u/maxram1

1. Battle Stage

Everyone will battle everyone in a league system (or perhaps swiss system). Assume duration is not a problem. Battles are as usual.

Top 8 qualified to the Elimination Stage.

All 16 participants: Osis, Remix, Napom, Exallos, Blackroll, KI, Max, Pono, Pacmax, Kaji, Steady, Wing, Den, Dropical, Codfish, Stitch.

Who are your top 8 to pass this stage?

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2. Elimination Stage

This is like The Voice / Got Talent / American Idol Shows, where some participants will be eliminated after each round. Each round elim is as usual, 4 minute sets.

Quarter-Final Round: Which 4 names will pass this round out of your top 8?

Semi-Final Round: Which 2 names will pass this round out of your top 4?

Final Round: Who will win out of the your top 2?

GBB 2025 is one of the unique ones where a non-winner (Wing) was widely considered as the best overall in the competition (even Dlow agreed, who voted for PacMax), but fairly defeated by PacMax in the final.

What do you think about the previous GBBs? Are the winners the best overall as well? If not, I think let's choose from the top 4 only, because they perform the same number of sets.

Let me write them down, all that are recorded by the wiki.

2024: Julard 1, Osis 2, Remix 3, Kaji 4

2023: River 1, Napom 2, Wing 3, Abo Ice 4

2021: Colaps 1, River 2, FootboxG 3, King Inertia 4

2019: D-low 1, Tomazacre 2, B-Art 3, Codfish 4

2018: Codfish 1, D-low 2, Hiss 3, BATACO 4

2017: Napom 1, Hiss 2, Alexinho 3, Trung Bao 4

(I stopped here since the rest have no top 8 battles).

Not like "At/during the start of (a phase/step/substep): ..." because that'd be like phase dependent trigger which is almost like "ignition outside of Main Phase",

but more like right after a change of phase. I don't how the text looks like. Maybe roughly like "If/when BP is entered: (effect)." (EDIT: this example is wrong)

Just something I'm curious about.

If it doesn't exist, why / why not, do you think?

(1) If I summon a monster and it gets banished by FV, then when it returns, can I put it on opponent's field instead? From its text it says "the field", not "the controller's field", hence the question since I never do that haha.

(2) Can I confirm that in modern rulings, if I use CL1 Necroface first eff and CL2 FV, then Necroface second eff will not activate at all (after the chain resolves)?

Thanks!

I'm looking for some cards described below.

Lots of cards say

(1) "If this card is (some events): " or

(2) "If this card is (some events) by card effect: "

where (some events) can be like destroyed, sent to GY, banished, discarded, etc.

There we see that cards that satisfy the condition (2) also satisfy condition (1), but not vice-versa, because condition (1) is also satisfied by cards that are destroyed/banished/etc as costs.

Hence, I'm looking for cards that essentially say

(3) "If this card is (some events) by / as a cost: "

I'm aware "cost" is not really a term in the game. I'm just using that to be brief.

Atlantean cards satisfy this. They say something like "If this card is sent to GY to activate effect: " which, although specific for costs for water monsters, exactly fit the description.

Are they the only ones?

EDIT: Thanks to y'all! Upvoted for the suggestions!

Someone has posted a link to his video. What a gift to the community! (You'd think he'd be too busy with many gigs lol. Oh and I heard he promised a tutorial on Kong snare, said Stitch iirc lol.)

Anyway, like any judge ever, it's gonna be subjective, but Wing's choice brings the subjectivity to the next level by adjusting SBX criteria to his own version. He combined musicality and technicality, differentiating them only based on the intention communicated by the performance. If the routine clearly showcases musicality, then tech around it has to support it. If the routine showcases technicality, then the very basic elements like cleanliness, consistency, tempo, timing, etc must be satisfied.

What do y'all think? If other judges adopt it for future rankings, it might prevent weirdly placed or forced techs in a musical wildcards, giving overall better musical designs and experience (this part is also echoed by helium and I guess many others, fans and bbxers alike).

On the other hand it might indeed separate the types of wildcards getting accepted. Not sure lol.

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Some specific things I personally agree/disagree:

- Kinda disagree with ABX thing, but the timing and flow are indeed a bit over the place. It's tech-oriented though, packaged in a house beat although again the change of beat is indeed weird. Wing said if he judged it as tech, it'd be lower due to basic elements like timing, but maybe just personally I think those don't pull his rank too low. But hey who knows Wing's 27th place is like 5 point difference than his 9th place considering decimal points lol.

- Super agree with Stitch. In fact super happy my opinion is exactly the same: in that slow motion drop, the hollow whistle part + the pacmax whistle threw me off hard. The hollow whistle arpeggio seems unnecessary, and pacmax whistle part, maybe if he could use the same pf snare, it'd sound ok, but otherwise, better not use it, I think.

- Agree on Marvelous as well. But Marvelous wildcard does satisfy other judges' criteria, I guess. He did deserve the tops!

- Kinda agree on Dlow, especially the snares man. I know Dlow said it's intentional but not just me, pacmax julard and martin benati also didn't like the choice, and bothered with the house vibe. His inward bass as well, is not as pitch-accurate, not like controlled like how Den or Inertia does it. Dlow also can control his liproll's pitch better, so a deep liproll for the second drop might fit better than inward bass. The wildcard is a bit like Marvelous' to score points here and there indeed. That said, the beginning inward basses do seem like parts of the story, although there's no alien/demon stabbing the daggers lol. In the second drop though they did sound weird.

- His view on Inertia is like everybody else's lol but the wildcard is magical indeed. The wildcard is a cover/different arrangement of another song but the timing, even if it's intentional, it's not communicated clearly or not communicated well.