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Post by "Jugan" Kannouteki on Oct 16, 2009 22:20:35 GMT -5
Jugan stared and blinked at the duel. So THAT'S what Exodia did! Wow. Those kinds of cards were legal? True, a One-Turn-Knockout wasn't that manly but... wow. And if every duelist had that kind of combo in their deck... Jugan's motivation problem wasn't getting any better, at this rate. "In the Dueling World, there are three types or ranks of Duelists, much like how there are three ranks here at the Academy. When you look at this list, what Duelists in this world would obtain these ranks? I mean by profession or tournament rankings." Jugan grinned. This was any easy question! He stood up, pointing a finger at the ceiling. "THAT'S EASY, SENSEI!" Jugan's grin only grew wider. "THE BEST DUELISTS ARE THE MANLY ONES! THE GOOD ONES ARE THE ONES THAT REFUSE TO BE MANLY! AND THE BAD ONES ARE THE CHEATERS! BECAUSE CHEATING ISN'T MANLY!"
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Post by Dr. Franken Stein on Oct 16, 2009 23:03:46 GMT -5
Stein listened to the two answers given to him. One from Jaeger, the other from Jugan. Now, the look on his face had been normal, possibly even positive for the first answer. The look he had on his face now, however, was as if his brain had suddenly been cleaved in half after hearing Jugan. It took him a moment to recover, but when he did, he tapped on the board once again. "Mr. Turrok gives a good point. 'Bad' Duelists are those that have inconsistent decks with cards that will sometimes sync well, but are usually used in bad combos. 'Good' Duelists are those that have learned from dueling various different opponents and improved their game, creating better moves and decks. The 'Best' are those that think two plays in advance, guessing what the opponent will do next, and finding a way to counter that move to achieve victory."He then turned around and began to write on the board yet again, filling in the blanks he left in to create this; Types of Duelists Best: "Pro" Duelists; create plays in advance; deck in sync and plays well-constructed Good: Tournament winners or Top 16 placers; able to create decks that work well Bad: Relatively new players or incompetent players; decks and plays are inconsistent from round to round "I will let you know now that this is just a rough estimate. There are many other factors involved into what a Duelist is characterized as, but to go on would involve more time than I wish to use to explain. So, let us move on."Stein then moved to the side, writing one word. Janken "Here is a better question. Why did I just make a reference to Janken? In other words, how is what we just discussed like Rock, Paper, Scissors?"
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Post by Marvelo Namaguchi on Oct 16, 2009 23:21:00 GMT -5
The Secrets to life began with one movement and one movement only...... A Step Forward. With a calm and precise walk, Marvelo entered the classroom. He looked around seeing everything with their eyes glued to the professor. Grabbing his collar, his index finger rubbed the Kaiba Corp insignia hoping that the professor would understand and pardon his tardiness. Once settled into the room he found a group to just hang with, ironically it was his intended group. His arms naturally folded revealing his Revolution duel disk. Deck already prepared he sighed catching the end of the professor's words. It sounded as if he had already missed some of the action but it was the first day. Probably wasn't really worth watching.
His eyes diverted to the board reading what the professor put. Catching himself from laughing, Marvelo couldn't believe the professor was going to the specifics of a "duelist" so soon. It was literally a nice way of pointing out who sucked and who didn't. However, Marvelo thought and wasn't sure exactly where he would place himself. His decks were consistent but, just as any deck, it had it's flaws. He'd have to test them against one of the surrounding Obelisk to really decide. Defense and Time was his strongest ally as the ignorance of other duelist through speed it was helps him win.
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Post by Peto Soneka on Oct 17, 2009 4:15:56 GMT -5
Getting to class late wasn’t really that good at the best of times, but Peto did think that he really would be in some form of trouble here. After more or less completely getting himself lost, he had only just managed to find where he was supposed to be going, and was dreading having to open the door. He didn’t want to, he just didn’t, it would be much easier for him to just run away now, wouldn’t it? No-one would know where he was, he could say that he had been sick, couldn’t he? He wanted to, but to run away would only most likely end him in more trouble than he currently was, and that would be bad, even worse than having to walk in later.
With a sign he pushed the door open, head down to hide his face, and the rather odd feeling of fear which he had inside him.
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Post by Dr. Franken Stein on Oct 17, 2009 7:33:15 GMT -5
"Read the seating schedule and go to your assigned seat."
