I hosted my own Yugioh Award Show 2024

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

How did you like Yu-Gi-Oh in 2024 and which choices do you agree/disagree with? Let me know! Also everyone who wants to take part in the CloudCardGrading giveaway, all you need to do is include this emoji in your comment: 🐸 More information in the video description. Good Luck and Happy New Year!

[@395toni]

🐸 happy new year and good luck at your next tournament. Thanks for all the fun podcasts last year 😁🐸

[@mrrocko7519]

Happy new year 🐸

[@iceagemeltdown]

🐸 I win

[@rahli_9252]

Happy new year 🐸

[@Arc4s69]

🐸 imo worst tcg banlist decision was to not bring back more cards, every banlist just says buy new product which sure its company policy but give us back some toys konami #freenaturiasacredtree

[@WorkingTavo]

"Me Gusta El Mill Ocho" should be saved for potential future merchandise Josh. There is potential in that

[@blackrosed8068]

Bro I literally started dying at that.

[@xCorvus7x]

A very memetic line. Can't wait for this to be quoted by content creators when they play Tear.

[@Lightwillshine]

Very High potencial

[@kpmdude9378]

Firstly, love the collaboration in the making of this video! I also wanted to say that I appreciate your help keeping me up to date with the meta while I live in a remote location. It certainly helps numb the sting of not having paper play tournaments accessible! 🐸

[@GsRt-xl8bz]

Great video I hope you do this every year🐸🐸🐸

[@c_danzu3186]

Discovering Josh has completely shifted my perception of the game. The type of decks I play did a complete 180 and suddenly I'm having so much more fun than before. Thank you for making the game fun for me again. Happy toad-ing 🐸

[@JudgmentMonk]

Been playing Tear since its inception, and Kid Carlos is my favorite card in the game! Would love to have a graded one with the GOATs signature on it 🐸

[@c.jumbomann5531]

Happy to see Metaltronus getting the love it deserves. One of my favourite cards of the last few years.

[@Drowzzzzz]

The mere existence of Beatrice meant that you could functionally activate any trap in deck over the course of two turns alone, one if there was another way to get one in grave

[@jtm94]

Yeah. And it was bad 🤷‍♂️

[@karelrindo13]

or you could use arias and a normal trap in hand to activate it turn 0

[@OsirusHandle]

It wasnt, resolved snake board was already an ftk so nobody bothered. ​@@jtm94

[@2010platinumstar]

I haven't been too active in the yugioh community lately, but that honestly doesn't sound too impressive.

[@Drowzzzzz]

@ in most cases it’s not really save for the more toxic cards that are able to skirt the expected costs. But rollback was far from the only reasons Beatrice was going to get banned one of these days

[@elgsnt]

in the worst banlist decision, i was thinking of zoodiac barriage because realistically, that unban does like nothing 😭🐸

[@BaxsStudios]

Killing snake eyes right after reprinting everything while it already naturally lost its place in the top meta is probably the worst one

[@natemacdonald2409]

White forest azamina boutta go hard in 2025

[@GutsmanLoL]

He doesn’t know chat 💀

[@gabrielgois8724]

Ryzeal and Malice have another opinion on that

[@davisgo9795]

Sadly they killed it by hitting OSS, there are some versions that don't play the snake eyes engine but yeah, the usual white forest treatment, Rogue 🥲

[@michaelmorales1602]

@@davisgo9795 bro what The deck is fine on its own, it doesn't need Snakes

[@PhoenixTheImmortal]

Very cool video, excited to see all the content from you in store for 2025! Doing this awards ceremony thing would be so sick for the end of this year too 🎉🐸

[@JoshuaSchmidtPlus]

If you want to answer all the questions too, you can copy all of them from below. Happy New Year from me too! -editor Master Duel or TCG? TCG Most Powerful Deck in 2024? Most Overrated Deck in 2024? Most Underrated Deck in 2024? Most Fun Deck in 2024? Most Annoying Deck in 2024? Most Overrated Card in 2024? Most Underrated Card in 2024? Best Card Design in 2024? Worst Card Design in 2024? Most Annoying Card Design in 2024? Favorite Booster in 2024? Least Favorite Booster in 2024? Best Legacy Support in 2024? Most Disappointing Legacy Support in 2024? Best Banlist Decision in 2024? Worst Banlist Decision in 2024? Master Duel Most Powerful Deck in 2024? Most Overrated Deck in 2024? Most Underrated Deck in 2024? Most Fun Deck in 2024? Most Annoying Deck in 2024? Most Overrated Card in 2024? Most Underrated Card in 2024? Best Card Design in 2024? Worst Card Design in 2024? Most Annoying Card Design in 2024? Best Legacy Support in 2024? Most Disappointing Legacy Support in 2024? Best Banlist Decision in 2024? Worst Banlist Decision in 2024?

