The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2026 has officially come to a close, with the world’s top Duelists battling for global supremacy at the Tokyo Garden Theater in Japan. This year’s prestigious tournament delivered four new world champions across the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL, and Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS.
Hosted in Tokyo, the event brought together competitors from around the world for several days of high-level competition, ultimately determining who would take home the coveted World Championship titles. With four different categories represented, the finals featured plenty of international matchups as Duelists looked to etch their names into Yu-Gi-Oh! history.
In the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME division, Canada’s Mario Angelo De Micco emerged as the new World Champion after defeating Josh Kelly of the United Kingdom in the championship Duel. The victory earns De Micco the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG World Championship 2026 title following a tournament that brought together some of the strongest TCG players from across the globe.
The digital competition was equally intense in Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL, where the World Championship concluded with a dramatic 3v3 team showdown. Called By Army defeated Glory Future to claim the title, with the winning team consisting of CER.Sana (Minsung Kim), A1.cutesnail (Hyunsoo Lee), and CER.subaduck (Jisuk Kim), all representing South Korea.
Rather than relying on a single Duelist, the MASTER DUEL finale required the three members of Called By Army to work together across the team format, making coordination and consistency just as important as individual skill. Their victory secures the team a place in the history of the Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL World Championship.
Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS also had plenty of championship action of its own, with separate titles awarded for the game’s SPEED DUEL and RUSH DUEL formats.
In the SPEED DUEL competition, Germany’s Snyffus, whose real name is Philipp Thomas, defeated Japan’s あしゅ (Eito Sato) to capture the championship trophy. The victory capped off a successful run through the tournament and gave Germany a world champion in the SPEED DUEL category.
The RUSH DUEL championship remained in Japan, with た く (Takuma Kitamura) defeating the competition to become the 2026 RUSH DUEL World Champion. With both DUEL LINKS formats receiving their own finals, the event once again highlighted the different ways players can compete within the broader Yu-Gi-Oh! ecosystem.
The conclusion of the World Championship also provides fans who were unable to watch the tournament live with an opportunity to catch up on the action. Konami has made the livestream VODs available through the official Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game channels on YouTube and Twitch, allowing fans to revisit the championship matches and other moments from the event.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME continues to be available across the world, with products distributed in more than 80 countries and regions and supported across nine languages. Meanwhile, the franchise’s digital games continue to give players additional ways to compete outside of the physical card game.
Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL remains available as a free-to-play digital card game, featuring thousands of cards, online multiplayer, events, and a single-player Solo Mode. The game is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, and Android.
Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS is also available as a free-to-play title on mobile devices and PC. Since its launch, the game has surpassed 150 million downloads worldwide, with players having collected more than 65 billion cards and participated in more than 6 billion Duels.
With the 2026 World Championship now in the books, the latest group of Yu-Gi-Oh! world champions has been decided. From De Micco’s TCG victory to Called By Army’s MASTER DUEL triumph and the SPEED DUEL and RUSH DUEL champions crowned through DUEL LINKS, this year’s tournament once again showcased the worldwide competitive community surrounding the franchise.