YCS Niagara Falls: And the Winners are…

A Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series (YCS Niagara Falls) has taken place in Niagara Falls, ON on September 21 – 22, 2019!

A Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series (YCS Niagara Falls) is a big, exciting 2-day event that takes place from Saturday to Sunday. Duelists from all over will attend to compete for exclusive prizes, earn invites to their World Championship Qualifier, and spend the weekend Dueling, trading, and hanging out with hundreds of other Yu-Gi-Oh! fans.

In addition to the main Championship Series tournament, there are numerous Public Events, including tournaments specifically for Duelists born in 2006 or later, Attack of the Giant Card!! and Regional Qualifier tournaments. Competitive or casual, there is something for everyone to do at a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series weekend event.

YCS Niagara Falls is over, and it’s truly one for the history books. Congratulations to our new Champions!

Main Event

David Mendoza traveled to YCS Niagara Falls this weekend from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a Gren Maju Deck and a dream, and today that dream came true. Unflinching under the bright lights of Feature Match after Feature Match, Mendoza took win after win with a mash-up of Danger monsters, Gizmek Orochi and Gren Maju, wielding the most explosive strategy of the weekend as well as the Championship!

Congratulations to all the competitors there this last weekend, and special congrats go out to David Mendoza, the newest YCS Champion!

Dragon Duel Champion

Levi Baloch of Mississauga, Ontario won Saturday’s Dragon Duel and became the winner of Sunday’s Dragon Duel Championship Playoff!

Levi won the Dragon Duel Championship playoff in an exciting finals match.

Congratulations once again to Levi!

Public Event Playoff Random & Points Winners

Two Duelists managed to win copies of the newest Prize Card through the YCS Niagara Falls Public Event playoffs, taking home a Super Rare copy of Duel Link Dragon, the Duel Dragon!

Joshua Nathaniel Williams was our first winner in the Public Event Playoffs, harnessing the might of the Duel Dragon.

His Playoff counterpart was recognized Duelist Shunping Xiu, who also scored one of the new Prize Cards.

Duel Link Dragon, the Duel Dragon just debuted last month at YCS Portland, so there are very few copies out there for collectors. Awesome!

3 vs. 3 Winners

Here are the winners of the 3 vs. 3 Team tournament!

Congratulations to Team VLR + Associates Bors for taking it down! The team consisted of, from left to right, Matthew Sinnadurai, Christian Borsella, and George Bacham.

Sunday’s ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Winners

Here are the Top 3 of Sunday’s ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! tournament.

1^st) Steven Logan (center)
2^nd) Mathew Vanden Heuvel (left)
3^rd) Daniel Plummer (right)

Speed Duel ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Winners

For the first time ever, this YCS Niagara Falls weekend hosted an ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Speed Duel tournament! 

Check out the Top 3 from Sunday’s competition.

Jean Carlos Flores Camacho (right) took 3^rd Place, familiar face Hanko Chow  (left) finished in 2^nd Place, and the grand winner of the ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Speed Duel tournament was Yang Ling Wu (center)!  For their efforts the winning Duelists were awarded a fitting prize: GIANT copies of the Destiny Draw Skill Card.

Congratulations to the winners of the first tournament of its kind.

Saturday’s ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! Winners

The winners of the ATTACK OF THE GIANT CARD!! tournament from Saturday.

Jonathan Gomez, hailing from New Brunswick, New Jersey (right),  took 3rd Place. Joseph Moore, traveling from Halifax, Nova Scotia, took 2^nd Place. And from West Point, New York, David Gabriel Sanz (center) came in 1^st Place!

All three competitors chose to take Gizmek Orochi, the Serpentron Sky Slasher as their chosen card.