Welcome to Round 5! We’re at Table 35 where Ramiro Garcia – YCS Guadalajara Champion – from Dallas, Texas, has SPYRALs and is taking on Steven Trifunoski, who says he’s from Mt. Olympus but I’m not entirely sure that’s accurate, and his Pendulum Deck. Trifunoski has historically done well with the Pendulum strategy, taking it to a Top 8 finish at a Regional Qualifier in Scarborough, Canada that conformed to the latest Forbidden and Limited List before the list went into effect. This is relevant because that means he was able to make Top 8 using only one copy of Servant of Endymion while people were likely still playing decks like Salamangreat with Salamangreat Miragestallio, Sky Striker with 3 copies of Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage!, and Orcust with 3 copies of Orcust Harp Horror. This is sure to be a high-powered matchup! It’s time to Duel!

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Cristian Urena from Reading, Pennsylvania won YCS Peru last year, and David Flores from Houston, Texas won North America’s most recent Ultimate Duelist Series Invitational in Indianapolis last summer. Flores is here to defend the title of “Ultimate Duelist”, while YCS winner Cristian Urena is here to challenge it. It’s SPYRALs against SPYRALs in this Round 4 Feature Match. Let’s Duel!

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Welcome to Round 3!  We’re at Table 50 this time around.  Aaron Chase Furman from New Jersey is no stranger to the Feature Match table.  He’s a UDS and YCS Champion, having won the Summer Invitational in 2016 and YCS Pittsburgh in 2017.  He’s taking on Jimmy Doss from Commerce, Oklahoma – who had over 400 points going into this event, gained mostly from judging events starting in 2014 – with Nekroz!  The Deck has some new tricks since we last saw the strategy in competitive play in 2015, and we’re about to see what the Deck can do in 2020!  It’s time to Duel!

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Billy Brake from Dallas, Texas is no stranger to big tournaments. Brake has been Dueling since the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME was first released, and he has countless victories and top cut finishes. He has multiple YCS wins, and even competed in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championship. You might also know him from the commentary he provides on the Live Stream at YCS events. Now this expert Duelist is up against Benjamin Deeter from Ames, Iowa. Deeter took 2^nd place in a recent UDS Invitational in Indianapolis, and was just one Match away from taking home the Championship Belt. Now Deeter is back, looking to do just a little bit better than last time so that he can call himself the ultimate Duelist. It’s Billy Brake’s Shaddoll Deck against Benjamin Deeter’s HERO Deck in this Round 2 Feature Match. It’s time to Duel!

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Welcome to Round 1! There’s about 70 players in the tournament right now, but once the players with Round 1 byes enter the fray, we’ll have 243 players in the last Ultimate Duelist Series Invitational in North America! For Round 1’s Feature Match, we’re looking at Table 6 where Carl Manigat from Long Island, New York – who placed 2^nd in last year’s UDS Invitational in Las Vegas – has a Shaddoll Invoked Deck powered up with cards from the recently released Structure Deck: Shaddoll Showdown. He’s taking on Stephen Neil Muldoon Marquez from Phoenix, Arizona and his Lunalight Deck. This matchup will come down to whether or not Muldoon Marquez can make his plays before Manigat can bring El Shaddoll Winda to the field. For the first time this weekend, it’s time to Duel!

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The winners from yesterday’s and today’s Dragon Duel events are facing off in one final Match! We have Liam Boudreaux from Redondo Beach, CA, piloting a Sky Striker True Draco Deck. His opponent is Ben Hernandez, from Palm Springs, CA, who’s brought Salamangreats. Only one Duelist can claim the title of YCS Pasadena Dragon Duel Champion – it’s time to Duel!

This Dragon Duel playoff pits two friends against each other. Kansas Duelist Jason James is playing Crusadia Orcust (with a splash of Sky Striker?!). He’s facing Texas Duelist Kenta Lee, playing Sky Strikers. The winner of this Duel earns a set of the Darklord Prize Cards and the title of YCS Ft. Worth Dragon Duel Champion!

This is it. Ramiro Garcia from Dallas, Texas is Dueling against Raphael Neven from the Netherlands in a Match that will determine who wins the YCS. Neven is a 2-time YCS Champion, and although Garcia only has 1 YCS win, that victory was a mere week ago at YCS Guadalajara with the same type of Deck he’s using today! It’s Garcia’s Lunalight Orcust Deck against Neven’s pure Orcust Deck. Let’s Duel!

The Top 4 Duel features two Duelists from outside the United States. Raphael Neven, from the Netherlands, is a two-time YCS Champion packing an Orcust strategy. He’s facing off against Andres Torres, from Colombia, who is also a YCS Champion and a UDS Champion as well! Torres is using Thunder Dragons today. It’s time to Duel!

Ramiro Garcia from Dallas, Texas is Dueling against Nicolas Ortiz from Tampa, Florida in this Top 4 Feature Match! Garcia finished the Swiss Rounds with an astounding 11-0 record, failing to lose a single Match this weekend with his Lunalight Orcust Deck! He’s also fresh off of a YCS win from last weekend in Guadalajara, Mexico. Ortiz ended the Swiss Rounds with a 9-2 record using his Sky Striker Deck. One of these Duelists is about to advance to the Finals, and the other will be eliminated. It’s time to Duel!