Most Wanted : The Story of The Biggest And Most Notorious Cheater In Yugioh History - Roy St. Clair 

Holy shit. I did not expect the RU-vid algorithm to hit me with a video about an old friend. Not to mention my own name being mentioned lol This was a trip. I had kind of blocked all this from my memory tbh. Probably because it was fucking traumatic. I used to playtest a lot with Roy for a stretch ('04-'05), and we traveled to a handful of regionals together for both YGO and VS. While he definitely was incapable of handling losing (I sometimes caught him cheating at, say, poker with no money on the line), he also absolutely had legitimately impressive deckbuilding and game skills. He was always WAY quicker than me at seeing combos and strategic opportunities that the new sets presented, and I'd like to think I was OK for a stretch there (I probably wasn't, at least not at VS). I learned a lot from him in the couple of years we hung out together. His reputation for getting reported for shenanigans definitely seemed like it was starting to precede him towards the end of my time in the games. That instance in question sucked because while I am a bit of a pushover, and maybe loyal to a fault, I was never a cheater. My shitty track record could speak to that. I was pissed because I did not want or need Roy's help there. I was doing well in a major event all by myself for the first fucking time in my VS career, and it was taken away because of some shit I couldn't control. But I do think he was trying to help me. For him, he was just being a good friend. It is what it is. I kind of dropped out of the community after all that. I didn't have passion for it anymore, I felt (still do) like it was all handled horrifically by the judges present, I was headed to college, and I also felt really guilty about Roy's situation, even though in hindsight I didn't actually do anything wrong. He was a force of personality, for damn sure. He had me very convinced I had fucked him over. Regardless, some of these comments are pretty foul. But that's RU-vid for you, I guess. R.I.P. Roy. Fell out of touch a long time ago, but I'm glad to see you're still being talked about, big guy.

He didn’t cheat, he just activated his Destiny Draw skill

"[...] passed away 3 years ago." "[...] Roy if you ever see this video, I hope I told your story well." Looks like somone believes that Roy even *cheated* death

Remember back in the day when Kaiba would normal summon 3x Blue Eyes without tributes and no one batted and eye. Now days you try that and kids run for the judge like Randal runs to Miss Finster

I love how a guy who literally said "Who cares if I cheat, all the pros do it" wasn't outright banned from the game at that point.

The nostalgia hits hard with these early 2000s decks.

Friends: "Roy didn't cheat, it's all a conspiracy because they hate him" Roy: "Yeah I cheated and I'm not sorry"

He didn't cheat, he believed in the heart of the cards!

Roy Sinclair even sounds like the dub name of a character who cheats at duel monsters while playing against the protagonists.

The more cheaters get used to cheating the more careless they become in their cheating, that's how they get caught.

I knew Roy! He used to come to my locals. I remember beating his frog monarch deck once and he was LIVID. He was a very highly skilled player. I never saw him cheat but he definitely lied and rule sharked a ton. I remember nationals 2009 and how he would ask his opponents every to announce entering to and leaving every single phase or he would shark them, as they played cards without leaving a phase, getting Roy to call a judge and roll back. I lost to Billy Brake that year.. Is he really dead? Thought I heard something about that a while ago.

Had a friend like this. Was great at finding loopholes, exploits, combos and 1000 IQ strats. But, he was also a habitual cheater and liar. He would cheat for no reason during friendly games with nothing on the line.

Death: "Hello Roy, I've come to claim your soul." Roy: "I've got an idea, howabout we play a game for it?" Death: "Nice try but I've seen your record."

Cannot wait, so happy we have a yugi boomer like cap who can make yugioh history spicy and interesting

"Roy passed away three years ago..." Later "Roy, if you ever see this video...."

If you aint cheating, you aint trying - Eddie Guerrero

Wow, he and Bandit Keith were even both "Number one US duelist." Hahahahaha.

