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YCS Seattle/Tacoma Top 32 Deck Breakdown
As always, will be updated as I have more info.
Top 32
Adrian Sean Shakir – Windups
Wilson Tsang – Windups
Cody Muniz – Windups
Gabriel Gonzalez – Windups
Matthew Bishop – Windups
Lukas Prinz – Windup
Simon He – Agents
Julian Wong – Agents
Adam Beloradsky – Agents
Timothy Willaims – Agents
Robert Baca – Agents
Trenton Wright – Mermail Atlanteans
Leon Norberto – Mermail Atlanteans
Sorosh Saberian – Mermail Atlanteans
Jerry Williams – Mermail Atlanteans
Michael Klasel – Mermail Atlanteans
Chancy Wigglestove – Mermail Atlantean
Jose Cardona – Dino Rabbit
Dominique Eskridge – Dino Rabbit
Manav Dawar – Dino Rabbit
Desmond Boyd – Dino Rabbit
Joe Giorlando – Dino Rabbit
Christopher Mastenbrook – Watt Burn
Matthew Skewwes
Kevin Hubbard – Dark World
Kyle Palsson
Robert Strohl
Michael Stibbins – Inzektors
Andrew Conklin
Sergio Rodriguez
Justin Delhon – Chaos Dragons
Adrian Sean Shakir with Wind-Ups
Cody Muniz with Wind-Ups
Wilson Tsang with Wind-Ups
Jerry Wiliams with Mermails
Sorosh Saberian with Mermails
Norberto Leon with Mermails
Chancy Wigglestove with Mermails
Michael Klasel with Mermails
Adam Belohradsky with Agents
Julian Wong with Agents
Simon He with Agents
Jose Alfredo Cardona Cornejo with Dino Rabbit
Dominque Eskride with Dino Rabbit
Jonathan Martin Gonzalez with Machina Geargia
Michael Stibbins with Inzektor
Kevin Hubbard with Dark World
Top 8
Leon Norberto – Mermail Atlanteans
Simon He – Agents
Julian Wong – Agents
Dominque Eskride – Dino Rabbit
Michael Stibbins with Inzektor
Adrian Sean Shakir with Wind-Ups
Sorosh Saberian – Mermail Atlanteans
Yugioh! World Championship Finals – Stefan Memoli (Inzektor) Vs Akikazu Saito (Inzektor)
Game 1
Saito opens with allure. He banishes inzektor centipede. He sets 1 card and passes his turn.
Memoli plays duality, hitting storm, veiler and TT. He adds storm to his hand. He summons centipede, equipping ladybug. He uses ladybugs effect and sdearches his deck for a dragonfly. He passes.
Saito summons card trooper, and mills gigamantis, warning and mind control. He flips sangan, and attacks into centipede. Memoli chains veiler on card trooper. Sangan is destroyed, and Saito searches his deck for an effect veiler. He sets 1 card and passes.
Memoli uses centipede’s effect, grabbing ladybug and searching his deck for Dragonfly with centipede’s effect. He uses MST on Sautos face down call of the haunted, which is chained on Sangan. Call is destroyed, and Saito searches his deck for effect veiler. Memoli summons dragonfly, and Saito uses effect veiler. Centipede attacks card trooper, and Saito draws for its effect. Dragonfly also attacks directly.
Saito draws, and summons inzektor centipede. He uses its effect, equipping gigamantis. He uses MST on his own gigamantis, in order to search his deck with Centipede’s effect. HE adds a hornet to his hand. He banishes Gigamantis and effect veiler to summon BLS! BLS attacks Centipede, and then with Dragonfly with BLS’ effect ,followed by a direct attack from inzektor centipede. He finished his turn by setting 1 card to his backrow.
Memoli draws for his turn, and then sets 1 monster, followed by 1 card to his backrow. He then passes.
Saito activates call of the haunted, targeting Sangan. He then uses heavy storm, destroying call of the haunted. Sangan’s effect searches for an effect veiler. HE eequips centipede with hornet, and MEmoli responds with effect veiler. Saito summons inzektor hornet, and equips inzektor hornet with the other hornet. He then uses its effect to destroy Memoli’s face down Card Trooper, and a final attack from BLS wins the game!
Game 2
(During Commentary, Kevin Tewart points out that Rai-Oh is effective against all decks lol)
Memoli opens with 3 cards to his backrow, and he passes.
Saito opens with one set monster, and 3 cards to his backrow. He then passes.
