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Oho! Nora’s got a rival, does she? Or just someone who grates on her nerves?
could be a simp who can’t take a hint
It is either the guy or the type of deck he uses. Perhaps both.
It might be someone from her school who (thinks he) is a rival of Benji. It might be a deck with lots of debuffing cards leading to a long drawnout game.
I’m thinking it’s Benji himself. Because I think it would be amusing and a cute inclusion to their relationship for the two of them to have a “rivals in games, lovers outside of them” aspect, where they treat each other like they’re antagonistic acquaintances in one SPECIFIC situation (games), and then, when that situation (game) is concluded, the victor comforts the loser.
My money’s on a cheesey guy who grunts at damage and slaps every card down with a flourish. It can be fun in casuals but it eats up the timer during tournaments. At least this one looks like single elimination instead of Swiss format (the format my game plays)
For anyone curious in Swiss you don’t get eliminated if you lose. It’s more about your total win loss ratio where you’re paired with someone close to your current W:L each round. my game of choice runs best of 3, so going to time before a clear winner is decided can tank both of your W:L and push you both down the rankings. A single 1 win, 1 loss, 1draw can cost you first place even if you won every other match.
Hmmm, would that guy happen to be Nate? Guess we will find out next week!
My thoughts exactly.
If it is Nate it might be a good chance for Rex to troll Nate back and cheer for Nora.
The rest of the gang is back, just in time to watch the tournament and cheer their friends on!
Nora doesn’t sound too happy.
i´m sensing a backstory here….
When has Nora’s luck ever made things truly easy for her? The one whom the Brown Rabbit of Doom brings doom to the most is herself…
Hooray! Kai and Kaya have returned for this chapter and just in time for their annual 15th birthday, too! As the titular Twin Dragons, they are contractually required to appear in every chapter, however briefly.
Nora has received good news and bad news; the good news is she has a chance to face off against Amy so she can do her best to kick her little cousin’s fuzzy butt; the bad news is she has to duel someone else first, someone she’s familiar with and seems to find annoying to duel… Is she referring to someone we already know or a new character ? Could they be River? Nate? Charon? Jenny?
As the tournament is brackets are made clear, it’s almost time to duel! Get ready to see Duel Monsters/YuGiOh style card battling, at least in Kaya’s imagination.
Doubt it’s that last one. She said “guy”.
Her life’s full of foes
She collects them, it seems.
From that guy to this
and the bunny of her bad dreams.
Prepare for trouble, at the double;
the twins have found them here.
If they thought things mad before…
Someone hold Maya’s root beer.
The game is on, the path revealed;
Holding Nora and Amy divided.
If Benji’s playing, with his deck;
will he be where victory’s decided?
I think you meant to write “Kaya”.
Yup. Phone auto correct strikes!
Almost surprised it didn’t “correct” it to “Kay.” 😉
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
“Don’t lunch on our lawn!”? 😉
Panel 2: Mayhaps add a comma to “Hey”?
No
I think it’s one of those “either way is correct” things. 🙂
Why is the tournament single elimination*? The participants only get an average of 2 matches…**
*Doylist reason: it’s simple for readers to understand.
**This is independent of tournament size! A participant gets eliminated each match, and all but one get eliminated. Add in a 3rd-place match to have matches equal participants, and as each match requires 2 participants, the average number of matches per participant is 2.
It’s my impression single elimination is used most in settings where most of the contestants who lose are expected to want to watch the winning match, while Swiss format is used in settings where most of the participants want to keep on participating. That said, there’s also a scaling factor. Single elimination requires a number of rounds equal to log2(number of players), no more, no less. Swiss format could have more rounds than log2(number of players) if not as many people show up as expected, and if there’s a factor that can be used to score victories more finely than a single count, such as total time or victor turn time (and there always is), Swiss format can also handle having too many matches to have all the people who won all their games play each other.
As far as how one counts time, if one counts the total time of each player’s matches, then having an opponent who plays slowly for any reason can negatively impact your performance. On the other hand, if one counts just the time that the victor spent on their own turn, someone with a deck that’s more active on their opponent’s turn penalizes their opponent and gives themselves an unfair advantage. It’s also more difficult for the judges, without something like chess clocks to keep track. Timing the amount of time that each player was active in their game (regardless of whose turn it was) is much more difficult for the judges to track, and chess clocks are insufficient to the task.
To be clear, I think I’ve only once heard of a tournament where they counted the victor’s turn time rather than the match time, and that match not coincidentally happened in a chess hall (so they had chess clocks right there.) I’ve never heard of any formal tournament counting player activity time. The informal tournament that I participated in that counted player active time was between friends, there were only 4 participants, and only one table, so the incredibly anal SOB who insisted that was the only fair way to count the time was able to focus on every game (including his own, which could have lead to conflicts except for how truly OCD he was about it. And, well, the bit where he lost his first match, because he was too focused on keeping track of when people were doing things to pay attention to *what* they were doing, including himself. Well, and also because he was generally too impatient to read past the first sentence or first line, whichever was shorter, on most cards’ descriptions.)
So he was amusing to watch fail? 🙂