BCS 2022: Top Weiss Schwarz Decks + Stats

A seasonal masterpost collection of the best sets, winning decklists and accompanying stats from the 2022 Bushiroad Championship Series – for all your English Weiss Schwarz meta needs.

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Contents

Top 8 Deck Lists

Missing Information

  • Taipei, Taiwan: All 5th – 8th place lists
  • Suntec City, Singapore: Rushia list from 5th – 8th place
  • Manhattan, NY: AOT list from 5th – 8th place

List of Locations


August 28 – Houston, TX (USA)

August 28 – Houston, TX (USA)
82 players
1st place MTI 8 Standby
2nd place MTI 8 Standby
3rd place HOL Kanata/Marine
4th place DDM Door/Pants
5th – 8th place
MTI 8 Standby
HOL Watame/Marine
RWBY Door/Standby
TRV Dual Laners

September 3 – Taipei (Taiwan)

September 3 – Taipei (Taiwan)
30 players
1 DDM Door/Pants
2 TRV 8 Pants
3 TRV 8 Pants
4 TRV Dual Laners
5 – 8
TRV
5HY
5HY
BFR

September 4 – Duluth, GA (USA)

September 4 – Duluth, GA (USA)
72 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 HOL Kanata/Marine
3 AT Standby/Choice
4 5HY 8 Standby
5 – 8
TSK 8 Choice
HOL Okayu/Kanata/Marine
DDM Door/Pants
5HY 8 Standby

September 18 – Osnabrück (Germany)

September 18 – Osnabrück (Germany)
70 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 HOL Korone/Marine
3 5HY 8 Standby
4 5HY 8 Standby
5 – 8
HOL Kanata/Marine
MTI 8 Standby
DDM Door/Pants
5HY 8 Standby

September 18 – Rosemont, IL (USA)

September 18 – Rosemont, IL (USA)
153 players
1 TSK Pants/Book
2 HOL Okayu/Kanata/Marine
3 5HY 8 Standby
4 TSK Pants/Wind
5 – 8
5HY 8 Door
5HY 8 Door
HOL Kanata/Marine
DDM Door/Pants

September 25 – Bilbao (Spain)

September 25 – Bilbao (Spain)
30 players
1 HOL Watame/Marine
2 DDM Door/Pants
3 TRV Dual Laners
4 MTI 8 Standby
5 – 8
HOL Miko/Sora
FGO Door/Choice
TRV Dual Laners
TRV Dual Laners

October 2 – Toronto (Canada)

October 2 – Toronto, ON (Canada)
117 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 RWBY Choice/2xStandby
3 HOL Korone/Rushia
4 DDM Door/Pants
5 – 8
AOT 8 Door
AOT Door/Choice
5HY 8 Standby
DDM Door/Pants

October 9 – Mexico City (Mexico)

October 9 – Mexico City (Mexico)
108 players
1 MTI 8 Standby
2 AOT 3Door/2xChoice
3 DAL Book/Choice
4 AOT Wind/Choice
5 – 8
KGL Standby/Door
MTI 8 Standby
DDM Door/Pants
DAL Choice/Standby

October 15 – Sydney (Australia)

October 15 – Sydney (Australia)
49 players
1 MTI 8 Standby
2 KGL Standby/Door
3 HOL Kanata/Marine
4 GL Shot/StockSoul
5 – 8
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Kanata/Marine

October 23 – Leeds (UK)

October 23 – Leeds (UK)
66 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 BD Choice/Layer
3 HOL Watame/Marine
4 AOT Door/Choice
5 – 8
DAL Choice/Standby
HOL Watame/Marine
TRV Dual Laners
LSS StockSoul/Door

October 23 – Bayamón (Puerto Rico)

October 23 – Bayamón (Puerto Rico)
10 players
1 HOL Kanata/Marine
2 5HY 8 Standby
3 TSK Pants/Book
4 MTI 8 Standby
5 – 8
MTI 8 Standby
SDS Door/Choice
AOT 8 Door
DDM Door/Pants

October 30 – Quezon City (Philippines)

October 30 – Quezon City (Philippines)
61 players
1 KGL Standby/Door
2 HOL Kanata/Marine
3 HOL Korone/Marine
4 HOL Watame/Rushia
5 – 8
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Kanata/Aqua
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Korone/Rushia

November 6 – Rome (Italy)

November 6 – Rome (Italy)
43 players
1 AOT 8 Pants
2 AOT Door/Choice
3 5HY Ichika/Exodia
4 HOL Botan/Coco
5 – 8
HOL Watame/Marine
HOL Korone/Marine
KNK 8 Pants
SAO StockSoul/Pants

November 6 – Vancouver, BC (Canada)

