Press Release: Bushiroad 2014 World Championship to Include All English Titles

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bushiroad World Championship 2014 to Include All English Titles

Los Angeles, CA (August 6, 2014) – Bushiroad announced the English-centric Bushiroad 2014 World Championship which will take place between September to December. This year, the World Championship will feature all 3 existing English titles; Cardfight!! Vanguard, Future Card Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz.
This is the first year that the English Edition Future Card Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz are included in the Bushiroad World Championship series.
Bushiroad unveiled that players participating in the Regional Qualifiers will receive a World Championship 2014 exclusive rubber playmat, a World Championship 2014 lanyard and a promotional card. There are no entry fees to the Regional Qualifiers.


Bushiroad will also be hosting a special event, Thank You Festival, as a prelude to the World Championship 2014 and to celebrate the success of Cardfight!! Vanguard and its other games. The Thank You Festival is held at the Pasadena Convention Center in California between August 30 and 31, 2014. Players are welcomed to join the tournaments and side activities at no entry free.
The Bushiroad World Championship 2014 features 9 Regional Qualifier locations in North America, 2 in Latin America, 4 in Europe and 5 in Asia-Oceania regions.
Regional Qualifier finalists will represent their region to participate in the respective Continental Championships.
The finalists from the Cardfight!! Vanguard Continental Championships will be invited to participate in the Cardfight!! Vanguard World Championship 2014 Finals in Tokyo, Japan in late December 2014.


Finalists from the Future Card Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz Continental Championships will be invited to participate in the World Championship 2014 Finals in USA.
Side activities such as free fight tournament are also available to all attendees at every Regional Qualifier.
For further information, please visit the respective websites:
Cardfight!! Vanguard – http://cf-vanguard.com/en/event/worlds2014/
Weiss Schwarz – http://ws-tcg.com/en/events/worlds2014/
Future Card Buddyfight – http://fc-buddyfight.com/en/events/worlds2014/
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Bushiroad Inc. consists of 6 sub-entities: Bushiroad Inc., Bushiroad South East Asia Pte Ltd, Bushiroad USA Inc., Bushiroad Media, Bushiroad Music, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd.
Bushiroad South East Asia Pte Ltd was established in Singapore on November 12, 2011 in order to expand the overseas market for Bushiroad card games such as Cardfight!! Vanguard, Weiβ Schwarz, Chaos TCG and Victory Spark.
Bushiroad USA Inc. was established in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 2012, to better cater to the growing demand and interest in Cardfight!! Vanguard from both players and retailers in the USA.

News: Cat Butler to be Restricted on the 18th, Dragonic Descendant Removed from List

The official cf-vanguard webportal updated this morning to reflect new changes made to the Japanese restricted list. After several months of play in the current Raizer deck, the grade 0 Cat Butler has been restricted to being played at a maximum of two copies, limiting how consistently its skill can be pulled off. Meanwhile the once-infamous Dragonic Descendant has been taken off the list, after being restricted to two for the past year. Lizard Soldier Conroe and Barcgal remain restricted from being placed as the first vanguard. The new restrictions will take effect on August 18th.

Cat Butler has gained infamy internationally for making every Raizer Legion a restanding vanguard with a positive exchange in card advantage, retiring Butler to drive check an additional two cards. This has proven deadly in combination with their core grade 3, Ultimate Raizer Mega Flare. MF's extra critical encourages the opponent to guard it at all costs, and Cat Butler's skill only activates when the vanguard's attack does not hit, creating a consistent combo wherein the opponent is forced to accept multiple vanguard attacks rather than risk potentially game-ending damage.

Butler's restriction coincides with recent modifications made to the list for the English-language format, bringing changes instituted in Japan back during the height of Dragonic Nouvelle Vague's popularity.

Although the modification has answered the general dominance of Cat Butler Raizers, observant fighters have noted that the new restricted list does not address the rise of Thing Saver-Phantom Blaster “Abyss,” which has just recently come to prominence in the Japanese pro scene as a powerful hybrid deck.

News: Hachioji Cup Won by Thing Saver-“Abyss,” Metalborgs in Fourth

Photograph taken by jupiter6062.

Koyasu Community Center, Hachioji city, Tokyo. One hundred and eleven cardfighters gathered here over July 12th for the Hachioji Cup, many of them arriving by train--the Center is a five minute walk from Japan Railways' Hachioji stop. Although originally intended as a 96-person tournament, the Cup ended up accepting entries well beyond its original capacity.

