HyperMind YuGiOh

DECEMBER HOBBY LEAGUE WINNERS

2007-12-29T12:26:00.000-08:00

Congrats to Todd for winning the Friday Night Duelist League for December. Nick won for under 16. Zach took the mat for Saturday Hobby League, for the first time. Tony won for the under 16. The promo card was SCAPEGOAT (w00t!).

Don't forget BONEHEIMER MANIA, January Saturdays, 2:00!

GREENSBORO REGIONAL REPORT

2007-12-17T17:08:00.000-08:00

HyperMind was represented well at the Greensboro YuGiOh Regionals on Sunday. Tommy, Dylan, Gordon, Jonathan, Todd, Beth, Zach, and Cody all competed (and Brian hung out). I've heard from Jonathan who finished 4-4 which was good enough for 76th out of 250+. Good job. He and todd both brought home Regional Mats they won as door prizes. VERY COOL.

But the BIG NEWS is (at least from what I heard) Tommy took SECOND PLACE. All right! WTG!

BONHEIMER MANIA COMING IN JANUARY!

2007-12-16T16:08:00.000-08:00

It's almost here. Brian's favorite YuGiOh card takes center stage as the format for YuGiOh Hobby League Saturday is "BONHEIMER MANIA." Here's what's happening:

Your deck must contain a minimum of 42 cards (instead of 40).
Your deck must contain one currently banned card (like Monster Reborn).
Your deck must contain one copy of Boneheimer (as if it doesn't already, right?)

That's it. All other advanced format rules apply. You earn hobby league points for the month just for registering!

"But I don't have a Boneheimer," you say? Are you sure? Dig out that box of old commons and look through them one more time. If you still can't find one then you can substitute any one of the following cards for your Boneheimer:

Twin Long Rods #2 (MRL-057)
The Furious Sea King (LOB-033)
Lightning Conger (LON-060)
Frog the Jam (MP1-004)
Turu-Purun (TP2-017)

If you can't find any of these, you can trade for them. Or, if you're really desparate, Denise will have some copies available at the counter. Just plan on being there, Saturday's 2:00 - 4:00!

REMEMBER! Saturday Hobby League is a great time for beginner players. If you have friends just starting out, bring them!

Champ Pack 4 Hits HyperMind

2007-09-15T06:18:00.000-07:00

Friday was the first day of the new Champion Pack Four Series. These cards are exclusive to Hobby League Stores. Lots of surprises as we opened the first packs. There are Common versions of Treeborn Frog and D.D. Survior. No one pulled any Super Rares, but DOUG snagged one of the new Ultra Rares: Gernia! Congratulations!

Saturday Tourney Recap

2007-09-15T06:17:00.001-07:00

Gratz to Cody for winning Friday's tournament. Julius went undefeated in the swiss rounds with his new warrior deck Props to Brandon and Vincent for also making the top four!

Saturday Traditional Tournaments

2007-09-08T06:37:00.000-07:00

Saturdays at HyperMind. That's the place to pull out all those cards that have fallen on the forbidden list! Black Luster Soldier? Remember him? Raigeki! Change of Heart! Monster Reborn! They can all make it back into your deck now.

Hypermind is running a Saturday Hobby League from 2:00-4:00. The format is different from Friday night, and we encourage new and younger players to come out. Here's how it works:

HOBBY LEAGUE MELÉE . Entry fee is $1.00 or Buy-a-Pack. There are three REQUIRED match-ups that will be announced every 30-45 minutes. These matches earn the most hobby league points. In between matches, play anyone else (maximum of two matches), for bonus hobby league points.

Play in three Hobby League Melées this month and get an exclusive Hobby League Parallel Rare Card: Green Gadget!

Remember: Traditional Format means there are no banned cards. However, all the good ones are still restricted to ONE copy. See the link at right for a list of current Forbidden and Limited cards.

Judge's Corner - Attacking Monster vs Book of Moon

2007-09-08T06:00:00.000-07:00

So you thought judge's never get it wrong? Okay, so maybe you never thought that. Well we do; at least I do.

