With the Top 32 concluded, we’ve moved on to the final 8 tables left in this tournament. Here are the current standings, featuring a pretty diverse field! We’ve got 3 Tengu Synchro, 3 Six Samurai, 1 Herald/Hyperion Deck, 1 X-Sabers, 1 Gravekeepers, 1 Frog Monarch, 1 Debris Synchro, 1 Machina Gadgets, 1 Anti-Monster, 1 Infernity, 1 Macro Cosmos Deck, and a Scrap Deck. Read more…

Master Hyperion arrived in a big way this weekend, taking plenty of different Fairy strategies to Day 2.  Anthony Alvarado and Paul Levitin are long-time friends who both played virtually identical builds of this planetary strategy!  We saw each competitor win Feature Matches today, and both finished out Day 1 with 7 wins out of 8 rounds total.  Here’s what their build looked like: Read more…

Anthony Alvarado’s one of three Duelists in the Top 32 playing a strategy built around the new Master Hyperion card from The Lost Sanctuary Structure Deck. Alvarado is playing a build that runs The Agent of Creation – Venus to make big combos with Mystical Shine Balls and Genex Ally Birdman. His opponent is Robert Nguyen, one of several Debris Synchro Duelists in the playoffs. Read more…

Collin Reilly finished the Swiss Rounds with an 8-2 record and is now facing off against Guillermo Morales’s Scrap Deck, which Morales piloted to a 9-1 finish at the end of Swiss. Reilly is running a T.G. Plant Deck that uses T.G. Cyber Magician, and Morales is teching Horn of the Phantom Beast in his Deck to give strength to his weaker Scraps. The unique card choices in these Duelists’ Decks may make all the difference in this Match. Read more…

With the Swiss Pair rounds completed, we’ve moved on to the single elimination rounds, with 32 Duelists remaining out of an initial 700+ players. Here are the pairings for the Top 32: Read more…

Both of these Duelists had 7-2 records going into this round, and at least one of the competitors – Sorosh Saberian – had done the math and was convinced he was one win away from the Top 32. Both Duelists had a strong shot at the playoffs, but they had to win this Match to get there. Leiva was playing Frog Monarchs. Saberian was playing Fableds. Minutes from now, one of them would be headed to the Top 32. Read more…

Paul Levitin and Paul Clarke are both 7-1-1 in the tournament. The winner of this Match will end the Swiss rounds of the tournament with an 8-1-1 record and a guaranteed spot in the Top 32. The other Duelist will finish with a 7-2-1 record and fall short of the Top 32 cutoff. Levitin is using a Fairy Deck based around the new monsters in the Lost Sanctuary Structure Deck, and Clarke is running Gravekeepers. Both Duelists will be trying their hardest to win this Match, knowing that their spot on the Top 32 depends on the outcome. Read more…

Both of these Duelists had 6-2 records headed into this round, and needed to score two Match wins back-to-back to stay alive in this tournament. It was an interesting matchup. Chris Hernandez is playing Vayu Turbo, while his opponent Thomas Sharp is running straight Blackwings. Which Blackwing Deck would reign supreme?! Read more…

The new Psychic monsters in Extreme Victory have a lot of power that has gone unnoticed by most Duelists. But Nick Bottino is one Duelist who did notice that power. Nick Bottino’s Psychic Deck doesn’t shoot for an OTK with Mind Master like some Psychic Decks do, and instead uses simple Psychic combos that will propel him into the lead during a Duel. Check out Nick Bottino’s Psychic Deck! Read more…

Nick Bottino is currently 6-2 with his Psychic Deck, and is now facing off against Bryan McDermott’s T.G. Deck! This is a rare matchup to spot in a major tournament, so it’s sure to make for an exciting Round 9 Feature Match! Read more…