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Genuine question if I may... Why don't venues have a cap on entry? There seems to be a problem with too many players joining so why not make it first come first served for the entry? Make entries stop at 150 or 200 if the place can only fit 150
By far the worst tournament I was in was held on this island. They didn't provide any food, and the gay dude running it kept capturing people and putting them in cards. Was miserable.
Still remember a YCS London where the event was held at comic con. The ticket for the YCS included a free entry to comic con for Friday - Sunday...the YCS entry fee was so much lower that tons of people bought the entry to YCS, bought a single structure deck at the event, registered it, and dropped out instantly to go spend 3 days at comic con for like, 1/3 the price. I don't think they included it again after that.
This was the usual case for YCS London pre-Covid. It is not included anymore, but nobody knows if it will return, because the first (and only) event after Covid was the 250th YCS in London and this was not during Comic Con. (You could also not drop out immediatly, if I remember correctly, the wristbands were distributed at the start of Round 3)
@@tyranitararmaldo This was at least the case for the YCS Londons where I was present. But again, so far we did not have a London-YCS during Comic Con, so it might still be returning at some point. Nobody knows.
These got absolutely NOTHING on Brazil Nats 2015, there was way more people registered than the venue could hold, so some people had to WAIT FOR A TABLE TO FINISH THE ROUND before starting to play theirs, meaning rounds would go forever, because you had to notify a judge that your round had began so they could starr counting your 40 minutes. Not only that, but the venue was also a game center where they host children's birthdays, so we had to play with the loud sounds and blinking lights of the game booths, with no air conditioning outside of the top tables, that were in a separate room in the back, and the finals ended with one of the players having a seizure and passing out. (He was fine afterwards) it was the single most hell-ish event i've ever played
I cant believe Ycs Düsseldorf wasnt mentioned, so many people showed up that they literally created a second ycs in a different location in the city that started like 5 hours after the first one
Just want to mention something regarding YCS London (Head Judge of YCS London here) - we had to start the round, there was no way around it. However, we made sure that nobody was penalized for things that were not their fault. So even if someone at the table got their win due to having no opponent, the opponent waiting in line got a win as well. So nobody should have had an disadvantage for the system failing.
Soon as I heard “PA regional in a barely converted Chinese buffet” I KNEW exactly which shop they were talking about. This place in the Plymouth meeting mall that I think had just barely opened. And yes they keep product in (clean) buffet trays. Actually a neat place imo
My worst event experience was the 2022 Nats like event they had. My backpack was stolen with the majority of my cards in it, about 3000-4000 dollars worth of cards were in there. What made it worst was that it was stolen during the last side event my friend and I were doing Sunday before we were going to head home. I still haven't recovered from that.
Always gotta wear your backpack on your stomach at those events and never take it off. Also pad lock all the zippers. I dont trust anyone, even when i put my lunch pale in the fridge at work its got a mini pad lock keeping the zippers shut😂
As someone who has attended a bunch of competitive MTG events and has complained about rounds not starting/going over time at say, Dreamhack Atlanta, this video has really given me perspective on how much worse it could be.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 The incident that comes to mind is a player that was in contention for Top 8 at Dreamhack Atlanta 2022. They lost their last round and would've finished Top 32 and qualified for the Pro Tour. However they had several curled foils in their deck and was DQ'd for marked cards after the judges demonstrated they were able to consistently cut to the curled foils, which were key cards to the player's strategy they would want to open. Of course they feigned innocence but you don't get DQ'd for marked cards in MTG unless the judges think you were actively using them to cheat. I don't believe this person was a known player and I think they won a very small qualifier (
@@nicholasfarrell5981 There was an incident at Dreamhack Atlanta 2022 where a player who theoretically would've qualified for the Pro Tour in Top 32 got DQ'd after the last round. Apparently it was for marked cards because all the copies of one of the key cards in their deck were foil and curled to the point where the judges could consistently cut to them. Just having marked cards isn't enough in MTG to DQ a player, and the judges have to determine intent. The player knew which cards to which the judges were referring when the deck check occurred though and apparently this was suspicious enough that the player was DQ'd. As far as I know that player wasn't a known quantity and definitely had not been suspected of cheating in other events. Dreamhack has also only been something that was added to the competitive MTG schedule in lieu of GPs a couple years ago so there's not a lot of other history to go off of here. Might be something else but thought I'd mention the major Dreamhack cheating allegations I could think of.
@@CanadianPianoManokay, but that's probably what I was thinking of. Must've got the "Angels player with the 7 foil CoCo effects" crossed with the "Brazilian Burn player notorious for scumming with Deflecting Palm" crossed in my brain when I posted, because I became aware of them both around the same time.
MBT: Donde esta la... Fenrir? Average Spanish Speaking Yugioh Player with cards in English: ' Seteo una... dos, Banisheo tu carta, Targetea? En tu Standby. ' I'm Mexican, most players speak like that, including me. It's really funny that we use english terms like 'Farming' as spell them are ' Farmeo '.
In Romania as well, most of the gaming terms in general are borrowed from English (such as damage, HP, etc) even when there's translations available, because the translations sound clunky.
I’m so happy somebody brought up the failed regional at Waffles and Enthusiasm. A friend of mine went to high school with the owner and was like, I have no idea how this is gonna work. There’s no way this ends well… and it didn’t. The Chinese buffet to LCS pipeline is NOT real
Kaiba Duelist Kingdom experience in a nutshell, forced into it because of kidnapped brother, had a guy impersonate him as far as to steal his deck. Had to fight an armed guard with full intention to shoot. Nearly jumps of a building halfway through. And losing to the TO who had full info on his hand the whole time. Props to Kaiba he really showed how to run a tournament.
Not to mention that the TO's entire deck was just straight-up homebrew cards, people always forget that part. But no, it's _Téa_ whose wins all get "um, ackshully"-ed!
