THESE YU-GI-OH EVENTS DIDN'T GO ACCORDING TO PLAN

[@MBTYuGiOh]

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[@morthozst-n-rusalye]

Instructions unclear. Installed Among Us instead.

[@Dragonmist19X]

No

[@aaallen23]

sorry i dont like to download malware, dont want to let Xi Jingpoohbear what yugioh decks i play

[@alandtic4616]

They did our boy death knight proud

[@ShimmeringMizuko]

Easy video to make for a Raid sponsorship eh? Clicking off, installing Among Us instead. i don't like scams, MBT.

[@LukeEmia_]

Man MBT is so funny, I wish he was actually real 😔

[@TheGingerIsNoGood]

SAME

[@thijsvisser4868]

IKR, he’s my favorite Yugioh GX character

[@BushwickG]

Cimo spent a lot of money of this Vtuber rig. Its actually impressive.

[@xslayer1222]

Instead he's just a white VTuber

[@DarkyMcSadSad]

TRUE

[@Cimoooooooo]

You forgot to tell the first part of the story where I lost Game 1 when I was winning because a judge came over mid-match to return my copy of Knightmare Phoenix that had been Mind Controlled from our previous round opponent who had forgotten to return it to me, resulting in a game loss because I had an illegal deck. Granted, both of these situations were avoidable, but holy shit did I feel awful that THOSE were the reasons we got knocked out.

[@Zzz-j2f]

Nice fake Cimo account bot

[@YourKingSkeletor]

@@Zzz-j2f Imma get woooshed if I say anything aren't I? (Deleted to repost to fix typo cuz it wouldn't let me edit.)

[@Shemegory]

That shouldn't even be a game loss for an illegal deck, a 14 card extra deck is legal.

[@nosey2658]

@@Shemegory he didnt have the cards listed in his decklist so i guess its technically not the deck he should have

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

@@Zzz-j2f Yeah! The real Cimoooooooo would tell us to message him on an app he probably doesn't even use!

[@sp0nk272]

I remember at the 2017 EuWCQ 5th round oponent conceded the match after ripping ass and accidentantly shitting himself

[@Tanka036]

I'm fucking dying

[@hannabal96]

In a european YCS almost a decade ago, back when qliphort was the best deck, I went up against the spanish national champion (at the time) while i was playing fucking noble knight and he was on qliphort. I proceeded to completely destroy him 2-0 while a crowd of several people was around us, including a couple of judges. He proceeded to drop the tournament and quit yugioh entirely right after. Then he started playing magic and got banned for cheating.

[@createrz8433]

You literally ended that man's whole career by winning a match at a children's card game. Impressive.

[@Wiipodicus]

kinda based ngl

[@hirukashiro5995]

@@createrz8433 just like in the anime

[@christofferthorsson607]

so you're that kid that beat bandit keith

[@tostapane9092]

The end of all yugioh players going into magic and the getting banned for cheating

[@andrewmoy548]

Anyone else remembers YCS London feature match between Jesse Kotton on danger dark world FTK against a kid playing UFO Turtle Turbo? It is still in my head canon that the match was the reason Firewall Dragon got banned.

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

It was listed

[@BenjamimaLP]

Just u bro

[@dragon-id5uj]

yeah wasn't that kid just getting into the game? wonder where he is now

[@menekenkack]

Gonna be honest here, that alligator story was something I'd expect from a Florida YCS

[@batsmak2506]

It literally was. YCS Orlando 2011

[@YourKingSkeletor]

From Florida. Can confirm, we steal your gators. My neighbor had theirs stolen yesterday. Unrelated note, anyone know where I can hide a gator for no reason whatsoever?

[@MonteScarf]

@@YourKingSkeletor I only know how to hide crocodiles, sorry. Best bet is to place a very inconspicuous shrub in front of it and hope nobody minds I assume you have the standard Very Comfy Warm Rock In The Sun setup to keep it from roaming?

[@ogeid772]

Shout out to the brazilian server at the first remote duel YCS, where they fucked up the pairings for round 2, and had to scramble to do it all over again, leading to a wait time of almost 4 hours, and at some point a dude just said "fuck it" and started streaming a Scooby-doo movie in the waiting lobby.