As someone that played professionally in other lesser known ccgs; yes cheating is fairly rampant, but so are scummy judges, staff and baseless accusations of cheating. For example Score entertainments CCG's (Bleach, DBZ, Yuyuhakusho and even Zach Belle for some reason) were absolutely notorious for this kind of thing. A judge in particular Aik would make a call for one of his known friends and then make an exact opposite call in the same situation in the same tournament. Some judges would distribute opposing players deck-list, restricted cards were distributed via staff in obvious favoritism and the entire "named " and "unnamed " player culture was toxic in ways LOL wish it could be. An example would be in he first Grand Kai invitational(that I missed qualifying for by a single placement, but a friend of mine did)A relatively unknown player was playing a majin buu stall-ball deck.This man had an absolutely spotless history playing MTG and was fairly well known in that game consistently placing t16-t8 in regional and decently in nationals. That Grand Kai invitational was packed with heavy damage draw decks and his deck hard countered many of the people he played. making top cut with 7/1. Soon as he makes top cut the whole he was trading players ultra rare cards for wins pops up. Staff get told this and start watching him like a hawk, even going as far to stand over both players as they played. No cheating ever happened and he wins the entire thing. Next day the toxicity that was the games forums exploded with just 5 or so of the notorious "Michigan" group laying down rumors of collusion. However, this is after the entire thing was well done and over and one of their own group actually said the entire thing was made up as an attempt to character assassinate him. Poor guy was viciously attacked by people he had never even met because the echo chamber for DBZ was incredibly bad. He played one more year, qualified for that grand kia invitational , but declined to attend due to threats of harm to his person from some of the more toxic "named players". I am not defending the guy in the video, but he's not wrong; top cutthroat of any CCG is rampant with cheating, favoritism and collusion; no matter what CCG you play.

RU-vid algorithm: How about yugioh? Me(absolutely don't care about yugioh): Yeah I'll watch that!

RU-vidr at the very end: “oh yea, and he’s dead.”

Damn, just learned he died. Regardless of legacy no one should die that young.

Great video, would've liked to hear more of the ways he cheated cause I know they were quite innovative but good to know

This is why I could never get into the dueling part of Yugioh (or any card collecting game) : players who took it way too seriously. They would hound you about all the rules and then often cheat themselves. The first local tournament I went to my first opponent was just slinging cards and saying I'm dead before I even had a chance to understand and verify what was happening. When the judge came by he immediately said "I won" and I never went to another one

Roy St Clair actually sounds like a Yugioh character’s name.

My friend used to be his roommate back in college. Said Roy cheated a ton even when they would play test and my friend hated it, made testing against him interesting to say the least. My other friend also used to buy cards off of Roy when he was drunk so Roy would wake up from a blackout wondering where half his binder went.

These Yugioh history videos are honestly great. Especially as someone who, around this time, was just happy having the cards and playing against myself / the one rare chance I could go against someone else. These bits of history are foreign to me outside of the format itself. Kinda makes me nostalgic for moments I wasn't there for.

I’ve never played yu gi oh in my life and I still thoroughly enjoyed this video

Even if he had skill, he was a compulsive liar and didn’t deserve any of his wins. It’s weird how people take this path when you do have some skill

Cap has convinced me that Roy was Keith Bandit reincarnated. >Reverse Isekai

Damn is CapG becoming a crime show? Btw cap u give a side of yugioh that no other yugituber besides maybe Mkohl40 can provide

Roy was really reaching into the cookie jar of greed towards the end 😂

This was so interesting. Great overview. Subbed

"Roy, if you ever see this video, i hope i told your story well" bruh, how is he supposed to see it if hes dead?

‘I can’t say that he came back leaner’ HAHAHA

As a long time Yu-Gi-Oh fan I definitely appreciate the video post so thank you! (RIP to Roy 🙏)

I’m so glad I got recommended your video. I’m definitely going to watch more of your content

Oh hell yeah I remember Roy, but sadly he passed away awhile ago. RIP I was in middle school, but Roy was definitely one of the more bigger players in the community around the time. I heard he cheated in one game at a tournament where he was drawing extra cards when his opponent and the judge that was officiating that game wasn't looking, took one or two of the cards in his hand and stacked them on the top of his deck so he could draw the same exact cards he needed, even though he may have had the right cards in his hand already, but due to him drawing extra cards, he could had drew into something better and manipulated his hand so both the opponent and the judge didn't know what he was doing, and that is just one story. I could tell all the deck stacking stories he was accused of doing because it was a bit easier to stack your deck during that time with some clever card tricks than it is now due to judges and players being smarter in watching their opponent. Until this day, some players still don't think he's a cheater because honestly some players did get salty of him. I still think he was a good player, but he was willing to cheat to stay at the top at all cost and he got caught.

The Biggest And Most Notorious Cheater In Yugioh History was Yugi himself

6:05 Ok. Seeing this deck and the year gave me such strong nostalgia. I was a judge at the 2004 Worlds and this was probably the last crazy, no-holds barred year for the game before some of the heavy bans came in. Hell of a time to be a judge and a player.

God Bless Capital G for bringing us all back nostalgia 🙏

Really loving these history lessons with you cap, great job on yet another amazing story.

I'm loving all these history videos. Please keep up the great work! Always been a fan of your story and hierarchy videos!

