@@hecatrice2064 ik, i played back then aswell. but it is a limited, unsearchable card. its like if sean pittman said, id beat you without called by the grave and then won. so no its not lol
Facts, I remember growing up with people like him. I'm Mexican but the fact that this card game brought us together despite of cultural differences to address common issues(bullying, arrogance) feels even better
@@ezzy0308 hell yuh man I’m Puerto Rican but I grew up in a project in Tampa called Robles park and everyone there would never bother us we sat at the basketball court with our cards and if someone did try to bother us the people that were there all day playing basketball would step in and kick those guys out or jump them if they didn’t leave. A lot of people look at it as a silly card game but it brought a lot of us together shiii even Naruto brought a lot of us together in the hood believe it 😂
same i use to hear gunshots everyday but even the kids in my hood would gather to duel in yugioh it was good times despite the hard times of having no food
And him cheating is like trying to kneecap the opponent before the duel xD Imagine going 16-0 in an event and some random comes up, wants to play and instantly cheats before the game even starts xD
@@ich3730 good to see nizar still has dickriders even today. it was obviously a mistake from the era of first turn draw phase, which you're probably too young to even remember
Screw Nizar, I played him for money after he won his YCS and refused to pay me because he was being a little baby. Will always pay my disrespects to that loser.
@Gestalt81 People do $50-100 bets all the time. Actually in the NJ/NY area, YGO went so hard at the beginning that just about everyone was playing like they were in Battle City, putting up staples like Vampire Lord, Don Zaloog, Yata Garasu for ante in duels. I won a good amount of Chaos/Hand control staples back in the day in that manner.
@Gestalt81people money match in competitive games all the time, most keep it reasonable and honor the transaction knowing that everyone at their local will know they refused to pay and hold it against them.
I was behind the cameraman to the right. Nizar and blake did another match after the camera turned off for money, and blake won that match with a mind control taking utopia going into utopia ray going 4000 swinging twice.
I'm pretty sure one them stood up to fast, knocker over the chair, pointed at the other guy and said "to the shadow realm you go" as the guy recording zoomed into his face and bags under his eyes became more dominant for a brief moment representing his evil side. This is why he was never to be seen again.
They wanted to do a match for money, but the judges said they would get banned if they did. So, this was the non-money match for show, and then after the cameras went off was the real match. The second match took less than 10 minutes, but it was over 10 years ago, so I don't really remember it.
This shit is peak yugioh When people have grudge matches and beef and play it out for pride and glory and fame Brings excitement and entertainment to the game
I couldn't imagine being friends with someone like Nizar. Just being a complete disrespectful tool. Like he could have just been polite and not an ass about all of it.
Also as to the grabbing another card, he seemed heated. I don't think it was intentional and definitely a slip up. I've made that mistake a couple times especially if I'm distracted or just not in the best mind.
@flyingchicken973 I mean, considering it wasn't a tournament duel, I would have probably asked if it was cool to do so? Like... i get it is shitty but there is no easy win. If he did, then he would have been called out for shuffling when he wasn't supposed to. If he didn't, we have people saying "well he knew his next draw." There was no real winning there, and it is an easy mistake, especially in that kind of stressful situation.
There are people like nizar at almost every locals I've went to. What I've learned is that those people are in their own world. If you shatter the world, they either become a better person socially, or an enemy for a ridiculous amount of time.
@@polocatfanagreed physical punishment had been proven to be bad for development and not good at teaching anything except you have anger issues and take it out on kids who can't fight back
I was there with Blake and Blake is one of our best friends til this day and hope he see’s this cus he lives in cali now, and we were so hype cus we hated nizar but Blake put our city on his back and did it for all of us. Love ya Blake, you did it for Dallas.
Missed opportunity not covering Hoban v. McDuffy playing in a bar post 2014 worlds. Loser had to shine the others NAWCQ trophy, and couldn't play Upstart Goblin for a year. Its not BEEF, but still aa match for stakes
@GaussianEntity most popular sure, most powerful? Not even close, even back then, upstart was incredibly overrated, with its stated benefits not shown empirically
When Blake came to epik after the regionals, oh man the shit talking was amazing lol A forever staple in my yugioh childhood memories at epik here in DFW in Texas.
@@jakethasnake3524 I remember cosmic cards. Also traders village. Great times watching Billy brake, fili Luna, Jaicen halloway, Ryan Spicer, Chris bowling, etc.
@@NeoBatou2010 damn i used to be friends with ryan spicer back in like 2007, we shared a hotel room for shoenen jump orlando or something back then, crazy seeing his name again after ive been out the game for over a decade
na. actually thats how you are supposed to handle it. both players see the card and then it goes back to top of deck. if after investigation however the player was found to have intentionally drawn the card then it would be instant dq.
