Well, there are two separate issues here. Messing up as in missing a ruling or so happens no matter where you are. Its bound to happen even at my events as much as I hate to admit it.

The second mess up that you could be referring to is the simplification of the events to make it a better read instead of droning through all the mindless moves.

I actually had a pretty decent discussion with Jason G. and Julia H. about their articles. While they are usually well written, they "occasionally" drop one or two things in the translation from game to print.

In their defense, these guys are trying to get as much info out to the general public as quickly as possible. While we have the luxury of scrutinizing it at our leisure, it really is unfair to rip them to shreds when we see something that isnt exactly "correct", mechanics-wise, or game terminology-wise.

Overall, I may have my disagreements with Jason from time to time, but I think everyone can agree, they have a tough job!

when it says, "missed its flip" does it mean missed timing? or that he got the flip incorrect?

Coin didnt hit called side.

But that is not what is in question. What is in question is WHEN you actvate the effect of Fairy Box, which should be at the DECLARATION of the attack.

Text of Fairy Box.

Each time a monster on your opponent's side of the field attacks, toss a coin and call Heads or Tails. If you call it right, the attacking monster's ATK becomes 0 only during the Battle Phase. Pay 500 Life Points during each of your Standby Phases. If you do not, this card is destroyed.

why would this miss its timing? (even so it doesent matter, i dont see any problem about activating it during main phase 1)

unless of course, some ruling/errata was made for it,

I'll certainly go along with that. Have you ever tried to capture a play by play of a quick moving Yugioh duel on paper? ACCK! I've taken notes before as a table judge while trying to insure everything is being played according to the rules.......my notes grew shorter and shorter as play sped up and I needed to focus on just judging. It doesn't surprise me a bit that on occasion something is written down in the wrong order or that the clarity of exactly what happened isn't what it could be.

I think we're pretty blessed as it is to get up to the minute coverage of major events. Those people have a tough job and work hard at it. If you ever watch Jason during the course of a SJC, nationals, or othe major event you don't see him doing much glad handing and talking to people....he's very focused and pouding out articles and text nearly 100% of the time.

If something else had resolved between the declaration of attack and when the effect of Fairy Box was activated....in other words you couldn't use it as a second response to an attack like you could Waboku.

exactly, fairy boxes effect has the same timing as mirror force or sakuretsu armor and therefore must be used in the first chain in response to the attack.

any additional chains in the battle step are not in response to the attack, they are in response to the previous chain, which is why yoiu can use things like waboku (which has no timing) but you can't use things like sakuretsu (or fairy boxes effect).

as for why the person wouldn't have activated it in main phase 1 instead would be so the opponent doesn't know fairy box is coming until they attack. unfortunatly you can't do that with fairy box, it always has to already be face up before the attack is declared, so there is no surprising your opponent with it.

Sure, but you can activate it before the Battle Step.

Yes that is true but what they are trying to do is to activate it and then use its effect during the same attack. Its supposed to take your opponent bu surprise but what is wrong is that the timing for it is just wrong.

Sure, it won't be 100% effective, but you could still try.

what we mean is that if you activate fairy box before the battle step (before they declare an attack) then they will be aware of fairy box, which may infuence their decisions about if/what to attack.

you can't surprise your opponent with fairy box by activating (flipping it up) when they attack, because of timing issues. its effect wouldn't be usable for that attack, so they would know about it for considering additional attacks.

that was likely the intent of asking if you could flip it up and use its effect for the same attack. of course you can flip it up before they attack that was never the question though.

I'm still quite aware of this.

I simply said that they might still attack even knowing it's active, and it works a little better if they've already entered the Battle Phase.