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The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2016, also abbreviated as WCS 2016, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament that was held in Orlando from 20 - 21 August 2016, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2015-2016 season. It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Dragon Duel World Championship 2016.

The tournament's format was mostly dominated by "Blue-Eyes", "Monarch" and "Majespecter" decks.
In the TCG/OCG category, it came down to a "Blue-Eyes" mirror match in the finals, where Shunsuke Hiyama from Japan managed to defeat Erik Christensen from the US. As Shunsuke was already the reigning Champion, he became the first person to win the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship twice. To this day, no other person has accomplished this, not even in any of the other World Championship categories (Video Game, Dragon Duel, Duel Links or Master Duel).
Soichiro Kajihara, also from Japan, took the third place with his "Majespecter" deck. Matthew Casiero came in fourth playing "Monarch".[1]

In the Dragon Duel tournament, it was the "Monarch" deck that took the win, being piloted by Po-Hsiang Peng from Taiwan. His opponent in the finals was Aiden Tiemann from the US, playing a deck that mixed various Pendulum-based archetypes together. The semifinalists were Wook-Young Hong from South Korea ("Blue-Eyes") and Declan Matthews from Australia ("Odd-Eyes Majespecter").[2]

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2016, also abbreviated as WCS 2016, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament that was held in Orlando from 20 - 21 August 2016, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2015-2016 season. It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Dragon Duel World Championship 2016.

The tournament's format was mostly dominated by "Blue-Eyes", "Monarch" and "Majespecter" decks.
In the TCG/OCG category, it came down to a "Blue-Eyes" mirror match in the finals, where Shunsuke Hiyama from Japan managed to defeat Erik Christensen from the US. As Shunsuke was already the reigning Champion, he became the first person to win the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship twice. To this day, no other person has accomplished this, not even in any of the other World Championship categories (Video Game, Dragon Duel, Duel Links or Master Duel).
Soichiro Kajihara, also from Japan, took the third place with his "Majespecter" deck. Matthew Casiero came in fourth playing "Monarch".[1]

In the Dragon Duel tournament, it was the "Monarch" deck that took the win, being piloted by Po-Hsiang Peng from Taiwan. His opponent in the finals was Aiden Tiemann from the US, playing a deck that mixed various Pendulum-based archetypes together. The semifinalists were Wook-Young Hong from South Korea ("Blue-Eyes") and Declan Matthews from Australia ("Odd-Eyes Majespecter").[2]

TCG/OCG[]

Competitors[]

World Championship 2015 Winner
Dragon Duel World Championship 2015 Winner
North America
Central America
South America
Europe
Oceania
Asia
South Korea
Japan

Deck Breakdown[]

Overall
Deck Number
Blue-Eyes 7
Majespecter Variants 5
Monarch 3
Phantom Knights Burning Abyss 3
Madolche 1
Odd-Eyes Dracoslayer 1
PSY-Frame 1
Speedroid Phantom Knights 1
Top 8
Deck Number
Blue-Eyes 3
Majespecter 2
Monarch 2
Phantom Knights Burning Abyss 1

Top 8 Bracket[]

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
       
  Japan Makoto Yada  
  United States Erik Christensen    
  United States Erik Christensen  
      Australia Matthew Casiero    
  United States Travis Smith  
  Australia Matthew Casiero    
  United States Erik Christensen  
   
    Japan Shunsuke Hiyama  
  Japan Soichiro Kajihara  
  United States Admassu Williams    
  Japan Soichiro Kajihara   Third place play-off
      Japan Shunsuke Hiyama    
  Japan Shunsuke Hiyama  
  Australia Matthew Casiero  
  Japan Daiki Momiji    
  Japan Soichiro Kajihara  
 

Decklists[]

Shunsuke Hiyama[]


Erik Christensen[]


Soichiro Kaijara[]


Matthew Casiero[]

Monarch (Decklist Unavailable)

Dragon Duel[]

Competitors[]

North America
Central America
South America
Europe
Oceania
Asia
South Korea
Japan


Deck Breakdown[]

Overall
Deck Number
Blue-Eyes 5
Majespecter Variants 2
Domain Monarch 1
Pendulum 1
Phantom Knights Burning Abyss 1
Qliphort 1
Tellarknight 1

Top 8 Bracket[]

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
       
  South Korea Aiden Tiemann  
  Italy Gabriele Scialpi    
  United States Aiden Tiemann  
      Australia Declan Matthews    
  Japan Izumi Yoshi  
  Australia Declan Matthews    
  United States Aiden Tiemann  
   
    Taiwan Po-Hsiang Peng  
  South Korea Wook-Young Hong  
  Canada John Wilkin    
  South Korea Wook-Young Hong   Third place play-off
      Taiwan Po-Hsiang Peng    
  Taiwan Po-Hsiang Peng  
  Australia Declan Matthews  
  Ecuador Christian Suarez    
  South Korea Wook-Young Hong  
 

Decklists[]

Po-Hsiang Peng[]


Aiden Tiemann[]


References[]

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