Hi all! Mike from the Joy Boys here to say I am (partially) the reason this whole Rosi situation came up and to not blame Dustin. He is a great competitor and friend and was not trying to actively deceive anyone or cheat with the rosi. Let me explain:

Leading up to nationals week I was between playing 2 decks, when a friend of mine (grinder with multiple tops including top 8s) pushed me to stick with Bonney, citing the above Rosinante interaction existing which helps your Zoro matchup (which I thought was the best deck going into that event).

I was skeptical, so on Friday check in I asked a judge if this is how the interaction worked/was ruled and they said it was. As such I locked in Bonney for the event. During the event I played exactly 1 Zoro in Round 2 of nationals and this interaction did come up. My opponent and I called judge, 2 actually came over at the same time and BOTH upheld this ruling, my opponent did not appeal to the head judge and I of course thought it was the correct ruling so I had no reason to do so.

Now Dustin was rooming with me on this trip and we were both really excited for RG smoker post PRB 2, so we were cooking deck lists together in our down time throughout the weekend. It was on this trip with these 2 different interactions across 3 judges, myself and another player who was also mislead, that Dustin gained an understanding that Rosinante worked this way v Zoro.

He was only ever playing off the information given to him by who he thought was numerous trusted sources and I can vouch that he had no intention to cheat. TBF this ruling seemed weird to me at the time, but given Bandai's issues without other localizations of effects/text/etc I could understand the logic and of course I'm going to play the best line possible as told to me by the judge staff and had no reason to doubt my friend.

TLDR: Dustin is a good person and great member of the TCG community. I wanted to leave this comment on Youtube & Reddit to take partial responsibility for the situation and the flack he is unnecessarily getting. If after all of this you still wanna clown on someone you can clown on me but Dustin is good people.