[@daedalus5253]

Master Duel: Tenpai (simply based on representation) White Forest (feels like it needs the azamina support to be a deck on its own and Toy Box and Centurion variants just arent what they were hyped up to be) Probably one of those with high ceiling (Plant, Branded, Ritual beast) For me, Salamangreat (just the right mix of somewhat complex, good 1st & 2nd yet not too known) Stun or Yubel Not out yet, but already talked about: the mulcharmies (they seem a lot less useful in a going first deck in a casual best-of-one fomat with MaxxC at full power) Idk Idk Sangen Summoning, maybe The new girsu spell (more so because of the potential) Don’t know for MD, but I sure am hyped for the new Orcust, Dragonmaid, Eldlich and Dragon Ruler stuff. Yubel (looked promising, but turned out badly in a competitive Environment) or VV (boring and overpriced) (dont‘t remembee anything else) Idk Hit th tear Field spell (no, I‘m not a tear Fan, I just like Visas-pile.deck) or not hitting Apo or Tenpai heavier.

[@Did_a_Donic]

greate review of all what happend in 2024 yugi is such a fast format game already forgot what happend in beginning and what we all cried for 🐸

[@mr.argonaut]

The past 2 years i had gotten out of yugioh but thanks to your competitive content and Dezeefs whimsical content yall have made me like yugioh again. So just thank you for being you and stay winning❤❤❤ 🐸

[@blackmanta66]

Thank you Josh, it's been another great year of watching your content and I'm looking forward to seeing what you get up to in the next 12 months 🐸

[@nitro5247]

Really good video! This is my first year playing Yugioh, and I’ve really enjoyed it despite how turbulent it’s been. Hoping 2025 is even better! ❤️🐸

[@Axerion]

To make evaluating the data a bit easier for you in the future, I'd suggest using drop-downs with precompiled lists for most of the questions (at least those with a limited selection of answers) next time. Must have been a lot of work doing all of this. But thank you for the effort, I really enjoyed these awards! 🐸

[@jazzalenko92]

2024 is a weird one for me. I look back on the year as probably one of the worst, simply because of the 1 card combo problem and the existence of a deck like Tenpai. On the other hand, I topped and won more events in 2024 than every other year I've played the game combined. I felt most rewarded from good testing, deck theory, and just enjoying events overall with great people. Thanks for all of the great content this year. Lots of learning, lots of laugh, and lots of enjoyment. Please get Niko (Unchained GOAT) on the channel soon 🤓✌️ (🐸)

[@tadde98]

Kid Carlos Band es la banda liderada por el guitarrista sevillano Carlos Moreno AKA Kid Carlos. Es una banda que, aunque tiene sus raíces en la música americana, especialmente en el blues, fusiona las influencias musicales de cada uno de sus componentes, lo cual revierte en un sello propio que caracteriza a la banda, no pudiendo ser definida en un estilo concreto. Su repertorio se compone de clásicos del blues, aunque reinterpretados y pasados por un filtro moderno y ecléctico y temas propios, los cuales dejan clara evidencia de la dirección que la banda ha tomado en los últimos años, la cual difiere en cierta medida de la dirección que tomó en sus inicios. Fruto de aquél comienzo, concretamente en 2009 de la entonces llamada Kid Carlos Blues Band, fue ‘Talkin’ About The Blues’, trabajo compuesto íntegramente por temas propios. Desde entonces, y hasta ahora, la banda ha pisado los escenarios de los festivales de blues de más renombre del sur de España. 🐸

[@thewornwoodsman8079]

So happy to see S:P shouted out for positive card design. When S:P released in the TCG I had some reluctance towards its power level. However, I think players have a tendency to feel a card is overpowered when their opponent can afford it and they cannot. S:P is so interactive in so many ways and if anything negative can be said about it it would be, I:P Masquerena should be banned 🐸

[@shaggy5033]

8:05 I was thinking all day about TCG exclusives I strongly believe that they are all beautifully designed but tend to fail not due to a lack of care but because they have to compete with the "Fuck it we ball" type of shit they make in the OCG (Tistina doesn't exist). I'd love to see someone hold a "Exclusively TCG exclusive" tournament to see how they do in a different environment