I would have told him.. you saw what card it was.. one .. and two you drew seven cards. .seven! Nah man.. put that extra cards at the bottom of the deck or reshuffle and draw 5 then your sixth when it's your turn. Then we would get back to playing.
also... what judge? this was essentially a casual game. while they technically followed official procedure by leaving the extra card on top they didnt have to. it was not an official tournament game and thus not bound by official tournament rules.
14:27 - I remember this. Silva already had a reputation for being obnoxious and unlikeable at the time so when Jeff called him out alot of people got hyped because they wanted to see him get an ass whooping. I remember mikkivlogs popping off really hard after the match.
I played with Kevin Silva for a long time. We actually had a “team” for a short period. In like 3 regionals between the 4 of us we had like 7-8 top 8’s at so cal regionals in that short window (we were all teenagers then). I learned about this beef because of this video. As I stopped playing after that regional run and came back for one last event at ycs anaheim in 2011 (won the day 2 regional pod for my invite). Kevin was always a confident player and no surprise he won whatever the arg thing was (no clue since I left). He always wanted to play the best and he wanted to be known. As many of us did at the time. But hope your good Kevin as I haven’t seen or heard of you since 2011. Jeff jones was always a huge figure in the game. I know when we were younger we’d always say one day we’d be better or beat them. So I know that was always Kevin’s intention. Just as it was mine. We grew up playing the likes of Adam corn, emon when we were kids, and all the comic odyssey players. Kevin would travel from near San Diego to Los Angeles for events. He was all in. Maybe just caught up in the moment of his rise. I think he could’ve just been himself and could’ve grew. He really saw the game well. Always had good deck builders with him since it wasn’t his strength.
Good to see they duke it out with a duel. In my area there was a group, when they had beef with someone they just beat them up once they left the local store and take their cards.
What Jeff Jones did is equivalent to what chess great Paul Morphy did. He was so good that he eventually quit playing because there was nobody who could challenge him. If he did accept a challenge from someone, though, he would offer odds (pawn odds, for instance) which essentially created a win-win kind of situation. If Paul won while giving odds, his greatness was more recognized. If he lost to a master while giving odds, it did nothing to his reputation. TLDR; Jeff Jones is a chess grandmaster.
I can’t stand when people act so cocky like that. Reminds me of YCS where I played against Jerry Wang. He treated me like dirt cause he was a top player back in the day. I beat him first round in 2 turns. Dude was a punk.
I miss this for card games period. MTG, ygo, even digimon now, and pkmn isn't much better these days. The closest to an actual back and for strategy I've found today is Weiss Schwartz and Final Fantasy. But this isn't how the spenders want to play, apparently.
@@HuchiaZ i actually started playing pokemon tcg a month or 2 ago and really enjoying it. nothing insanely OP, no otk/ftk shenanigans and lots of deck variety
@@KidGlo definitely depends on your local group. If people are running draw power, search, and a surplus of V/Delta/etc. along with some of the power creeped conditions like poison and so on... it's a lot less enjoyable. If they're running the equivalent of Starter/+draft or mtg style draft packs then it's not nearly as cancerous
I unfortunately have been playing this game for 20 plus years.Roy Saint Clair taught me how to play. It was a pleasure may rest in peace. With that being said, these are the type of videos I look forward to watching continue to make these things.
Its actually hella respectable having them front the money and turn the duel into a charity event, recording it and fronting the winnings for the players. W move for the tournament organizers.
After Six Sams were neutered by the ban list by having Shi En limited, and taking out the gateway while taking on a Tier 1 deck like Dino Rabbit made this match even more memorable.
@@gingermlg actually it did he now knew it was a monster and knowing what your next card is in Yu-Gi-Oh gives you the advantage as that was pointed out when he set his five cards down he knew he would of needed protection for his next draw Now do I think he drew 7 on purpose? No it was obviously a mistake as you could hear the panic in his voice however putting that monster on top of his deck and setting the board for it was obviously a conscious choice as I said he should of placed it at the bottom
@@kyletucker3811 A) it's not that's schoolyard rules or maybe it's now but that duel wasn't a now duel B) What's his face only saw the back of the card not the front we did cause the camera was pointed at Blake's cards C) It was pointed out he went ahead with setting the five cards as he knew the next card was a monster card. D) As I stated do I think Blake in my previous comment do I think Blake purposely drew an extra card? No cause you could tell he panicked when he did but he obviously made a conscious choice about setting on top nice try though
I personally think the beef in Yugioh is fun, entertaining as long as it stays that way and doesn’t turn into a real fight or anything like that. It reminds of UFC or other sports where they talk trash about each other and then go out, duke it out and then the beef is settled and it’s all good. It’s fun to watch and adds a different level of excitement.
Great video! Coming from the FGC, which has a long and storied history of rivalries and beefs, this was fascinating to watch and learn about. Blake is basically the “Ghost of YGO” to me now lol
That doesn't fix it, you still know where the card is, and certain cards can draw cards from the deck regardless of position which means knowing its in there is an advantage.
