PATRICK HOBAN WINS THE 2013 NORTH AMERICAN WCQ!!!

Welcome, welcome! Congratulations to Patrick Hoban for winning the North American World Championship Qualifier with Dragon Rulers, defeating David Keener and his Prophecy deck in the finals! The six Duelists who will be representing North America at Worlds are:

Dragon Ruler:
Pat Hoban

Rob Boyajian

Aaron Riker

Stephen Silverman

Prophecy:

David Keener

Norberto Leon

This event was notable for continuing the proof the Dragon Rulers and Prophecy are dominant over basically every other represented deck, as well as unusually spotty coverage from Altereality Games (and Konami, as usual). See below for my coverage highlights and as always, thanks for reading.

Top Cut

There is a total absence of deck breakdowns for the Top Cut at this moment. Stay tuned and I will try to update this post if and when I find them.

Top 64: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14755

Several notable names made the Top 64 in the event, including Rob Boyajian, Alex Thomas, Frazier Smith, Pat Hoban, Johnny Li, Agustin Herrera, Norberto Leon, and Steffon Bizzell.

Top 32: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14774

At this point, the only non-Dragon/Prophecy player left was Alex Thomas (Madolche).

Top 16: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14797

Top 8: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14813

Top 4: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14817

(Breakdown is unconfirmed at this time)

2 Dragon Ruler

2 Prophecy

Feature Matches

Round 1: Tyler Tabman (Priestess Prophecy) defeats Priestessless Prophecy

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14413

Round 1: Hero Beat defeats Chain Draw Exodia

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14440

Round 2: Desmond Johnson (Karakuri) defeats Travis Smith (Prophecy)

www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14456

Round 3: Dark World defeats Constellars

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14503

Round 4: Constellars defeat Thunder Family

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14528  

(Also, lol at the Konami writer saying that Imperial Iron Wall is dead against Constellars.)

Round 5: Dragon Ruler mirror

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14552

Round 6: Dragon Rulers defeat Six Samurai

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14593

Round 7: Dragon Rulers defeat Prophecy

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14628

Round 8: Dragon Rulers defeat Constellars

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14642

Round 8: Robert Boyajian (Dragon Rulers) defeats Prophecy

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14671

Round 9: Prophecy defeats Tempest Dragunity

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14683

Round 9: Alexander Thomas (Madolche) defeats Hansel Aguero (Dragon Rulers)

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14697

Round 10: Frazier Smith wins Dragon Ruler mirror

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14715

Round 11: Michael Albanese defeats Bryan Rockenbach (Dragon Ruler mirror)

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14735

Top 32: Norberto Leon (Prophecy) defeats Alexander Thomas (Madolche)

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14778

Top 16: Pat Hoban wins Dragon Ruler mirror

http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14801

Top Table Updates

Round 4: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14547

8 Dragon Ruler

4 Prophecy

4 Evilswarm

1 Fire Fist

1 Six Samurai

1 Tempest Dragunity

1 Anti-Meta (“Anti-Meta Beat”, as notated on-site)

Round 5: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14563

8 Dragon Ruler

8 Prophecy

2 Evilswarm

1 Mermail

1 Six Samurai

Round 6: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14589

13 Dragon Ruler

3 Prophecy

1 Evilswarm

2 Constellar

1 Anti-Meta

Round 7: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14604

Konami actually did the breakdown themselves this time. Isn’t that a hoot?

12 Dragon Ruler

4 Prophecy

2 Evilswarm

1 Constellar

1 Anti-Meta

Round 8: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14648

I guess they went back to their old ways this round.

11 Dragon Ruler

6 Prophecy

2 Evilswarm

1 Anti-Meta

Round 9: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14694

Breakdown yet again!

13 Dragon Ruler

4 Prophecy

1 Evilswarm

1 Dark World

1 Tempest Dragunity

Round 10: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14726

No breakdown yet again.

15 Dragon Ruler

3 Prophecy

1 Constellar

1 Madolche

Round 11: http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14751

13 Dragon Ruler

5 Prophecy

1 Evilswarm

1 Madolche

Deck Features

Desmond Johnson’s Karakuri OTK - http://www.konami.com/yugioh/blog/?p=14483