World Championship 2012

The 2012 World Championship is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official and Trading Card Game tournament, which will determine the world champion for the year 2012. Marking the 10th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, players from all over the world gathered to the Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo, Japan to attend the event.

Competitors
The 27 competitors and the respective Deck types they qualified with are as follows.


 * 2011 World Champion
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Ogawa Takashi “アーサー” (Agent Fairy)
 * Central America
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico Alvaro Manuel Gonzalez Orea (Six Samurai)
 * Europe
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Stefano Memoli (Wind-Up)
 * 🇬🇷 Greece Michail Paraschos (Chaos Dragon)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Joshua Schmidt (Wind-Up)
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Angel Matas (Inzektor)
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Hong Kong
 * Leung Chi Wai (Inzektor)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Japan
 * Waragai Yuki “ライブラリアン” (Sendai) (Evilswarm Laggia)
 * Norihama Takeru “ちゃみ” (Tokyo) (Arrive HERO)
 * Yumoto Kota “チャリオット” (Tokyo) (Offering Machina Gadget)
 * Saito Akikazu “ショウイチ” (Osaka) (Inzektor)
 * Arimura Yohei“ヨウ” (Osaka) (Dimensional Skill Drain Beat)
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia Malaysia
 * Tan Sung Lee (Chaos Dragon)
 * the Philippines Philippines
 * Irwin Arogo (Inzektor)
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore Singapore
 * Wesley Seek (Inzektor)
 * North America
 * 🇺🇸 United States Tyler Tabman (Wind-Up)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Robert Lewis Jr. (Wind-Up)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Jarel Winston (Chaos Dragon)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Kevin Rubio (Dino Rabbit)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Adrian Shakir (Wind-Up)
 * 🇺🇸 United States Michael Steinman (Dino Rabbit)
 * Oceania
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand Oliver Parle (Chaos Dragon)
 * 🇦🇺 Australia Jonno Ritzau (Dino Rabbit)
 * South America
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador Marco Jonatan Oviedo Castro (Wind-Up)
 * South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea Heo Seung Hwee (Gravekeeper)
 * Taiwan
 * Republic of China 張樹仁 (Inzektor)
 * Thailand
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand Santi Phromduangsiri (Chaos Dragon)

Coverage


Konami are broadcasting live coverage of the tournament via ustream. The event can be viewed on either of the following locations:
 * http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yu-gi-oh-wcs2012-jp
 * http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yu-gi-oh-wcs2012-en

Timetable


The timetable of events was as follows. Times are in JST.

Swiss rounds
The pairings for round three were:

The pairings for round four were:

The following feature Matches were streamed live:
 * In the first round, Stefano Memoli defeated Michail Paraschos 2-0.
 * In the second round, Leung Chi Wai defeated Waragai Yuki 2-1.
 * In the fourth round, Yohei Arimuro defeated Jarel Winston 2-0.
 * In the fifth round, Tan Sung Lee defeated Santi Phromduangsiri 2-0.

Top 8


After five rounds of Swiss, the top eight players got to qualify for the next day. The top eight were as follows:
 * 🇺🇸 United States Jarel Winston
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Joshua Schmidt
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Stefano Memoli
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Norihama Takeru “ちゃみ”
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Yumoto Kota “チャリオット”
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Saito Akikazu “ショウイチ”
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Arimura Yohei “ヨウ”
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore Wesley Seek