[@PrestomachadoYGO]

Nem todo herói usa capa

[@ogeid772]

@@PrestomachadoYGOpena que o filme era ruinzão hahaha se fosse o live action do Scooby-doo ia ser top demais

[@DylanHlava]

One of my personal favorites from an OTS qualifier: Round 3 I'm playing Infernoble Knight and get paired into a player that I know is on Swordsoul. I lose the die roll and I cannot hear what my opponent says, but I assume they decided to go first, and I will have to break their board with my hand. After waiting 15 seconds for them to take an action, they proceed to inform me that they wanted me to go first, and I immediately perform my full combo, looping 3 cards out of their hand, I set up a ridiculous board on top of this, and after tilting my opponent by answering all of their cards, my opponent concedes game 1. In siding, I figure that my opponent will likely try to go first this time, seeing what my deck does. Instead, my opponent again, tells me to go first. On top of this, they vocally express their frustration at not opening any handtraps or board breakers, and using this knowledge, I loop 4 cards out of their hand this time. After passing back, they make a monk, attempt to activate vessel, but when they send to grave instead of banishing from deck, I remind them that herald is on the field, and they take back their play, banishing a longyuan from deck instead. When my opponent attempts to add a Tenyi to resolve the other effect of vessel, I tell them the ruling that they did not send a Wyrm from Deck to grave, so they are unable to add a Tenyi to hand, after this, they say out loud "well fuck me to death", leaving the venue, never to be seen again.

[@xCorvus7x]

you mean "banish from the deck instead of sending to the graveyard", right?

[@Rootator]

Went to my first regional that happened to be the first time a regional was held in my town. The staff took so long signing everyone up I got an insta lose round 1. I played 2 actual rounds and spent the rest of the day getting buys because my opponents never showed up. I also pissed like 8 times

[@pinnacull]

why did you piss so often

[@darklombax2580]

@@pinnacull got to stay hydrated. R/hydrohomies

[@henrychen4947]

Piss gang

[@ctusiard9755]

Topping cause of byes, damn.

[@Rootator]

@@pinnacull I brought a gallon of water to drink throughout the day

[@GoneRampant]

A story I remember reading once was that during the height of Firewall FTK meta, Konami held an exhibition match tournament where members of staff would be in attendance. Legend has it that many of the invited players collectively decided to run Firewall as degernately as possible to force Konami's hand on doing something about it. Like, per the person I read this from, you had folks running around desperately scrapping the deck together last minute or asking to borrow other copies of Firewall. Evidently it worked as within a month, Firewall finally went on the banlist and would only come back off after severe erratas.

[@Jaddas]

My favorite Story is from my first ever regional. My round 1 opponent lost because i had a lucky topdeck in game 3 and was so mad because he lost to such a scrub, that he instandly dropped and told everyone how bad of a player i am. Imagine his face after i won the event. I think he is still mad at me. The event overall was very fun and included some cool moments like beating the austrian champion, but nothing beats this sorest loser in the history of time.

[@denzelnatha9075]

It's not a funny history but back in the 2014 brazillian nats the final game was against the 2 best dragon ruler players everyone was looking forward to the match until one of them passed out and needed to go to the hospital

[@ogeid772]

That was actually the 2015 brazilian nats, and that's not even the weirdest story of that event, they kept accepting entries even after the venue hit its maximum capacity, so players literally didnt have table to play the game, if you were paired below the last available table, you had to wait with your opponent until someone else finished their match, then notify a judge, who would then start a 40 minute timer for your match (needless to say, this lead to some rounds lasting over 2 hours) not to mention, both 2014 and 2015 nats were held in a venue that was essentially an arcade that you could host children's parties, so you had to play while surrounded by blinking lights, loud noises and screaming children. No wonder one of the finalists had a seizure during finals.

[@MonteScarf]

@@ogeid772 good grief... I would've been pretty pissed if I had to travel super far to go to that, because just thinking of that environment makes my head hurt a little

[@ogeid772]

@@MonteScarf that was the worst, the top tables were in a closed room, so it wasnt as awful from then, but it was still a sensory overload waiting to happen. Thankfully we changed venues the next years, and never had to endure this nonsense ever again

[@collincleaves7874]

One of my favorite stories has got to be the day 0 Yugioh championship 2022 disaster. The lines to get into the room were completely non existent and everyone was bundled together unorganized and trying to find entrances and Covid checks. Then once we all got in and started the side events and hanging out somebody PULLED THE FIRE ALARM and the whole venue had to be evacuated and they didn’t tell us when or if we could go back in so majority of people left after either just getting in or just starting a regional flight or win a mat and then never finishing them

[@Abunai_Gaming]

Dammit I missed this one. It wasn't a YCS but a while ago I went to a local OTS duel night. I was on Baby Raccoons myself, and I went up against this guy playing Sky Strikers. I proceeded to first-turn make Naturia Beast twice in a row, and he just scoops. He didn't windmill his deck into the garbage but I could just taste the salt coming off of him. Almost wanna bring it back and see how it does these days....

[@ave_maria323]

They're cool ngl especially with melfy

[@TheForeverRanger]

Once did that to a Qli player and boy were they hot. I still do that to Striker players online and oh is the salt real.

[@Jimpipecigarbear]

Able to make beast with rocks over here.