November 6 – Vancouver, BC (Canada)
98 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 DDM Door/Pants
3 5HY 8 Standby
4 HOL Kanata/Marine
5 – 8
HOL Kanata/Marine
MTI 8 Standby
5HY 8 Standby
5HY 8 Standby

November 13 – Aalst (Belgium)

November 13 – Aalst (Belgium)
56 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 TRV Pants/Standby
3 HOL Korone/Marine
4 HOL Watame/Marine
5 – 8
DDM Door/Pants
DDM Door/Pants
TRV Dual Laners
HOL Korone/Marine

November 25 – Melbourne (Australia)

November 25 – Melbourne (Australia)
75 players
1 MTI 8 Standby
2 HOL Kanata/Marine
3 HOL Kanata/Marine
4 KGL Standby/Door
5 – 8
5HY 8 Standby
5HY 8 Standby
MTI 8 Standby
TRV Dual Laners / Pah-chin

November 27 – Mouvaux (France)

November 27 – Mouvaux (France)
67 players
1 AOT 8 Pants
2 5HY 8 Standby
3 5HY 8 Standby
4 AOT Door/2k1Soul
5 – 8
LSS 8 2Soul
5HY 8 Standby
HOL Korone/Marine
5HY 8 Standby

December 11 – Suntec City (Singapore)

December 11 – Suntec City (Singapore)
30 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 5HY 8 Standby
3 HOL Kanata/Coco
4
5 – 8
HOL Kanata/Marine
HOL Rushia
TRV Dual Laners / Pah-chin
KGL Standby/Door

Note: the original 1st place list was this Door/Standby AT deck, but the player later got disqualified for misconduct.


December 11 – Manhattan, NY (USA)

December 11 – Manhattan, NY (USA)
152 players
1 AOT Door/Choice
2 MTI 8 Standby
3 HOL Kanata/Marine
4 5HY 8 Door
5 – 8
KGL Standby/Door
AOT Door/Choice
AOT Door/2k1Soul
AOT ???

December 18 – Anaheim, CA (USA)

December 18 – Anaheim, CA (USA)
180 players
1 5HY 8 Standby
2 TRV Dual Laners / Pah-chin
3 AOT 8 Door
4 HOL Kanata/Marine
5 – 8
5HY 8 Standby
5HY 8 Standby
5HY 8 Standby
RWBY 8 Door

Statistics

Strange and incomplete data sets, my beloved …

Similar to the BSF 2022 analysis, this one also comes with plenty of weird quirks to it. We’ve got new set releases mid season, licensing restrictions and even disqualifications, so whatever lies below might not be all that clean and comprehensive, but it is one woman’s best attempt to make sense of it all. Can you tell I’m writing this right after staying up all night to watch worlds? Probably.

Locations: 20
Sets: 159 collected of 159 total
Decklists:
153 collected of 159 total

Those are the base numbers we’re working with. Right off the bat, we’re one set short of the expected 160 because of Singapore’s original winner being subsequently disqualified for unsportsmanshiplike conduct, so their regional ended up with only 7 entries in top cut. Admittedly, I wasn’t quite sure on how to handle this situation, since the deck did win legitimately and is therefore a valid piece of the meta mosaic I’m putting together here, but alas – if Bushiroad doesn’t count it on their official website, I won’t be counting it in the stats either.

But that aside – I’m really happy with how the collection effort went this time around! Can’t thank the community enough, wouldn’t be possible without you guys 🙂

Stat Sections

Top 8 Representation – Overall

This section sums up each set’s representation in general, NOT accounting for potential mid-season releases and licensing restrictions.

Set Number of Decks in Top 8 % of Decks in Top 8
HOL 42 26.42%
5HY 35 22.01%
AOT 15 9.43%
MTI 14 8.81%
TRV 14 8.81%
DDM 13 8.18%
KGL 6 3.77%
TSK 4 2.52%
RWBY 3 1.89%
DAL 3 1.89%
LSS 2 1.26%
AT 1 0.63%
BD 1 0.63%
SAO 1 0.63%
BFR 1 0.63%
KNK 1 0.63%
FGO 1 0.63%
SDS 1 0.63%
GL 1 0.63%
Total 159 100%

Top 8 Representation – Adjusted for Set Eligibility

In this section, each set’s representation is calculated based on the locations where it was allowed for play. For example: Mushoku was allowed at all locations, so its representation remains 14 decks out of 159 total decks = 8.81%. But Hololive wasn’t eligible at one of the locations, so its adjusted representation becomes 42 decks out of 151 total possible decks = 27.81%.