[@nealcolclasure2463]

This was so interesting to watch, definitely want a yearly video on this! Thank you 🐸🐸

[@clemdelaclem]

Dimension Shifter is a scourge upon yugioh and needs to be banished to the banishmet, like it does to so many 🐸

[@Tsubatt]

You were my top watched content creator of the year, and I can't wait to see where you go next year! Thank you for making all of the educational/update content that you do, it makes it so much easier to stay current with the game while working a full-time job. Good luck in the new year! 🐸

[@TQo1]

People are ignoring so many things when making these decisions Fuwalos would be 10x "more broken" if simply more people could afford it Tenpai wouldve been 10x stronger if people actually knew how to play it We celebrated when generic ed boss monsters got banned and hated when crazy amounts of handtraps in a deck became meta but love the design of Fiendsmith which exclusively promotes the very things we used to hate I could be completly clueless but Idk

[@leekyonion]

The problem with this argument is that the fiendsmith line at least let's you know what it's gonna make and how it gets there is the same every time. Little Timmy shitting out links and oops, all appolousa and baronne out of nowhere because he opened fenrir and happen to not normal summon yet so fuck it normal ash and make baronne. And Jim Bob here actually does an entirely different combo just to end up on appo on top of 3 flood gates staring into your soul. And the best part? Most if not all these fucks can do it in under 5 summons. Fiendsmith? 5 MINIMUM to make the caesar - so nib is a legit answer. And you can see the fiendsmith line. Every. Time. And not learn how every top meta deck makes appo/baronne/savage but different

[@lucasalarcon3230]

​@@leekyonionthat fair argument against barone but savage is telegraphed specially if you want to make him in 4 summons also i understand why josh love the pure fiendsmith deck but overral is not great, a small one card combo engine build in negation without restrictions with good recursion on top of that is not really good desing

[@troytheboy1985]

​@lucasalarcon3230 just waiting for muh savage and simorgh link to come back just sitting here sad

[@quocngoc6052]

I just started playing again from april this year after taking a break when the master rule 4 was introduced, watching your videos and stream really helped me getting better at the game, thank you Josh, i hope you can keep this up 🐸

[@TrueChaoSclx]

I only recently got back into YGO, after stopping way back in the day. Competitive play online has been really exhausting with how oppressive some of the meta decks are, but here's hoping 2025 keeps moving in the right direction with some of the recent banlist changes for some of the top decks 🐸🐸

[@RachelTurner81]

I really like this video as someone that isn't playing the game currently, it makes for a great snapshot of where the game is at

[@temptlessmonk9331]

i like the duality of people voting, you can clearly see the tier of play your subscribers prefer, its amazing work 🐸

[@bbspectra]

Happy New Year, Josh! I found your channel while trying to get into YGO and I've since picked up a Runick core. Hoping to get more into the game in 2025! 🐸

[@saxycario1478]

Thank you for your work and dedication towards the Yugi comunity! Good to see you grow as a creator with all the variety of things you startet last year. Looking forward towards 2025! 🐸

[@LinkIsBig]

Solid content really enjoyed this one! Defiantly should be a yearly edition to the channel! 🐸

[@slappedbyafish]

Great video and Happy newyear! Heres to another year of great content in '25! 🐸🐸🐸

[@flippacoin]

Great idea Josh. Love your content. That Raye looks beautyful🐸

[@SirCrusadius]

I'm very stoked for crystron support, I've already test played with a friend of mine. Unfortunately my time with Halqifibrax was shorted lived it got hit before i got a physical copy of it :(. Since I started playing yugioh in 2016/17, I always was drawn by that archetype it might not be as strong but it's fun to play. Happy new year!🐸

[@ToxicEvo]

Happy new years, Josh! Your videos on Ryzeal helped bring me back into the game! 🐸

[@steventran740]

Really fun concept, hope you do it every year going forward! 🐸

[@gauntsgeister9069]

🐸 Maybe as A Feedback to make the Data Compilation easier. You could use a Google Forms Document. It allows for anonymous participants and can make some graphs for different questions. Also if possible you could say for Stuff like cardnames or achetypes to not be abreviated or just flat out copy paste them from the database. But alas, ill be excited for next year and i would love to win one of those graded cards. Good luck to everyone participating.