First place was taken by Gungnir, who had previously won last year's Tsurumai Vanguard Championship and placed fourth in the fifth Fateclock CS. As in those tournaments, Gungnir played a restanding vanguard deck, this time bringing a variation on the Thing Saver-Phantom Blaster “Abyss” deck that hybridizes Royal Paladin and Shadow Paladin cards. The build has gained popularity after this year's Kanazawa regional qualifier, where regional champion Hayashi Daiki demonstrated techniques for integrating old Blaster card support with the deck to effectively use “Abyss” in a primarily Royal Paladin build. The deck subsequently proliferated in the third Kansai VGCS team tournament, where the number of Thing Saver-“Abyss” fighters just barely outnumbered the number of pure Thing Saver fighters. Gungnir's deck follows the general conventions of Hayashi's FR2014 design, using MacArt's on-Legion rearguard skill to superior call Dark Bond Trumpeter and use her to call out his teched Air Raid Dragon, setting up three Revenger rearguards for “Abyss” to retire. “Abyss” himself can be searched by the deck's first vanguard Wingal Brave by having Brave boost any of deck's three Blaster grade 2s.

In second place was Zaki with the likewise-successful Cat Butler Raizers. Like Thing Saver the deck is based around a restanding vanguard line, and combines this with a high-critical center lane from Ultimate Raizer Mega Flare, while the restanding skill itself comes from the grade 0 Cat Butler. Butler can retire itself after a grade 2 Nova Grappler vanguard attacks to restand it, and after it was ruled by Bushiroad that a vanguard in Legion is both a grade 2 and a grade 3 the build found instant popularity. The subsequent second Beast Deity Cup, fourth Tachikawa CS and fourth Laketown CS each built on the dominance of Cat Butler.

Third and fourth places at Hachioji were Hibari and Tsukasa with a standard Thing Saver and a Metalborg deck. Although the successors to last year's Dimensional Robos have maintained a rocky foothold in the format, the Metalborgs' ability to prevent the opponent from using perfect defense cards while maintaining a high-power center lane has proved troublesome where implemented well. Tsukasa's Metalborg notably differs from past incarnations in how it uses the Super Dimensional Robo Daikaiser break ride. Daikaiser's break ride skill has been a recurring problem since its debut in 2013; when ridden it gives the new vanguard +10000 power and an additional critical, while also giving it the ability to retire the cards the opponent guards with when a grade 3 is drive checked. This power boosted innately activates both of Metalborg Sin Buster's skills, bringing together a powerful combo of preventing the opponent from guarding with grade 1 units while also retiring the cards they guard with. This prevents the hard answer to Daikaiser, Quintet Walls, from being used against it while still demanding in the range of 35000~40000 shield to block Sin Buster's attack. No-guarding is hardly an option when the vanguard is attacking for two damage. However, in the Legion format where many fighters prefer to stay at the safe range of 2~3 damage for the majority of the fight, this play is not met with universal success.

The Hachioji Cup's initial four rounds of Swiss draw lasted 30 minutes each, with the first round beginning at 1:30 PM and the fourth concluding at 4:00 PM. Unlike most VGCS events, Swiss draw was handled in a best-of-one games model. Best-of-one in Cardfight!! Vanguard has been criticized as being nonrepresentative of player skill and tantamount to gambling, as one game of gradelock or mass trigger checking from the opponent is enough to kick skilled fighters into loser's bracket or out of the tournament entirely, without an opportunity to play serious games. The tournament finals following the cut to top 16 were conducted using the more popular best-of-three games ruleset, with a 50 minute time limit. Finals began at 4:40 PM and lasted until 8:30 PM. First place won a Nintendo 3DS XL and one box of VG-BT16: Legion of Dragons and Blades, second place won a standard 3DS, third place two boxes of BT16 and one Beginning Set of their choice, and fourth place one box of BT16 and a Beginning Set. Fifth through eighth place were given a choice of two trial decks, between Liberator of Bluish Flames and Will of the Locked Dragon. Entry fee was 1000 yen (approx. $10) per person.

A detailed breakdown of clan participation is not available.

