Hi everyone!
Unfortunately due to lack of time this report was a little bit short, I am now also preparing for the second stage of the World Championship 🙂 So let’s quickly get acquainted with the winners and their answers to my questions.
So, congratulations to the winners
And here is a recording of the tournament itself, I cut out all the extra stuff and the whole tournament was an hour and a half long
Moving on to the winners’ linups and their comments on decks and the tournament.
1st place: Juan
Juan, Argentina, Bahía Blanca (Near, I live in the countryside).
He took five decks to our tournament.
I. BRT/USA Control %%25|060B0v191a1d1J1lgFgvjelrn4ooox;0d1qo8ofpCpD;;08mUot
I think its solid, it has a weird curve (often you can’t play until turn 3), but you have lots of heal to recover in case the opponent has done a lot of damage, I think it works best against midrange, but it also pretty good against aggro (specially if you go first), you also have firebomb to remove threads of other control decks. I think this deck would be better with 2 Cromwell, but I have only one and I don’t want to use wildcard.
Mulligan for first responders unless you are against ramp/control, against ramp/control try to save firebombs for PO bombers, against push OTK try to keep fortification until they have played GPW, to avoid one turn combo you need to play active sonar. Try to trade/push the guards from first responder (if you have to choose between those and other guards) because the can be removed/supressed quite easily.
II. JPN/USA Aggro %%35|5C5x666B6y7b7nlfmg;6V7abqcFlknIo6p4;6x7l;5Zdl
I have doubts about this deck, sometimes you don’t have enough draw, but if you get the right tools you can win really fast. I initially consider this unreliable, but I got 41 twice playing the 9 games with this in the Qualifiers and I had climb to 5th in mid-season playing this so I decided to brought it to the tournament anyway.
Yo go face almost always, when buffing with 99th infanrey or for freedom try to not concentrate on a single unit unless you need to play around a board clear.
III. USA/BRT Control %%52|bEdcfG;bqcWczofpD;bPpC;08bKmUotpJ
This is similar to I, but worst against most decks, It has ramp to not fall behind against other ramps but against midrange/aggro I got worse winrates.
I played this similar to I, mulligan for first responder to not die at the start and hopefully you will last to use your bombers, as I said before this decks is worse than I.
IV. USA/BRT Anti-Push %%52|bEcOfGgn;bqofpD;bPbQcz;0d0nbKmUpJ
This is deck cannot lose against push OTK, you have a lot of heal and national fire service to counter combos with great patritic war.
This deck is intended to beat push OTK, I don’t recommend it against other decks. All you have to do is play your healing cards, and have national fire service activated if they are Soviet main.
V. JPN/GER Air %%31|5C5F5M5x6B6M6Y777b7dflfQi8lfmgnGnHnP;3X436VaXg0jLp9;5t;3f
This is based on a deck used by TreePipit at OCC, my version is worse I don’t have several cards (like the second Goshikisen or rule the skies). I have been playing this game for less than a year and I’m F2P
Mulligan for cheap planes, do not keep suppression (You have 4 copies on deck and its really but to have several in hand without a plane).
Juan chose Даниил Сиволап as the most difficult player in the tournament.
Thanks again to Juan for the detailed answers 😉
2nd place: DontTreadOnMe1805
United States of America, Utah
He took 3 decks to our tournament.
1. USA\Britain
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2. USA\Germany
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3. Japan\Germany
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I chose Ramp mid range and jaggro because ramp is my favorite deck and the other 2 are strong
I would say don’t play war machine on turn 11 
and always keep options in hand to work with expansion
DontTreadOnMe1805 chose Даниил Сиволап as the most difficult player in the tournament.
3rd place: Stanislav4349
Stanislav4349 lives in Russia, the city of Cheboksary
For our tournament he took 2 decks.
1. Japan\Germany Jaggro
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2.Britain\Germany Аvia
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Stanislav chose these decks because he believes that they are the most effective decks at the moment. When playing these decks he advises to think with your head, starting from what cards to leave in your initial hand, taking into account what move you’re playing and what nation you’re playing against, to logical moves, analysing moves ahead of time
eszemteszem considers eszemteszem to be the most difficult player in the tournament
4th place: DITya
Dmitriy (DITya) Tsyabuk lives in Belarus, Rudsk.
Dmitry took 5 decks to our tournament.
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2 %%52|bEbidkfGmKpy;0d1lbjbKj3o8ofpDpL;08bPczmUpJ;
3 %%38|5C5x5Y666B6C6y7b7liHlfmgnPp9;6x7aiDnIp4ph;5ZitjP;pg
4 %%43|7MfxiPjsmg;668c9m9vmanUp4;7a7HiQmo;8Igb
5 %%51|3QbEbicFj8lUmPpI;2SbqcVcWnwo6o8pG;4pd4d7dloU;
1 deck was always German-American because in my opinion it is the most versatile deck further depending on what deck was played against me: if aggro — I took Japanese-Polish because it is a pure anti-aggro deck; if there was control — I took American Wrath; if OTK — American Frontline; and Sefl-Damage Councils I took if I didn’t know what better to take (well, or it’s just a preparation against eszem because I guessed what decks he would play).
German-American is a universal deck, which in general is not particularly difficult, we try to mulligan 1 drops and if it’s aggro we can easily fight back since the deck has a lot of 1/3 for 1 credit and if it’s control we try to find Blitz Doctrine, Blitzkrieg, and Panzergrenadiers.
2 American-British on Revenge is the only control deck in the pool. Mulligan Ramp, Jasco, and if we’re supposed to have Aggro Awakened Giant and Together We Stand against us, if we go first we can keep Convoy. In the game, we try not to play the Anger card until we play the Yankee card (well, only in emergencies when things are bad can we play Retribution).
3 Japanese-Polish — purely anti-aggro deck (not recommended for ladder). We mulligan as if we were aggro Japanese, try to implement Expansion, and further Polish Legions can’t break through if there are no mass sweeps/suppressions. Playing against control/otk decks we try to crush of course, but here the chances are low.
4 On Self Demage, we mulligan Shibata Regiment, 456th Rifle Regiment, Blood Sickle, and 34th Guards Division. Gameplay-wise, it’s a mid-aggro deck. We try to put a 6/6 infantry as early as possible and use Rally on it, if we are lucky we can sell another 456th Rifle Regiment.
5 Frontline American is a very fast-paced deck. We mulligan the first drops and try to get a foothold on Frontline, if we succeed, we’ll probably win the game with the first Blitzkrieg or Strategic Bombardment.
The most difficult opponent is probably logical to recognise Juan’a man well selected decks for this format of the tournament, where all (as it seemed to me) except Maxim’s 1st deck took aggro and lost to the British because of 945364570 guards, his second deck as far as I can understand is also sharpened against aggro — no matter what deck the 2nd player will take the first deck he took he must play again if he wins the 2nd time and expectedly loses (and so I am satisfied purely because Eszem won :).
That’s all, good luck in tournaments, ladder and personal life! 😉