The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Dortmund 2023 was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series held at the Westfallenhalle in Dortmund from 30 September - 1 October 2023.
Results[]
The main event was won by Julius Schwarzkopf, playing a "Therion Sunavalon Rikka" deck. In the finals, he defeated Lukas Janßen, who was using "Vanquish Soul". Both finalists were from Germany and had never topped a YCS before this event. The Top 4 contenders were Lorenzo Muselli from Italy and Sophiane Belkacem from France, playing "Unchained" and "Branded Despia" decks respectively.
This event marked the third international European event to be won by the "Sunavalon Rikka" deck, after the WCQ Europe 2022 and WCQ Europe 2023. Out of the seven international events that had happened in Europe since the return of in-person events after the Covid-19 pandemic, the deck had won nearly half of them despite never being among the most represented decks.
Deck Breakdown[]
| Deck | Number |
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| Ishizu Tearlaments | 10 |
| Unchained | 9 |
| Bystial Dragon Link | 7 |
| Purrely Variants | 7 |
| Floowandereeze | 5 |
| Branded Chimera | 4 |
| Branded Despia | 4 |
| Scareclaw Mannadium | 4 |
| Labrynth | 3 |
| Vanquish Soul Variants | 2 |
| Spright Variants without Runick | 2 |
| Runick Spright | 1 |
| Therion Sunavalon Rikka | 1 |
| Infernoble Mikanko | 1 |
| Virtual World | 1 |
| Rescue-ACE | 1 |
| Branded Synchro | 1 |
| Mathmech | 1 |
| Deck | Number |
|---|---|
| Floowandereeze | 2 |
| Unchained | 1 |
| Therion Sunavalon Rikka | 1 |
| Spright Purrely | 1 |
| Branded Despia | 1 |
| Vanquish Soul | 1 |
| Ishizu Tearlaments | 1 |
Top 16 Pairings[]
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 Davide Giannoccaro
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| Lorenzo Muselli
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| Lorenzo Muselli
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| Giuseppe Tarsitano
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| Gianluca Di Luigi
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| Giuseppe Tarsitano
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| Lorenzo Muselli
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 Julius Schwarzkopf
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| Julius Schwarzkopf
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 Liang Liang Yang
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| Julius Schwarzkopf
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 Sebastien Ma
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 Ammad Raja
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| Sebastien Ma
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| Julius Schwarzkopf
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| Lukas Janßen
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 Guillaume Venier
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| Sven Rebmann
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| Sven Rebmann
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| Sophiane Belkacem
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| Sophiane Belkacem
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 Jesse Kotton
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| Sophiane Belkacem
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| Lukas Janßen
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Third place | |||||||||||||
| Can Tari
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| Lukas Janßen
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| Lukas Janßen
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N/A | |||||||||||||
| Gabriel Netz
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N/A | |||||||||||||
| Gabriel Netz
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 Bastien Magnee
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Decklists[]
Julius Schwarzkopf[]
Lukas Janßen[]
Lorenzo Muselli[]
Sophiane Belkacem[]
- Albion the Branded Dragon x2
- Albion the Sanctifire Dragon
- Despian Quaeritis
- Garura, Wings of Resonant Life
- Granguignol the Dusk Dragon
- Guardian Chimera
- Lubellion the Searing Dragon
- Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon
- Mudragon of the Swamp
- Predaplant Dragostapelia
- Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
- Rindbrumm the Striking Dragon
- Titaniklad the Ash Dragon
References[]
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