![]() ![]() Val used to play other games at the store we frequent the most, but he switched to Yu-Gi-Oh! and has been winning ever since.” “Paul started playing recently, Val has only been playing since Ancient Sanctuary, but most of us have played for ages. That was back in the day of Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon.” He went on to discuss the history of the team a bit. So I picked one up just so I could beat him, and it all escalated. A friend of mine brought a starter deck over, was bragging about it. “I got in the game primarily for competition. Since Debrito himself hasn’t had a great deal of exposure, I asked him about his involvement in the game, most specifically how he got started. We haven’t played Team Savage or anything, but all the big teams seem able to back up what they say.” Team Comic Odyssey, we’ve played them before, at least individually. “Honestly, we really don’t think down on any teams. Given the team’s morally admirable approach, I was tempted to ask what they thought of other big teams, many of which are not nearly so respectful. I mean, eventually we’ll have an official prize split thing set up, but, because of our attitude it’s not on our number-one thing to do right now.” We just support each other wherever we can. We trust one another, so, we loan stuff out back and forth. “Myself and Feroze, we pretty much have every card in the game, minus Cyber-Stein, Kanaan the Swordsmistress, and the promo Card of Sanctity. For SJC Orlando, though, we did have a prize split set up for the group.” With something as big as this, the SJC, we haven’t really discussed it. “It really all depends, like, on the local tournaments we don’t do it. What makes it worth being part of that team? Issues like the splitting up prizes are often some of the most complicated, and while some teams use arcane systems to determine who gets what, the community aspect of Team Nexus has really given such things a shove to the back seat. “Winning is nice, don’t get me wrong, but if it doesn’t come once then we’ll just do it next time.”Ī big issue in the development of teams right now is how exactly team members support each other. We’re not interested in just winning, so our ranks are a lot thinner than they could be.” Everyone on the team is pretty modest, though we know our stuff. A lot of people locally want to join up, but we don’t accept them, cause their minds are only on the prizes. We still want there to be a fun aspect of the game. “Basically, when I first started putting the team together I wanted a team that could have fun, play competitively, but not have it be 100% about winning. “It just sort of came together-we all had the same ideas and attitude towards the game, so we decided we could have more fun as a team.” “I was sittin’ around one day and I was like ‘Hey! We should form a team!’ And everyone around me was like, ‘Hey, that’s a great idea!’ So we formed a team!” It was a short story that was punctuated by a burst of laughter from Debrito. I asked if that was the case for Nexus, and sure enough it was. ![]() Most Yu-Gi-Oh! teams, even greats like Team Comic Odyssey, come together on lazy days spent among friends. So we went with that, even though we might not get to travel as much as other competitors.” It was the first of several things that Team Nexus does differently from other big-name teams. We figure it would be a lot easier to have a full say in our actions than let someone else be able to dictate what we do. It’s a community, not a store, so we try not to set roots. We pretty much roam all of the local stores. “South Florida” said Debrito with a smile, leaning back a bit in his chair. Most big teams are sponsored with funding and cards, and team profiles are a team’s chance to represent for the store promoting them. My first question for them concerned who they were playing for. Members not present included Paul Lynn, Glenn Lightfoot, Mitchell Rabsatt, Val Bakalar, and brothers Shawn and Gary Kuchta. Four members of the ten-man group were present today: Debrito, Ramcharan, Jensen, and Miguel Garcia. Sharp, funny, and with a clear sense of the morals that guide his dueling habits, Debrito has developed a definite sense of where he wants the team to go.īut first-the lineup. He’s the kind of person who deserves more face time, and seems just like the kind of person Ramcharan would hang out with. I got a chance a short way into Round 1 to speak with Team Leader Franklin Debrito, possibly one of South Florida’s most locally recognizable faces, but a generally unknown duelist on a national level. A team led by well-known Level 3 judges and featuring one of the world’s top four players? Awesome. He was suddenly flanked by fellow Level 3 judge Franklin Debrito and star player John Jensen, and I knew that this needed some coverage. ![]()
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