Yu-Gi-Oh! What Just Happened At YCS Sacramento?! | Jesse Kotton Wins AGAIN!!! 

I think the biggest reason for the low attendance is how much Konami is dragging their feet with the banlist. They should have released it straight after the WCQs. They are treating their playerbase like children instead of customers who are paying a lot of money to play the game.

People SHOULD stay the FRICK away from the events for Yugioh. And please guys don’t just flock back the moment a banlist drops. WE NEED to stay away so Konami suffers more and more and finally changes sth. And I dont mean a cool banlist. We need massive changes.

A few takeaways from watching this YCS: Snake-Eye, while offering interesting gameplay from time-to-time, has missed the mark in terms of design. I find it more interesting when they're a supplemental engine to support other Fire archetypes, like Volcanic. But just generating a bunch of material for (mostly) Link plays, and paired with Fiendsmith, which does the same (along with Beatrice plays) lacks creativity, beyond the skill needed to pilot it at a high level. We can't interrupt it or break the board effectively without the correct combination of handtraps & boardbreakers, or heavy floodgates, and we need a lot of them. Yubel is along similar lines, Phantom has a ridiculous Summoning condition, Gates should not be supporting this deck as well as it is, the soft OPT on Spirit is crazy and it's also backed up by Fiendsmith and Varudras. Seeing the lines being performed correctly is interesting, but not much creativity due to the repeatability. There are other decks waiting in the wings, like Labrynth, Memento, White Forest variants, Melodious, Ritual Beast, Plants for an opportunity to shine, that could be created with the F&L list. It's probably worth looking at some of the unhealthy cards/plays these decks can put out to see what is waiting for us if the top decks are hit appropriately. Stream quality-wise I agree with your points, although I do like that they try to magnify cards being played sometimes so that viewers can have a better look. It's not much, but it helps. Commentary could've been better as well, it was done nicely in Europe, but it wasn't terrible here. It'd be interesting to note how many "non-games" or auto-wins there were using cards like Shifter, and other floodgates, as well as usage rates for the cards. At least using the feature matches for data, it's probably hard to get it for all the games. Some small positives regarding the survey put out by Konami to gather views as well as a (hopeful) hint towards an effective F&L list that could change things. Maybe it's not a lot, but I'll take it over nothing.

About a years ago I was playing a floodgatey crystal beast deck and people at locals were saying it was unskillful and that I sucked. Now those same people are playing skill drain or shifter, of all cards, in their meta competitive deck. If you ask me, winning with a rogue floodgate deck is more impressive than winning with a meta floodgate deck.

think what draws the line for me is the currently 800 DOLLAR DRAGON CARD THAT NO ONE CAN GET, fuck everything else, I just want easier access to cards man. tired of this shit

ppl pointed out to me that this YCS was very small bc its NorCal and apparently that usually gets lower turn outs bc its hard for ppl to travel to and flights are more money and whatnot, PLUS they announced it rather late. But i also think that unless we have more data to go off of to compare numbers to, there is no way to know if this is a normal attendance number or not. if we look at the past few YCSes this past year however, the last 2 were Indy and Raleigh, getting about double this, and then before that was Richmond at the beginning of the Fire Era all the way back in November, getting about 1400 or so (i am deliberately excluding Vegas bc lets be honest, who the fuck would not be going to vegas for that 3v3 if they were able to go?). Based on those numbers, its significantly lower than the past but like i said, there is not enough data to say "this is lower than it should be" or not. I think the next course of action would be to examine regionals, examine locals, and see if that level of play is suffering. I have heard of reprorts of locals stopping support for Yugioh, both card products (Sealed and Singles) and tournaments. If we had data from that to go off of, id be better equipped to say one oway or another if things are good or bad, but without it we are left to wonder.

I think with everyone playing with the Fiendsmith engine, it reminds me of that Homer Simpson meme where he showed up at Moe's Tavern during Ladies night.