[@t3hi84n2g]

I got one.. at the Philly regional following the release of Light of Destruction I was playing borrowing a D.A.D. deck from a friend while he played a zombie/lightsworn deck.. it was round 3 or 4 and I ended up having my ENTIRE backpack stolen including 2 trade binders and my friends DAD deck worth over $1200.. I still owe him for that deck but he moved across the country after that. Abe if you see this im STILL sorry!

[@Gamemaster13000]

Not gonna lie, when I heard MBT rambling about Cyber Chase and Dire admittedly defending it, my first thought was "man I didn't know people were so passionate about the PBS kids show Cyberchase, starring Gilbert Gottfried(I miss him so much)". Then I read the words Scooby Doo and thought "Since when did Scooby Doo appear in the PBS kids show Cyberchase starring Gilbert Gottfried(I miss him so much)"?

[@SasakiKiyotaka]

My only story is how Hartford YCS was my first ever event I ever went to and being in genuine awe at the sizeable crowd. I had an amazing and wonderful time there, managed to make friends with a few people too and had an amazing and genuine smile on my face the entire event except for one duel vs. a Gren Maju player who kept being pissed at everything I was doing and even wearing, snippy that I was playing Floo, calling Madolche a shit deck they hate. I'm actually glad they were my first 2-0 of the day and I was able to book of moon their Inspector Boarder and Unexplored winds tribute their summon limit. By the way, Thank you very much MBT, I wouldn't have gone if it wasn't for you pointing out that Floo was a meta deck who's cost was Raiza, and it made me remember that I had it just wasting away in my collection. (Prospy was replaced with Extravs due to the structure deck, mercifully.)

[@MuteSpectre]

every time I see a picture of MBT standing next to anyone else I am absolutely shook

[@CANWEGETMUCHHIGHERRRR]

Wtf how tall is he?

[@CaptinHavoc1]

I had someone try to buy one of those promotional dice off me for 20 dollars. Problem was one of them accidentally told me to look up the price and showed me it was 40 dollars. Art of the Deal I guess

[@DrAiPatch]

My 1st locals I got Yata locked in my 1st game (ya I been playing that long) and I had no idea what the Yata lock was so I remember look at my open field and empty hand and asking "if I can't draw what do I do?" And my 20 something Opponent looks at me shrugs and says "lose".......... Then game two he does it to me again. I have never been salter in my life. Didn't even play my other games I was done with Yugioh for the day.

[@Kyo_theTowaSimp]

That trans story threw me through a loop. Not only did it go the complete opposite way I was expecting it to, if you asked me where I would expect to find chasers at, "at a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament" would have been at the bottom of my list.

[@OsirusHandle]

On DB at least like 90% of main menu posters are either gay or trans

[@MBTYuGiOh]

LukeVonKarma viewers can appear anywhere. Stay alert!

[@fosterdawson7339]

what is a chaser?

[@ArchmageFetish]

Loving Transwomen is just a side effect of loving hentai.

[@Hempujonsito]

@@ArchmageFetish Bible Black put me into that fr

[@BerserkGorilla]

"break my board" *shits violently*

[@jeremyadkins9665]

My roommate and I never went to any big events, but we remember one time, we went to a Sneak Preview event, and during the tourney there, my roommate was wrecked by an opponent who couldn't stop calling his Glad Beasts cutesy names, despite him asking the guy to stop. It severely demoralized him and we've hardly played the game, since.

[@heartlessnobody1143]

When mbt started talking about "cyberchase bad" i thought it was that Cartoon about math in the digital world i saw in my childhood, and thought "shut your mouth that Cartoon is great" and then it was about Scooby doo doo and i Just Lost a piece of my soul

[@like17badgers]

one thing I've started enjoying is watching the random things trend while MBT goes through tweets got a bunch of MtG stuff, Homestuck, Homelander for some reason kinda great

[@adamata64]

One of my favorite moments of going to a Yugioh event was a Regional during PePe format. I always play jank or Tier 2 decks because they're more fun to me than the standard competitive decks and also cheaper. So I decided to build Deskbots and go face off against the Swarm of PePe decks and Kozmo which were dominating the scene at the time. This was at Chicago, which is pretty competitive. I ended up playing against 1 PePe deck and 4 Kozmos, with the other decks being TWO Satellerknights and a DDD deck. I lost against the PePe deck and proceeded to beat all the Kozmo decks and the rogues because as it turns out, quoting one of the Kozmo duelists: "I don't think this archetype has any outs to Deskbot 004." Which we then sat on it for a minute thinking and then agreeing, "Huh, accidental anti-meta card." Was a very good laugh. Sad thing is I got my invite and couldn't attend due to...Bronycon taking place the same weekend. XD

[@res8791]

Twlight sparkle over stardust dragon🤧

[@xCorvus7x]

@@res8791 Pardon, what is Twilight Sparkle?

