So it's come to this. This morning, forty-seven players entered Goatformat.com's first World Championship event. After a series of grueling high-quality matches, we are down to just four. Congratulations to these exceptional players. Who will come out on top? Make sure to see it live on our Twitch or Youtube channels! Want to gain a better idea of who you are rooting for? Check out these player interviews! 

The Goat Format World Championship is finally here! For live coverage starting at 10:00 AM Eastern check out our YouTube, Twitch, and friends at Format Library and Goat community italia! Be sure to check back this page as the day goes on for written coverage as well.

(Our prize pool is really growing! $656 all from the community, if you would like to contribute and be listed as a sponsor click here)

The sign ups for the Goat Format World Championships are now open. Qualified players can follow the sign up the instructions found here. You have until 10:00AM Eastern 10/24/2020 to submit your deck ids. Once your deck is submitted you may not edit your deck. You may resubmit a new deck before the event begins, but the deck cannot be edited in the deck editor after submitted. Breaking of this rule will result in disqualification the the tournament. To resubmit a deck list use the command !resubmit on the GoatFormat.com Discord.

A reminder that the head judge for GoatFormat.com events is TKGriffiths. TK wanted to remind all players of the rules posted here. To always use the phases on DuelingBook, and our policy of once your match is available to be played that  10 minutes late = game loss, 20 minutes late = match loss. The countdown starts when either player tags the other in the tournament channel to indicate that they're ready to play. 

The World Championships are almost here. They will be taking place this Saturday October 24th. All registered participants will have from 7:00pm Eastern Friday October 23rd until 10:00am Saturday October 24th to submit their deck list. 

The list of the 50 participants who have signed up can be found here. No player will be added to the tournament bracket until their deck list has been submitted.

To submit deck list tournament participants must log onto the goatformat.com Discord, and use the command !join in the #world-championship section of our Discord. 

The World Championships will then begin at 10:00am Eastern (Saturday October 24th)

This post will cover a few issues regarding tournament policy going into the World Championship this weekend. In keeping with a proud tradition in YGO judging, we will not be changing any longstanding policies prior to Worlds, but we will be clarifying a few things that have always been true, but that have been inconsistently enforced up to this point.

Goat Community Italia ran a fantastic 102 Player Goat Format tournament GCS 3! Check out the coverage from this live event here! First and second place are the last to qualify for Goat Format World Championships. Congratulations to Mirko Zanelli and Fabio Re.

The Goat Format World Championships is fast approaching. The event will be taking place on October 24th. The event will be Double Elimination, and begin at 10:00 am Eastern.

The list of qualified players can be seen by clicking here. 

A list of currently registered players can be seen by clicking here. 

There is still time to register if you are on the qualified players list. Click here to register.

The prize pool is currently at $575.00. All of the prize money has been donated by the community. If you would like to donate to this prize pool and be listed as Tournament Sponsor, you can donate by clicking here, be sure to write in that the donation is for the World Championship and the name you wish to be put as a sponsor. All donations are very appreciated, we could not do this without all of you. All donations go %100 to the prize pool.

The tournament will have two simultaneous streams on Twitch.tv/GoatFormat and Twitch.tv/FormatLibrary 

Our next Worlds update will cover tournament policy such as match reporting, glitchs, use of priority policy, and game watching. See you soon!