The VGCS tournaments are a series of unofficial tournaments organized by fans and cardshops. Unlike Bushiroad's larger official tournaments, most VGCS events are done using a best of 3, Swiss tournament model. Turnout is typically 70-80 persons, but some events see 100 or more participants, all of whom compete using pseudonyms and internet handles rather than their real names as in official events. The VGCS model of fan-organized play has begun to gain popularity internationally, with the bi-monthly BeNeLux tournaments serving as their European equivalent, and there are now similar grassroots organizations emerging in the United States like Cosmic Oasis' tournament series and the ongoing King of Cardfight competition in the American midwest.

Hachioji Cup/八王子杯
First place: Gungnir/ぐんぐにーる
Grade 0
x1 Wingal Brave (FV)
x4 Seeker, Loving Healer  HT
x4 Seeker, Herald Breath Dragon CT
x2 Certain Kill Seeker, Modron CT
x1 Revenger, Air Raid Dragon CT
x1 Seeker, Bucephalus ST
x4 Margal DT
Grade 1
x2 Flail Seeker, Hasbasado
x2 Revenger, Dark Bond Trumpeter x4 Knight of Friendship, Kay
x4 Lake Maiden, Lien
x4 Guardian Law Seeker, Shiron
Grade 2
x3 Blaster Blade Spirit
x3 Blaster Blade, Seeker
x2 Blaster Dark Revenger “Abyss”
x4 Fighting Spirit Revenger, MacArt
Grade 3
x4 Seeker, Thing Saver Dragon
x1 Revenger, Phantom Blaster “Abyss”

Second place: Zaki/ざき
Grade 0
x1 Transmigrating Evolution, Miraioh (FV)
x4 Cat Butler
x1 Raizer Girl, Kate HT
x3 Round Girl, Clara HT
x3 Raizer Crew DT
x1 The Gong DT
x2 Shining Lady CT
x3 Meteoraizer CT
x1 Minimum Raizer CT
x1 Red Lightning CT
x1 Fighting Battleship, Prometheus CT
Grade 1
x4 Shieldraizer
x3 Energy Charger
x4 The Screamin' and Dancin' Announcer, Shout
x4 Cannon Raizer
Grade 2
x4 Ultimate Raizer, DF
x4 Phoenix Raizer, FW
x2 Street Bouncer
Grade 3

x4 Ultimate Raizer, MF

Third place: Hibari/ヒバリ
Grade 0
x1 Advance Party Seeker, File (FV)
x4 Seeker, Loving Healer HT
x4 Margal DT
x4 Certain Kill Seeker, Modron CT
x4 Seeker, Herald Breath Dragon CT
Grade 1
x2 Summoning Jewel Knight, Gloria
x2 Guardian Law Seeker, Shiron
x2 Little Sage, Marron
x3 Good Faith Seeker, Cynric
x4 Snowgal
x2 Pongal
Grade 2
x4 Blaster Blade, Seeker
x4 Full Bloom Seeker, Cerdic
x4 Beast Knight, Garmore
Grade 3
x4 Seeker, Thing Saver Dragon
x1 Soul Saver Dragon

Fourth place: Tsukasa
Grade 0
x1 Destined Warrior, Dai (FV)
x4 Metalborg, Black Nurse HT
x3 Army Penguin DT
x3 Metalborg, Devil Roader DT
x3 Metalborg, Battle Roller CT
x3 Metalborg, Operator Kirika ST
Grade 1
x4 Metalborg, Mist Ghost
x4 Diamond Ace
x2 Metalborg, Black Doctor
x4 Commander Laurel
Grade 2
x3 Twin Order
x2 Metalborg, Digalion
x4 Metalborg, Ur Buster
x2 Metalborg, Russell Blizzard
Grade 3
x4 Metalborg, Sin Buster
x4 Super Dimensional Robo, Daikaiser

News: Conroe Restricted for English Format

The English Vanguard portal just updated moments ago to reflect a change in the official Fighter's Rules governing Bushiroad-sponsored tournament play. Effective on August 20, all prints of Lizard Soldier Conroe are restricted from being used as the first vanguard in English tournament play. As with his predecessor on the restricted list, Barcgal, up to four copies of Conroe may still be included in any deck, but he may not be set as the grade 0 to begin the game with. This is the first modification made to the English-language restricted list since July 2012; while some discussion arose in the community over the possibility of Dragonic Overlord the End finding a place on the list last year, nothing ultimately came of this.