Love the depth and understanding of this video, long live my guy

You should do more video like that ! They are amazing ! Some videos like the "hystory of a guy who win a lot of tournament" or whatever just to present some "all star" of yugioh competitive

Wow. The nostalgia got me on this one. Pojo and Duelist Groundz is a wealth of info for all of the legendary stories.

I think Yugi came to him one night and challenged him to a duel he couldn't refuse and ultimately sent him to the shadow realm.

Song name? Awesome video btw, I never ever knew anything about Yu-Gi-Oh! irl championships other than it existed, this video was more of a documentary than anything, nicely done.

Oh snap a real Bandit Keith. And whats crazy both Keith and Roy are actually good duelists but their legacy made them more known for their scumbaggery.

ELITE story telling, love these history/lore type videos!

He faked his death, like any good antagonist would.

Haven't played yugioh in years and the algorithm reccommended me this, was pleasantly surprised!

Dude went from 16 to 40. Cheaters make it hard for everyone.

I really love these videos. Learning the history of yugioh fascinates me

I LOVE these Yugioh history videos. I find them fascinating.

People were running all these cheats in the mtg pro scene before yugioh came to the U.S. East coast players were famous for trying to make it look like their opponent had performed an illegal action (like drawing extra cards). One pro was caught with a combo piece in his lap at one point. During a draft one player wrote down an additional card he hadn't drafted in his decklist and then bought one from a vendor. Got caught because it was from a different print run and had a slightly different color. What this guy said, that all the top players cheat, isn't true. But there are always cheaters in the top levels of tcgs.

I remember going to tournaments in the early 2000s and I saw this one kid who was maybe 11 with his mother watching him play in the tournament. The kid purposely played super slow and didn't end his turn so that he would win by time default by having more life points. He always had this smirk on his face as he knew what he was doing. So pathetic

15:05 This mini-speech gave me chills, I love this channel

"All the pros do it!" - one of the most truthful statements he ever made actually, that early Upper Deck era was very rough around the edges and went through a lot of growing pains, as many if not all of the big "teams" in the U.S. were full of questionable activity that pervaded the entire tournament scene for years.

This is crazy. He, his brother and girlfriend would come into my card shop in Hyattsville after school and weekends to play in Yugioh and vs tournaments. This was when he was still in high school. He was buddies with a few of my other regulars. They all went to Takoma Academy. We had to have someone watch his games because he was accused of cheating regularly back then to. I had no idea he passed away. That's a shame because he was a nice guy and way to young to be gone. RIP Roy.

Two weeks before he passed away me and my fiance spent the night at his place we Test played, watched movies and had dinner. He was my teacher when I came to playing Yu-Gi-Oh I came from a magic the Gathering background he would give you the shirt off his back despite all the rumors he was the nicest guy in the world I know this first hand. He wasn't just a friend he was family rest in peace.

Death caught me off guard. R.I.P. dude.

Awesome video once again Cap G. Actually neat that you used a photo from my feature match with him at YCS Toronto (I lost to his x-saber with my light gemini). Roy is quite the enigma, he is legit one of the best players to play yugioh and at the same time was legit one of the biggest cheaters in yugioh. Its strange because he didn't need to cheat, and after he had multiple bans for cheating, he KEPT doing it. Clearly his 'rush' from playing the game was not just from winning, but also seeing how much he could get away with. And for people that didn't play back in the day, I want to be clear that this wasn't speculation or opinion. Roy DID cheat. He did a lot of soft cheating, aka, feigning ignorance to give himself an advantage, and when getting caught, claiming it was an accident. The thing is, its hard to DQ or ban someone for that, because its hard to determine intent to cheat. Obv when it happens multiple times, in every game he plays, it becomes much more obvious, but judges were afraid to award cheating penalties without hard evidence of intentional cheating. As good as Roy was, I cannot respect him as a player, because, he never 'learned his lesson'. If after the first ban, he came back and played clean, I would have high regards for him, but he kept cheating. Clearly the thrill of cheating was as strong as his thrill of winning, so I think negative associations with Roy are justified. I didn't know he died, sad to see anyone pass at such a young age. Thanks for telling the story, there are tons of other players in that era with equally interesting stories, keep it up G

What’s the music in the background in the beginning? Sounds awesome lol off topic

Where was here from? I noticed you mentioned Austin twice. Did he live in texas!

You've got my sub. As someone very new to the community, it's nice to hear stories of prolific players in this game, good and bad. Lookin forward to more

If you dont have time to watch the video : He basically put Deck Devastation Virus or XX-Saber Faultroll on his opening hand everytime, he also would use signals such as grunts or coughs to spy on opponents with his teammates. One of which commented bellow that he wasnt in the cheat and Roy would also cheat while playing with them.

