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Yesterday these two duelists faced off in a feature match in round 1. Now they were fighting it out in yet another feature match, the final one of the weekend. |
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In a surprising twist, two Texan duelists were now face to face in the Top 4. |
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Jerry Wang and Hugo Adame are both very exciting to watch, and have made it this far with two completely different decks. |
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Hailing from Oakland, 22 year-old Charley La had an impressive win streak here yesterday thanks to Blaze Accelerator, Volcanic Rocket, Volcanic Shell, and Wild Fire. |
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This Top 8 feature match pits well-known Comic Odyssey star Hugo Adame vs. a relatively unknown Josh Cohen who's flying solo for this event. |
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Adam Corn is your most recent National Champion, while Fili has made his seventh day 2 appearance in a row. |
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While Jerry Wang was playing the ubiquitous Light and Darkness Dragon, Trias was playing Baboon Burn. |
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Today we will see a whopping nine different strategies face off to claim dominant roles in the current format. |
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We were expecting innovation and a brand new metagame here at Shonen Jump San Mateo, and the 472 competitors in contention here at the San Mateo Expo Center didn’t disappoint! |
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Both of these duelists made Top 8 back at Shonen Jump Championship Anaheim, and now they were pitted against each other on the bubble. |
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If Reasoning Samurai was to have a proving ground, well, this would be it. |
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Fate had pitted two competitors from Chicago against each other. |
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We finally get to see Light and Darkness Dragon in action! |
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John Umali made his name capturing the first Shonen Jump Championship title years ago in Anaheim, and has remained a respected competitor ever since. |
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David Rodriguez is 3-0 with an innovative Demise build, and seems like he’s well on his way to a Day 2 qualification. |
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A lot of factors have made Gadgets a top pick for experienced duelists here today, and competitors like Paul Levitin and Corey Defeo are using that to their advantage. |
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David Rodriguez is widely hailed as the duelist who finally won a Shonen Jump Championship with Cyber-Stein back in San Jose last year. |
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One of the decks everybody’s wondering about here today is Six Samurai, and the different variants that have been created around the theme. |
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While Kulman was running Light and Darkness Dragon, So was piloting a highly metagamed build of Macro Cosmos. |
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It was at this very venue two years ago, the San Mateo Event Center, that Fili Luna won his first of two Shonen Jump Championships. |
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The dueling world has waited six long weeks since Shonen Jump Championship Durham, and now, the last big tournament of the year is finally here! |
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