It happened last night. Here's the situation: Robert Attacks with a Pegasus that was set a couple of turns ago. Bryant activates Book of Moon to flip the Pegasus face down and stop the attack. In main phase 2, Robert flips Pegasus face up. Legal or not?

BOOK OF MOON (Quick-play spell): Flip 1 face-up monster on the field into face-down Defense Position.

Well, the rules say that once a monster has declared an attack, a player can't change it's battle position that turn (unless by card effect, like Book of Moon). But, in most cases, when a card is "booked" it's effects all resets.

So I ruled that since Pegasus was reset by Book of Moon and that Robert was allowed to flip him face up again in Main Phase 2. I was wrong. I looked up the ruling this morning and found out that while Book of Moon resets most card effects, it does not change the fact that the card had already declared an attack this turn. Here's the official ruling:

"When you activate "Book of Moon" during the Battle Step to flip an attacking monster into face-down Defense Position, the attack stops. No replay is triggered. The attacking monster cannot change its battle position in Main Phase 2, because it is still considered to have declared an attack. (So it cannot be Flip Summoned in Main Phase 2.)"

So now we know, and my apologies to Bryant!

Friday Night Roundup

2007-09-07T23:04:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Bryant for winning his first tournament at HyperMind. That's "first" as in "first time he played here." His Cyberdark Impact deck (with a single Snipe Hunter) proved to be unstoppable. Other cards to look out for in this deck include Hunter Dragon and Cyperdark Impact from of the new Tactical Evolution Set. Congrats to Cody and his second place finish.

TOURNAMENT REPORT, April 27

2007-05-01T15:35:00.000-07:00

This was our end of the month Hobby League prize night. ROBERT had it in the bag, but failed to make the top 8, giving TOMMY the monthly championship! DYLAN won for the under 16 Champion. KEVIN won the roll and got the freebie. The Hobby League card was a beautiful Swords of Revealing Light. ALSO! Congrats to Dylan for winning the Friday Night Tournament too!

TOURNAMENT REPORT, APRIL 20

2007-04-20T23:59:00.000-07:00

Another record crowd as 30 duelist packed HyperMind (not to mention 18 for Magic!). It took five rounds of swiss to get to the elite 8, with Cody being the only undefeated going into the finals. The other finalists were Kevin, Gordon, Dylan, Daniel, Robert, Harrison, and Nathan. Dylan defeated Daniel to win the evening.

Next week is our end-of-the month prize night, so make sure to come out for even more chances to win stuff! Here are the point standings for the month so far.

Robert	16
Tommy	14
Dylan	12
Gordon	11
Daniel	11
Bobby	9
Julius	9
Harrison	9
Roger	8
John	7.5
Kevin	7.5
Tyrone	7
Melvin	7
Cody	7
Burnice	6.5
Dakota	6.5
Justin	6
Brandon	6
Jacques	6
Chace	5
Nick	5
Todd	5
Nathan	5
Abe	4.5
Alex G	4
Brian	4
Beth D	4
Trystan	3.5
Quinson	3
Jose G	3
Scott S.	2
Jason W	2
Denitia	2
James W	2
David	1
Robbie	1

CHAMPION PACK 3 IS COMING

2007-04-19T20:36:00.000-07:00

Word is rolling in about the contents of the new Champion Pack 3 coming in May. The only place to get these packs will be at sanctioned YuGiOh tournaments (like HyperMind), so plan now to play every Friday night!

This series is known for bringing hard-to-get cards to tournament players, and this set is no different. The whole list is not yet available, but what we know so far looks VERY COOL.

The new Ultra Rare will be "Magician's Unite," (that's the Japanese Artwork to the left) a Normal Spell Card that reads: "Activate only if you control 2 or more face-up Attack Position Spellcaster-Type monsters; select 1 of them. The ATK of the selected monster becomes 3000 until the end of this turn. Spellcaster-Type monster(s) you control cannot attack this turn, except the selected monster." Those spellcaster decks just got a new best friend, and possible one turn knockout (Think about how this might work with a face-up attack position Fairy Injection Lily).

