Just a bit of a re-cap of what has happened during the Sword and Shield to Lost Origin format with the 4 official events that happened in Singapore. So we've got enough data to see which deck did well in my local area and which players also did quite well. We had 4 official TPC events happening, including the first one around the world to host a big event with English Lost Origin cards for the Regional League.
Toys Terminal - Singapore Regional League - Sep 17-18 2022 - 131 Players - SWSH to LOR
Toys Terminal - Singapore Town League - Sep 18 2022 - 43 Players - SWSH to LOR
Goodness Gracious Gaming - Singapore Town League - Oct 16 2022 - 32 Players - SWSH to LOR
Brick's Play - Singapore Town League - Oct 24 2022 - 32 Players - SWSH to LOR
So for some stats, first up is a quick look at the top 10 decks that scored points in all 4 events in this format:
- Mew VMAX - 12 placements
- Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR/Inteleon - 11 placements
- Giratina VSTAR - 10 placements
- Kyurem VMAX/Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR - 7 placements
- Arceus VSTAR/Giratina VSTAR - 7 placements
- Lost Zone Box - 6 placements
- Arceus VSTAR/Flying Pikachu VMAX/Giratina VSTAR - 6 placements
- Regi Box - 5 placements
- Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX/Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR - 5 placements
- Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR - 4 placements
And along with placements, the main thing is points so here are the top 10 decks with the most CSP scores in the 4 events in this format:
- Mew VMAX - 2740 CSP
- Giratina VSTAR - 2020 CSP
- Lost Zone Box - 1680 CSP
- Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR/Inteleon - 1580 CSP
- Kyurem VMAX/Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR - 1280 CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Flying Pikachu VMAX/Giratina VSTAR - 1150 CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Giratina VSTAR - 1050 CSP
- Regi Box - 780 CSP
- Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR - 550 CSP
- Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX/Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR - 500 CSP
And with points, we can also find out the average points score by all the decks from the 4 events held here in Singapore:
- Lost Zone Box - 280 Average CSP
- Mew VMAX - 228.33 Average CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Hisuian Goodra VSTAR - 205 Average CSP
- Giratina VSTAR - 202 Average CSP
- Lost Zone Toolbox/Frosmoth Box - 200 Average CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Flying Pikachu VMAX/Giratina VSTAR - 191.67 Average CSP
- Kyurem VMAX/Origin Forme Palkia VSTAR - 182.86 Average CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Duraludon VMAX - 180 Average CSP
- Regi Box - 156 Average CSP
- Arceus VSTAR/Giratina VSTAR - 150 Average CSP
Mew, to no-one surprise, was the most popular deck in Singapore. It's a favourite to many here so I'm not surprised at all to see it scoring the most points and also the most CSP placements. But it also did have 3 finishers in top cut at the Regional which gives out way more points so that helps it out along with Lost Zone Box that won said Regional, giving it the best Average points too since it didn't see much success even though it did saw a lot of play.
And now for the players playing these decks. The CSP rankings are quite important since the top 4 at the end of the season (scoring 2000 CSP or more) will earn an invite to the 2023 Pokemon World Championships in Yokohama this year (the other being the Championship winner, who will very likely end up inside the top 4 of the points ranking anyway). So here's the top 20 players in the points standing so far and also included how many times they've score points for each event they've been in so far.
- Tan Yong Siang - 1000 CSP (1 placement in 2 events - 50%)
- Wong Wei Kit - 800 CSP (1 placement in 1 event - 100%)
- Toshiyuki Isogai - 600 CSP (1 placement in 1 event - 100%)
- Kang Yu Xian - 600 CSP (1 placement in 3 events - 33%)
- Mickey Chia Wee Keat - 500 CSP (3 placements in 4 events - 75%)
- Kashvinder Singh Mann - 480 CSP (3 placement in 3 events - 100%)
- Lim Jit Min - 450 CSP (2 placements in 3 events - 67%)
- Klive Aw Jun Jie - 450 CSP (3 placements in 3 events - 100%)
- Keenan Jacob Victor - 410 CSP (3 placements in 3 events - 100%)
- Melvin Chan - 400 CSP (1 placement in 1 event - 100%)
- Haruki Okunishi (J) - 400 CSP (1 placement in 2 events - 50%)
- J'Ken Hoh (S) - 400 CSP (1 placement in 2 events - 50%)
- Goh Kai Xiang (S) - 400 CSP (1 placement in 2 events - 50%)
- Anselm Sim - 360 CSP (2 placements in 3 events - 67%)
- Danny Seet - 310 CSP (1 placement in 3 events - 33%)
- Kenny Lim - 300 CSP (2 placements in 3 events - 67%)
- Terry Tai - 300 CSP (2 placement in 2 events - 100%)
- Norman Chan - 280 CSP (2 placements in 3 events - 67%)
- Chen Bai Ning - 260 CSP (2 placement in 2 events - 100%)
- Edmund Khoo - 260 CSP (2 placements in 3 events - 67%)
So as you can see, the guys who score top 8 finishes at the Regional have quite the advantage. The top 4 in the standings are the top 4 guys in the Regional, and they've only had one points scoring placement in all of their events, which shows how important the Regional Leagues are compared to the Town Leagues.
The ones just 100 or more points behind them are the ones who have score points in these Regional Leagues but so far it's still not enough to trouble the top 4, but enough to put themselves ahead of the guys who finished 5th to 8th in the Regional League (those guys have also only score points once), so it shows that consistency does help, but the bigger payout still wins at the end of the day.
The first Town League for the new SSH-SIT format is happening this weekend (and with 48 players this time so a bigger field compared to the last two ones), and with 3 Town Leagues coming up in the next 2 weeks, how will the new format shape things up and affect the current standings as it is? Thank you for reading!
