Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH And Upper Deck Announce Upcoming '2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game And Video Game World Championships' Location
Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship will be held in Europe for the first time; Host City will be Berlin, Germany
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Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Upper Deck Europe, Inc. announced today that the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament will be held in Berlin, Germany on August 9-10, 2008. Setting the stage for the largest event of its kind in the world, trading card game and video game players from North America, South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia will come together in Berlin to become the world’s best Duelist.
Regional tournaments for the Trading Card Game are currently being held all over the world to qualify players to participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG National Championship Tournaments. In Europe, the National Champions and the top ranked European players are invited to compete in the 2008 European Championship, which will be held in Amsterdam in early July. Winners from the European Championship and other National Championship tournaments from around the world will then be awarded a chance to become the world’s best Duelist at the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship event in 2008. More information on dates and locations for Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Regional tournament events can be found at www.wannaduel.com.
The national tournaments for the video game will be organized in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Participants will use Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 on Nintendo DS for intense duels. All details will be made available soon via the tournament website http://wc2008.konami-europe.net/
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Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Upper Deck Europe, Inc. announced today that the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament will be held in Berlin, Germany on August 9-10, 2008. Setting the stage for the largest event of its kind in the world, trading card game and video game players from North America, South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia will come together in Berlin to become the world’s best Duelist.
“With Yu-Gi-Oh! continuing to grow at a phenomenal rate, we are delighted to be hosting this year’s World Championship,” offered Kunio Neo, President for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH. “In bringing such an illustrious competition to Germany, we can perfectly illustrate just how important the series is to Konami, and look to introduce even more people to its delights in the coming year."“Recognizing the increasing sales and demand from around the world, we are excited to have the World Championship Tournament for the first time in Europe,” said Nico Blauw, CEO of Upper Deck Europe.
Regional tournaments for the Trading Card Game are currently being held all over the world to qualify players to participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG National Championship Tournaments. In Europe, the National Champions and the top ranked European players are invited to compete in the 2008 European Championship, which will be held in Amsterdam in early July. Winners from the European Championship and other National Championship tournaments from around the world will then be awarded a chance to become the world’s best Duelist at the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship event in 2008. More information on dates and locations for Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Regional tournament events can be found at www.wannaduel.com.
The national tournaments for the video game will be organized in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Participants will use Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008 on Nintendo DS for intense duels. All details will be made available soon via the tournament website http://wc2008.konami-europe.net/
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card and video games are products of strategy, where players create individual decks of cards collected from Structure Decks and Booster Packs. Two players engage in a Duel while using cards that represent powerful Monsters, magical Spells and surprising Traps. Duelists with well-constructed decks, dominating monsters, solid strategy and good fortune are the victors in the game.With over 1 million currently active players worldwide, cards printed in nine different languages and with over 15.8 billion cards sold worldwide since its launch, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is a global phenomenon. In Europe alone, over 2.5 billion cards have been sold since its European introduction in May 2003. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is manufactured by Konami, and is distributed worldwide (with the exception of Asia) by Upper Deck.
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