World Duel Carnival

The World Duel Carnival is a Duel tournament currently taking place in Heartland.

Purpose
The World Duel Carnival is really a plan designed by Mr. Heartland and Dr. Faker to find Numbers holders so that Kite Tenjo can hunt them more efficiently. If the latter wins the tournament, they will gather most of the "Number" cards.

Others besides Dr. Faker and Mr. Heartland who know or at least suspect the real purpose of this tournament such as Tron and Astral are also using it to collect "Numbers".

Monitoring
Droite and Gauche are acting as referees of the tournament and punish Duelists who cheated. However, their true task is the search of "Number" cards.

They are also involved in investigated incidents during the tournament and may decide whether something is allowed, as was the case with Housaku Yasai's Vegetable Death Matches.

If they discover someone cheated, they have authority to decide what kind of punishment the person will get, even if such punishment would be a physical one. For example, Gauche forced a boy into a Duel and ordered him to disappear from Heartland City. Next time, he made Flip eat all his "Heart Piece" candies and bound him with a rope. Gauche threatened he would confiscate his deck, while Flip would be disqualified and deprived from all future participation in the tournament for the rest of his life. Additionally, he claimed he would make sure Flip never Dueled again by beating him out of Heartland City.

Special rules
Having their own special rules in a Duel is not allowed. However, such rules can be approved by the referee, as was the case with Housaku Yasai's Vegetable Death Matches.

Preliminaries
The preliminaries happen for three days in Heartland City, and each Duelist must accept all challenges. The tournament has an ante rule of betting their Heart Pieces and if all pieces are lost, the participant will be automatically disqualified. In order to enter the finals, the Duelist must gather five correct Heart Pieces to make a perfect heart.

The tournament begun with more than ten thousand participants. Only twenty-four Duelists were able to complete their Heart Pieces. III was a finalist but couldn't participate in the finals due to him being severely injured after losing to Yuma, therefore only twenty-three Duelist advanced to the finals.

First Stage
The first stage of the finals is called the Park Section which occurs all throughout Heartland. The Duelists use the Duel Coaster system which works similiar to a Battle Royal Duel. The Duelists ride the Duel Coaster and Duel if another Duelist is on the same lane. Multiple Duelists can Duel against the same opponent and several parts of the lanes have Spell/Trap Cards set which activate when the Duelist crosses over them.

Those who remain from the twenty-three finalists will pass to the next course of the Duel Coaster which is the underground section.

Second Stage
The second stage consists of one-on-one battles, which happen in special fields.

Prize
The winner will get a lifetime free passport to Heartland and the title of Duel Champion. Additionally, Mr. Heartland will fulfill one wish from the winner, whatever it might be.

Participants
Over ten thousand Duelists participated in the tournament. Of them, twenty-three qualified for the finals. Thus far, fifteen have been eliminated from the finals via the Duel Coaster.

Known Finalists
Duelists in italics have been eliminated


 * IV
 * V
 * Anna Kozuki (Did not have a full Heart Piece, but forcibly took the place of another finalist)
 * Bergman Sakata
 * Burning Toramaru
 * Droite
 * Fallguys Coyote
 * Fallguys Jackal
 * Fallguys Wolf
 * Gauche
 * Garcia Panther
 * Kite Tenjo
 * Milky Kulala
 * Nosferatu Nakajima
 * Reginald Kastle
 * Tron
 * Yuma Tsukumo
 * Six unnamed Duelists

Eliminated Participants

 * III
 * Bronk Stone
 * Caswell
 * Cathy Catherine
 * Dog-chan
 * Flip
 * Housaku Yasai
 * Kazuma Motosu
 * Kakeru Kunitachi
 * Misato Hayashi
 * Nelson Andrews
 * Shobee Yuatsu
 * Spencer
 * Syuta Hayami
 * Tetsu Tamatsu

Unofficial Participants
This Duelist Dueled someone who was participating in the WDC. His opponent was under the impression that he was involved in the tournament until after the Duel, when he revealed he possessed no Heart Pieces.


 * Charlie McCoy