{"id":772717,"date":"2026-07-01T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:08:09","slug":"card-shop-shuts-down-yu-gi-oh-tournaments-because-of-smelly-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772717\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Shop Shuts Down Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Because of Smelly Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Oregon card shop has halted its Yu-Gi-Oh<\/a> tournaments for a week after receiving multiple complaints and bad reviews due to smelly players.<\/p>\n

Chronos Games & Gifts<\/a>, an independently-owned game store in Beaverton, Oregon, is going viral for taking a hard stance against poor hygiene.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted in its public Discord channel, the shop confirmed that it is suspending its Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for a week, placing the blame on stinky duellists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had issues with people mistreating the restrooms and multiple bad reviews because of poor hygiene. As a reminder, we encourage players to follow Konami guidelines and report anyone who does not,\u201d its statement reads.<\/p>\n

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Konami famously implemented official tournament rules<\/a> specifically targeting player hygiene in 2019, saying that all persons attending a tournament \u2014 not just players \u2014 must be \u201cclean and wear clean clothing,\u201d or risk being \u201cpenalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are expected to be clean when you enter a tournament,\u201d the official Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament Guide<\/a> says. \u201cNeglecting to wash or put on clean clothes contributes to an unpleasant atmosphere at the event, as the tournament can be crowded and the day can be long.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersons who neglect self-care to the point that they are negatively impacting the tournament may be asked to correct the issue to continue in the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At the time, this policy was welcomed among players, and Chronos Games & Gifts is similarly receiving praise from local attendees for keeping its venue stench-free.<\/p>\n

They aren’t the only organization that’s done this; in 2025, the Nebraska Pokemon Organized Play Facebook page<\/a> published a statement reminding players to keep themselves clean, as laid out in the official Play! Pokemon Tournament Rules Handbook<\/a>, which also includes a section detailing requirements for player hygiene.<\/p>\n

“Individuals are also required to maintain a socially acceptable level of hygiene during the event,” the Handbook says. “Depending on the attire or level of hygiene, the Tournament Organizer may allow for a tournament participant to change or update their personal hygiene and attire and return to the venue. <\/p>\n

“If a participant refuses to comply with tournament staff\u2019s requests, this is grounds for removal from the tournament and venue, and the participant must relinquish their badge to tournament staff.”<\/p>\n

Daniel Knighton, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oregon card shop has halted its Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments for a week after receiving multiple complaints and bad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-772717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}