Annoyance was starting to well up in him now, with how hi students were trickling in. However, he was keeping his cool and just continued on with the lesson. He tapped on the board once again to get the attention of folks, then spoke.
"The hierarchy of Duelists is much like Janken. Each selection wins or loses against another."
He then wrote down 'Bad', 'Good', and 'Best' again, this time in a triangle formation.
"The Best Duelists beat the Good ones," he drew an arrow to signify this. "The Good Duelists beat the Bad ones," another arrow. "And the Bad ones, more often than not, beat the Best ones." He drew the last arrow, then put the chalk down, looking back at the class.
"Can anyone tell me why that is, based off the information we know about Duelists of these ranks?" He motioned to the list he made about the Types of Duelists.
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Post by Robert Zanrou on Oct 17, 2009 10:09:48 GMT -5
Robert, speaking up had given an answer. "The good duelists beat the bad ones because the bad ones are unprepared for the decks of the good ones. The best duelists beat the good duelists because they are prepared to face against the winning decks of the good duelists. However, the bad duelists beat out the best because the best duelist's decks aim to take down the good duelist's decks, therefore are thrown off by the decks of the bad duelists. In all, its a matter of preparation." he said calmly.
"The bad duelists just use whatever they want to, often a sloppy and ill constructed deck is used, the good duelist uses decks that are of high calibur, and the best duelists use decks that are calculated in taking down the high calibur decks. High caliber decks will beat out the lesser decks, while the calculated decks will defeat the higher calibur decks. However, the calculated decks are aimed towards the big ones, and can barely do anything against a sloppy deck."
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Post by Dr. Franken Stein on Oct 17, 2009 10:42:57 GMT -5
Stein snapped his fingers at Robert with a grin.
"Yes, that is a good answer. There is just one more bit of information to add, though. While what you said is true for around 90% of decks out there, there will always be those Duelists in that highest category that have decks meant to take on anything at anytime. The deck is only one half of the calculation; the knowledge, skill, and experience of the Duelist using that deck is the other half."
As he walked to the front of his desk, Stein took off his glasses, his yellow eyes scanning the room as he cleaned them off on his lab coat.
"On the information that we gathered today, we can usually see how people get placed into those skill levels. 'Good' Duelists are able to think out their moves, but typically only for that turn or, sometimes, the next one. The 'Best' ones will think the moves out one, two, and sometimes even three turns ahead. The 'Bad' Duelists, however, just play whatever they have. The reason 'Bad' Duelists tend to beat the 'Best' Duelists is because those of such high level have experienced moves over and over again, and will overestimate what may happen and play it safe, while 'Bad' Duelists will be aggressive and reckless."
Stein put his glasses back on, then looked back to Robert. "Tell me, Mr. Zanrou. During the Duel that you and Mr. Benedict were having against our friendly classroom hologram, Blinky, on your second turn you knew three of the four cards that it had on the field. One was Destiny Hero - Defender, two of the others were Appropriate, which was activated during your Standby Phase, and the final was a face-down. You played Mystical Space Typhoon. Why did you choose the face-down card instead of one of the Appropriate's?"
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Post by Robert Zanrou on Oct 17, 2009 10:49:42 GMT -5
"I had aimed for the set backfield because I didn't want to run into Torrential Tribute or a Mirror Force. I was making sure that the backfield that was concealed was taken out in case it was a threat." he said.
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Post by Issy Kentra on Oct 17, 2009 12:44:35 GMT -5
Issy had been watching the lesson, though more or less simply unable to keep up with what was happening. Through the test duel, and all manner of ‘types of duellist’ she didn’t get that much of it. Did that make her a ‘Bad Duellist’, or just incapable of learning properly. She didn’t really like thinking of herself as a ‘Bad Duellist’ she liked duelling too much, and she liked the cards which she owned, she wasn’t about to lose any of that, no not at all. Shutting her eyes to try and concentrate, all that she could really pray for was that someone else was getting what happened even less than she was, and that someone else would ask the questions she didn’t want to.
Not that she was too worried about looking stupid, no, she just didn’t like asking questions, especially considering that she wasn’t always going to hear the answer before something else took her fancy, and she was completely distracted by it. That happened a lot, which meant that all she could do was hope, and pray someone else didn’t get anything which was going on.
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Post by Dr. Franken Stein on Oct 17, 2009 17:40:53 GMT -5
Stein nodded. "You felt threatened by the face-down. You planned on attacking the Defender, and with that being the only actual threat, you destroyed it to make sure that it would not stop you. You were playing it safe."
