YCS Bologna 2023 - Final - Anthony L. vs. Joshua S.

Watch the Final match of YCS Bologna 2023: Anthony L. (Rescue-ACE) vs. Joshua S. (Runick Bystial).
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[@RepTheoAndFriends]

LeBron has 4 NBA Championships and Josh has 4 YCS Trophies.

[@rsdmusic6325]

😂😂😂

[@Funxion_]

And another 2 finals but he lost for sure I don't remember if he was in more than 2

[@MuhammadReza-te9ct]

LeJoshua LeSchmidt

[@shen.daniel]

And a world champ title. Bro won 3 titles in a year. That's obscene

[@nickt8148]

LeJoshua winning Mickey Mouse YCS championships, he'll never be the goat

[@KarthihanViji]

fun fact.. all those ami pro's travelling over the world to attend atleast 15 ycs a year.. while josh is playing just 4 ycs a year. truly belongs to one of the greatest.

[@Arthuris629]

Plus he's a world champion too.

[@TheCroatia7]

He’s the best yugioh player guys its simple

[@No__Vanity]

fun fact: nobody says ami besides germans

[@JuneTV03]

"I just played what i liked" absolute GIGACHAD

[@tommoex]

Insane how josh has been so consistent for all these years.

[@yugiohfanatic1964]

you mean so lucky

[@manuuu9458]

​@@yugiohfanatic1964yea everyone know ygo ist pure luck, you dont need skill or good deck building only luck, smh

[@reinhardsteckin5444]

@@yugiohfanatic1964 🤡

[@lz9275]

@@manuuu9458 luck is a skill ofcourse, how else can sack skilled players with god hands?

[@LynnLyns]

​@@yugiohfanatic1964sounds like you're a very Lucky player too.

[@Animexdraco]

Oh my god i love Quem, I would die for Guiding Quem the Virtuous. This Ycs is going to change my life and gonna be the best thing ever

[@lucasstohwasser6919]

Not here again 😂

[@jofx4051]

😂

[@gamersreactions9267]

I havent played Yugioh in a year, but it is impossible not to tune in when Josh puts on a Masterclass. Sei dir gegönnt

[@EisteeMango]

Insane tournament from Joshua, more than deserved win for the 4th time now. But lets also not forget that except for the time situation in the last duel (where he basically didn't really had a real win con) Anthony also played really well and I can definitely see him being in more YCS finals in the future and maybe even winning one.

[@Musical_Nero]

Bystial Runick is scary man, everyone is sleeping on Runick right now so no one has the side deck prepared for it, and the Bystials are so freakishly grindy, such a great meta call from Joshua.

[@dainosauro9262]

You're right! I hate Runick since it's used on horrible floodgate decks, but i love this deck, so cool

[@BanditTools]

No one at my local had any side card or main decked tech for spell/traps. I was winning with runick sitting on Messenger of Peace and nothing else.

[@rachidsouki8614]

I hope konami finally take away the runick engine and some bystials. Those cards if used correctly can be insane. And people thought runck engine couldn't be good in a ht meta like this... fools!

[@ninezerotwo1778]

Runick is gonna get so destroyed on the next list by Konami..

[@BeatsByjeanlambert]

Runick is a cancer not fun deck. Banish cards from opponent deck while destroy and negate its field is unhealthy for the game.

[@superfactorial5717]

Congratulations for Farfa for winning his first YCS!! We are proud of you 💓💓💓

[@chiconico9738]

Josh played till the very last second hard and resilient. Bystial against R-ace is a horrible matchup but he pulled it off with his runick variant. I love to see it

[@cyber5787]

Josh story arc so far: 2019: Triple engage from Raye and he refused. 2023: I'm gonna engage Raye and dump her for Quem in the same year.

[@ccjl9160]

Oh my god I love Raye

[@zerochill4096]

Josh is an absolute madlad for winning a YCS with a Deck that he and chat came up with on a Master Duel stream. Gigachad

[@krni1592]

Maybe Josh came up with it separately but the deck won a big regional in UK some weeks ago and also was played during last national season. But it was definitely a sleeper pick and Josh shows that he's the best Runick player in the world

[@txkyoaes5743]

@@krni1592 yeah I'm down to give josh his flowers but there's definitely other people who laid the ground work with it and shouldn't be discredited, like Josh on stream (and you) mentioned this deck has been around and topped a few regionals.