:) Yugi Boomer here so i can only tell stuff from VERY long ago. Best story imho was when Upperdeck took over the distribution worldwide. This anouncement was made during the German qualifiers. Until then all other Qualifiers were made with cards that were sold in your country (you couldn't play american US cards since they were several sets beyond us). So you played the first few qualifiers with Cards LOB - LON and then ... one week later BOOM play IOC Format. Of course not many did check the internet that frequently so not everybody knew that. (also the Qualifiers were held almost everywhere from a school (literally in a school room or several rooms), to club halls and stuff. One we had in a restaurant :D And then i don't know which one but it was at a Pharao Tour they had issues with the printer to print the pairings so they couldn't print them. Players had to wait until they got new printer ink (or a new printer don't know excalty... it's some years)
Pharao Tour Bremen maybe? Even tho, those were not Printer Issues, the system simply was not able to handle 1000+ people, so they had to program it on-site. At least this is the only Pharao Tour I attended with huge delays.
I've never played at a non-locals tournament, but I will always remember the one tournament where CapG called out the judges giving a game loss to a guy who misplayed even though his opponent misplayed first, and their response was to threaten to sue Cap.
YCS Santa Clara. Forget the year (2009?). Theft was rampant and no one was doing jack to stop it. Just about everything not nailed down was getting swiped. Most heartbreaking story of it came when a mother crying, begging people to find her 8-year old's deck. Someone had stolen it, despite it being an unsleeved starter deck with a couple cheap add-ons. Community came together to build the kid a real deck to make him feel better. But the crazy amount of theft really ruined a good time for a lot of people.
Brings me back to that Seattle regional (some time between 2013-2015 idk) where we had to vacate the venue because one of the judges accidentally pulled the fire alarm.
That PA regional was at a close by store to me; Waffles and Enthusiasm. Everything they said is true. No AC, the bathrooms were clogged so you had to go INTO THE MALL to use them. The product very much was in serving stations. People were packed like sardines. And SHOCKING not only was this place allowed to stay open after that, it was still an OTS store. Until recently when they got an eviction notice for not paying rent
I've only been to a single bad tournament. It was a regional in Maine in 2017 (INOV format). I had heard from friends all day that the judges were awful. There were. I was 5-0 on Metalfoes when I went up against ABC. I baited out his Infinity negate with Archfiend Eccentrick, so I followed up with System Down. He tributed his ABC to summon back A, B, and C. Okay, all his shit should still get banished, right? No, the *head judge* ruled that he could use Union Hangar's effect *MID-CHAIN* to equip B-Buster Drake to C-Crush Wyvern so that neither would get banished. I scooped and went home.
Not a YCS, but I have a low light in the Fall 2018 Garden City Regional at Pandemonium. It's not over the usual suspects: most of the games were fun, the hot dog/sausage stand's food was stellar, and the tournament itself was ran as smooth as ice. The problem was that a group of thieves distracted a card vendor long enough for one of them to smash the glass covering protecting the seller's wares with a giant rock and stole all of their cards. Pandemonium hasn't hosted another Yu-gi-oh regional ever since then, and don't even participate in sneak peaks anymore.
4:20 I was at that one! Place actually sucked. Round 2 I was in said dungeon, which reeked of onions, and I was going up against full power Kashtira. Lost in time as I couldn’t find a way into Wiz (RSFH) so I scooped as the time was almost up, and turns out the upstairs and the downstairs had 2 different timers, and my mind was on the upstairs one. Only good that came from that regional was a farmers market outside that was selling curry quesadillas
And also, the reason mentioned why it took so long was because the place was already at its limit, but the guys running the event kept letting people in, and they were surprised when they ran out of space, and had to go to Walmart to get more tables and chairs
My friends and I know the person who ran the PA regional in the former Chinese buffet. Apparently the paperwork he signed wouldn't allow him to change the former restaurant so he had to work with what he had. He.... isn't running that place anymore. He got evicted. It was all more of a revenge thing against the shop he used to work at anyway.
God that pa reginal was so much worse than he said in the video there are pictures on zodiac from when that was going on it was such a bonding experience for us all their because we knew from the get it was gonna suck but my god it just kept getting worse
I still feel bad for my friend's first regional in Iowa lol. He gets to an Adventureland Hotel where they're playing it in some second floor meeting room the size of a school classrom. Seating is so close that you literally bump elbows. People are getting yelled at for nonvendor trades in the hallway. My friend takes post banlist Flunder. They put him at his table but the guy isn't there. Whole round goes by, they give him the win. Turns out the guy was told by a different judge to go to the wrong table and they gave HIM the win too on the other side of the room. The judges decide the best way to fix this is to NOT DO THE NEXT ROUND BY MAKING THEM DO A FULL MATCH. Literally like 90 people watching him play, knowing that this time is literally keeping the entire tourney from going. My friend somehow won (I probably would've forfeit and cried in my car if that were me) but went on to get sideboarded out of every match and drop. Wild shit.
The Arkansas YCS mentioned was held in my hometown of Fayetteville and i can best describe the location, Bears Games, as a PT Cruiser after a demolition derby
7:16 i know the owner of the store and he told me the story of that regional. I also remember the philly regional when the list dropped cuz i was in LA for an anime con that had a yugioh tournament in it and best believe people there had the same reaction
I hate to say that I was at that San Antonio regionals. It’s even worse for me to say that that’s my actual locals and that those seats never changed. They were always that terrible
If the pa regional one was where i think it was, i have been in the place before on a regular day. It is VERY strange. And yes, the product was set in the buffet lines, and pretty unorganized.
I've only been to 1 YCS, and it was tue 200th in Columbus. It was smack in the middle of gouki extra link and dark world FTK format. Other than that, it was fine.
Bro talking about waffles and enthusiasm from PA the Chinese buffet retrofitted to be a card shop. Honestly it's saving grace is it's next to an enormous mall
I enjoy how about a third of these are actually cases of the YCS itself being bad and the remaining 2/3rds are a mixture of personal horror stories and/or simply taking a rational look at what the average event entails. Amazing.
