Tristan Bridges

Bars

MINNEAPOLIS?????

@patrick_j_hoban 🐐

We won the YCS!

HOBAN WINNING A YCS IN 26, FEELS LIKE 2014 ALL OVER AGAIN

CRAZY FINALS!!! GOTTA LOVE THE 3 vs 3!!!!

@LoftonTCG @pxxxnda Oh so they just lied to you . Nice .

@BridgesTCG @pxxxnda Any and every time I’ve went to do a 3v3 they’ve always told me it HAS to be same team Which has always pushed me away from doing it since everyone is generally out of state

Wow this is ass

@LoftonTCG @pxxxnda I’ve literally vip’d with a sub for the last 4 years lmao

@pxxxnda I’ve never heard of that happening Even when they first started doing them that’s how it was ran

@Kamal_Champ64 last year our third didn’t live near Logan and I so we had a sub fill in for the VIP. This year you can’t use a sub to get the vip

@BridgesTCG Wdym?

No subs at the VIPs this year is gonna make me 🤮

@Aaron_McInnes @Pizzafacekilla Agreed!

@BridgesTCG @Pizzafacekilla It is for sure. I’m just giving @Pizzafacekilla verification that those circumstances do in fact happen. But I do want to make the distinction that competitive integrity (not allowing take backs for ex.) is not the same thing as sharking

If I were to write an evergreen “intro to competitive YGO” guide, what do you think that should include? Also are there any decks that would work as examples that are “timeless” for some of these examples

@Aaron_McInnes @Pizzafacekilla But isn’t being a dickhead and trying to force illegal actions just cheating? You are trying to make the opponent do something that’s illegal. For example if I go f&tv target something untargetable and my opponent tries to make me target something else that’s just cheating right?

@BridgesTCG @Pizzafacekilla There’s definitely examples of people being sharks. I think there is definitely a line of “playing the game with competitive integrity” and being a dickhead/trying to force illegal actions.

@Pizzafacekilla @Aaron_McInnes Could you give an example of “pros” being sharks. What does sharking look like to you

@Aaron_McInnes Include things on mental and player etiquette at the competitive level. “Pros” can be dicks or sharks or whatever you want to call that. Why?

Iswtg Facebook is better than this app.

@ad_tcg @aribobariiii I’m so fucking sick it’s crazy 😭😭😭

@aribobariiii @BridgesTCG yo aren’t you the 6’2 guy that benches 315 who won the seattle regional? i tried to get ur autograph but you left the event in ur lambo too quick

this is yugioh in a nutshell:

Hopefully soon we’ll know the information for the NAWCQ 🙃

@Rhaimundos1 @aribobariiii Y’all are so unreal it’s crazy 😭😂😂😂

At the local card shop, the smell of card sleeves and energy drinks hung in the air as Matthew sat across from Tristan at a worn wooden table. A half-built Yu-Gi-Oh deck was spread out between them like a puzzle waiting to be solved. Matthew had been losing all afternoon. “I don’t get it,” he said, shuffling through his cards. “Every time I think I’ve got a play, it just falls apart.” Tristan leaned back in his chair, arms crossed, watching Matthew think. He’d been playing longer and had the calm confidence of someone who had seen every mistake a duelist could make. “Your problem isn’t the cards,” Tristan said. “It’s the plan.” Matthew frowned. “What do you mean?” Tristan reached over and tapped the deck. “Every deck has a story. Turn one sets the stage. Turn two builds pressure. Turn three wins the duel. You’re playing every turn like it’s the first chapter.” He picked up a few cards and rearranged them. “Look. If you open Ponix, you don’t just summon it because you can. You summon it because it leads to Garunix later. Always ask yourself: what does this turn do for the next one?” Matthew nodded slowly. They played a practice duel. Tristan stopped the game constantly. “Pause,” he said on turn one. “Why did you activate that?” “I thought it would help.” “Thinking isn’t enough,” Tristan replied with a grin. “Know why.” Another turn passed. “Okay, better,” Tristan said. “Now you’re baiting my interruption before committing. That’s good.” Matthew started to see it—the lines, the sequencing, the patience. The next duel went differently. Matthew drew his hand, took a breath, and followed the plan Tristan had drilled into him. One play flowed into the next. Cards triggered, monsters returned, and suddenly the field was completely his. Tristan stared at the board for a moment. Then he laughed. “Well,” he said, raising his hands in surrender, “looks like the student just cooked the teacher.” Matthew grinned. For the first time all day, the deck finally made sense. And somewhere between the misplays, the rewinds, and Tristan’s constant coaching, he realized something. He hadn’t just learned how to play better. He had learned how to think like a duelist.

a little pea brain like me could never learn ritual beasts

@aribobariiii @lastrng It’s because it’s a simultaneous summon 😌

@lastrng @BridgesTCG Yea @BridgesTCG how about you explain this one huh

@mcmariners_ @aribobariiii Oh hell no not you too 😭

@BridgesTCG @aribobariiii @BridgesTCG do you offer coaching?

@aribobariiii @glassman_jeremy Oh thank god one less cannahawk enjoyer 😌

@BridgesTCG @glassman_jeremy you know what that was actually my final straw and im going to save myself some misery and never play yugioh ever again because of you now

@aribobariiii @glassman_jeremy WTF DID I DO LMAOOOO

@glassman_jeremy @BridgesTCG if this is a preview of how he teaches id rather kms than learn from him ever