Hi,
Yes, indeed I did mean 30 rounds instead of days; thanks for the correction. Having a 30 day tournament would sound like a good challenge though, resulting in something gem ultra rare as the tournament prize animal! I'd love to be able to win a Unicorn that way: so much more fun and better doable than having 10,000,000 4-element breeding fails. :P
Either way, I wondered if someone had already tried something like using ONLY one single opponent for ALL rounds of a tournament, just for the heck of it.
I agree that I too expect this to go pretty well until the ultra rares (other than Jade Kirin and the Emerald Dragon) pop their heads up, because neither fire nor electric will be strong to them then. The worst opponents would then be the Obsidian Cyclops, the Sapphire Cthulhu and the Pearl Peryton, as those would have strong elemental matches against those of the Gold Lion.
For a flash tournament there's no way I'd want to risk that, as those are tough enough to complete as they are and living in Europe doesn't exactly alleviate that situation. But.... I do normally tend to win the 30 round tournaments with some 2-3 days to spare, so it's much less of a risk to have some fun with one of those tournaments by doing this and seeing if it can then still be won or not. As some kind of "opt out" option I could then always during the course of the tournament decide whether to stick by that all the way until the end (win or lose) or to simply call it a day at some point and fall back to the normal strategy to secure the tournament prize animal.
If it works and a tournament can be won by using this one animal alone, maybe someday another funny thing to do would be to pick the precise opposite animals as what the fighter selectors show. It would be too much to only use commons with "weak" elemental matches against the various opponents, but it should be interesting to see what the super rares of weak elemental matches would achieve then.
I think I'll try the "Gold Lion only" approach on the next 30 round tournament, or at least for the start of it, just to see how well that goes.