Memoli passes.
Saito passes as well.
Memoli summons card trooper, and Saito responds with Solemn Warning. Memoli then passes.
Saito draws, and sets 1 card to his backrow before passing.
Memoli plays Mind Control, and Saito passes over his set dragonfly! He flips it face up, and uses its effect to equip hornet from his hand. Saito chains Really Eternal Rest, which destroys all equipped monsters on the field. He passes.
Saito summons his own dragonfly, and Memoli uses his own Solemn Warning. Saito uses monster reborn, and brings back his inzektor dragonfly in defence position. Memoli responds with TT, before Saito passes.
Memoli sets 1 backrow and passes.
Saito also sets 1 and passes.
Memoli passes.
Saito sets 1 card to his backrow and passes.
Memoli activates Heavy Storm! Saito chains transmigration prophecty, and memoli responds with solemn warning! He summons Inzektor centipede, and equips ladybug. He attacks directly, and then uses ladybugs effect, making centipede level 4 and searching for a dragonfly. He then passes.
Saito simply sets 1 monster and passes.
Memoli uses centipede’s effect and equips inzektor hornet, destroying Sos face down ladybug. He searches for gigamantis with centipede, and summons dragonfly, but Saito uses effect veiler on it. He equips dragonfly with gigamantis, and proceeds to attack for game!
It’s coming down to the final duel!
Game 3
Saito starts things off with inzektor centipede, equipped with hornet. HE also equips centipede with gigamantis, but Memoli responds with effect veiler! Saito sets a card to his backrow and passes.
Memoli plays MST, hitting Saitos face down MST. Saito chains his own MST, targeting his gigamantis. He searches his deck for an inzektor hornet with centipede’s effect. (Memoli appears to be checking something with the judges). He summons inzektor dragonfly, equipping ladybug. (More talking ensues). Ladybug’s effect activates, making dragonfly level 5 and summining centipede. Saito plays DD crow! He banishes the ladybug, so centipede can’t use it. (It appears Saito is explaining something to Memoli, I think it’s the fact that once you declare an inzektor effect, you have to select another legal target, and so Memoli would have to reveal his hand to either equip another, or prove he doesn’t have one. Play continues though, so I guess not) He suicides the centipedes, and attacks hornet with dragonfly.
Saito summons hornet, and equips Gigamantis. He attacks Memoli’s dragonfly and passes.
Memoli sets 1 card to his backrow and passes.
Saito equips hornet to hornet, and Memoli chains dust tornado targeting hornet. Saito summons inzektor dragonfly, equipping hornet which destroys gigamantis. Gigamantis’ effect gets centipede, and dragonfly’s effect gets another centipede. He XYZ summons Leviair using hornet and dragonfly, and uses its effect to special summon inzektor ladybug. Ladybug equips hornet, and a second hornet is equipped to one of Saito’s centipedes. He declaires an attack, and Memoli concedes!
Akikazu Saito is our 2012 world champion!
Yu Hao Liou is the Dragon Duel world championship of 2012 with Dino Rabbit!
In an incredibly short 3 round duel,Yu Hao Liou wins 2-1 against Inzektor in the finals. (I forgot the other kid’s name, sorry)
I wasn’t able to type fast enough to do coverage for this game, but i’ll sum it up:
Game 1
Liou summons Laggia and sets 4 cards in his first turn. His opponent plays 2 MST, then heavy storm, which gets negated by Starlight road. He then summons Hornet, and when Laggia negates that, he just scoops.
Game 2
Liou opens with Prohibition, targeting dragonfly. He sets another card and ends. His opponent procedes to use centipede and hornet to pop all Lious cards and Liou scoops.
Game 3
Liou opens Laggia and 3 backrow and 2 turns of beatdown later he wins.
So it was incredibly fast and boring, and unfortunately we didnt see any special tech that made Dino Rabbit so playable in worlds format. But there ya go.
Yugioh! World Championship Quarter Finals – Jarel Winston (Exodia) Vs Akikazu saito (Inzektor)
Game 1
Jarel opens with upstart goblin. He next plays pot of duality, revealing waboku, threatening roar, and another pot of duality. He grabs the pot of duality, putting waboku and threatening back to his deck. He sets 2 cards to his backrow and passes. Saito summons sangan, and attacks for 1000 damage. He passes after setting 2.
