What Sparked Your Yugioh "Career"?

[Fitz (Rulerman)]

As the title says, what really got you going in Yugioh?

For me, it was my first top 8 in Edison, New Jersey back in January 07'. I made it to the top 4 and got my invite. Since then, I just keep winning.

[AcessDenied]

Yeah, pretty much wining.

[Morzan]

Wanting to be Kaiba. I played as close a replica to his deck as possible back in the days of SDY, SDK, and LOB-LON.

[Munchkin]

well it all started when my friends strapped me to a chair taped my eyes open and force fed yugioh to me... for two weeks straight... im a yugioh god now.

[Gingerbreadman]

i saw some kids playing it and i wanted to learn....they now learn from me:D

[Deck-Crafter001]

Going to locals at Gaming ETC, and then realizing that my competition was full of members of the recently created team ETC much later despite me actually doing well.

[Silver_Mage]

I got hooked on it from watching the anime. Funny thing was, a friend of mine showed me an article about it in the paper, my first response to the show was, "That sounds stupid, it'll never last."

[mokmok111]

Watching the t.v show and wanting to be just like yugi.

[Kamui988]

I thought the show was kinda cool, and the second I was told the TCG was coming out, I pre-ordered a couple decks. I'm proud to say I started to play as soon as the game came out :D

[#9.Beatdown.#6]

I was a little kid playign a childrens card game :)

[Jeflargen72]

well I was eating some tacos at a regs, then someone stoll it right from under my nose. LIterally! Turns out I played him next round, smashed on him 2-0. He didnt stand a chance.

Thats the same day I Met my freind who owns a shop and became so pro. Apparently there is a taco stand in the same parking lot as the shop. But the tacos werent that good:sad:. ah wel there is good tacos and bad tacos...

[CyberOverload2]

The first yugioh anime and winning.

[Centric]

Competition, I thrive on it.

[hjkllkjh]

I played yu gi oh from knowing that i got some time to kill before puberty. I later retired my job as a duelist cause i became a man! A strong man;)

[Jsamek218]

Basically going to many locals sparked my career, but winning the past SJC championship at phily really sparked it. Since then ive been winning and doing quite well

[KingOfKings]

well I was eating some tacos at a regs, then someone stoll it right from under my nose. LIterally! Turns out I played him next round, smashed on him 2-0. He didnt stand a chance.

Thats the same day I Met my freind who owns a shop and became so pro. Apparently there is a taco stand in the same parking lot as the shop. But the tacos werent that good:sad:. ah wel there is good tacos and bad tacos...

WOW.....LOL

Are you joking?

Additional Comment:

As the title says, what really got you going in Yugioh?

For me, it was my first top 8 in Edison, New Jersey back in January 07'. I made it to the top 4 and got my invite. Since then, I just keep winning.

Yugioh Career?

Well I first met Yugi Moto and I lost a duel. So he made me learn how to play by letting me practice with Joey and Tristan. Kaiba came along and called me a scrub. So i challenged him to a duel. I beat him for half his company. He kept the name, because we didn't agree on the name change. In the end Yugi challenged me to a duel and I beat him. So i was a billionare from my company of mine. So i went to watch a WWE Show front row. HHH challenged me to a match of Yugioh in a Hell In a Cell, because i called him terrible at ygo, and as we all know it, ygo is very seirous business. At the end of the duel, he has a f/d, 1500, and 4 cards in hand. I activate Penality Game to force him not being able to activate his face down. HHH starts cursing and throws his enemy controller off the cell. I hit him with Hyper HammerHead For the win to become the KingOfKings and here I am Now.

[The_Dark_Monarch]

Got bored playing Pokemon, saw the YGO Anime & started to play Yugioh. Now, got bored with Yugioh & re-learning how to play Pokemon again.
'tis a vicious cycle.

[PJ]

Winning a Regionals on my first attempt last March.

[Trap Master]

well it all started when my friends strapped me to a chair taped my eyes open and force fed yugioh to me... for two weeks straight... im a yugioh god now.

Force feed is always funny.

Card's art. And I simply wanted to play with this semi-god of a Trap Master.

[Setosama]

Watching the Episode where Joey Faced Bones in DK... then i watched more episodes, interested in the game... Then when the Yugi and Kaiba Decks came out, i bought the Kaiba Deck because of Blue-Eyes and i was hooked!