The only regional i went to had 300 people stuck in a conference room in a hotel. Outside it was like 36 degrees °F and inside of the venue it was like 90 degrees with the quantity of people. Nearly lost a game in round 5 because there were 2 entrances to the place and my table was 1 feet from on of them and took the other entrance. Had to dive against the human wave entering the place to sit. Only for it having so many people crammed in the table that in practice, we had to play with only 4 zones instead of 5. Ended up drawing beacuse of the 5 minutes i lost struggling to reach my seat. And to end it all, it was 9 rounds straight without pause, because they started late. So no food.
Regional at CoolStuff games in FL a year or so ago. Heat was out so they had 2 or 3 industrial fans running, started about an hour and a half late, I didn't have a chair for the first 5 minutes of round one (i was literallt standing and playing), and i couldnt draw a single level 2 monster for spright 4 games in a row. It was a time to be alive
My boy went to that PA regional in the chinese buffet spot. Its called waffles and enthusiasm. They good dudes, but deadass it was a shitshow. He showed me pictures of dragon sleeve boxes in the buffet trays and stuff. It was insane.
Small regional in like 2010. Only 80ish people but we were all crammed into a hot brick room in the middle of summer with no AC and ONE fan. Oh and they screwed up pairings for round 1 multiple times. Room stank to high hell though not the fault of the players themselves obviously
I live in the UK, done one Open and one WCQ, both had management problems and the WCQ in birmingham this year was like a tin of sardines, round started late due to lack of tables, good times
There was a regional hosted by a new locals in the Philly area that broke off from another well known locals. Owner's a total clown. The regional was hosted in the LGS and hit 250 people. People were packed so tightly into their seats that it caused a fire hazard where no one could pass by if you were in the back, There's a video of me being on the wrong side of the table and being squished in further, so rather than going back through the walkway I climb over the table to the other side LMAO. Also my opponent (regular at my locals btw) tried to shark me Game 2 because we forgot a mandatory Arise Heart, then I died to King Tiger Whangu stun in Round 3. Absolute garbage
for me back in the day it was at a actual locals before they decided they needed a convention center over fire capacity every time to where they even had to have players play on tables outside to where if it wasnt the az heat if you got one gust of wind in your direction your deck was probably as good as gone and for the people that played in doors their was no ac what so ever (again while in az as well) and the locals in question only had one toilet inside to where the bathroom not only had lines waiting all the way outside but the room for the bathroom itself was the literal size of you being shoved in a locker and on the off chance if that wasnt enough sometimes their would be plumbing trouble to where the toilet would literally explode otherwise is just thankful we have convention centers now to have regionals as is and is just glad this is no longer the case but if i had to add one more thing to this i literally got heat sickness because of their being no ac as even drinking water in that oven was not enough to keep anyone well enough to not get heat sickness and if you want to go a step further the store owners did have a fan but they only had it pointing in their direction aka behind the counter so while the rest of us suffered they at least were able to cool off themselves so uhm ye....
That San Antonio one. I Know the place. I never went to a San Antonio regional again because that shop always ran it and the venue was always that. Middle School tables and imagine sitting squished between two dudes that either hasn't taken a shower that week or WEED. I ended up dropping around round 4 or 5 because the chinese food I bought from next door made me sick as hell.
Not one super well known but July or August 2022 a regional was hosted in Waterloo in a hotel basement dining hall that had a 2 hour delay because the judges couldn’t figure out a TV to show the clock. Longest regional day ever 🙃
I am a regular from the Shop mentioned at 4:38. Its a shop called Pink Elephant games and cafe, wonderful shop. it was a bit crowded, but it definitely holds more than 50 people. great pizza. TO was getting mad because nobody was listening to him call out stuff.
YCS Philly was the only YCS I've ever been to because they so seldomly hold them in Northeastern US. I was lucky to be playing against Toons the round the banlist dropped. I did get a bunch of Ghostrick Specters signed though, so that was fun.
So I just recently started going to competitive events and both of my experiences were in Indy. Neither were bad but both had what seem like odd issues to me. At the YCS I found out that my Konami ID on neuron was just wrong so I had to have a hand written note by a judge with my actual ID because “there’s no way to change the one neuron without having to redo all of your stuff”. Then at the regional last year I had shown up early only to find the location of the event had been changed with no notice as the room we were all told to be in was a special fan party area for the Iowa Hawkeyes foot ball team.
Gotta say for me it was YCS Mendenhall where the game shop was completely packed with people and there was no AC on the hottest day that year. My blackwings at the time were not up to snuff since I had no new support nor Orcust to throw in since it was one of the top contenders for the format, but Mystic Mine was available so I tried Weatheries. Kinda hurt when the first deck I faced was Blackwing Orcust, followed by Orcust Mekk-Knight, then Crusadia, all under Master Rule 4. The only good thing, got the entire Kosmo deck for about 10 bucks or so at the time. Team APS's video on it was VERY accurate.
dire's editing of the intro gag this episode could've been better. Plus missed opportunity with not doing "Created by Alex Cimoooooo" That would've been hilarious. Also the MBT looks kinda sloppily added ontop of the gravity falls logo and you can see the original underneath. But none the less, dire's editing is always great.
For me it was YCS Pasadena 2022, I cried from frustration of how the event was going along with the time zone difference, it felt like no one was listening to me, and I got catcalled on top of everything.
All San Antonio regionals are held there and have been for at least 10 years. The only good thing about the location is the boba place next door, shout out bobalicious
As someone who has been to the Arkansas and San Antonio regional. They are 100% not lying. However I once went to the Oklahoma City regional (it was during Nekroz format) and there was a tornado warning during the final round about a mile from the venue.
Blackpool UK WCQ 2022(?). Pairings weren't on the app and the person I went with got robbed. I also had to sit in front of Traptrix which is never fun. Did get to play DogmaKroz vs a BA player though, very very fun conversations after that one.
