Battle Arena 32-man #2(SPECIAL BANS)
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Organized by PTCG Battle Arena
Standard format

32 Man Double elimination Standard tournament

Donations for prizing are gladly accepted but never necessary, and donations go to Max_Pallet on PTCGO

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Prizing:

1st: 10 CRE

2nd: 5 CRE

Top 4: 3 CRE

Top 8: 1 CRE

Extra Information: After some discussing with other people and having my own view of kind of what the meta is like, I decided to put some bans into placement, not because I personally hate the cards(that would be stupid of me to do so), but because I feel like the impact these cards give on the game in the current state in not a healthy impact for the meta, so I decided to completely ban them for this tournament in hopes of making a better metagame that is enjoyable without these specific cards getting really annoying

The bans put into place are:

Gengar & Mimikyu GX Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX Zacian V Crushing Hammer

When I look at the meta, I kind of see these cards are more of problematic cards, all of these cards have been complained about by a portion of people at some point, some even I am not fond of, and I feel these 4 cards have an impact on the meta but not a good one. I banned Gengar & Mimikyu because its GX attack has basically become an easy out to one more turn of preventing your opponent from doing anything, which can either allow you to set up before they do, or checkmate them into losing, which while it can be great for the person playing it, it is not as enjoyable for the one being affected by it. ADP I banned because of it being complained about ever since its debut. I dont know many who actually like ADP, cause most people say it is such an annoying card and is super unfun, so I just decided to ban it for this tournament. Zacian kind of goes under the same thing ADP does, its been kind of complained about for being super strong, and it basically is just an unfun card to go against depending on the deck. Now while Banning ADP makes Lucmetal the only other real deck that would play Zacian, I still see Zacian as a somewhat problematic card at times, and decided to ban it for this tournament. Crushing hammer is also a card that I have known people have found annoying for a long time now, and with the meta kind of having decks rely on hammers mostly, I feel like that is an unhealthy thing for the game because it turns it into a more watered down luck base game, which I know is not exactly enjoyable for everyone, so I decided to ban it just to allow there to be more strategy in the game rather than getting lucky and getting ahead of the game.

Tournament Structure

Main Phase
Double Elimination Bracket - BO1
untimed matches
no match check-in
Wins are worth 1 match point, ties 0