 In today's video, I entered in my first ever official Edison tournament. I'm here at YCS Indy. I'm actually playing in the Edison event. I just woke up. Sounds like it. I know it's the middle of the day, but it didn't start till one, so let's get to it. So normally I do a vlog for this kind of thing, but I was only there for like one day and you'll see why. I just didn't get a ton of footage. So it's a little bit of a different video because I did one update you guys on what happened and what happened was I played in a tournament. The tallest man in the business. Sassy underscore auto. Wait, is it an underscore? Sassy underscore auto. There's nothing under except everything. He's above it all. Oh man. Sassy auto. What did he get? A milkshake? Just a Coke Zero. Oh, okay. Yeah. Staying healthy. I like it. Hey, I got a question for you. We should be down to sign my mat. Sign your mat? Yeah, bro. Let's go. All right. You got a, you got a Sharpie on you? No, I don't. I really don't play Yu-Gi-Oh that often. I've played in two YCSs before. I've literally never played in a local still. I've entered once, I dropped and then got the OTS back so we could do the every pack opening the first time. That's the only time I've been to locals for an actual tournament. So this was a little unusual for me because the two YCSs I did was in early 2022. So it's been like over a year, probably a year and a half since I've entered in an official tournament. I've done a couple of side events since then, but those are like eight person tournaments. So they're pretty small. So the reason I wasn't at YCS India as long is I originally wasn't even going to go to this tournament. The only reason I went to this tournament is because it was actually close to me. It was like four and a half hours, something like that. Technically it was four hours and 20 minutes. So do it that way. You will. But normally it's like seven hours. It's on the West coast. I have to fly, you know, so I have to make all these plans. But this time I was like, you know, I could just drive up there. I don't really have to make a plan or anything. And I ended up procrastinating a lot and not even getting a hotel room. So then I was thinking, I guess I'm just going to skip, you know, I'm not going to go then sassy out of the legend was like, Hey, I know that, uh, I know that Ethan has a spot in his room. So Ethan, if you guys know him celestial TCG is a really good guy. So I ended up staying in a room with them. He's like, I was like, okay, look, if they've got a spot for me, I can drive up there and make it nice and easy. And I decided like last minute, all right, I'll go to this thing. But there was a problem. The age of overlord release was that weekend. So I had to do the live stream at some point. Normally I would do it on Saturday, but that's when the tournament was. So I decided I'll move it up to Friday. We did the live stream early on Friday, but then I had to do that four and a half hour drive afterward, but I also had to sell my card. So I posted everything on TCG player real quick. I did all my ratios for Twitter. Go follow me on Twitter at rucksons 34. Is it called Twitter anymore? What's it called? X. X. Go follow me over there. I guess it's a pretty crappy platform, but I do put some cool stuff on there. And speaking of putting stuff on there, I actually put all of my round updates on there. So if you want to follow me, if I ever do another round again like this, you won't have to wait for the video. You can see how I'm doing live at the tournament. Here we go. Okay. Three different artworks here. There's two of these. I'm going to go with this one first. All right. We're going to get a ghost shrimp right now. It's going to be insane. Sun vine shrine. This is going to be epic. Oh, that's a decent card. We got splash. We got metaphalls. Come on. Come on. Come on. Okay. I'll just say it for the end. Here we go. This is it. Sun seed. Jagoonity draft. Here to dragon. Let's go. Time thief. All right. This is it. This is it. Right here. Last pack magic in the comments. Right now. No rucks and specials. We're going straight for the card. Here we go. Metapoles. We have metaphalls again. Oh, it's a synchro. Could still be a ghost. Crystal wing. Also, when you leave from where I live to Indy, you actually end up in Eastern time. So it was four and a half hours plus there's an Eastern, you know, central to Eastern. So I have to add an hour. So it's basically five and a half hours. Then I stopped a few times, you know, I had to get some cookies, had to get something to eat, you know, all that different stuff. So I didn't show up till like 11 p.m. So normally, if I'm flying out to a YCS, I've already been there on like Friday, like early Friday, I'm trying to get there. So I've already missed the entire Friday, which