Expecting a huge list to drop based on the announcement they put out

Naw skill drain needs to be one it's a good counter for metas

I don't think skill drain and summon limit are the problem. The problem is that everyone can splash a broken engine that sets up nearly unbreakable boards with all but one card. One card combis are ridiculous and the fact that a deck of 40 cards can play like 15-20 one card combos is absurd. Summon limit should have never been banned. It's totally fair because neither player can summon more than twice. It goes both ways. Skill drain is only being played because it's the only hope players have

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Lmao, the guy is the equivalent to Man Oily City and PSG, and all these other clubs backed by unlimited money. When it comes to football, money and squad value trumps skill. No different to Yugioh.

I think the worst part is that the Tier 1 decks (Tenpai & Yubel) are such terribly un-fun archetypes to play against, meaning even if the banlist kills Snake-Eyes we're still stuck in a shvtty format 😂

kinda tired of seeing "theme" decks but only like 5 cards of the theme are there and the rest are like.. full of hand traps and other engines (not part of the main theme) just to "make" the deck work.. Its not fun and not really enjoyable to watch. I wanna see a FULL theme Dino deck or a FULL theme Cyber dragon deck. cuz at the end of the day.. its all for fun 💯💯

There are a few considerations when covering this event: • Pokémon Worlds, One Piece Championship, and the short notice were factors affecting attendance. I know Walter Jules didn't go because he and our friends in common had already purchased their trip to Chicago. • There were interesting techs in the top cut decks, not that straight forward: Our Friend Terrazas in Top 4 had Fiendsmith Yubel FTK. Our champion Jesse had a Protos play. • I can't share my opinion about Ibra vs. Carrillo, because Carrillo is my friend, but didn't feel good at all.

Konami needs to make cards less generic

Meh, it's Snake Eye Fiendsmith....Not impressed

There were two other California events this weekend outside of Sacramento this weekend, plus a Remote Duel event, so Northern Cal getting 915 players was nice. It would've been 916, but I had to take care of ill family. Nevertheless, Konami blogging this event being the last hurrah for Snake-Eyes is lovely.

Between being the last YCS of the format and Pokemon's Worlds not really surprised that attendance was low. Crossing my fingers so that White Forest and Memento become the better decks post banlist

I didnt even know there was a YCS going on until you posted lol

Skill Drain and summon limit literally made the game playable for me again,, yes that are very OP but removing backrow is so easy so it really shouldnt be as big as an issue as ppl made them.

Trasg format, over priced cards, and greedy Konami. They are killing their own game

I love that Konami is finally communicating with us a little. They finally learned how unhealthy the format is, so I’m expecting a banlist that just nukes the meta decks.

My issue with snake eye (and yes I’m biased) isn’t so much the gameplay fully, yes there’s matches where it feels like you are comparing hands but generally the matches, especially game 1, can be very enjoyable. The issue I have is no deck should be around for 7-8 months, it just gets boring overtime seeing the same thing. Even tear, a super skill expressive deck got boring after a while.

Bait thumbnail… touché

Try streaming elden ring. Congrats jesse

Elden Ring🥳

Skill drain is needed for this dog shit meta.

Low attendance? I don't think you understand how far away Sacramento is for 90% of the country. It is 2807 miles away from Washington DC where I live.

The reason blackwing is struggling in edison right now is because the format for edison is getting a lot faster, but this is because player tech choices are getting more defined

hating on skill drain , while been okay with huge boards full of negates is the wildest take on yugioh 🤣

That is a sexy DMG

Elden ring baby

that's one of the biggest downside of announcing the banlist date, as much of a good thing it is to do so, players are so over this format that this YCS suffered because of it. why join this event when you know the banlist is right around the corner?

Sacramento is Northern Cali, which is not easy to get to from Southern Cali. If the same event was held in San Diego or LA, you probably get double the turnout. It's not an easy drive from Northern California to Southern California. This is not me defending the format or anything like that. I'm just saying that I wouldn't read too much into the YCS turnout in Sacramento

Damn I was hoping you’d do this whole vid in the dm girl cosplay

Its hard to enjoy the game when there is always someone hating the format, if you don't like the game speak up on the surveys and influencers or just don't play the game