I played in the Battle Pack draft YCS in San Diego. It wasnt actually a draft, they gave is premade decks, many of them were awful. Some well known high level players had some decks that were clearly suspicious like they were crafted to give them a leg up over everyone else.
I was also at that Wichita regional and it was also my first. My friends were hyping up my first regional and we showed up for that. Worst experience by far. But I'm glad i stuck with it because I had a blast and still am
It might be good (even if not helpful) to write a list of things Yu-Gi-Oh! players expect at an event, both do's and don't's. So that whoever hosts these events can crossreference the list later and maybe make the events more bearable. But listening to these stories just doesn't make me want to waste money on attending them. It just doesn't sound like fun.
On a complete opposite note. YCS Bochum 2018 was fantastic imo. The event that World chalice won. Location was great. Things were smooth and side event were hella fun
ycs vegas was so scuffed, one person on our opponents team got up to check time and a judge got mad at him saying he should raise his hand and ask for a judge to ask time left... like what?
I was at the Philly YCS. the banlist announcement during round 2 was ridiculous but it didn't affect me cause I was done with my round when I heard about the banlist lol
We had a tournament where the judge was literally stealing card maps from players there... which was later found out after all the evidence was removed by said judge and nothing could be confirmed... but people absolutely knew...
Regionals in a nearby city. First one i'd ever been to. The problem wasn't the tournament itself that was run very well, the problem was that for me to get there it was a 2 hour train ride, 10 minute walk out of the massive train station, 15 min on the bus and then another 10 minute walk. I left at like 6 AM and didn't come back till near 7pm, and none of the locals crowd had any space in their cars, plus they were dropping if they started losing. Why do people even bother showing up if all they want to do is win? It's supposed to be fun.
Yeah San antonio regionals are bad, they refuse to turn on the air when it was 103 degrees outside and it was 200+ people crammed in a small room with the lunch tables
Let me tell you about the worst one I went to. It was a city wide event and we had to duel people for these plastic cards. We also needed to be of high enough rank to even get a duel disk
I was heading to Day 2 of YCS Knoxville (I wasn't playing but still planned on doing stuff) when I found out that my starter was broke. Fortunately, I found a place that could fix it on a Sunday
Mexico Nationals 2022, first it was on a city with lots of tourist in the middle of summer vacation so almost eveyrthing was booked, the hotel where the Nationals were hold was also full of tourist and packed as hell, it started really late, some vendore inside the Ntaional were selling really convincing fakes and one guy bought 3 Prosperity when it was close to a hundred for a vendor and they were fake, also a good number of cars were broken in in the parking lot, it was a shit show, we have never had that good of events in Mexico but man thatw as bad.
I think my worst event was at this weird venue that made me get on a motorcycle to play? I don't have a license, so I tried faking one, but they figured it out and I got kicked out of the venue. I think I dodged a bullet though, apparently that event had some weird electrical surge and the world ended because of it? Maybe that's why I have some fondness for the Xyz era.
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Genuine question if I may... Why don't venues have a cap on entry? There seems to be a problem with too many players joining so why not make it first come first served for the entry? Make entries stop at 150 or 200 if the place can only fit 150
By far the worst tournament I was in was held on this island. They didn't provide any food, and the gay dude running it kept capturing people and putting them in cards. Was miserable.
Not even any restaurants or burger stands?
Muahahahahahahaha
Somebody made this exact joke in the video. Now I look like an EEEEDIOT.
Ah yes, Pegasus. The original Jeffrey Epstein.
Swear. Some dude ina bandana tried to sell me fentanyl.
Still remember a YCS London where the event was held at comic con. The ticket for the YCS included a free entry to comic con for Friday - Sunday...the YCS entry fee was so much lower that tons of people bought the entry to YCS, bought a single structure deck at the event, registered it, and dropped out instantly to go spend 3 days at comic con for like, 1/3 the price.
I don't think they included it again after that.
This was the usual case for YCS London pre-Covid. It is not included anymore, but nobody knows if it will return, because the first (and only) event after Covid was the 250th YCS in London and this was not during Comic Con. (You could also not drop out immediatly, if I remember correctly, the wristbands were distributed at the start of Round 3)
@@AvenFallen "the wristbands were distributed at the start of Round 3" they clearly learned their lesson hehe.
@@tyranitararmaldo This was at least the case for the YCS Londons where I was present. But again, so far we did not have a London-YCS during Comic Con, so it might still be returning at some point. Nobody knows.
2019 london ycs was a shitshow of epic proportions
I remember that, good time I came 666th place with evil heros xD
These got absolutely NOTHING on Brazil Nats 2015, there was way more people registered than the venue could hold, so some people had to WAIT FOR A TABLE TO FINISH THE ROUND before starting to play theirs, meaning rounds would go forever, because you had to notify a judge that your round had began so they could starr counting your 40 minutes. Not only that, but the venue was also a game center where they host children's birthdays, so we had to play with the loud sounds and blinking lights of the game booths, with no air conditioning outside of the top tables, that were in a separate room in the back, and the finals ended with one of the players having a seizure and passing out. (He was fine afterwards) it was the single most hell-ish event i've ever played
The finals player having A STROKE? Lmao man that Is new levels of terrible.
a stroke? like a regular stroke? did you mean heat stroke? or maybe a seizure?
@@DLH112 yes, i meant a seizure, sorry, i got the two mixed up
Momento menos caótico do Yu-gi-oh no Brasil
welcome to brazil
I cant believe Ycs Düsseldorf wasnt mentioned, so many people showed up that they literally created a second ycs in a different location in the city that started like 5 hours after the first one
Please tell Dire this is the coolest MBT-edited cartoon opening she's done, and they've all been great
Coolest one she's done...so far.
Just want to mention something regarding YCS London (Head Judge of YCS London here) - we had to start the round, there was no way around it. However, we made sure that nobody was penalized for things that were not their fault. So even if someone at the table got their win due to having no opponent, the opponent waiting in line got a win as well. So nobody should have had an disadvantage for the system failing.
