly enough that the host called it nearly self-sufficient after fixing a single bracket error early on. The host's own account of the matches highlighted a comeback specialist's habit of winning close games, capped by a five-four final victory. No attendance figures or full standings were shared beyond the host's and one player's personal recaps.
- 1st UnionAchilles
- The host needed to fix only one bracket issue for the whole event to run smoothly
- The champion was noted specifically for a pattern of comeback wins
- The event's photos were promised for a later post rather than included at the time
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Voxel X Beyblade Tournament: Draft Format Vol-6
Run by The_Gotham
The sixth Voxel X event used an unranked one-on-one draft format, with entrants building decks from parts pulled at random from a themed booster. Only the third-place finisher and combination were listed, alongside a link to the bracket.
- 3rd hp hero PheonixRudder 4-55 O
- Decks were built from parts drafted at random from a themed booster rather than brought from home
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WhatTheBeyDays!?
Run by Whiskeytango
Fourteen bladers turned out to a Portland park despite a threat of rain for the host's first tournament in the city, running two round-robin groups into a top four. Dynamite F Perseus combinations dominated the group stage and carried the eventual champion through a hard-fought final over a longtime finalist. The host praised the mix of kids and adults and the quality of judging that kept the rounds moving in about three hours.
- 1st DiamondBlader Dynamite F Perseus Over Bearing'
- 2nd Lyriq Vanish Longinus Giga Drift
- 3rd Dmaster1292
- Dynamite F Perseus was by far the most successful combination of the day
- The event mixed kids and adults competitively, described as a healthy sign for the local scene
- The champion and runner-up had each already beaten the other's main combination once before the final
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