@@Shadowrulzalways ...you understand most companies market PG13 stuff to like 10-12 year olds, right? Like the oldest you could be is 19, that's not an adult LOL
I do think that these types of duels would be nice to see more often. The issue is people probably don't know when people are just trying to "pal around" or not anymore.
Btw that was me beating Nizar with the gray mat in YCS Atlanta for $50. Be mindful I topped with Rescue Rabbit with X-1 after Swiss losing in top 16 in YCS Kansas City the month before. You can watch all 3 games. Sam Jones vs Nizar.
KevinSilva and I used to be friends back in Yugioh Online days. He was the same online as in person as I can remember haha. We used to chat for hours. Good times, good times. It was later after that I found out that he was challenging Jeff Jones. Insane Yugioh history right here. Great video!
Idk if Blake still plays but I wonder what he thinks about the new Six Sam support if he does. Also this was a really nice video, i lowkey got hooked LMAO
Yea, trading cards is like playing a ball sport. It's more like chess, but you get your pieces on at a time in unknown order, and your pieces are dependent on how much money you put into it.
wish the state of the game allowed for duels to be this sick and back and forth again irl, we will never have something like blake vs nizhar again with how modern yugioh is. At the top level everyone plays the same deck and most duels are resolved by comparing opening hands. I'll always have a deep love and appreciation for yugioh as it's been with me for 20 years at this point, but even in 2012-2013 there was way more soul and expressiveness in the game than there has been for a very long time
I mean, not always? At the moment we're in a tier 0 format but that isn't consistently the case. And there are still off decks being played but there has ALWAYS been metas in Yugioh, pretending like that isn't the case is just dumb.
@@thesun5275 we've been in a tier 0 or borderline tier 0 for a while, acting like snake eye, ishizu tear, and kashtira weren't THE decks to play when they were at their peak at the top level is silly I can agree with the reasons people loved tear format because the mirror was very skillful and fun, but my point is that the game is severely lacking in soul in the modern era. There's far less skill expression when the best decks do the same thing every game, and if it goes through, they win on turn 0. And vice versa, if you hand trap the guy enough times to stop their board, guy who goes first has to watch themselves get otk'd the following turn. Obviously at the local level you have always been able to play a variety of decks and strategies but that doesn't translate to YCS or high level regionals. Now for older format meta, yes that will always exist, but the GAMEPLAY and card design of modern ygo is my main complaint. Once you learn what the best deck wants to do, whether you're against it or playing it yourself, modern ygo is far more flowcharty and robotic. There's so many different cards and interactions that go off in a dinorabbit mirror or literally any edison matchup for example compared to a snake eye mirror, which is a flowchart gameplay, and OTKS were far less common. (summon ash, activate witch, activate wanted-> ash blossom? imperm? etc) Engines were either smaller, or the staples were a mix of generic spells, traps and monsters instead of 15 handtraps and anti-handtraps The more back and forth and unpredictability of older yugioh was what made it fun and hype, and die rolls meant less.
Being someone that only collected yu-gi-oh cards when they were younger, never played, and only watched the show. I have no idea what's happening in the video or comment section lmao.
Got to be honest, nobody has to give you the time of day. Like so many people think a stranger has to be friendly and explain themselves because they didn't like them saying no. Pretty much not defending Nizar, so many people get butthurt when stranger goes, no.
Taking out Gateway from your Six Sams Deck and still winning the set is such a big flex, holy hell
it was limited.. so not at all actually. wouldve been a flex if he'd took out his shi en
The biggest fucking flex
@@thunderdragondome yes at all actually. Opening with Gate was like oppening with Exodia, trust me I played irl back then.
YOU HAD TO BE THERE
@@hecatrice2064 ik, i played back then aswell. but it is a limited, unsearchable card. its like if sean pittman said, id beat you without called by the grave and then won. so no its not lol
Bro played a Mirror Force signed by Dan Green(the voice of Yugi). Another huge flex. 🔥
Blake put on for every kid that grew up playing in the hood I always followed him
Facts, I remember growing up with people like him. I'm Mexican but the fact that this card game brought us together despite of cultural differences to address common issues(bullying, arrogance) feels even better
@@ezzy0308 hell yuh man I’m Puerto Rican but I grew up in a project in Tampa called Robles park and everyone there would never bother us we sat at the basketball court with our cards and if someone did try to bother us the people that were there all day playing basketball would step in and kick those guys out or jump them if they didn’t leave. A lot of people look at it as a silly card game but it brought a lot of us together shiii even Naruto brought a lot of us together in the hood believe it 😂
@@Senpapii_ i run lightsworns out of bradenton
@@namename9397U so cool!!!
same i use to hear gunshots everyday but even the kids in my hood would gather to duel in yugioh it was good times despite the hard times of having no food
Nizar sounds like a name a rival would have ngl
Mizar is the name of a real antagonist in Yugioh so it checks out
Pretty sure he’s autistic or Asperger’s
Not gonna lie. Sounds like he’d ask if you ever make it to the cloud district.
