BSF 2019: Weiss Schwarz Top 4 Decks + Some Fun Stats

Because Bushi sometimes takes their sweet time releasing even just the names of the top 4 decks, about a third of this table is still unofficial for the time being – I’ll keep updating it until all the official info is out.

At locations for which they’ve already published the full top bracket and deck lists, I’ve added links to each individual deck list in the table (as usual, they only publish deck lists for the top 3 teams though). At all other locations, deck placements are based on either Bushi’s FB posts or information I’ve gathered from players who were there – big thanks to everyone who helped me put this together!

*Note – As of August 5th, all of this data should match their official posts and website entries.

If you’re into numbers, I’ve added some stats at the end of this post, and if you wanna read my tournament report from our Springfest in Munich, I made a separate post for that here.


Springfest 2019 – All Top 4 Weiss Schwarz Decks

LOCATION PLACE A B C
March 16th
Rosemont, IL
USA
1st AOT LSS KC
2nd IMC BD LSS
3rd KC BD KS
4th

 

GL

 

KC

 

LL

 

April 6th
Atlanta, GA
USA
1st BD LSS RZ
2nd LSS CCS BD
3rd SAO KS LSS
4th

 

SAO

 

AOT

 

KC

 

April 13th
Toronto
CANADA
1st BD LSS CCS
2nd LSS BD KS
3rd KC AOT SAO
4th

 

AOT

 

SAO

 

LSS

 

April 14th
Mexico City
MEXICO
1st AOT BD CCS
2nd P5 BD SAO
3rd CCS AOT BD
4th

 

APO

 

RZ

 

KC

 

April 27th
Manila
PHILIPPINES
1st LSS KS AOT
2nd SY GL BD
3rd RZ AOT LSS
4th

 

RZ

 

KS

 

BD

 

April 27th
Anaheim, CA
USA
1st KS LSS P5
2nd LL BD KC
3rd CCS RZ GL
4th

 

KS

 

AOT

 

CCS

 

May 4th
Richmond
CANADA
1st AOT KS SAO
2nd LSS KC CCS
3rd BD SAO AOT
4th

 

SAO

 

BD

 

AOT

 

May 5th
Lisbon
PORTUGAL
1st KC BD SAO
2nd GL BD KC
3rd SAO BD LL
4th

 

KS

 

CCS

 

AOT

 

May 18th
Mouvaux
FRANCE
1st APO CCS AOT
2nd P5 AOT KC
3rd LSS BD CCS
4th

 

APO

 

SAO

 

RZ

 

May 25th
White Plains, NY
USA
1st LSS SAO BD
2nd APO KS AOT
3rd BD LSS GGO
4th

 

LSS

 

KS

 

SAO

 

June 2nd
Antwerp
BELGIUM
1st AOT SAO KS
2nd AOT LSS SAO
3rd KS BD DG
4th

 

KS

 

SAO

 

AOT

 

June 16th
Houston, TX
USA
1st AOT RSL KS
2nd DG BD LSS
3rd KS RZ LSS
4th

 

KC

 

RZ

 

SAO

 

June 22nd
Cardiff
UNITED KINGDOM
1st AOT SAO LSS
2nd GGO KC IMC
3rd Fate AOT BD
4th

 

AOT

 

P5

 

CCS

 

June 30th
Munich
GERMANY
1st KC SAO AOT
2nd AOT SAO BD
3rd APO CCS SAO
4th

 

RZ

 

KS

 

BD

 

June 30th
Bankstown
AUSTRALIA
1st LSS SAO BD
2nd SAO KS AOT
3rd BD CCS SAO
4th CCS SAO APO

Statistics

All of the numbers below are only in regards to the top 4 decks & teams, not the entire pool of decks (I might bother gathering that info next time, but that’s a big maybe). Since I’m still missing info for 3rd place in Houston, the current calculations are based on 59 teams and 177 players instead of 60 teams and 180 players in total. The calculations are based on 60 teams and 180 players/decks in total.

