Konami's YCS Tournament Coverage Just Hit An All Time Low (YCS Sydney)
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First. No excitement and That’s because the competitiveness of the format is boring. Snake-eye is the only deck that can win, no rogue or other good creative decks can win with it running around.
Testing not people's skills, but thier wallets, to see who wins
You remember tear 0 right?
If you’re Poor just say that, you gotta spend to compete that’s always been the game, skill is great, if you don’t like don’t play stop complaining
My boy I think you're forgetting about skull servants Reason why the tribal skull servant deck is banned in tournament style play it's Unbeatable Literally on the first term you can summon something that has 8000 attack points that cannot be targeted and is amusing the trapcards what the f*** are you gonna do
@@anthonyfrey3181
8000 atk that is too low if your not summoning Skull Servant at 16,000 you are doing something wrong.
I went to YCS Sydney and I can say that I'm sure the reason Konami didn't want to do any coverage of the event is because of how poor the venue was. I have been to convention centers all across Australia and I can name 10 better than what we got. The Accor Stadium (Where the YCS was held) is mainly used for sporting events, so the upper floors which the event was held on weren't really made for such events. If the issue was finding somewhere that was available to host the event I can kind of understand but I have a feeling it was a money issue of trying to put in the least amount of money to get the most out.
As a first timer going to a YCS I was hoping for a handful of proper vendors (Not just people with their binders for trades) but the venue only had two which was disappointing. I have a feeling it may have been an issue with the space not being able to fit more than those two.
On how no one knew about it, I think if you weren't going to Australian locals regularly, you wouldn't have found out that there was a YCS. For me, I accidentally stumbled onto it when I was looking for concert tickets. I was shocked I hadn't heard anyone talking about it anywhere. Zero advertising whatsoever outside of chatter at locals.
Truly the Konami moment of all time
I can definitely understand this perspective, of them not wanting to "damage their brand" and stuff. Even events that could be considered "good" are often in the hands of bad or inexperienced tournament organizers and so many problems can happen, or just overall bad quality (example: pokemon tcg). But it just... sucks regardless.
That's adorable given what happened with last year's worlds.
Konami only live streams north American ycs's
Konami official tournaments are a joke. Tournaments aren't publicized well, aren't covered well, and when they are, the tournament is run in a shoddy fashion, BS rulings affect entire events, or games themselves are brought down to "draw your floodgate" after "draw more hand traps".
Been putting more time into Pokemon events and I've felt much better about my time and money going into a game. Konami gives a shallow performance, each and every time, barely enough to call YCSs a "tournament".
Ypu know when all the tournaments happen, they are streamed, there’s written deck coverage of the website.
Fact is people just don’t care about them that much
...as a famous philosopher once said...
Goddamn XD
So what? People are still gonna go to these tournaments and play anyway, no matter if they're covered or not. Konami been doing yugioh wrong the entire time it's been run here in the TCG yet here we are showing up to even bother complaining.
Yugioh players are even bigger jokes. Meta game is nothing but copy and paste decks with annoying cards to stop you from playing. Konami is catching on to why they been losing money, the blame: META PLAYERS.
I totally agree. I think the last ycs in Indianapolis was a perfect example.
Just a reminder that starcraft 2 tournaments OVER A DECADE AGO during the infancy of esports in the west had better coverage and production than yugioh tournaments in 2024. 0 excuse.
There are chess games that are 100+ years old that have more coverage than this.
Yoo that shout out means a lot. 🙏
Shark best deck! 💪🦈
Honestly, hand traps and expensive yet poorly thought out support has made yugioh unbearable. When the average players at locals play meta and tournaments are purely an engine met with 25 hand traps in deck, there's no fun. It is boring and expensive.
As someone who has been to every YCS in Australia, it’s always been very disappointing when I find out the one YCS Oceania receives every year is either not streamed, not covered or both. Now in the past, YCS in Australia have had live streams (I think 2-3 times if memory serves me right) however most of those times they weren’t streamed on official yugioh channels but rather someone else’s. Additionally I also know the reason for why they don’t stream down under anymore and it’s due to Konami having a reluctance/refusal to do so. Reason being is that the last stream that was held in Australia, a technical issue occurred whereby the stream somehow was interrupted mid session to show some dudes wedding , which from what I was told by the head of Konami’s Oceania division made them very upset as they felt it damaged their image as a company.