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

​@@krni1592he literally learning it on stream 4 days before ycs.

[@slimshadyince2412]

Jered is the one who came up with the bystial runick deck not josh

[@R4INMAN94]

He is him.

[@toobeyyy1519]

Joshua hat so abgeräumt das ist nicht zu glauben, es sei ihm gegönnt 🤙🏼🤝

[@failboy117]

I love watching genuine high level yugioh in a format like this where skill is super prevalent and 1 deck isn’t just an instant win. This is the yugioh I love to see and great players being the best at what they do is great in any game

[@frankg_15]

Has to be one of the best ycs finals and one of the best ycs in general

[@jaybeecaranza9471]

the fact that this deck is really came out from his twitch chat is really amazing

[@dragon-id5uj]

no longer washed, hes just CLEAN

[@four-en-tee]

I miss Bologna Format so much

[@johnnywilson3071]

Joshua doing gods work and keeping Runick in the eye of the Konami watchdogs so we don't have to suffer the Runick Stun strat.

[@MrSimpleme1]

Is this playable on master duel?

[@BringOnTheWall]

​@@MrSimpleme1only thing Master Duel is missing is Little Knight

[@uctungle6773]

@@BringOnTheWall and a second copy of fountain to do the resource loop.

[@BringOnTheWall]

@@uctungle6773 true, forgot about that. Miserable now

[@Renne__]

​@@MrSimpleme1runick on md is pretty much dead. Only one fountain and many semi-limited runick engine cards. Terrible.

[@TimmitdemE]

Josh u are the best!!! U deserved it so much ❤

[@Federico1871]

WHY ALWAYS JOSH. GOAT

[@arielguzman9336]

Congrats to Josh he really knows how to play and get inside the other players head. I can’t wait for my locals tomorrow 🥳

[@deckzonetcg8907]

He is cracked at Yugioh

[@evanrobbins2411]

That was actually incredible for once. I wasn’t expecting to see some of the cards Joshua was playing with. Definitely not standard procedure.

[@ItSpooling_]

That’s the problem with Yugioh players, thinking there is some kind of “standard procedure” Josh did great because of his ability to think outside of the box. Proving that a good player can top with any deck. In other words, we need more people like Josh

[@dsmk1993]

Der typ ist einfach gut ..Glückwunsch

[@Arc4s69]

He almost lost to imperm column, it was game if regained resolved

[@elrompecabezasdelmilenio6210]

what could he had done if not in the imper colum?

[@jofx4051]

A more card definitely And seems like people unconsciously have tendency to place it ... to imperm column 😅

[@PeriBR]

Josh é simplesmente incrível! Com certeza testarei isso no Master Duel 💪

[@Andrea-bx4nf]

Why top 8 video is delated?

[@erie4237]

Josh legend duelist

[@Yeewieer]

Josh is perfectionist, i like the way he arrange opponent's cards after seeing them

[@redoctober67]

Anthony in utter denial in that final phase.

[@Ragnarok540]

Desperately looking for a way to do more then 3000 burn damage.

[@Musical_Nero]

Can you blame him? There's a good chance he will never sit in that seat again. It's hard accepting you've lost the game when you fought so hard to get there.

[@FrankOcean--]

I mean wouldn't you do the same?

[@PartyMarty321]

@@FrankOcean-- Me at locals round 1

[@FrankOcean--]

@@PartyMarty321 gotta try to save your ranking, losing the first match is a death sentence normally at locals depending on the number of players

[@f.ardiansyah]

crazy final, ggs

[@Edisonforever]

Even if I don't play current format, i come back to this vid every once in a while..

[@Lyricaon]

Not only Josh but Anthony too played insane here! Great game from both and congratulatios to Josh for his 4th win!

[@michaelmorales1602]

Thank YOU, Ed! For being such a stellar host.

[@JoschuaSchmidt]

59:19 1:00:12 - I feel very honored! Congratulations to Joshua for winning his 4th YCS in Bologna!

[@blackrosed8068]

Josh needs to come to NA and show how it’s done

[@elecorsi768]

Where can I found Anthony's list?