Restricting Conroe for the English-language format emulates an identical restriction made by Bushiroad of Japan in January. By eliminating Conroe from the vanguard circle, part of Nouvelle's central engine has been cut out. One of the supporting reasons that it has been so easy for Kagerou cardfighters to treat Nouvelle Vague as simply another grade 3 in the deck is that Conroe's counterblast allows his cardfighter to search for Nouvelleroman Dragon, who in turn can then return a copy of Nouvelle from the hand to the deck to search for Kagerou's grade 3 break ride. Effectively drawing a grade 4 becomes the same as drawing a grade 3, almost entirely eliminating the risk factor of playing Nouvelle and giving the deck an inordinate amount of consistency relative to its reward.

Removing Conroe makes it harder for Kagerou fighters to dominate above and beyond the other decks of the format, and bumps up the clan's grade 3 searcher Red Pulse Dracokid into becoming their go-to FVG. In order to both capitalize on the extra soul available from using Red Pulse's skill and compensate for no longer being able to search for any grade 1, most Japanese cardfighters adapted their decks with additional copies of Calamity Tower Wyvern, a Luckbird clone that when called can soulblast 2 to draw a card. English-speaking fighters are expected to follow suit, and this adaptation is important because it makes Dragonic Nouvelle Vague's persona blast much more difficult to activate. The persona blast requires three soul to use, so by encouraging multiple Calamity Tower calls the post-restriction format also puts a heavier limitation on Nouvelle's limit break--which can completely destroy every rearguard on the opponent's field. This helps to mitigate the grade 4's intense control of the game.

While Bushiroad USA attributed the restriction to the Team League 2014 results, it was likely also made with an eye to the recently announced World Championship 2014. The restriction encourages cardfighters who left the game as a result of Nouvelle's dominance to return to it, and promotes a lower bar of entry for newcomers, who already face an overwhelming number of professional decks to learn and keep track of.

News: World Championship 2014 Regional Qualifier Locations & Dates

Early this morning the events page for World Championship 2014 went up on the official English Vanguard portal, heralding the dates for the upcoming tournament's regional qualifiers. As in past years, cardfighters will have to qualify at one of the regional events around the world to attend their country's invitation-only continental championship, the top 4 of which will be able to then qualify for the international grand finals in Tokyo. This year's tournament will feature an exclusive commemorative playmat for all participants, as well as the Shadow Paladin and Link Joker promo cards "Revenger, Deathmaster Dragon" and "Setting Sun Star-vader, Darmstadtium." Designed as an alternative boss card for the former clan and a new break ride for the latter, both of these cards have popular fan followings outside of the mainstream Raging Form Dragon and Chaos Breaker/Glendios decks.

The preceding WCS2013 ended with Luxembourg cardfighter Almeida Stewart being titled second world champion; however, in light of the cheating accusations and controversy surrounding his confessed robbery of the card shop La Caverne du Gobelin, many cardfighters have doubted the legitimacy of his title.

Beginning on August 30 and ending in late December, World Championship 2014 will feature nineteen regional qualifiers around the world in all, with a special qualifier held in Tokyo. Similar to the tournament held for Japan in WCS2013, this is suspected to be a qualifier which would allow its top fighters to participate directly in the international finals without previously qualifying at a continental tournament. A partial list of locations is available through the official website, but some are not yet finalized.

With many tournaments taking place around or after the release of VGE-BT15: Infinite Rebirth, alongside the existing grade 4 Dragonic Nouvelle Vague from Divine Dragon Progression, one of the major contenders in the new format is anticipated to be Star-vader “Ω” Glendios. Famous for its ability to prevent cards from unlocking through its limit break, the deck has gained some popularity in Japanese tournaments for how heavily it slows down the game in the hands of a skilled cardfighter. Even into the Legion format it has continued to hold up well under the pressures of the new professional play.

