At a glance
- Advanced: Carlos Andres Herrera Buendia (Colombia) wins out of 212 duelists with Kewl Tune, the world champion deck from August.
- It is the last big tournament with Kewl Tune Rotary: the Forbidden and Limited List of September 21, the day after the final, makes it Forbidden in the Advanced format. At Guayaquil and Houston, Kewl Tune vanishes from the standings.
- Genesys: Yuhao Ye wins with Fairy Tail out of 76 duelists. In the final he beats Pablo Cesar Dominguez Lamazeras with Blitzclique, which has three of the four players in the semifinals.
How a Remote Duel is played
The remote YCS is open to all duelists in Latin America. It is played on Discord with real cards: each player films their own field with a camera and talks to the opponent over a microphone. Genesys is played on September 18 and 20, Advanced on the 19th and 20th.
Advanced, the top eight
Herrera Buendia wins, with Kewl Tune. The other seven in the Top 8, with no published finishing order:
- Joseph Tello Wong (Costa Rica): Kewl Tune with Synchron.
- Roberto Aldana Cobos (Guatemala), Eddie Alba (Bolivia), Moisses David Salas Ramones and Juan Carlos Norabuena Mendoza (Peru), Christopher Bernard Penafiel Ramirez (Ecuador) and Renzo Agustin Vasquez Tarrillo: decks not published.
Also in the top 16 is Andres Eduardo Chavez Mendieta (Ecuador) with Sky Striker. The runner-up and the rest of the bracket were not published.
Genesys, the standings
- 1. Yuhao Ye: Fairy Tail with Nekroz.
- 2. Pablo Cesar Dominguez Lamazeras: Blitzclique.
- 3-4. Henry Gullens and Boris Bladimir Veliz Morales: Blitzclique.
- 5-8. Sebastian Serna (Peru): Blitzclique. David Alejandro Haro Moreno: Sacred Beasts. Fernando Castillo: Exosister. Frankjer Garcia Calzadilla: Invoked.
In Genesys, Blitzclique is the deck to beat, with four players in the Top 8. Fairy Tail beats it in the final, and in the top 16 there is another Fairy Tail with Invoked.
Familiar faces
- Giovanny Andres Trivino finishes in the top 16 of Advanced. Two weeks later he wins YCS Guayaquil with Elfnote.
- Sebastian Serna makes the Genesys Top 8 and wins it at Guayaquil.
- Penafiel Ramirez, Vasquez Tarrillo and Jhon David Guerrero Sanchez find their way back to the upper part of the standings at Guayaquil too, all with Elfnote.
What comes next
With Kewl Tune Rotary out of Advanced and Elfnote Tinia Limited, the format changes face: at Guayaquil, on October 3 and 4, the final is between Elfnote and Light and Darkness Ritual. The next remote YCS is the North American one, December 4–6.
Sources. summary and data processing from ygoprodeck.com (tournaments 5035 and 5059); schedule from yugioh-card.com; Remote Duel format from Konami; Forbidden and Limited List of September 21, 2026 from yugioh-card.com. Advanced Top 8 order, runner-up and many decks not published; the country of some players is not given.