Winston plays pot of duality, revealing 2 hope for escapes, and threatening roar. He adds a hope for escape. He sets 3 cards to his backrow and ends. Saito plays allure of darkness, and banishes Gorz. He summons effect veiler, and synchro summons armory arm. He searches inzektor hornet from his deck. He sets 1 card to his backrow and ends.
Winston flips reckless greed, and chains hope for escape, followed by gift card, and then accumulated fortune! Winston draws 7 cards total!
He follows with one day of peace, sets 4 more cards to his backrow, and ends his turn. On Saito’s standby phase, Winston activates Gift Card, putting saito on 15000. He then plays another hope for escape! Making a 10,000 lifepoint difference! Winston draws a massive 5 cards from hope for escape. He then plays a reckless greed, and draws 2 more cards!
Saito summons inzektor centipede, and windston responds with another hope for escape! He draws another 5 cards. Saito equips hornet to centipede, and Winston chains waboku, so that there’s no cards for hornet to destroy.
Saito passes back to Winston, who plays one day of peace, followed by upstart goblin. He plays the final one day of peace, followed by ANOTHER upstart goblin! He summons Sangan, and Saito chains solemn judgment! He sets more backrow, leaving 5 c ards at the back. He discards 5 cards in his end phase, and ends.
Winston chains jart of greed to Saito’s draw phase, and shows Exodia!
Game 2
Saito plays duality, revealing Ryko, foolish burial, and MST. He ads ryko to his hand. He sets 2 cards to his backrow, and sets a monster.
Winston sets 5 cards, and in his end phase saito flips royal decree!
Saito draws, and Winston activates Twister, targeting Saito’s royal decree. Saito flips Ryko, targeting Winston’s reckless greed, which he chains. Saito chains royal decree, and winston’s waboku and then accumulated fortune are also chained! Saito summons card trooper, and uses his effect. He then passes. Winston activates upstart goblin, sets 3 cards to his backrow, and passes. Saito uses trooper’s effect again, then summons inzektor centipede, Winston Chains MST, hitting the royal decree. His hope for escape is then activated, followed by a threatening roar.
Saito uses hornets effect to destroy his ryko, adding dragonfly to hand. He activates allure of darkness, banishing a hornet.
Winston uses one day of peace, sets 1 card to his backrow, and ends.
Saito activates centipede’s effect, and Winston chains jar of greed. Saito summons inzektor dragonfly, and equips it with gigamantis. He uses Hornets effect to destroy gigamantis, and special summons another dragonfly from his grave with mantis’ effect. He adds a ladybug to hand with centipedes effect. He uses his last centipede’s effect to destroy card t roper with hornet , and adds a final dragonfly to his hand, and then draws from card trooper. He passes.
Winston draws for his turn, and then activates heavy storm! Saito chains solemn judgment, which will hurt Winston’s strategy to use Hope For Escape. He dualitie’s MST, accumulated fortune and legfacy for yata garasu. He adds yata garasu to hand before setting 1 card and passing back to Saito.
Saito uses its effect to equip gigamantis, and Winston chains legacy. He t hen uses his other dragonfly’s effect on ladubug, to special summon another inzektor centipede. Centipede’s effect is used on ladybug, to increase that centipede’s level by 2 aswell. Both are XYZ summoned for Tiras, and Saito attacks with dragonfly. Tiras attacks, and Winston chains swift scarecrow! Saito brings back card trooper with call of the haunted, and then uses a centipede’s effect to destoy it with hornet. He then overlays 2 centipedes to XYZ summon wind-up Zenmaines, and flip summons his own solemn warning! SAaito is playing a clever game, by lowering his own lifepoints to stop Winston using hope for escape. He sets 2 and passes.
Winston sets 2 cards of his own and passes back. He uses dragonfly’s effect to equip with hornet, and Winston chains yata garasu, and then twister, targeting yata. Saito attacks with Tiras, and Winston uses a second swift scarecrow. Saito passes, and Winston also passes again.
Saito attacks with tiras once more, and Winston concedes! He reveals 3 exodia pieces and a hope for escape in his hand.
Game 3
Winston opens with upstart goblin, and sets 1 card to his backrow before passing.
Saito opens with pot of duality, revealing gigamantis, warning and hornet. He adds warning to his hand. He sets 3 and passes.
Winston sets another card to his backrow and also passes.