The affected sets are:

  • HOL – not legal in Taiwan (1)
  • AT – not legal in Mexico (1)
  • AOT – not legal in Houston, Duluth, Rosemont, Germany, Spain & Taiwan (6)
  • 5HY – not legal in Houston & Spain (2)

For AOT and Quints in particular, the restrictions only applied to their latest releases (AOT Final Season and Quints vol. 2), but since all the relevant decks used cards from those releases, we can effectively consider the whole sets being restricted for those locations. Which is great, that makes my work easier 🙂 And in the same vein, HOL also got a Premium Booster release during the BCS season, but since that didn’t significantly change the topping builds, I’m choosing to disregard it.

These sets will be marked with red on the bar chart below for added visibility. For their representation, instead of the 20 locations & 159 decks total, the following numbers are used:

Set Number of Decks in Top 8 % of Possible Top 8 Places n (If Adjusted)
HOL 42 27.81% 151 decks (19 locations)
5HY 35 24.48% 143 decks (18 locations)
AOT 15 13.51% 111 decks (14 locations)
MTI 14 8.81%
TRV 14 8.81%
DDM 13 8.18%
KGL 6 3.77%
TSK 4 2.52%
RWBY 3 1.89%
DAL 3 1.89%
LSS 2 1.26%
AT 1 0.66% 151 decks (19 locations)
BD 1 0.63%
SAO 1 0.63%
BFR 1 0.63%
KNK 1 0.63%
FGO 1 0.63%
SDS 1 0.63%
GL 1 0.63%

Evidently, the adjustments don’t change much this time around: AOT gets a 4.08 percent point boost, Quints go up by 2.46 percent points, HOL by 1.40 and AT by 0.03.

1st Places

Here’s a list of all the 1st place winners together:

Location Set Decklist
Houston, TX – USA MTI 8 Standby
Taipei – Taiwan DDM Door/Pants
Duluth, GA – USA 5HY 8 Standby
Osnabrück – Germany 5HY 8 Standby
Rosemont, IL – USA TSK Pants/Book
Bilbao – Spain HOL Watame/Marine
Toronto, ON – Canada 5HY 8 Standby
Mexico City – Mexico MTI 8 Standby
Sydney – Australia MTI 8 Standby
Leeds – UK 5HY 8 Standby
Bayamón – Puerto Rico HOL Kanata/Marine
Quezon City – Philippines KGL Standby/Door
Rome – Italy AOT 8 Pants
Vancouver, BC – Canada 5HY 8 Standby
Aalst – Belgium 5HY 8 Standby
Melbourne – Australia MTI 8 Standby
Mouvaux – France AOT 8 Pants
Suntec City – Singapore 5HY 8 Standby
Manhattan, NY – USA AOT Door/Choice
Anaheim, CA – USA 5HY 8 Standby

To absolutely no surprise, Quints got a whooping 40% of all 1st places – twice as many as the runner-up Mushoku. That number gets pushed even 4.44 percent points higher when adjusted for location restrictions, which is again a pretty insignificant change overall. But what I find funny is that in this math, AOT actually did a better job at getting 1st places than Mushoku did – 21.43% over Mushoku’s 20%. Not sure if that’s something we expected to see at the start of the season, but amusing nonetheless.

Set Number of 1st Places % of All 1st Places % of Possible 1st Places (If Adjusted)
5HY 8 40% 44.44%
MTI 4 20%
AOT 3 15% 21.43%
HOL 2 10% 10.53%
KGL 1 5%
DDM 1 5%
TSK 1 5%

Conversion From Top 8 To 1st Place

I’ll let this section speak for itself, but just for shits and giggles, I think you guys should know that if the Adventure Time winner didn’t get disqualified, AT would actually have a 50% conversion rate 🙂

Set Number of 1st Places Number of Decks in Top 8 Conversion Rate From Top 8 to 1st Place
MTI 4 14 28.57%
TSK 1 4 25.00%
5HY 8 35 22.86%
AOT 3 15 20.00%
KGL 1 6 16.67%
DDM 1 13 7.69%
HOL 2 42 4.76%

World Finals

Top 8 Players

Place Player Set Deck
1st William Tang (NA) 5HY 8 Standby
2nd Michael Doolittle (NA) 5HY 8 Standby
3rd Matthew Mead (EU) SDS Escanor
4th Gordan Lai (NA) SDS Escanor
5th to 8th
Mark Guan (AU) HOL Kanata/Marine
Clinton Chan (NA) TSK Pants/Book
Christian Jahrbacher (EU) SDS Escanor
Tim Seuren (EU) 5HY 8 Standby

Set Representation

Set Number of Decks % of Decks
5HY 11 23.40%
HOL 9 19.15%
AOT 8 17.02%
SDS 8 17.02%
MTI 3 6.38%
DDM 2 4.26%
TSK 2 4.26%
TRV 2 4.26%
AT 1 2.13%
RWBY 1 2.13%
Total 47 100.00%

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