Soooooooo I’m pretty sure that barely converted Chinese buffet mentioned in the video was Waffles & Enthusiasm located in Plymouth Meeting, PA
Yep. That shop is closed now haha
@@Ace112896lol really? What happened?
@BlackSmith2099 The owner didn't pay the rent, so the landlord locked him out of the building.
That’s the one 😂
Doesn't that place still do helpa remote duel events tho?
Soon as I heard “PA regional in a barely converted Chinese buffet” I KNEW exactly which shop they were talking about. This place in the Plymouth meeting mall that I think had just barely opened. And yes they keep product in (clean) buffet trays. Actually a neat place imo
My worst event experience was the 2022 Nats like event they had. My backpack was stolen with the majority of my cards in it, about 3000-4000 dollars worth of cards were in there. What made it worst was that it was stolen during the last side event my friend and I were doing Sunday before we were going to head home. I still haven't recovered from that.
new fear unlocked
Some real big scumbags out there. Keep your cards close, people.
Always gotta wear your backpack on your stomach at those events and never take it off. Also pad lock all the zippers. I dont trust anyone, even when i put my lunch pale in the fridge at work its got a mini pad lock keeping the zippers shut😂
I love how one of these "bad ycs experiences" was someone breaking quarantine laws and going to prison
1984 at its finest
“The consequences of my actions!? Nooooo!!!”
@@Rahnonymous Me When I haven't read 1984
guys the Australian regional in question didnt happen but its stil listed as a regonal that occured so people made fake decklist and tops for it
As someone who has attended a bunch of competitive MTG events and has complained about rounds not starting/going over time at say, Dreamhack Atlanta, this video has really given me perspective on how much worse it could be.
Dreamhack sounds . . . familiar.
Isn't that where a pathological cheater in Pioneer got busted, or am I thinking of somewhere else?
@@nicholasfarrell5981 The incident that comes to mind is a player that was in contention for Top 8 at Dreamhack Atlanta 2022.
They lost their last round and would've finished Top 32 and qualified for the Pro Tour.
However they had several curled foils in their deck and was DQ'd for marked cards after the judges demonstrated they were able to consistently cut to the curled foils, which were key cards to the player's strategy they would want to open.
Of course they feigned innocence but you don't get DQ'd for marked cards in MTG unless the judges think you were actively using them to cheat.
I don't believe this person was a known player and I think they won a very small qualifier (
@@nicholasfarrell5981 There was an incident at Dreamhack Atlanta 2022 where a player who theoretically would've qualified for the Pro Tour in Top 32 got DQ'd after the last round.
Apparently it was for marked cards because all the copies of one of the key cards in their deck were foil and curled to the point where the judges could consistently cut to them.
Just having marked cards isn't enough in MTG to DQ a player, and the judges have to determine intent. The player knew which cards to which the judges were referring when the deck check occurred though and apparently this was suspicious enough that the player was DQ'd.
As far as I know that player wasn't a known quantity and definitely had not been suspected of cheating in other events.
Dreamhack has also only been something that was added to the competitive MTG schedule in lieu of GPs a couple years ago so there's not a lot of other history to go off of here.
Might be something else but thought I'd mention the major Dreamhack cheating allegations I could think of.
@@CanadianPianoManokay, but that's probably what I was thinking of. Must've got the "Angels player with the 7 foil CoCo effects" crossed with the "Brazilian Burn player notorious for scumming with Deflecting Palm" crossed in my brain when I posted, because I became aware of them both around the same time.
> The bar is on the floor
Well, people shouldn't sit on the barbell bench.
MBT: Donde esta la... Fenrir?
Average Spanish Speaking Yugioh Player with cards in English: ' Seteo una... dos, Banisheo tu carta, Targetea? En tu Standby. '
I'm Mexican, most players speak like that, including me.
It's really funny that we use english terms like 'Farming' as spell them are ' Farmeo '.
Lol, we speak that way, too, in Puerto Rico. We know the official terms in Spanish, but we prefer the English terms.
In Romania as well, most of the gaming terms in general are borrowed from English (such as damage, HP, etc) even when there's translations available, because the translations sound clunky.
Yea, my deck is in both English and Spanish cause sets come out in both languages. I even play one German Preparation of Rites.
me encanta, mi cuñado dice "banishear" todo el tiempo jajajaja
I’m so happy somebody brought up the failed regional at Waffles and Enthusiasm. A friend of mine went to high school with the owner and was like, I have no idea how this is gonna work. There’s no way this ends well… and it didn’t. The Chinese buffet to LCS pipeline is NOT real
Did they really play both the Ad music and the Kirby soundtrack together during that ad read ? I can't be the only one who heard that.
My ears are bleeding
Big Dire L, yeah I heard it too
Looks like with most people else, Dire skipped the ad read
Kaiba Duelist Kingdom experience in a nutshell, forced into it because of kidnapped brother, had a guy impersonate him as far as to steal his deck. Had to fight an armed guard with full intention to shoot. Nearly jumps of a building halfway through. And losing to the TO who had full info on his hand the whole time.
Props to Kaiba he really showed how to run a tournament.
Not to mention that the TO's entire deck was just straight-up homebrew cards, people always forget that part.
But no, it's _Téa_ whose wins all get "um, ackshully"-ed!
:) Yugi Boomer here so i can only tell stuff from VERY long ago.
Best story imho was when Upperdeck took over the distribution worldwide. This anouncement was made during the German qualifiers. Until then all other Qualifiers were made with cards that were sold in your country (you couldn't play american US cards since they were several sets beyond us). So you played the first few qualifiers with Cards LOB - LON and then ... one week later BOOM play IOC Format. Of course not many did check the internet that frequently so not everybody knew that. (also the Qualifiers were held almost everywhere from a school (literally in a school room or several rooms), to club halls and stuff. One we had in a restaurant :D
And then i don't know which one but it was at a Pharao Tour they had issues with the printer to print the pairings so they couldn't print them. Players had to wait until they got new printer ink (or a new printer don't know excalty... it's some years)
Pharao Tour Bremen maybe? Even tho, those were not Printer Issues, the system simply was not able to handle 1000+ people, so they had to program it on-site. At least this is the only Pharao Tour I attended with huge delays.
