Ben Leverett has a multitude of Dragon Duel titles under his belt, but this year he’s moved on to the Main Event. He’s looking at a great spot in the Top 32 if he wins the Match with his Burning Abyss Deck. He’s up against Aaron Furman, another great player who consistently does well at major events, and is using Shaddolls today. This is the last round before the cut to Top 32 – the winner has a solid shot at making it into the top cut, while the loser will be out of the running.
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Jonathan Nagel is one of our VIP players who has had quite a nice weekend thus far. Outside of not needing to pay for entry, receiving a static table, and two byes, he is now sitting at an 8-1 record looking pretty good to make Top 32. All he has to do is win one of his next two matches, and he will most likely make it in. Nagel is playing a Burning Abyss Deck with a bunch of awesome tech! Outside of cool choices like Dark Eruption, Forbidden Chalice, and Mind Crush all in his Main Deck, he uses Edge Imp Sabres for a bunch of sweet combos! The best being that anytime he has Mathematician and a Burning Abyss Monster, he can send the Sabres for Mathematician’s effect and stack the Burning Abyss on top of his Deck to Special Summon the Sabres. He then overlays for Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss and can mill the Burning Abyss, pretty sweet.
His opponent is Charles Ramsey, the Satellarknight Duelist who had a Feature yesterday. He’s looking to redeem himself in the Feature Match area after the loss from last time, so things are looking to get pretty exciting!
Ramsey won the roll and opted to go first.
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We’re nearing the end of Day 1 here at YCS Anaheim! For this round, we’ve got two Qliphort Duelists! Nick Kaelin is using Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon to add consistency to his Deck, at the cost of some speed. Chris Rodriguez is playing a secret tech card, Forbidden Scripture! Scripture lets him negate all of his Qliphorts, resetting their ATK, as well as shutting down tons of stuff like Shaddoll Flip Effects or opposing Saqlifices. He can even turn destroy a monster without losing his Vanity’s Emptiness!
The Qliphorts are ready, and it’s time to Duel!
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We’ve got two Duelists on the bubble for this Match – they need to win to stay in the tournament! First up is YCS Champion Michael Balan with Shaddolls, who made the trip from Las Vegas. His opponent is Kevin Alvarez, from Ontario, CA, using Satellarknights.
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Round 9 Top Table Update
Here’s the top Duelists heading into Round 9!
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Sheabi Kheireddine is not only the only Duelist from North America to claim a World Championship title, but is the current World Champion. So with that said, it’s pretty obvious that Roberto Gomez isn’t going to have the easiest time winning this match. Both Duelists are playing Burning Abyss, and sitting at 7-1 they are already a lock for Day Two, but the loser will have to win both matches tomorrow to make Top 32.
Gomez won the roll but told Sehabi to go first.
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With only eleven Duelists undefeated, four Burning Abyss and four Shaddolls remain among them. Andy Yu is one of the four playing Burning Abyss, and Destin Kaspi is one of the four battling with Shaddoll. Andy’s brother, YCS Las Vegas 2014 Champion Denny Yu, beat Destin out of Top 32 at YCS Dallas this past month, and now he’s looking for revenge!
Yu won the die roll and chose to go first.
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Entering Round 7 we have two pretty neat Decks still undefeated. Charles Ramsey is playing Satellarknights with some cool stuff from The New Challengers such as Satellarknight Sirius, Satellarknight Procyon, Stellarknight Triverr, and Oasis of Dragon Souls. Steven Corwin is playing a 53 card Artifact Shaddoll with Kuribandit and Call of the Haunted.
Which Duelist will emerge unscathed?
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We’re headed into Round 7, and we have two more undefeated Duelists at the Feature Match table! Adam Salas is packing Shadolls today, the new cards from The New Challengers like El Shaddoll Fusion. He’s facing WCQ winner and World Championship competitor Jose Lagunes! Lagunes is using Burning Abyss, also featuring NECH cards like Virgil, Rock Star of the Burning Abyss. This should be a great Match featuring two of the biggest Decks of this weekend.
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For Round 6, we’re featuring two of the Decks that got powered up by The New Challengers. It’s Kenneth Ramirez’s Satellarknights, up against the Burning Abyss piloted by Israel Estrada. Burning Abyss is definitely one of the most popular strategies this weekend, while Satellarknights are much less common. Will the popular Deck win, or can the underdog take it?
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