[@gustavoheringer]

Fun fact: "Carlos" is actually a pretty common name in Brazil hahaha

[@thebeesknees1162]

Super interesting to see how opinions differ between the MD and TCG formats🐸

[@dumon4264]

Thanks for all of the videos in 2024. They've really helped me improve my game and have made me more confident in going to events. I topped my first regional this year so hopefully 2025 can bring bigger and better things 🐸

[@champish4286]

I got into Yu-Gi-Oh towards the end of the year and you were a big part of that, I look forward to keeping up with both the game and your content in 2025 🐸🐸🐸

[@yousefmedhat6379]

Happy new year to only the tearlament lovers 🐸

[@CJ_Was_Here]

Had a fun time answering these questions , thanks for the opportunity, Josh! 🐸

[@maxibessei9286]

Loved your content this year, your one of the main reasons I am back into YGO. Thank you for the hard work and good new Year! 🐸 More information in the video description.

[@DGKun]

Long time viewer of your channel despite having stepped away from Standard for a couple years now, thank you for another year's worth of content and here's to the next one! 🐸

[@Carsooooooooon]

🐸 This is a really cool idea for an end of the year video! As a nerd for data analytics and Yugioh, this was an amazing!! It would be cool to see this becomes a thing at the end of every year!!

[@AntoRoberts]

Loved your content this year man, appreciate how you always try to vary from the meta 🐸

[@AlexanderMadolche]

Incredible video Josh! Thank you for all of your content in 2024 and i look forward to 2025 🐸

[@hazelburke7258]

2024 was when I came back to yugioh after six years of “quitting” so despite bad format after bad format I enjoyed the whole thing ! Making friends at locals and starting to get actually competitive partially with some of the guidance of this channel has meant a lot to me ! 🐸

[@shikusagi]

Great video, I have not been consistently playing through this year but it was nice to watch this award, reminding me of all the Yu-Gi-Oh related things I did this year 🐸

[@Astraaaaaaaaaaaaaal]

I honestly thought this was an insanely good year for yugioh, competitive play was lovely to watch and i think i had the most fun this year while playing yugioh. Happy New Year Josh and viewers! 🐸

[@alexemp6201]

This was such an interesting idea. Of course the surveys reflected a lot the fact that this is from your community but it's still a very nice study case, I'd love to see it next year too 🐸🐸🐸

[@shanrowe6088]

🐸 this year really felt like the one where you took off as a content creator. Super stoked for how sick the content has been and will continue to be, happy new year!

[@khizuri1637]

Just got back into YU-GI-OH! this year through Maste Duel and have been enjoying it alot. Your Content has really helped finding my way back and to begin improving. Hoping to get back into Paper play this Year and to start going to some inperson events. Thanks alot for reigniting my love for the Game.🐸

[@user-kh7zf]

It's definitely interesting that you brought up some of the reasoning for people's votes. Especially when the same card/deck was voted both best and worst. It's all about perspective. Also Josh, may the frogs bless your tournaments this year 🐸

[@AshenHollow-i2m]

Happy New Year! Thank you for the wonderful videos you have produced this year.🐸

[@tcg-channel3761]

Joshi should be Paid by Konami do make their Market Analysis. Agree👉🏻👍🏻

[@kaeldiar]

Didn't get to participate in the survey, but this was great fun to watch! I started playing competitively this year, so it's been interesting watching the meta evolve and seeing how others view the current state of the game! Hope to see another one of these for 2025! 🐸

[@seras1761]

I appreciate the vid being split in two categories for us MD gamers! happy new year 🐸

[@tarralx6391]

Thank you for a whole year of great entertainment and teaching me Yugioh, hope 2025 will be just as good! 🐸

[@Gorokk1]

This was a great "year-in-review" for Yugioh, I hope you do it again next year too 🐸

[@ultimeugt9780]

What a toadally 🐸 great idea for a new year giveaway. It was really nice to see an overview of the 2024 yugioh year with stats from the community itself.

[@leanderschlinge5277]

Well, for me the best thing in 2024 was the attention UTWs got. Hopefully we get an european 3v3 UTW this year🐸

[@francistherien]

I just got back into yugioh and i've been having a blast. Looking forward to a new year 🐸

[@Bloodcaliber]

Great video! My favorite part of 2024 was the Schmidtlings coming together to revamp paleo for the modern era. Goated community right here 🐸

[@sansigtonthetwentythird9899]

I got into yugioh only this year and as one of those new players, you were incredibly helpful in my journey. To another year of yugioh 🐸

[@kito7900]

started playing again this year and this serves as a nice recap (kind of) cool vid! 🐸

[@Un1cFunaai]

Good Video to start the new Year, hope the journey continues just as great 🐸

[@Review_Bruh]

Oh my God, yes. I love Raye. I would die for Sky Striker Ace Raye. This support card is going to change my life and it's going to be the best card ever. 🐸

[@arrow21998]

Great video idea! I hope you'll keep doing this going on. Happy new year Josh! 🐸

[@stefanj.6762]

🐸 Happy New Year, Josh. Wish you good luck for Pulls and Starthands in 2025.