normally I would be getting a ton of footage for the vlog and stuff like that. But I wasn't even there. And by the time I get there, everyone's like, yeah, I'm going to bed. I gotta get ready for tomorrow. And I'm like, I guess I'm going to bed too. So I basically got, I don't think I got a single video on Friday. And I also had to submit my deck list, which normally you would have to submit by like early Friday for the main event. But because this was the Edison tournament, it wasn't actually the main event, but it was a real tournament or whatever. I think it was capped at 256 is what they said their max was, which by the way, it didn't go that high. And we'll talk about why that happened later. There's a few things that I want to cover about this Edison tournament in this video. So I entered my deck list, which by the way, I don't do this very often, but it is a tedious process. You have to like type it in, then click on the right one, then click quantity, then type in the number of quantity, then make sure it actually pops up and you didn't miss anything. I missed something, I had 39 in my main deck and I had to go back and I went, what did I miss? So I had to go back and find this. So I know all you guys who play in regular tournaments are like, yeah, this guy's a rookie, but I feel for you guys. That's really annoying. I hated doing that. And after doing that, I realized that the Edison tournament didn't actually start to one PM central. The main event starts at like nine. I think you get there at nine, it starts at 10. This thing didn't start to one PM. So me being me, I was like, okay, I guess I'll just, uh, I'll wake up at some point. It was 10 o'clock. And the other two people in my room were still asleep. So I was like, I guess I'll wait for them. I wake up at 12 and I'm like, oh, it's an hour before the tournament. I better get going. So I get up, you know, I'd taken a shower the night before I fixed my hair real quick, grabbed my bag, head out. I was thinking, I think I was supposed to check in before now. I get there. Apparently checking was at like 10 30. And I'm thinking, oh no, I'm going to get dropped. I'm here for nothing. You know, I'm not even going to get to play. I hear an announcement. There are still 20 Edison players who have not checked in. Oh, that's me. That means we're still good. So I run over to the place where you can check in for, they call it like ultimate time wizard. I think it's what they call it because I guess the ultimate means that it's like the real tournament versus the side event, which is just be like time was a 2010 or whatever. So I go over and like, I'm here to check in. They're like, Oh yeah, you're good to go an hour before the tournament. I was like, that's kind of a bad sign. I don't, I don't think there's that many people playing if I'm already able to check in right before it starts. It was 25 bucks to play. By the way, I just, I don't know if that's a standard one for ultimate time wizard because they just started doing these. So I got my five packs of do less Nexus, which by the way, I opened and here's the video. I entered into the Edison event. I get five packs. Of course, it's dualist Nexus. It couldn't have been age of overlord. Other magicians of modern unity. That's the only thing I want out of here. Let's see what we can get. All right, come on. We're just straight up going in right here. He's got the, I can't read these cards upside down. Hound of the Tostina. Those are usually terrible. So not a great start. We have five packs, four chances now. Open one. Come on. We have the, oh, what is this? The coddle. We've got a synchro. Ibalzar. We, oh, the retrain of the animal guy. Oh, a Tostina again. All right. Okay. This, it's an ultra. It's an ultra rare. We'll take it, I guess. Oh, okay. All right. Three packs left. We've got an ultra. All we need is a secret and a quarter century secret rare. And then we have everything. So that's what's going to happen right here. Secret first. No, okay. Secret after this. So I got two packs. I can still happen. Dualist Nexus. Killing it. Edison, you're not really coming through for me right now. I'm just saying. Supposed to give me something good. Is this, are these the only archetype in this set? Because that's all we're pulling. Okay. Here it is. Last pack. This is the one. This has the bonds in unity. The green background. I have not gotten this one yet. Here we go. Come on, Edison. No. All right. All right. We try. We at least got an ultra. So as you saw, we got our own injury packs. Not that crazy. I mean, Dualist Nexus, why is it Dualist Nexus? Why is it not Age of Overlord? The set had come out this weekend. It needed to be Age of Overlord. I mean, Dualist Nexus is garbage. Age of Overlord would have been lit. So it was unfortunate to have to open that, but