Entire Top 8 was Snake-Eye variants...
Key word being variants.
For the WCQ it will be worse: the entire top 8 is going to be Gimmick Puppet FTK.
@@KaoruMzk not if they ban Albion or Nightmare.
@@arthurfleck4320you don’t run nightmare in the new gimmick puppet deck. The FTK is done without the use of that card entirely
@@arthurfleck4320 You can't run Albion in Gimmick Puppets either, the FTK is reliant entirely on the new card from the upcoming set. (Which *will* be legal for Nationals)
@@KaoruMzkafter playing with the new Gimmic Puppet support I can safely say the deck will not be a problem. GP has quite a few bad matchups and the ftk is very fragile.
Remember how last year's World Championship were played in classrooms? The Chicagoland area has a massive playerbase and yet they wouldn't provide enough space for the players so the judge had to do split rounds to accommodate the extra players instead of turning them away. They're taking away from their events and it shows.
Sadly when it comes to Australia, or Oceania in general, Konami seems to have forgotten us. We get the lowest budget, we get less events, and overall, the product distribution can be quite terrible within the scene.
At least you get a ycs . Ireland gets none
@deanoxd968 Europe gets 3 to 4 YCS per year, Australia gets 1.
Europe gets their OTS packs on release, Australia is always 1 set behind (we haven't received ots 24 yet. Took us 6 months to receive the OTS with Ulti fenrirs)
@@YangusTCG geeeeez that’s shite.
The fact that Konami didn’t cover this YCS IS a bit foreboding.
They never really cover any Oceania events or South America though. They just tell us they happened but they offer little to no information besides top cut sometimes if we’re lucky.
Meta players ruined the TCG/OCG. What do you expect?
@@jobejacobs62 how? the meta was always part of the game
@@jobejacobs62bro has never topped an event and wants to complain just go play another card game dude you aren’t good at this one
It doesn't matter!
People will consume regardless, they know they can fet away with it. We are lucky that they EVEN cover it.
It sounds like even Konami is bored with this format now
They are. Meta players ruined it.
@jobejacobs62 No, they didn't. Konami did by making the power creep so bad that the only playable deck is the new archetype that Konami purposely makes tier 0 so you buy the new cards.
they are bored with the TCG/OCG in general. They only care for Rush now and the Asian market... No new mechanics, no new anime to promote the card game. Every deck has a omni negate now and a field spell that searches... Normal Yu-Gi-oh! is dying
@J.S.R.Berendsen - Its not because I believe Konami is about to hit Snake Eye real hard and hopefully learned their lesson for real this time giving older cards a major boost to compete to the meta cards. This can easily be done.
You would think that Australia would get more attention seeing as how it's so darn close to Japan but I guess not
Konami seems to have this weird ability to make 2 steps in the right direction only to then make 11 in the wrong direction.
At this point it is not even suprising to see them not do something that they should have done.
Hopefuly they will not repeat this kind of mistake. I mean its not like they are one of the richest companies in the gaming/hobby industry with the most profitable TCG in history as there poster child...
Yep I am among the people who had no idea this YCS was even as thing...
Despite the obvious flaws with Konami giving a shit about Oceania, it was still an amazing event. I was personally there and so many of my friends went. Although none of us made it to top cut, we loved every part of it. I also got to meet Yacine there. Great guy
Support locals not ycs. Locals fuel the community and konomi could care less about its player base.
Better yet just stop supporting Yugioh in order to convince your locals to stop carrying Yugioh. Konami has no incentive to improve their card game as long as people continue to buy product.
Not just YCS Sydney this year, but last year as well. It just felt like a giant regional event. Very mid.
We haven't had coverage for Australian events for years. They just gave up on doing anything. Saw a Konami shirt guy there taking photos but also can't find those photos anywhere. Also fun fact: a bunch of links on the Konami site re main event schedule and other details don't actually link to anywhere but just refresh the page
As a person who went to Sydney ycs this year it was sad there was no stream coverage of our ycs
Dang YCS yall going old school on this.
No lap-top, just a deck some pen and papers :D
Wait, there was a YCS this week? Not even trying to be sarcastic, I legitimately didn't realize it was happening.
