At the first World Championship at Gencon for the game L5R (Legends of the Five Rings) which had over 350 participants play, the 32 finalists had their decks copied by the Tournament Director. The top deck in each clan (equivalent to SE Hero) was published in the company's monthly newsletter. Although I finished in 2nd place (and gave me #1 World Ranking), my Crane (one of the 10 decks which were published) was not published with my consent. Although I new why they published it, and I probably would have let them, I was burned by the published deck a few months later when I entered a tournament and my opponent told me it was not my deck, however when he found out my name he said sorry and admitted to copying it and he won against me with it. He won because he got a better draw not because he was a better player. The loss stung a bit but I got over it. Just because a deck is published does not mean that if someone copied it they would do well. If I were to copy iclipse's deck, I am fairly certain that iclipse would win if I went head to head with him since he is a better player than me. I understand both sides of the published decks and although I side with publishing them, even though I got burned, we have to respect GDC's decision, so that is what we ALL need to do and see what the individual players decide.
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