it was still cool to get something. I open them up. Didn't really pull anything. So maybe we'll get that magician bond of unity at some point. So at this point, it was a waiting game. I waited until one and we waited a little bit more. I'm like, okay. And they finally post the pairings. So what they did was they stuck one piece of paper on a wall and we're like, all right, here it is. And everyone just swarming to it. So there's people. I'm just standing back there like, I guess I'm just going to wait. People are just up there like, oh, where's my name? People are like, take pictures. Take the picture of the thing. So people are taking pictures, but they're sitting there like lining up and like, all right, you know, people are going crazy. So I finally get up there. I get to see where I am. I go to my first pairing. And by the way, there was only 72 matches at the beginning. So it looks like there's only 144 players, which I think is because nobody knew this Edison tournament was going on. I actually only knew this was happening because I was talking to Simo like a day or two before I was leaving. And he's like, oh, you playing in the Edison tournament? I was like, what is it? And he's like, they're doing Edison ultimate time wizard at this event. I was like, really? He's like, yeah, they announced it like one day ago or something. So a ton of people didn't know about it. That would have gone for ultimate time wizard if they had announced it a little bit earlier or like actually made it well known. So that was a little sad. I mean, 144 still a lot of players and it was still super fun, but they definitely could have capped it 256 or whatever it was if they had actually like promoted that they were doing Edison at this event. Okay, let's get to the first match. So after waiting quite a while, I finally got to actually play a match. So I sit down. I actually did bring a mat this time. Half the time I forget a man have to like buy one or borrow one or not even use one or something. I brought my original one from our videos where it was the zombie madness and the red-eyes darkness dragon. It was pretty cool. A lot of people were like, oh, that's cool, Matt. It was no spellground, but it was pretty classic. The first guy I sit down against, he's super chill. He's super fun. He's like, he's there to like watch the Browns and Colts game. So him and his friend are there just like to have fun at the Edison event and then go to the football game the next day. So I personally was playing my DBA hero deck, which I've had for like two or three years. I'll show you guys, but the list at the end is probably the same as the first time I did the video. I've upgraded a few like rarities and stuff, but I sit down with that. He sits down with a dark dragon's deck is what he called it. I don't know if that's the official Edison name, but basically he was trying to get red MD out the red-eyes darkness metal dragon. He had a red eyes wyvern in his deck and it was actually a pretty fun match. The first game was pretty back and forth. I honestly have not played a lot of Edison over the last couple of years and there's been some developments in new decks and stuff like that. So I've never played this deck that he was playing. So I didn't know what he was trying to do at the beginning. I was just like, okay, I'm just going to make absolute zero as soon as possible. And hopefully that'll be good enough to win. That's basically what I did in game one. It was pretty close game. I ended up winning. And then in game two, he actually, I have this on my Twitter. So we're going to show this on the screen. He actually drew like the worst possible. It was like double world decree, heavy storm, giant Trune, a mystical space typhoon and then a trade in or something. So he had like completely unplayable cards. So I ended up just beating him down with Armageddon Knight and Sanghen to win. So it was a very anticlimactic second game, but I won the first round and I was like, wow, okay, I've already won. I was not expecting to win at all. So it was a great way to start the match, but there was a lot of issues with like how the tournament was going. And this was not really like the judges fault at all, but they had only assigned two judges to this entire tournament, which I'm imagining if they had 256 players, it would have been absolutely ridiculous. Two judges and it was super loud in there. So the judges still have to wear masks, I guess for COVID like related reasons or whatever, which I'm surprised they still have to do that, but because it's Konami, you know, they're from Japan, they're probably a little bit more on the COVID side of things. They had to wear these masks. It's super loud. They're trying to communicate with everyone. There's only two of them. One guy's trying to yell and we can't hear