[@dannynguyen7594]

@@xCorvus7x Look up: My Little Pony

[@xCorvus7x]

@@dannynguyen7594 ah, right, Bronycon; thank you

[@MeowmiXX_mmg]

didnt see the tweet in time, but my example would be ycs atlanta 2016 when like 4 days before the event konami errata'd performapal pendulum sorcerer cause they say that PePe was just way too strong at the regional level, and they figured nerfing PPS would be sufficient in lowering the power level a little. as it turned out, it was very much not, and PePe took 29 of the top 32 spots, prompting the second and most recent emergency banlist in yugioh's entire history.

[@MultiSkidding]

during a regional once I summon a phantazmay and my opponent just looks at me and says "how much" the lad tried to buy it from me MID GAME

[@TheJeanster]

Wish I had courage to play in person and buy a $500 deck and miss rent

[@charziz6693]

These austrailan players sound insane with the alligator guy and the decks they were playing in the 2020 Nationals.

[@GeneralNickles]

This one regional during metalfoes format, a friend and I got paired against each other. He was playing pure metalfoes, and I was running yang zing metalfoes. We went into 8 turns of sudden death IN GAME ONE. Time and time again it would look like one of us found a way to actually deal damage, and the other just happened to have the answer. It was incredible. That round lasted almost 2 hours because of us.

[@carstan62]

"... has so little to do with playing the game, and so MUCH to do with seeing your friends and having a good time." I've never gone to any YGO events, but back in 2012 or 2013 a bunch of my online friends started jokingly suggest we all go to the same Smash Bros tournament and get to meet IRL while being at a tournament. Even though it started as a joke, we did exactly that. The tournament was fun and all, but we had so much more fun hanging out with each other that we decided to get together for an IRL meet-up the next year without the tournament. We continued that tradition every single year up until the pandemic hit.

[@genericduelist2680]

Man so glad everyone has fond memories of large events, the most interesting thing for me that happened at regionals in Seattle during true draco/pendulum ftk/60 card grass format, I played budget trickstar and knocked out an acquaintance from locals from top 32. I then proceeded to get top 16 and outside the venue the guy I knocked out told me he was gonna kill me and my family. :)

[@theradams97]

My first regionals I played cardian, my favourite deck of all time and at that time the deck I was by far the most comfortable with. Unfortunately this was trickstar format, so lycoris and droll existing was already a death sentence. Did snatch a few wins including one against a very cocky spyral player who was convinced all he had to do was activate d barrier to win game 2 (after I won game 1). He quickly learnt that cardian only need their extra deck if they're going first, going second they just break boards and use their main deck 2ks to otk, there was a lot of salt from that one

[@fivedudes]

At my first sneak peak when they still had them, I also believe it was the first sneak peak upperdeck/konami hosted for NA atleast, It was for Rise of Destiny. I showed up on Saturday and almost no one was there, apparently the commercials advertised it was only on Sunday in some area's and Saturday in others of LA CA. So they gave us 5 packs and a set of orange sleeves, but also we got 1 extra pack for each round of swiss we won they had to much product. Even though it was only a couple dozen kids in a room large enough for a couple hundred people regional. The event was also being held inside another convention for pc gaming, half life 2 and doom 3 had just come out so there was a entire room filled with them loaded on pc's and unlimited access to fridge/freezers filled with energy drinks and frozen snickers and a quake tournament in the room next to that, it felt like a dream. Then the following sneak peak Flaming Eternity, Upperdeck didnt have a good guage for how big or small the turn out would be, from the RoD mishap. So they brought less product and expected 1-3 hundred people. Instead a shit ton of people showed up, the line was out the door and upperdeck only rented 1 small room in the convention center half the size of RoD's to host the swiss, so I spent the entire day waiting in line taking turns holding spot to go and trade./ duel other kids in line. In the end I didnt get into the swiss but we got our packs at 5pm and left.

[@ChinmanPlayCOD]

I played crusadia guardragon in the TOS ish era and I was at a regionsals going first and op said “this deck again man fuck this deck” his turn 1 I found out he’s playing the SAME deck as I am what a chad

[@zachary_gongaga]

for a hot second i thought he was talking about cyber chase the math cartoon not the scooby doo movie

[@reservationatdorsias3215]

Is even possible at this point to learn what Stevie did to become enemy No.1 at events? Its like all references of it were purged from YT.

[@TempestsFury]

0:50 "On Twitch we get Joseph's balls. Come to twitch." Well if I wasn't convinced before, I am now!

[@Excellsion]

9:58 Please tell me someone also thought he was talking about the PBS show for a second and was like, "I mean yeah that's all making sense."