News: Blasters Make Comeback in Third Kansai VGCS and FR2014 Kanazawa, Thing Saver-Phantom “Abyss” Hybrid Places First

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Over the 21st the third Kansai VGCS concluded with an unorthodox combination of Paladin cards captaining its championship team. Exploiting the rule that any Royal Paladin cardfighter can have up to 10 Shadow Paladin cards in their deck, team captain Chii brought a Thing Saver Dragon deck with Revenger Phantom Blaster “Abyss” as his secondary grade 3 to the tournament. Since this did not occupy Chii's team's Shadow Paladin slot, this effectively allowed two separate teammates to take advantage of “Abyss” while still declaring separate clans. With the Royal Paladins' effective Blaster support still hanging around from BT05: Awakening of Twin Blades, the basic framework of the deck through Blaster-based subclan attackers and Wingal Brave was able to effectively support the fusion. Chii was hardly alone in the venture; Thing Saver-“Abyss” became a polarizing new deck at the tournament, with nine of the nineteen Royal Paladin cardfighters that participated playing similar builds. Others trying the same idea integrated Battle Spirit Revenger MacArt and Dark Bond Trumpeter to some effect, using MacArt to superior call Dark Bond when the vanguard Legions and then using Dark Bond's counterblast 1 to superior call a Freezing Revenger, setting up the field for a Phantom Blaster “Abyss” play. You can jump to the VGCS decklists by searching the page for [3KVGCS]

Third Kansai VGCS Clan Breakdown
19 Shadow Paladin (10 Raging Form, 5 Dragruler, 3 Mordred, 1 Cormac)
19 Royal Paladin (9 Thing Saver-Abyss, 8 Seeker, 2 Other)
19 Nova Grappler (18 Raizer, 1 Beast Deity)
14 Genesis (All Regalia)
10 Link Joker (6 Glendios, 3 Chaos Breaker-Garnet Star)
7 Dimension Police (All Metalborg)
5 Gold Paladin (All Liberator)
3 Oracle Think Tank (All Amaterasu-Ohirume Legion)
2 Neo Nectar (All Musketeers)
1 Narukami (Brawler)

33 teams totaling 99 cardfighters in all participated, with the top two teams comprising “Ω” Glendios, Raging Form-Phantom Blaster “Abyss,” “Abyss”-Thing Saver, Cat Butler Raizers, Raging Form-Phantom Blaster “Abyss” and a more standard Thing Saver Dragon deck. Both Chii and his teammate Pest reported individuals records of 6 wins to 2 losses. Notable other decks include Pokoki's (ポコ吉) Chaos Breaker-Garnet Star-Nebula Lord build from the fourth place team, and Warosu's (わろす) CEO Yggdrasil-Minerva deck from the third place team. Yggdrasil-Minerva is the popular choice for a definitive Regalia deck of the format, and this format's Link Joker build may be the last we see of Chaos Breaker in Japan in light of the upcoming Link Joker boss cards from VG-BT17: Blazing Perdition. These sampled decklists are translated below under the heading [3KCSSA]


By using Wingal Brave's skill in combination with Blaster Blade Seeker and Thing Saver's Legion, Chii was able to reliably search for his lone copy of Phantom Blaster "Abyss." Blaster Blade Seeker being on the vanguard circle during Legion would satisfy the requirements necessary for Wingal and for the Blaster-based subclan attackers to trigger. This gave him two restanding Legion vanguards to work with, patching the general weakness of the Seeker subclan's secondary grade 3s. In most previous formats this kind of mixing would be impossible because of the Lord skill, which prevents a unit from attacking if any card on the field does not have its clan, but from Seeker of Hope onwards new cards have foregone Lord from their printings entirely. And because of the special permission given to Royal Paladin cardfighters in team tournaments to use Shadow Paladin cards--originally a rule made for the sake of Majesty Lord Blaster fighters in 2012--unlike the majority of hybrid decks seen in VGCS tournaments, this deckbuild would be completely legal for play in Bushiroad's official events. So it goes that first place in this year's Kanazawa regional championship, held over the 17th, is Hayashi Daiki with one of those very same hybrid decks. Go to the heading [FR14KN] for his decklist.

Hayashi was followed up in second place by Watanabe Shouhei with a hybrid of Nouvelle Vague and Dragonic Overlord “The Яe-birth.” Hayashi's strategy was to run Nouvelle at just two copies, playing his deck like a standard Overlord build with Nouvelle Vague and Nouvellecritic as the only major additions, building up towards a crossbreak ride turn with “The Яe-birth” to try for six drive checks in one turn, and then switch to Nouvelle Vague for his endgame after Overlord had already lain waste to the opponent's perfect defense cards. Although somewhat dated by the standards of the Legion format, the presence of both Dragonic Burnout and Nouvellecritic does give this incarnation of Kagerou a stronger midgame, and a specifically good endgame versus the Legion vanguards of the present who primarily attack in the range of 20~22000 power while both “The Яe-birth” and Nouvelle defend on a 13000 power base. This expedites the process of guarding, especially against the likes of restanding vanguards Thing Saver and Blaster “Abyss.”

