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Billy Brake! Congratulations!

REMATCH! Earlier this year we saw these two Duelists face off in the Top 4 of YCS Charlotte.  There, an unbelievably lucky string of topdecks led to a huge comeback for Lacaille, who dealt Brake a crushing defeat.  Lacaille was victorious with Coelacanth OTK, demolishing Brake’s X-Sabers despite a XX-Saber Gottoms combo that left Lacaille with no hand.  Now, Brake had a chance to redeem himself.  If he could, he’d win his first-ever Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series title.
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Leo Chan and Vinnie Silveman both have 4-0 records in today’s Dragon Duel and are Dueling against one another in this final round. Silverman is a local Duelist from Toronto, but Chan traveled here from Connecticut to compete. This is Silverman’s first YCS, and a victory over Chan in this Match will turn his first YCS experience into an unforgettable event that turned him into a Dragon Duel Champion. But Chan won’t make it easy for Silverman. He skillfully fought through 4 rounds of opponents in order to bring his HERO Deck to the top, and will be fighting to make sure that Silverman’s Gravekeeper’s don’t get in his way.
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Tyler Nolan has taken Tech Genus all the way to the Top 4, but now he’s up against Billy Brake’s Plant Synchro Deck!  Nolan is well-teched for this matchup: he defeated half a dozen Plant Synchro Duelists on his way to the Top 4.  Could he keep it up, or would Brake be headed to the Finals?
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In a Top 16 packed with Agent and Plant-based Synchro Summoning Decks, Anthony Alvarado emerged as the only Karakuri Duelist to make it to the top of the competition. But with all of the tricks his Deck is capable of, it’s no surprise that he got there.
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Quebec’s Alexander St-Louis is facing off against Waterloo’s Louis Hong in this Top 8 Feature Match. Both of these Duelists made it here with their Agent Decks, but only one of them will advance to the Semifinals!
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If you’re looking for new tournament formats, then the Public Events at the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series is a great place to start your search!  New events like Tin Challenges and Retro Draft tend to debut at big tournament weekends like this one, and Duelists here in Toronto were the first to compete in all-new Starter Deck Tournaments.  How did it work?  Simple:

-The tournament was an eight-Duelist single elimination competition.
-Each competitor played the same Deck: a fresh-out-of-the-box copy of Starter Deck: Dawn of the Xyz.
-Everybody got to keep their Deck, and the winner of each eight-Duelist tournament took home an all-new Game Mat, exclusive to Starter Deck Tournaments:

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This is the fourth time Billy Brake has made it to the Top 32 of a YCS this year: over the course of his Dueling career, he’s topped ten times total, but he’s never won.  His opponent here in the Top 8 is Tristan Gonzalez, and this was a mirror match between two Decks suited for Synchro Summoning..  Both of these Duelists were hungry for the win.
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17-year-old Tyler Nolan from New Jersey is an aspiring writer who recently submitted an application to the Konami Strategy Site. He’s the last remaining T.G. Duelist in the tournament, and now he’s facing off against Canadian Duelist and YCS first-timer Kyle Kuhn, the only remaining Anti-Monster Duelist. T.G. Rush Rhino will be critical for Nolan in this Matchup, since it allows Nolan to attack over Kuhn’s strongest monsters; but Kuhn’s Thunder King Rai-Oh can spell trouble for Nolan’s T.G. Monsters.
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