We’ve entered the final Swiss round of the day! We have Nishaad Lorengo from Virginia, packing a Danger! Thunder Dragon strategy. He’s facing Toronto Duelist Jesse Kotton, using a Danger! Zombie strategy. Will Kotton’s Zombie World give him the advantage?
Andrew Fredella from Miami, Florida and Ryan Yu from Ontario are up against one another in this Round 8 Feature Match. Fredella is no stranger to the top tables at competitive events, and neither is Ryan Yu. Yu won the Dragon Duel World Championship in 2017 and was invited back to compete in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championship in 2018, as he aged out of Dragon Duels. Now, 14-year-old Ryan Yu is 6-1 in the UDS Invitational – Winter 2018, and he’s about to begin a Sky Striker mirror-Match. It’s time to Duel!
Welcome to Round 7! We have Ryan May from Los Angeles, CA, using a Subterror Deck teched out to beat the current meta. He’s playing cards like Artifact Scythe and There Can Be Only One in the Main Deck to give himself an edge against strategies like Salamangreats. His opponent is Marco David Morales Gomez, from Garden Grove, CA. He’s using a Trickstar Mekk-Knight Deck – a strategy May is likely not prepared for, but his anti-meta cards could still prove useful in this matchup.
Martin Kass from Los Angeles, California and Micheal Steffens from Fargo, North Dakota are both currently 4-1 in the tournament. Kass is piloting a Trickstar Deck with Sky Striker cards in it, while Steffens is using Thunder Dragons. Both of these Decks were extremely popular in recent events, but seem to have fallen out of favor among Duelists once Salamangreats and Danger! monsters gained popularity. Nevertheless, they’re both powerful strategies, and one of them will advance with a 5-1 record at the end of this round. It’s time to Duel!
We’re at the halfway point of Day 1 here at the 2019 UDS Winter Invitational! Carl Manigat, from New York, is packing a Salamangreat Deck. He’s one of many who have chosen the strategy, recently boosted by new cards from Structure Deck: Soulburner. He’s facing San Jose Duelist Anthony Gausepohl, using a Rank 10 Train Deck! He’s looking to throw down a huge Xyz Summon and win with one huge Battle Phase.
Cameron Neal from Dallas, Texas is North America’s defending UDS Invitational Champion. Neal won North America’s most recent UDS Invitational in Kansas City, Missouri last August, and took home a Championship Belt featuring The Seal of Orichalcos. Now he’s back for a second one, this time using his Salamangreat Deck! He’s Dueling against Dean Arbuckle from Winston-Salem, North Carolina in a mirror-Match that is certain to be great. Both Duelists are currently undefeated, but only one of them can remain with a perfect record after this round is completed. It’s time to Duel!
For this Round 3 Feature Match we have Sebastian Chen from Los Angeles, CA. He’s using a Crusadia Guardragon Deck, capable of making some incredibly powerful Link Summon plays. His opponent is Mark Campos from Chico, CA. He’s playing Salamangreats, another Link Summon strategy that focuses more on consistency and card advantage than big pushes.
2017 World Championship competitor Esala Wathuthantrige from Los Angeles, California is always trying to stay at the top of the competition, and now he’s Dueling with a Zombie Orcust Danger! Deck in this weekend’s UDS Invitational – Winter 2019. This Deck type has had proven success in recent events, and now he’s up against Sean Martinov from Long Island, New York and his Salamangreat Deck!
Max Reynolds from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is Dueling against Earl Boone from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in what is certain to be a great Feature Match. A Salamangreat Feature Match. It’s greatness versus greatness here in Round 1 of the UDS Invitational – Winter 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s time to Duel!
Welcome to Round 1 of the Ultimate Duelist Series Invitational – Winter 2019! We’re kicking things off with Californian Duelist Jacob Kuskin, using the newest Salamangreat strategy. He’s facing Corbin Diez, from Layton, Utah. He’s packing a Subterror Deck with some card choices we don’t often see in Subterror Decks these days, including Subterror Behemoth Stygokraken and Performapal Five-Rainbow Magician!