The last major developments of these tournaments came from the Kansai VGCS' championship team Forward Pest (ペスト) playing Star-vader “Ω” Glendios with the new trial deck card Companion Star-vader Photon in the deck. Photon's skill allows his fighter to lock one of the opponent's rearguards when called if they already have a locked rearguard, easily shutting down their field and promoting synergy with Glendios' "Omega Lock" limit break, which prevents the locks from opening for one turn. At times Photon can act like a superior Cold Death Dragon, helping lock the opponent's entire field so that Glendios will automatically win through its ultimate break at the beginning of its next main phase.

The VGCS tournaments are a series of unofficial tournaments organized by fans and cardshops. Unlike Bushiroad's larger official tournaments, most VGCS events are done using a best of 3, Swiss tournament model. Turnout is typically 70-80 persons, but some events see 100 or more participants, all of whom compete using pseudonyms and internet handles rather than their real names as in official events. The VGCS model of fan-organized play has begun to gain popularity internationally, with the bi-monthly BeNeLux tournaments serving as their European equivalent, and there are now similar grassroots organizations emerging in the United States like Cosmic Oasis' tournament series and the ongoing King of Cardfight competition in the American midwest.

Third Kansai VGCS [3KVGCS]
First Place Team: Cockroach of the East, Coming to the West/東のゴキブリ、西へ来る
Forward: Pest/ペスト
Grade 0
x1 Star-vader, World Line Dragon (FV)
x4 Star-vader, Nebula Captor DT
x2 Star-vader, Scouting Felis DT
x4 Star-vader, Stellar Garage HT
x4 Star-vader, Meteo Liger CT
x2 Star-vader, Weiss Soldat CT
Grade 1
x4 Star-vader, Ruin Magician
x4 Taboo Star-vader, Rubidium
x4 Barrier Star-vader, Promethium
Grade 2
x1 Star-vader, Colony Maker
x3 Star-vader, Magnet Hollow
x3 Companion Star-vader, Photon
Grade 3
x4 Star-vader, “Ω” Glendios
x4 Star-vader, “Я” Cradle
x6 “Я” units (names not specified)

Midfighter: ask
Grade 0
x1 Frontline Revenger, Claudas (FV)
x4 Healing Revenger HT
x4 Freezing Revenger DT
x4 Grim Revenger CT
x4 Revenger, Air Raid Dragon CT
Grade 1
x4 Dark Revenger, Mac Lir
x4 Transient Revenger, Masquerade
x4 Barrier Troop Revenger, Dorint
x1 Self-control Revenger, Rakia
Grade 2
x4 Blaster Dark Revenger “Abyss”
x4 Blaster Dark Revenger
x4 Dark Cloak Revenger, Tartu
Grade 3
x4 Revenger, Phantom Blaster “Abyss”
x4 Revenger, Raging Form Dragon

Captain: Chii/ちー
Grade 0
x1 Wingal Brave (FV)
x4 Yggdrasil Maiden, Elaine  HT
x4 Margal DT
x1 Messgal Seeker DT
x3 Bringer of Good Luck, Epona CT
x4 Seeker, Herald Breath Dragon CT
Grade 1
x4 Knight of Friendship, Kay
x4 Lake Maiden, Lien
x3 Flail Seeker, Hasbasado
x4 Guardian Law Seeker, Shiron
Grade 2
x4 Blaster Blade Spirit
x4 Blaster Blade, Seeker
x4 Blaster Dark Revenger “Abyss”
x1 Knight of Loyalty, Bedivere
Grade 3
x4 Seeker, Thing Saver Dragon
x1 Revenger, Phantom Blaster “Abyss”

