Four competitors remain in this weekend’s YCS Main Event: 2 Duelists playing Floowandereeze, and 2 playing Tearlaments. Both of our Top 4 tables are mirror matches, and in this Match we’ll see YCS Las Vegas winner Dominic Couch take on Cezar Victor Lopez Coscia, whose competitive accolades go all the way back to his Top Cut finish with Spellbooks at YCS Sao Paulo in 2014.

Each competitor in this Match is Main Decking their own tech choices: while Couch has triple Enemy Controller, triple Effect Veiler, and triple Infinite Impermanence, Lopez is on Called by the Grave, Harpie’s Feather Duster, double Book of Moon, double Harpie’s Feather Storm, and 3 copies of Evenly Matched. Would those cards make a difference in these Duels?

We were about to find out.

Dominic Couch and Koby Gyamfi are playing off here in the Top 16, in a Match that pits Couch’s Floowandereeze Deck against Gyamfi’s Bystial Spright build.

Ferrucio Anthony Sisti and Leonardo Sacchetti have made it all the way to Round 10, the final Swiss Round in this tournament, and both are playing Decks you might not expect: Sacchetti’s running Adventure Spright, while Sisti’s running a Pendulum Deck with Performapals and the new Dracoslayer cards from Darkwing Blast. With no Tearlaments in sight and plenty of offbeat card choices, this one was anybody’s game.

Yacine Sahli, better known as YouTube’s yacine656, might be one of the most innovative Deck builders in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG’s online scene. This weekend, though? He’s going with the flow piloting Tearlaments with a couple twists. His opponent is one of three Champions from the 2020 Team YCS in Las Vegas, Dominic Couch, and both of these competitors are coming off big Top 16 showings last month: Couch topped at YCS Pasadena, while Sahli topped 2 weeks ago at YCS San Jose. 

It’s Round 3, and Christopher Hughes is undefeated so far with Dark World. 

If you’re not familiar with what Dark World is doing these days, fresh off the release of Structure Deck: Dark World, check out our recap from earlier in today’s coverage. While Dark World’s now very good at fielding big attackers and making Xyz and Link Summons, the deadliest part of the Deck is its ability to loop Ceruli, Guru of Dark World and Sillva, Warlord of Dark World to demolish your opponent’s hand on Turn 1. 

Or at least most of your hand. Let’s talk about it.

The new Advanced Format has arrived, and this weekend we’ll get our first taste of Championship Dueling under the new Forbidden & Limited List!

Over 500 Duelists are logging into Discord today to compete in the final Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournament of 2022, played virtually by competitors from all across North America and beyond. Some of the world’s most celebrated Duelists will throw down from the comfort of their own homes, flexing their latest innovations and newest tech picks in a bid to capture the title – the final Championship opportunity of the year.