Orange County Register

Over the weekend at the bustling Comic Con in San Diego, fans of Yu-Gi-Oh card and video games competed for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game World Championships. And local kid from Buena Park came in third. Congratulations!

Adam, apparently, is a 16-year-old whiz at the card games, which are made by Upper Deck Entertainment in Carlsbad. Prior to the World Champs, Adam played his way to “Best Yu-Gi-Oh! player in the country.” In the Yu-Gi-Oh video game competition, 21-year-old Manuel Lopez from San Juan Capistrano was a runner up. Each were awarded a Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship trophy, autographed drawings and an exclusive Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG card.

Register reporter Eric Carpenter is working on a story about young Adam, so check the paper a week from tomorrow for the story.

The cartoon actually started as a comic book, or Manga, as they like to call it in Japan. Created by Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! debuted in 1996 in Japan and eventually expanded overseas to become a hit series on the Cartoon Network.

Says UpperDeck, the card game has sold 15.8 billion cards worldwide. Dude! I’m completely out of the Yu-Gi-Oh! loop so it’s news to me that over 800,000 registered “Duelists” play in weekly tournaments in local stores nationwide. If you think that could be you, find more information at wannaduel.com.

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