With 6 different Deck types, the Top 8 for this tournament is nothing short of incredible! Not only were Dark World and Piper Chaos still in contention, but this Match would see Joseph Giorlando’s Skill Drain Elemental HEROes up against the slickest Wind-Up variant in the tournament; Wilson Tsang’s Beastly Wind-Ups, armed with Ape Fighter, Photon Saber Tiger, and Horn of the Phantom Beast! This one was anybody’s game, but Skill Drain could certainly prove to be a deciding factor in Giorlando’s favor.
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The biggest TCG tournament in the history of the world is rapidly shrinking, and only sixteen Duelists remain! This Match will see Michael Lux and Angel Ascencio duke it out in a Dino Rabbit mirror match. This one could be a long, drawn-out slugfest, or it could be incredibly quick – we were about to find out.
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Each of these Top 8 Finalists will receive a Blood Mefist prize card, along with many other cool prizes. But the battle continues to see who can climb even higher!
Table 1
Gabriel Perez (Piper Chaos) vs. Angel Ascencio (Dino Rabbit)
Gabriel Perez wins and advances to the Top 4!
Table 2
Simon He (Dino Rabbit) vs. Ryan Machado (Dino Rabbit)
Simon He wins and advances to the Top 4!
Table 3
Joseph Giorlando (Skill Drain Heroes) vs. Wilson Tsang (Wind-Up Beasts)
Joseph Giorlando wins and advances to the Top 4!
Table 4
Michael Balan (Dark World) vs. Jian Zeng (Inzektors)
Michael Balan wins and advances to the Top 4!
It’s down to the Top 16! Here are the last remaining Duelists in this 4,300+ player event.
Table 1
Phillip Graham (Skill Drain Heroes) vs. Gabriel Perez (Piper Chaos)
Gabriel Perez wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 2
Angel Ascencio (Dino Rabbit) vs. Michael Lux (Dino Rabbit)
Angel Ascencio wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 3
Simon He (Dino Rabbit) vs. Hung Lee (Dino Rabbit)
Simon He wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 4
Ruben Jimenez (Chain Strike Burn) vs. Ryan Machado (Dino Rabbit)
Ryan Machado wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 5
Jose Badillo (Wind-Ups) vs. Joseph Giorlando (Skill Drain Heroes)
Joseph Giorlando wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 6
David Tirado (Dino Rabbit) vs. Wilson Tsang (Wind-Up Beasts)
Wilson Tsang wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 7
Michael Balan (Dark World) vs. Trenton Wright (Wind-Ups)
Michael Balan wins and advances to the Top 8.
Table 8
Eddie de Jesus (Dino Rabbit) vs. Jian Zeng (Inzektors)
Jian Zeng wins and advances to the Top 8.
Now that we’re in the playoff rounds, the stakes could not be higher! In order to stay alive right here, in the biggest TCG tournament of all time, each Duelist still remaining in contention will have to win all of their Matches. One of these Duelists will continue on to the Top 16. The other will be headed home. This is a Wind-Up mirror match, so anything could happen, everything can change in an instant, and anybody could win!
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Wilson Tsang Dueled his way to a 10-2 finish in the Swiss Rounds of this weekend’s competition, piloting an innovative strategy we weren’t able to show you until now. Tsang is running a unique Wind-Up build, running cards like Photon Saber Tiger, Ape Fighter, and Horn of the Phantom Beast. “This Deck has really good matchups,” explained Tsang, “Especially against more conventional Wind-Up Decks.”
But Tsang isn’t the only innovator at the table! His opponent is Keith Wong, who’s playing a teched out version of Malefic Skill Drain! Packing Main Decked copies of Prohibition, Wong’s strategy is aggressive, and extremely good at keeping big monsters on the field to shut down Dino Rabbit. He also plays Necrovalley, which could give him an edge here against Tsang’s Wind-Up Rats. Let’s see how it goes!
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Twelve grueling rounds of Swiss Pair play have now concluded. The meat grinder has reduced over 4,000 Duelists to just 64. Once results are finalized, the single elimination rounds will begin:
First the Top 64
Then the Top 32 from that
Then the Top 16 from that
Then the Top 8
Then the Semi-Finals (Top 4)
And then the final round!
We’re still 6 rounds away from the end of this gargantuan tournament – the biggest in history!
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Meanwhile, Sunday’s Dragon Duel event is currently in Round 1. We’ll also bring you highlights from the Dragon Duel, as they compete for another Blood Mefist prize card, Game Mats, and invitations to the Dragon Duel World Championship Qualifier.
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Finally, the Public Events Playoffs will soon award 2 more Blood Mefist prize cards, as 2 extra Top 4 bonus events will occur. One will have 4 attendees chosen completely at random, while the other will be chosen based on the number of Public Events each Duelist has attended this weekend.
I, Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World, am back to conquer the world of Dueling! And what better way is there to do it, than by leading my forces to victory in the largest Trading Card Game tournament ever held! Michael Balan from Las Vegas, Nevada is Dueling on my behalf against Bai Chen from New York to secure glory and power for the Dark World army! With MY help, there’s no way we can lose!
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Jake Quinsee is the National Champion of the United Kingdom, and he’s here today with an undefeated record, piloting Wind-Ups! His opponent is Wesley Carter, the only undefeated Gravekeeper Duelist here this weekend. We haven’t seen this matchup in a Feature Match this weekend, so this should be a show!
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