@@OrysB-po1fylol that's Nazeer from skyrim 😂🤧
@@Kimaru98 😂
Blake winning without Gateway is like a Samurai winning a duel with a wooden sword.
wooden swords are no joke. they are also a effective weapon
He cheated, should have had a game loss as soon as he drew tge extra card.
And him cheating is like trying to kneecap the opponent before the duel xD Imagine going 16-0 in an event and some random comes up, wants to play and instantly cheats before the game even starts xD
@@ich3730 good to see nizar still has dickriders even today. it was obviously a mistake from the era of first turn draw phase, which you're probably too young to even remember
@@gmerc1333 im not a dick rider. Im just stating a fact.
Screw Nizar, I played him for money after he won his YCS and refused to pay me because he was being a little baby. Will always pay my disrespects to that loser.
You can tell he is just privileged with the way he acts. Not humble at all
@Gestalt81 People do $50-100 bets all the time.
Actually in the NJ/NY area, YGO went so hard at the beginning that just about everyone was playing like they were in Battle City, putting up staples like Vampire Lord, Don Zaloog, Yata Garasu for ante in duels.
I won a good amount of Chaos/Hand control staples back in the day in that manner.
@Gestalt81people money match in competitive games all the time, most keep it reasonable and honor the transaction knowing that everyone at their local will know they refused to pay and hold it against them.
@@ezzy0308it's hard to imagine for someone that doesn't live by a lot of them, but it's a typical arab smugness that they ALL radiate
@@sniff494 tf do tiu mean "typical Arab smugness" that's just racism
That nizhar vs Blake match is some real yugioh history.
Fr fr ❤💯💯🔥
That’s what this nga was really trying to do. Nga thought he was in Yu-Gi-oh real life fr fr
Not really, brown boy cheated the sandman.
@@OliverSkatt03Weird cope😂
@@OliverSkatt03that’s what happened huh?
“He took out Gateway” lives rent free in my head
What about rescue wabbit?
As a Six Samurai player, this cut me deep
@@ManofSteel4889 rescue wabbit?
@@doyouevendab77 no taking out Gateway just to prove a point. I remember the day gateway was banned i took a 5 year break from the game lmao
@@ManofSteel4889 what about rescue wabbit though?
I was behind the cameraman to the right. Nizar and blake did another match after the camera turned off for money, and blake won that match with a mind control taking utopia going into utopia ray going 4000 swinging twice.
💀💀💀 you apart of history damn
Tell us more
Why did they play again? Bo3 or just 1 game?
After the win, what happened?
So Blake won against the world champion twice ?!
I'm pretty sure one them stood up to fast, knocker over the chair, pointed at the other guy and said "to the shadow realm you go" as the guy recording zoomed into his face and bags under his eyes became more dominant for a brief moment representing his evil side. This is why he was never to be seen again.
They wanted to do a match for money, but the judges said they would get banned if they did. So, this was the non-money match for show, and then after the cameras went off was the real match. The second match took less than 10 minutes, but it was over 10 years ago, so I don't really remember it.
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE THE LOOOOOOOOOTTTUUUSSS!! MAN, this takes me back. Dude's one of the nicest in the DFW back then too.
What is nice about cussing out someone because they refused to play your friend? Sounds like a piece of crap.
@@nerdjournalgrow up or shut up
@@nerdjournalTell us that you aren’t that bright without telling us that you aren’t that bright.
He gave me that playmat
@@nerdjournal if you watched the video with your eyes and ears you'd know he cussed out nizar because he was outright rude to his friend
This shit is peak yugioh
When people have grudge matches and beef and play it out for pride and glory and fame
Brings excitement and entertainment to the game
nice stolen comment
@@MillionMakingMalik we gotta stop his youtube money off this immediately
@MillionMakingMalik nice stolen reply
I couldn't imagine being friends with someone like Nizar. Just being a complete disrespectful tool. Like he could have just been polite and not an ass about all of it.
Also as to the grabbing another card, he seemed heated. I don't think it was intentional and definitely a slip up. I've made that mistake a couple times especially if I'm distracted or just not in the best mind.
@@thesun5275i dont play the game, but wouldn't your default response be to put it back and shuffle the deck?
@@neonoir__ your not allowed to shuffle unless you used a card that interacts with the deck or a card that says to shuffle
@@flyingchicken973 ahh, thanks
@flyingchicken973 I mean, considering it wasn't a tournament duel, I would have probably asked if it was cool to do so?
Like... i get it is shitty but there is no easy win. If he did, then he would have been called out for shuffling when he wasn't supposed to. If he didn't, we have people saying "well he knew his next draw." There was no real winning there, and it is an easy mistake, especially in that kind of stressful situation.
