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The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2024, also abbreviated as WCS 2024, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament held in Seattle from 7-8 September 2024, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2023-2024 season.

It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links World Championship 2024 as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel World Championship 2024[1]. For the first time ever, the Duel Links World Championship wassplit into two separate categories, namely Speed Duel (the traditional format in Duel Links) and Rush Duel (which was added to the game in September 2023). However, the total amount of players for the Duel Links category stayed the same as the Speed Duel tournament had been reduced from 24 to 16 players, and the newly added Rush Duel Championship only had 8 competitors.
Meanwhile, the Master Duel category had been increased from 8 to 12 teams, now also including players who qualified by making first place at a Duelist Cup or collecting Season Points.

This tournament marked the first World Championship in North America since 2016. It was also the latest World Championship ever, as the tournament had almost exclusively taken place in early to mid August before.

The TCG/OCG tournament saw a metagame heavily dominated by decks using the "Fiendsmith" engine. Fittingly, the final match was Ruben Penaranda on "Fiendsmith Yubel (archetype)" facing off against Mark Solis on "Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye". In the end, Ruben managed to claim the win, becoming the second American player in a row to win the tournament.[2][3]

The formats of the three virtual categories were all much more diverse, thanks to the multiple deck and shared card rules. In Duel Links, Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" won the final match against Takuma Kitamura "たく". This made Sebastian the first Latin American player since 2015 to win a World Championship.[3]

In the finals of the inaugural Rush Duel tournament, Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" emerged victorious against Gabriel Tan "Voltalon".[3]

The Master Duel World Championship saw the exact same final match as in the year before, with snipehunters (Joshua Schmidt "Josh", Emre Kizilates "Emre" and Jack-Rory Steenkamer "Quantal") on one side and Team 7 (Ryan Yu "Ryan", Jesse Kotton "Jesse Kotton" and Raymond Dai "Raye") on the other. Something like this had never happened before in the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship. Unlike last year, it was Team 7 who took the win this time, evening the score between the two times. With this win, Ryan Yu became first person ever to win World Championships in different categories, as he was also the Dragon Duel World Champion of 2017.[3]

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2024, also abbreviated as WCS 2024, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament held in Seattle from 7-8 September 2024, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2023-2024 season.

It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links World Championship 2024 as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel World Championship 2024[1]. For the first time ever, the Duel Links World Championship wassplit into two separate categories, namely Speed Duel (the traditional format in Duel Links) and Rush Duel (which was added to the game in September 2023). However, the total amount of players for the Duel Links category stayed the same as the Speed Duel tournament had been reduced from 24 to 16 players, and the newly added Rush Duel Championship only had 8 competitors.
Meanwhile, the Master Duel category had been increased from 8 to 12 teams, now also including players who qualified by making first place at a Duelist Cup or collecting Season Points.

This tournament marked the first World Championship in North America since 2016. It was also the latest World Championship ever, as the tournament had almost exclusively taken place in early to mid August before.

The TCG/OCG tournament saw a metagame heavily dominated by decks using the "Fiendsmith" engine. Fittingly, the final match was Ruben Penaranda on "Fiendsmith Yubel (archetype)" facing off against Mark Solis on "Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye". In the end, Ruben managed to claim the win, becoming the second American player in a row to win the tournament.[2][3]

The formats of the three virtual categories were all much more diverse, thanks to the multiple deck and shared card rules. In Duel Links, Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" won the final match against Takuma Kitamura "たく". This made Sebastian the first Latin American player since 2015 to win a World Championship.[3]

In the finals of the inaugural Rush Duel tournament, Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" emerged victorious against Gabriel Tan "Voltalon".[3]

The Master Duel World Championship saw the exact same final match as in the year before, with snipehunters (Joshua Schmidt "Josh", Emre Kizilates "Emre" and Jack-Rory Steenkamer "Quantal") on one side and Team 7 (Ryan Yu "Ryan", Jesse Kotton "Jesse Kotton" and Raymond Dai "Raye") on the other. Something like this had never happened before in the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship. Unlike last year, it was Team 7 who took the win this time, evening the score between the two times. With this win, Ryan Yu became first person ever to win World Championships in different categories, as he was also the Dragon Duel World Champion of 2017.[3]

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2024, also abbreviated as WCS 2024, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament held in Seattle from 7-8 September 2024, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2023-2024 season.

