Grand Championship

Grand Championship, known in Japan as the KC Grand Prix, is a story arc in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series (known in Asia as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters).

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Note: As this arc does not occur in the manga, the names used here will be the English-language TV show names.

After the battle with Dartz, Yugi Muto (Yugi Mutou in the English-language manga and the Japanese versions) and his friends have no money to return to Japan. They enter a tournament hosted by Seto Kaiba in his new amusement park in return for a ride home. Kaiba Corperation, which is crippled because of Dartz's organization (Doma), calls the tournament the Kaiba Corp Grand Championship. Duelists from all over the world come to duel each other to become the winner.

On the other side, one of the tournament entrants is a hacker trying to send a virus into the KC's main computer. Kaiba's main goal is to find out who the hacker is. It turns out that the hacker is a strong duelist named Zigfried Von Schroeder (Siegfried von Schroider in the Japanese version). Main Duelists These characters are specific to the arc and do not appear in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. The English names come after the Japanese names.

Siegfried von Schroider / Zigfried von Schroeder : The European Duel Monsters Champion, a rival of Kaiba's, and Leon's older brother. Zigfried seeks to take down KaibaCorp as revenge because he feels that Seto Kaiba stole his plans for holographic dueling technology. He uses the alias "Zigfried Lloyd" whenever he duels. He comes across as arrogant and vain, but he has a kind side, as evidenced by how regretful he feels at the end of the arc for making Leonhart help him with his plot. He genuinely loves his brother, as Seto loves Mokuba. At the end of the anime, he is seen making a business deal with Maximillion Pegasus. Leonhart von Schroider / Leon von Schroeder : A genius who is Zigfried's Brother. He uses the alias "Leon Wilson" whenever he duels. He is a sweet child who idolizes his brother, yet realizes that what Zigfried is doing is wrong. When Zigfried is disqualified and recruits Leon to help him with his plot to destroy KaibaCorp by playing a card in his duel that will trigger a virus, Leon initially agrees even though he doesn't feel right about it. Eventually during the duel, he refuses to help Zigfried by playing the card because he doesn't want to go against his morals. However, the virus was already unleashed and the card could not be destroyed when Leon attempted to remove it from play. Yami Yugi then tried to help him destroy it while Seto Kaiba worked to stop the virus. Vivian Wong: A beautiful duelist and the Asian Champion. She tends to space out in fangirly ways when she should be staying serious, and this often proves to be her downfall. At one point she helped Solomon Muto with his hurt back, but only if he would help her bring Yugi to duel her. When Yugi protested that it was against tournament rules since she had already been defeated, she hurt Solomon's back again and forced Yugi into the duel, threatening that if he did not duel her, she would not fix the damage. These characters appear in previous parts of the second series anime:

Yugi Mutou / Yugi Muto: Battle City and Duelist Kingdom Champion. Mask the Rock / Apdnarg Otum: A Legendary Duelist who turns out to be Solomon Muto (Sugoroku Mutou in the English manga and Japanese versions), Yugi's grandfather. His name is "Grandpa Muto" backwards. Rebecca Hopkins / Rebecca Hawkins: The American champion. Katsuya Jonouchi / Joey Wheeler: A duelist from Domino who is one of the top four duelists of Battle City. Match Lists Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The matches are divided into two groups Block A and Block B.

(Due to the length of the show some duels were shortened or weren't shown.) Round 1 Block A

The duel takes place in episodes 187-188 Joey Wheeler vs. Apdnarg Otum (Solomon Muto) Joey wins The duel takes place in episode 189 Zigfried Lloyd (Zigfried von Schroeder) vs. Fortune Salim - Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor kidnap Salim to take his place at the Grand Championship. They were unmasked but Zigfried agreed to duel against them rather than winning by default; Weevil and Rex vs. Zigfried Lloyd Zigfried wins (In one move) Round 1 Block B

The duel takes place in episode 189 Vivian Wong vs. Rebecca Hawkins Rebecca wins The duel takes place in episodes 187-188 Dr. Richard Goat vs. Leon Wilson (Leon von Schroeder) Leon wins Four other duels take place during the 1st round, but we do not see them. However, KidsWB.com posted the tournament bracket, and...

Paul McGregor defeats Shane Jordan Balfry Ginger defeats Jafar Shin Ethan Shark defeats Sergei Ivanoff Abe the Monkey Man defeats Totani Ialos Round 2 Block A

The duel takes place in episodes 190-191 Joey Wheeler vs. Zigfried Lloyd Zigfried wins The duel takes place in episodes 190-191 Paul McGregor vs. Balfry Ginger Balfry wins Round 2 Block B

The duel takes place in episodes 190-191 Ethan Shark vs. Leon Wilson Leon wins The duel takes place in episodes 190-191 Rebecca Hawkins vs. Abe Rebecca wins Round 3 Block A Semi-Final

The duel takes place in episode 192 Balfry Ginger vs. Zigfried Lloyd Zigfried wins Round 3 Block B Semi-Final

The duel takes place in episodes 192-193 Leon Wilson vs. Rebecca Hawkins Leon wins Private Duel

The duel takes place in episode 193 Yugi Muto vs. Vivian Wong Yugi wins Round 4 Final

The duel takes place in episodes 194-195 Leon Wilson vs. Zigfried Lloyd - Kaiba disqualifies Zigfried; Seto Kaiba vs. Zigfried Lloyd Kaiba wins; Leon Wilson becomes winner of the KC Grand Prix Round 5 Exhibition Match

The duel takes place in episodes 196-198 Yugi Muto vs. Leon Wilson Yugi wins