anything. We're like, what? We're like, what do you say? If he gets like 10 feet away from you, you can hear him. Otherwise, the four tables listening are like, what is he saying? We're like, I have no idea. So for the first few rounds, we had no idea what the dude was saying. We're just like trying to guess. Okay. And then the time is like, there's no timer up there. Like in the main event, 45 minutes counting down. He's like, it starts at 1230 sacks or whatever. We're like, all right, 1236 got to put our own timer down or like, just try to remember when it's going to end. So that was kind of weird. And it was kind of like that the entire time. You never really knew when the round was going to start when it was going to end. And then they're like, yeah, you're going to get a swallow fight if you don't like sign in for your match, because they didn't have slips for the first few rounds. You actually had to go up to the second judge. So one guy's the yellow guy and actually doing the judging. By the way, if you needed a judge, you're like, hello, hello. And there's yet to look all the way around the place. Cause if he's helping one guy, that's the one judge or nobody else. The second guy you had to take your results to sign the slips, say who won all that stuff. Normally they like hand those out for the main event, but I guess they didn't have time to cut them up or whatever. So there was a gigantic line. Every time there was an end of the round, you just have to wait for everybody to do it. So it took forever. So after we finished our match, we waited like another 20 minutes just to like get signed in and like signed up or whatever. Then we'd wait probably like 30 minutes between each round. It felt really long and it was really hard to hear like whenever the next round started, I was paranoid the whole time I was going to miss a round and that's foreshadowing for later for what happened. So the next round, I played another guy. He was not as like, so this first guy was super nice and chill. This is not this guy wasn't nice, but he was definitely more serious about the tournament. Since I don't play a lot, you know, a lot of people are like main phase and they say all their main phase, I'm doing this, I'm going to battle phase, you know, a lot of stuff. Half the time I don't do that. And like if you're like a super serious like, well, you did this. So that means that you're now in battle phase or whatever. So I remember he called me on something I do with my graveyard or something and I was like, oh, this guy's super serious. I got, I got, I need to like tighten it up or whatever. So I was like, okay, from now on, I got to declare everything I'm doing. So that was like, I don't have a problem with them because like if you're there and you want to win, I'm kind of like just letting me do whatever is not really fair for you. So once I realized that that was happening, I decided just to make it like fair for the, for the match and like a good experience for him because I know people don't necessarily want to be the guys like, oh yeah, you can do that because of this. But if you don't, then you're like giving yourself a less chance to win. So I decided, okay, I just got to be serious for this one, you know, you got to judge the guy. So that's the thing about playing IRL that's kind of fun. You kind of like feel out what's the vibe of this match. Like is this guy like super chill and he's like, okay with anything. He's like down to just play casually basically just in the tournament or is this guy like really trying to win? Do I need to buckle down? Is he down to chat during the thing or is he just like, it's all business, you know, he's summoning. He's not going to like talk with you about his Seattle Seahawk sweatshirt, which he was wearing. And I'll start to talk about Geno Smith, you know, West Virginia baby. Let's go. So once I realized that he was more serious, I tried to be a little bit more serious and guess what? He waxed me. I lost 2-0. The first one kind of got waxed. The second one was a pretty close game. I was actually in control. He topped X dad, three darks in the grave, gets rid of my absolute zero. I did wipe his field, but he had the momentum at that point. So we ended up losing 0-2 or one-on-one now, which honestly, I'm not expecting to win a ton of matches. So I'm happy that it was a long game. We've been like 40 minutes for two games. So for two matches, no for the match, two games, one match, you know what I mean? That was a fun, it was a fun match. But that was when I kind of realized, okay, there are people here. They're being serious. They're into this thing. So I just got to like know who I'm playing before I keep going. Round three, I'm one-on-one at this point. I play the fairies deck. The fairies deck is pretty strong in Edison at the