Yugioh Tournaments.

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Dragon_Master

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One thing i would like to bring up.

I dont like the way UDE favours America and Japan with tournaments,all Australia gets are Regionals, Nationals, Sneak Peaks and we used to get Hobby Leagues(im not sure if we still will), oh and we used to get those crappy Duelist Leagues at shops.

So i guess, jsut debate here.
 
Hang on a sec ... what do you think we get besides Regionals, Nationals, Sneak Peeks, Hobby League and Duelist League?

There's the SJCs, but that's not UDE's fault. As I understand it, Shonen Jump is the group of people that don't want to take the SJCs outside of the U.S.

Europe does have a mostly equivalent tournament thing to the SJC, though, at least that's my impression.

Perhaps you could lobby them for more ... it's hard to do, but it's certainly not outside the realm of what one person can accomplish if they put their mind to it!!!
 
Yeah,as far for what I know,Puerto Rico only get hobby leagues,the last sneak peak that happened was the one of rise of destiny and we didn´t get the promo.
 
From my understanding UDE is working on getting Austraila an SJC. I only heard minor details but I do think it is in the works.
 
It's true that the US gets more tournaments than other regions. The reason we do is because the majority of Yugioh "tournament players" live in North America. I've heard Japan gets no huge tournaments in their area. I could be wrong on this but other than a national and worlds thats it. Of course there is some time of hobby league to but I don't count those.
 
Dragon_Master said:
I guess i heard some untrue things saying that the US gets like twice as many tournaments as Aus.
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I think I misunderstood you. I was thinking of "more" as variety, but you're talking about quantity, aren't ya. I get it now.

I'd have to agree with blade, it's likely because the U.S. has the most sales, therefore getting it a higher concentration of organized events. We can probably look into the sales figures and determine if there is a direct corollation or not, but I think it's a safe bet :D
 
Even within the US, only select area get the more prominent tournaments. That's not to say that Shonen Jumps don't come around to an area near you, but I have noticed from posting regionals that the tournies around the northwest have significantly better prizes offered then the tournies I've been to. More side events and better orginazational skills in the side events. My area is the exact opposite. We're lucky to have a tournament in our store on Sundays, much less the weekly prize oriented events like I see on the northwest sites.
 
not to sure about other area but texas gets a good number i would think since the last regionals here in my area had like 290 people but i think it mainly has to do with the groups who run the events
 
Thinking about nationals, I think that the US is just too big to have only one nationals competition.

Competing against players from a country of 286 million to become the national champion, compared to (for example) the UK with a population of 65 million is a little unfair in my opinion. And for countries with smaller populations, the odds get even better.

Splitting the US into east, middle and west seems fairer- bring the catchment areas down a bit. Of course- you would have to ensure that the 'semi nationals' would have to either be held on the same day, or to prevent people competing in more than one of them.
 
english chef said:
Thinking about nationals, I think that the US is just too big to have only one nationals competition.

Competing against players from a country of 286 million to become the national champion, compared to (for example) the UK with a population of 65 million is a little unfair in my opinion. And for countries with smaller populations, the odds get even better.

Splitting the US into east, middle and west seems fairer- bring the catchment areas down a bit. Of course- you would have to ensure that the 'semi nationals' would have to either be held on the same day, or to prevent people competing in more than one of them.
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Awwww, come on!! You know there arent 286M people playing Yugioh!! lol

I get your point though, but as much as I keep hearing that "Yugioh is dying", does that mean we have 285.99M people playing?
 
I doubt we even have 286 million worldwide playing YGO. The game is already dead. Nobody just wants to realize it.
 
Tiso said:
I doubt we even have 286 million worldwide playing YGO. The game is already dead. Nobody just wants to realize it.
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"I see dead people.... playing Yugioh!!"

It's only dead when the lastest Shonen Jump Promo goes on eBay with a .01 starting bid with no reserve, and 10 days to bid on it, and there's less than 2 seconds left, with it still at .01 cents.
 
Yeah long since have past the days where I need to mortage my house to buy a YGO card.
 
Yet we still have cards that can consistently command $150 or more being released. Just because you aren't interested in paying that much doesn't mean others aren't buying.
 
So what constitutes an alive and breathing game? I hear a lot of talk about how "the game is dying". I've been hearing that since Duel Masters came out, what, 2 years ago? If Yu-Gi-Oh! is an example of a dead game, then that means every other game out there is dead to. Which I find very interesting. It seems the only way to have a living breathing game is for it to match Magic the Gathering in size and accomplishment. I guess that means that a Comic Book Company is "dead" if it isn't on the scale of Marvel or DC Comics or that a amusement park is "dead" if it isn't Disney World or Universal Studios. Maybe we should extend that to people too. I'm dead because I'm not Bill Gates or Harrison Ford.
 
Duel Masters is dying in English from what I understand. Why play the kiddie MTG when you can just play MTG? Not to mention they do not merchandise it right and the anime is a mockery of how well received it is in Japan, where it has and probably is still beating YGO in sales. YGO is dead already. You can tell by the Top 8 lists. What is the point of releashing sets anymore when everyone will continue to use the same CC cards over and over? The TCG is the big tourney scene, but even that is not going to last long.
 
Which I've been hearing for years. My question is not what makes Yu-Gi-Oh! dead or dying. My question is what makes a game alive and kicking? Because based on thoses those "dead" definitions I keep hearing, there is no game alive and kicking outside of Magic, and there never has been.
 
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