[@SatanicWren]

At my second ever regional, which took place the weekend the 2019 mega tins released, I had a really solid meta call of playing Nekroz, because I was expecting the 3 more represented decks in the room to be Orcust, Salad, and Pend Magicians, and none of them had a good out to the turn 1 Nekroz board, Nekroz also didnt ever play into Nibiru, and thanks to Trish, could very easily make huge swing plays going second if needed. It turned out, my prediction was spot on, because those 3 decks made up AT LEAST 2/3’s of the entire floor, and there was not a single round where the 4 players to either side of me were playing anything but those 3 decks. However, with my infinite luck, I ended up playing against 8 rounds of Stun variants in 9 rounds, including losing 3 games to a turn 1 IO in the first 2 rounds. This slog through stun was broken up against a single match against Pendulum Magicians round 7, where my opponent very openly tried to maliciously stall for time, ended up being forced to pass with 45 seconds on the clock because he literally didnt have an activatable effect anywhere and had no hand, and then called a judge to say I stalled him for time when in my MP2 after attacking him to get Lp advantage, I attempted to ritual summon a Unicore with literally 2 seconds on clock. He took that all the way to the head judge, thankfully it was ruled in my favor when the guy next to us leaned over and told the judge that my opponent had stalled me for a solid minute with literally no activatable effects and no hand after setting a backrow. (I didnt call a judge on that bc I knew it wasnt possible for him to stall the full two minutes, which meant he was basically just stalling himself)

[@NeoDoomBot]

That take on Cyber Chase at the end there

[@galesturms]

I made a joke with a buddy I could go into a Regional with a pure Lightsworn deck, made entirely of three structure decks that had released just a bit earlier that year, and at least win two matches. I made it several matches deep before getting out, each time I told someone what I was doing they had such disdain and agony on their face.

[@apoocumber4164]

My favorite regional is when I played wurms… like xex and yagan… during Pepe format. Just main decking all the anti spells…

[@ryanchase9332]

You want a REAL throwback for a regional? Aloha, Oregon. Rainy Day Games. 102 players for a regional. Pharonic Guardian was the last set released. Hand Control decks finishing with Yata-Garasu was the order of the day. I'm on... Fiend Tribal with Dark Ruler Ha Des and Mefist the Infernal General as my big hitters. I was legit running 3 copies of Skull Knight #2. Friend one was on "card I like", featuring a horrific curve with 3 Blue-Eyes and 3 Dark Magician, plus 7 one sacrifice creatures. Friend two was on Wall Tribal, using Sword and Shield to make big hits with Labyrinth Wall, Millennium Shield and 2000 defense 4-star creatures. I went 3-4. Harpies cleaned up a Stall Burn player, an early Ha Des and Mefist got the better of a player running tons of flip effects (Magician of Faith, Man-Eater Bug, Cyber Jar, Fiber Jar), and one player never showed up. Lost 3 to Warrior Aggro buoyed by Marauding Captain and Goblin Attack Force, and 1 to Hand Control. Even got hit with a Turn 2 Yata Lock after he drew the nuts (Confiscation, Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed, Witch of the Black Forest, Share the Pain, Forceful Sentry). My friends went each went 2-5. Good times, good times.

[@batsmak2506]

OMG I remember the High Alligator thing. That was at my first YCS, YCS Orlando 2011, right when Reborn Tengu just came out.

[@MilkyWayVG]

I missed this unfortunately but I’d like to partake. YCS Seattle 2017, I rolled up with a janky cubic build and got slaughtered. HOWEVER while I was against D/D/D, in game 3 I ended up killing us both with crimson nova burn (the last simultaneous burn I know of) and we were like okay it’s a draw. Called judge over and he looked at us. Umm how tf did u draw before time. Explained it to him. He had to call not only another judge, but the head judge over. None of them could figure it out so it resulted in us replaying as if game 3 never happened. Fun times

[@MonteScarf]

I believe Evil Eye Domain and Relinquished also can cause a draw through burn damage technically, but it's a much more roundabout way and far less likely to happen. Still funny when it does, though.

[@lilsunny7399]

@@MonteScarf Domain does, not sure about Relinquished, the wording is weird and implies you take the battle damage first then your opponent gets burned.

[@Boristien405]

4:55 Well, you CAN activate VW cards under Shifter so the judges were probably just bad lol.

[@johncenarules25]

Can't believe Raid sponsored a Twitter thread

[@arrysits3574]

Went to a big OTS Release Event (100+) people, and dropped round 3 for the side event. Had a blast in the side event, right up until I ended up facing another player for the first place finish (prizing of a mat, field center and booster box) - he was slow-playing by asking to read each of my played cards despite being a mirror match, but I took the game in the end. When time was called in game 2 and it was clear I won by LP, the guy launched his hand of cards across the table at me and swiped his deck off the table and across the room. Had a group of about 12 people watching us and everyone was STUNNED by his reaction.