Considering all the hype for Konosuba after worlds, I kinda expected the teams playing it to top Springfest about as often as those with Bang Dream or AOT – and yet there were about 15% more teams with BD and/or AOT than teams with KS. Honestly, just the fact that almost half of all top 4 teams had a BD player is amusing to me. It’s also interesting that outside of BD (who got its latest English set in the middle of Springfest), the other two most prevalent sets on successful teams were SAO and AOT, both of which had their last support printed in 2017 … yeah, when something is impactful in the EN meta, it sticks around for a while.

It’s kinda funny how just between those two decks, there’s a fundamental difference in why they’re as good as they are and how people build and play them. AOT is one of those sets that have “the” meta build, and then you have slight variations depending on personal preference and expected match-ups. KS and LSS are kinda similar in that regard, but to a lesser degree: I still think there are more people choosing between 8 gate vs. stock-soul/gate or between Chika vs. Ruby than between the Eren or Christa climax combo. But on the other hand, SAO (and BD just the same) have so many different good card options that at the end of the day, they’re just as amazing as the sets with a more defined meta, if not better.

All in all, I’m really glad that the English side of the game right now isn’t absolutely dominated by one set with one build, since multiple similarly viable sets with similar tournament prevalence and similar standings are what makes the game interesting. And personally, I actually enjoy not knowing my opponent’s whole deck as soon as they play their first level 0 😛

Anyway, if you divide the above numbers by 3, you get the percentages of set prevalence on the individual player level. This is where, at least in my opinion, it’s really obvious that we have a pretty healthy meta right now.

Proportionally, no set really stands out at all. Sure, 15.3% of all top 4 decks were Bang Dream, but that’s really closely followed by AOT’s 14.7% and SAO’s 13.6%. There are easily more than 5 sets you could argue as the best and still have a valid point, both objectively and regarding tournament presence – so if the game continues to develop this way and there are no more sudden Eren-esque disruptions, I think the English meta wil be perfectly okay.

And for a final treat, I also made a breakdown of sets by each seat position – not that it really matters, I just found it interesting 😛

Thank you all for reading 🙂 I hope you guys did well in your Springfest tournaments and I wish you best of luck in the autumn circuit as well!

10 thoughts on “BSF 2019: Weiss Schwarz Top 4 Decks + Some Fun Stats

  1. Awesome write up!

    My suspicion for why AOT/SAO being so prevelent is the toss in factor. I know that when a few of my mostly JP friends went to Springfest, they borrowed a deck. AOT and SAO have been around so long most competetive EN players probably have one they’re willing to lend. You could probably run some regression to test that hypothesis with previous data.

    1. >regression
      >test that hypothesis

      Shit I thought I was done with Statistics for this year 😛 Jokes aside, I fully agree. I mean, our B-Team had a borrowed SAO deck too so there’s definitely at least some truth to this.

  2. Hi! It’s great to see someone collecting this info. I’ve been looking at the results on Facebook and trying to compile some stats, but, besides the delay, they don’t even include the full top cut for some regionals (I’m guessing those that only had a top 4 rather than 8).

    Now that Bushiroad has finally posted results from all the regionals, though, I found a few discrepancies:

    * In Chicago, they have LSS on the fourth-place team, rather than LL as you say. I did just watch Burn One’s tournament report though and they also said that team had LL.
    * In Houston, they have the fourth-place team as KC/RZ/SAO, as opposed to your SAO/KC/RZ.
    * In Cardiff, they list the second-place team as SAO/KC/IMC, rather than GGO/KC/IM. The decklists on the website, though, are GGO/KC/IMC.
    *In Munich, they list second place as AOT/SAO/BD, rather than AOT/AOT/BD.

    1. Hi, thanks so much for the comment! For Chicago, yeah, it does seem to be LL instead of LSS – I’ve asked about that at least twice, as far as I recall. I fixed the order for Houston, changed the set name for Cardiff (I looked at the deck before and it somehow didn’t register in my brain that those aren’t the OG Idolm@ster girls), and yup – the double AOT for Munich was a typo 🙂 Thanks again!

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