It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links World Championship 2024 as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel World Championship 2024[1]. For the first time ever, the Duel Links World Championship wassplit into two separate categories, namely Speed Duel (the traditional format in Duel Links) and Rush Duel (which was added to the game in September 2023). However, the total amount of players for the Duel Links category stayed the same as the Speed Duel tournament had been reduced from 24 to 16 players, and the newly added Rush Duel Championship only had 8 competitors.
Meanwhile, the Master Duel category had been increased from 8 to 12 teams, now also including players who qualified by making first place at a Duelist Cup or collecting Season Points.

This tournament marked the first World Championship in North America since 2016. It was also the latest World Championship ever, as the tournament had almost exclusively taken place in early to mid August before.

The TCG/OCG tournament saw a metagame heavily dominated by decks using the "Fiendsmith" engine. Fittingly, the final match was Ruben Penaranda on "Fiendsmith Yubel (archetype)" facing off against Mark Solis on "Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye". In the end, Ruben managed to claim the win, becoming the second American player in a row to win the tournament.[2][3]

The formats of the three virtual categories were all much more diverse, thanks to the multiple deck and shared card rules. In Duel Links, Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" won the final match against Takuma Kitamura "たく". This made Sebastian the first Latin American player since 2015 to win a World Championship.[3]

In the finals of the inaugural Rush Duel tournament, Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" emerged victorious against Gabriel Tan "Voltalon".[3]

The Master Duel World Championship saw the exact same final match as in the year before, with snipehunters (Joshua Schmidt "Josh", Emre Kizilates "Emre" and Jack-Rory Steenkamer "Quantal") on one side and Team 7 (Ryan Yu "Ryan", Jesse Kotton "Jesse Kotton" and Raymond Dai "Raye") on the other. Something like this had never happened before in the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship. Unlike last year, it was Team 7 who took the win this time, evening the score between the two times. With this win, Ryan Yu became first person ever to win World Championships in different categories, as he was also the Dragon Duel World Champion of 2017.[3]

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2024, also abbreviated as WCS 2024, was a Yu-Gi-Oh! Official (OCG) and Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament held in Seattle from 7-8 September 2024, being the most prestigious and final event of the 2023-2024 season.

It was held alongside the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links World Championship 2024 as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel World Championship 2024[1]. For the first time ever, the Duel Links World Championship wassplit into two separate categories, namely Speed Duel (the traditional format in Duel Links) and Rush Duel (which was added to the game in September 2023). However, the total amount of players for the Duel Links category stayed the same as the Speed Duel tournament had been reduced from 24 to 16 players, and the newly added Rush Duel Championship only had 8 competitors.
Meanwhile, the Master Duel category had been increased from 8 to 12 teams, now also including players who qualified by making first place at a Duelist Cup or collecting Season Points.

This tournament marked the first World Championship in North America since 2016. It was also the latest World Championship ever, as the tournament had almost exclusively taken place in early to mid August before.

The TCG/OCG tournament saw a metagame heavily dominated by decks using the "Fiendsmith" engine. Fittingly, the final match was Ruben Penaranda on "Fiendsmith Yubel (archetype)" facing off against Mark Solis on "Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye". In the end, Ruben managed to claim the win, becoming the second American player in a row to win the tournament.[2][3]

The formats of the three virtual categories were all much more diverse, thanks to the multiple deck and shared card rules. In Duel Links, Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" won the final match against Takuma Kitamura "たく". This made Sebastian the first Latin American player since 2015 to win a World Championship.[3]

In the finals of the inaugural Rush Duel tournament, Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" emerged victorious against Gabriel Tan "Voltalon".[3]

The Master Duel World Championship saw the exact same final match as in the year before, with snipehunters (Joshua Schmidt "Josh", Emre Kizilates "Emre" and Jack-Rory Steenkamer "Quantal") on one side and Team 7 (Ryan Yu "Ryan", Jesse Kotton "Jesse Kotton" and Raymond Dai "Raye") on the other. Something like this had never happened before in the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship. Unlike last year, it was Team 7 who took the win this time, evening the score between the two times. With this win, Ryan Yu became first person ever to win World Championships in different categories, as he was also the Dragon Duel World Champion of 2017.[3]

TCG/OCG[]

Competitors[]

North America
Central America
South America
Europe


Oceania
Asia
China
South Korea
Japan









Deck Breakdown[]

Overall
Deck Number
Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye 12
Fiendsmith Yubel 8
Ritual Beast 2
Tenpai Dragon 2
Fiendsmith Labrynth 1
Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Rescue-ACE 1
Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils
Snake-Eye Fire King
1
Melodious 1
Top 8
Deck Number
Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye 3
Fiendsmith Yubel 2
Ritual Beast 1
Tenpai Dragon 1
Fiendsmith Sinful Spoils
Snake-Eye Fire King
1