Saito plays foolish burial, sending dragonfly to his graveyard. He activates call of the haunted, and equips dragonfly with ladybug. He uses ladybugs effect to increase dragonfly’s level and special summons a centipede. Centipede uses ladybug, adding a second dragonfly to hand. He normal summons dragonfly, using ladybug again to bring out another centipede. The new centipede uses ladybug, and adds a gigamantis to his hand. He equips both dragonflies with gigamantises. He attacks, and Winston chains legacy of yata garasu. Saito attacks with more monsters, and Winston drops a swift scarecrow, he’s now on 2400 lifepoints to Saito’s 9000. Saito XYZs with his centipedes into Tiras, and then solemn warnings his own xyz again.
Winston sets to 5 backrow cards, and passes.
Saito attacks, and Winston chains waboku. He uses ladybugs effect on dragonfly, to bring out another centipede. Winston chains twister on call of the haunted, destroying Saito’s dragonfly! He then uses hope for escape, and saito uses solemn judgment! Sauto uses ladybug on the new centipede, adding a hornet to his hand. Saito equips hornet, and Winston chains 2 reckless greeds, giving Saito no targets for hornet. Saito spends a lot of time thinking, but eventually uses hornet to pop gigamantis, and special summon a hornet from his graveyard, and a ladybug from deck. However, after doing so Saito apparently ends up having to slow down and explain all his plays, as he was playing too fast and Winston seems to have some issues. (It appears to be an issue with the chain links when inzektors get their effects, Saito has to take back his play and play it slower, just to confirm what was done. After more delays, the head judge has been called over to confirm the sitiation) The duel starts again with Saito’s field of centipede, dragonfly, centipede, and a hornet equipped with giga, and a ladybug equipped with giga.
The duel continues with Winstons turn, and he plays upstart goblin, followed by a pot of duality which reveals garasu, MST and accumulated fortune. He adds garasu, and plays one day of peace. Finally setting 3 cards, he passes.
Saito draws and plays duality, revealing 2 decree and a hornet. He adds a decree. He sets one card, and passes.
Winston sets 1 card, and Saito activates decree. Winston chains twister, targeting decree, following by a jar of greed. He sets one more card, and passes back to Saito. Saito turns a centipede, dragonfly, and a hornet to defence, and before he can attack Winston uses threatening roar. He tribute summons a set card, and passes.
Winston uses one day of peace, and passes.
Saito turns ladybug to defence, and passes once more.
Winston sets 1 card to his backrow and passes.
Saito flip summons Gorz, and uses solemn warning on his gorz. Next, he turns hornet and ladybug to attack, and Jarel uses threatening roar. Saito dualities into MST, transmigration prophecy, and monster reborn. He adds an MST and sets 1 card to his backrow before passing.
Jarel sets one card, and in his end phase saito chains MST, hitting the MST Winston set.
Saito draws, and attacks with hornet. Winston concedes! With only 400LP left and no defence.
Akikazu Saito advances to the quarter finals 2-1!
Yugioh! World Championship Round 3 – Takeru Norihama (Inzektors) Vs Jonathan Ritzau (Inzektors)
Game 1 – Norihama opens with inzektor centipede, equipping hornet. He sets a card to his backrow and ends.
Ritzau plays MST, targeting Norihama’s face down solemn warning. He summons hornet, equipping hornet, but Norihama responds with effect veiler. He uses pot of duality, revealing veiler, heavy storm, and another hornet. He adds effect veiler to his hand. He sets one card to his backrow and ends.
There appeas to be some slight confusion, but eventually norihama uses hornet to hit ritzau’s torrential tribute. He summons inzektor dragonfly, and equips with hornet. Hornet destroys Rutzau’s hornet, and centipede is special summoned. Norihama equips ladybug to centipede, and attacks directly with all 3 of his monsters, dropping Ritzau to 3300 LP. He uses ladybug’s effect to increase centipede’s level, and grabs another dragonfly from his deck and passes.
Ritzau drops DAD! Effect veiler stops his effect, and Ritzau concedes! On to game 2!
Game 2- Ritzau opens with pot of duality, showing heavy storm, judgment and card trooper. He adds XXX to his hand. He sets 1 monster and passes.
Norihama uses his own duality, revealing TT, centipede, and another card. He adds centipede, and summons it, equipping hornet. Ritzau veilers, and Norihama passes.
Ritzau activates MST, hitting Norihama’s Torrential Tribute. Ritzau summons Dragonfly, equipping hornet. But Norihama has his own effect veiler! Ritzau checks Norihama’s graveyard, before flipping his Sangan, and summoning Leviathan Dragon. He uses its effect, detatching sangan, and attacks over centipede. He then passes.
