If you read our Round 5 Feature Match, you saw Carolyn Colajezzi and Rob Chung compete in a knock-down drag-out Feature Match that pitted Constellars against Bujins. And in the end? Bujins won. Both Decks benefit from the lack of Heavy Storm, running big trap lineups to protect their key monsters: in Chung’s case, that means protecting Bujin Yamato long enough to stack the graveyard with Bujingi Turtle, stacking up Turtles and collecting Bujingi Cranes. With enough Bujingi defense cards in place, plus some free removal tricks to keep the pressure up, Chung assembles a game position that’s virtually unbeatable. The longer a Duel goes, the longer he can stack up control cards, but Chung was adamant about the one biggest advantage he feels he has in this tournament: the surprise factor.
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The new Advanced Format is wide open to all sorts of strategies, so we hit the tournament floor earlier in the weekend to ask Duelists what they thought would be the Top 3 decks to beat this weekend, here at YCS Toronto. Answers were all over the place, but there was one big winner that almost every competitor pegged as a likely contender…
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Here are the Top 16 Pairings and Deck breakdowns at YCS Toronto.
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Bo Tang and Sorosh Saberian are two of the most renowned Duelists in Toronto – Saberian has seven YCS Top 32 appearances, while Bo Tang has five YCS Tops, a World Championship Qualifier Top, and a Top 16 at Worlds. Neither competitor has ever won a YCS tournament, but both could be well on their way to a title win here today. Both Duelists knew a fair bit about the other’s Deck: while Bo Tang’s running Dragon Rulers with Skill Drain, Saberian’s playing Tidal Mermails with that Mechquipped Angineer combo. But Saberian hadn’t seen Tang’s complete Deck list. Tang had seen Saberian’s full list, but had missed a key detail: he was unaware Saberian plays Crimson Blader; his only Synchro in a deck that plays multiple copies of Bahamut Shark and Mermail Abysstrite.
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Here are the Duelist that made the final cut to Top 32 at YCS Toronto.
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Desmond Johnson is back with yet another iteration of his signature Teleport Karakuris! Hailing from Atlanta, Johnson has earned a reputation as North America’s most decorated Karakuri player over the past year, topping numerous Regional Qualifiers and YCS tournaments. His opponent is David Wu, a Canadian citizen currently going to school in Boston, here competing in his first-ever YCS Day 2 with Madolches. Both of these competitors are on the bubble with a 7-2 record. A win here will lock one Duelist in for a seat in the Top 32, while a loss will likely put them out of the tournament.
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After taking some time off from traveling for Championship events, former YCS winner and Toronto landmark Duelist Dale Bellido is back in Championship action, holding a 6-0-2 record of six wins and two draws with Dragunities! His opponent is Montreal’s Sehabi Kheireddine, piloting Blackwings with Number 66: Master Key Beetle.
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After 8 rounds here are the Day 1 standings here at YCS Toronto, join us again tomorrow for more coverage.
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You’d be crazy to think that Blackwings won’t be out in force this weekend. Duelists love their Blackwings, and ever since the news that Black Whirlwind would no longer be Limited got out, Blackwing fans have been singing from the mountaintops of the return of their favorite Deck.
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In October of last year, Chris LeBlanc won YCS Providence with Karakuri Geargia. This weekend he’s back playing the same strategy, and after seven Rounds of competition he’s 6-1. His opponent is local Duelist Isaiah Joseph, who plays in Toronto and St. Catharines. He’s also 6-1 here this weekend, piloting the first Evilswarm Deck we’ve seen in a Feature Match here today.
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