The super rares will be Gravekeeper's Spy, Spirit Reaper, and (my favorite) Snipe Hunter!

And if that isn't cool enough, word has it that at least three of the rares will be D.D. Assailant, Widespread Ruin, and Goldd!

TOURNAMENT REPORT, April 13

2007-04-14T19:54:00.000-07:00

Daniel and Nick squared off once again in tonight's finals, which saw a record crowd of 25 players. Daniel took the match in two games.

TOURNAMENT REPORT, April 6

2007-04-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

Dylan's new Demise deck beat Tommy in the finals of the first hobby league tourney of the month. Robert and Dakota were the two semifinalists.

Here are the point standings for the month:

Dylan-5
Tommy-5
Robert-4
Abe-2.5
Dakota-2.5
Bobby-2
Gordon-2
John-2
Chace-2
Todd-1
Trystan-0.5

MARCH HOBBY LEAGUE REPOT

2007-03-31T03:55:00.000-07:00

Great Tournament tonight with 14 players. Went five rounds of swiss before cutting to a YOUNGER final four. Tommy, Nick, Jonathan, and Daniel all had four wins and made the finals. Daniel defeated Tommy and Nick to win tonight's tournament.

It was a close call for the Monthly Champion prize. Had either Nick or Jonathan won the tournament, the playmat would have been their's outright. Instead, Nick and Bobby played a one-game playoff after the tournament for bragging rights and the new mat. Bobby won, but in a classy move, gave the mat to Nick anyway.

Jonathan was our Under-16 winner (T-Shirt) and Gordon won the give-a-way prize. Everyone received a copy of the new Hobby League Parallel Rare "Exiled Force."

TOURNAMENT REPORT, March 16

2007-03-18T13:29:00.000-07:00

Week three saw a smaller crowd but lots of action. Top four for the night were Scott, Scotty, Bobby, and Robert. Scotty defeated Bobby for a bit of revenge as well as the tournament championship. Next Friday is the last night of the monthly Hobby League. Here are the standings:

Bobby - 13
Scotty G - 10
Dylan - 9
Robert - 9
Gordon - 8
Scott S. - 8
Nick - 7
John - 6.5
Daniel - 6
Cody - 6
Kevin - 6
Michael - 5
Justin - 4
Eric - 4
Brandon - 4
Tommy - 3
Abe - 3
Dakota - 3
Trystan - 1.5
Todd - 1
Danny - 1

TOURNAMENT REPORT, March 10

2007-03-10T16:56:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Cody for winning tonight's tournament, beating Dylan in the finals. 16 players entered, and the rest of the top eight were: Eric, Nick, Michael, Robert, Bobby, and John. Every top 8 finisher got an extra hobby league point, and Cody got two for winning! Here are the monthly standings with tonight's scores in parenthesis.

Bobby 8 (3)
Dylan 7 (4)
Nick 7 (3)
Cody 6 (6)
Daniel 6 ( 2)
John 5.5 (3)
Scotty G. DNP (5)
Gordon 5 (2)
Robert 5 (4)
Justin DNP (4)
Kevin 4 (1)
Scott S. 4 (2)
Michael 4 (4)
Eric 4 (4)
Brandon DNP (2)
Tommy DNP (2)
Abe 1 (2)
Trystan 1.5 (0)
Todd DNP (1)
Dakota 1 (1)
Danny 1 (1)

TOURNAMENT REPORT

2007-03-02T20:40:00.000-08:00

Bobby kept up his winning ways, defeating Scotty in the finals of our first 8-player finals. Other making the top 8 were Kevin, Daniel, Nick, Gordon, Justin, and Dylan.

HyperMind sold out of the two boxes of Strike of Neos they received, and many of the new cards saw play tonight, including the Samurais.

Total points for tonight below. Top 8 finishers receive an extra point. And the winner gets an additional point.

