Preparing for regionals

Hello Buddyfighters!

With Regional qualifiers right around the corner, We will be providing some useful tips on how one can prepare for their upcoming regional and do well in them! We will do a step by step breakdown on what you have to consider if you are hoping to do well and have fun!

1. Attend as many locals as possible one or two months before the actual event. This will help you analyse and learn the current meta state of the game and also you can make friends with experienced who will give you some good tips. The key to doing well is to discuss and playtest with others!

2. Pick a Meta deck and practice with the same deck again and again until you have reached a point where you wont do any miss plays. Then you can slowly change one or two cards to cover the weakness of the deck. Players who often switch decks will find them self doing missplays more as they do not know their own deck as compared to players who master one deck. That being said, the deck you master must be a deck that consistently does well in the meta.

3. Knowing your match ups. When it comes to match ups, Certain decks can be very difficult for you to face against. For example, if you are playing a deck that looses to a certain deck in particular, it is advisable to include cards that will help you specifically in that match up and also has a beneficial effect in general. Such an example would be cards like "Loyalty". Another thing to note is that if you are playing one of the best decks in the meta such as Dimension Dragons now, then you should not worry about playing against rogue decks that much compared to meta decks that specifically counter Dimension Dragons. If a certain deck is considered meta, it is likely so because the deck has an edge over other decks. So instead of worrying about a certain rogue match that might beat you, it is more practical to main or side cards against other meta decks that can potentially beat you.

4. Controversial to what people may say, it is better to finalize your deck the night before regionals as that gives you more time to analyse the meta and come up with counter measures. Get a group of trustworthy friends and discuss with them the night before and then finalize your decklist. This has been one our most effective strategy.

5. Do not get paranoid about certain decks that you think might beat you. do not overthink about situations that rarely happen. Every strategy will have a counter to them, it is all about how easy it is for other decks to counter them. Lets say you are playing Gboost Garga based deck. The deck can be stopped easily by Buddyblock. However, you have to consider that not every deck will main deck Buddyblock and even if they do its highly unlikely that they will main more than two copies. So you have to understand that they have to even have it in their hand before they can counter you with it.  So getting paranoid about a certain situation and choosing not play a certain card or deck might end up causing you the tournament.

6. Reach the venue early and have a heavy breakfast and gets lots of sleep the previous night. your body and mind must be at their peak performance for you to do well and not do any missplays.

7. Always remember, This is a game about having fun! Do not be sad if you did not do well. Do not give up and keep on trying until you reach your goal. Never hold grudges and destroy your friendships because of the game. The only thing that matters is that you enjoyed the event together.

That sums up on our tips for preparing for regionals. if you think we missed anything important out do leave a comment!

Keep on Buddyfighting~