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Want to “Get Your Game On”? Elemental Energy, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG booster pack, is available now, featuring 29 cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX television series! Watch for the new Elemental Energy TV commercial, or click below for a special preview

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The wait is over, the most desired card in Yu-Gi-Oh!,“Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon”comes stateside, packaged with the January issue of Shonen Jump Magazine, the world’s most popular manga. Commemorating the third anniversary of the magazine, “Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon” has the highest attack strength of any monster! Visit www.SHONENJUMP.com to subscribe and guarantee your copy of this card!

"Des Volstgalph" is the new Shonen Jump Championship Prize Card

With over 400 people competiting in the Indianapolis Shonen Jump Championship, Nareg Torossian emerged as the winner and the first person to claim "Des Volstgalph", the new Championship Prize Card!

Kentucky Native Max Suffridge Defeats Over 480 of the Nation's Best Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Duelists and Becomes '2005 Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG National Champion'

Suffridge to Represent the U.S. at the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG World Championship
Tournament Next Month in Tokyo, Japan

COLUMBUS, OHIO – July 03, 2005 – After 16 hours of fierce competition, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME now has its National Champion. Defeating over 480 of the nation’s best Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG players, 20-year-old Max Suffridge from Louisville, Kentucky has not only been recognized as the best of the nation’s best, but as the official “Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG U.S. National Champion.” Suffridge is one of four Duelists representing the United States in next month’s Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG World Championship Tournament in Tokyo, Japan.

After going 9-1 in the Swiss rounds, Suffridge plowed through quarterfinals opponent Brent Yetter to advance closer to the title. Suffridge was then pitted against his round nine opponent, 18-year-old Bryan Coronel of Jersey City, New Jersey, in a rematch from the previous day. After again defeating Coronel, he faced Miguel Garcia of Oakland Park, Florida, who played three intense rounds in the final match-up. Using a “Heavy Storm” card (Fury From the Deep Structure Deck) to end the game, Suffridge defeated Garcia member and was crowned national champion.

As a semi-finalists, Garcia, Coronel and 18-year-old Jerry Wang (Corona, New York) will join Suffridge in Japan next month to battle over 25 countries for the world championship title. These countries include Japan, Philippines, Australia, Brazil, Switzerland, and Canada to name a few. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG World Championship event will be held August 6-7 in Tokyo, Japan.

The intense competition -- held over two days at the Origins Gaming Expo in Columbus, Ohio (July 2 and 3) – became a true nationwide event, attracting players from around the U.S. who have come to Columbus from as far as Texas, Hawaii, California, New York, and Florida, to name a few states. All Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG national tournament competitors earned a spot in the U.S. National Championship tournament by competing and winning previous tournaments in their various regions.

For more information on decklists, and quarterfinalist participants, please log onto

www.upperdeckentertainment.com.

Forbidden Cards List Announcement

In February of 2004, a Forbidden List for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME was created for tournaments in Asia. A list of 10 cards was forbidden for use, with the intention that the Forbidden List would change every few months (and would not always be 10 cards).

Upper Deck Entertainment now offers the choice to stores and tournament organizers to run tournaments using the Forbidden List in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Oceana. A tournament that uses the Forbidden List is called an Advanced Format Tournament. All premier events are run in the Advanced Format.

However, we realize that some players and stores will not want to use a format with a Forbidden List. So we will be offering TWO formats: one that uses the Forbidden List, and one that does not. When the Forbidden List is not used, cards normally on the Forbidden List are Limited instead. These tournaments are called Traditional Format Tournaments.

Stores and Tournament Organizers will have the choice of which types of tournaments to run. Also, they are not locked into one format or the other. A store can run an Advanced Format Tournament on one day and a Traditional Format Tournament on the next day.

You, the player, can participate in any tournaments you want, no matter what the format. Both tournament formats will count toward the same player ranking. There will not be separate rankings for the two formats.

The cards on the Forbidden and Limited Lists for both formats will change on April 1st and October 1st every year.

World Wide card use policy
Effective as of May 1st, 2004, Upper Deck has eliminated the rule that only English cards designated for that territory can be used in tournament play. Meaning that any English card can be used around the world. Asian-English is still prohibited for any territory other than Asia.