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Well I'm through to the UK finals, as long as UDI manage to organise the results with the loss of Mantis. Ukaypro was supposed to be creating a list but as the UDE results are gone there's no online record for tournaments.

If any UK members make it to the Natioanals send me a message so we can meet up.

"Hi. United states here. I'mma go off myself."

doubt it where i live there isnt even a hobby leauge for 30 miles there was a place but it closed down 3 months ago, Damn recession...

Isn't Konami making their own Tournament Ranking Database in like a couple weeks?

Quoted from yugioh.card.com:

"KDE is also currently developing its own ranking system which will be called COSSY [Konami Card Game Official Tournament Support System] and will launch in April. “We are working on a plan that will link up Konami's COSSY rankings worldwide,” added KDE’s Hoashi."

IMO, I think since Upper Deck was wiped clean, all the Organized Play events that were originally organized and scheduled by them were canned.

In essence, Konami had to reboot the entire OP. They've begun to announce new "Official Tournament" stores which I assume means a new Hobby League is coming. With that in mind, we will all have to re-register with a new KDE number, and earn rankings based off of how we play at our individual locals.

Then, when they have the hew HL down pat, they will begin to introduce new OP events, prob. in the form of a new Regional, and eventually, a new National (and Shonen, etc...).

My friends and I have been discussing this for a bit. One of our Regional's in Canada got canned last minute due to the takeover and therefore we don't even have any qualifiers for our Nationals.

I hate to say it, and I might be wrong, but I think all who did manage to qualify are just holding pretty pieces of paper. We'll see, Konami might keep the original rankings though (if they got their hands on them).

I'd like to see what type of tournament play Konami will implement. They've started with the Sneak Previews. I'm not sure if it was under the original organization being UDE, but if it was under Konami, how was it?

Just a question for Jevan and others who have made it thus far in European tournaments. Has there been news of your tournaments being cancelled?

If that is true then it'll be interesting to see how Konami run Yu-Gi-Oh! in Europe as thay only have one base of opperation in the EU. (I think that only have one. But I know they don't have one in the UK.)
So if they do take over they may find it a struggle to cope with all of us here. As UDI is all over the place and has set up a very good communtication links will all the TOs and Judges. I can pick up the phone now and talk to someone from Upper Deck in the UK. If Konami take over then that link will be lost and trying to get incontact with someone may be difficult. Also, if they do only have one base in the EU then they need people who can speak all languages within the EU so we can all communicate with each other. If not then it will all fall apart due to language barriers.

Also, if they cancelled the Nats then they'll get some really pissed off players who will ditch the game and it will die out. Even more now that it's only a week away and players have spent alot of money to get to Nats.

So I guess it'll be a waiting game now.