11-year-old Matthew Wilkinson and 13-year-old Jarrid Centamore both made it to the Finals with their HERO-based Decks, and now they’re facing off against one another in a Match that will determine which one of them wins a trip to Jump Festa in Japan! The stakes are high, but the atmosphere is relaxed, because both of these Duelists are Dueling for the love of the game, and have had a blast throughout the entire tournament!
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11-year-old Matthew Wilkinson from Seattle is here this weekend attending his first event bigger than a Regional, and so far he’s seeing great success! He and Cole Agan both ended the Swiss Rounds with a 6-1 record, earning spots in the Top 4. Now, they’re up against one another, each with a chance at a Dragon Duel Championship win.
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An unprecedented field of 1839 competitors from the United States and Canada had been whittled down to this: 64 Duelists who would now compete in 6 more Rounds of playoff competition to crown a North American Champion! Over the next few hours, 58 of these competitors would be headed home. But 6 more would be headed to Amsterdam. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championships await, and right now, one of these two Duelists would get one step closer to their invitation. Frazier Smith is playing Fairies, while Lloyd Buchmeier III is running Miracle Geminis.
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Jonathan Barber from Jacksonville, Florida is facing off against Deryck Rothenberger from Indianapolis in a Top 16 Feature Match that pits Flamvellsworn against Miracle Gemini! Neither of these Decks were highly anticipated to be top contenders this weekend, but one of them is now guaranteed to make it to the Quarterfinals.
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Both of these competitors are playing Decks that are relatively new at this tournament. Jerry Wang is playing the Synchro-free Miracle Gemini strategy this weekend, while his opponent Thomas Luebke is running the Synchro-heavy Karakuri Machina Plants Deck. While Luebke will try to explode with a series of Special Summons, Wang will try to pin him down with cards like Thunder King Rai-Oh and Gemini Spark.
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Miracle Geminis are emerging as 1 of the most successful Decks of the tournament here in Round 4, placing many Duelists at the top tables thus far. The combination of deft Synchro hate; big Level 4 monsters; and big Fusion Monsters is proving to be a successful combo, and has taken YCS winner Jerry Wang to his current spot at Table 6 in today’s main event.
His opponent this round is local fourteen year-old Dakota Vandawalker, from right here in North Carolina. Vandawalker is 1 of the top-ranked Samurai Duelists in the tournament, playing an explosive build that focuses on consistency more than bells and whistles. Vandawalker may be young, but he clearly knows this Deck inside out.
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Both of these competitors had 7-2 records heading into this round: a win here would give the victor a great chance at making the Top 32. Gary Diamond was a LIGHT Gemini Beatdown Duelist, while Jonny Nagel was back from his appearance at YCS San Jose with another take on the Naturia Deck he piloted to a bubble Match in that tournament. The twist? This time he was playing an all-new strategy: Naturia Scraps. Good idea, or bad idea? We were about to find out!
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Pongyue Moua lost his Round 5 Feature Match against Scraps yesterday, but now he’s back with a 7-2 record using Flamvells and facing off against Zachary Bishop’s LIGHT Gemini Beatdown Deck. Will he be able to redeem himself from yesterday?
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Christopher Burrows finished yesterday with a 6-2 record: 2 more consecutive Match wins would almost guarantee a seat in the top 32, but that was the goal for all of the Duelists remaining in this tournament, and Eric Huang is no exception. Huang is playing an aggressive LIGHT Beatdown / Gemini City Deck, similar to the Deck that won YCS San Jose for Angel Flores. With Scrapstorms and Gemini Sparks in the mix, this could be an interesting tactical Match.
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One of the few Decks we didn’t get to take a look at yesterday was piloted to the Top 16 this weekend by Nick Ristoski: a LIGHT Beatdown Deck called “Gemini City.” Packing Skill Drain, Gemini Spark, and Hero Blast, Ristoski’s Deck is extremely good at disrupting his opponent’s combos.
His opponent is Roy St. Clair, wielding his signature X-Saber Deck with triple XX-Saber Emmersblade. St. Clair mowed through the opposition yesterday with Cold Wave and triple Trap Stun, playing XX-Saber Hyunlei to the hilt in a field where Duelists often Set far too many cards to their Spell and Trap Card Zone. The pickings wouldn’t be so easy today.
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