[@alexandrubragari1537]

Game 3 was so funny to me, Josh had almost an otk at turn 2 with a "runick" deck hahahah

[@yiannis9562]

Anthony knew he was dead as soon as magna dropped.... amazing match played by both

[@dalverp3726]

King of Game

[@zacdredge3859]

Best League of Legends finals of all time. 🙂

[@HutchJE]

Crazy its been this long since the last European YCS while the US will had 4 in that time...

[@peppo_TCG]

GOATSHUA SHMIDT 🐐

[@luanarafaela5237]

Joga muito, merecido demais

[@sandythamtono2081]

Josh is married to runic at this point 😂

[@natankende4973]

Let's go Joschi!

[@simo_wotan]

Where is the apple?

[@eu4um]

That's my GOAT

[@Sparda51]

I feel like Anthony did alittle to much game 3. He over extended and didn’t need to and got punished. He was also playing way fast when he didn’t need to. His opponent is on runick bystial vs a fire deck. Should have just done the standard line set 4 under 5 summons without putting darks and lights. He might have still lost but josh would have had to use no runick spells in main phase which he definitely drew the hand to do it.

[@gamersreactions9267]

Its true, but its always easier to say in Hindsight.

[@Sparda51]

@@gamersreactions9267 Sure but, i thought this even when I was watching it, the guy summon air lifter and then summoned diabellstar. I'm like why? Sometimes vomiting your whole hand on the board isn't the best thing to do. Even in this scenario he didn't play around nibiru, summoning air lifter does so much and he could of gotten set 4 before the nib hit and even if they wanted to do more they could of used diabellstar to continue making a board and they would of also been able to at the very least rescue back a monster on josh's turn to get all his backrow stuff back online.

[@matthewcordon3163]

I was thinking the same should have stuck to exactly what rescue ace does best... stop and prevent a board being made against you then swing, but I'm sure he will look back and realise he should have ended on 3 race monsters and a full back row!

[@onkelolli7011]

His hand played around nib, so no need to The only way he loses was nib + Druis Otherwise he would have linked off his preventer and token for sp and set 4

[@Sparda51]

@@onkelolli7011 can’t do that, token is a normal monster,he would have to be playing link spider or something. S:P requires 2 effect monsters. It’s generic but not that generic lol.

[@NACHOXXX4]

Man, time rules are super rough. Those duels werent even long

[@littlegalgamer160]

It's Joshua's dinasty in ycs he conquer the whole ycs!😊

[@kageno8165]

What a shame that it ended like that. I am really not a fan of the time rules.

[@egggge4752]

Runick & Bystial chads rise up!

[@Leezy.]

Joshua used Branded Regain in the same column as Imperm right ?

[@CrasH_Dx]

Yeah but he didn’t use any of its effects

[@dudeguy8686]

The pure flex

[@astorakino829]

No effect, he used Duality to draw

[@rjv-rw2ef]

grats and wp by both

[@dropbearshots_yt2687]

Lets go josh

[@ryanpayne9570]

So how did he add cartesia to hand game one? The runic fusion never touches grave sooooo

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

Hugin get shuffled back to ed from the gy after get destroyed. He just skipping unnecessary steps to play faster and his opponents as well judge understand what he did.

[@cheesuspirates]

@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 If this card on the field is destroyed by battle or card effect: Return this card to the Extra Deck. Effects like this make it to where the card is marked for destruction but doesn’t touch grave so

[@JuMooly]

@@cheesuspirates The effect literally triggers in the grave.

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

​​@@cheesuspiratesthat effect triggered in new chain, which mean it's already in the GY when it activated.

[@PretenderAval]

So... why is there a timer in grand finals?

[@hknsytb7578]

He nuts

[@furobituro5582]

Lost to greediness game 3

[@bigschn0se541]

The time rule seems to be kinda flawed considering that the other player can stall with chains

[@jetherarroz1118]

With fountain at 1 we can't make Josh deck in MD I'm really looking forward to make it but 1 fountain can't make a good board.

[@nevod.]

Josh actually played this deck on stream on MD with 1 fountain only a day before the ycs and it didn't do _too_ bad

[@keikaku9298]

I don't think it is very viable till we get sp knight in md.

