The YCSJ logo
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Japan, often abbreviated as YCSJ, is a series of large Japanese tournaments. It first started in 2018, some eight years after the first western YCS.
The YCSJs were a significant change to the tournament structure in Japan, as they were first official major tournaments in the country apart from the WCQ season in summer. In 2023, Konami added another tournament series with the YACS. The YACSs are somewhat comparable to TEAM YCSs in the West, though YACSs happen more frequently and are typically smaller.
Despite the name, YCSJs are hardly comparable to YCSs for a number of reasons:[1]
- While YCSs happen about once or twice a month, YCSJs are much more rare. Recently, there have been two of them per year, one in spring and one in fall.
- For YCSJs, the demand for tickets is typically much larger than the supply. Because of this, tickets are given out via a lottery system. In the West, no such system exists as ticket demands are usually in line with venue capacities.
- YCSJs are played in a Best-of-One format, meaning there is no Side Deck.
- Compared to YCSs, YCSJs only have a small amount of Swiss rounds. Because of this, even a single loss can cause a player to miss top cut, making the system quite variance-heavy.
- YCSJs typically only take one day, while YCSs are always two-day events.
YCSJ Tokyo 2024, the tenth YCSJ, was the largest card game tournament of all time, with 7443 players in attendance.[2]
So far, no player has managed to win more than one YCSJ.
Events[]
| Start date | Location | Winner | Deck type | Attendance | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-2019 Season | |||||
| 2018-10-06 | Tokyo | Toru Sato | "Sky Striker Trickstar" | 2048 | [3] |
| 2018-10-08 | Osaka | Hideaki Tanji | "Cyber Dragon" | 2048 | [4] |
| 2019-05-11 | Osaka | Hiroki Ito | "Subterror" | 3000 | [5] |
| 2019-2020 Season | |||||
| 2019-11-03 | Tokyo | Masayuki Okada | "Infernoid" | 3000 | [6] |
| 2020-02-15 | Nagoya | Aoi Tachiki | "True Draco" | 3000 | [7] |
| 2021-2022 Season | |||||
| 2022-03-27 | Yokohama | Takuya Ogawa | "Adventurer Synchro" | 3000 | [8] |
| 2022-2023 Season | |||||
| 2022-11-12 | Osaka | Yuuki Souma | "Floowandereeze" | 3000 | [9] |
| 2023-05-28 | Tokyo | Yuki Watanabe | "Mathmech" | 4000 | [10] |
| 2023-2024 Season | |||||
| 2023-11-04 | Nagoya | Ryo Nakada | "Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye Fire King" | 4000 | [11] |
| 2024-04-28 | Tokyo | Yutaro Takahashi | "Voiceless Voice" | 7443 | [12] |
| 2024-2025 Season | |||||
| 2024-11-04 | Osaka | Ryo Inoue | "Ryzeal" | 4000 | [13] |
References[]
- ↑ https://infinite.tcgplayer.com/article/9-Reasons-Japanese-YCS-Tournaments-Are-Crazy/5cca5abd-a947-430b-8313-6856fa4f6141/
- ↑ https://www.konami.com/games/eu/en/topics/17851/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-tokyo-2018/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-osaka-2018/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-osaka-2019/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-tokyo-2019/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-nagoya-2020/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-yokohama-2022/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-osaka-2022/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-tokyo-2023/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-nagoya-2023/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-tokyo-2024/
- ↑ https://roadoftheking.com/ycsj-osaka-2024/
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