32-year-old Nathan Smith has been a big Yu-Gi-Oh! fan since the beginning. “I’ve been doing Yu-Gi-Oh! for about 7 or 8 years. I’ve bought every Structure Deck, Booster, and Tin. I’ve watched each series.”
Nathan loves wearing costumes of his favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! characters at conventions, but he has never done it in front of this many Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. “I’ve been Rafael from Waking the Dragons, Dimitri – the Copycat Duelist, Zane (both the good and the evil one), Yusei and Jack Atlas for 5Ds, and now Yuma for Zexal. My next 2 projects are Shark and Kite.” Read more…
Traveling here this weekend from nearby Santa Monica, Jonathan Lovett is sixteen years old, and has been Dueling since 2009. A competitive Duelist who’s attended several YCS and WCQ events in the past, he’s gone rogue today playing a HERO deck that he believes will give him an edge over other strategies. We sat with him for a moment to ask him a few questions after Round 1!
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Jonathan Ayon is fifteen years old, and hails from nearby Los Angeles! He started Dueling in 2009, and this is his first really competitive tournament. What better place to step up your game than at the 100th YCS tournament – the biggest TCG event in history?
Jonathan was seated at Table 1 to kick things off here in the first Swiss Round of the weekend, so we took a minute with to ask him a few questions about his history as a Duelist, and his experience here at YCS Long Beach.
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