I know that tomorrow is WCQ regional Pittsburgh, but I only know that because my lgs posted it on their Facebook.
This only gives me vives of komoney slowly letting go this game. I think they are ready to let the franchise d!e
The sooner the better, that way, someone who cares can come along and do better.
Not even Konami blogs is wild
Just remember all the other major TCGS have Pro-Tours.
I don't follow yugioh closely anymore, but having good tournament coverage is so good. It's nice to have a good registry that these things happened. So many events from the past we wish were covered but rely on memories of who was there, nowadays this happens less with everything being more shared online, but still.
Old Pokemon tournament was made in a Ship
I envy those kids same we cant see anything about outside a few pictures
Konami doesn’t care
They haven't cared for years and it's only going to get worse.
I feel like we're going to hit a point where Lorcana's tournament coverage is going to be x10 better than Konami could ever dream of having. Its really weird, we can keep trying to poke Konami to do better, and they just refuse to listen. Does the game itself need to die just for Konami to listen?
Yugioh is a small slice of the pie of konami's overall profits, & they arent gonna give it up unless its for a fortune, lol
Konami saw Lampi and co's coverage on YCS Sydney and just say my job is done
Speaking of messed up does Europe just not do ycs anymore? Cause I haven't heard any news about them
You didnt Hear about Any because there's none in Europe. The last One was in Bologne (Italy), in december.
As an ex sydney player i can give you an idea of why this event went so wrong, it could be many factors but here are some dot points
1. One of the major ots has changed owners hands and isnt as close with kevin the konami rep for oceania, the original owners of said store used to help with running the ycs.
2. To konami ycs sydney(and the one melbourne) has been a finacial flop so much so the first 4 events we were given exclusive ycs mats, after talking to kevin myself about the game and general things hes said to me next year were thinking of bringing a master of oz(chumley style) australian mat for participation, so next year comes around, no annoncement of a mat, no clear communication about the pre reg location ultimately to me the writing was on the wall
3.maybe konami thought we'd cut some costs by not broadcasting the same mirror 8 times, not knowing that fish and other rougue strats would come out of knowwhere and make a top cut.
I hope this clears it up a bit mega cap 😅
“IT LOOKS LIKE THE ASH BLOSSOM IS COMING DOWN!!! WOW!!!”
Hi mate, if you are going to use my footage, at least credit me…
The deck profile ? I think I used 40 seconds of and didn’t even show the deck…
@@MegaCapitalG yeah mate, regardless it’s still my footage.
Like I understand you only used a small section and that’s fine, use the whole thing if you need, but I’m a very small creator and I work very hard for what I do. It hurts when a large creator like yourself comes in and takes views away from what I’ve done, all you needed to do is put a small tag in the bottom right of the video with my channel name or a link in the description, so if anyone actually wants to watch the profile they can easily access it. But by not doing that you’ve removed that opportunity to support my small channel.
@@VincibleYGOi mean he shouldve credited or better not used the footage at all i agree, but what do u mean with "takes views away from what ive done"? nobody saw that little segment and decided not to watch ur video, he neither gave nor took attention from u so dont get too annoyed by it
Just remember, the Konami handling outside of the US is a different Konami than the one in the US... also it's not even the same one that handles the OCG. Blame Austria.... not sure why maybe laws or something? But gotta know they're playing by different rules over in Sydney.
Really man AUSTRIA ??? 😂
At least you guys have events happening (Eu player here)
Rhis is why i am just a Casual Player. There was a time i wamted to be competitive but honestly by the time passed, it became so boring having the same Handtraps over and over again, not having anither playstyle of YugiOh ....so i no longer go to tournaments or locals like before...just play with my friends without handtrapas and have fun. No more.
Lol 😂your bad Player if u can't play round hand traps and things
Im casual too, but no used to blame meta
I tried and test alot of old cancer decks and can say they werent fun either
Exodia was super consistent in OCG first released, the match would be decided it rock/paper/scissors
Theres Yata lock, Thousand Eyes, Dark armed dragon etc etc
Probably no coverage because Konami themselves are tired of watching 10 min turns in often yugioh ;)
Yugioh has seriously gone overboard with powercreep and giving players too much power on the first turn. What happened to MTG and it's powercreep?
