Most Wanted : The Story of The Biggest And Most Notorious Cheater In Yugioh History - Roy St. Clair

Holy shit. I did not expect the YouTube algorithm to hit me with a video about an old friend. Not to mention my own name being mentioned lol This was a trip. I had kind of blocked all this from my memory tbh. Probably because it was fucking traumatic. I used to playtest a lot with Roy for a stretch ('04-'05), and we traveled to a handful of regionals together for both YGO and VS. While he definitely was incapable of handling losing (I sometimes caught him cheating at, say, poker with no money on the line), he also absolutely had legitimately impressive deckbuilding and game skills. He was always WAY quicker than me at seeing combos and strategic opportunities that the new sets presented, and I'd like to think I was OK for a stretch there (I probably wasn't, at least not at VS). I learned a lot from him in the couple of years we hung out together. His reputation for getting reported for shenanigans definitely seemed like it was starting to precede him towards the end of my time in the games. That instance in question sucked because while I am a bit of a pushover, and maybe loyal to a fault, I was never a cheater. My shitty track record could speak to that. I was pissed because I did not want or need Roy's help there. I was doing well in a major event all by myself for the first fucking time in my VS career, and it was taken away because of some shit I couldn't control. But I do think he was trying to help me. For him, he was just being a good friend. It is what it is. I kind of dropped out of the community after all that. I didn't have passion for it anymore, I felt (still do) like it was all handled horrifically by the judges present, I was headed to college, and I also felt really guilty about Roy's situation, even though in hindsight I didn't actually do anything wrong. He was a force of personality, for damn sure. He had me very convinced I had fucked him over. Regardless, some of these comments are pretty foul. But that's YouTube for you, I guess. R.I.P. Roy. Fell out of touch a long time ago, but I'm glad to see you're still being talked about, big guy. <3

He didn’t cheat, he just activated his Destiny Draw skill

I love how a guy who literally said "Who cares if I cheat, all the pros do it" wasn't outright banned from the game at that point.

"[...] passed away 3 years ago." "[...] Roy if you ever see this video, I hope I told your story well." Looks like somone believes that Roy even cheated death

Remember back in the day when Kaiba would normal summon 3x Blue Eyes without tributes and no one batted and eye. Now days you try that and kids run for the judge like Randal runs to Miss Finster

My friend used to be his roommate back in college. Said Roy cheated a ton even when they would play test and my friend hated it, made testing against him interesting to say the least. My other friend also used to buy cards off of Roy when he was drunk so Roy would wake up from a blackout wondering where half his binder went.

I knew Roy! He used to come to my locals. I remember beating his frog monarch deck once and he was LIVID. He was a very highly skilled player. I never saw him cheat but he definitely lied and rule sharked a ton. I remember nationals 2009 and how he would ask his opponents every to announce entering to and leaving every single phase or he would shark them, as they played cards without leaving a phase, getting Roy to call a judge and roll back. I lost to Billy Brake that year.. Is he really dead? Thought I heard something about that a while ago.

If you aint cheating, you aint trying - Eddie Guerrero

The nostalgia hits hard with these early 2000s decks.

Death: "Hello Roy, I've come to claim your soul." Roy: "I've got an idea, howabout we play a game for it?" Death: "Nice try but I've seen your record."

He didn't cheat, he believed in the heart of the cards!

"Roy passed away three years ago..." Later "Roy, if you ever see this video...."

Roy Sinclair even sounds like the dub name of a character who cheats at duel monsters while playing against the protagonists.

The more cheaters get used to cheating the more careless they become in their cheating, that's how they get caught.

Friends: "Roy didn't cheat, it's all a conspiracy because they hate him" Roy: "Yeah I cheated and I'm not sorry"

It is pretty common to think that players that consistently top are good. It is quite the opposite. Yugioh is a game with extremely high levels of variance. Consistency in a game of high variance is almost always cheating. It is why in other card games with online sim tournaments where drawing and card effects are coded in where cheating is near impossible, you see very few player always topping. Yugioh is a fun game, but Roy's comment about all of the top players cheating is unfortunately 100% true.

Random duel where Roy duped girl into continuing play after she won: Judge: So who's winning? Girl: I already won. This game is just for fun. Roy: I have no clue what she's talking about. I'm in the lead. Girl: evolves into pikachu-face

"Roy, if you ever see this video, i hope i told your story well" bruh, how is he supposed to see it if hes dead?

Youtube algorithm: How about yugioh? Me(absolutely don't care about yugioh): Yeah I'll watch that!

Even if he had skill, he was a compulsive liar and didn’t deserve any of his wins. It’s weird how people take this path when you do have some skill