There are people like nizar at almost every locals I've went to. What I've learned is that those people are in their own world. If you shatter the world, they either become a better person socially, or an enemy for a ridiculous amount of time.
This is what happens when parents don’t spank their kids for misbehaving…
He had some really expensive cards at the age 16, so it's no secret that he was a spoiled brat. He definitely didn't work for those.
@@TheGreatSalsaMan don't have kids
@@polocatfanagreed physical punishment had been proven to be bad for development and not good at teaching anything except you have anger issues and take it out on kids who can't fight back
@@polocatfan In this economy that is a terrible decision I don’t plan on making 🤣
I was there with Blake and Blake is one of our best friends til this day and hope he see’s this cus he lives in cali now, and we were so hype cus we hated nizar but Blake put our city on his back and did it for all of us. Love ya Blake, you did it for Dallas.
did you send it to him?
nizar still the champ while blake is the fking no body so keep making the monkey noises 🙈🙈🙈
Was that before of after he cheated?
Thats cap@@dissraps
@@blub-tf6rt -black guy who doesn't steal LOL ok
When I was a tiny lad I had secretly hoped the world really would be in danger and the only way to save it was to play a card game.
I still hope that this will happen and of course I will be the one to save the world
@@johanngraue9026nah I will 😭
@@johanngraue9026 not really its just ur ego
@@MillionMakingMalik NO, WAY. Do you ever thought of becoming a therapist?
@@johanngraue9026 no but i wish i became a english teacher to correct your grammar... anyway do u have yugioh master duel ?
17:12 As in the famous words of Mihawk from one piece when facing Zoro for the first time “I don’t hunt rabbits with cannons”
Deep
“Remember guys, we’re playing a children’s card game” should be playmat merch. Tcg agnostic message that crosses formats, games and metas.
My mommy wouldn't let me play magic because it was demonic allegedly. That's a big kid card game.
Taking out Gateway and winning is like Kaiba removing his blue-eyes
1. I didn’t know there was a Yugioh space like this
2. It’s low key pretty gangster
You’re a fantastic storyteller. You’ve tapped into something great here Garrett. Nice work and excited for your future videos
Reliving my 5 misplays in a row was insane 😭
But LET IT BE KNOWN
I’m still Sean Pittman 😉
Please make YGO content
@@bloomWF the glazing is crazy bahahaha
@@invertedcrayonyou’re a loser
@@invertedcrayonyes bc we need less yugioh content creators on UA-cam. Get a job little buddy.
@@invertedcrayon I'm convinced y'all just say popular words without even knowing what they mean. Explain where the glazing is😂?
Nizar went on to try the same act in Magic The Gathering but found almost no success. Ouch.
Because that game actually requires skill lmao.
@@wizardsmix7961YuGiOh does too but it’s very heavily based on lines of play. MtG is a bit more open-ended
@@wizardsmix7961nah. Red go brrr
@@wizardsmix7961What's the main difference? I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh in years
@@lavellelee5734Heavy interaction and being able to respond to everything an opponent does at every step.
The yugioh renaissance painting pictures from Raleigh are historic lol
Missed opportunity not covering Hoban v. McDuffy playing in a bar post 2014 worlds. Loser had to shine the others NAWCQ trophy, and couldn't play Upstart Goblin for a year. Its not BEEF, but still aa match for stakes
This is insane lmao
Not playing Upstart aka the most powerful engine at the time for a year sounds a bit grudgy for me. Sign me up!
@GaussianEntity most popular sure, most powerful? Not even close, even back then, upstart was incredibly overrated, with its stated benefits not shown empirically
nah, that match was beef. the real ones who follow the scene know that it was.
1:36 Jesus those were some AGGRESSIVE deck slam downs
It increases the power
😂
When Blake came to epik after the regionals, oh man the shit talking was amazing lol
A forever staple in my yugioh childhood memories at epik here in DFW in Texas.
I'm glad you got to experience what yugioh really is, this is how it was at lonestar and cosmic back In the day.
@@jakethasnake3524 I remember cosmic cards. Also traders village. Great times watching Billy brake, fili Luna, Jaicen halloway, Ryan Spicer, Chris bowling, etc.
@@NeoBatou2010 damn i used to be friends with ryan spicer back in like 2007, we shared a hotel room for shoenen jump orlando or something back then, crazy seeing his name again after ive been out the game for over a decade
I live down the street from Epik and I used.to go to all these places a ways back some good times
Putting a card back on the top of your deck without shuffling should’ve been an automatic flag by the judge
This 💯
na. actually thats how you are supposed to handle it. both players see the card and then it goes back to top of deck. if after investigation however the player was found to have intentionally drawn the card then it would be instant dq.