[Jericho]

Kids at school started playing it instead of chess. I decided to get in, and havnt been out since. Made some really good friends from the card game over the years and kept many others.

[Isotope]

Walking past a hobby store that had just opened, popping in and getting sat chatting to the owner, he mentioned he had a new ganme coming in the next day, decided why not, came down after school, Opened a pack of LoB, Pulled Exodia's head for the store.
Opened my own for a Rageki.
Built a deck from boosters... alas my downfall was done.

[Dark World Overlord]

One word...destiny!

[Dark Paladin Prince]

I watched the anime and wanted to learn how to play the game. After that, its the thrill of making a deck (or decks) and going against other people's decks.

- DPP

[Hollistar]

Pwned my way threw a Regional.
Beating Canadians.

[FlareWingman]

Pokemon died...tv show was pretty good, wanted summoned skull for some reason.

Oh and the thought of beating the japanese in there own game...still lives on

[Mr.Yugioh]

the compition against my older brother, which always led to me making better plays

[Gordon Gekko]

Getting bored of my lame Naruto Meta, and then finding out that Yugi is played practically everywhere around me... Ever since then, I've been playing a lot.

[-MIMIC-]

I got some cheezy invite from 4kids to, guess.



"The Duelist Kingdom, Hosted by Maximillion Pegasus"

Invite letter,complete with a map of the island, a corny video with Pegasus and Yugi and everything a few weeks before the animu aired in America.

[topspin1617]

I had played a regional every once in a while, but the thing that really sparked it was shortly after I joined Pojo in 2005. Soon after, I made my first (and as of yet only) regional top 8, where I then won my next match and qualified for 2006 Nationals. It was from then on that I really started taking myself seriously and believing that I could win. Even though I haven't top 8ed again, I have been close, going X-2 quite a few times.

[lord uria]

i watched the show in fourth grade got cards played in the neighborhood. Got way ove my head and went to regionals as my first tourny and got LAST! then after that ive had a crazy drive to get better but sadly my best tourny is a demise deck like a year and half ago(i played it before advanced ritual art:p) placing fourth.

[j.p263]

the elemental heroes are what turned me on lol

[NeXusFrank88]

I remember watching the anime after Pokemon finished simply because I had some spare time before going to work on Saturday mornings. I hated it. I did not enjoy the anime one bit, but...I like to know things and the episode I had seen was incomplete. I watched the following week simply to get a sense of closure, but...that episode was incomplete as well!!! Needless to say, the anime has alot of incomplete episodes (Meaning most can't just be stand-alone episodes). My friend who had me watch it in the first place, bought a Yugi and Kaiba Starter Deck and began bragging how he was so good at the game (though he had never played anyone before except for the younger kids in his neighborhood). I am a highly competitive person. So I went out and bought a few boxes of booster packs just so I can beat him. Haven't stopped playing since. Eventually, what has kept me in the game are the friends I have made and my team (As a Player) and the desire to help out the gaming community as much as possible (As a Judge).

[purity_reloaded]

I learned how to play in order to get a job on the original Mall Tour. When the judge program was developed, I switched from playing to judging and I guess kept on moving forward. Don't regret giving up playing for an instant.

[RYvig2]

good old fasion peer preasure

[OneTurnKo_king]

money....:D i sold a DDraw 2 days ago for 90$ and aUlt.1e/d DD survivor for 25$ and a common burn deck for 125$

[Termax]

Started by beating the ps2 yugioh (ROSE:S) game, collecting. Then trying the real card game. Lots harder to win at then that old game is!!

[A to the J]

I got some cheezy invite from 4kids to, guess.



"The Duelist Kingdom, Hosted by Maximillion Pegasus"

Invite letter,complete with a map of the island, a corny video with Pegasus and Yugi and everything a few weeks before the animu aired in America.

omg... so im not the only one? xD

[-MIMIC-]

omg... so im not the only one? xD


Looks like you are not.

[The Anarchy45]

Well it all started when i won my locals twice in a row.....then placing fourth in regionals...thats what sparked my career...

[CyberSnow]

I've been playing since MRD, but I really mostly collected. I quit at DCR, started again at STON, and now I'm going to my first Regional, so I guess that's what sparked my Yu-gi-oh career.