Top 8 Bracket[]

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
       
  United States Mark Solis  
  Dominican Republic Giancarlo Valdez    
  United States Mark Solis  
      Japan Yuto Kondo    
  Japan Yuto Kondo  
  Australia Kalist Uremovic    
  United States Mark Solis  
   
    United States Ruben Penaranda  
  China Jiawei Zhang  
  United States Ruben Penaranda    
  United States Ruben Penaranda  
      United States Jose Santiago    
  United States Jose Santiago  
  Spain Julio Valls    
 


Decklists[]

Ruben Penaranda[]


Mark Solis[]


Yuto Kondo[]


Jose Santiago[]





Duel Links[]

Competitors[]

KC Cup Winners
KCCP Top Players






North America (Area A)
Latin America/Carribean (Area B)
Europe (Area C)
Japan (Area D)
Asia/Oceania/Middle East/Africa (Region E)

Deck Breakdown[]

Overall
Deck Number
Star Seraph 16
Sky Striker 11
Fleur Infernoble Knight 9
Cyberse 8
Sacred Beast 8
Shark Variants 8
Rokket 7
Chronomaly 5
Tachyon 2
Fleur Sunavalon 1
Mayakashi 1
Performage 1
Shaddoll 1
Unchained 1
Zombie 1
Top 4
Deck Number
Star Seraph 4
Sky Striker 4
Chronomaly 2
Cyberse 2
Fleur Infernoble Knight 2
Shark Variants 2
Rokket 2
Sacred Beast 1
Unchained 1

Top 4 Bracket[]

  Semi-finals Finals
  United States Camron Imeny "Tadashi 正" 2  
  Japan Takuma Kitamura "たく" 3  
 
      Japan Takuma Kitamura "たく" 2
    Bolivia Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" 3
  Bolivia Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy" 3
  Japan Shota Inoue "みさか" 2  

Decklists[]

Sebastian Villarroel "Shelmy"[]






Takuma Kitamura "たく"[]









Duel Links (Rush Duel)[]

Competitors[]

North America (Area A)
  • United States Richard Pacheco "pacowacotaco"
  • Canada Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes"
Latin America/Carribean (Area B)






Europe (Area C)
Japan (Area D)
Asia/Oceania/Middle East/Africa (Region E)
  • Singapore Gabriel Tan "Voltalon"

Deck Breakdown[]

Overall
Deck Number
Psychic 8
Yggdrago Cyberse 8
Royal Rebel's Fiend 7
Ultimate Flag Machine 7
Blue-Eyes Monarch 4
Buster Blader Warrior 2
Aqua 1
Noodle Ninja 1
Sevens Road Spellcaster 1
Wyrm Excavator 1

Top 4 Bracket[]

  Semi-finals Finals
  Italy Giorgio Pattoni "Giorfio" 1  
  Canada Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" 3  
 
      Canada Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes" 3
    Singapore Gabriel Tan "Voltalon" 1
  Singapore Gabriel Tan "Voltalon" 3
  Brazil Rafael Jose "Zeeta" 0  

Decklists[]

Marc-Andre Ladouceur-Kirkor "QuantumCubes"[]

Ultimate Flag Machine (Yuga Ohdo: Ultimate Bond) (Deck 1)
Monsters (22)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Crafter Drone x3
  • Rising Light Angel Essel x3
  • Steel Mech Lord Mirror Innovator x3
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Aim Eagle x2
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Bolt Tricorn
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Surge Unicorn x3
  • Ultimate Flag Mech Gold Rush x2
Spells (4) & Traps (4)
Spells
Traps


Yggdrago Cyberse (Nail Saionji: Maximum Ragnarok) (Deck 2)
Monsters (24)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Attrashoot Hydron x2
  • Belsectacle Mani x3
  • Chaos Femtron x3
  • Reset Runner x3
Maximum Monsters
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor x3
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor (L) x3
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor (R) x3


Royal Rebel's Fiend (Roa Kassidy: Death Doom Requiem) (Deck 3)
Monsters (21)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Rogue of Archfiend x2
  • Royal Rebel's Doom Metal x3
  • Royal Rebel's Heavy Metal x3
  • Royal Rebel's Invasion x3
  • Royal Rebel's Phaser x3
  • Shadow Buyer x3
Spells (6) & Traps (3)
Spells
Traps