Ycs in Australia haven't gotten coverage to my memory since 2019 in very early toss format since after covid there's been no coverage at all
Man, Pokémon do it really good for their coverage and streaming their events. And to remember Pokémon do three events at the same time (VGC, TCG, GO).
My assumption is they don't want to spend money on the events and they don't care because no matter what, people still consumes the game and goes to the events. No matter high card prices on the secondary market, short printing, poor prizes at tournaments, people still enjoy the game and sustain the franchise.
One more thing they should do, and probably won't happen, is that they should pay a proper organizer company, that has the credentials to demonstrate they can organize an event of this size, and not letting this task to a LGS owner. Many events in Central and South America are horrible because of this. Last regional in Mexico City was a nightmare for many players.
Justice for vincibleygo. Credit where credit is due
Part of the issue was being able to participate in the event itself, previously you could just rock up on the day, pay for your entry and submit your list and you were in, this year however they switched to using neuron to register for the tournament with limited spots available and you had to buy your ticket online using your neuron ID many months before the event.
This also meant that if you missed out on getting a ticket (that sold out very quickly) for whatever reason (say neuron wasn't working or you couldn't link your ID), good luck playing in that event (unless you managed to go in on the day before the event and get your name down on the short list in case people didn't show.
The venue itself is ok, but as someone else mentioned, it's a dedicated sports stadium, not a convention center, so it's not the best venue for something like a YCS. It also didn't help that attendance was just down in general (only 2 vendors, usually there's 3-4) and there weren't as many players due to the aforementioned ticketing/neuron issues and just being another tier 0 format in general for our YCS didn't help. This is the second tier 0 format in a row for us (on our only YCS of the year) and like the third or forth tier 0 format out of the past 5 ycs events we have had.
its not even that Konami does care. Its Australia, its super common to see little to no coverage on events due to logistical reasons. It's the same in alot of eSports, and Sports in general.
Its not logistics. Valve managed to make a successful multiple LAN event for CS2 in sydney. Its just that Konami isnt exerting effort if its not NA or EU YCS.
@@cjramos1158 You're comparing a company that has a very niche consumer base, to a Company quite literally 13-14 times the size. With a MASSIVELY larger consumer market. It is logistics. There isn't a monetary incentive to cover YCS Sydney like they do YCS in NA/EU. Could they? Yes. Would they be hemorrhaging money? Yes.
They need to make Called By The Grave Unlimited in the next banlist.
Time to play Ghost Belle lol
Considering the fact that Yugioh players spend hundreds if not thousands on decks, transportation, a place to stay and food just to go to these tournaments so they can possibly win some playmats, booster boxes and a prize card that may or my not sell. Is it really a surprise Konami thinks it's ok to shaft the player base? At this point, Konami probably doesn't need to do coverage of these tournaments. It's not like it would hurt their sales all that much, if at all.
I took a break from the game because the negation and hand traps sucked the fun out of playing.
For my decks, I play practically zero negation boss monsters because I want to have fun. With hand traps, I only play defensive ones such as those that end the battle phase.
I remember duels in which there was constant back and forth and I didn't know who would win, and even if I didn't win, I was satisfied because it was such an exciting unpredictable game.
Hand Traps and negation took that away and Ash Blossom is my mosted hated card because it does both.
Wish they'd hire you for online coverage.
I don't even play YGO anymore and thats probably the smartest thing I've heard on the internet.... ever
How can you play the IRL game without $1000 a format anymore? It isnt worth it at all
Konami don't like people that says "bad" things about them (the truth)
Bad coverage, Bad prizing, Bad TOs, Meh format and bad venue management = bad company
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Where's my dragons collide retrain structure deck KONAMI!?
No reason to do that when the most important card for Chaos Dragons is Banned everywhere
@alpha34098 Even more the reason to do so, perhaps a once per turn errata to the card. Fact is they skipped over three important structure deck retrain. While I'm at it I want new six samurai stuff!
Love that you have this olatform and hit them with the truth. Konamis energy behind their own game is laughable. I think they fix it by
1. Making one global game and stop price gouging us on sets
2. Hire names like yourself, tombox etc that are beloved and have the right energy behind the game
3. Listen to the players
Too much like right tho smh
Great video 👍
This just sucks dawg. Like they aren't hosting any EU YCS they don't give a crap about the Australian YCS, its almost as if they are trying to make the game die. It just gives me a bad feeling about the future of the game
We all knew what was gonna win... So no surprise
More than enough internet to stream from YCS sydney. Even locals in Australia do streaming for various games. I don't know whether its because its effort or they just don't care about Australia.
