Ryan Hartmann

Realized my post-regionals tweet had me forgetting to thank my testing team! Ever since I got married, I've had to put more time into my life outside of TCGs (side note: I gained a tremendous amount of respect for people who are balancing TCGs with partners/kids/family/work/life because it's definitely a bigger struggle than I gave credit for). Joining a dedicated testing team helped me become more efficient in the time I do have left to devote to TCGs and helped me get the recent results I've had. Between top 8 at the Houston Riftbound Regionals (#zentinels) and this weekend's top 8 at the One Piece Regionals (#redbullfinals). Even better, it lets me live vicariously through my team's results so that I can be happy even when the results are not my own. I get just as much joy in my own tops as I do cheering for Yonas/Kyle in their trip to EU regionals/Treasure Cup or seeing Zent/Phi/Pao win/top the Treasure Cups/Regionals at Toronto with all the hard work we put into testing Bell Luffy internally. Hopefully they can keep it going at Orlando and I'll definitely be watching/cheering them on!

Ended Top 8 with Purple Enel at the Toronto Regionals! I barely sneaked in at 30th so top cut was always gonna be rough since I was always lower seed. Hit my once a month tournament quota so my next event will be in June 😅 Still working on the ratios but all the tech cards came up in some way. Special thanks to @watevs_kyle for helping me clean up my play. First serial Luffy in the books! R1: 🔴🟢 Luffy ✅🎲 R2: 🟣 Enel ❌🎲 R3: 🟢 Mihawk ✅ R4: 🟢⚫️ Brook ✅ R5: 🔵🟡 Nami ✅ R6: 🔵🟡 Nami ✅ R7: 🟣 Enel ✅ R8: 🟣 Enel ❌🎲 R9: 🔴🟢 Luffy ✅ R10: 🔵🟡 Nami ✅ Top 32 🟣 Enel ✅❌✅ Top 16 🟣 Enel ✅✅ Top 8 ⚫️ Crocodile ❌✅❌