Yu - Gi - Oh ! Championship Series Long Beach 2012 The Yu - Gi - Oh ! Championship Series Long Beach 2012 was the one - hundredth Championship tournament , counting both Shonen Jump Championship s and Yu - Gi - Oh ! Championship Series . It was the largest " Yu - Gi - Oh ! Trading Card Game " tournament , with attendance exceeding 4000 . It took place in the Long Beach convention center in California on March 24 to 25 , 2012 . Events . Timetable . The time and costs of the events were as follows : Registration . The tournament started late due to the high volume of people registering . 3500 mats had been printed for the event , while 4364 people participated . Entrants after the first 3500 were still to receive mats in the mail after more had been printed . Partitions were taken down in the convention to expand the size of the venue to the area of about 12 American football fields . Some later entrants even had to miss the first round . Main event . Over a thousand people dropped out of the tournament before the fourth round . After round eight only 859 participants remained with Keita Nagano , Gabriel T . Perez , John P . Gruchacz , Ruben Jimenez , Adrian Sean Shakir , Hendrik Wytze Kluitenberg , Andrew R . Trevino , Ned E Salkovitch , Bai Rui Chen , Jake P . Quinsee , Michael C . Balan , Robert Joseph Scarpelli , Robert Anthony Vasquez , Wesley E . Carter , Marquis L . Johnson and Angel Ascencio tying first on 24 points . After round nine , there were 730 participants remaining . John P . Gruchacz , Hendrik Wytze Kluitenberg , Adrian Sean Shakir , Bai Rui Chen , Jake P . Quinsee , Robert Anthony Vasquez , Wesley E . Carter and Marquis L . Johnson tied first with 27 points each . In the top four tables at round ten , Robert Vasquez defeated Hendrik Kluitenberg , Adrian Shakir defeated Bai Chen , Jake Quinsee defeated Marquis Johnson and Wesley Carter defeated John Gruchacz . After round twelve , the format switched from swiss to knockout between the 64 highest scoring players . In the top sixteen , Gabriel Perez defeated Phillip Graham , Angel Ascencio defeated Michael Lux , Simon He defeated Hung Lee , Ryan Machado defeated Ruben Jimenez , Joseph Giorlando defeated Jose Badillo , Wilson Tsang defeated David Tirado , Michael Balan defeated Trenton Wright and Jian Zeng defeated Eddie de Jesus . In the quarter finals Gabriel Perez defeated Angel Ascencio , Simon He defeated Ryan Machado , Joseph Giorlando defeated Wilson Tsang and Michael Balan defeated Jian Zeng . In the semi finals Simon He defeated Gabriel Perez and Michael Balan defeated Joseph Giorlando . In the final , Michael Balin defeated Simon He . Dragon Duel . 61 people took part in the Dragon Duel event on the first day . After five rounds Brian Ahle and Galdino Chavez were the only undefeated players . They faced each other in the finals . Ahle used a " Dino Rabbit " Deck to defeat Chavez ' s " Inzektor " Deck 2 - 1 . For the Dragon Duel event on the second day , Jesse Dean Kotton and Oliver Tomajko faced each other in the finals . Both players used " Dino Rabbit " Decks , with Kotton winning the Match 2 - 0 . Prizes . Players were able to have their own custom " Token " cards printed featuring a photo of themselves alongside Yami Yugi , Jaden Yuki , Yusei Fudo or Yuma Tsukumo . Main event . All participants received five packs of " Order of Chaos " and a " 100th Yu - Gi - Oh ! Championship " play mat . Due to availability only 3500 people received mats , while the others were to receive theirs in the mail afterwards . The prizes for the main event were as follows : Dragon Duel . The prizes for the Dragon Duel were as follows : Public events . The prizes for the side events were as follows : Decks . The top 16 Decks were " Skill Drain HERO " used by Phillip Graham and Joseph Giorlando , " Piper Chaos " used by Gabriel Perez , " Dino Rabbit " used by Angel Ascencio , Michael Lux , Simon He , Hung Lee , Ryan Machado , David Tirado and Eddie de Jesus , " Chain Burn " used by Ruben Jimenez , " Wind - Up " used by Jose Badillo and Trenton Wright , " Wind - Up Beast " used by Wilson Tsan , " Dark World " used by Michael Balan and " Inzektor " used by Jian Zeng . The winning Decklist used by Michael Balan was as follows :