[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com: Champions!
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com: Champions!
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com: Champions!
[view] Poor Shark's Masahiko Morita in the finals of Grand Prix Yokohama.
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's David Williams in the finals
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's Chris Benafel in the finals
[view] Poor Shark's Tomomi Otsuka in the finals
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's Ryan Fuller in the finals
[view] Poor Shark's Masahiro Kuroda in the finals
[view] Kuroda vs. Fuller in the finals
[view] Morita vs. Benafel in the finals
[view] Otsuka vs. Williams in the finals
[view] Team Poor Shark
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com had a few disagreements during the final draft
[view] Near the end of the pack, the cards get a little messy
[view] Kuroda drafts; the back of Chris Benafel's head just sits there
[view] The final draft of Grand Prix Yokohama
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com drafts in the finals
[view] Team Fire Beat, 4th Seed
[view] Team Voice of Soul, 2nd Seed
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited, 1st Seed
[view] Team Poor Shark, 3rd Seed
[view] Judging is hard, tiring work
[view] We are required by Internet law to feature at least one picture with awkward English
[view] Team Voice of Soul drafting in the semifinals
[view] Team Voice of Soul. Left to Right: Takao Higaki, Tadayoshi Komiya, Tsuyoshi Douyama
[view] Team Poor Shark. Left to Right: Msahiro Kuroda, Tomomi Otsuka, Masahiko Morita
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Team Poor Shark two wins away from winning GP Yokohama
[view] Another picture of Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com. You should know what they look like by now.
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com practices the art of nonverbal communication
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com, the team with the longest name in the tournament
[view] Sideboard Managing Editor Monty Ashley covers Tsuyoshi Douyama's draft
[view] Team Fire Beat
[view] Team Poor Shark has a brief argument
[view] Fans were stacked on top of each other to get a glimpse of the semifinals
[view] Team Voice of Soul drafts
[view] Voice of Soul made it into the semifinals
[view] The draft!
[view] Spectators had a hard time seeing all the action
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com spends a lot of time playing to the crowd
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com is relaxed in the semifinals.
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's Ryan Fuller
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's Dave Williams
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com's Chris Benafel
[view] Team 25:17
[view] Team Magic Square
[view] Could this player lead his team to victory?
[view] One of the many teams making up Grand Prix Yokohama
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? vs. Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com in a Round 11 Feature Match
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com, leaders for the entire tournament, try to finish the swiss rounds on top
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? try to get into the Top 4 by beating AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Team 25:17 in round 11
[view] Team Magic Square in the last swiss round of the day
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com calculates how long Treva will stay on the table.
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited in the draft for Round 11.
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? in the last draft for the swiss rounds.
[view] Team Magic Square
[view] Team 25:17, on Table 8 at the end of the day
[view] cards await the drafting decisions of Loafing Giants and Voice of Soul
[view] Team Voice of Soul talk amongst themselves
[view] Team Loafing Giants consider the draft
[view] Team Poor Shark drafts before Round 10
[view] Team Poor Shark and Team Apprentice conduct high-level discussions exclusively by pointing at cards.
[view] Team Apprentice in the second draft of the day
[view] Team NISIKI in Round 9
[view] Team Potato Peach (no relation to Team Potato Nation, as far as we know) in Round 9
[view] Team DERAPIN in Round 9
[view] Team Voice of Soul in Round 9
[view] Kazumi Kikagawa of Team Apprentice, one of two female players on Day 2
[view] Tomomi Otsuka of Team Poor Shark, the other one
[view] Team Scrambled Steak in Round 9
[view] Team Susiyan in Round 9
[view] Team Absolute tries to take down the leaders
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited in their first match of the day
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com plays Absolute in Round 9
[view] AlphaBetaUnlimited.com before the first draft of Day 2
[view] Team Susiyan
[view] Table 1: AlphaBetaUnlimited.com drafts against Team Absolute
[view] Table 2: Team Susiyan drafts against Scrambled Steak
[view] Player C's first pack, and AlphaBetaUnlimited.com decides what to do about it.
[view] Ron Foster calls the draft
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? drafts
[view] Team Magic Square drafts
[view] Team Fire Beat drafts
[view] Team Loafing Giants drafts
[view] Rob Dougherty, Loafing Giant, opens his pack
[view] Voice of Soul drafts against Team 25:17
[view] Team Fire Beat drafts
[view] Team Poor Shark vs. Yaburon
[view] Rob Dougherty takes a look at his cards
[view] Dave Williams of AlphaBetaUnlimited.com drafts
[view] The members of Team Scrambled Steak confer
[view] Executioners vs. Team M.O.B. in a Round 8 Feature Match
[view] Circle Money Draft vs. Loafing Giants in a Round 8 Feature Match
[view] Team M.O.B. is "connected" enough to get a feature match in Round 8
[view] The Executioners threaten to destroy everyone they face.
[view] Circle Money Draft hopes to turn Grand Prix Yokohama into its personal ATM
[view] Team Loafing Giants loafs its way into another Feature Match
[view] Team Potato Peach in a Round 7 Feature Match
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com again.
