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Unfortunately, when Konami announced its takeover of UDE in North America, all official and sanctioned tournaments were cancelled. Nationals didn't take place, all Regionals were halted, as well as Shonen Jumps.

At the very least, Magic: the Gathering extended its courteousy to Yu-Gi-Oh! players by inviting them to freely attend their Nationals. And I would hope that players in Europe obtain the same bit of compensation.

In news of America, Shonen Jump has been announced to be once again established. If you want an idea of what it would be like for Konami to be in charge, I can only imagine that it would be similar if not the same to this.

You can also find the article of Konami VS. UDI here.

Depends. If you mean UDI selling false, counterfeit merchandise like they did in America, then yes. They did a lot for the YGO community.

All-in-all, I don't know why UDI was pushed aside specifically. I wouldn't be surprised if UDI was simply rejected for cost of what UDE did in North America, though.

http://forum.ukaypro.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6375&st=20

If you scroll down to the list of qualifiers, kindly posted by a friend of mine whome I duel a lot, you will see the qualified players for the UK Nationals. My name, Jason Earey is on the list and I'm heading down on Friday ready for Saturday and Sunday.

Any other uk duellists, check the list for your name.

Shawlax, or Gareth as he's actually called.

I'm the one who asked when the list was going to be updated, now guess.

Mantis didn't handle too well with 280 players. Several people were matched against each other more than once and a few people's win/loss record was wrong.