Winter YOC (Yu-gi-oh Online Championship) 2012 is upon us and loads of players are registering on the main yu-gi-oh site to try their hand at being crowned the world's best.

Round 1 of the YOC was recently won by Mizo7 from Japan who is ranked #20 in the world currently in the tournament rankings and has the title "Ultimate Gunslinger" I know firsthand how good Mizo is because they knocked me out of the tournament when it came down to the final 16 players (I'm Korra). I have made it to the final 16 a few times so I thought I might impart some YOC advice on hopefuls that are new to the system.

Participants in the preliminary rounds of Winter YOC are Awarded the Yusei Blue female and male duel disks. Go to Blister's to get your 2 free disks after you duel in the preliminaries (no wins necessary).

1. Your opponent's often watch your previous Rock/Paper/Scissors contests to know what you will likely pick for their round with you. Mix up your picks to avoid this pitfall.

2. They also watch your deck, and players with many decks will pick the best that is best suited. They can also add/edit cards before the duel starts, so if you are playing let's say a blackwing deck they will add 3x shadow imprisoning mirror and play lightsworn to face you.

3. Don't chat or do anything else other than focus on your duel. Distractions lead to mistakes.

4. If you are disconnected from the server while waiting for a duel login again quickly and go back to the championship grounds. If you get back in before the round starts you are safe.

5. Each round is roughly 30 minutes before the next round starts. Take your bathroom breaks and get refreshed if you have more than a few minutes of free time before the next round starts.

In addition to this advice you must have duelistt premium and have participated in a minimum of at least 250 duels before you can register for a YOC spot. If you do not have a spot you can enter at the time the tourney is about to start and hope to be randomly selected from open spaces.

There may be an exception to the 250 rule as I ran into a player named FinalWinner who had 88 wins and 0 loses until we dueled and they were able to enter but officially you need 250 duels.

Evolution

More repeats but they are a decent batch. you can buy 1 for every 10 stars you earn in evolution. After you get more than 30 stars the card order repeats. You must buy them from Blister's Outpost in the special packs section.

10 stars Dark general Freed

20 stars Infernity Destroyer

30 stars Guardian Eatos

Winter YOC (Yu-gi-oh Online Championship) 2012 is upon us and loads of players are registering on the main yu-gi-oh site to try their hand at being crowned the world's best.

Round 1 of the YOC was recently won by Mizo7 from Japan who is ranked #20 in the world currently in the tournament rankings and has the title "Ultimate Gunslinger" I know firsthand how good Mizo is because they knocked me out of the tournament when it came down to the final 16 players (I'm Korra). I have made it to the final 16 a few times so I thought I might impart some YOC advice on hopefuls that are new to the system.

Participants in the preliminary rounds of Winter YOC are Awarded the Yusei Blue female and male duel disks. Go to Blister's to get your 2 free disks after you duel in the preliminaries (no wins necessary).

1. Your opponent's often watch your previous Rock/Paper/Scissors contests to know what you will likely pick for their round with you. Mix up your picks to avoid this pitfall.

2. They also watch your deck, and players with many decks will pick the best that is best suited. They can also add/edit cards before the duel starts, so if you are playing let's say a blackwing deck they will add 3x shadow imprisoning mirror and play lightsworn to face you.

3. Don't chat or do anything else other than focus on your duel. Distractions lead to mistakes.

4. If you are disconnected from the server while waiting for a duel login again quickly and go back to the championship grounds. If you get back in before the round starts you are safe.

5. Each round is roughly 30 minutes before the next round starts. Take your bathroom breaks and get refreshed if you have more than a few minutes of free time before the next round starts.

In addition to this advice you must have duelistt premium and have participated in a minimum of at least 250 duels before you can register for a YOC spot. If you do not have a spot you can enter at the time the tourney is about to start and hope to be randomly selected from open spaces.

There may be an exception to the 250 rule as I ran into a player named FinalWinner who had 88 wins and 0 loses until we dueled and they were able to enter but officially you need 250 duels.

Evolution

More repeats but they are a decent batch. you can buy 1 for every 10 stars you earn in evolution. After you get more than 30 stars the card order repeats. You must buy them from Blister's Outpost in the special packs section.

10 stars Dark general Freed

20 stars Infernity Destroyer

30 stars Guardian Eatos

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New Event Cards posted by konami, out with the old and in with the err... old, well ok so it's a bunch of leftovers and spammed cards. You listened to our advice got rid of your event cards and can now buy them back for 1/3 the price. Tuningware has been rereleased in gunslinger expect prices to drop by probably 50% on this very useful card.

Evolution is currently happening and many players have been busy buying this set which includes

10 Stars Hand of the Six Samurai

20 Stars Infernity Necromancer

30 Stars Herald of Orange Light

This is a good set with useful cards. I reccomend trading or acquiring a few sets while they are at their lowest cost.

Duelist Trial is at Hand! with Clear World and Clear Vice Dragon making another appearance straight off the gunslinger trail. Each win in Duelist Trial gets you 1 star.

4 Stars Clear World

5 Stars Clear Vice Dragon

Gunslinger: More repeats but gs5 (5 win streak in gunslinger) is a real treat. Expect heavy competition as older players get off their other media to acquire 3 of this highly sought after card. Tuningware was going for 100-130 mp before this, this is probably the last or second to last opportunity to acquire tuningware in the game. (Tuningware might be in Anniversary Trial 100). Dont get too eager to collect more than 3 though remember that the Stardust Rising Boosterpass has 2 of them when you purchase this.

GS 5 Tuningware

GS6 Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid

GS7 Darklord Desire

NEW SCAM! WATCH OUT!

Scammers are offering free accounts under the guise that the accounts have rare flags in order to acquire the account back once you have added your cards to it and made it your "Home". The way the scam works is they give you the account information for free in many cases and you change the password thinking that the account is yours. It is right? WRONG! Remember konami issues an ID when an account is created that is that ID that konami considers to be the "TRUE" owner. They will simply write konami once you change the password and give them the ID claiming that they forgot the original password. When the new password is sent to them they will login and begin emptying the acount of it's contents. If you haven't added anything yet they can come back weeks or even months later and begin clearing them out. Do not fall for this scam you can acquire any country flag when you create an account at konami.

SCAM 2

EMAIL Alert! Change the registered emails on your accounts if you no longer have possesion of that email account. Scammers have been creating new email accounts on emails of former emails of players and writing konami asking for them to send their information to the registered email account.

Example you own This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and your account is Iamsouglydog99234 in game. These guys wait for players who don't use their old email addresses to expire ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Then they create the same account at hotmail becoming the new owner of that address. They then write konami with their email info and ask them to send userid and pw to them claiming they forgot it.. Some of them have been as bold as to give their userid as iamsouglydog figuring that if a player used it for their email and ign (in game name) they probably used it as their userid on the account. Toour knowledge nobody has lost their account yet this way (konami will not say), but this same is prevalent in many other online games and has worked many many times before.