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If you're surprised that you're reading your third deck color post within the past 7 days, then I'm as surprised as you are. Anyway, this time it only covers the four-day period since the last NTC/WC Qualifier post, so unless indicated I'll be referring to those (instead of the Osaka 1v1 qualifiers one) unless indicated.

First off, to be clear: this post is not about the GCG Fest Osaka 3v3 Qualifiers, as Bandai has not released stats on those (yet). Even then, the structure of that tourney makes any normal analysis too complicated, as you will have to factor in not only individual decks, but how each three-man team worked around the format's rules.

Color Combo	Kanji	6-May	10-May	Week-on-Week Change
Blue/Purple	青紫	19.2%	19.6%	2.1%
Blue/White	青白	17.4%	16.3%	-6.3%
Blue/Green	青緑	14.7%	14.8%	0.7%
Red/White	赤白	11.7%	14.1%	20.5%
Green/White	緑白	12.5%	12.4%	-0.8%
Green/Red	緑赤	7.0%	7.4%	5.7%
Blue/Red	青赤	6.2%	6.2%	0.0%
Purple/White	紫白	7.1%	5.7%	-19.7%
Red/Purple	赤紫	3.5%	3.2%	-8.6%
Green/Purple	緑紫	0.5%	0.2%	-60.0%
Other	その他	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

As you can see (see second image), there hasn't been too much unexpected movement compared to last time. Among the top 3, Blue-White dropped by a percentage point but stayed on second place, with Blurple and Blue-Green mostly holding still.

Going down, Red-White taking fourth place back from Green-White was the most significant usage change this week, with a full 20% increase compared to last, while Purple-White went from being a surprise feature in last week's graphic to going back down to its usual position in the rankings, with a usage drop almost mirroring Red-White but in the other direction.

And just for fun, let's compare what the players in Osaka brought for their qualifiers to what the rest of the country was playing that weekend:

Color Combo	Kanji	9-May (Osaka 1v1)	10-May	Difference*
Blue/Purple	青紫	18.6%	19.6%	5.4%
Blue/White	青白	20.1%	16.3%	-18.9%
Blue/Green	青緑	15.4%	14.8%	-3.9%
Red/White	赤白	14.1%	14.1%	0.0%
Green/White	緑白	9.5%	12.4%	30.5%
Green/Red	緑赤	7.8%	7.4%	-5.1%
Blue/Red	青赤	6.0%	6.2%	3.3%
Purple/White	紫白	4.9%	5.7%	16.3%
Red/Purple	赤紫	2.5%	3.2%	28.0%
Green/Purple	緑紫	0.7%	0.2%	-71.4%
Other	その他	0.4%	0.2%	-50.0%

*positive difference favors NTC/Shop Qualifiers, negative difference favors Osaka 1v1

Looking at the numbers, the main difference between the two sets of numbers is that Blue/White seems to have been overrepresented at the Osaka 1v1 Qualifiers, at the expense of mostly Green-White and to a lesser extent Blue-Purple. This did not help in the end as we've seen that more than half of the Top 16 were still BP players, with nary a Blue-White player in sight.

Link: https://x.com/gundam_info/status/2053762033989071264

Lv4/Cost 1

(G Generation) (Support)

+2AP/+1HP

[When Paired] Choose one of your friendly (G Generation) units. During this turn, that unit may choose an active opponent's unit with [Blocker] as its attack target.

Lv5/Cost 4

(G Generation) Trait

Link: Reiji

[Breach 4] (When this Unit yadda yadda)

[When Paired (G Generation Pilot)] If you have 2 or more (G Generation) Unit cards in your trash, place 1 rested Resource.

Color Combo	Kanji	6-May	9-May
Blue/White	青白	17.4%	20.1%
Blue/Purple	青紫	19.2%	18.6%
Blue/Green	青緑	14.7%	15.4%
Red/White	赤白	11.7%	14.1%
Green/White	緑白	12.5%	9.5%
Green/Red	緑赤	7.0%	7.8%
Blue/Red	青赤	6.2%	6.0%
Purple/White	紫白	7.1%	4.9%
Red/Purple	赤紫	3.5%	2.5%
Green/Purple	緑紫	0.5%	0.7%
Other	その他	0.2%	0.4%

...Yep, that's certainly an upset.