[@EinSilverRose]

I was playing Bujins at a YCS back when Dragon Ruler and Spellbook were at full power and only lost to a Chain Burn and Quasar Turbo decks. Still missed making the top 32 cut.

[@chrismcdonald6079]

Case tournament this past Sunday, had multiple judge calls from opponents and got screwed on them all, bubbled out of top cut, had fun playing against 4 spright matches and tear

[@Ms666slayer]

On these year Mexico national one car was stolen, and some guy needed 3 Pot of Prosperity for the tourney so he buyed 3 on one of the register seller in the event, it turned out those were fake but they looked super real, some small pattern inconsistencies and the card look a little dimmer that usual (without being an eruope printed card) was what told them apart.

[@chimmyinfernape9189]

I got 2 stories one is someone pulled the god hand. All 5 exodia pieces on first draw. If you don’t know the odds it’s astronomically low. But my favourites was the overly cautious dragon ruler player who hit my judgment of Anubis with a blind mst and then I proceeded to take out his fgd and burn for game. Funniest win I’ve had in years

[@BoogyMushrooms]

Can someone tell me what it means "to bubble" in the Remote Duel Extravaganza? Is it good or bad? Do you pop the bubble and crash out, or do you maintain a safety bubble and get in top cut?

[@dragon-id5uj]

from what I remember, when you 'bubble' that means it was the deciding match on if you made it... generally 'I bubbled' means I would have made top cut if I won one more

[@RyokuShogun]

I played in a win-a-box once just after Strike of Neos came out; I made it to the final round and ended up playing against the newly released Six Samurai. The kid I was playing against was cheating hard, like using the substitution effect to sacrifice Grandmaster then add it back, but I couldn't get him disqualified because his father was judging the event.

[@kingpolo1920]

Some of y’all gotta learn the combo of hot water and soap

[@mavenYGO]

The hand on face meaning gay at your school is pretty calm, over here you would say "if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer." Only clicked how fucked it was when you didn't say it

[@Heoltor]

I'm pretty sure it was cancer over here too and also in every other school and region I haver heard about it.

[@Elastas]

My story was as a child, I entered a big tournament in Vegas. This was during Yatalock. I played a toon deck with relinquished because I was a child and Pegasus was such a cool villain with a cool deck. My first duel this guy locks me and then says "you aren't gonna be able to play so give up." He got up, talked to a judge, and the game was over. The judge and him were just chatting and being a child, I didn't know what to do so I packed up my deck and met back up with my granddad who was tricked into buying Diffusion Wave Motion off a stall guy who convinced him was good and I needed it. When I said I lost my game and I couldn't use it in my deck he just said "well here you go" and we depressingly left that event back to their house. I really didn't touch Yugioh for a while after that.

[@R-langley]

Not from a tournament but one of the funniest casual games I've ever had. My opponent was on Magistus and I was on dual avatar. He goes first, opens pretty well going full combo with dragoon, savage and zoroa with Artemis and the xyz equipped. After ten minutes of watching him I draw for turn, super poly his dragoon and savage for starving venom, activate invitation, destroy the zoroa and proceed to otk

[@BcDyxaLKgoNdgU]

I think the best one I can think of was the top I had at my nats. When the swiss rounds were over by like 10pm (iirc we started at like what, 10am?) i was sitting just gossiping with a friend who was judging at the time about calls he'd gotten etc. I was dead tired bc i wasnt used to playing long events at all, but I stuck around to hear if i got top32 or not, since it wasnt that large an event. I finished well enough that I thought "if im lucky ig i can get a free mat and sleeves which'd be nice". So up until that point I think the best ive done at anything was like, 3-4 or 3-3-1, at locals it was like 1-3 or 2-2. So they get through 32-18th place, and I get kinda confused and start asking people what their scores were like and I was kinda panicking cuz i finished like 3-4.. or so I thought. So the organizer eventually gets to top4, and ive like packed my stuff by now and was sitting a good bit in the back asking the people i was driving with if we should find some local place for food or what since I just assumed I did so shit i wasnt there. So eventually I hear my name called, and I see like 40 people all simultaneously turn their heads at me, back at the organizer, then back at me. Turns out my dumbass just forgot 3 rounds and assumed I lost them (cuz im used to losing, like a lot). Anyway after an hour we start top cut, I start the match out blacking out from tiredness, with the table judge literally catching my head from faceplanting the table, and I get rolled in like 6 mins. Great event tho.

