Grand Championship

Grand Championship
Grand Championship
Japanese translated	KC Grand Prix
English	Grand Championship
Anime storyline
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Original run	24 December 2003 – 31 March 2004
Episodes	185185 – 198198
Preceded by	Waking the Dragons
Followed by	Dawn of the Duel

The Grand Championship, known in Japan as the KC Grand Prix, is a story arc in the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series.

After the battle with Dartz, Yugi Muto and his friends have no money to return to Japan. They enter a tournament hosted by Seto Kaiba in his new amusement park (Kaiba Land) in return for a ride home. Kaiba Corporation, which is crippled because of Dartz's organization, calls the tournament the KC Grand Championship. Duelists from all over the world come to duel each other to become the winner.

On the other side, one of the tournament entrants is a hacker trying to send a virus into KaibaCorp's main computer. Kaiba's main goal is to find out who the hacker is. It turns out that the hacker is a strong duelist named Zigfried von Schroeder, who is actually participating in the tournament!

Main Duelists

Main article: Grand Championship Contestants

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Zigfried von Schroeder

• Zigfried von Schroeder: The European Duel Monsters Champion, a rival of Kaiba's, and Leon's older brother. Zigfried seeks to take down KaibaCorp as revenge because he feels that Seto Kaiba stole his plans for holographic dueling technology. He uses the alias "Zigfried Lloyd" whenever he duels. He comes across as arrogant and vain, but he has a kind side, as evidenced by how regretful he feels at the end of the arc for making Leon help him with his plot. He genuinely loves his brother, as Seto loves Mokuba. At the end of the anime, he is seen making a business deal with Maximillion Pegasus.

Leon von Schroeder

• Leon von Schroeder: A genius who is Zigfried's Brother. He uses the alias "Leon Wilson" whenever he duels. He is a sweet child who idolizes his brother, yet realizes that what Zigfried is doing is wrong. When Zigfried is disqualified and recruits Leon to help him with his plot to destroy KaibaCorp by playing a card in his duel that will trigger a virus, Leon initially agrees even though he doesn't feel right about it. Eventually during the duel, he refuses to help Zigfried by playing the card because he doesn't want to go against his morals. However, the virus was already unleashed and the card could not be destroyed when Leon attempted to remove it from play. Yami Yugi then tried to help him destroy it while Seto Kaiba worked to stop the virus.

• Vivian Wong: A beautiful duelist and the Asian Champion. She tends to space out in fangirly ways when she should be staying serious, and this often proves to be her downfall. At one point she helped Solomon Muto with his hurt back, but only if he would help her bring Yugi to duel her. When Yugi protested that it was against tournament rules since she had already been defeated, she hurt Solomon's back again and forced Yugi into the duel, threatening that if he did not duel her, she would not fix the damage.

These characters appear in previous parts of the second series anime:

• Yugi Muto: Duelist Kingdom and Battle City Champion, current holder of "King of Games" title.

• Mask the Rock / Apdnarg Otum : A Legendary Duelist who turns out to be Solomon Muto, Yugi's grandfather. His name is "Grandpa Muto" backwards.

• Rebecca Hawkins : The American regional champion.

• Joey Wheeler : Ranked 2nd in Duelist Kingdom, ranked 4th in Battle City.

• Tea Gardner : Beaten Mai in Duelist Kingdom and Crump in the Virtual World.

• Duke Devlin : Beaten Nesbitt.

Grand Championship Dueling Tree

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Episodes 187-188

Joey Wheeler

100

Episodes 187-188 (not featured)

Vivian Wong

0

Dr. Richard Goat

0

Episode 189

Leon Wilson

?

Zigfried Lloyd

4000

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

Fortune Salim

0

Ethan Shark

0

Episode 189 (not featured)

Zigfried Lloyd

4000

Paul McGregor

?

Episodes 190-191

Shane Jordan

0

Joey Wheeler

40000

Episode 189 (not featured)

Leon Wilson

0

Balfry Ginger

?