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? (The question mark is part of the team name)
[view] Nagator's
[view] Team Dekiru-Kana? vs. Nagator's
[view] The Feature Match area
[view] Team Potato Peach vs. AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Yusuke Osaka, the Jumping Japanese
[view] Team 25:17 vs. Team NISIKI in a Round 6 Feature Match
[view] Team Magic Square vs. Panzer Hunters Jo in the other Round 6 Feature Match
[view] Team 25:17 in their second Feature Match of the day
[view] Team NISIKI
[view] Team Magic Square in a Round 6 Feature Match
[view] Team Panzer Hunters Jo in Round 6
[view] Team Objects vs. Team Susiyan
[view] Team Objects in Round 5. We're not sure whether that's "a team of objects" or a team which "objects" to something.
[view] Team Susiyan in Round 5
[view] Team DERAPIN vs. Team PPB
[view] Team PPB
[view] Team DERAPIN
[view] Masaei Miyamori of Team Objects
[view] Sumi Kazuhiko of Team Susiyan
[view] Unluckey's vs. Chiban Dragon
[view] Team Unluckey's
[view] Chiban Dragon
[view] Team Fire Beat try to defend their native soil against the Westerners, in the person of Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Team Fire Beat, the first two-time Feature Match players of the tournament
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Executioners vs. Team Loafing Giant
[view] Panzer Hunters Jo vs. Team 25:17
[view] Alan Epley of Team 25:17
[view] Reiji Ando of Panzer Hunters Jo
[view] Team 25:17
[view] Team Panzer Hunters Jo
[view] Team Loafing Giants
[view] Loafing Giant and sometime Sideboard Writer Alex Shvartsman
[view] Rob Dougherty, cheating on "Your Move Games" with another team
[view] Mike "Mikey P" Pustilnik of the hastily-formed "Loafing Giants"
[view] Team Executioners
[view] Koichiro Maki, Executioner
[view] Satoshi Nakamura, who may have appeared in more Sideboard Online photos than any other Japanese player
[view] Ken'ichi Fujita of The Executioners
[view] Eleven-year-old Miyamoto, who is qualified for June's Junior Super Series Championship in Orlando, Florida. And he's going!
[view] Team Duel Machine, who have cool T-shirts
[view] Masahiro Kuroda, leader of Team Poor Shark
[view] Toshiki Tsukamoto, leader of Team Fire Beat
[view] What team is this? God Only Knows.
[view] Team Voice of Soul in a Round 2 Feature Match
[view] Team Poor Shark faced Team Fire Beat
[view] Team Fire Beat played their first match in Round 2
[view] Keita Mori (of the Japanese Sideboard coverage) discusses tactics with Monty Ashley
[view] Sideboard Managing Editor Monty Ashley shows where this Grand Prix is being held
[view] Fujieda Laboratory's Sasanuma Kiyoshi
[view] Rakeru's Hashimoto Hiroshi
[view] Sasanuma decides if a Cavern Harpy and Dromar, the Banisher will be enough of an attacking force
[view] Team Tokyo Butties, which is pronounced "Beauties"
[view] Team Q.E.D.
[view] Team Rakeru faced Fujieda Laboratory in Round 1
[view] Team Fujieda Laboratory in their Round 1 Feature Match
[view] The seating assignments for the first deckbuild attract a lot of attention
[view] A beautifully customized 3-D Island
[view] The art of customizing cards in known to a select few.
[view] Chris Zantides and Ron Foster
[view] Team Voice of Soul
[view] Team AlphaBetaUnlimited.com
[view] Team Loafing Giants
[view] Team Chicago Miracle
[view] Team Tokyo Butties
[view] Team Executioners
[view] Team Magic Square
[view] Team Poor Shark
[view] Team Loafing Giants: Mike Pustilnik, Rob Dougherty, and Alex Shvartsman
[view] Team Executioners: Ken'ichi Fujita, Satoshi Nakamura, and Koichiro Maki
[view] Team Fire Beat: Toshiki Tsukamoto, Tsuyoshi Ikeda, and Jun Nobushita
[view] Team Kou II Ziko: Yasafumi Sasahara, Mitsumasa Imai, and Atsushi Takagi
[view] The anticipation before the event
[view] Grand Prix Yokohama has fabulous trophies waiting for the winners
[view] Before the doors open, players mill about
[view] Level 2 Judge Akio Sugaya
[view] Head Judge Takashi Aida
[view] Ron Foster and Takashi Aida.
[view] It takes awhile for this many players to fill the area.
[view] The doors open and 846 players stream into the hall
[view] Head Judge Takashi Aida
[view] At registration, the players tune their skills.
[view] The Ferris Wheel at night; this Ferris Wheel is also the world's biggest clock.
[view] You can get anything in a Japanese vending machine. Even fire!
[view] Even those who don't speak Japanese can manage to follow the signs.
[view] The glittering Electic Town in Akihabara has very little to do with Grand Prix Yokohama. Pretty, though, isn't it?
[view] The crack Hobby Japan staff will turn this RV full of equipment into a lavish Grand Prix
[view] The Pacifico Yokohama Convention Plaza, home of Grand Prix Yokohama
[view] The Coke cans in Japan are slender and elegant
[view] The Yokohama Grand Intercontinental Hotel, and not a a big shark's fin
[view] Yokohama, home of the Pacifico Yokohama and a really big Ferris Wheel