They need to have a professional sniffer for these events.
Seigmoraig
Wasn’t Yugioh the one that had to set an official rule that the players needed to bathe before coming to tournaments ?
ThePoopIsOnFire
I had an experience similar to this back when I played Magic: The Gathering. Place smelled like stale McDonald’s and body odor
riptor1987
I can relate. I used to go to Magic shops and you open the door and the smell just hits you. Luckily our local shop instituted a “if you smell we’ll ask you to leave and take a shower” policy
Vomitbelch
That’s pretty disgusting
LightsJusticeZ
Yu-Gi-*Oh-My-God*
RideThatPine
I used to work in a comic & card shop and absolutely none of the staff (myself included) wanted to work on days we had a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. It was guaranteed to smell like a big bag of hot dogshit and you were lucky if that’s ALL that you had to deal with.
We had to kick multiple people out of the store at one event for trying to steal product, had to break up fights between grown ass men because one touched their cards. One guy was playing a match, shit himself before the match was through, finished the game, then threw his shitty undies in the garbage and just left.
Absolutely the worst CCG group to deal with as an employee
civilsavage7
I’ve experienced this often at tabletop game shops, whenever they have gaming events. It smells like B.O. mixed with cornchips. I have a game shop a couple of blocks away from me that regularly holds D&D game nights. I’d like to participate, but don’t because of the smell.
oliferro
Yu-Gi-Ew
Themetalenock
just throw in a smash tournament and you have a toxic spillage in human form
DIABLO258
It’s time to sh- sh- sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shower!
UncleObli
I worked at a LGS for a year. Yu-Gi-Oh players smell awful. It’s not even a prejudice if it is proven true again and again and again.
DiscardedCicadaShell
“Smell causes players to flee” the article talks about ONE person who left because of the smell, and was the only person involved who even mentioned it…
Not trying to say that nerds don’t have hygiene issues, but this is just one tweet blown out of proportion…
camthegod
This may be a dumb question but why is it so common that these people don’t take showers ?
Azozel
>Yu-Gi-Oh Event ***in Japan*** Draws Debate After Its Smell Causes Players to Flee
Myhtological
What is with card players and hygiene?
Dynasuarez-Wrecks
People who write headlines like this deserve to be flogged. This article describes an incident in which *one* player was bummed that some cool chick he met left unexpectedly, whined about it on social media, and then that *one* cool chick happened to see his post and revealed that she left because there was a bad smell.
GodzillaUK
“Screw the rules, I have money. Now to use it to get these nerds deodorant”
AdamOfIzalith
Magic the Gathering and Yugioh are two sides of the same coin with one being the smelly unhygenic side of the coin and the other side of the coin unable to be within 100 meters of public spaces or spaces where children may be present.
What’s funny about Yugioh is that Konami has acknowledge this hygiene thing to be such a problem that not only is a hygiene rule included in standard competition rule sets, Konami has released multiple lines of hygeine products as yugioh merch. We are talking shampoo, shower gels, conditioners, etc. Konami have invested entire campaigns and millions of Dollars to try and get yugioh players to wash themselves.
morgartjr
I went to MtG tournaments in high school and college and I’d estimate at least half of the people there showered once a week or less. One guy showed up shirtless with cut off jogging pants on, saying he sweats when he competes and didn’t want to get too wet. Ok – then it’s fine to drip/sweat on the carpet and chairs everyone else uses? Half of the players smelled like beef sticks and old orange juice, the other half were functional adults who could at least realize that some decorum was required.
eelikay
It’s reasons like this why I don’t associate with the yugioh community and I happily enjoy playing legacy of the duelist and collecting cards IRL by myself.
CaptFartGiggle
I remember when I was a kid and went to my first Yu-Gi-Oh tourney. It smelled so fuckin bad.
My dad said “oh my lord, yeah you’re going to have to do this alone.” And literally noped the fuck out. Saying nope, nope, nope on the way out. I was like 12.
IceFire2050
$800 worth of cards in your deck? Absolutely.
$200 plane ticket to get to the event? Sure.
$2 stick of deodorant? Fuck that shit.