Episodes 192-193

Jafar Shin

0

Rebecca Hawkins

0

Episode 189

Leon Wilson

900

Vivian Wong

0

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

Rebecca Hawkins

3200

Paul McGregor

0

Episode 189

Balfry Ginger

?

Leon Wilson

?

Episode 192 (not featured)

Dr. Richard Goat

0

Zigfried Lloyd

?

Episode 189 (not featured)

Balfry Ginger

0

"King of Games" Title

Abe the Monkey Man

?

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

Episode 193

Totani Ialos

0

Rebecca Hawkins

?

Yami Yugi

1400

Episode 189 (not featured)

Abe the Monkey Man

0

Vivian Wong

0

Ethan Shark

?

Sergei Ivanoff

0

Match Lists

The matches are divided into two groups Block A and Block B. For purposes of brevity, some duels were shortened or not shown.

Round 1: LAST 16

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Vivian Wong (as Vivian Wong) gets ready to battle Joey

Joey Wheeler vs. Vivian Wong

Episodes 187-188

• Joey wins.

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Zigfried Lloyd vs. Fortune Salim (Zigfried Lloyd vs. Weevil & Rex)

Episodes 189 Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor kidnap Salim to take his place at the Grand Championship. They are unmasked but Zigfried agrees to duel against them rather than winning by default; the Duel becomes Weevil & Rex vs. Zigfried Lloyd.

• Zigfried wins in one move.Wong

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Paul McGregor vs. Shane Jordan

Episode 189 (not featured)

• Paul McGregor wins.

Balfry Ginger vs. Jafar Shin

Episode 189 (not featured)

• Balfry Ginger wins.

Vivian Wong vs. Rebecca Hawkins

Vivian Wong vs. Rebecca Hawkins

Episode 189

• Rebecca wins.

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Dr. Richard Goat vs. Leon Wilson

Episodes 187-188 (not featured)

• Leon wins.

Ethan Shark vs. Sergei Ivanoff

Episode 189 (not featured)

• Ethan Shark wins.

Abe the Monkey Man vs. Totani Ialos

Episode 189 (not featured)

• Abe the Monkey Man wins.

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Round 2: QUARTER-FINALS

Joey Wheeler faces off against Leon's Fairy-Tales

Joey Wheeler vs. Leon Wilson

Episodes 190-191

• Joey wins.

Paul McGregor vs. Balfry Ginger

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

• Balfry wins.

Ethan Shark vs. Zigfried Lloyd

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

• Zigfried wins.

Rebecca Hawkins vs. Abe the Monkey Man

Episodes 190-191 (not featured)

• Rebecca wins.

Round 3: SEMI-FINALS

Balfry Ginger vs. Zigfried Lloyd

Episode 192 (not featured)

• Zigfried wins.

Rebecca Hawkins vs. Leon Wilson

Rebecca Hawkins vs. Leon Wilson

Episodes 192-193

• Leon wins.

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Vivian Wong vs. Yami Yugi (non-tournament)

Episode 193

• Vivian enlists the help of Yugi's grandfather in order to challenge Yugi to a non-competition Duel. If Yugi wins, Vivian will heal Yugi's grandfather's back. If Vivian wins, Yugi must go on a date with her ("become her love slave" in the original Japanese).
  • Yugi wins.

Round 4: FINAL

Leon Wilson vs. Zigfried Lloyd

Episode 194

• Seto Kaiba disqualifies Zigfried for playing under a fake name. Leon wins by default.

Seto Kaiba vs. Zigfried von Schroeder (non-tournament)

Episodes 194-195

• An exhibition match replaces the final Duel: Seto Kaiba vs. Zigfried von Schroeder.
  • Seto Kaiba wins.

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"King of Games" Title Duel

Zigfried von Schroeder and his "Golden Castle of Stromberg" in the background

Yugi Muto vs. Zigfried von Schroeder

Episodes 196-198

• Yugi wins.

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