I would have told him.. you saw what card it was.. one .. and two you drew seven cards. .seven! Nah man.. put that extra cards at the bottom of the deck or reshuffle and draw 5 then your sixth when it's your turn. Then we would get back to playing.
also... what judge? this was essentially a casual game. while they technically followed official procedure by leaving the extra card on top they didnt have to. it was not an official tournament game and thus not bound by official tournament rules.
The card didn't change order, and Nezar got to see his next draw ahead of turn. So it was technically his advantage, and he still lost.
14:27 - I remember this. Silva already had a reputation for being obnoxious and unlikeable at the time so when Jeff called him out alot of people got hyped because they wanted to see him get an ass whooping. I remember mikkivlogs popping off really hard after the match.
You know Im remembering a lot of people i used to play yugioh with at locals were all just such terrible sports…
@@TheGreatSalsaManit’s pretty typical lol
Wow two snake eyes decks against each other so exciting, I’ve absolutely never seen that before
Nizar looked like one of the anime characters that wasn’t dead but had no energy left
yugioh needs moar grudge matches
Like why are we not sending people to the shadow realm?
This channel and its content is so important. Newer players need to see this history and how it plays out today. This is great stuff, man.
Nah we don't
Implying anything to do with a trading card game is "so important" is hilarious lol
@ it is to the people that find it important, tf? Why are you here?
I played with Kevin Silva for a long time. We actually had a “team” for a short period. In like 3 regionals between the 4 of us we had like 7-8 top 8’s at so cal regionals in that short window (we were all teenagers then). I learned about this beef because of this video. As I stopped playing after that regional run and came back for one last event at ycs anaheim in 2011 (won the day 2 regional pod for my invite).
Kevin was always a confident player and no surprise he won whatever the arg thing was (no clue since I left). He always wanted to play the best and he wanted to be known. As many of us did at the time. But hope your good Kevin as I haven’t seen or heard of you since 2011.
Jeff jones was always a huge figure in the game. I know when we were younger we’d always say one day we’d be better or beat them. So I know that was always Kevin’s intention. Just as it was mine. We grew up playing the likes of Adam corn, emon when we were kids, and all the comic odyssey players. Kevin would travel from near San Diego to Los Angeles for events. He was all in. Maybe just caught up in the moment of his rise. I think he could’ve just been himself and could’ve grew. He really saw the game well. Always had good deck builders with him since it wasn’t his strength.
My friends and I have stories of Adam Corn and team overdose. Good times. It really did feel like the anime rivalries
Kevin lost to Jeff lol
Bro The Sean v Hani Saga was crazyyy. You need to do a video on the history of DB ironmans during Covid. Thats a whole different can of beans
Good to see they duke it out with a duel. In my area there was a group, when they had beef with someone they just beat them up once they left the local store and take their cards.
not the rare hunters
Man this is the real Yugi vs Kaiba
What Jeff Jones did is equivalent to what chess great Paul Morphy did. He was so good that he eventually quit playing because there was nobody who could challenge him.
If he did accept a challenge from someone, though, he would offer odds (pawn odds, for instance) which essentially created a win-win kind of situation. If Paul won while giving odds, his greatness was more recognized. If he lost to a master while giving odds, it did nothing to his reputation.
TLDR; Jeff Jones is a chess grandmaster.
The zezima of card games
I can’t stand when people act so cocky like that. Reminds me of YCS where I played against Jerry Wang. He treated me like dirt cause he was a top player back in the day. I beat him first round in 2 turns. Dude was a punk.
This match was also documented before yugioh had UA-cam uploads as a norm.
Did Nazir ever make it out of the shadow realm? What about Kevin? Or are they just trapped in there, playing forever?
Kevin silva used to go to my locals before it closed, dude moved to mtg lol
@@JeremysajoniaDamn. That's rough lol. on another note, MTG's not bad either, both are some good ass card games
@@GEROKII yup i play mtg now too. Def a great game lol
@@Jeremysajonia damn, guy playing a card game literally owned by terrorists now.
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Hey Garret I just wanted to say that it would be amazing if you would make a video about the one time World Chalice won a YCS in 2018.
This is like Day 100: this has been recommended so I just might
@@PhyYuGiOhI am interested in the story for sure.
My favorite event in Yugioh just for that. Surreal ass run
@@PhyYuGiOhplease😮😂❤❤
I wish any upcoming beefs within ygo community will be resolved with duel
Agreed.
I wish any upcoming beefs outside the ygo community will be resolved with duel
Man I don’t play modern at all. But your documentary style vids are so good that without understanding anything, you’ve earned my sub. Nice.
Having a beef over Yugioh, should really put life into perspective for a lot of people.
this was peak yugioh. players actually had turns, nothing too OP, lots of options for decks. miss this.
I miss this for card games period. MTG, ygo, even digimon now, and pkmn isn't much better these days.
The closest to an actual back and for strategy I've found today is Weiss Schwartz and Final Fantasy.
But this isn't how the spenders want to play, apparently.
