World Championship 2019

The 2019 World Championship is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official and Trading Card Game tournament, which determined the world champion for the year 2019. Marking the 18th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, players from all over the world gathered to Berlin, Germany to attend the event.

Competitors
The 30 competitors and the respective Deck types they qualified with are as follows. Players did not necessarily use the same Decks in this tournament.
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan Taiwan
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan Chia Ching Wang (Trickstar) (WCS2018 Champion)
 * Europe Europe
 * 🇫🇷 France Gabriel Soussi (Salamangreat)
 * 🇫🇷 France Samir Bachar (Salamangreat)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Jonas Koschel (Salamangreat)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Joshua Schmidt (Sky Striker)
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands Raphaël Neven (Danger! Lunalight)
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden Herman Hansson (World Chalice Thunder Guardragon)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Jake Quinsee (Orcust)
 * 🇺🇸 United States U.S.
 * 🇺🇸 United States Charley Futch Ⅲ (Gouki) (WCS2018 Dragon Duel Champion)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Dakota Angeloff (Crusadia Thunder Guardragon)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Raymond Young Dai (Sky Striker)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Wei Li (Crusadia Thunder Guardragon)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Manav Dawar (Sky Striker)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Canada Jesse Kotton (Sky Striker)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada Gabriel Antonio Vargas (Thunder Guardragon)
 * 🇵🇦 Panama Panama
 * 🇵🇦 Panama Angel Fernando Ovalle (?)
 * 🇵🇦 Panama Galileo De Obaldia (?)
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador Ecuador
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador Nicolas Miguel Vera (?)
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Brazil
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Michel Luiz (Sky Striker)
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines Philippines
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines Angelino Espiritu (?)
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines Louren Vidad (?)
 * 🇦🇺 Australia Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Australia Charles Loo (Salamangreat)
 * 🇦🇺 Australia Onur Gezer (Altergiest)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Japan
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kei Murakoshi (?)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kohei Tsukimitsu (?)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kouki Kosaka (?)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kotaro Yamagishi (?)
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea Duhyeon Eun (?)

Top cut
After five rounds of Swiss, the top eight players got to qualify for the next day. The top eight were as follows:
 * 🇺🇸 United States Dakota Angeloff (Crusadia Thunder Guardragon)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Jake Quinsee (Salamangreat)
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden Herman Hansson (Thunder Dragon)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kouki Kosaka (Salamangreat)
 * 🇫🇷 France Samir Bachar (Salamangreat)
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan Chia Ching Wang (Salamangreat)
 * 🇵🇦 Panama Angel Fernando Ovalle (Salamangreat)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Kohei Tsukimitsu (Trickstar)

All the Matches of the knockout rounds, including the final, were streamed live with both English and Japanese commentary.