I've never played at a non-locals tournament, but I will always remember the one tournament where CapG called out the judges giving a game loss to a guy who misplayed even though his opponent misplayed first, and their response was to threaten to sue Cap.
"Kicked out due to disqualification" is the tournament equivalent of "people die when they are killed"
YCS Santa Clara. Forget the year (2009?). Theft was rampant and no one was doing jack to stop it. Just about everything not nailed down was getting swiped. Most heartbreaking story of it came when a mother crying, begging people to find her 8-year old's deck. Someone had stolen it, despite it being an unsleeved starter deck with a couple cheap add-ons. Community came together to build the kid a real deck to make him feel better.
But the crazy amount of theft really ruined a good time for a lot of people.
Brings me back to that Seattle regional (some time between 2013-2015 idk) where we had to vacate the venue because one of the judges accidentally pulled the fire alarm.
My worst one was when this guy gave me some tetris piece and some people calling themselves "shadow riders" kept trying to duel me.
Ive heard about the one in pa, i heard there was so many people the windows were fogged up so much it was dripping moisture from the body heat 💀
CORRECT. Can never forget that
that's known as raver rain
That PA regional was at a close by store to me; Waffles and Enthusiasm.
Everything they said is true. No AC, the bathrooms were clogged so you had to go INTO THE MALL to use them. The product very much was in serving stations. People were packed like sardines.
And SHOCKING not only was this place allowed to stay open after that, it was still an OTS store. Until recently when they got an eviction notice for not paying rent
where are your facts coming from cause i know thats not true
@@thewolfgaming4874 it’s true bro
I've only been to a single bad tournament. It was a regional in Maine in 2017 (INOV format). I had heard from friends all day that the judges were awful. There were. I was 5-0 on Metalfoes when I went up against ABC. I baited out his Infinity negate with Archfiend Eccentrick, so I followed up with System Down. He tributed his ABC to summon back A, B, and C. Okay, all his shit should still get banished, right? No, the *head judge* ruled that he could use Union Hangar's effect *MID-CHAIN* to equip B-Buster Drake to C-Crush Wyvern so that neither would get banished. I scooped and went home.
Not a YCS, but I have a low light in the Fall 2018 Garden City Regional at Pandemonium. It's not over the usual suspects: most of the games were fun, the hot dog/sausage stand's food was stellar, and the tournament itself was ran as smooth as ice. The problem was that a group of thieves distracted a card vendor long enough for one of them to smash the glass covering protecting the seller's wares with a giant rock and stole all of their cards. Pandemonium hasn't hosted another Yu-gi-oh regional ever since then, and don't even participate in sneak peaks anymore.
4:20 I was at that one! Place actually sucked. Round 2 I was in said dungeon, which reeked of onions, and I was going up against full power Kashtira. Lost in time as I couldn’t find a way into Wiz (RSFH) so I scooped as the time was almost up, and turns out the upstairs and the downstairs had 2 different timers, and my mind was on the upstairs one. Only good that came from that regional was a farmers market outside that was selling curry quesadillas
And also, the reason mentioned why it took so long was because the place was already at its limit, but the guys running the event kept letting people in, and they were surprised when they ran out of space, and had to go to Walmart to get more tables and chairs
My friends and I know the person who ran the PA regional in the former Chinese buffet. Apparently the paperwork he signed wouldn't allow him to change the former restaurant so he had to work with what he had. He.... isn't running that place anymore. He got evicted. It was all more of a revenge thing against the shop he used to work at anyway.
Bar on the floor? That's my favourite synchro!
Already gotta start with YCS Dortmund imo. Had a sequel and everything lmaooooo
what happened at dortmund
@@tsukamesuccess7332 Capacity issue. Event was so large they fucken hosted a second one lol(they really just hosted a continuation)
God that pa reginal was so much worse than he said in the video there are pictures on zodiac from when that was going on it was such a bonding experience for us all their because we knew from the get it was gonna suck but my god it just kept getting worse
I still feel bad for my friend's first regional in Iowa lol. He gets to an Adventureland Hotel where they're playing it in some second floor meeting room the size of a school classrom. Seating is so close that you literally bump elbows. People are getting yelled at for nonvendor trades in the hallway.
My friend takes post banlist Flunder. They put him at his table but the guy isn't there. Whole round goes by, they give him the win. Turns out the guy was told by a different judge to go to the wrong table and they gave HIM the win too on the other side of the room. The judges decide the best way to fix this is to NOT DO THE NEXT ROUND BY MAKING THEM DO A FULL MATCH. Literally like 90 people watching him play, knowing that this time is literally keeping the entire tourney from going. My friend somehow won (I probably would've forfeit and cried in my car if that were me) but went on to get sideboarded out of every match and drop. Wild shit.
Oh and our Locals is at a converted strip club. They have a Spiderman statue on the pole and we play yugioh in the backstage area. Pretty sick ngl.
Okay, Dire's intro edit was absolutely perfect this episode!
Also want to add that I went to the Chinese buffet regional and had a guy pick me up over the table to get to my spot in the corner.
the bombastic finger spiral at 6:55 made me happy
The Arkansas YCS mentioned was held in my hometown of Fayetteville and i can best describe the location, Bears Games, as a PT Cruiser after a demolition derby
Richmond YCS was my first and it was a blast for me, it was awesome to meet, you, Doug, Gage, and Danny. It was awesome.