@@HuchiaZ i actually started playing pokemon tcg a month or 2 ago and really enjoying it. nothing insanely OP, no otk/ftk shenanigans and lots of deck variety
@@KidGlo definitely depends on your local group. If people are running draw power, search, and a surplus of V/Delta/etc. along with some of the power creeped conditions like poison and so on... it's a lot less enjoyable. If they're running the equivalent of Starter/+draft or mtg style draft packs then it's not nearly as cancerous
I unfortunately have been playing this game for 20 plus years.Roy Saint Clair taught me how to play.
It was a pleasure may rest in peace.
With that being said, these are the type of videos I look forward to watching continue to make these things.
Its actually hella respectable having them front the money and turn the duel into a charity event, recording it and fronting the winnings for the players. W move for the tournament organizers.
Bruh this video reminds me of the Chappelle show skit "True Hollywood stories about Rick James lol good video.
"A habitual line crosser." That's one of my favorites too. 😁
This reminds me more of the racial draft
After Six Sams were neutered by the ban list by having Shi En limited, and taking out the gateway while taking on a Tier 1 deck like Dino Rabbit made this match even more memorable.
"Joey just faced Marik and won"
Aka what would have happened in a straight Duel
I remember this. The good ol days lol pro Winston instigating in the background lol
Yugioh is NOT a children’s card game (not in the OCG at least).
Right
Blake should of put the monster he Drew as the 7th card at the bottom of the deck the top no disrespect to him that was just kinda a meh move
Huh? It didn't change anything about his play.
@@gingermlg actually it did he now knew it was a monster and knowing what your next card is in Yu-Gi-Oh gives you the advantage as that was pointed out when he set his five cards down he knew he would of needed protection for his next draw
Now do I think he drew 7 on purpose? No it was obviously a mistake as you could hear the panic in his voice however putting that monster on top of his deck and setting the board for it was obviously a conscious choice as I said he should of placed it at the bottom
@@traigongamesA) it didn't and B) that's standard protocol since both of them saw the card.
@@kyletucker3811 A) it's not that's schoolyard rules or maybe it's now but that duel wasn't a now duel B) What's his face only saw the back of the card not the front we did cause the camera was pointed at Blake's cards C) It was pointed out he went ahead with setting the five cards as he knew the next card was a monster card. D) As I stated do I think Blake in my previous comment do I think Blake purposely drew an extra card? No cause you could tell he panicked when he did but he obviously made a conscious choice about setting on top nice try though
content idea: would love to see the strongest and weakest card per field type, throughout the history of the game. awesome videos as always Phy!
I personally think the beef in Yugioh is fun, entertaining as long as it stays that way and doesn’t turn into a real fight or anything like that. It reminds of UFC or other sports where they talk trash about each other and then go out, duke it out and then the beef is settled and it’s all good. It’s fun to watch and adds a different level of excitement.
Aww man that Blake duel was legendary, and Silva learning to never mess with Jeff Jones was amazing. Miss that era of Yu-Gi-Oh. Ahh the golden age!
Great video! Coming from the FGC, which has a long and storied history of rivalries and beefs, this was fascinating to watch and learn about. Blake is basically the “Ghost of YGO” to me now lol
These vids be mad interesting and I ain’t played or watched Yugioh in years😭
“I didnt want any problems with this dude. My life points were low after a long trip” 😂
More beef videos, i need them
This do be some real-life anime moments. This is good stuff right here.
Some Samurai honor shit here my boys
8:08, When I've mistakenly drew too many cards on a turn and saw what I drew, I'd always admit to the mistake and put the card UNDER my deck.
That doesn't fix it, you still know where the card is, and certain cards can draw cards from the deck regardless of position which means knowing its in there is an advantage.
@@venusjinn4984its the best way you can fix it
Garret keep up the good work my brotha. Always rooting for you! More content your content is 1 of 1!
GOAT
First time channel viewer, and I immediately subbed. Show me more Yugi Beefs and Big Rivalries.
Im so happy you covered this video. This is one of my all time favorite yugioh moments. I rewatch this video often haha.
I still love the jeff jones grudge match.
Peak of an era
This was very interesting, keep this kind of content up!
25:35 " we play a children's card game", yes but why do the cards have to cost more than my paycheck?
Because it not for kids anymore it was made for kids now it different
@@peteryanes3413 It was never made for kids to begin with. The game was rated teen in the OCG since 1999.
@@Shadowrulzalways ...you understand most companies market PG13 stuff to like 10-12 year olds, right? Like the oldest you could be is 19, that's not an adult LOL
The good old days. I remember that Jeff and Kevin drama when I recorded it. You are definitely a good story teller
Honestly that last one comes off as more of a bar bet match than real beef.
0:33 a bored god, that's who
Funniest thing is getting a Yu-Gi-Oh ad before the vid
cant wait to Joshua´s reaction of this 😄
Man, I love whimsical and highly detailed videos about incredibly niche subcultures.