Second Place: Teacher and the Taught/先生と教え子たち
Forward: Boseto-san/ぼせとさん
Grade 0
x1 Transmigrating Evolution, Miraioh (FV)
x4 Cat Butler
x4 Raizer Girl, Kate HT
x4 Raizer Crew DT
x4 Meteoraizer CT
x1 Beast Deity, Death Stinger CT
x3 Red Lightning CT
Grade 1
x2 Blau Dunkelheit
x2 Shieldraizer
x3 Energy Charger
x4 The Screamin' and Dancin' Announcer, Shout
x1 Cannon Raizer
Grade 2
x3 Marine Raizer HT
x3 Ultimate Raizer, DF
x4 Phoenix Raizer, FW
x3 Street Bouncer
Grade 3

x4 Ultimate Raizer, MF

Midfighter: Muratake/ムラタク
Grade 0
x1 Judgebau Revenger (FV)
x4 Healing Revenger HT
x1 Lizard Witch, Aife DT
x4 Freezing Revenger DT
x4 Grim Revenger CT
x3 Revenger, Air Raid Dragon CT
Grade 1
x4 Dark Revenger, Mac Lir
x4 Transient Revenger, Masquerade
x4 Barrier Troop Revenger, Dorint
x1 Black-winged Sword Breaker
Grade 2
x4 Blaster Dark Revenger “Abyss”
x4 Blaster Dark Revenger
x3 Dark Cloak Revenger, Tartu
x1 Nullity Revenger, Masquerade
Grade 3
x4 Revenger, Phantom Blaster “Abyss”
x4 Revenger, Raging Form Dragon

Captain: Shadow/シャドウ
Grade 0
x1 Advance Party Seeker, File (FV)
x4 Seeker, Loving Healer HT
x4 Margal DT
x1 Messgal Seeker DT
x3 Certain Kill Seeker, Modron CT
x4 Seeker, Herald Breath Dragon CT
Grade 1
x3 Good Faith Seeker, Cynric
x4 Lake Maiden, Lien
x1 Flail Seeker, Hasbasado
x3 Guardian Law Seeker, Shiron
x1 Summoning Jewel Knight, Gloria
x2 Glynngal Seeker
Grade 2
x3 Natural Talent Seeker, Valrod
x4 Blaster Blade, Seeker
x3 Full Bloom Seeker, Cerdic
x2 Crossbow Seeker, Gildas
Grade 3
x4 Seeker, Thing Saver Dragon
x3 Seeker, Sacred Wingal

Assorted Decklists [3KCSSA]
Third Place Team Forward: Warosu/わろす
Grade 0
x1 Vivid Rabbit (FV)
x4 Regalia of Benevolence, Eir HT
x4 Regalia of Foredoom, Lot Angel DT
x1 Fancy Monkey DT
x4 Battle Maiden, Kukurihime CT
x3 Far Sight Regalia, Clear Angel CT
Grade 1
x4 Exorcism Regalia, Shiny Angel
x2 Goddess of Union, Juno
x4 Regalia of Purify, Pure Angel
x3 Regalia of Frozen Breath, Svalin
x1 Witch of Strawberries, Framboise
Grade 2
x4 Regalia of Midday, Hemera
x4 Regalia of Fate, Norn
x3 Evening Regalia, Hesperides
Grade 3
x3 Cosmic Regalia, CEO Yggdrasil
x2 Omniscience Regalia, Minerva
x3 Regalia of Wisdom, Angelica

Fourth Place Team Midfighter: Pokoki/ポコ吉
Grade 0
x1 Star-vader, Dust Tail Unicorn (FV)
x4 Recollection Star-vader, Tellurium HT
x2 Star-vader, Nebula Captor DT
x3 Vortex Star-vader, Molybdenum DT
x1 Star-vader, Weiss Soldat CT
x2 Star-vader, Meteoliger CT
x4 Star-vader, Apollo Nail Dragon CT
Grade 1
x4 Star-vader, Bolt Line
x4 Prison Gate Star-vader, Palladium
x2 Mana Shot Star-vader, Neon
x4 Barrier Star-vader, Promethium
Grade 2
x4 Companion Star-vader, Photon
x4 Star-vader, Colony Maker
x3 Star-vader, Moebius Breath Dragon
Grade 3
x4 Star-vader, Chaos Breaker Dragon
x3 Star-vader, Garnet Star Dragon
x2 Star-vader, Nebula Lord Dragon

