Posted on August 13th, 2009 |
Go-YGO.com’s second pro interview is Chris Gehring (not Gehrig). The decorated New Zealand duelist recently returned from the World Championships in 2009 and agreed to sit down for an interview.
Chris Gehring is our subject for the day. Considered the best player in Oceania, he has finished in the top eight of two Worlds Championships in a row. Konami reserves only one slot for New Zealand (for the National champion), so Gehring has essentially won the biggest tournament in his country two years in a row. Gehring also has a runner-up finish at the New Zealand Fortune Tour Final, dozens of Regional top eights and wins, and an x-2 finish at Shonen Jump Anaheim 2009.
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 |
The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship for 2009 is rapidly approaching. And though the tournament is set for this weekend, the buzz surrounding the most prestigious tournament of the year is nearly non-existent. I figure it would be proper to provide a guide to the World Championships.
The World Championship tournament is perhaps the most misunderstood entity in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! There are many players who are unaware of the scale of the tournament and how it is run. Since coverage is generally pretty sparse, the World Champion has rarely gotten the sort of press coverage one would expect. In fact, I think I can only name three out of the past five World Champions. And I do this for a living!
The Tournaments at the World Championship
This year, the tournament is held in Tokyo. There are actually two tournaments held during this weekend. One is the Video Game Championship. Matt Johnson of Team Comic Odyssey has exploited the competition en route to two consecutive National Championship wins (and Worlds invitations).
The bigger tournament is the trading card World Championship. It features 24 players from 40 representing countries (I would imagine this happens due to all of the countries participating in the European Championship).
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