User blog comment:CFDrewbert/webxoss tournament/@comment-204.83.117.100-20160111032844/@comment-204.83.117.100-20160111053913

Oh, by " what stops you from just making an insane deck" I meant more like "are there any rules or decorum I should be following? How to not be a jerk?"

I'm certainly not a serious-type player. Never have been. I like it that way. On one hand, I seldom win tournaments of any kind (which only matters if there's a good prize). But on the other hand when I do win it's because something crazy happens and it feels great. I can get competitive but I hate myself when I do because I turn into a real petty jerkwad. That said I've gone 10+ years without playing anything that competetively.

I was in a local fighting game tournament once where the game played in a match was randomly drawn. I somehow got lucky in landing games that I knew well and my opponent had never played. In the final round my opponent (a guy I knew) said he won his matches for the same reason. With seaty brows and anticipation we waiting for the final game to be drawn. ... Evil Zone! He hadn't even heard of it and I played it frequently. The thing with Evil Zone is that it plays very strangely, so newbies can't hope to win against somebody who's played it before. One of the best tournament memories of my life.