[@AxelSlam45]

my first ycs (tele dad format) i witness someone trade their entire collection essentially for a jump crush card. also i witnessed someone playing LS play back to back charge of the light brigade. first mill was gardna, gardna, wulf. second mill was wulf, wulf, gardna

[@Sniper-serpent]

I'm with MBT on the Cyberchase thing as a big Scooby Doo fan, Cyber Chase is not one of the better movies. Zombie Island and Witches Ghost still really hold up, and some of the newer ones like Moon Monster Madness and Legend Of the Fantasaur kick ass, but Cyberchase is i think mid-tier when it comes to scooby doo movies.

[@JanitorJoey]

I didn’t watch the stream, so I thought he was referring to “Cyberchase” the PBS series. Which I assume wouldn’t hold up either.

[@leafbladie]

Would love to go to a YuGiOh event sometime

[@MonteScarf]

Same... I have trouble finding a locals to play at down in Australia

[@TruVibezz]

just when i think you've run out of pointless questions to farm content from your twitter feed, you drop another FUCKING BANGER. Thanks for your service.

[@slimeblue4873]

Not really a story from me but one I was told by one of the judges at our locals. Basically he aparantly had an opponent that was a complete douche and refused to communicate in English (they were French and our judge is German) so they could understand each other. This man proceeded to drop some of the cards while cutting into his backpack, then called a judge for the reason "their deck looks smaller". I'm honestly glad he's not allowed to play at our locals as a judge

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Oh. I thought the cyber chase comment was about the PBS show. 😂

[@HotlinePings]

My first regional, i played box of friends. Guy i was playing was probably on something and shuffled his hand way too much. Dude was mindblown and also freaking the hell out when he was told zombowwow's attack gain was permamant when i declared an attack for 2000.

[@SilverEternal22]

Shoutout to day 0 of nats last month where someone pulled the fire alarm at like 4 pm, interrupting every side event going on at the time and causing people to just not show up for the rest of the day

[@Zanji1234]

ok i'm old so the best stories are from WAY back - Pharao-Tour in Germany (i think cologne) long row of tables, small kid on the outer side "Ha now i'm activating RAIGEKI" ... it took 2 mins until the whole table cluster knew that he had played a banned card - when Upperdeck took over the distribution rights we here in Germany had only Labyrinth of Nightmare. So the first National Qualifiers were German cards only then the last were "up to IOC everything is allowed" so Chaos. A friend won a bigger qualifier with LON Beatdown (with 3 Mechanical Chaser and 3 Gemini Elfs and stuff, since we knew that Chaos will be played we had Soul release in the sideboard... yeah we didn't know all the cards from after LON) - playing at the German nationals then my friend played TIME EATER (when he destroys a Monster your opponement skipps the next MP1) so we thought "if you don't have a monster than you skip your BP and then you don't have a MP1)... it took 3 rounds until somebody called a judge...and the Judge said "yeah it seems that this is how the card is played" xD - friend of mine (female) during insektor format at our locals: 11 year old had to play against her and said proudly "just so you know I'm VERY good" ... she (25 at the time) "ok have fun"... she 2:0 him of course - friend played at the Sommer Cup in Germany (way back, that tournament was also shown on RTLII the german channel which showed all the Animes) and won against one of the better players back then... the guy then cried that he lost - also small tournament at anime convention. played against a female cosplayer which had her boobs almost flying out. As soon as she realises the is loosing she anime like tightens her arms left and right of her boobs and kinda bends over so her boobs are completly in focus and even goes anime like "oh i think i'm gonna loooooose" ..... and i'm just "yeah seems so but you can sit straigt. My boyfriend is over there"

[@minervadetauro7646]

I mostly played online through most of my life but there was a time in middle school where I caught up again on the physical game, and eventually me and a bunch of 7th graders decided to go together to a regional, it was around mid 2012, we were all betting on who would get the best (or least bad) W-L record. I somehow managed to get 3 wins, including a 2-0, with a super janky, cheap-ish, downright bizarre Gadget-Machina-Rank4goodstuff-Ultimate Offering deck and all but 1 of the duels I ever won there were literally the opponent scooping the instant they saw Shock Master on board. One of them insulted me and my mom almost murdered him, good times

[@minervadetauro7646]

BTW I lost the bet, one classmate got 4 wins with Inzektor

[@SCOOL8896]

Playing in YCS Atlanta 2016. First major Yugioh event, playing Greydles because it did well at my meta. (College and playing fun decks) PePe was gonna be banned the day after so they allowed the players to use the cards, Monarchs was also meta at that time. Spent rounds 1-4 wining only one game to a judge who walked by and game lost my opponent for taking the top instead of the middle card on tenacity.

[@diamonddudeygo]

If you aren't particularly interested in Raid Shadow Legends, 2:07

[@JFarenci]

That Brent story sent me. Oml, yugioh players want one thing and it's disgusting.. prize support.

[@-Knave]

Some kid had the chance to recreate the anime moment of Pegasus calling down a kid to beat Bandit Keith and he said no.

