WBO:Explosive Battle

Explosive Battle was a Metal Fight format World Beyblade Organization tournament hosted by ashton pinto. It took place in Mumbai, India on May 24th, 2013

Winning Combos

 * 1st: ashton pinto
 * Jade Jupiter S130RB
 * 2nd: jacob beyblade
 * Diablo Nemesis X:D
 * 3rd: rahul blader
 * Omega Dragonis

Tournament Report
The tournament began at 4:30 pm and concluded at 6:45 pm. Mumbai tournaments are generally hosted in the morning, but since members here were busy in the morning, it was decided that the event would take place in the evening. This event saw six new WBO members, most of whom played the game during the Plastic era. leeboyblader, zeonhenriques, shannonblader and russel blader were new to Metal Fight Beyblade. All the players were excited to see how Beyblade had evolved over the past years. The main judges were ashton pinto and christophermk whereas Jacob blader and Rahul blader were the secondary judges.

The format used for this tournament was Round Robin, with the three highest scoring players advancing to the finals. All the players agreed to use uncustomized beyblades, just to make the game more interesting. Poison Serpent, Kreis Cygnus, Phantom Orion, Nightmare Rex, Big Bang Pegasis, Death Quetzalcoatl (no mode change), Omega Dragonis, Jade Jupiter, Flame Sagittario, Rock Escolpio, Flame Libra, Ray Gill, Diablo Nemesis, Rock Leone, Dark Bull, and Fang Leone were some of the Beyblades that were used at this event. The launchers used were mainly the Light Launcher and the BeyLauncher.

Also, new players who did not have Metal Fight Beyblades were given the benefit of choosing their beys first.

The preliminary rounds began with Rahul blader, Jacob blader and ashton pinto advancing to the finals with a score of 6-2. During the preliminary rounds, in the beginning most players preferred to use uncustomized Hybrid Wheel System beys. christophermk used Diablo Nemesis and Phantom Orion in a majority of his battles, shannonblader used Fang Leone for most of his battles, Leeboyblader loved Rock Leone, Russel Blader used Death Quetzalcoatl and some other HWS beys. nickien scored 4-4 as he used his favorite Beyblade Diablo Nemesis – the Xtreme Drive Bottom came handy and he tried changing modes using different tricks as his gameplay strategy. This was his second WBO tournament after 2 years of hiatus. Nightmare Rex, Basalt Horogium and some other 4D beys were used by Rahul blader and Jacob blader.

There was a small break between the preliminary rounds. Unlike most of Mumbai’s events which are hosted in the morning or noon, this event began in the evening.