It all comes down to this. Michael Walters has been playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME since the beginning, but this is the first big tournament showing of his Dueling career. A local Duelist from Brampton Ontario – a suburb just outside of Toronto proper – Walters is running a teched out version of the Burning Abyss Phantom Knight Deck. Cards like Phantom Knights’ Wing and Chaos Hunter have given him an edge all weekend, but would those risks of using those cards continue to pay off?
We’re about to find out, as Walters is up against Sydney, Australia’s Bohdan Temnyk! We Feature Matched Temnyk in Round 1 yesterday, with Temnyk coming off his appearance at the 2016 World Championship last week. Temnyk was the runner-up in the Oceanic WCQ this year, and has a long string of also-ran finishes in big events like Nationals and WCQ’s. With a wealth of Top 16, Top 8, and Top 4 finishes in the past, Temnyk is looking to finally nab that big win on the YCS stage. Would this be his weekend?
We’re about to find out.
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Three-time YCS winner Billy Brake versus Australia’s favorite Duelist Bohdan Temnyk? Instant Feature Match. Brake is competing on behalf of Pasadena, California’s CoreTCG, while Temnyk is representing West Palm Beach, Florida’s Pro-Play Games. CoreTCG and Pro-Play Games are two of many Konami Official Tournament Stores at which fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME can Duel. You can find a Konami Official Tournament Store near you by using the locator available here! Brake is running Domain Monarchs, while Temnyk is playing Burning Abyss Phantom Knights. These two great competitors have been friends online for years, but this is the first time they’re squaring off in a tournament.
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With the Saturday and Sunday Dragon Duels completed, it’s time to decide one ultimate winner! John Alexander Wilkin won the Saturday Dragon Duel yesterday, and comes from right here in Toronto, fresh off his appearance last week at the Dragon Duel World Championship. His opponent is Connor Joseph Perrotta from New York, who won today’s Dragon Duel to qualify for this Championship Match.
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We haven’t seen Kozmos in Feature Match action this weekend, but Jose Anthony Bren Osores is piloting a Fire King variant here in the Top 16! His opponent is well-recognized Canadian Duelist Marcus Carisse, competing with a pure Burning Abyss build – a surprise standout for several Top Cut Duelists here in Day 2.
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Montreal’s David Creti didn’t really get much of a Feature Match back in Round 10, and Calvin Tahan isn’t even really supposed to be here, so why not feature them in the Top 32?
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Yuhang Li is a Toronto all-star, with three Top 8 showings in Regional Qualifiers the past year and three YCS tops over the course of his Dueling career. His opponent is David Creti, who has also had a strong year: the Montreal Duelist topped his last two Regional Qualifiers alone, and is 8-1 so far with Blue-Eyes White Dragon; the highest-ranked Blue-Eyes player in the tournament, paired up against the 9-0 Li. This match will pit the upstart Blue-Eyes Deck against the eminently established Domain Monarchs.
Both of these competitors were shoe-ins for the Top 32, but Li wanted to go 10-0, while Creti wanted to secure a strong record with Blue-Eyes White Dragon. We haven’t seen much of the Deck in Feature Matches this weekend, so this is a big chance to see how it operates against one of the best Decks of the format, piloted by the only undefeated competitor in the tournament.
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Chris LeBlanc is a two-time Champion, having won YCS Providence in 2012 as the youngest YCS winner of all time, and then following up to win YCS Philadelphia in 2014. He’s sitting at Table 2 with a 7-1 record here in Round 9, representing Pro-Play Games of West Palm Beach, Florida. Pro-Play Games is one of many Konami Official Tournament Stores at which fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME can Duel. You can find a Konami Official Tournament Store near you by using the locator available here! Now, Chris LeBlanc is up against Germany’s Niklos Krebs. On vacation with his family here in Toronto, Krebs has been a Duelist for ten years, but this is his first big showing at a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series.
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Alfred Naccarato from Thornhill and Jalen Rose from Scarborough are both on the Day 2 bubble here in Round 8 – the final Round of competition in Day 1 of YCS Toronto. A loss here would knock out either of these Duelists, while the other will take his shot at the Top Cut tomorrow. Naccarato is playing Blue-Eyes White Dragon, while Rose is running Domain Monarchs.
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With two Rounds remaining in Day 1, the tournament floor is abuzz with discussion about one Deck: Kevin Paul’s Burning Abyss Fluffals. Paul is riding the razor’s edge on a 4-1-1 record sitting at Table 25, effectively on the bubble, but the Oakville local’s Deck is so nuts we just have to get a look at it.
His opponent is Scarborough’s Sam Arunnaveesiri, piloting Domain Monarchs with a 4-1-1 record as well. While most players sort of vaguely know about Paul’s Deck by this point, Arunnaveesiri is going to have to take some time and quickly learn what Paul’s cards do if he wants to win this one. It’s doable, but it won’t be easy.
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Denzel Jordan Kelly is from right here in Toronto, and is piloting Majespecter Pendulum Magicians this weekend. His opponent is Jacob Phinney, playing to represent Pro-Play Games in West Palm Beach, Florida. Pro-Play Games is one of many Konami Official Tournament Stores at which fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME can Duel. You can find a Konami Official Tournament Store near you by using the locator available here! Phinney is one of the most consistent competitors of the 2015-2016 season, with a wealth of Championship tops and an incredible track record.
Sitting at Table 1, both of these Duelists are undefeated so far in the tournament. But one of them is about to see his record take a dip: Let’s find out who will survive unscathed.
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