What an event!  2101 Duelists entered, and after 12 Rounds of Swiss, an unprecedented play-in match to break a tie for 64^th, and 6 Rounds of Single Elimination later, we’ve crowned a new North America WCQ Champion!  Dakota Angeloff from Tuscaloosa, Alabama took it all down and is our newest North America WCQ Champion! We’ve also determined our team representing North America at the 2019 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship in Berlin, Germany!  Dakota Angeloff, Raymond Dai, Manav Dawar, and Wei Li won their qualification from the WCQ, while Jesse Kotton and Gabriel Vargas punched their tickets to the World Championship from topping the Worlds Qualifying Points Playoffs on Friday.

We’ve seen some wild Feature Matches on the Livestream (which you can find on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialYuGiOhTCG) but we’ve also seen some cool things on the coverage blog, including Public Events winners, cosplayers, and people enjoying MEGA DUEL, demos for the upcoming Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution video game, and Speed Duel tournaments!

After the World Championship, we will be at the Ultimate Duelist Series Invitational at Indianapolis, Indiana on August 16-18, followed by our next Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series the very next week in Portland, Oregon on August 24^th and 25^th.  Check out the coverage blog for all the action from these tournaments!  Thanks for tuning in!

Here are the final standings for the North America WCQ.

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We have a Top 8!

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1st place: Dakota Angeloff
2nd place: Raymond Dai
3rd place: Wei Li
4th place: Manav Dawar
5th place: Brian Rayos
6th place: Thanh Nguyen
7th place: Abdur Dominguez
8th place: Maguette Gueye

Congratulations!

The 2019 North America WCQ is over and we have a winner!

Dakota Angeloff from Tuscaloosa, Alabama used his Crusadia Thunder Dragon Danger! Deck to best the competition and win the 2019 North America World Championship Qualifier! Congratulations!

Dakota Angeloff from Tuscaloosa, Alabama took 1st place in this weekend’s North America WCQ, earning himself an invitation to compete on the global stage in Berlin, Germany in August!

Here’s the Deck he used to achieve this goal:

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Wei Li from Brooklyn, NY took 3^rd place in this weekend’s North America WCQ, earning himself an invitation to compete on the global stage in Berlin, Germany in August.

Here’s the Deck he used to achieve this goal:

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Manav Dawar placed in the Top 4 of the 2019 North America World Championship Qualifier, earning his invite to the 2019 Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championship!  See the Deck he won his invite with and more below…

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And it comes down to this! For the Championship Match we have:

Good luck Duelists!

Congratulations to Dennie Pham-Le from Los Angeles, California for winning the random Public Events Playoffs with his Trickstar Sky Striker Deck!

Congratulations to our ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! winners for Sunday!

1) Brandon Sevitz, from Indianapolis, playing Orcust (center)

2) Aidan Carter, from Boston, Massachusetts, playing Orcust (left)

3) Ruben Penaranda, from Miami, Florida, playing Thunder Dragon Guardragon (right)