More video game rambling
To my own surprise, I got past Yusei's first "event" duel (in the U.S. version, where his name loses a u here and there). I got up to the event in the first place mostly by beating poor Carly, and also Jack and Leo a couple of times. My "strategy" still consists of getting out monsters and hitting people with them. The event duel was against Dark Signer Trudge/Ushio and another faceless extra Security officer. Yusei did me the favor of getting out a strong monster so early that we were always in the lead. When his monster was wiped out later by a trap, I brought it back with a spell (see, I do know those kinds of cards exist). I got out my own monster, left a couple of traps for Yusei to use, and we won.
It was over so quickly I didn't even get to see a Dark Synchro, which was supposedly the point of this duel.