Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Over Smelly Players

An Oregon paper store has halted its Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for a week aft receiving aggregate complaints and atrocious reviews owed to smelly players.

Chronos Games & Gifts, an independently-owned crippled store successful Beaverton, Oregon, is going viral for taking a hard stance against mediocre hygiene.

In a connection posted successful its nationalist Discord channel, the store confirmed that it is suspending its Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for a week, placing the blasted connected stinky duellists.

“We person had issues with radical mistreating the restrooms and aggregate atrocious reviews due to the fact that of mediocre hygiene. As a reminder, we promote players to travel Konami guidelines and study anyone who does not,” its connection reads.

Konami famously implemented authoritative tourney rules specifically targeting subordinate hygiene successful 2019, saying that each persons attending a tourney — not conscionable players — indispensable beryllium “clean and deterioration cleanable clothing,” oregon hazard being “penalized.”

“You are expected to beryllium cleanable erstwhile you participate a tournament,” the authoritative Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament Guide says. “Neglecting to lavation oregon enactment connected cleanable apparel contributes to an unpleasant ambiance astatine the event, arsenic the tourney tin beryllium crowded and the time tin beryllium long.

“Persons who neglect self-care to the constituent that they are negatively impacting the tourney whitethorn beryllium asked to close the contented to proceed successful the event.”

At the time, this argumentation was welcomed among players, and Chronos Games & Gifts is likewise receiving praise from section attendees for keeping its venue stench-free.

They aren't the lone enactment that's done this; successful 2025, the Nebraska Pokemon Organized Play Facebook leafage published a connection reminding players to support themselves clean, arsenic laid retired successful the authoritative Play! Pokemon Tournament Rules Handbook, which besides includes a conception detailing requirements for subordinate hygiene.

"Individuals are besides required to support a socially acceptable level of hygiene during the event," the Handbook says. "Depending connected the attire oregon level of hygiene, the Tournament Organizer whitethorn let for a tourney subordinate to alteration oregon update their idiosyncratic hygiene and attire and instrumentality to the venue.

"If a subordinate refuses to comply with tourney staff’s requests, this is grounds for removal from the tourney and venue, and the subordinate indispensable relinquish their badge to tourney staff."

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