Congratulations to Jackson Sayre from Illinois, our YCS Chicago Dragon Duel Champion!

9-year-old Jackson Sayre from Illinois is Dueling against 11-year-old Justin Adams from North Carolina in a Match that will put 2 Dragon Duel winners against one another. Both Duelists have had a lot of success this weekend. Jackson Sayre was Saturday’s Dragon Duel Champion, and Justin Adams was Sunday’s Dragon Duel Champion. But only one of these Duelists can emerge as the ultimate Dragon Duel champion of the weekend! It’s time to Duel!

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We’ve gotten to know both of these competitors pretty well this weekend, as this is the third Feature Match for each Duelist this weekend!  Thomas Mak is from Philadelphia, and in the Top 8 Feature Match we saw him put a combined five copies of Tiki Curse and Tiki Soul to work – he effectively drafted a Tiki Deck, and now he’s in the Finals.

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Joe Bogli made the Top 8 at YCS Atlanta, the first-ever Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series event to play out the Top 16 in Draft!  That experience may pay off today, as Bogli’s back in the hunt for a Championship title, now with more time spent Drafting and studying War of the Giants: Round 2.  He actually arrived here today with a hand-written list of priorities: cards he knew to be top picks, helping him organize his thoughts and his choices.  While he had to leave that behind once the drafting actually started, he had a clear set of highlights in his mind that he’d be looking for in his packs today.

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REMATCH!  These two competitors played on the bubble at YCS Toronto last September; a Match that Mak won, landing him in the Top 32 and shunting Ahearn out of the tournament entirely.  Now, almost seven months later Ahearn would get a shot at some redemption.  The winner here moves on to the Top 4, with an extremely strong shot at a Championship Prize Card.

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Check out the Top 4 in Sunday’s Dragon Duel Tournament!

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Congratulations to Thomas Mak on winning YCS Chicago!

Marc Carisse from Toronto, Canada piloted a Geargia Deck to a 9-2 finish in the Swiss Rounds this weekend. James Valentino from Houston, Texas ran an Infernity Deck with Archfiend Heiress and Archfiend Palabyrinth in it, and finished the Swiss Rounds with a 10-1 record. Both Duelists proved their exception skill with the Decks they constructed, but do they have what it takes to win with brand new Decks constructed from packs of Battle Pack: War of the Giants? It’s time to Duel!

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If you’re reading this coverage post-event, you may have already seen our Draft Along coverage with Joe Bogli, where we followed him through his drafting process card by card!  You saw him prioritize cards like Butterspy Protection (which he drafted two copies of), and that big pick where he chose Memory of an Adversary over Pot of Duality.  Now, here in the Top 16, we’re going to see how all those decisions would play out!  Bogli made the Top 8 at YCS Atlanta and now he was back this weekend, hoping for an even better showing.

His opponent this round is one of two Canadians in the Top 16: Harison Perinpanayagam from Toronto, Ontario, Canada!  He’s had some drafting experience before, but never drafted with War of the Giants: Round 2.  Let’s see what kind of difference that makes in this Feature Match…

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Here are the Top 4 Teams for the 3 v. 3 tournament!

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