ReadShigurui
I kind of want to go to one of these smelly events because the stories and the way it’s explained makes me think people are just over-exaggerating
Woffingshire
It’s mentioned in the article but it’s pretty sad that this is enough of an issue at Yugioh tournaments that the official tournament rules have a section stating that if you are dirty of smell bad you can be penalised or even disqualified if you refuse to fix the issue.
Craigothy-YeOldeLord
I used to be a DCI judge for Wizards of the Coast in the early 2000s, the amount of stank the gaming cafe had to deal with on Friday Night Magic and release days was intense. I think the shop even banned one guy because of how bad he smelled
Lilikoi13
I love how the guy goes
“I thought, I hope people don’t come to hate Yu-Gi-Oh. If you’re a man, please be kind to women. It might sound bad to say I went easy on you, but yeah. If I’m up against a dude, I’ll beat him to a pulp no matter his level. When the opponent is a woman, yeah.”
And she basically goes “yeah no, it’s not because someone didn’t handle me with kid gloves and actually respected me as a player, it’s because you all smell like you’re rotting from the inside out”.
FoodMentalAlchemist
Back in Mexico we have this expression “Espanta Viejas” which is slang for “to scare women” that is to label traits and hobbies that stereotypically are unappealing to women (and any decent person): Ecchi manga, Ahegao Hoodies, punching the wall when you or your team loses, you know what I mean.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is probably on the top tier of “Espanta Viejas” hobbies because of this specific reason of smell and that players usually have low to none personal self care. My GF is cool with this because it’s one of the “me time” hobbies and I don’t drag her to the tournaments and for the same reason when I go to tournamets I go probably in my most lazy confortable clothes: Sweat pants, a geeky T-shirt and a baseball cap (of course after a nice shower and some cologne).
The second reason my GF is cool with me doing YGO is because she is aware of how “Espanta Viejas” this hobby is, so she is confident there is almost 0% chance I can cheat on her on those events.
Too bad that because of this, the game is unapealing to a lot of women (at least offline), because the game overall is entertaining and would benefit having a larger playerbase, but the ball is on our side (as a community) to be better in something that is supposed to be common sense as personal hygiene.
TerminalChillionaire
The ongoing yugioh player stench problem is the funniest thing on the planet.
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“It’s the shart of the cards!”-Yami Yugi probably
Well, that just stinks.
You activated my trap fart!
They need to have a professional sniffer for these events.
Wasn’t Yugioh the one that had to set an official rule that the players needed to bathe before coming to tournaments ?
I had an experience similar to this back when I played Magic: The Gathering. Place smelled like stale McDonald’s and body odor
I can relate. I used to go to Magic shops and you open the door and the smell just hits you. Luckily our local shop instituted a “if you smell we’ll ask you to leave and take a shower” policy
That’s pretty disgusting
Yu-Gi-*Oh-My-God*
I used to work in a comic & card shop and absolutely none of the staff (myself included) wanted to work on days we had a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. It was guaranteed to smell like a big bag of hot dogshit and you were lucky if that’s ALL that you had to deal with.
We had to kick multiple people out of the store at one event for trying to steal product, had to break up fights between grown ass men because one touched their cards. One guy was playing a match, shit himself before the match was through, finished the game, then threw his shitty undies in the garbage and just left.
Absolutely the worst CCG group to deal with as an employee
I’ve experienced this often at tabletop game shops, whenever they have gaming events. It smells like B.O. mixed with cornchips. I have a game shop a couple of blocks away from me that regularly holds D&D game nights. I’d like to participate, but don’t because of the smell.
Yu-Gi-Ew
just throw in a smash tournament and you have a toxic spillage in human form
It’s time to sh- sh- sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shower!
I worked at a LGS for a year. Yu-Gi-Oh players smell awful. It’s not even a prejudice if it is proven true again and again and again.
“Smell causes players to flee” the article talks about ONE person who left because of the smell, and was the only person involved who even mentioned it…
Not trying to say that nerds don’t have hygiene issues, but this is just one tweet blown out of proportion…
This may be a dumb question but why is it so common that these people don’t take showers ?
