One of these two Duelists would leave this table with a set of the Darklord prize cards! Jack Hoyt is playing X-Sabers, while his opponent Hernan Roman is running Anti-Meta Beatdown, a Deck built specifically to defeat X-Sabers. This one was going to be a tough Match for Hoyt.
Here at the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series, there’s more than one way to win a set of the Darklord prize cards! While the Top 3 Duelists in the main event YCS tournament each take home a set of Darklords, two more sets are reserved for Public Event competitors. The Top 4 Public Event point-earners (who played and won the most) and four randomly-selected Public Event competitors each get a chance to Duel in a Top 4 Playoff, where the final victor walks away with a set of the Darklords. This was one of the Top 4 Matches for the weekend’s top point earners.
Toronto’s Kyle Mistysyn is twelve years old, and is here undefeated in the last Round of the Sunday Dragon Duel! Mistysyn is running Twilight, while his opponent – Massacheussett’s Jack Hoyt – is playing X-Sabers. This could be Mistysyn’s first-ever Dragon Duel win, but Jack Hoyt is tough competition: he’s won nine Dragon Duels before, and this might be his tenth victory.
This was it: out of a field of Blackwings, Gladiator Beasts, Machina Gadgets, Naturias, Scraps, and dozens of other Decks, one Deck was left in this tournaement – X-Sabers. While Roy St. Clair was piloting a focused X-Saber Deck with Gold Sarcophagus, Bellido was running X-Sabers with cards like Effect Veiler, Super-Nimble Mega Hamster, Debris Dragon, and Pot of Duality instead of Sarcophagus.
Four Duelists remained in this tournament: two X-Saber Duelists, one Lightsworn, and one Machina Gadgets. Roy St. Clair and Alex Vansant were Dueling for a seat in the finals, and a set of the Darklord Prize cards – the winner here would be guaranteed a set of prize cards, while the defeated Duelist would have to compete and win third place to score their set. Vansant was playing Machina Gadgets, while St. Clair was running X-Sabers.
You saw them both defeat their opponent’s last round, but now they have to Duel each other with a guaranteed Set of Darklord Prize Cards on the line!
Kareem O’Brien is here today running Infernities. This is his first big tournament showings and he’s up against Lazaro Bellido, a former National and Shonen Jump Championship Tournament Champion who is here today using X-Sabers. Both players here are from the Toronto area and have played each other multiple times in the past. Will O’Brien be able to stand up to Bellido or will he fall short of the goal line?
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One of the few Decks we didn’t get to take a look at yesterday was piloted to the Top 16 this weekend by Nick Ristoski: a LIGHT Beatdown Deck called “Gemini City.” Packing Skill Drain, Gemini Spark, and Hero Blast, Ristoski’s Deck is extremely good at disrupting his opponent’s combos.
His opponent is Roy St. Clair, wielding his signature X-Saber Deck with triple XX-Saber Emmersblade. St. Clair mowed through the opposition yesterday with Cold Wave and triple Trap Stun, playing XX-Saber Hyunlei to the hilt in a field where Duelists often Set far too many cards to their Spell and Trap Card Zone. The pickings wouldn’t be so easy today.
Astute Duelfans might remember 13 year-old Jordan Grant from his repeated Feature Match wins at his first YCS just weeks ago, at YCS Indianapolis. While he played Frog Monarchs at Indy, he’s here in his second YCS outing piloting Quickdraw Dandwarrior.
His opponent is Jarel Winston, who has 4 Feature Matches to his name but only 1 Feature Match win! Winston is running X-Sabers with Debris Dragon, and like Grant, he’s 6-1 heading into this Round. Winston is a veteran of Championshi-level events, but hasn’t managed to win one yet. Grant is one of the brighest new rising stars in the Dueling universe, and wants this win just as much as Winston.
With nearly two thirds of Day 1 now in the record books, it seemed like a good time to take a peek at the action on Table 1. Sasha Del Conte traveled here this weekend from Montreal, Quebec, while his opponent Justin Reyes is from right here, in Toronto. Reyes is playing X-Sabers, while Conte is playing Blackwings.
