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About us Duel Academy is a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan site. It is a forum based on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime's Duel Academy. We don't make money from Yu-Gi-Oh!. Our goal is to give duelists around the world better online dueling experience with much more fun. Joining our site your dueling will have a purpose. You will learn more about Yu-Gi-Oh!, make new friends, compete with the best and on top of all, feel like you are in real Duel Academy. We offer tournaments, special events, many kinds of dueling challenges, great article library, card and deck discussions, professional help and much more, all well themed and adapted to our site. Brief History Duel Academy is the first online Yu-Gi-Oh! Academy which was mainly created for the former BC (Battle City)/ KC (KaibaCorp) community back in 2008. KC was the host for KCVDS (Kaiba Corp Virtual Dueling System), the first free online dueling system with graphics to match with Yu-Gi-Oh! Online. Since then, our site changed a lot. We expanded our horizons much wider as well as our community and of course we have many new things to offer. Moving with time is very important and despite our Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime base, we follow latest Yu-Gi-Oh! standards such as Dueling Network online dueling system as well as the new YGOPro. Rules and Groups Before you start to enjoy our site, it is very important to read the RULES. By registering, you accept following those rules and thus, for any violation you will take all responsibility. After you understood our terms of service, you can proceed to understanding how our forum groups operate. All needed information about member groups of Duel Academy can be found HERE.
Introducing Yourself We want to know about you, so make sure that your first post and topic will be an introduction in THIS section. Then our members will welcome you and that will be your official start in DA. Dorm System As
you have noticed your rank is red, Slifer Red. We have 3 dorms:
Slifer Red, Ra Yellow and Obelisk Blue. For us, you are valuable as
much as you show us in here, what you are outside, it does not
concern us. This means, you start as Slifer Red and work your way up
to Obelisk Blue. There is also Abandoned Dark Dorm which is highest.
This dorm is reserved only for the best, the ones with many
achievements here in DA. Ranking up to higher dorm can be done by two
ways. First one is our DORM TESTING SYSTEM. Second way is to
participate in tournaments and events which give ranking up as a
reward. Posting This place is a forum which means all we do here, we do it with posting things in correct sections. While you wait for replies in your Introduction topic, check all sections in our forum so that when you post, you do it in right place. We are looking for activity from our members, so would like for everyone to be active and post in topics where they feel they can give an answer, or just discuss things. There are a lot of ways to raise your post count, the easiest is OFF-TOPIC section. It's fun, you can post and discuss any topic you want, as long the thread doesn't contain any inappropriate material. You can also welcome new members into our academy every time someone posts an introduction. However, avoid posting in old topics which are not active anymore, that would be considered as spam and can get you in trouble. If you need technical help about posting and understanding forum system in general, visit FAQ.
Duel Points Duel Points (DP) are our virtual money that we use in DA for various things. When you register, you start with 100DP. DP gives you ability to purchase things from Shops. Shops are threads where you order available items for sale that you are interested in. Those can be some special decks you want to be made for you, graphical art like banners, signatures, avatars or any kind available, it can be some item from our official DA SHOP, or any other item that some custom shop offers. DA Shop is our main shop and it gives items you can't purchase in other shops. More important it gives ability to purchase your own shop, so you can sell things too and earn DPs that way. To learn more about Shops see THIS section. Another way to earn DPs are BATTLE ARENA and SHADOW ARENA. In Battle Arena you challenge any member to a single duel or match. For each single duel win you gain 30DP and loser does not lose any DP (Example: A 2-1 B match. A gets 60DP and B gets 30DP). In Shadow Arena both duelists bet same amount of their DPs and winner takes them all. Duelists can specify the rules since their own DP is waged. For more information visit those sections and their rules too. There are special occasions like tournaments or other events which give certain amount of DP as a price too. These give usually high amount of DP and you should be in touch when something like that is organized to participate. Also you can visit our Entertainment Center section to get in touch with LOTTERY and QUIZ. With Lottery you can test your luck and possibly win a good amount of DP. Quiz also ensures you DP reward but it depends more on knowledge than luck. Dueling Systems Dueling Systems are online programs on which we play YGO. DA is not limited to one dueling system. We use all systems available, mostly those which are free. Most popular are DN (Dueling Network), KCVDS (Kaiba Corp Virtual Dueling System), YVD (Yu-Gi-Oh! Virtual Desktop), JP (J_Project), DMG (Duel Monsters Genesis) and YGOPro (still in development phase). You can Google all of these systems for more information. System which is best to use is DUELING NETWORK. Everyone uses it and we use it as our main dueling system too. If you don't have account register there and you can play immediately. For more information look for their support. When you duel for something in DA, you duel in DN and post/confirm your results in DA, that is how things work. Communication Communication between our members is one of the important things as well. Besides posting in the forum and Private Messaging, Duel Academy uses few more ways for communication. DA Chat is present in every forum page and it is located down in the right corner of your screen. For group chats most members use that way of communication and its the easiest to find opponent in DA. All you need to do is click on it and it will expand. Then you have to click “Login” link and you're in. There is also an Options tab where you can modify width, toggle sound and change sound beeps. Besides DA Chat, we use DN Private Messaging system. Each member has 'DN Name' in their profile, so if you want to communicate with certain member, you can always find him/her by DN Name in DN. Now you are equipped and ready to communicate with other DA members. Check this out After you know how our site works, there are few features you should check out! We already mentioned LOTTERY and QUIZ. Check them out and possibly win Duel Points. The reason why our members are so active in Arenas is the LEAGUE. Can you make it to the top? Many duelists try to be ranked 1st at the end of Season because the winner gets immediately rank up to Obelisk Blue Dorm! Its definitely worth the effort. If you want to give your duels even more fun, you can check our SURVIVAL DUELS event. Try to make a winning streak and boost your Bio-Band to maximum in order to become our Master of Survival. If that is not enough for you, maybe you are interested in becoming our next SUPREME KING! Of course do not miss our TOURNAMENTS section to get in touch with ongoing tourneys. That is also a good way to rank up or at least get qualified for rank up exam! Every year we host our most valuable tournament DA YCS. The winner of YCS gets immediately into Abandoned Dark Dorm. The fun does not stop there. You love Role Playing Games? And you love Yu-Gi-Oh? Then take a tour in our ROLE PLAYING GAMES section especially WAR OF THE NUMBERS.
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