>Yu-Gi-Oh Event ***in Japan*** Draws Debate After Its Smell Causes Players to Flee
What is with card players and hygiene?
People who write headlines like this deserve to be flogged. This article describes an incident in which *one* player was bummed that some cool chick he met left unexpectedly, whined about it on social media, and then that *one* cool chick happened to see his post and revealed that she left because there was a bad smell.
“Screw the rules, I have money. Now to use it to get these nerds deodorant”
Magic the Gathering and Yugioh are two sides of the same coin with one being the smelly unhygenic side of the coin and the other side of the coin unable to be within 100 meters of public spaces or spaces where children may be present.
What’s funny about Yugioh is that Konami has acknowledge this hygiene thing to be such a problem that not only is a hygiene rule included in standard competition rule sets, Konami has released multiple lines of hygeine products as yugioh merch. We are talking shampoo, shower gels, conditioners, etc. Konami have invested entire campaigns and millions of Dollars to try and get yugioh players to wash themselves.
I went to MtG tournaments in high school and college and I’d estimate at least half of the people there showered once a week or less. One guy showed up shirtless with cut off jogging pants on, saying he sweats when he competes and didn’t want to get too wet. Ok – then it’s fine to drip/sweat on the carpet and chairs everyone else uses? Half of the players smelled like beef sticks and old orange juice, the other half were functional adults who could at least realize that some decorum was required.
It’s reasons like this why I don’t associate with the yugioh community and I happily enjoy playing legacy of the duelist and collecting cards IRL by myself.
I remember when I was a kid and went to my first Yu-Gi-Oh tourney. It smelled so fuckin bad.
My dad said “oh my lord, yeah you’re going to have to do this alone.” And literally noped the fuck out. Saying nope, nope, nope on the way out. I was like 12.
$800 worth of cards in your deck? Absolutely.
$200 plane ticket to get to the event? Sure.
$2 stick of deodorant? Fuck that shit.
I kind of want to go to one of these smelly events because the stories and the way it’s explained makes me think people are just over-exaggerating
It’s mentioned in the article but it’s pretty sad that this is enough of an issue at Yugioh tournaments that the official tournament rules have a section stating that if you are dirty of smell bad you can be penalised or even disqualified if you refuse to fix the issue.
I used to be a DCI judge for Wizards of the Coast in the early 2000s, the amount of stank the gaming cafe had to deal with on Friday Night Magic and release days was intense. I think the shop even banned one guy because of how bad he smelled
I love how the guy goes
“I thought, I hope people don’t come to hate Yu-Gi-Oh. If you’re a man, please be kind to women. It might sound bad to say I went easy on you, but yeah. If I’m up against a dude, I’ll beat him to a pulp no matter his level. When the opponent is a woman, yeah.”
And she basically goes “yeah no, it’s not because someone didn’t handle me with kid gloves and actually respected me as a player, it’s because you all smell like you’re rotting from the inside out”.
Back in Mexico we have this expression “Espanta Viejas” which is slang for “to scare women” that is to label traits and hobbies that stereotypically are unappealing to women (and any decent person): Ecchi manga, Ahegao Hoodies, punching the wall when you or your team loses, you know what I mean.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is probably on the top tier of “Espanta Viejas” hobbies because of this specific reason of smell and that players usually have low to none personal self care. My GF is cool with this because it’s one of the “me time” hobbies and I don’t drag her to the tournaments and for the same reason when I go to tournamets I go probably in my most lazy confortable clothes: Sweat pants, a geeky T-shirt and a baseball cap (of course after a nice shower and some cologne).
The second reason my GF is cool with me doing YGO is because she is aware of how “Espanta Viejas” this hobby is, so she is confident there is almost 0% chance I can cheat on her on those events.
Too bad that because of this, the game is unapealing to a lot of women (at least offline), because the game overall is entertaining and would benefit having a larger playerbase, but the ball is on our side (as a community) to be better in something that is supposed to be common sense as personal hygiene.
The ongoing yugioh player stench problem is the funniest thing on the planet.