Elijah Green just won our Top 16 Feature Match with Marincess, and three months ago he took 1st Place at YCS Charlotte, the first Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournament in almost two years. Green’s Marincess Deck was dominating the top tables all weekend, but now he was up against all-star Canadian Duelist Ryan Yu, vying for a seat in the Finals of the 2022 North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Championship.

Ryan Yu won the Dragon Duel Championship at YCS Toronto in 2015. Two years later he’d travel to Tokyo to win the Dragon Duel World Championship in 2017. He won the November Remote Duel Extravaganza in 2020, and now he’s back, taking his shot at the title of North American Champion here in 2022. Yu is on Sky Strikers, and he won the roll to get this started.

Elijah Green won the first Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournament of the year, taking home the title at YCS Charlotte back in April. At that event, he was running Adventure Prank-Kids. But today he’s in the Top 16 with one of the newest Decks in the tournament scene: the revamped Marincess theme, powered up with new cards from Legendary Duelists: Duels From the Deep.

But his opponent is Jorge Gonzalez, running a Deck that’s maybe even more surprising: Adventure Plunder Patroll! We’ve seen Plunder Patroll pop up a few times this year, in a smattering of Top Cuts in National Qualifiers. This is the first time we’ve seen the Deck this weekend, but unfortunately Gonzalez was found to have a Deck list error right before this round – Plunder Patroll Shipshape Ships Shipping and Plunder Patroll Shipyarrrd have very similar names – and now he had a Game Loss for this Round.

Pascal Manigat from Elmont, New York used his Floowandereeze Deck to make it to the Top 32 of the 2022 North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Championship! Ethan Vincent from Halifax, Canada made it to the Top 32 with a Branded Despia Deck. Now they’re facing off in a Match that will determine which Duelist advances to the Top 16! It’s time to Duel!

There were some very cool looking Decks here in the Top 64, and Kobe Short was running one of the coolest: a 60-card Adventure combo deck starring a cast of Zombies like Mezuki and Uni-Zombie. This round he was up against Darian Hahn, flying high off his success so far with Sky Strikers.

Lyrilusc Tri-Brigade? At this time of year, at this time of day, localized entirely within the top tables of the 2022 North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Championship!?

Jesus Gonzalez from Los Angeles, California is Dueling against William Candia from Houston, Texas in our Round 10 Feature Match! Both Duelists are currently 7-1-1 in the Championship, so these final 2 Swiss Rounds of the tournament will be crucial for determining whether these Duelists make the Top 64 cut. It’s @Ignister versus Adventure Dragon Link in this first Feature Match of the day! Let’s Duel!

Lawrence Wolters from New York and Jordan Nichols from Mississippi are both currently undefeated with perfect 8-0 records! Nichols is using a Branded Eldlich Deck, while Wolters is using a Marincess Deck made possible by the recent release of Legendary Duelists: Duels From the Deep. Both of these Duelists are doing phenomenally in this weekend’s tournament, but only one of them can finish the day with a perfect record. It’s today’s final Swiss Round – let’s Duel!

Both of these competitors were 7-1, here in Round 8, the penultimate Swiss Round of Day 1! Each Duelist was playing an Adventure variant: Dudley was running an Adventure P.U.N.K. deck, while Bauer was on Adventure Dragon Link. If we’re lucky we might see some really cool, really long Chains in this Match. It could be a skillful competition of timely responses and insightful risk assessment, or it could be a total blowout. Let’s see what happens!

Brooke Mason from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Courtney Hostler from Little Rock, Arkansas are both currently undefeated in the North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Championship, and now they’re facing off against one another in a Match that pits Mason’s Swordsoul Tenyi Deck against Hostler’s Branded Despia Deck. One of these Duelists will advance with a perfect 7-0 record and a strong position going into Day 2 of the event. It’s time to Duel!

No, it’s not déjà vu! We already saw AJ and Connor go head-to-head in our Round 4 Feature Match earlier this afternoon. After losing Game 1 to Connor’s Mekk-Knights, 11 year-old AJ from New Jersey succeeded in taking two games back-to-back with his Tenyi Swordsoul Deck, keeping himself alive in the Swiss Rounds with an X-1 record. Now they’d face off again, this time for the ultimate prize: the title of North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Dragon Duel Champion!