[@yutawirasena]

Just wait till we got SP, fountain at 1 is fine for bo1 format

[@hirukashiro5995]

The problem is no SP in MD, not the 1 Fountain

[@ayham613]

wdym ? if MD gets s:p fountain at 1 will be a nightmare@@yutawirasena

[@SuperSilver316]

The clutch Nib

[@GablAkira]

What did damage to Anthony in game 2? suddenly he went to 2400 LP

[@k0ch1]

Anthony passed turn, Joshua passed too since Runick effect make him can't attack, and Anthony passed again so that Joshua just did some attack

[@fuccix]

cant wait for ycs pasta

[@fulloffool5925]

I think finals should have atleast 50 minutes. Imagine yugioh Anime playing in Time out😂😂😂

[@gustavomiranda5394]

Well done 😊 js

[@conservative6236]

Joshua is the Michael Jordan of Yugioh

[@zenbozic6184]

im so glad we have live footage of joshua admitting runick stun is the best variant of the deck

[@SolidBird721]

one day

[@superprogamer_0518]

Good job master duel world champion

[@speechless1887]

The Sky Striker community is proud of you Josh ❤️

[@daedalus5253]

Fountain did nothing wrong! Back to two in MD!

[@Ragnarok540]

True. The problem cars of Runick stun are the floodgates, not the Runick cards.

[@EMICIME]

@@Ragnarok540untrue, put it to 0

[@juksleo6257]

​@@Ragnarok540any non-floodgate Runick variant is based af. Bystial, Fur Hire, Plunder, Live twin Spright, all extremely cool decks

[@gamakujira64e23]

@@juksleo6257Live twin spright is so cool, if only it did anything

[@zerochill4096]

On the next survey, ask for Runick Fountain semi-limit and have cards like Five-Color Magician, Skill Drain and Tcboo hit for it

[@yungplague5534]

Should I get back into Yugioh?

[@JuneTV03]

Yes

[@ayham613]

no

[@narue2840]

maybe

[@Abi-mc4po]

47:15 TADAAAAAAAAAAAA.... whatttt!!!!

[@nathanbaker1894]

Hydrant cannot be targeted for attacks while you control a rescue ace monster just saying

[@madararyomen3155]

Joshua the goat

[@MohIdrisSumantri]

Nibiru is the most mvp card 🤝

[@Papiness]

51:50 lol even in championship imperm columns baited

[@streiya]

I thought the Final game was played without a time limit? Or is that only for Worlds? If the top two are in the Final match playing for the champion spot of the event for YCS or Worlds it doesn't make any sense to me they set a time limit on the final game to determine the best player. It makes more sense to me that to determine THE BEST overall player, they should be left to play it down to the last Life Point or Card or Surrender, not to a technicality of a time limit. The time limit makes sense for the rest of the event to reach the top spots due to scheduling, but the final match for the championship I would think shouldn't need or have one.

[@gamersreactions9267]

What if the finals was Infernoble going first? How would you determine the best player if Infernoble basically FTKs. Thats not how yugioh works

[@streiya]

@@gamersreactions9267 what you're talking about has nothing to do with a time limit getting in the way of things, so I don't see your point about this kind of circumstance? And if someone plays a deck that is able to FTK BOTH times then either the opposing player is very unlucky (which luck is part of "how yugioh works") and/or they aren't playing very good handtraps or hitting the deck at the best choke points. OR clearly if a deck is so broken that it can FTK so easily like 90%+ of the time then Konami is not doing their job right with designing and/or banning certain cards.

[@MarcelNinety]

😄👍🇩🇪💯

[@Starscream2705]

I think Josh could win the first Game to, if he searched Freezing instead of Fire

[@astorakino829]

It was a missplay, but opponent had Ash

[@mynamesnotchom366]

Great duel Should nibiru still be unlimited though? I5s such an insane card

[@speechless1887]

You don't want yugioh to be decided in a dice roll, it gives going second a chance and everyone plays around it anyway

[@NinthSettler]

Nibiru should never be on the list, it is an indicator of format health. If people are maining it something else needs to go.

[@mynamesnotchom366]

@speechless1887 clearly not everyone plays around it, shmidt won multiple games for this ycs with nib alone.

[@speechless1887]

@@mynamesnotchom366 that is because people didn't prepare for nibiru that's that. If you know nibiru will be relevant in the format, why play a deck that loses to it. It all goes to how well you prepared, you don't see a bystial runick winning ycs that often. That goes to show that josh really prepared well and he deserves it.

