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30.04.2024 - 14:03 / thegamer.com
Yu-Gi-Oh! just broke the Guinness World Record for the most entrants in a trading card game tournament, shattering its own record. This year, 7,443 people took part in the 10th Yu-Gi-Oh! Champion Series Japan tournament held at the Tokyo Big Sight.
It also earned a Guinness World Record for the largest number of people playing against each other in the same venue at once.
The record was previously held by Konami for Yu-Gi-Oh! as well. Back in 2012, over 4,000 people took part in the 100th Championship Series tournament.
The winner of this double-record-breaking tournament was Yutaro Takahashi, beating over 7,000 other entrants for the top prize. "I am happy to be a champion!" Takahashi said. "It was thanks to the practice with my friends whom I met through Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG. I will do my best to win the next event as well."
On May 23, Yu-Gi-Oh! continues its 25th-anniversary celebrations with a second Rarity Collection, boasting "twice as many Ultra & Secret Rares per pack".
The booster pack even brings back Silent Magician & Silent Swordsman after an eight-year hiatus, just in time for April's Legacy of Destruction booster set which dropped last week.
You can read our full TCG calendar here for more details.
Later in the year, Konami will be holding the World Championship in the USA for the first time since 2016. It will take place in Seattle, Washington from September 7-8 with four categories of tournaments - TCG, Master Duel, Duel Links, and Speed Duel.
Ahead of the World Championships, qualifiers will be held in the following countries:
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A new Guinness World Record was set during a recent Yu-Gi-Oh card game tournament in Tokyo, Japan. While the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga wasn’t always centered around the Duel Monsters card game, it has become one of the most recognizable elements of the franchise. Konami started producing a physical Yu-Gi-Oh card game back in 1999, with Upper Deck bringing it to the US in 2002. Since then, Yu-Gi-Oh has become one of the highest-selling card games in the world, spawning several video games in the process.
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