Thank you to all of the readers and contributors who have turned this blog into one of the sharpest Yu-Gi-Oh communities on the Internet. There is some exciting news to share for this week.
Go-YGO.com To Feature Live Updating of Shonen Jump Championships and Worlds
Starting from Gencon Indy, Go-YGO.com will feature live updating of information at each Shonen Jump Championship. While it is impossible to show feature matches at the event (only Konami representatives are allowed to engage in such activity), I will do my best to spotlight innovative decks and strategies over the weekend. The deck profiles will not be gimmicky but actually feature top tier builds.
Also, currently Konami’s official site does not list standings at the end of the event. Nor does it provide enough feature matches and coverage to distinguish which of your favorite top players (and even friends of yours) have done well for themselves. While I am at each event, I will do my best to keep you updated on the performance of big names and the emergence of new strategies.
Go-YGO.com will feature a final standing sheet and up to the minute status reports on how well players are doing from round to round (through my Twitter account JAELOVE if no internet is available). However, please keep in mind the difficulty of getting exact records from round to round (standings are only posted at the end).
edit: Konami is doing amazing coverage of the World Championships at yugioh-card.com!
Please spread the word! For those who want more in-depth coverage at Shonen Jump Championships, tune in to go-YGO.com!
If you have any suggestions for what type of coverage you’d like to see, leave them in the comments below.
New Side-Deck Advice Series at TCGPlayer and Card of the Day Reviews at Pojo.com
The number one request I have received is content focusing on proper side-deck strategies. So I’ve signed on with TCGPlayer.com to create a series of columns based on proper side-decking. The first article features Lightsworn. The next articles in the series will deal with top decks like Blackwings, Cat Synchro, and Gladiator Beast that you may wish to play at the next major tournament. The series features actual cards to remove for your side-deck, and what to look for in certain match-ups.
Also, feel free to browse the Pojo Card of the Day. I am offering my take on quite a few cards (X-Saber Urbellum for one) that may help you squeeze out that crucial extra match win.
This Week at Go-YGO.com
Three posts on tap for you this week. The first will feature a primer for the World Championship coming up this weekend. The next post of the week will feature a conversation with an OCG blogger who lives in Japan as a foreign duelist! I have always been curious about the OCG and how it is structured, so hopefully it will be an informative interview session.
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This sounds pretty good. I’m very happy that I started going here regularly.
I like the idea of more deck profiles, especially without Jason’s kid gloves. Looking forward to this. Also, I’ll be impressed if you can pull it off while participating, or do you have your own staff?
thanks man can’t wait to read about it.
If it’s possible to post the pairings for each round, that’d be awesome.
I’d like to see some Tag-Team matches, They’re fun and something different to read.
good news
Good news jae
good luck with this and hopefully you dont get caught up in the konami “politics” bs that is going on.
Fantastic idea Jae. It sounds like you’re trying to get as close to old school coverage as possible (as close as they’ll let you anyway), which is great. Coverage used to be so solid with live updates, standings, profiles, tech updates, what/who was at the top tables, player opinions, (I could go on and on) that you actually felt like you were at the event. Now coverage is so scant that you can barely tell who was even at the event (seriously, if I didn’t know otherwise, based on the Canadian Coverage, I would not have even known that the Bellido brothers were there).
Good luck with all of this and I really hope Konami doesn’t fuck with your shit while you’re making this game interesting again because they absolutely refuse to.
Good luck at Gencon Indy. I am looking forward in reading your report and deck profiles.
Awesome. ^^
Dmagew, what is the Konami “politics” you speak of?
the konami politics of: jason, julia, frank d., jerome, and kevin and their bias. i read alot of the crap between you and jason on pojo also.
So your attending worlds?
Cool.
Anyhows best of luck because itll be a lot of work, but also rewarding.
Good Luck with this
the five way they has been happening; it would be wonderful if you expose some of this
Let me get a profile or something
DamageW, I think Jae knows how to deal with the ‘bias’ from his time at metagame.com, where he was forced to review and ‘sell’ filler material for various sets.
Hope this coverage thing kicks off Jae. Also, I’m interested in getting into the writing game ‘proper’ myself now. I would presume that Pojo’s articles would be the best starting point? You got any advice I can take?
Good info about Worlds, I agree that the TCG is more developed.
I’ll look foward to seeing you at Indy Jae, remember to tape whatever team Undisputed takes on
Very cool. Can’t wait to learn of more side-deck strategies.
I know this is two years too late but it looks like on tcg player you had a series of 3 articles going with the “Elevate your game” series but never finished. Why is that?
Qynar, feel free to shoot me an e-mail about such circumstances off the record. The TCG writing industry was struggling at the time (the game was at death’s door it seemed).
Hey, I want to see SOME gimmicky deck features. Only top tier ones makes boring coverage.