Norihama activates monster reborn! He special summons inzektor centipede. Centipede’s effect grabs hornet, and hornet destroys leviathan dragon. Norihama adds dragonfly from his deck to his hand, and then summons it. He attaches ladybug to dragonfly and then centipede, making them both level 5. Dragonfly’s effect gets another centipede, and that newly summoned c entipede also uses ladybug’s effect. Next, he adds gigamantis to his hand from centipede’s effect. Norihama then XYZ summons crimson armor ninja using his 2 centipedes, and special summons dark armed dragon! He equips dragonfly with gigamantis, and DAD’s effect destroys gigamantis, bringing out a second centipede. Seeing the storm infront of him, Ritzau concedes!
Norihama wins 2-0!
Game 1 – Norihama opens with inzektor centipede, equipping hornet. He sets a card to his backrow and ends.
Ritzau plays MST, targeting Norihama’s face down solemn warning. He summons hornet, equipping hornet, but Norihama responds with effect veiler. He uses pot of duality, revealing veiler, heavy storm, and another hornet. He adds effect veiler to his hand. He sets one card to his backrow and ends.
There appeas to be some slight confusion, but eventually norihama uses hornet to hit ritzau’s torrential tribute. He summons inzektor dragonfly, and equips with hornet. Hornet destroys Rutzau’s hornet, and centipede is special summoned. Norihama equips ladybug to centipede, and attacks directly with all 3 of his monsters, dropping Ritzau to 3300 LP. He uses ladybug’s effect to increase centipede’s level, and grabs another dragonfly from his deck and passes.
Ritzau drops DAD! Effect veiler stops his effect, and Ritzau concedes! On to game 2!
Game 2- Ritzau opens with pot of duality, showing heavy storm, judgment and card trooper. He adds XXX to his hand. He sets 1 monster and passes.
Norihama uses his own duality, revealing TT, centipede, and another card. He adds centipede, and summons it, equipping hornet. Ritzau veilers, and Norihama passes.
Ritzau activates MST, hitting Norihama’s Torrential Tribute. Ritzau summons Dragonfly, equipping hornet. But Norihama has his own effect veiler! Ritzau checks Norihama’s graveyard, before flipping his Sangan, and summoning Leviathan Dragon. He uses its effect, detatching sangan, and attacks over centipede. He then passes.
Norihama activates monster reborn! He special summons inzektor centipede. Centipede’s effect grabs hornet, and hornet destroys leviathan dragon. Norihama adds dragonfly from his deck to his hand, and then summons it. He attaches ladybug to dragonfly and then centipede, making them both level 5. Dragonfly’s effect gets another centipede, and that newly summoned c entipede also uses ladybug’s effect. Next, he adds gigamantis to his hand from centipede’s effect. Norihama then XYZ summons crimson armor ninja using his 2 centipedes, and special summons dark armed dragon! He equips dragonfly with gigamantis, and DAD’s effect destroys gigamantis, bringing out a second centipede. Seeing the storm infront of him, Ritzau concedes!
Norihama wins 2-0!
Yugioh! World Championship Round 1 Feature Match – Stefan Memoli Vs Michail Paraschos
Round 1 feature match – Stefan Memoli (inzektor) Vs Michail Paraschos (Darkworlds)
I’ve only noted down the main plays/important moments, just for convenience.
Game 1 – Memoli plays an early heavy storm Vs Michail’s skill drain, and 2 backrow. Memoli had a hornet and ladybug in graveyard, Michail with just a Snoww on field. Paraschos simply scoops for game 2.
Game 2 – Memoli’s first turn heavy storm gets stopped by Michail’s dark bribe. Next tun, Michail’s Darkworld dealings pitches his Grapha, destroying memolis backrow dimensional prison with its effect. Memoli discards centipede.
Next turn, Memoli flips ryko, milling duality, and 2 other cards (unable to see). destroying shadow imprisoning mirror. Memoli activates dimensional fissure, and heavy storm on michail’s set Torrential Tribute. In Main Phase 2, Memoli uses monster reborn on Michail’s grapha.
Memoli attacks michail with grapha, dropping michail to 5100. Memoli uses MST on michails set dark world dealings, and a second MST on a reckless greed, which michail chains. Memoli summons inzektor centipede, and flips call of the haunted, targeting the other centipede in his graveyard . Michail scoops.
Memoli wins the match 2-0!
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