Category: 2019 | European Championship

Meet Team Europe II

On Friday we hosted the World Championship Points Play-off and identified the first half of Team Europe. Jonas Koschel and Joshua Schmidt both secured their spots by making it all the way to the finals. In an intense playoff for 3rd place Raphael Neven, being first in points throughout the year, grabbed the last remaining spot and all other Duelists had to try again at the European Championship. Now, we are finally able to present you the final four World Championship competitors making Team Europe complete.
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WCQ: European Championship 2019 Award Ceremony

The WCQ: European Championship 2019 in Utrecht is in the books! We had 1.900 Duelists entering the Main Event on Saturday making this the largest European Championship ever! After 11 Rounds of Swiss and 6 more Knock-Out Rounds we have a new European Champion. After semi-finals it was already clear that the title would go to France. We had an all France final: Gabriele Soussi vs. Samir Bachar. Samir seems to have quite a run at Euros. It was the second time he made it to the finals and the second time he will be going to the World Championship. In a Salamangreat mirror match Gabriele Soussi finally won his first European Championship for France and will be going to Worlds! The whole French community went nuts after his victory! Here are the pictures from the award ceremony.
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WCQ: European Championship 2019 in Utrecht Top 8 Profiles

After 11 long Rounds of Swiss across two days and 3 further Knockout Rounds, we have finally reached the Top 8. All of these Duelists fought hard to get where they are right now and all of them want to go to Worlds! One more win separates them for their big goal. Let’s find out who they are and what they are playing today.
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Public Events Playoff Winner

Off all the participants at our Public Events, we picked 4 of them at random to take part in our Public Events Playoff. All you have to do to be eligible is to enter a single Public Event and little bit of luck to get picked. The winner will take home a Super Rare copy of the current YCS prize card.
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Attack of the Giant Card Winner

We have our first Giant Card Winner of this event! It is Danique de Jongh from the Benelux. He’s a big fan of Speed Duel and decided to take his chance to enter the first ever Speed Duel Public Event. He was rewarded by winning a gorgeous Giant Skill Card: Destiny Draw.
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WCQ: European Championship 2019 Top 64 Deck & Country Breakdown

After 11 Rounds of Swiss only the best 64 Duelists are remaining. We are about to start the knock-out Rounds of this event. In this article we are going to take a look at the Top 64 deck and country breakdown. Is Salamangreat still on top? Were the other decks able to keep up? Read on to find out!
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Dragon Duel Award Ceremony

Ladies and Gentlemen, parents and all the people following our coverage at home: we would like to present you the Top 4 players of the Dragon Duel World Championship Qualifier. Both finalists are going to the World Championship in Berlin, Germany!

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Final Standings after Swiss

Here are the Standings after round 11. The best 64 Duelists will advance to Playoffs.
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Quick Questions: How do you like the current format?

We haven’t had a new Forbidden & Limited List in quite a while and the format seems solved. There are four different decks in the current meta that all have a chance of winning. In fact all of them already won bigger events. Here’s what Duelists at the WCQ in Utrecht think about the current format.
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Standings Round 10

Here are the Standings after round 10.
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