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The last two remaining duelists of the day were both Comic Odyssey members, so this match came down to one thing: the title of Shonen Jump Champion. |
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Gerard and David took their seats and shuffled up their decks to prepare for the semifinals. |
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Mario Matheu is playing a Zaborg-only Monarch deck, but now he’s up against a Lazaro/Spicer Monarch build armed with both Zaborg and Thestalos. |
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This quarterfinal match would pit Geoffrey Fisicaro’s Chain Strike deck against David Rodriguez’s lockdown-flavored Cyber-Stein OTK. |
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21 year-old Mario Matheu is representing Team Comic Odyssey, which managed to get two players into the Top 8 this weekend. |
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We had a higher than normal number of competitors this time, which means more than usual amounts of scrubbing! |
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This match, which pitted Farahbakush’s Monarchs against Chain Strike Burn, was bound to be a classic. |
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Two of the most well-known duelists to be successful here today, Mark Garcia and Lance Leonhardt, now had to face each other for what was essentially a bubble match. |
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Clap if you believe in originality in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. Clap hard. |
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As much as I’m not trying to feature Chain Strike Burn over and over, it just so happens that three of the four top tables are Chain Strike Burn matchups. |
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Both of these duelists are undefeated, but for one of them, that status will be short-lived. |
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We’ve got 365 players, so that means nine rounds. |
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It's time for the last Scrub Brush Challenge of 2006! |
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After taking a dark horse win at SJC Anaheim, Hooman Farahbakush is back in competition and undefeated. |
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This is it — the first moment of truth for Project D.’s Chain Strike Burn! |
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As always, Garcia is running something that’s heavily teched against the expected metagame, and some of his choices are pretty surprising! |
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Despite never making a Day 2 finish, Matthew Highline is no stranger to Shonen Jump Championship competition. |
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Shonen Jump Champion Eric Wu is back in action here in San José. |
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We are four rounds into today’s tournament, and already plenty of cool tech cards have emerged. |
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Today is going to be packed with deckbuilding surprises, and I’m going to get things started by going big! |
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