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If both players satisfy a victory condition at the same time, then the Duel ends in a [[DRAW]].
A [[Match]] is typically won by winning two Duels. In tournaments, Matches can also be won by the opponent forfeiting the match or receiving a [[Match Loss]] penalty, or by time running out when the player has won a Duel while the opponent has not.
==Video game automatic surrender==
*"[[Yata-Garasu]]": In most video games, if a player successfully inflicts battle damage to their opponent with "Yata-Garasu" while the opponent controls no cards and has no cards in their hand, then the opponent will automatically surrender the Duel at the start of their next turn, because of the [[Yata-Garasu Lockdown|lock effect of "Yata-Garasu"]].<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AezdHXC6nLg&t=3m27s</ref> This forced surrender applies to both human and CPU players, and will occur even if not surrendering would have been beneficial (such as if the controller of "Yata-Garasu" had no cards left in their Deck and would have lost had the opponent not surrendered).
==Trivia==
Prior to March 20, 2015 in the ''[[TCG]]'', it was the rule that a Duel could not end in the middle of resolving a card effect. For example:
* If a player [[activate]]d "[[Berserker Soul]]" and one of the [[excavate]]d cards lowered the opponent's LP to 0, the player would still be required to excavate up to all 7 cards before the effect finished resolving and the player with 0 LP lost.
* A player who draws the fifth piece of "[[Exodia]]" with "[[Dark World Dealings]]" cannot declare victory until after they have also discarded a card (and their hand still contains all five "Exodia" pieces).
On March 20, 2015, the rules were changed for standard victory conditions only, stating that a Duel would end immediately if a player's Life Points reached 0 or they were unable to draw a card, even in the middle of an effect, but that this change would not carry over to alternate victory conditions. This change was presumably made in response to the then-new [[erratum]] of "[[Ring of Destruction]]" in the ''TCG''.<sup>''[TODO: This change was also made in the OCG at some point; can someone find an exact date?]''</sup>
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