These Duelists put forth an amazing showing here at the 250^th YCS in Los Angeles. While they won’t be able to claim the title, one of them can still walk away with the Super Rare Anotherverse Dragon Prize Card! It’s Shunping Xu’s Runick Kashtira against Jacob Banuelos’s Floowandereeze. It’s time to Duel!

While the other Top 4 Match was a competition between Floowandereeze and Naturia Runick, this Match would see Shunping Xu and Paulie Aronson square off in a Kashtira mirror match. While Aronson’s Deck is a pretty typical build, Xu’s playing a Runick variant, setting his Deck apart and drawing a defining line in this Match.

Over 3200 Duelists have been reduced to just the Top 8. This is the only remaining non-Kashtira matchup in the Top 8. Jesse Flores, from Dallas, TX, is representing Runick Naturia. He’s up against Hisam Jawhari, from Louisiana, playing Tri-Brigade Sprights. It’s been a long road for these Duelists, but only one can move on from here!

Four Rounds remained in the 250^th YCS here in Los Angeles, and for the handful of surviving Duelists still in contention it was do-or-die. The winner here would move on to the Top 8, while the defeated Duelist would be cast into the shadow realm. (Not really. They’d probably just go back to their hotel.)

This Feature Match is a battle of YCS Las Vegas Champions! Adam Belohradsky, from Stockton, CA, won YCS Las Vegas in 2016 with Dracoslayer Performapals. He’s facing Alex Cancel, from Houston, TX, who was one of the winners of TEAM YCS Las Vegas back in February, playing Kashtira. Cancel is still using Kashtira today, while Belohradsky is playing an extremely different Deck: Traptrix!

It all comes down to this! Caleb Hernandez, from Upland, CA, won yesterday’s Dragon Duel event, and he’s back to face Connor Rosenstein, from Portland, OR, the winner of today’s event! The winner of this Match will take home a set of the Darklord Prize Cards, as well as the exclusive 250^th YCS Dragon Duel trophy!

Charley Futch made his name winning the 2018 Dragon Duel World Championship, and since then he’s topped Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournaments and last year’s North America Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Championship. His last big showing was at Team YCS Las Vegas where he took a 2^nd Place finish alongside Ryan Yu and John Wilkin, but he’s back today, piloting the same strategy he played in Vegas: Branded Despia. 

If you checked out our Round 11 Top Table Update, you might have noticed that a Marincess Duelist is 10-1 heading into Round 12. That’s Joshua Kippenberg, and we want to see how he’s achieving so much success with such a surprising strategy. So we’re going to find out, in our Round 12 Feature Match!

We’re getting close to the Top Cut, and California Duelist Andrew Edwards is standing out as the best performing Rikka Sunavalon player. He’s facing off against Connecticut Duelist Paul Aronson, who won the North America Remote Duel YCS in February 2022. Aronson’s playing Kashtira this weekend. These Duelists need one more win in Swiss to secure their Top Cut spot. Edwards will certainly be ready for Kashtira, but will Aronson be prepared for plants?

Good morning! It’s Round 10, the first Round of competition here in Day 2 at the 250^th YCS in Los Angeles! After nine Rounds of Dueling yesterday we have another nine Rounds slated for today: three more Swiss Rounds, and then a cut to Top 64 with six additional knockout Rounds. 

The field is surprisingly varied right now, and our Round 10 Feature Match is testament to that: Alexander Singh Juneja is piloting Naturia Runick, while Alexander Douglas Huynh is on Tenyi Swordsoul. Both of these competitors are playing decks that are a little under the radar, and both of them have 7-2 records. It’s critical that each of them wins their next three Rounds; a loss here could easily punt them out of contention for the Top 64.