[@kyledavis2935]

Excellent video as always and look forward to this hopefully being a yearly thing moving forward 🐸

[@zacharyflannery1502]

Thanks for all the great content this year Josh! 🐸

[@1ordTakeo]

You are one of the 3 creators on KZbin that amplifies my already great passion for the game. Thank you for 2024, and I'll still be there next near, to thank you for 2025 too! 🐸 Edit: I am happy with any card, but I'll take the engage if it's no bother, because I love Raye.

[@ariesstellar2825]

Happy New Year Josh, looking forward to your amazing contents this year! 🐸

[@josephcamobreco9683]

This was a really good year for TCG's in general and I hop it continues into 2025 with us seeing some even crazier developments! 🐸

[@raminlutz9013]

Just recently discovered your videos, but i love your card game discussions and thoughts. Happy new year! 🐸

[@thelincolntheory6916]

Just something interesting, Lacrima may be the fastest ban in YuGiOh history, but Evighiski Gustkraken and Mind Auger are the fastest banlist hits. They were both limited to 1 before they ever released in the tcg, I think just weeks before their release.

[@marcovalentini863]

Worst decision was not putting kit to 1 🐸

[@leodeleon3990]

The card grading looks cool 🐸 What a rollercoaster yugioh has been, but I feel like things are heading in the right direction. 2025 should be fun

[@Camogies]

The survey idea is great! Also the way it's designed looks great. I hope it reaches the right people to take notes. 🐸

[@kiku0280]

I will never be able to look at Kitkallos without the Kid Carlos image in my head. 🐸

[@kevinvu5731]

🐸 great year josh, heres to hoping for another great year in ygo

[@megaman109109]

Definitely do this every year! Great video 🐸

[@yourlen2622]

For the tcg I think that is worth mentioning the slowness to bringing back kirin, it was unbanned like 6 months(or something like that) after the legacy support in phantom knightmare🐸

[@dhesh0066]

I appreciate the unique content that you create as well as the interesting insight you provide into a pro Yugioh players mind. Happy New Years! 🐸

[@jtm94]

Thanks Josh this was fun to watch and participate in. My most disappointing MD banlist decision was unbanning Sillva lol. It was such a based hit. 🐸

[@zedtekk]

🐸 th synchro monster look insane

[@VVSmooth]

Thank you for a great year of content Josh! Here's to another year of more 🐸

[@canooob]

My pick is for Mr. Schmidt to win KZbinr of the year. I stumbled on this channel and the podcast when I came back from a covid hiatus and quickly found this channel to be the one I would watch EVERY new upload for. Huge fan, and looking forward to 2025! 🐸

[@Fenges0106]

Realy cool concept hope you do this every year from now on 🐸

[@delta_1632]

Didn't know I needed this. Great vid and content as always. To another year 🐸

[@DasaiSenpai]

This was such a cool idea for a Yugioh "Year in Review" content! The results were super interesting to think about! 🐸

[@PneumaAsh]

It would be super cool to see this survey filled out by every Yugituber's community at around the end of every year 🐸 From Josh to Jesse to even casual Yugitubers like MBT or TheDuelLogs, I think being able to cross-reference answers across communities would both be super cool and allow us to get an understanding of a more varied group of people

[@deicide7216]

Great video as always 🐸 As a new player, could I perhaps give an idea for a video? Video regarding when to use handtraps against meta decks. Being new I often struggle figuring out a deck's chokepoint, so having a guide of when to use Ash vs yubel, when to use infinite impermanence vs tenpai, etc. would be great.

[@YGOrochi]

It was one hell of a year, didn't get to tune into as many streams as I'd have liked but whenever I did, it was an absolute blast, here's to another great year! 🐸

[@Deviser22]

This year's been weird, there's been so many heavy hitters over the course of the year, but also feels like nothing's happend as the top 3 decks had not changed for most of the year 🐸

[@aurelia89]

me gusta el mill 8 🐸 the tearlaments kid carlos incident was super funny! thank you so much for doing this & keep up the good content in 2025 :)

[@knuseb3347]

Great Video for the beginning of the year!❤🐸