This is one of your best videos to date
Maybe the best
I do think that these types of duels would be nice to see more often. The issue is people probably don't know when people are just trying to "pal around" or not anymore.
That first story plays out like a Chappelle show true Hollywood stories lol
Btw that was me beating Nizar with the gray mat in YCS Atlanta for $50.
Be mindful I topped with Rescue Rabbit with X-1 after Swiss losing in top 16 in YCS Kansas City the month before.
You can watch all 3 games.
Sam Jones vs Nizar.
You got to do beef with the guy called “The Yugioh Hustler” that fight lives rent free
2 double quarter pounders, large fries, and TWO 2-litre orange sodas.
He ate all that just to get Tiger Knee'd in the face.
Hell yes, great yt ygo lore
This video was amazing 😂 would love to see more of this! Great work!
Easily one of the BEST story tellers and content creators to ever grace our small niche of
Yu-Gi-Oh! UA-cam! Another straight BANGER!! 🔥🔥🔥
I love your videos. I can tell how much work you do behind the scenes in research alone. ❤
I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh and this vid is great
Personally i think we should have MORE beef in our children's card game so I'm publicly challenging Phy to a duel
He won't he won't. No balls no balls
KevinSilva and I used to be friends back in Yugioh Online days. He was the same online as in person as I can remember haha. We used to chat for hours. Good times, good times. It was later after that I found out that he was challenging Jeff Jones. Insane Yugioh history right here. Great video!
common phy banger incoming
Watching Jeff jones say “I don’t play those games” “say it to my face” over a ygo game is hilarious 😂
Idk if Blake still plays but I wonder what he thinks about the new Six Sam support if he does.
Also this was a really nice video, i lowkey got hooked LMAO
I LOVE these community-centered videos. Please do more.
15:01 dude took that a little too serious. His test was at peak 😂
Yea, trading cards is like playing a ball sport. It's more like chess, but you get your pieces on at a time in unknown order, and your pieces are dependent on how much money you put into it.
Imagine having an ego over yugioh
Y? Most competitive spaces have those.
you had a perfect opportunity to call somebody out
wish the state of the game allowed for duels to be this sick and back and forth again irl, we will never have something like blake vs nizhar again with how modern yugioh is. At the top level everyone plays the same deck and most duels are resolved by comparing opening hands. I'll always have a deep love and appreciation for yugioh as it's been with me for 20 years at this point, but even in 2012-2013 there was way more soul and expressiveness in the game than there has been for a very long time
id rather play agov than meadowlands lol
I mean, not always? At the moment we're in a tier 0 format but that isn't consistently the case. And there are still off decks being played but there has ALWAYS been metas in Yugioh, pretending like that isn't the case is just dumb.
I'd play any retro format where Dark World isn't good tbh.
@@thesun5275 we've been in a tier 0 or borderline tier 0 for a while, acting like snake eye, ishizu tear, and kashtira weren't THE decks to play when they were at their peak at the top level is silly
I can agree with the reasons people loved tear format because the mirror was very skillful and fun, but my point is that the game is severely lacking in soul in the modern era. There's far less skill expression when the best decks do the same thing every game, and if it goes through, they win on turn 0. And vice versa, if you hand trap the guy enough times to stop their board, guy who goes first has to watch themselves get otk'd the following turn. Obviously at the local level you have always been able to play a variety of decks and strategies but that doesn't translate to YCS or high level regionals. Now for older format meta, yes that will always exist, but the GAMEPLAY and card design of modern ygo is my main complaint. Once you learn what the best deck wants to do, whether you're against it or playing it yourself, modern ygo is far more flowcharty and robotic. There's so many different cards and interactions that go off in a dinorabbit mirror or literally any edison matchup for example compared to a snake eye mirror, which is a flowchart gameplay, and OTKS were far less common. (summon ash, activate witch, activate wanted-> ash blossom? imperm? etc)
Engines were either smaller, or the staples were a mix of generic spells, traps and monsters instead of 15 handtraps and anti-handtraps
The more back and forth and unpredictability of older yugioh was what made it fun and hype, and die rolls meant less.
@@eclipsa9454 we still have that in modern yugioh pretending we don't is tiring
Being someone that only collected yu-gi-oh cards when they were younger, never played, and only watched the show. I have no idea what's happening in the video or comment section lmao.
But if you're gonna beef pls stream it so the community can watch
Damn I need more beefs to happen so you can make a part two 😂. Haven’t played in 15 years but this just felt nostalgic. Great vid
Got to be honest, nobody has to give you the time of day. Like so many people think a stranger has to be friendly and explain themselves because they didn't like them saying no. Pretty much not defending Nizar, so many people get butthurt when stranger goes, no.
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Legit my favorite content to watch on YT
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Appreciate the assist, goat