While the YCS main event continues to play out on the other side of the tournament hall, twenty-three different teams are going head-to-head in a 3 Vs. 3 Team Tournament! From their team names and Deck choices, to their personalities and their reasons for uniting, each team in this competition is unique: but none moreso than the team that calls themselves the “Konami Kids”!
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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Frazier Smith and Jacob Haar both won their Feature Matches this weekend and are now facing off in a Match that pits Dragunities against Plant Synchro! Neither of these Decks is heavily represented in the Top 32, but either one of them may have what it takes to win the tournament. This Match is the first obstacle that both of these Duelists must face to get there!
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Kevin Silva and Ramon Mera both have 8-2 records, which means their life in the tournament is at stake in this Match. Silva made it here with Dragunities, and his opponent, Ramon Mera, is running a Deck he nicknamed “Spirit Wings” – a Blackwing Deck that Main Decks 2 copies of Spirit Reaper. Lots of Icarus Attacks may be flying around in this Match, and effective use of it may prove to be difference between victory and defeat.
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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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Jonathan Barber won our Round 6 Feature Match with his Flamvellsworn Deck this weekend, recovering from an early Royal Tribute in 2 Duels and securing victory with a swarm of Synchro Monsters. Now, he’s 8-1 in the tournament with a Deck he’s been running for over a year, wiping out opponents all over the tournament floor with his power-plays enabled by Rekindling.
Jibri Thomas is currently undefeated with a Lightsworn Zombie Deck that runs Infernity Avenger. His opponent, Jose Mejia, is undefeated with Dragunities. Thomas’s Deck is explosive enough to deal over 8000 damage in a single turn, but Mejia’s Deck can spit out Level 8 Synchro Monsters each turn.Watch out for the crazy combos both of these Decks can pull off!
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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