Bobby 5 points
Scotty 5 points
Justin 4 points
Daniel 4 points
Nick 4 points
Dylan 3 points
Gordon 3 points
Kevin 3 points
John 2.5 points
Scott 2 points
Brandon 2 points
Tommy 2 points
Trystan 1.5 points
Robert 1 point
Dakota 1 point
Abe 1 point
Todd 1 point

MARCH UPDATES

2007-02-24T09:42:00.000-08:00

Just a note to remind everyone that effective March 1st, the new banned and restricted list is in effect. Goodbye Graceful Charity, Magician of Faith, Last Will, and Breaker (as well as Victory Dragon). Welcome back Snatch Steal! Check out the list, and make sure your deck is tournament legal before playing!

ALSO! According to Upper Deck, cards from the the next booster set, Strike of Neos can be used in tournament play starting March 1st. One card from the new set, Neo-Spacian Grand Mole, is already on the restricted list! You can only have one in your deck.

MONTHLY HOBBY LEAGUE RECAP

2007-02-23T23:01:00.000-08:00

Our largest crowd ever turned out for the end-of-the-month Hobby League tournament. Newcomer Eric went undefeated to win tonight's tournament. He beat Nick in the finals, with Justin and Cody tying for third place.

For the month, congratulations to Dylan, who was player-of-the-month with 14 points. He won the playmat. Nick won the T-Shirt for the 15-and-under category. Logan won the drawing for the deck box.

Here are the final standings for the month (must have played three weeks to qualify).

Dylan, 14 points
Nick, 12.5 points
Bobby, 12.00 points
Justin, 12 points
Gordon, 10 points
Cody, 10 points
Todd, 9 points
Robert, 7 points
Brandon, 6.5 points
Scott, 6 points
Kevin, 5 points
Jonathan, 4 points
Dakota 3.5 points

TOURNAMENT REPORT

2007-02-16T19:06:00.000-08:00

Tonight's final four was Bobby, Dylan, Robert, and Justin. Bobby's free-style deck beat Dylan's dark world for the top spot tonight. Recap of standings after week #3. The first number is points for tonight. The second is total for the month.

Dylan: 4 (12)
Bobby: 6 (10)
Nick: 2 (8.5)
Todd: 2 (8)
Gordon: 2 (8)
Justin: 4 (8)
Robert: 4 (7)
Cody: DNP (6)
Brandon: 1 (4.5)
Scott: 2 (4)
Dakota: 1 (3)
Kevin: 1 (3)
Zack: DNP (3)
Jonathan: 0 (2)

TOURNAMENT REPORT

2007-02-09T18:27:00.000-08:00

Congrats to Cody C. for winning the tournament. He beat Dylan in the finals with a monarch control deck.

Hobby League points for the night (total for the month in parenthesis):

Dylan C. : 4 (8)
Nick S. : 2.5 (6.5)
Cody C. - 6 (6)
Todd M. : 4 (6)
Gordon M. : 2 (6)
Bobby A. : 4 (4)
Brandon F. : 1.5 (3.5)
Robert R. : 2 (3)
Dakota C. : 1.5 (2)
Jonathan M. : 2 (2)
Kevin J. : 2 (2)
Scott S. : 2 (2)
Trystan Z : 0 (0)
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Justin J. (4)
Zack O. (3)

Points for the month: 1 point for each win; 1/2 point for a bye. Each one who makes the final four gets a bonus point; and the winner of the tournament gets an extra bonus point.

TOURNAMENT REPORT

2007-02-02T22:48:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Gordon M. on winning the tourney. He beat Nick S. in three games to claim the title.

This was the first week of the Monthly Hobby League and points awarded for the Player of the Month are as follows:

Gordon M.: 4
Nick S.: 4
Justin J.: 4
Dylan C.: 4
Zack O.: 3
Todd M.: 2
Brandon F.: 2
Robert R.: 1
Dakota C.: 0.5
Jonathan M.: 0

Points are awarded for the months as follows: 1 point for each match win (half a point for a bye). Everyone who makes the top four mini-tournament gets a bonus point. The winner of the mini-tournament gets an additional point.

Don't forget the last Friday of everymonth, prizes are awared, including a new game mat to this months Player-of-the-Month!