Hey everyone DARKFATE here, so this is gonna be my attempt at an article. Now I know antigoth offered to publish and what not, which is awesome. But I dont wanna get paid I just wanna do this for fun. Ok today I want to discuss a new player's tournament experience, what I mean by this is not so much a tourney report, but a point which when a player enters a tournament and naturally loses to a majority of the players. But as time goes on and card pools develop, play skills get polished, and proper deck bulding begins to merge. The players they were losing to are now getting a run for there money and even beating the other players.

So with that said let me try to get in a little deeper with my experience with this. Like I mentioned in the other thread which made me wanna do these articles, I've recently started UFS at my local hobby shop we've had a total of four tournaments with about 5 to 6 people at a time playing in each tournament. So with my first tournament I ran a face down ALEX themed deck, the reason I went with this was because I had the majority of his support and felt let me work with this. Now out of 3 matches I won 1 and that was against a new player like me, the other guys who I lose to have been playing since the beginning but due to my scouting they now play at my shop. Now in the matches I lost one of them I really didnt have a chance it was a JUN/ORDER deck and I had no answers for it. But the other was an astaroth deck, now there was one move that I pulled off in that match that made me feel like maybe I can really be good in this game, now I dont remember the exact way way so forgive me I have at least 8 foundation and 2 face down cards from the previous turn because of alex's effect, so I do time square remove those 2 facedowns from my card pool to give my cards -2 difficulty and I had just played chop and did chops enhance so it got the bonus from its effect and from me doing timesquare. So chop got completely blocked but since its effect is static it went facedown. So now 2 of the facedowns are cleared and only chop remains but its face down, so now I play kuzuryu reppa ( I only have 2 lol) I had one momentum at the time, now kuzu costed 2 less so the check was easily done, I do the multiple and then with the only lord of the makai I own use its enhance to gain a momentum and with this I do alex's enhance which is ( when an attack deals damage you can put it face down, so I do bitter rivals change the zone to low for each of the kuzu) he block both but the get halved. Then they went facedown from alex's effect I believed I then played dedication enhance not to sure and cleared kuzu and I also had the di the one with ryu pointing at alex effect I forget the name, so now my entire card pool is clear so now I tag along ( now if any players are wondering if he is new how does he have all these cards I some of the good stuff and I had bought quite a few boxes of each of the sets, so I could be content with what I had) but yea tag along get kuzu back play it and do the multiple he takes the hit and then I boomerang raid and due to all the clearing it is now at 11 atk but then he blocks it by half ( I guess he knew I had it lol. The next turn I pretty much had no blocks and got killed but gave him a good beating.

Now I will add to this article but I want to see what people think of my writing so far to see if it should be continued or not. Hope you enjoyed the first and want to hear more.

This is DARK FATE'S TAKE

I'll tell you what I tell everyone: work on tuning up your grammar.

Some general guidelines for a quick improvement:

1. Use periods more often, instead of commas. There were several run-on sentences, so it reads as if you're spilling out the story in one breath. Simply replacing commas with periods whenever you end a thought will smooth out your pacing nicely.
2. Add more paragraph breaks. These are much more necessary on the web than on the printed page. Rough rule of thumb for now: if you've written three sentences, think about adding a paragraph break; if you've written five sentences, definitely break.
3. Check your spelling. I think I saw some typos.
4. Write your article in a Word file (or similar), and read over it (out loud) before you post. Or read over it as soon as you post, and then do an edit.

Not bad. Like I said before, new player perspectives are always cool to have, and we don't get enough of them.

I like the enthusiasm that's clearly evident when you describe that turn with Alex. You really showcase how action-packed UFS can be, how combos can flow together, and how appealing that is to someone just starting out. Thanks. (: