Yu-Gi-Oh! United States Championship

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game United States 2009 National Championship is taking place this weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The culmination of a series of events around the country, the U.S. National Championship is expected to draw about 900 Yu-Gi-Oh! players. The top four finalists will be invited to compete in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship in Tokyo, Japan, on August 8 and 9.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!, players create individual decks of cards -- monsters, spells and traps -- by choosing from cards collected from starter decks and booster packs. The decks are used in a two-player duel.

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