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2024/10 – YCS Niagara Falls tagged with 'Bounty Duelists'

Who’s A Bounty Duelist At YCS Niagara Falls?

October 12th, 2024

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series is steeped in Dueling history and traditions unique to the YCS circuit. Case in point? Bounties! Every YCS weekend sees a handful of competitors dubbed “Bounty Duelists”, making them part of a unique secondary prizing system.

How does it work? Every Round, each Bounty Duelist adds four booster packs to their personal hoard. When they win a Match, the Bounty Duelist gets to claim two of those packs, which are removed from the hoard and theirs to keep. The remaining two packs for the round are added to the hoard, so as long as the Bounty Duelist keeps winning the bounty on their head keeps getting bigger. But if the Bounty Duelist is ever defeated, their opponent claims the whole hoard: so in Round 1 that could be four packs, but in Round 2 it grows to six, Round 3 it grows to eight, and so on.

So what are they playing for? This weekend the packs our Bounty Duelists will look to earn and defend are Turbo Pack: Booster Six!

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