Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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He played back-to-back YCS finals against the exact same opponent — in two different countries.

Billy Brake was one of the most feared players in Yu-Gi-Oh history, winning YCS Toronto and YCS Columbus back-to-back in 2011. Five years later at YCS Bochum 2016 he piloted Metalfoes to the title over Europe's rising star Joshua Schmidt on Paleozoic Frogs — his fourth YCS win. At the very next European YCS in Prague 2017, the exact same two players met in the finals with their 60-card decks, and Schmidt took his revenge. Two finals, two duelists, one win each.

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