[@RendKageki]

I spent so long trying to decipher what a UUCQ was…

[@TrevorAllenMD]

Remember when Cesar Gonzalaz Rodrigues was caught cheating on like every streamer ever’s stream. And coder literally had a PhD in criminal video analytics breakdown when and how he was cheating.

[@DylanMaggs]

Joseph, let me start this comment by saying I love your channel and genuinely thank you for getting me back into Yugioh after a 10 year hiatus. And now let me end this comment by saying you’re objectively wrong, Cyber Chase still slaps.

[@afortna1]

I remember going to a regionals playing my usual jank. It took advantage of some cards that messed up priority back when that was a thing. I remember lightsworn was popular and I did relatively well...for me at least. 4-3. Here is the punch line. I was playing antimeta Fortune ladies.

[@MrChillaxin2010]

I went to exactly 1 Regional with my friends in August of 2019 (the weekend Nib, Dark Ruler and D-Shifter came out). It was a perfectly average event. That is when I realized how much I don't want to play this game. Like this isn’t from any sort of salty experience, just realized the game wasn’t for me

[@trihazardknight]

Funnily enough the description of events in this video are equally applicable to any fighting game lmao

[@shadowmetroid18]

My biggest regional experience is getting my deck stolen between round 1 after getting assblasted by pendulum.

[@therealcroman]

I've never been to an in person event that was a good time. The commute alone is always an ordeal, and then you realize you have to play Yu-Gi-Oh... with real humans. FML

[@Moo77717]

I remember once at locals I was playing kash against a sky striker deck, I got to look at my opponent's extra with unicorn and opted to take out kagari instead of zeus, which was the standard choice at the time (he'd already used one Kagari and I had imperm for the last one, once that runs out I reasoned he'd be out of resources to grind with. Also, his only way to make zeus was getting double raye onto the board, which was not happening anytime soon). He looks me dead in my eyes and asks, "Do you know what you're doing?" Anyways, I 2-0'd him.

[@GeneralNickles]

I will never forget the time I went to the 200th YCS and my $300 Gumblar/Mermail deck got stolen directly out of my backpack WHILE I WAS WEARING IT!

[@wendigowo2752]

Skill issue

[@Jimpipecigarbear]

My contribution to stories. Made an opponent destroy his own dark arm dragon after they popped a cross porter and I grabbed dark panther from the deck.

[@Jimpipecigarbear]

Also kept having to point out that mole does not target as cards was released that prevented targeting. While at locals.

[@DarkdustDragon]

I am amazed nobody mentioned the feature match where somebody cheated like four times on camera, including sending Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer to the GY after using it as Synchro Material.

[@tuvillo]

I'm responsible for all the errors on EU streams (I've been judging FM since only a little bit after we started streaming). The worst time I've had was when I missed Proxy Dragon saving the board from Raigeki and I had to go online and do damage control about that this is not "how we are ruling it", and that I just missed it.

[@quelqunx7470]

5:00 you actually can activate vw cards under shifter, I don't know what you mean. I've done it on ygo omega, and sending is an effect so you can activate even though the card sent will go elsewhere. It's the same with nadir's servant.

[@quelqunx7470]

Nadir servant yugipedia card rulings second bullet.

[@dotv2359]

Damn I wish I knew this was going on so I could share some pics from World Finals 2016. Shit was surreal

[@thekiddo115]

Love the cyber base talk at the end haha

[@xDarknessRikux]

When your regional decided during eternal format you only had to use dingirsu once to protect winda from instant fusion and never again while it's on the board

[@ixchel3330]

That's bad tho, you want winda to die before your turn

[@NACHOZMusic]

GUYS WHAT IS THE GASTER BLASTER FTK I NEED TO KNOW

[@boxcarjoethemagicobo]

Nobody mentioned Anthony getting double battle phased on stream or the kid that got ftked on stream

[@CLGLazarus]

Never forget Joe literally saving Yugioh at YCS Long Beach. Long live Hero Beat.

[@LazyLee]

cyber chase goated

[@LazyLee]

it has a mystery that viewers can actually solve if they pay attention variety in settings it has some really good moments w the other version of the gang and it's just a fun movie common mbt L

[@Linkiscool115]

2022 nats didn't go as I planned, most of my cards were stolen!

[@wlaznikdragon4716]

What's your favourite yugioh card

[@Logan-tz1ry]

…and why is it Elemental HERO Stratos?

[@TWLSpark]

Why isn't it Mudballman?

[@TromboneMaster95]

Stayed up ~36 hours to drive to a regionals in a different state with some friends. Bubbled out, beat my friend in the mirror match (Bujin format) because I had practiced the deck more, and he was so upset he tried to sell me his deck and quit yugioh lmao and on the way home my friend almost broke up with his girlfriend because she was a psycho