*** DISCLAMER : I primarily speak french, so if you find it difficult to understand, well, i made every effort to make myself clear. Not enough for you? BACK BUTTON! ***

Every tuesday evening at Gamer's World Montreal is an evening i habitually anticipate with great interest.

Last tuesday was not different. All day long at work i was thinking about this evening. Finally, job over, let's go back to my place to eat and relax! I even had the time to build this new deck i wanted to try for weeks now... so here i was, finally leaving, joining with my buddy Target X and hop to Gamer's World!

First mistake... my new deck was one fire deck off Akuma6... the so hated Akuma6... which i never had difficulty to beat... well anyway...

First matchup againt Token and a new deck idea he had. I end up beating him pretty easily, but it was fun and not too frustrating for him. ( i hope )

Second matchup against Charles ( Lazy Lantern ) and his Chun-Li9... hurg i hate this chun-li... *duuuhhh feline spike... check6... you dead... hhhuuuggg* but he has no Spike, his deck is based off another idea... fine i'm safe, i sooooo hate Spike and the 6 checks deck off air or water that has only 2 prerequisite: money and the IQ of a drunk Lumberjack... If you meet those, you wack faces... anyway... cool! I beat him...

but then the arguing start... him, Target X and Hatman start jumping on me as Akuma should be banned, he's broken, too strong, not cool, easy mode, frustrating... bla bla bla... as if Spike wasn't, and those last 2 have playset they hapily throw in your face without remorse... Hey, everyone and his sister have played Akuma6 one day or another... it's my first time playing him, and with a pure C/UC deck aggro fire deck, no foilys... no control piece... come on...

Third matchup start, which end the arguing, to my great relief, i was getting really irritated of being jumped on by friends...

I end up against the new guy, Alex, who had no chance in the past, getting his face wacked for weeks now... surprising, he confirm me he is 2-0 win like me... amazing i tell him happilly. Uggrhhh... he have an Air, Starter Mai, feline spike, 6 check deck... I expect much fun, and surprisingly have. He barely kill me with a Spike because i made the mistake of commiting my character instead of my last foundation to block his precedent attack, and feline spike has stun. I need a 5 to live.. check a 4... my mistake cost me the game... Second mistake of the evening.

You still there? well keep up, cause now the amazing part start...

Me, Charles and Hatman try to guess what will be top 4 of this 9 persons event.

Obviously Alex, being the only 3-0, will be first.

I am 2-1, but beat Charles, and got beaten by Alex, the no 1.

Charles is also 2-1, beaten by me, never meet Alex

Hatman is 1-2 and lost against Alex

Target X is also 2-1 but got one of his victory with a bye and didn't play against Alex.

WE guess that top 4 will be : Alex, Me, Charles, then Target X.... Hatman is gonna be 5th or somethin...

Result are out.......... Target X announce the result..... Alex 1st, Charles 2nd, Target X 3rd, Me 4th, then Hatman somewhere...

HUH? how i am 4th? having beaten Charles and only having been beaten by Alex... 2nd, 3rd and 4th place have the exact same tie breaker... how?!?

Target X point us the answer... C D M ... the new FFG tournament software ordered us by alphabetical order ( Alex, Charles, David and then me, Martin )

...I die inside... Alphabetical order???

yes you heard it... the new software doesn't compute Tie Breakers correctly and order players by alphabetical order...

Now imagine in major tournament of 30-40+ players... you wanna make top 8? hope your name is not Xavier or William...

Can Nats 2009 is one month away, and i just learned a wonderfull fact...

If top 9 looks like this :

1st 6-0-0 Remi

2nd 5-0-1 Alex

3rd 5-0-1 Bob

4th 4-1-1 John

5th 4-1-1 Tom

6th 3-2-1 Vermillian ( )

7th 3-2-1 Target X

8th 3-2-1 Hatman

9th 3-2-1 Charles

then because the software order by alphabetical order, Vermillian will get kicked out of top 8 even if he theorically ended 6th ...

That idea revolt me...

That has to be a glitch in the system. I'm sure it will be fixed.

Lolwat. strange for sure so, then, i'll register at can nats with my username. can i has my card plz?

Strange things happen with UFS soft ware... just ask everyone last year at Origins. ... ok ONE of those three delays was probably my fault...

Admiral Ren said:

Yeah, same here.

Unlike in EVE Online where having low alphabetical name is terrible because you get targeted first in fleet battles.

Wow, major glitch.

I use DCI software anyways; pretty much the exact same thing.

I'm totally going to have to enter the next tournament that's using this glitchy software as Aaron Aab. Completely made up name, but totally possible.

=p

Shaneth said:

From what our Magic organizer at World's was telling us, you could be banned from running official magic tournies if a DCI rep ever caught that. Just as a heads up. And granted, I dunno if this is true or not, as I don't play Magic lol

I will now register my name for all tournaments as 01001110011010010110001101101011

That's why you manually go in and change it or do it on paper like real TO's do. This by itself is enough reason for me never to travel for the game.

my name dooms me!!!!!!!

trane said:

More than your record?

Lol. This cost me a couple of top 8s, including one in LA a few years ago. Good times.

Why don't they just use exel for the **** tourneys, or just do it in like word and add up the numbers themselves.

quarzark said:

The fixed binary version or the one on the card?

Also, yes we were bitching because it's what we do.

Homme Chapeau said:

actually, that's my name in binary.

quarzark said:

Honestly, it'd have been funnier if you top 8ed and used the fixed card.

"And in 6th position... LMAO!"

Homme Chapeau said:

how the hell do you know your binary name?

The Darkstalker said:

cause I'm a computer geek?

quarzark said:

You sure are.

Also, I didn't play Alex. I played Lantern, Target X and TokenToken.

LMAO!! That just made my day. The software being used should have been tested and tweaked to no end before being released to the public. Luckily I do belive BP works for a software company and I am sure that if you guys talk to his company that they can make something bigger, better, stronger.

I am really considering quitting UFS right now...

This has bugged me all week long since tuesday... that evening simply broke everythings.

I'm tired of trying to find ways to beat those who only try to break the game to win...

Sir Shajir's Deck in Montreal's Regional just gave me nightmares 3 days after...

And now this... Can Nats 2009 is one month away i learn that because the software is poorly designed i'll get screwded... hell no...

come down someday. i need to play some games. i wanna see how my crap decks sucks.

I'll just register with my last name, "Bro" is probably close enough to the start of the alphabet right?

My brother's name is Ben, so he'll be fine either way...

Wafflecopter said:

BROFIST IF U R A BRO