Psychic (Romin Kassidy: Re:D Shine!) (Deck 4)
Monsters (20)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • CAN - Melo:D x3
  • Prima Guitarna the Shining Superstar x2
  • Romanpick
  • Rythmical Performer x3
  • Siesta Torero x3
Spells (8) & Traps (2)


Buster Blader Warrior (Asana Matsuba: Emblem of Destruction) (Deck 5)
Monsters (22)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
Spells (4) & Traps (4)


Gabriel Tan "Voltalon"[]

Ultimate Flag Machine (Yuga Ohdo: Ultimate Bond) (Deck 1)
Monsters (22)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Crafter Drone x3
  • Rising Light Angel Essel x3
  • Steel Mech Lord Mirror Innovator x3
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Aim Eagle x2
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Bolt Tricorn
  • Ultimate Flag Beast Surge Unicorn x3
  • Ultimate Flag Mech Gold Rush x3
Spells (4) & Traps (4)
Spells
Traps


Yggdrago Cyberse (Nail Saionji: Maximum Ragnarok) (Deck 2)
Monsters (22)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Attrashoot Hydron x2
  • Belsectacle Mani x3
  • Chaos Femtron x3
Maximum Monsters
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor x2
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor (L) x3
  • Yggdrago the Sky Emperor (R) x3
Spells (5) & Traps (3)


Psychic (Romin Kassidy: Re:D Shine!) (Deck 3)
Monsters (21)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
Spells (7) & Traps (2)


Royal Rebel's Fiend (Roa Kassidy: Death Doom Requiem) (Deck 4)
Monsters (21)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Rogue of Archfiend x3
  • Royal Rebel's Doom Metal x3
  • Royal Rebel's Heavy Metal x3
  • Royal Rebel's Invasion x3
  • Royal Rebel's Phaser x3
  • Shadow Buyer x3
Spells (7) & Traps (2)
Spells
Traps


Blue-Eyes Monarch (Gavin Sogetsu: Blue-Eyes Reign) (Deck 5)
Monsters (23)
Normal Monsters
Effect Monsters
  • Blue-Eyes Bright Dragon
  • Kaibaman x3
  • Piercing Samurai x3
  • Siesta Torero x3
  • Soul Drake x2
  • Twin Edge Dragon x2
  • Wilhel the Mega Monarch x2
  • Wilhel the Wisdom Monarch x3
  • Zuse the Wisdom Vassal x3
Spells (5) & Traps (2)





Master Duel[]

Teams[]

World Championship 2023 Winning Team
Duelist Cup Winners
Japan (Area A)
Asia (Area B)
North America (Area C)
Latin America (Area D)
Europe/Middle East/Oceania/Africa (Area E)
Season Points Top Teams



Deck & Shared Card Breakdown[]

Decks
Deck Number
Sinful Spoils Snake-Eye Fire King 11
Branded Despia 8
Yubel 8
Tearlaments Variants 7
Labrynth 6
Voiceless Voice 6
Purrely 4
Runick Stun 4
Centur-Ion Variants 2
Superheavy Samurai FTK 2
Vanquish Soul 2
Adventurer Spright 1
Exosister 1
Floowandereeze 1
Mathmech 1
Salamangreat 1
Sinful Spoils Rescue-ACE 1
Stun 1
Tenyi Swordsoul 1
Zoodiac 1
Unknown 2
Shared Cards
Card Number
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 12
Maxx "C" 12
Called by the Grave 6
Infinite Impermanence 4
PSY-Framegear Gamma 2

Group Stage & Top 4 Bracket[]

Pos Group A Wins (Team) Wins (Indiv.) Wins (Leader)
1 CER 4 25 8
2 snipehunters 3 26 7
3 BOTB 3 24 9
4 BRAZ IL 3 24 6
5 CER 2 x FCG 2 18 6
6 Thank Love 0 18 8
Pos Group B Wins (Team) Wins (Indiv.) Wins (Leader)
1 Hero's Future 4 29 9
2 Team 7 3 27 10
3 MYYGO 2 23 10
4 Maxx "Yee" 2 21 6
5 Rogue Rulers 2 19 6
6 Double Noir 2 16 5


  Semi-finals Finals
  CER 4  
  Team 7 5  
 
      Team 7 8
    snipehunters 1
  Hero's Future 4
  snipehunters 5  


Decklists[]

Team 7[]

Ryan Yu "Ryan"[]



Jesse Kotton "Jesse Kotton"[]



Raymond Dai "Raye"[]



snipehunters[]

Joshua Schmidt "Josh"[]



Emre Kizilates "Emre"[]



Jack-Rory Steenkamer "Quantal"[]




References[]

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