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It all comes down to this. Over eight hundred duelists were now reduced to a final two: Kyle Duncan of Superfriends, and David Everett of Team Trixter. |
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Both of these players were feeling pretty good coming off of their quarterfinal victories, discussing previous matches as they readied themselves. |
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Michael Kohanim is from Long Island, and is one of the weekend’s most successful independent competitors. Armed with a somewhat mainstream Chaos Return deck, he’s up against Kyle Duncan’s Chaos Recruiter. |
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Both players were representing AZN Carnage. Both players wished each other good luck and the match was underway. |
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Three Recruiter Chaos decks had made it to the Top 8, and here, two of them would be pitted against each other for the quarterfinals. |
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The last two Challenges we’ve had have actually produced a winner — but such is not the case for this weekend. Here's a look at our final standings! |
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Check out the Top 8 decklists here! |
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For Paul Levitin and Eric Blum, it all came down to this. Both of these duelists were on the bubble: one of them would make it to Day 2, and the other would fall in defeat. |
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Cesar Gonzalez is from Springfield, Massachusetts and plays for Team Bangfield. At seventeen years of age, he’s a student and bothered me all day for a feature match. Now, with an on-the-bubble record and facing down Anthony “Big Shark” Alvarado, he’s getting his wish. |
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It was round 8, and with three rounds still remaining in the tournament, and the clock striking 9:30, both of these duelists would be winners! |
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We’re between round 8 and round 9, and the dominant single card trends of the day have become readily apparent! |
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Get a look at what's going on at SJC Philadelphia! |
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Well, when I walked into the venue today, I was greeted with the longest line I’ve seen in . . . I don’t know how long. Registration had opened some time ago, too! |
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Alex Ruck, from New Jersey, represents Team Oblivion and is the proud owner of a 5-1 record here today, but he has no idea what he is up against. |
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Christopher Foster is a lone gun. Fifteen years old, he’s here without a team backing him up, but his innovative Machine deck has made him undefeated here today. |
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Well, with such a massive turnout, it’s no surprise there were a lot of players eager to take the challenge. |
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While Scurry already has one Top 8 and one SJC Championship under his belt, Wang has Top 8’d four, but never won. Both of them were hungry for the win.
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Chris Foster, a fifteen year-old competitor who’s here with his friends and competing without the backing of a team, is one of several duelists playing Machine builds here today. |
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What a match! Christopher Ivan Flores of Team Rampage was up against Windsor’s Andrew Hayton, former Team X-Treme member and recent signee of the new Xtreme / Superfriends alliance! |
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The fifteen year-old Radzwilla is now 3-0, destroying three consecutive Chaos Return duelists and showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. |
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Anthony Alvarado, the headliner of Team Overdose, is one of the best duelists in the nation. Here from New Jersey, he was up against New York’s Edgar Flores, a recent recruit of Carlos Santiago’s new dream team debuting this weekend. |
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Without a big celebrity duelist feature match to cover for round 1, and with no dominant strategy of interest emerging early on in the day, I decided to cover one of the weekend’s more unorthodox decks to start off. |
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