moment. I don't really understand how it works. At one point, E3 Yu-Gi-Oh tried to show me how that deck works, and it was like one time and it was like a while ago. So I kind of forgot like what they're trying to do. I remembered eventually that Arch Lord Christia is kind of like the big bomb that they put on the field. And you're just kind of screwed because it's a huge body with, and you can't special summon. So I remember the first game of this game. This guy was super nice as well. I had Patch of Cephalo out, which was in my main deck, by the way. Everyone was like, why is that in your main deck? I was like, dude, I don't know. I net decked this from like three years ago. So I had, I had Patch of Cephalo out. He couldn't really do anything. He ended up putting Jaugen on the field, which is another special summon lock. So we were just sitting there with, you know, not being able to special summon for a long time. Eventually, he outed my Patch Cephalo and he ended up beating me. And the second round, I think I made it. I remember making a pretty big misplay in the second round. I don't know if it really would have mattered, but it definitely ended the game when I did. And I was like crap when I did. I was like, I'm not going to try and backtrack on it. It was probably the worst match I played in the entire day. So that was not a great one. I felt like, dang, that sucks. And I thought about dropping after that. And I was like, you know what, I'll play until I have three losses, which it turns out, they said they were only doing top eight of the 144. So with two losses, I was essentially out anyway, but I just wanted to keep playing for fun. So I played one more round. By the way, at this point, after three rounds, it's like 530. We played three rounds or five or something. It was extremely late. Like they were all taking like an hour and a half on average. So no one else was really ready to go yet anyway, with who I was with. And you know, we're probably going to go eat at some point. So I was like, I'll just stay in. So round four, I actually played a really nice guy. He was playing fairy as well. So I played back to back fairy duels. A lot of these people knew where I was, or at least this guy really knew. He's like, oh no. He's like, oh man, it's ruxen or whatever. And I was like, yeah, what's up, man? I was like, you're probably lucky that it's me because you're going to win. But then I actually ended up taking this one. We had a 2-0 win against fairy. Got my revenge against the fairy. Different guy, but he's actually really nice, really cool. So we are back at 500. I don't think we can possibly top, but I'm going to keep playing until maybe we lose our third one. So maybe round five, we might get up to three and two. That could be pretty impressive. I won 2-0 in this one, but there were some pretty good duels. Like it was definitely not a short like quick 2-0 or anything. So I enjoyed it and got me back to two and two. So I was like, I never actually won. By the way, this is the first time I'd ever won two matches in a single tournament that didn't involve a forfeit. So I know it's not the main event or anything, but I was like, it's pretty good. This is the best ever, you know, a new record. So because of that, I decided I would stay in. I'd play one more round and see if I lost again. So I got around five against a Vayu Turbo player, which a lot of people were playing Vayu Turbo and I hadn't seen it somehow. So I get up against this guy and this guy was actually hilarious. Like he had this really dry humor. I don't know if he knew who I was or not, but I just don't bring it up. They don't know who I am. And he was just making some hilarious jokes the whole time. I was just laughing the entire time. I ended up actually 2-0ing him because Vayu Turbo, from what I could tell, I mean, I haven't played against it a ton, is just summoning big synchro guys who have negated effects. So there's basically big vanilla's. And fortunately, my deck is like Ab-Zero 2500. If you destroy him, he destroys all your monsters. I have Kaius who can just banish stuff off the field. I can bring out dad. So I never brought out down the entire tournament, by the way, just throwing that out there, but I can deal with big guys. It's not really a big deal. So I was able to do that. Not easily, I would say. I remember in game two of this one, I drew like nine straight spells and traps. And he also drew like nine straight with like a set value or something. So we were just looking at each other for the first like 10 minutes of the duel. Like, man, this is a good duel, huh? And I was like, yeah, awesome duel. But eventually I ended up winning because I top decked a Kaius and he had like a black wing. What's the one that just got the 25th anniversary? Black wing armor master on the