Hi folks! Check back throughout the day for coverage from the New York Regional at Brother’s Grim Games & Collectibles!

Round one is nearly complete, with a grand total of 165 players on the day. Approximate meta breakdown:

• Orange – 20
• Red – 23
• Black – 55
• Blue – 45
• Namekian – 17
• Saiyan – 5

Round 3 is underway, and some fringe builds have jumped out to an early 2-0 start. We’ll have to keep an eye on them as the day progresses!

Round 4 is about to begin, and we have an undefeated Saiyan Vegeta up on stream! Check it out here:

http://www.nextlevelz.com/stream.html

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Round 5 stream update: Take a look at a rather unique Blue Nail build on the stream! Three rounds remain, and several rogue builds are still in contention.

Round 6 stream update: Undefeated Blue Frieza takes on Black Krillin in some Table 1 action, watch live now!

Round 7 stream update: Red Garlic Jr. takes on Black Ginyu in a battle to stay in the hunt for T16!
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Top 8 is underway. Round of 16:

Joey Walter (Black Krillin) defeated by Stephen Wallace (Black Krillin)

Kevin Tetreault (Orange Krillin) defeats Mike Gaumont (Orange Ginyu)

Kurt Spiess (Namekian Piccolo) defeats Jermol Jupiter (Blue Nail)

Wayne Bettis (Black Krillin) defeated by Michael McCutcheon (Orange Krillin)

Steven Burbine (Blue Frieza) defeated by Josh Merckle (Orange Goku)

Andre Nix (Orange Krillin) defeats David Pena (Blue Ginyu)

Kelly Dennis (Black Raditz) defeated by Ryan Krueger (Namekian Piccolo)

T8:

Stephen W. (Black Krillin) defeats Kevin T. (Orange Krillin)

Josh M. (Orange Goku) defeated by Kurt S. (Namekian Piccolo)

Thomas C. (Black Krillin) defeated by Andre N. (Orange Krillin)

Michael M. (Orange Krillin) defeated by Ryan K. (Namekian Piccolo)

T4:

Stephen W. (Black Krillin) defeats. Kurt S. (Namekian Piccolo)

Ryan K. (Namekian Piccolo) defeats Andre N. (Orange Krillin)

Finals: Stephen W (Black Krillin) vs Ryan K (Namekian Piccolo)

Champion: Namekian takes down its first regional win of the season, piloted to perfection by Ryan Krueger!

We’re live here at at Kentucky with a final player count of 221! Check back throughout the day for updates and coverage of the top cut.

Metagame breakdown at a glance:

Black – 74

Blue – 37

Orange – 36

Red – 34

Namekian – 30

Saiyan – 10

Next Level Z is recording featured matches for later viewing:

• R1: Frisco Fahs vs. Alec Ruden
• R2: Shaun Hindman vs. Nick Rodriguez
• R3: Dustin Morabito vs. Brian Frankford

Round 3 Action: Turles holding it down at the top table!

Round 4 featured match (recorded): Alex Bolton vs. Brenton Jones

Round 5 featured match (recorded): Elmer Walter (Blue Ginyu) vs. Thomas Engel (Blue Ginyu)

Round 6 featured match (recorded): Hadi Dermagozzin (Red Turles) vs. Christopher Sharp (Saiyan Raditz)

The event is being played at several locations throughout the mall, and there has been a great deal of interest from the general public! It appears some cosplay has broken out…

After a scintillating eight rounds, top 16 is underway.

• Ethan Reed
• Tyren Dover
• Stephen Ward
• Basem Alsalah
• Alex Bolton
• Ryan Lambdin
• John Johnson
• David Lusting
• Alec Ruden
• Anthony Eason
• Josh Thomas
• Matthew Arra
• Cody Martin
• Darryl Fisher
• Elmer Walter
• Tyler Martin

Finals: Elmer Walter (Blue Ginyu) defeats Alec Ruden (Black Garlic) – GOODNIGHT!

The Dragon Ball Z Regional event at Collector’s Cache in Lenexa, KS is officially underway! 192 players turned out to battle for eight rounds and take their shot at making top sixteen!

Today’s event ended up with the following counts on Mastery types:

Black Mastery – 58
Namekian Mastery – 17
Blue Mastery – 55
Red Mastery – 29
Orange Mastery – 25
Saiyan Mastery – 8

With a crowd of 192 players, packs will be given out all the way down to 96th place. In addition to the promos and cash prizes, everyone in the top 16 (except 1st/2nd place) will take home at least 24 packs each.

ROUND 5 – Update!

After round five ended, the field of players with no loss has been narrowed down. Left at the top of the field are:

Black Mastery – Krillin  x2
Black Mastery – Capt. Ginyu
Black Mastery – Garlic Jr.
Blue Mastery – Piccolo
Red Mastery – Garlic
Orange Mastery – Krillin

ROUND 8 and TOP 16 – UPDATE

After a very long day of hard fought matches, the top 16 players have been determined. For the first time all season, one deck has emerged as a clear dominant deck through Swiss here in Kansas City. Here is the breakdown of Mastery/MP combinations:

Black Mastery – Krillin   x 10
Black Mastery – Capt. Ginyu
Red Mastery – Garlic Jr.
Orange Mastery – Krillin
Blue Mastery – Capt. Ginyu
Blue Mastery – Piccolo
Namekian Mastery – Piccolo

We are well on the road to qualifying two more players for the 2015 World Championships here at Collector’s Cache in Lenexa, KS!

UPDATE – Top 4 … and the road to the finals!

WOW! What an exciting day full of Dragon Ball Z in Kansas! Collector’s Cache has been a wonderful host to eight strong rounds of Swiss and a very competitive top cut. We have seen a dominating performance by Black Devious Mastery paired with the SDCC Krillin… but how would it fare in the top cut?

Top four consisted of the following matchups:

TABLE 1:     Troy Nelson  (Black – Krillin)  vs.   Phillip Bui  (Blue – Capt. Ginyu)
TABLE 2:     Shannon Jakul  (Black – Krillin)  vs.  Nick Toth  (Orange – Krillin)

Four players, Three Krillins, Two Black Devious Masteries, and a partridge and a pear tree later, we had our finals match and two new qualified players for the 2015 World Championships!

Troy Nelson (Black – Krillin)  vs.  Nick Toth  (Orange – Krillin)

In an event that included players from 21 different states (including Alaska) and 192 total players, your winner of the 2015 Kansas City Regional is….

Troy Nelson with his Black Devious Mastery Krillin build in three games!

Thanks to Next Level Z and Collector’s Cache for a great event and a great twitch TV stream today. Who will be the next to qualify for the World Championships? Check back in two weeks when we travel to Kentucky for the next Regional on the circuit.