Stein adjusted his glasses somewhat, then crossed his arms in front of his chest. "You have a bit of homework today, two for those that arrived after the Duel." He narrowed his eyes slightly, waiting to hear what his class would say.
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Post by Jaeger Turrok on Oct 17, 2009 20:14:40 GMT -5
As no one answered the teacher's next question, Jaeger's mind was drifting off into his own thoughts. No one was answering, and his attention was being pulled in a different direction. One disadvantage in being him. His attention couldn't last on one subject for too long. As such, what was said about the cycle of duelists and the question tossed at one of the duelists that had taken part in the duel against the hologram was only background noise.
The one thing that caught the boy's attention, though, was the mention of homework. Jaeger's eyes focused on the teacher, obvious shock there. Homework? On the first day? Man, that sucked! Hopefully it wasn't relating to anything he hadn't been paying attention to. It shouldn't be. He hadn't been zoning for that long, right?
"It's not too hard, right?" First day of class, it couldn't be too hard. Their teacher wasn't that mean, was he? He didn't seem like it. All that Jaeger could really do was hope that it was something that wouldn't take long to accomplish or leave him stumped.
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Post by Robert Zanrou on Oct 18, 2009 10:58:34 GMT -5
"Precisely, I was indeed playing it safe." he said calmly, yet in an obviously acknowledging manner. Perhaps playing it safe would be something that proved to be his Achilles heel. However, this same weakness is what allowed him to win certain games that reckless playing would have compromised. This was indeed a coin toss for him.
When Stein had announced he had homework, he wasn't at all bothered by this. Hell, he was very used to nights of homework. Along with his jobs, he was a busy guy. But now without jobs, Robert would have more time to do his homework. "What is the homework assignment?" he asked in a calm manner. His relaxed, yet stoic facial expression would tell the teacher he saw that coming, and he was ready for it.
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Post by Mesmere on Oct 18, 2009 12:46:07 GMT -5
Detached. Quiet observation. Three part cut of the deck in hand. Lacked reassembly. Constant visuals that are deficient in a focus point. The vermilion obelisk remained in feminine posture as she listened as per student protocol.
Defeat. Inevitable.
Followed by an inquiry. Types of duelists - an opinion based question. Hierarchy of duelists. The obelisks had diminutive verbal contribution into this lesson. The vermilion haired one was no different. Jade shaded eyes lowered as the stack came back together. An assignment announcement. Solemn face unwavering. Irrationality tolerates interest.
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Post by Peto Soneka on Oct 18, 2009 13:21:25 GMT -5
A quick check at the board revealed that Peto was to sit at the front of the class, which was just typical of his luck, that he happened to be at the front, most likely meaning the teacher would be able to keep an eye on him for quite a good bit of the time. He sat down, quite annoyed at this fact, and the fact that he had allowed himself to be so late in the first place.
Then there was mention of that dreaded word, homework, and twice as much for missing a duel, what duel, he couldn’t see any signs of a duel, and really he hadn’t been that much later than a couple of others. Whoever was duelling must have done really badly to end that quickly, really badly.
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Post by Dr. Franken Stein on Oct 19, 2009 1:17:27 GMT -5
Stein smirked slightly at the individual reactions. This would be interesting.
"Everyone's homework is to duel, of course. However, you are to duel someone of a different rank than you are. Furthermore, you must have this duel in the Academy Arena. For those of you that came after the Duel, you are to study the Duel and send me your own evaluation of what happened. You should be getting the recording on your PDAs right about....." Stein looked up at the clock. "Now."
Several beeps could be heard from different PDAs, showing that they had received the recording of the Duel. Stein grinned again, then moved around the desk, sitting down again.
"Two more thing of business. I intend on discussing having a set-up in the Arena with our headmaster. This set-up will allow you to access Blinky yourself through the Arena only, giving you the ability to duel against a variety of different decks at varying skill levels. Also, if any of you have any questions about anything we have discussed in this class, or any future classes, you may come and see me in my office and I will do my best not to disse---I mean, to answer your questions. I will be also be sending everyone notification for the next class and when it starts, so that way we do not have anymore late or tardy students."
He then leaned forward to his computer, tapping away at the keyboard for a moment before looking back up at the class. "Class dismissed." He then went back to typing madly away on the keyboard.
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