field. And I just tributed summon for Kaius and banished it for a thousand and I could attack directly. So he just conceded and I won 2-0. So I played five matches in a row. All of them were 2-0. I got 2-0 twice. I 2-0 three times. It was kind of weird. I never went to game three. After this, it's like eight o'clock. Literally, I played five rounds to one o'clock. It's almost eight o'clock. This has been the longest tournament ever. There's huge gaps between, you know, you got all the different times. You got to go up and wait to submit your results and everything. I mean, they just needed more, uh, they needed more judges. I was gonna say refs, judges. They actually added a third guy who told me he was a huge fan of the channel and he was really, really, really nice. So I was like, that's cool. And once he got there, it actually sped up a little bit because I mean, two guys, what are you going to do? They can do their absolute best and they have 144 people to deal with. So when he got there, it helped out. Finally, round six. This is where it all fell apart. All right. We, uh, we went to round six and we happened to be late. So we got disqualified. I was trying to remember back what I did after round five. So I won round five. I mean, he didn't go like that long. I think maybe went 35 minutes, something like that. We were done pretty early. I, we submitted our results fairly fast because they actually had a slit by round five. So I was able to just turn it in. And maybe this is why round six started earlier than I was expecting. I walked over to like, see what Aaron's, AK Stasiato and all them were doing. They're playing some go. And I was talking to them and I look over and I'm like, are those people at the Edison table already? And I, I won over there and they're already in the round. And I'm like, uh, have they already started? And they're like, yep, you missed it, man. And I was like, how? I was like, I was gone for 10 minutes. I don't know what happened. I still don't know how they started the round that fast. I asked everybody who I was sitting with, did you guys hear it? And they're like, nope, didn't hear anything. And another guy walked up while I was like, dang, I missed it. And he was like, are you effing kidding me? How I didn't know he was pissed. It was insane. I was like, oh man, this guy is not happy. But I personally was like, it's eight o'clock. I'm ready to go to be honest, but I was like, dang, that's kind of a sad way to end. I was on a two game win streak, you know, potentially could have gone four and two. That would have been really cool. Let's be honest, I was probably going to lose and go three and three. So technically, this was a loss. I'm not counting it going three and two. That's a winning record. I was pretty happy with that. But I was bummed. I was like, how did I miss this man? So somehow, I missed the sixth round. I don't know how it happened. I'm still unsure. And I decided I wanted to go home that night, like drive home super late. So I wouldn't have been able to go even like sassy out on all them. So I decided, you know what, it's probably better off that I just missed this anyway. But it was kind of weird. So after that, I left. I was feeling pretty good. I was like three and two. That's pretty awesome. I'm pretty excited that I did. And it's not like I killed it or anything, but I won three matches. I was very happy with it. So this is a much different video than you normally get. I know a lot of you guys might not care about this at all, but I figured I'd put this here just so you guys know. I went to Indy. I was there for when the Exodia guy summoned Exodia. I was in round two against that guy who was super serious. And they were like, yeah, Exodia. And it was all the way across the venue. We could hear people roaring. It was incredible. This is very clean. We got the other arms and all five pieces have been assembled. The legs, the arms, the head, Exodia obliterate. Unbelievable. Wow. The crowd goes insane. I didn't get to experience that. I played in the Edison tournament and I'm going to show you guys some of my Edison cards throughout while I'm talking. So you guys can at least look at some really cool cardboard while I'm chatting this thing up. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to this channel for more content. Maybe like this. We'll see. I mean, I might be playing more Edison in the future. We'll have to find out. It's probably more likely than the main event. Let's be honest. And thank you guys for watching. Shout out to Tomofo Show, Dakster, Tomato Juice, Puffins, the Doomer, Nestor, Deanna, America Deuster, Supreme Sage 21, CJ, Leoghine 62, Yu-Gi-Oh, Unboxed, and Anatai Show, Ian Mooster Jr. Bartyke, Robert F. Thomas, Belklane, and Changa Lange. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.