I would like to start this off with a sincere apology on behalf of myself and the Starfight Staff, but I personally believe the blame fall entirely on myself. I had promised to announce a Starfight Tournament set for April back in February after doing a double tournament and wanting to give ourselves time to add in new Starfight Rules and fixing up old rules and such. However, when April came, we hadn't exactly changed or even added any rules (with a few exceptions due to complaints and concerns) in addition to our staff, myself included, being preoccupied with lives such as finals, job searching, etc etc. It does bother me to think that people were holding onto our word of a Starfight Tournament taking place in April and it never came and for that I truly & sincerely apologize because it feels as though I broke a promise and lied and neglected the Starfight discord chat, especially for those who kept asking and inquiring when was the next Starfight Event.
However, I had not forgotten about Starfight, or rather: we haven't. During the month of April, I had taken it upon myself to orchestrate an event, something fun and interesting rather than just our regular weekly tournaments, which I'll get to very shortly.
What was I doing during the Starless Month?
So what happened? Well, like I said, during that month: I hadn't forgotten about Starfight. I was up one night thinking of ways to improve Starfight as a whole to make it a more enjoyable experience rather than just a regular tournament w/ special rules because that kinda gets boring after a while, admittingly. I started by making new rules but of course the problems of "does it work with every clan/deck/unit?" "Will it completely kill off mechanics?" started to arise, so I scrapped a few of those rules, which reintroduced the issue of "nothing new". So while drawing a blank on what to do, I decided to look at Vanguard and Cardfight Area as a whole: team battles, tournaments, teams themselves, and why people even bother to play. I'm not sure how exactly I came up with the idea at that very moment, but I believe it had something to do with me going to sneak peek for Trinity Dragon at my local yet far card shop in addition to my interest in the Under 20 Tournament from the anime, a combination of both. Some motivation was also inspired from Dragon Ball Super's Tournament Arc. I started to expand upon how I felt about Vanguard, about teams and team battling, about the tournaments, and much more. One thought chained into another and not long did I come up with a concept and sat down in front of my laptop with a blank word doc on Google Drive and let my fingers and brain do the typing.
Although it might be a selfish thought to think this will make up for well blatantly lying and getting people's hopes up for a tournament that is two months overdue, I'm hoping it does (or even if its silly to even make a big spectacle about this), I do understand that I'm obligated to uphold my actions as being a co-creator of Starfight and so I would like to announce a new competitive series!