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Columbus Shonen Jump TCG Championship Series Tournament
Metagame Staff
 
February 13, 2005

The dust has settled after one of North America’s largest Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments of all time, and a winner has been declared. After thirteen gruelling rounds of competition, one duelist has risen above the rest.

Patrick Smith is the newest owner of a Cyber-Stein, and is the Shonen Jump Champion of Columbus, Ohio!

In a final match against Guz Reyez that was truly one for the ages, Patrick Smith struggled against his creative opponent. At one point, each duelist matched the other move for move. Heavy Storm met Heavy Storm, Breaker sparred with Breaker, and Tribe-Infecting Virus infested Tribe-Infecting Virus in one of the most intense and even matches of all time. Escaping with just a few hundred life points left, Smith claimed the win after a double Fiber Jar gave him an opening for attack. Beating out 722 other duelists, Patrick Smith has placed himself at the center of the North American Yu-Gi-Oh! scene.

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QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsChampion
Patrick Smith
 Patrick Smith
Roy St. Clair
 Patrick Smith
Wilson Luc
 Wilson Luc
Bryan St. Clair
 Patrick Smith
Gustavo Reyes
 Gustavo Reyes
Ross Nappi
 Gustavo Reyes
Dwayne Nunez
 Dwayne Nunez
Vincent Tundo
 
Check out the decklists and the players who made the Top 8!
Patrick Smith is from Fairborn, Ohio, and is a student. Gus Reyez is from Chicago, and is also a student. He claims to surf Lake Michigan on a regular basis.
Reyez opened the first game with a face-down monster and a spell or trap. This was quickly revealed, as he played Ring of Destruction Nunez’s turn one D. D. Assailant. Nunez retaliated with Confiscation, robbing Reyez of a Blade Knight.
Wilson Luc, a sixteen-year-old student from Los Angeles, came into Columbus hot off his Shonen Jump Championships win in Las Vegas. He was playing a Warrior deck, and battled one of the St. Clair brothers to take his spot in the semifinals.
Both players set cards for several turns. Tundo eventually ditched the Messenger, flipped a Tribe, and pressed an offensive against Nunez. His lone facedown monster turned out to be a D. D. Assailant. Its DEF was too big to be hit by the Tribe or the Angel!
Check out profiles of the players that made the Top 8!
Talk about the advantage of sheer numbers—if the competitors at the Columbus, Ohio, Shonen Jump Championship tournament had decided to rise up against the judge staff, we’d have been in trouble.
Corey Burkhart is one of the youngest serious duelists in North America. At age 13, he often catches his opponents off-guard. Aside from seeming impeccably dressed and remarkably well-spoken, he looks like any other ordinary young Yu-Gi-Oh! fan. Cheerful. Innocent. Completely non-threatening.
David Dryen taught me about the Broccoli Rocket.
Earlier we looked at Gary Miotke’s Lockdown Burn deck. When I saw him playing the way he did, and the fact that he had two kids in tow that seemed to think he was the coolest dad in the world, I knew I had to talk to him.
Gary Miotke was the only Burn player sitting at a top table during round 5. Attending the event with his kids, Miotke plays with a focused intensity that is tempered with a relaxed maturity. The deck he ran fit his play style perfectly. It’s highly focused and yet displays an amazing level of patience.
One good way to get your deck profiled during an event I’m covering is to ask me and to have a decklist ready. That’s exactly what Amaan Bahar did to get himself into this column. However, the fact that the deck is worthy of review definitely helped his chances.
Corey Burkhart is one of the most recognizable Yu-Gi-Oh! players in North America for two reasons. He’s remarkably young for his skill level, and he plays absolutely everywhere.
Considering that over 700 duelists showed up to strut their stuff and duke it out at the Columbus Shonen Jump Championship, I figured there would probably be some neat, well-constructed decks to discover. I decided to set out on a quest to find those decks!
2004 was a huge year for Yu-Gi-Oh!, but 2005 has been even bigger.
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