Maybe Its the flat earthers refusing to admit we exist.
Can't just blame it on the format we have never had coverage
If this event got live coverage, then a fourth of the players attending would have gotten disqualified. I have several friends who all attended the event and everyone that I know of encountered a deliberate stall player at some point in the event and the judges didn't do anything when they were called. Only one of my friends made it to the top cut. Rip Ycs Sydney.
There was a YCS? I thought Raleigh was the next one
Exactly
I just want you all to know that this is not linkkuriboh’s fault. Dont anybody get mad at him he’s being used in a heinous way.
I went to the event for both days. I found it annoying that we had to watch the finals from 5 tables away as they made a ring around the final match ups. I understand they didn’t want other people looking at players hands etc.
I wish they had a big screen so the crowd could watch as there was no atmosphere really cause no one could see what was going on
Me reading the title: Wait, there was a YCS this weekend?
Just saying, it wouldnt be hard at all for konami to just give a yugituber or someone alike the ability to just livesteam everything an cover everything themselves
Glad to see Shark on the radar as a Rogue deck. And the fact that it's making Zeus on the opponent's turn is evil. I better get my Shark deck profile up while the hype for this deck is around...
I’m genuinely curious to know what you think a city in Australia is like technologically. What is the mental image where hosting a live stream would be a logistical issue.
Thanks for the info man yeah we did have a blog shoutout to yaoweii doing it but yeah I hope they can do a lot better in coverage for any Oceania events I miss having streams look back on or player interviews and hope you enjoy my vanquished soul deck profile that top 32 cause that was me 😂 great video man also give me a shoutout for my dino deck profile much love
The meta is so bad even Konami decided not to feature it anymore 😂😂
Wish there were regionals in Cincinnati.
To be fair, YCS Sydney just sounded like a big regional
Also a couple SA YCS a while back also got the shaft in terms of coverage
Phantom knights is really a thing still?....
When i heard they issued a game loss for saying "gahdamn", i knew they were on some b.s lol
An all time low? Homie this is normal for OCE we're so fucking pushed aside and this happens legit EVERY ycs and has for MULTIPLE events
Ima be honest I too didnt know there was a ycs 😂
Id hate to look like the winner of that ycs that mf look like he could be related to flameberg
Lmao idk how youd even fix it at this rate
Shark players know about this event. For obvious reasons haha! Let's go Sharks!
*Promo sm* 🔥
Sam losing was the best part
You're not asking to much
I think they new how one sided format was gonna be and it was gonna be boring to watch . Well to me it would be boring to just watch fire decks
My sharks are actually viable!? 😮
Konami only live streams north American ycs's ... Also .. Where is the YCS for Europe ? Exactly
Cap G they're only a several billion dollar company that's been around for decades with a successful TCG. Come on, cut them some slack.
Konami only live streams north American ycs's
God damn
With tier zero formats it's best just not to play that format if you don't want to spend the money to play that deck
I knew about it im in California 😂
Welcome to LATAM 😅
Tcg dead, speed is fun, rush is peak. One piece, star wars, pokemon even mtg and lorcana are just better and prolly dbz/digimon too
Year of Light**
How to fix Yu-Gi-Oh: Limit all hand traps to 1
Enjoy getting ftk’d everytime you lose the die roll
Saying u bad without telling us
Im getting out of this game before it dies. The game is a joke. Konami is a ioke.
But isn't Maxx C banned in TCG and Yu-Gi-Oh! still dying?
MegacaputolG is honestly a joke and has no idea what he is talking about
This should show that Konami should make every deck just as powerful giving snake eye deck a major hit in next coming ban list and give other decks a serious insane support to not only compete but to also even win giving a balance of seeing creative decks in YCS events
Konami also could add the Duel Links ban list because its why Duel Links you see creative decks not just 1 even Rush Duel is now seeing more than just Dragon decks. Duel Links ban list system also would create a huge change because onmi negates are limited to 1. Monster Reborn is limited to 1, your are force to choose what you want. This ban list system will change everything completely.