[@hamster6216]

nibiru kept heavy combo deck in check, its fair card its punish someone for over-extending, I love this type of grind game more than just setup full board one turn while not letting opponent to play yugioh

[@elgeempire493]

Thx a lot for the stream the meta player who say "you cannot win wothout playing meta " going on the long very long tunnel

[@jangaman7823]

Well any deck can beat any deck. You just need luck. But you can also just build a deck that has a good matchup vs meta. Aka runick bystial.

[@sammydray5919]

​@@jangaman7823rescue ace was the most prominent deck and bystials didn't have that good a match up there because they are all fire. Also good job denying any and all player skill by saying its all luck 🤦‍♂️

[@Frame206a]

​@@jangaman7823You see there's a lot of familiar faces in the top cut, so skill is also a big thing (not just playing skills but also in Deck building)

[@jangaman7823]

@@sammydray5919 👍🏽 cool bro

[@jangaman7823]

@@Frame206a 👍🏽

[@HayabusaRyuu]

He only won 'cos there wasn't any zoodiacs!

[@alpha_neandethal_primarch]

Joshua! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

[@mrsquadbot]

Josh bringing this deck from MD akes me wonder what would happen if grass is at three in tcg since people used to cook Ishizu cards into branded and necroface FTKs because the Ishizu cards came before Tear laments, proving that the Ishizu cards are retarded even without tearlaments

[@muhammadjoshua7464]

Anthony should have played mathmech instead. Terrahertz = game 😂😂

[@anthonysanutelli9893]

And that’s why I play super poly.

[@giovannimotti1743]

Il tipo ha perso per un linkuriboh di troppo...

[@mosaabahmednacer385]

Shouldn't the SP get banished even after tributing the dark witch in game 2?

[@e-tan3911]

Nope, you need to banish both.

[@mosaabahmednacer385]

@@e-tan3911 no, if one of the targets didn't get banished the other will get banished anyways

[@e-tan3911]

@@mosaabahmednacer385 Nope, SP says "Banish BOTH until the end phase" so you have to banish both of them. If one is not able to be banished, SP resolves without effect.

[@mosaabahmednacer385]

@@e-tan3911 the fact that it says BOTH means each one resolves separately and doesn't need the other target to get successfully banished You can ask a judge or try on a simulator

[@e-tan3911]

@@mosaabahmednacer385 that isn't how it works. Banish both means banish both. You say "try it on a simulator" and I just did on ygo Omega. SP resolved without effect. You say "ask a judge" as if this isn't the finals of a ycs and the head judge of the event is RIGHT THERE watching the match and telling them SP resolved without effect.

[@juanestebansavinonsantiago8262]

How did he add Cartesia back in game 1. I didn't see a fusion being sent.

[@RickKong1998]

Hugin went to graveyard for a second, then she went back to the extra deck

[@nevod.]

Hugin

[@feuerweier]

Verstehe aber nicht wiso er im Game 3 dualität nicht in der Battle Phase aktiviert hat . Dann hätte er 6000 damge + nicht in nibiru reingespielt

[@ludwig612]

Warte anthony hat duality gespielt?

[@feuerweier]

@@ludwig612nein Schmidt hat es gespielt.

[@ludwig612]

@@feuerweier aber Anthony hat doch in nib reingespielt

[@feuerweier]

@@ludwig612 ja schiedt doch auch als er in game 3 am zug war.

[@ludwig612]

@@feuerweier er hatte doch ne baronne also nen omni negate liegen

[@mrhenk007]

the Italian caster sometimes sounds incredibly scottish.

[@JromLoy]

Not that it mattered, but how did Josh add back Cartesia at 15:38? No fusion monster was sent to his GY that turn

[@mess6818]

Hugin he just bring it right back to extra cause of it effect

[@BenBePlayin333]

Why wasn’t a token summoned to Anthony’s side of the field when Josh dropped nibiru?

[@subarashifoundation]

Josh chained Druiswurm to Nib, so Druiswurm gets summoned and tributed for Nib. This triggers Druiswurm on resolution which wipes out the token. They just skipped a step.

[@MultiNichts]

Dont see the pros of a timelimit

[@JuanGonzalezZzZzZz...]

The finals cannot end like this. CHANGE THE RULE FOR THE FINALS OR KEEP RUINING YOUR OWN GAME, KONAMI. Think straight.