Fighter's Road 2014 Regional Qualifier, Kanazawa [FR14KN]
First place: Hayashi Daiki/林大貴
Grade 0
x1 Wingal Brave (FV)
x4 Seeker, Loving Healer  HT
x4 Margal DT
x1 Revenger, Air Raid Dragon CT
x3 Certain Kill Seeker, Modron CT
x4 Seeker, Herald Breath Dragon CT
Grade 1
x4 Lake Maiden, Lien
x4 Knight of Friendship, Kay
x4 Guardian Law Seeker, Shiron
x1 Flail Seeker, Hasbasado
x1 Transcient Revenger, Masquerade
x1 Revenger, Dark Bond Trumpeter
Grade 2
x4 Blaster Blade, Seeker
x2 Blaster Dark Revenger “Abyss”
x4 Battle Spirit Revenger, MacArt
x2 Blaster Blade Spirit
x1 Knight of Loyalty, Bedivere
Grade 3
x4 Seeker, Thing Saver Dragon
x1 Revenger, Phantom Blaster “Abyss”

Second place: Watanabe Shouhei/渡辺翔平
Grade 0
x1 Red Pulse Dracokid (FV)
x4 Dragon Dancer, Barbara HT
x3 Gattling Claw Dragon DT
x3 Seal Dragon, Artpique DT
x2 Embodiment of Spear, Tahr CT
x1 Blue-Ray Dracokid CT
x3 Seal Dragon, Biera CT
Grade 1
x4 Wyvern Guard, Barri
x4 Calamity Tower Wyvern
x2 Dragon Monk, Gojo
x4 Eternal Bringer Griffin
Grade 2
x4 Burning Horn Dragon
x3 Dragonic Burnout
x4 Nouvelle Critique Dragon
Grade 3
x2 Dragonic Overlord “The Яe-birth”
x4 Dragonic Overlord (BT15/004)
Grade 4
x2 Transcendence Dragon, Dragonic Nouvelle Vague

News: World Championship 2014 Announced, Cardfight!! Vanguard Neon Messiah Movie Trailer Airs

Three hours ago Bushiroad Inc. uploaded the formal announcement of the start of World Championship 2014 to the official cf-vanguard web portal and Cardfight!! Vanguard Facebook page. Slated for an August to December timeline, this year's international competition will use booster sets up to VGE-BT15: Infinite Rebirth, to be released in September. While very little information is available regarding WCS2014 at this time, fans remain hopeful for the implementation of the long desired best-of-3 format championed in VGCS, ARG Circuit series and Cosmic Oasis tournaments.

And earlier today Oricon Inc. uploaded a trailer for the upcoming Cardfight!! Vanguard Neon Messiah theatrical film to their YouTube channel. The trailer (embedded below) teases a fight between Aichi and Kai using their traditional Royal Paladin and Kagerou decks, appearances by Morikawa playing against Osamu's Megacolony, Kamui playing his Raizer deck from the fourth season versus Naoki with Big Bang Knuckle Dragon, as well as a match between Aichi's sister Emi and her friend Mai with different Bermuda Triangle decks. A stinger image planted after the trailer hints at the introduction of antagonist Ibuki Kouji's mysterious Deleter cards. A translation of the trailer's dialogue is hosted below.

The final image of the trailer is captioned ヴァンガード消滅の危機?! Vangaado shoumetsu no kiki?! "Vanguard annihilation crisis?!" hinting at one of the mysterious qualities associated with the Deleter cards, their ability to make the vanguard itself disappear. This idea was first introduced more than a year ago in Itou Akira's Cardfight!! Vanguard manga, from which the Deleters originate, and Neon Messiah's narrative appears to be following through on the plotline. The manga is at present being serialized in English by Vertical Inc., and late this August the third of the seven volumes currently released in Japan will be adapted to English.

Aichi: Every day we share the same dream. The dream of a wish that I entrusted to Blaster Blade.
Finally, the Cardfight!! Vanguard movie version will debut! Both the anime we all appear in, and the following drama!
Kai-kun, let's go!
Kai: Yeah!
Both: Stand up
--THE--
Vanguard!
Cardfight!! Vanguard: The Movie
On September 13th, Stand Up!
The movie has not yet been licensed for western release; at present English translation of the series is primarily handled by Crunchyroll, which is responsible for simulcasting subtitled releases of the anime. No word on their potential involvement with the film has been made.