No see, I said that TyRam didn't make top 2 in the first series of quotes. Then in the second quote, I said that I don't care what decks made top 2. Nowhere in that second quote did I say I don't care what decks make top 4, top 8, top 16, etc. If it wasn't taken so out-of-context the argument would actually work to an extent because I did say that in the original post
And you've managed to take another quote completely out-of-context. The second one is fine, but the first one was in direct response to you saying TyRam had the best worlds finishes of any deck. If you say that, then I can't just ignore it and say well my testing says otherwise, because that's not even arguing your point. Speaking of arguing points, you only argued one of my points in your last post and the rest was simply trying to make my post look invalid by breaking it up so much it was out of context.
The basis of YOUR entire argument was results of tournaments. So if I start arguing the results of my testing, I'm probably not going to get anywhere and won't even be arguing your points. So if you're arguing based on tournament results, I have to also.
The reason Zekrom wasn't played is because it has a horrible Donphan matchup and you never want to go into a tournament with an auto-loss; much less one of the most challenging tournaments of the year. Magnezone was played. A lot. DD is way too simple and straightforward of a deck - the best players in the world want room to outplay, not just blindly spam Earthquake and Outrage and pray to hit some Reversals.
TyRam didn't make it past top 8 in Nationals, that's not anywhere near Yanmega numbers. Furthermore, you only heard about the ones that did good. It was certainly a presence. However, the deck was also on total backburner going into the tournament - people were testing against DonChamp, Magneboar and Yanmega. When you're not prepared for a deck, you do worse against it. That's one of the reasons google's deck and Magneboar got so far in worlds, despite so few people playing those decks. This is proven by the list that went 9-0. It wasn't a good list, yet the surprise factor combined with the Defenders and a good player piloting it got it to that point. Once again, the deck's finishes in the tournament were directly related to the number of people playing that deck. It got enough play to get it a few top cut seeds. It was by no means the most played deck though, so it didn't get the most top cut seeds.
Scizorliscious said:
TyRam was seen as a better deck
Scizorliscious said:
See, that's a perfect example of taking stuff completely out of context. You never tried to say what's implied by these little fractions of your post.