TEAM YCS Las Vegas is underway! In our Round 2 Feature Match, we have two teams that won their first rounds and are looking to remain undefeated. On one side, we have Team No Insider Trading, consisting of Cynthia Yuan, Gavin Jiang, and Thomas Cheung. On the other side of the table, we have Team That’s My Teammate!, consisting of Hamzeh Salti, Billy Gadier, and Vince Hernandez, a group of friends that traveled to the event together from Seattle, Washington. We’ll be featuring Cheung, piloting the pure Ryzeal deck, and Hernandez and his White Forest Deck. It’s time to Duel!
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Welcome to Round 1 of TEAM YCS Las Vegas! We’ve got all the Live Stream coverage team’s Stevens today, with Los Angeles Duelist Steven Kangas in the hot seat. He’s playing Primite Blue-Eyes, while his teammates are playing Ryzeal and Maliss. They’re facing We R Playing Water, who are all playing Atlantean Mermail Decks – no subterfuge here. Featured here is Mark Myatt, from San Antonio, Texas. He’s been away from Dueling for about five years but is making his grand return here in Las Vegas!
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The first Swiss Round of TEAM YCS Las Vegas is about to begin! Team Alpha Bows is up against Team Pak to Pak in our Round 1 Feature Match! Cristian Urena from Team Pak to Pak just won a trophy two weeks ago at TEAM YCS San Salvador, and now he’s here with two new teammates looking for another first place finish. We have Jonathan Kruse, Samuel Johanson Jr., and Mitchell Cone on Team Alpha Bows, going up against Walter Jule, Cristian Urena, and Steven Trifunoski on team Pak to Pak. We’ll be focusing in on the Match between Steven Trifunoski and Mitchell Cone for this Feature Match, but any team that takes two Match victories will secure the Round victory. It’s time to Duel!
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Jeff Jones from Sterling Heights, Michigan and Julien Kehon from France both lost their Top 4 Match in YCS Orlando, but they still have one more Match to play. Now, they’ll Duel one another for third place, and the winner will take home a Super Rare copy of the Anotherverse Solaria Prize Card. Jones is using a Bystial Maliss Deck, and Kehon is using a Fiendsmith Ryzeal Deck. It’s time to Duel!
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There are just two rounds left at YCS Orlando! You can watch the action now on the official Twitch or YouTube channel. The Top 4 and the Finals will both be on the livestream.
Michael Gold from Louisville, Kentucky has made it to the Top Cut of a YCS once before, securing fourth place at Team YCS Las Vegas in 2023. Now, he’s up against Darmond Dixon from Austin, Texas who just made it into his first YCS Top Cut this weekend! Gold is using a Fiendsmith Maliss strategy this weekend, while Dixon is using a Ryzeal Deck. Maliss and Ryzeal Decks are two of the most popular Decks this weekend, and this Top 16 Feature Match pits the two strategies against one another. One Duelist will be eliminated, and the other will advance to the Top 8. It’s time to Duel!
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Derek Mead from Prescott Valley, Arizona and David Golightly from Burmingham, Alabama have both made it to the Top Cut of a YCS once before, and on their second visit to the Top Cut here in Orlando, they’re after the trophy. Derek is the last-remaining Tenpai Dragon Duelist in the tournament, while David is the only Duelist left using a Fiendsmith Kashtira Deck. Derek is using Sky Striker cards to support the Tenpai Dragon theme in his Deck, and so far his bold Deck choice has served him well in the tournament. Now, one of these Duelists will advance for the Top 16. The other will be eliminated. It’s time to Duel!
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From nearly 2300 Duelists, we’re down to just the Top 64! We’re here with UDS winner and YCS Champion Jeff Jones, from Michigan, playing Bystial Maliss. He’s facing Arizona Duelist Stephen Klaus, one of the last Atlantean Mermail Duelists in the tournament. The rest of the tournament is Single Elimination, so only one of these Duelists can move on!
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Jesse Kotton from Toronto, Canada is no stranger to Day 2 of a YCS. He’s the Undisputed Ultimate Duelist and has won 6 YCS tournaments. Timothy Dahl from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has made it to Day 2 of YCS events in the past, but never made it into the Top Cut. But he’s on a roll this weekend – he just defeated the 2024 Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Champion Ruben Penaranda in Round 11, and now he just needs a win against Jesse Kotton to secure that first Top Cut finish. Kotton and Dahl are both currently 9-2 in the tournament and are both using the Mitsurugi Ryzeal strategy, which was made possible by the recent release of Supreme Darkness. One of them will advance to the Top 64, while the other likely faces elimination. It’s time to Duel!
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Round 11 is here, and we’ve got another Feature Match! Coming from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, we have Nicholas Grissom with a Fiendsmith Ryzeal Deck. This is the most popular Deck at the event so far, and it was improved with Supreme Darkness adding Eclipse Twins to the Deck. He’s facing Daniel Nguyen, here from Hamilton, Ontario, with Crystrons! This is another Deck buffed massively by Supreme Darkness, and Nguyen’s got a ton of the new cards today.
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