Welcome to Round 10! This is the final round of Swiss before the cut to the Top 32! Erick Villanueva Priego from Veracruz is a YCS Champion and in 2019 had the most amount of World Qualifying Points in Central America with 692 points and the 2nd most in the world behind Dominic Couch from the United States with 714. He has Sky Striker and he’s up against Carlos Ramon Herrera Hernandez from Matamoros, Tamaulipas with Endymion Pendulum. This could be the end for one of these Duelists. A win will secure a Top 32 appearance while a loss will put the Duelist at risk for elimination. It’s time to Duel!
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Welcome to Round 7! This is the final Round of Swiss we’re playing today. I mentioned in the previous Feature Match that 2 Mexican Duelists got a pop from the crowd when their names were announced as Bounty Duelists. Adrian Madriz Espinoza from Guadalajara is that second Duelists, and here’s here with an Endymion-based Pendulum Deck. He’s taking on Salvador Osmar Gonzalez Zuany from Chihuahua with Infernoid! We’ve seen Infernoid here and there at YCS’s and Regional Qualifiers so it’s good to see it here at the Feature Match table! For the last time today, it’s time to Duel!
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Welcome to Round 5! During the opening announcements, Bounty Duelist Jose Carlo Carrillo Toscano was one of the two Mexican Bounty Duelists that got a pop from the crowd in attendance, so I would be especially remiss if I didn’t give him a Feature Match! Jose is from Guadalajara and he’s running Danger! Lunalight Orcust against Malvin Bernardo Dionisio from Vacaville, California running Sky Striker. It’s time to Duel!
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Welcome to Round 3! We’re at Table 49 for this Round featuring a previous Mexican National Champion! Erick Laurentino Ramirez Rodriguez from right here in Guadalajara, Mexico won the 2016 Mexican National Championship with Madolche! He has Magical Musketeer with him this weekend and he’s taking on Guillermo Benjamin Morales Ramirez from Mexico City with Cyber Dragon Orcust. These Duelists know each other, and this should be an exciting match! It’s time to Duel!
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Welcome to Round 1! We have 788 players so we’re playing 7 Rounds of Swiss today followed by 3 Rounds tomorrow followed by the cut to the Top 32! We’re starting at Table 324 with one of our Bounty Duelists! Renato Ricardo Sarmiento Mesones from Peru is the Bounty Duelist at the table and he’s playing Frogs with Main Decked Nibiru, the Primal Being! He’s taking on David Moncada Olmos from Mexico and his Thunder Dragon Deck. Starting off with a win sets the tone for the rest of the day, so this is sure to be a good match. It’s time to Duel!
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And it all comes down to this! David Mendoza from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ended the Swiss rounds in 9th place and has a Deck with Danger! monsters and Danger! support cards like Danger! Zone and Danger! Response Team! along with Gizmek Orochi, the Serpentron Sky Slasher and Gren Maju Da Eiza, while his opponent, Clifton Land II from Kentucky entered the playoffs as the 2nd seed with Lunalight Orcust, a combo Deck capable of setting up Summon Limit backed by Knightmare Gryphon locking down Monster effects. The winner will take home an Ultra Rare version of the YCS Prize Card Duel Link Dragon, the Duel Dragon, but whatever happens here will certainly be one for the books! Either Lunalight Orcust will take its first YCS win in North America, or Gren Maju Da Eiza will take the win after taking second place at YCS Portland just a few weeks ago. For the final time this weekend, it’s time to Duel!
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Anandeth Sinhradsvong is the last Salamangreat Duelist left in the tournament and the last competitor who hasn’t had a Feature Match yet, so this was an easy pick. He was up against David Mendoza, fresh off several Feature Match wins today with his Danger Gren Maju Deck. The winner here would clinch a Championship Prize Card and have a shot at the title of YCS Niagara Falls Champion.
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Almost every competitor remaining in the tournament has had a Feature Match today, one of the exceptions being Austin Colling, who traveled here this weekend from Ohio. With Cyber Dragon variants all over the Top 8 bracket we decided to check in again with David Mendoza, the last Gren Maju Duelist left in the tournament. In his Top 32 Feature Match this morning Mendoza cleaved through his opponent in minutes; would luck be on his side once again, or was Austin Colling about to punch his ticket to the Top 4?
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Welcome to the Top 16! Hani Jawhari from Louisiana has Danger! Orcust and ended Swiss in 15th place with a record of 8-2 is taking on Clifton Land II from Louisville, Kentucky who ended Swiss in 2nd place with a record of 9-1 and his Lunalight Orcust Deck. We saw a version of the Lunalight Orcust Deck at YCS Portland and this one has some similarities. Only one of these Duelists will move on to the Top 8. It’s time to Duel!
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David Mendoza is one of two competitors to make it to the Top 32 with a Gren Maju Da Eiza Deck. His build relies heavily on a Danger backbone including Danger! Response Team and Danger! Zone, and we haven’t seen it in action in a Feature Match yet this weekend. His opponent is Luis Christian Villalpando Chavez piloting Sky Strikers.
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