#Deck lists leaked throughout Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships
Yu-Gi-Oh! Grasp Duel grew to become the middle of controversy and debate on the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships this previous weekend. The event began off with a shock for gamers of the 3v3 Grasp Duel format, when early on in Swiss rounds, nearly all of their deck lists appeared on-line.
The decks appeared on the web site MasterDuelMeta, a useful resource web site for these making an attempt to enhance their play within the sport. This instantly bristled in opposition to parts of the Yu-Gi-Oh! group, together with aggressive gamers on the World Championship.
The founding father of MasterDuelMeta and its sister web site DuelLinksMeta, content material creator Dkayed, posted a Twitch clip to Twitter explaining his cause for posting the lists. He defined, “what occurs at Worlds is [that] gamers at residence, not on the occasion venue, they’ll scour by all of the replays… they create spreadsheets. After which they hyperlink the spreadsheet to a couple quantity of gamers, solely to their associates… that, in my view, is an unfair benefit.”
His proof for these claims have been his personal first-hand expertise on the World Championships. Dkayed additionally defined that he had performed the identical factor on this web site final 12 months when masking the Grasp Duel championships, and that every one of this data is accessible by the Grasp Duel consumer itself.
The deck lists have been additionally compiled utilizing the third get together app Untapped.gg. Untapped tweeted on their Yu-Gi-Oh! account on September 8 saying they’d fastened the problem that made this doable on their finish.
This example quickly grew to become a topic of debate on the MasterDuelMeta web site, Yu-Gi-Oh! subreddits, and X, previously Twitter. The dialog on X took on one other dimension when one participant attending the World Championships, JudeuYGO, posted a touch upon MasterDuelMeta expressing distaste for this sort of protection. Partially, the remark reads, “You don’t care concerning the aggressive setting, you don’t care about how your actions impacts [sic] the gamers at worlds. You simply need to seize as a lot cash as doable.”
This remark was addressed immediately by Dkayed on his Twitch stream. After studying the touch upon stream, Dkayed replied, partially, by saying: “JudeuYGO probably, probably, is upset that his associates at residence watching Worlds can’t secretly give JudeuYGO the key techs the place nobody else may have that… So, Judeu, I’m sorry you at the moment are on a good taking part in discipline.” These claims have been clipped out of his Twitch stream and posted to social media, which rapidly fed extra debates and reactions main “Dkayed” to pattern on X for parts of the weekend.
Konami doesn’t function its aggressive occasions below “open deck” guidelines, so this leak might probably represent a violation of their event coverage. On the time of reporting, Konami has made no public statements concerning the incident, and there have been no studies from the people concerned of Konami taking motion.
Regardless of the deck record leak, the Grasp Duel occasion at Worlds proceeded as scheduled by Saturday and concluded Sunday with a rematch between the first and 2nd place groups of final 12 months’s World Championship ultimate.
