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".

General rules
The preliminaries will go for three days in the entire Heartland, 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.

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.

Other 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.

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
Duelists in italics have been eliminated, while Duelists in bold have qualified for the finals.

Known Finalists

 * IV
 * V
 * Droite
 * Gauche
 * Kite Tenjo
 * Reginald Kastle
 * Tron
 * Yuma Tsukumo

Participants

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

Unofficial Participants

 * Anna Kozuki
 * Charlie McCoy