KOFXI Sawakoro Festival 2024

Tournament Report by ATG

Preface

In 2024, once again a German delegation made its way to the Sawakoro Festival. This time, Sensei Enrique couldn't make it, but new player Antser joined us for the trip.

• ATG: Oswald/K'/Vanessa(L)
• Arit: Ralf/Clark/Jazu(L)
• AD_Ryan: Iori/Kula/Ash(L)
• Antser: Duck/Kyo/K(L)

Before we made our way to Nagoya, we had over a week to spend in Tokyo, meeting Ryoji & Ryuumi at Shinjuku Sportsland twice. We also visited Game In Good Day 21 in eastern Tokyo several times, aka the Castle of the Demon King (Yanjirou, jokingly called "Maou", Demon King, plays there). We were all incredibly tired and the other German players left, but I decided to play two ft10s that evening, the first one was against Akio. His patient style worked perfectly against me, I felt quite helpless. The second one was against Sho, famous for his strong Leader Oswald. I did a little better than against Akio, but overall wasn't too happy with my play on that day. During the ft10s however AD_Ryan suddenly returned and said he couldn't just leave without supporting me, which I was really grateful for.

2024/10/10

We arrived in Nagoya during the evening and decided to relax a bit - it had been raining cats and dogs and Tokyo for days, and we were tired.

As is the tradition, our lunch was Misokatsu at the famous Nagoyan chain Yabaton to regain our strength, then went to an Izakaya for dinner and later watched the good day 21 stream at our air bnb until we went to bed.