A field of over 1000 Duelists has been trimmed to just 2: Sean Coovert with Six Samurai, versus Nicky Lacaille with Fish! One of these Duelists was about to become a Dueling legend!
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Sean Coovert and Elijah Gersten are battling it out in the Quarterfinals! Sean Coovert is counting on his Samurais to carry him to the Semifinals, while Elijah Gersten is banking on his Gravekeeper’s. In the past, the Gravekeeper’s versus Six Samurai matchup has favored the Six Samurai Duelist, but with a new Forbidden & Limited List in effect, either Duelist can win this one.
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Five weeks ago, Nizar Sarhan won YCS Dallas with Six Samurai. At the time, it was a new Deck that was unfettered by the March 1st Forbidden and Limited List. Now, Sarhan’s Deck only has 1 Gateway of the Six, and just 2 Solemn Warning… But that didn’t stop him from going undefeated in this weekend’s tournament! Sarhan was the only Duelist to win every Match he played in the Swiss Rounds of this event: now he’s earned a spot in the Top 16, and he’s looking to repeat his Championship victory! A win here would be almost unprecedented: no Duelist has won back-to-back Championships since Ryan Hayakawa’s 2-time Championship win in 2005.
But his opponent this Round is Stephen Silverman, another YCS winner! Silverman is playing X-Sabers, and the veteran Duelist has a pedigree that extends far beyond Sarhan’s win in Dallas. The X-Saber / Samurai matchup is going to be big in this new format, and this Match is bound to be a formative one for the months ahead. Both of these competitors are truly great Champions, but only one can make it to the Quarterfinals!
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Our Round 10 Feature Match pits Phillip Pena’s Six Samurai Deck against Jacob Haar’s Plant Synchro Deck. Both of these Duelists currently have 8-1 records, so a victory in this round will put one of them in prime position to reach the playoff rounds!
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Dragunities are still going the distance, as we’re seeing here in this Match at Table 4! Six years ago in 2005, Anthony Alvarado won a championship right here in Charlotte, North Carolina! Today he’s undefeated save for a single draw, paired up against the undefeated Samurai Duelist Sean Coovert. We haven’t seen this matchup yet today, so it should be an interesting Feature Match!
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With a 5-1 record so far, Courtney Waller is 1 of the highest-ranked Blackwing Duelists in today’s tournament. Armed with a Vayu Turbo build, he’s scored some impressive wins so far today. His opponent is Kuanchang Lai, a Samurai Duelist who’s also 5-1 so far. The winner of this Match would have a strong shot at Day 2, while the defeated Duelist would have to work hard to make up lost ground in the Swiss Rounds.
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Miracle Geminis are emerging as 1 of the most successful Decks of the tournament here in Round 4, placing many Duelists at the top tables thus far. The combination of deft Synchro hate; big Level 4 monsters; and big Fusion Monsters is proving to be a successful combo, and has taken YCS winner Jerry Wang to his current spot at Table 6 in today’s main event.
His opponent this round is local fourteen year-old Dakota Vandawalker, from right here in North Carolina. Vandawalker is 1 of the top-ranked Samurai Duelists in the tournament, playing an explosive build that focuses on consistency more than bells and whistles. Vandawalker may be young, but he clearly knows this Deck inside out.