This was a great video Randall this is Kian I remember Roy he lived in VA near us thank you for this

That’s crazy how someone with impressive skill who could have legitimately won, decides to cheat to try and secure a w. And get caught time after time. I’m suprised he didn’t get a lifetime ban after some of those. Guess he is resting in the shadow realm now

Man I remember this guy. It's a real shame, he clearly had the talent to win without cheating but he just didn't seem to have a strong grasp on impulse control. I got mixed feelings on Roy but it mostly just comes down to thinking "What an unfortunate waste of talent".

DOUBLE THIS MANS SUBS EVERYTIME ONE OF THESE VIDOES DROPS.

Appreciate the nuanced and objective treatment of someone who probably generates a lot of hate because of some of the things he did. This guy was definitely a tragic figure. At least he added some color and interest to the world of card game tournaments.

I love how often I watch Yugio content and learn it's about seone from Maryland

He’s been gone a while. Never knew him, but I’m friends with his Brother.

Roy's story was interesting to say the least. Also Cap you're absolutely killing it with these videos! 🔥

Never knew it was that serious! Great video

Can you get a longer loop of music or turn it down or both? Like the content 🥺

"I can't say he came back leaner..."

Damn, I didn't expect the ending where he dies.

I remember being at the college park tournament when that all went down. Man now I feel old

Jesus Christ, I can name like all of those mid 2000's cards. My childhood was great.

Random duel where Roy duped girl into continuing play after she won: Judge: So who's winning? Girl: I already won. This game is just for fun. Roy: I have no clue what she's talking about. I'm in the lead. Girl: *evolves into pikachu-face*

I remember going to that YCS Miami and we were all fanboys when we heard he was there. So sad to hear of his passing. I wish his family well.

I saw a ton of guys like Roy back in the day. Very skilled but rulled shark like crazy and they couldnt take a loss. I am very glad that the community became way better over the years and I dare to say that now it is very rare to see a player that acts like that.

The fact you be bustin out yugioh videos to these days. I love it. The old days of yugioh were good enough to spawn an lifelong affinity for card games even though I quit yugioh a decade ago

Well this was interesting to hear But damn, I didn’t expect the ending.. R.I.P

CapG becoming the most informative Yugioh channelis truly something great to see :) Day 636 of waiting for Good Pyro/Volcanic Support to arrive...

For a guy as good as he was with the game. He didn't need to cheat. Sounds like his dislike for losing is what made him chest especially sense he would push the blame on the judges picking on him and then say "all pros do it" when he got banned.

Damn, he surely put on weight during that five years; I honestly thought that was another person... Maybe that was his goal; return to the scene unnoticeable.

I’ve watched this like 5 times. Very interesting story. I like these videos about players. You should do one on nizar sarhan or Patrick Hoban

Damn its been a while since I heard about roy, never knew he passed, rip dude.

I like when cheaters get caught and get mad about it. Like, if you don't want to get punished for cheating... just like, don't cheat...

This guy's brings a whole new meaning to "the heart of the cards"

Played against this dude a lot at my locals (Dreamwizards) in MD, when he was ranked #1 in Yu-Gi-Oh! and later on in VS. We had one of the most competitive playerbases in the country at Dreamwizards for Yu-Gi-Oh! and VS. System. He was notorious for stacking his deck, and although he was a great pilot, it's hard to say he was a great player because he always cheated to win.

If you decide to keep making content over cheaters/scammers/etc in the Yugioh community, you'll NEVER run out of content to feature.

Seeing some of these old decks hit my nostalgia hard. Back when 3 and 4 star monsters with 1500 or 1600 attack was genuinely good. Now, if you don't summon a 7 or 8 star monster with 3000+ attack on your first turn or do 6 consecutive synchro summons in one turn, you're screwed

He looks like Bandit Keith must have been his favorite character

Damn I remember this guy! Jeez dude that was forever ago Fellow Yugiboomer here, really makes ya feel old huh?

this video was awesome. as someone who only got into the game around 2017. learning about old things like this that effected the community is one of my favorite things to learn about and Cap you definitely do the best at telling these stories witcho yugiboomer ass ;)

It's kinda sad when you see someone who got such a natural talent ruining his career by cheating. I never had a good hand for making decks that worked well, neigther in Yugioh nor in any other card-game and i envy people like Roy who can adapt to competetive in new seasons even though he has not been playing competetive for years. But sadly it seems he did not hold the believe stated at the beginning, that it does not matter wheater you loose or win if you just improve. He wanted to be the best and when he was not good enough he did not improve but cheat. I think he could have gone way further if he only had not started cheating.

I remember that i read soweit featured matches from Roy, where he played Machines, every duel he had Future Fusion