7:16 i know the owner of the store and he told me the story of that regional. I also remember the philly regional when the list dropped cuz i was in LA for an anime con that had a yugioh tournament in it and best believe people there had the same reaction
I hate to say that I was at that San Antonio regionals. It’s even worse for me to say that that’s my actual locals and that those seats never changed. They were always that terrible
These regional horror stories make the old edison church basement regionals look like heaven
I'm surprised we didn't see a Battle City joke in the video.
Ok so the last one after the outro started was pretty funny
If the pa regional one was where i think it was, i have been in the place before on a regular day. It is VERY strange. And yes, the product was set in the buffet lines, and pretty unorganized.
I've only been to 1 YCS, and it was tue 200th in Columbus.
It was smack in the middle of gouki extra link and dark world FTK format.
Other than that, it was fine.
Bro talking about waffles and enthusiasm from PA the Chinese buffet retrofitted to be a card shop. Honestly it's saving grace is it's next to an enormous mall
I enjoy how about a third of these are actually cases of the YCS itself being bad and the remaining 2/3rds are a mixture of personal horror stories and/or simply taking a rational look at what the average event entails. Amazing.
I’m sorry somebody did Jail time for attending an Australian YCS? How have I only just now heard of this?
The only regional i went to had 300 people stuck in a conference room in a hotel. Outside it was like 36 degrees °F and inside of the venue it was like 90 degrees with the quantity of people. Nearly lost a game in round 5 because there were 2 entrances to the place and my table was 1 feet from on of them and took the other entrance. Had to dive against the human wave entering the place to sit. Only for it having so many people crammed in the table that in practice, we had to play with only 4 zones instead of 5. Ended up drawing beacuse of the 5 minutes i lost struggling to reach my seat. And to end it all, it was 9 rounds straight without pause, because they started late. So no food.
Regional at CoolStuff games in FL a year or so ago. Heat was out so they had 2 or 3 industrial fans running, started about an hour and a half late, I didn't have a chair for the first 5 minutes of round one (i was literallt standing and playing), and i couldnt draw a single level 2 monster for spright 4 games in a row. It was a time to be alive
My boy went to that PA regional in the chinese buffet spot. Its called waffles and enthusiasm. They good dudes, but deadass it was a shitshow. He showed me pictures of dragon sleeve boxes in the buffet trays and stuff. It was insane.
I had my deck stolen at a Richmond regionals. Wheeeee
Small regional in like 2010. Only 80ish people but we were all crammed into a hot brick room in the middle of summer with no AC and ONE fan. Oh and they screwed up pairings for round 1 multiple times. Room stank to high hell though not the fault of the players themselves obviously
I live in the UK, done one Open and one WCQ, both had management problems and the WCQ in birmingham this year was like a tin of sardines, round started late due to lack of tables, good times
There was a regional hosted by a new locals in the Philly area that broke off from another well known locals. Owner's a total clown. The regional was hosted in the LGS and hit 250 people. People were packed so tightly into their seats that it caused a fire hazard where no one could pass by if you were in the back, There's a video of me being on the wrong side of the table and being squished in further, so rather than going back through the walkway I climb over the table to the other side LMAO. Also my opponent (regular at my locals btw) tried to shark me Game 2 because we forgot a mandatory Arise Heart, then I died to King Tiger Whangu stun in Round 3. Absolute garbage
for me back in the day it was at a actual locals before they decided they needed a convention center over fire capacity every time to where they even had to have players play on tables outside to where if it wasnt the az heat if you got one gust of wind in your direction your deck was probably as good as gone and for the people that played in doors their was no ac what so ever (again while in az as well) and the locals in question only had one toilet inside to where the bathroom not only had lines waiting all the way outside but the room for the bathroom itself was the literal size of you being shoved in a locker and on the off chance if that wasnt enough sometimes their would be plumbing trouble to where the toilet would literally explode otherwise is just thankful we have convention centers now to have regionals as is and is just glad this is no longer the case but if i had to add one more thing to this i literally got heat sickness because of their being no ac as even drinking water in that oven was not enough to keep anyone well enough to not get heat sickness and if you want to go a step further the store owners did have a fan but they only had it pointing in their direction aka behind the counter so while the rest of us suffered they at least were able to cool off themselves so uhm ye....
That San Antonio one. I Know the place. I never went to a San Antonio regional again because that shop always ran it and the venue was always that. Middle School tables and imagine sitting squished between two dudes that either hasn't taken a shower that week or WEED.
I ended up dropping around round 4 or 5 because the chinese food I bought from next door made me sick as hell.
Not one super well known but July or August 2022 a regional was hosted in Waterloo in a hotel basement dining hall that had a 2 hour delay because the judges couldn’t figure out a TV to show the clock. Longest regional day ever 🙃
0:07 today's reference
8:20 MBT being called out
I am a regular from the Shop mentioned at 4:38. Its a shop called Pink Elephant games and cafe, wonderful shop. it was a bit crowded, but it definitely holds more than 50 people. great pizza. TO was getting mad because nobody was listening to him call out stuff.
YCS Philly was the only YCS I've ever been to because they so seldomly hold them in Northeastern US. I was lucky to be playing against Toons the round the banlist dropped.
I did get a bunch of Ghostrick Specters signed though, so that was fun.
I swear mbt is the only person that makes me watch the add part of the video
So I just recently started going to competitive events and both of my experiences were in Indy. Neither were bad but both had what seem like odd issues to me. At the YCS I found out that my Konami ID on neuron was just wrong so I had to have a hand written note by a judge with my actual ID because “there’s no way to change the one neuron without having to redo all of your stuff”. Then at the regional last year I had shown up early only to find the location of the event had been changed with no notice as the room we were all told to be in was a special fan party area for the Iowa Hawkeyes foot ball team.
@7:18 LMAO THIS GUY IS TALKING ABOUT WAFFLE REGIONAL!! IM DYING!
