Blogger Interviews: Day 1

Hello everybody and welcome to the first of a series of interviews with some Yuigoh-bloggers around the world.


Today, I will be interviewing Colin, the man behind the blog, Duel Society.

The URL Link to his blog is http://duelsociety.blogspot.com/


Rauzes:
Just tell me when you want to interview.

Colin:
Ok ready

Rauzes:
Okey
Hi Colin

Colin:
Hi Rauzes
=)

Rauzes:
Is this your first interview?

Colin:
Yeap

Rauzes:
Also I think you should be aware that everything you say
Can and will be upped onto my blog
Is that ok?

Colin:
Yes no problem

Rauzes:
It also can and might be edited to make you sound funny
Is that ok?

Colin:
Sure no problem

Rauzes:
Okey.
First off, can you introduce yourself? Some of your Yugioh background, where you come from, and about your blog?

Colin:
My name is Colin, age 20 this year, from Singapore.
I started playing Yugioh in the year 2004.
I was actually first introduced by a good friend of mine into playing the game on the game boy. After playing the game on the game boy for about 3 months, I got hooked onto the game and wanted to try the real thing. so yeap, I saved up money to buy the first deck I had, yugi structure deck 2.
So then I played till at around 2005
I became Singapore’s top 8 players at one of the Asia championship Singapore qualifiers when chaos soldier was still ruling around. Then in 2007, after seeing dueling days being set up, I felt inspired, with my best friend Kenneth, into making the blog, duel society.
Duel society is a blog where we will share our ideas and reviews about cards
Strategies and more

Rauzes:
Ok cool
Any other credentials you wanna state?
Any other big tourneys you’ve topped?

Colin:
Topped no but in the year 2008, I was top 8 again, in the Asia championships Singapore qualifiers.
Yeap that all for now

Rauzes:
Ok
How often do you play Yugioh, DS and PSP games included?

Colin:
For these days
I play Yugioh once a week at the card shop in khatib
Previously, I played Yugioh everyday
If including psp/ds I would be playing every day even now

Rauzes:
How many hours per week on actual card? And for game?

Colin:
On actual card would be 8 hours
On game would be around 15 hours

Rauzes:
So about 2 hours a day? On game?

Colin:
Around there

Rauzes:
Wow.
For you, what inspires your blog posts?

Colin:
The cards that I see that are very interesting, or random ideas given by players when I play with them

Rauzes:
Okey. I think the same goes for a lot of bloggers
Do you spend time developing new decks or new deck ideas?
If so, how much time?

Colin:
Yes, usually around 3 - 4 hours or more
Depends if I have some real life activities going on or not

Rauzes:
3-4 hours a week?

Colin:
If a week
Around 5 -6 hours
But have been quite busy these days

Rauzes:
Hmm. ok
You don’t usually post your new deck ideas on your blog, why?

Colin:
I do
If u read previous posts of previous years there are quite a few decks
However before I post a new deck idea I tend to want to Photoshop a banner just for it first
=)

Rauzes:
I’m sure there are decks
You play just for fun
And others you build to have a high win rate.
Right?

Colin:
Yes
That right

Rauzes:
What is the ratio of the two deck types, approximately, that you own?

Colin:
2: 2

Rauzes:
Which decks do you currently own?

Colin:
gladial beast, lightlord, wrath of neos, junkyard assault

Rauzes:
So
Which one of those is your "main"?
The one you use and like the most?

Colin:
Wrath of neos
I’m an E-HERO fan

Rauzes:
Cool. Me to.
Okey. Final questions
What’s the #1 reason you keep playing Yugioh?

Colin:
Hmmm
To face stronger opponents every major tournament

Rauzes:
Wow.
And your favorite card of all time?
One card only.
And reason why.

Colin:
Ah...
That’s hard
E-HERO Prisma
Reason? It’s a very versatile card
Plus it’s light

Rauzes:
That’s all?
Not "it’s sparkly" or "it has high atk"?

Colin:
Nope
I look for effects over attack
Ok
The art is really cool too btw
=)

Rauzes:
Okey
That’s all for this interview
Any closing comments?

Colin: alright
This is a fun interview Rauzes and
I really hope the ygo community in Singapore can continue to improve
For the major tournaments

Rauzes:
Okey. Thanks for your time Colin

Colin: np
Thank you

Rauzes:
Okey, well thanks for coming to the interview today.
Ladies and gentlemen, just remember, if you want to ask him anything, just call our operator and he'll patch us through
Tune in tommorow to 77.7288FM for an interview with another blogger.
Until next time,
RIDING DUEL! ACCELERATION!