Forum:Tournament mix-up q's

Well, I have recently managed to organize a tournament in my home town (hurray!), and since I was a LV1 Judge and Tournament Organizer, I took up the role of head judge as well. But some very interesting questions popped up, and I now turn to your superior knowledge for answers.

1) Player A has Power Tool Dragon with Double Tool C&D equipped, plus X more equip cards (assume they are all Golden Bamboo Sword)
 * 1a) What happens if, during Player B's turn, Player B summons a Power Tool Dragon and equips him with a Double Tool C&D and X more equips, then attacks Player A's Power Tool? (I ruled this as such: Power Tool 2's C&D negates Power Tool 1's effect, so Power Tool 1 is destroyed. Then Player A's C&D forces Player B to kill off an equip to save Power Tool 2 (?))
 * 1b) What happens if Black Rose Dragon's effect 1 is used? Can Power Tool survive by killing off an equip? (I ruled this as a no, since the equips are destroyed along with Power Tool, so he cannot kill off an already dead card (?))
 * 1c) What happens if Player A's Power Tool attacks a Pyramid Turtle? Does C&D destroy the Turtle via an effect after it is destroyed by battle? Or is it the other way around? In the end, does Pyramid Turtle Special Summon a Zombie? (I ruled this as a no, since C&D triggers at the end of the Damage Step, after the Turtle is considered "destroyed by battle", so it is destroyed (again) by C&D (similar to Red Dragon Archfiend's effect), so its SSing effect does not trigger (?))

2) Player A has Bottomless Trap Hole face-down. Player B Summons Gren Maju Da Eiza with 10 cards in his removed from play zone. Can Player A activate BTH, since Gren Maju will have 4000 ATK after its effect is applied, or are ? ATK monsters unaffected by BTH? (I ruled this as follows: Gren Maju's effect is continuous, like Jinzo's effect. Since you can't BTH Jinzo, continuous monster effects of newly summoned monsters are applied before a response can be declared. So, you can BTH Gren Maju, since he has 4000 ATK when Player A plays BTH (fairly sure about this))

3) Player A has Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen face-up on the field, and has no other cards on the field. Player B has a set Solemn Judgment. Player A proceeds to use Valhalla's effect to SS Archlord Christia. Can Player B negate the summon with Solemn, or does it originate from Valhalla? Similarly, can you negate a Normal Summon of a monster summoned using the effect of Mausoleum of the Emperor/Ultimate Offering (using Solemn)?

4) Player A has has 2 Pyramid Turtles set. Player B has Icarus Attack face-down, and a Blackwing - Mistral the Silver Shield set. Can Player B activate Icarus, tributing the face down Blackwing? Can he do that if Player A has Zombie World face-up on the field? (I ruled this: You can tribute a face-down Winged-Beast for Icarus, on the grounds that you can use Crush Card Virus tributing a face-down DARK 1000>=ATK monster. If Zombie World is in play, you cannot activate Icarus, since there are no Winged-Beasts (but I am unsure if Zombie World's effect is applied on face-down monsters as well, and, for that matter, when is the check to see if the monster is suitable applied for effects like Icarus and CCV?))

5) Player A has an Honest in hand, and a Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner in face-up ATK on the field. Likewise for Player B. Player A attacks, and declares that he drops an Honest before damage calculation (Sub-Step 4 if I'm not mistaken). Player B complains about rushing. The game rolls back to the Battle Step. If a Player drops an Honest without specifying the Sub-Step, which Sub-Step is that then considered to be? (I ruled it as Sub-Step 1, but I'm not sure.)


 * Non-rulings questions:

1) Any good websites with up-to date rulings? I know the wikia has most of the rulings, but I have a problem: my friends don't accept it as a valid source of rulings due to the possibility of vandalism in the form of purposely incorrect rulings. So, any good sites?

2) Any idea when European players will be eligible to become Judges again? And how?

Thanks for your time guys!
 * P.S. I appreciate the effort of anyone trying to help, but please, unless you are 101% sure, don't answer.
 * P.P.S. It's Archlord Kristya now (I think I spelled it ok), not Archlord Christia. Anyone (who knows how) care to move the article and links?
 * Darth Covah (Talk | Contribs) 17:42, October 31, 2009 (UTC)