Gotta say for me it was YCS Mendenhall where the game shop was completely packed with people and there was no AC on the hottest day that year. My blackwings at the time were not up to snuff since I had no new support nor Orcust to throw in since it was one of the top contenders for the format, but Mystic Mine was available so I tried Weatheries. Kinda hurt when the first deck I faced was Blackwing Orcust, followed by Orcust Mekk-Knight, then Crusadia, all under Master Rule 4. The only good thing, got the entire Kosmo deck for about 10 bucks or so at the time. Team APS's video on it was VERY accurate.
Yo I've been to that Chinese buffet store... it's crazy
dire's editing of the intro gag this episode could've been better. Plus missed opportunity with not doing "Created by Alex Cimoooooo"
That would've been hilarious.
Also the MBT looks kinda sloppily added ontop of the gravity falls logo and you can see the original underneath.
But none the less, dire's editing is always great.
For me it was YCS Pasadena 2022, I cried from frustration of how the event was going along with the time zone difference, it felt like no one was listening to me, and I got catcalled on top of everything.
I apologize for the sack of shit with two legs that catcalled you.
No one should go have fun with his hobby and experience something like that.
One time a tournament I was in got interrupted by Academia invading my dimension and turning half the participants into cards, myself included. 😔
All San Antonio regionals are held there and have been for at least 10 years. The only good thing about the location is the boba place next door, shout out bobalicious
The "you asked me to do that" caught me off guard lol 😂
As someone who has been to the Arkansas and San Antonio regional. They are 100% not lying. However I once went to the Oklahoma City regional (it was during Nekroz format) and there was a tornado warning during the final round about a mile from the venue.
Blackpool UK WCQ 2022(?). Pairings weren't on the app and the person I went with got robbed. I also had to sit in front of Traptrix which is never fun.
Did get to play DogmaKroz vs a BA player though, very very fun conversations after that one.
That San Antonio was my locals before they upgraded the location to actual chairs.
Wish San Antonio still did regionals
I played in the Battle Pack draft YCS in San Diego. It wasnt actually a draft, they gave is premade decks, many of them were awful. Some well known high level players had some decks that were clearly suspicious like they were crafted to give them a leg up over everyone else.
I was also at that Wichita regional and it was also my first. My friends were hyping up my first regional and we showed up for that. Worst experience by far. But I'm glad i stuck with it because I had a blast and still am
I have to agree with YCS Philly. Granted I only attened 1 other YCS but the ban list drop during the event was definitely insane.
"YOU ASKED ME TO DO THAT" LOL
It might be good (even if not helpful) to write a list of things Yu-Gi-Oh! players expect at an event, both do's and don't's. So that whoever hosts these events can crossreference the list later and maybe make the events more bearable. But listening to these stories just doesn't make me want to waste money on attending them. It just doesn't sound like fun.
Nothing is gonna top the Tokyo Dome tournament. People got hospitalized over a head
Waffles and Enthusiasm mentioned (PA regional with the Chinese buffet)
On a complete opposite note. YCS Bochum 2018 was fantastic imo. The event that World chalice won. Location was great. Things were smooth and side event were hella fun
I’ve been to that “buffet” store. Those dude are actually good people
ycs vegas was so scuffed, one person on our opponents team got up to check time and a judge got mad at him saying he should raise his hand and ask for a judge to ask time left... like what?
I was at the Philly YCS. the banlist announcement during round 2 was ridiculous but it didn't affect me cause I was done with my round when I heard about the banlist lol
I love regional horror stories meanwhile my locals is the largest game store in the country and can't get Konami to let them host a regional
Oh shit! @4:53 I played this regional! It was awful! I left after round 4 because god it was crowded.
As someone who lives and plays in wichita kansas it's funny to hear us brought up
The fact that there are 2 songs playing at the same time for the sponsor ad hurts. Me. I hear Kirby and the mbt outro song at the same time
We had a tournament where the judge was literally stealing card maps from players there... which was later found out after all the evidence was removed by said judge and nothing could be confirmed... but people absolutely knew...
Regionals in a nearby city. First one i'd ever been to. The problem wasn't the tournament itself that was run very well, the problem was that for me to get there it was a 2 hour train ride, 10 minute walk out of the massive train station, 15 min on the bus and then another 10 minute walk. I left at like 6 AM and didn't come back till near 7pm, and none of the locals crowd had any space in their cars, plus they were dropping if they started losing. Why do people even bother showing up if all they want to do is win? It's supposed to be fun.
Yeah San antonio regionals are bad, they refuse to turn on the air when it was 103 degrees outside and it was 200+ people crammed in a small room with the lunch tables
I wanna see MBT on a German tournament, awkwardly pointing at his opponents cards: "Darf ich deine Karte lesen?" (May I read your card) :'D
Let me tell you about the worst one I went to. It was a city wide event and we had to duel people for these plastic cards. We also needed to be of high enough rank to even get a duel disk
I was heading to Day 2 of YCS Knoxville (I wasn't playing but still planned on doing stuff) when I found out that my starter was broke. Fortunately, I found a place that could fix it on a Sunday
Was at the YCS when the banlist dropped round 2
Mexico Nationals 2022, first it was on a city with lots of tourist in the middle of summer vacation so almost eveyrthing was booked, the hotel where the Nationals were hold was also full of tourist and packed as hell, it started really late, some vendore inside the Ntaional were selling really convincing fakes and one guy bought 3 Prosperity when it was close to a hundred for a vendor and they were fake, also a good number of cars were broken in in the parking lot, it was a shit show, we have never had that good of events in Mexico but man thatw as bad.
5:59
Yeah Georgia has some of the most terrible/unluckiest drivers ever, I swear. My 30 year old sister has totaled four cars because of her luck.
I think my worst event was at this weird venue that made me get on a motorcycle to play? I don't have a license, so I tried faking one, but they figured it out and I got kicked out of the venue. I think I dodged a bullet though, apparently that event had some weird electrical surge and the world ended because of it? Maybe that's why I have some fondness for the Xyz era.
The San Antonio regionals were the worse, i brought my own pillow to sit on one year😊