Standings: Round 10
September 7th, 2014
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2014/09 – Toronto, Canada
Quick Questions: Your Favorite Side Deck Card?
September 7th, 2014
It’s a new Advanced Format and a new play environment, thanks to the release of Duelist Alliance and the introduction of new Deck themes like Shaddolls, Satellarknights, and Burning Abyss. That’s caused huge shifts in the competitive landscape, and that means the ability to make reads on this weekend’s metagame and to accurately predict which strategies would be the most successful was clutch. With that in mind we asked competitors in the YCS main event one of the biggest questions of the weekend: “What’s your favorite Side Deck card for YCS Toronto?”
Round 10 Feature Match: Yuhang Li Versus Kenneth McCarthy
September 7th, 2014
Yesterday in our Round 8 Feature Match, we saw David Green’s Madolches oust Yuhang Li’s Fire Kings to knock Li down to an X-2 record. Now he’s back this morning, hanging in for one last round at 7-2, just one win away from the Top 32.
His opponent this Round is Kenneth McCarthy, a Burning Abyss Duelist from Patterson New Jersey! Both of these competitors are running Supply Squad, so watch for that to be a key card in this match-up: a slow start could cost either competitor if their opponent hits a big start and starts racking up free cards.
Standings: Round 9
September 7th, 2014
Check Out The New Top 32 Game Mat!
September 7th, 2014
We’re waiting for the Top 32 to be announced here in Day 2! As we prepare for the final Round of Constructed play before the Top 16 transition to Draft, let’s take a look at the prize all members of the Top 32 will be taking home…
Round 9 Feature Match: Bo Tang Versus Marc Carisse
September 7th, 2014
Bo Tang is one of Toronto’s biggest stars, after having topped the North American WCQ in 2011 and representing Canada in the World Championships that year! Well respected for his incredible consistency making top cuts in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series, as well as his perpetually upbeat attitude, Tang’s playing Shaddolls with Black Dragon Collapserpent, White Dragon Wyverburster, and triple Trap Stun this weekend.
His opponent this Round is another lauded Torontonian competitor, Marc Carisse, who was integral to the development of the Pure Geargia strategy in Regional Qualifiers earlier this year! Carisse is running Shaddolls as well, but he’s playing Super Polymerizations with triple Thunder Dragon instead of the mini Chaos Dragons. The Dragon’s been a big pick this weekend, but we haven’t seen it in a Feature Match until now. Since one in-hand Thunder Dragon becomes two via its effect, it’s a great Light to pitch for Shaddoll Fusion, and makes excellent discard fodder for Super Polymerization.
ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!!
September 7th, 2014
Congratulations to Ben Leverett the winner of today’s ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! He chose to take home this Ultra Rare foil El Shaddoll Winda. Tomorrow Duelist will be Dueling for the chance to win a giant foil version of Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon.
Round 8 Feature Match: Yuhang Li Versus David Green
September 7th, 2014
Once again, we see a Feature Match that pits a Toronto Duelist against a competitor from Montreal! These two hotbeds of Canadian Dueling talent have been at a clash all day long, and now we’d see Montrealer David Green go up against Toronto’s Yuhang Li. Both competitors have 6-1 records here in the last Round of Day 1, and they’re two of the few rogue Duelists left in the tournament: Green is playing Madolches and took his one loss in Round 1, while Li is running Fire Kings and was undefeated up until last Round.
Green won the roll and opted to go second.
Standings: Round 7
September 7th, 2014
The New Prize Card!
September 7th, 2014
One of the greatest things about this weekend is that YCS Toronto marks the debut of a new Championship Prize Card! While Number 106: Giant Hand has been a coveted prize for over a year, it’s now retired from prize card duty and an all-new Championship promo will be warded to top finishers this weekend. Feast your eyes upon the crown jewel of the weekend, Rex Goodwin’s Ascension Sky Dragon!
