What is YCS?
For those of you who don't know, YCS are Konami's official TCG in real life tournament that takes place once a month over a weekend in the United States of America, Europe, Canada and South America.These are big, exciting 2-day events that take place from Saturday to Sunday.Duelists from around the world gather in on one place to play their favourite children card game.

(Some of you are familiar with the YCS and how it goes, some even goes regularly to YCS all around the world, but i will not mention names here, since non of them actually won or topped a YCS so they simply don't deserve to be mention.)

What is the format of this event?



Tournament Setup:
1. First stage is Swiss Round Tournament. Players are paired off based on each player’s win/loss record. Players are not eliminated when they lose a match during Swiss tournaments – instead, they will continue to be paired against players with similar records for all remaining rounds of the event.The number of these Swiss Rounds will depend on the final number of competitors for the tournament.

2. Second stage is Single-Elimination Tournament. After the Swiss Round Tournament is finished, only the 16 duelists with the top records will advance to this second stage. At this time, the decks of these 16 duelists will become public knowledge.If there is a tie for any of the Top 16 places, the person with the lowest number of duels lost will advance. If this does not break the tie, the tied players will have a tiebreaker round to determine who advances to the Top 16.

This is the form of Tournament we all know.If you lose, you are out of the tournament.If you win, you goes to the next round.This continues until only one player remains, which is then declared as our first Dueling City Championship Series's winner.

3. All pairing for both halves of the tournament will be made using CHALLONGE.com There is a possibility that you may play the same person more than once during the course of this tournament.

4. All matches are best 2 out of 3. You are allowed to use only 1 deck throughout the whole tournament. You are allowed to use your side deck after game 1.If you suspect your opponent is cheating by using a card that doesn't exist in his side deck or for using cards from side deck in game 1, send a private message to me or some of the Judges with a screenshot as a prove.We will take a look and reply you with our decision.(If you don't have a screenshot, then don't bother us in first place.)

5. If you are active and your opponent is not, you'll receive a forfeit win. To get this, you must show me that you've PM'd your opponent and at least attempted to make contact. If you are both inactive it's a double forfeit. If you're both active but unable to meet up, you'll both take a loss, but will receive no punishment.

6. As per actual YCS rules, causing a match to end in a draw on purpose will result in a disqualification.

7. Being inactive for 2 rounds will, among other penalties, result in a disqualification from the tournament regardless of your current record.

8. As i said already, we are following the Official September 2012 Banlist (Link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] )

9. Only TCG cards allowed.Your deck should NOT contains any OCG-only or Anime-only cards.If it does, you can be reported and disqualified.

10. If you have any conflict about game mechanics, rulings and similar things during a duel you have to work it out between each other in classic way by providing evidence from internet sources or contacting DN in-game admins to solve your issue.

11. Take screenshots for every win you got.You may not post it, but you better have it in order to prove you are right in any possible issue that may come out.It's your responsibility.

12. In case of disconnection while playing for this event, the decision about the outcome of the duel will be taken by Judge in the way it's described in our Warbook (Link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] )


Bonus Events
In addition to the main DCCS Tournament, there will be several bonus events as well.The idea is from the actual YCS Tournament, in which they provide many different public events to entertain their players.Our version include a few bonus events such as Custom Format Tournament, DCCS Live tournament and others.We hope you will like the idea of something different during the DCCS and join.Of course the winners from these events will be awarded.

I almost forget to mention that once you got in top 16, you become a target for our writers.There will be featured decks, matches and duelist bios.Everything that deserves attention will be noted.Don't forget that teams always are looking who top on a big tournament.DCCS is the best way for new guys to make themselves known in our new community.

Prizes
The winner of the Swiss Round Tournament stage will get 10 points in our ranking system and an userbar.Then our writers will do their best to make him/her feel like a mini children card game's star by writing an article about the power of his cards and genius mind.

All duelists that reach top 16 will earn an userbar.Also they will get some points in our ranking system, depending on their final standing.

» 4 points for top 16
» 8 points for top 8
» 16 points for top 4

Our runner-up will get a booby prize of 25 points in our ranking system and an userbar.That userbar should be really special.

And finally the first winner of Dueling City Championship Series will get 50 points, an userbar and a custom rank.DCCS is the only way you can get custom rank in DC. Being the first who have it and for a long time the only one should be a good feeling.I'll never know...


How i can sign-up for this event?

You can sign-up for this event by replying in this topic with the following information:

Code:

DN Username:
Time Zone:

Time Zones will not factor into pairings. They will be displayed next to your name to make it easier for you to find good times to contact and duel with your opponents.


If you have any questions,suggestions or comments about DCCS, don't post here.Your post may be deleted.Post in our dccs's chat topic.
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Since we want this tournament to be as big as possible, I will not be setting any exact dates for end of registration. Instead, I will just wait and see when it feels like no more duelists are entering. At the most, this will take 2 weeks, however registration could end sooner than that if we get a bunch of applicants all at once and then very few register after that.