Welcome to COSSy!

Dear tournament organizer,

Welcome to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! Organized Play, and to COSSy! We are glad that you chose to run
official and rated Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments, and we are certain that your players will appreciate it as
well. By running official tournaments, you are granting them the opportunity to earn points that
count towards their rating, so that they can measure themselves against other players listed in the
worldwide rankings list.

What is COSSy?
COSSy (“Konami Card Game Official Store Support System”) is Konami’s tool that is necessary to
register, run, and report official tournaments. It is a pure online application. It is meant to be used
live at your tournament venue. If your tournament venue doesn’t have internet access, COSSy can
still be used to report event results after the event took place.

If you have questions or feedback about COSSy, please contact the distributor responsible for your
area.

Getting started
You can log in to COSSy using the following link: https://www.cossy.konami.net/COC_T/Index.do

Please note that the link starts with “https” instead of the more common “http”.

After choosing your country of residence, you will be prompted to enter your store ID and password.
Your store ID is a 6-digit number provided to you by Konami. When entering it, enter all six digits,
even if the first one is a “0”. Your password was also provided to you by Konami. It should be 10
characters long. When entering it, keep in mind that the login screen is case-sensitive.

When you log in to COSSy, you will see the following screen:
This screen shows a list of all tournaments you have registered so far.

From here, you can register new tournaments, edit / view details of already-registered tournaments,
or open a tournament you want to run. You can also see a list of news provided by Konami’s TCG
Division.

What you see on this screen:

This button is used to register a new event. For more details, refer to the
NEW
appropriate section below.
LOGOUT This button is used to leave the COSSy application
This button lets you browse through all events you registered so far, using
SEARCH
the search parameters to its left.

This button is used to cancel a tournament (for example, because its event
CANCEL
date moved). For more details, refer to the appropriate section below.
This displays the official registry number of a tournament. When a
tournament is approved, its number will be displayed in the format “EXX-
“Event No.”
YYYYYY”. (XX is the current calendar year and YYYYYY a serial number)
Before a tournament is approved, this field displays only a serial number.
“Event Date / Time” This shows the scheduled date and time of the event.
 Hitting the “download” link will open a match report form. You can use the
form to run your tournament in venues without COSSy access. For more
“Report Form Print” details on event reporting, refer to the appropriate section below.
Please note that this form shouldn’t be used to report tournaments via fax,
except in rae and unusual circumstances.
Hitting the “yes” / “no” in this column will open the player registration
“Randomize?” screen. “Yes” is displayed if player registration is already complete, “no” if it
isn’t.
This displays if results for this tournament have already been entered.
Hitting the “yes” / “no” in this column will open the results entry screen.
“Enter results”
“Yes” is displayed if results entry is complete, “no” if it isn’t. The column will
be empty if player entry isn’t completed yet.
Hitting the “yes” / “no” in this column will allow you to change the results
“Revise Results” that have been entered previously, and/or to manually enter the results for
tournaments run without COSSy.
This displays if the tournament results have been processed by Konami and
“Official?”
are included in the worldwide ratings and rankings.
This displays the tournament’s game system. Currently, “Yu-Gi-Oh!” is the
“Card Game”
only game system available.

Registering a tournament
Before you can run an official tournament, you first have to register it. All tournament requests are
reviewed by Konami officials before they are approved.

Because approval by Konami needs some lead time, please schedule your events at least three days
in advance!

To register a new event, use the following steps:

- On COSSy’s start screen, click the “new” button in the top-left corner.
- The following screen will appear:
- Choose “Event Classification”. Of the two options given, “Expert” means that everyone will
be able to participate in your event. If you want to allow only players up to a given age,
choose “Junior”.
Note that Junior tournaments are a good way to introduce younger players to a tournament
environment, without the often threatening presence of experienced, “cut-throat”
tournament veterans. You can freely choose the age limit for a Junior event, but please make
sure to announce this age limit in advance so that every player can plan his attendance
accordingly.
- Choose “tournament type”. Here, “Tournament” means single-elimination, where the loser
of each match will automatically be dropped from the event. “Swiss Draw” will enable every
player to participate in all rounds of the event, playing against a player with a roughly equal
record each round.
Note that if you want to run a Swiss-style tournament with a Top X playoff, you will need to
register two separate tournaments, one for each portion.
- Choose “Event Date and Start Time”. You can either enter the date directly, in DD/MM/YYYY
format, or use the calendar option to choose the event date.
- Ignore the line “Event type”. All options you can choose here are used only in Japan and are
of no relevance for European events.
 - Likewise, “No. of Kits” should always be left at “0”.
- Enter how many players you expect for this event. If more than this expected number of
players show up, they can participate nonetheless.
- Enter a contact person for the event
- If the tournament takes place in a venue other than your registered store, please enter that
venue’s information in the fields at the bottom of the screen. If the tournament takes place
in your store, these fields can be left empty.
- Hit “Save”. The registration screen will close and you will return to COSSy’s start screen.
Hitting “Back” will bring you back to COSSy’s start screen without saving the information you
entered.

Changing event details

You can change the entered details for an event until it has been approved by Konami. To do so, click
on the event’s number on COSSy’s start screen, change the information and hit “Save”.

If an event has been approved already, you can’t change its details any more. You can, however,
cancel the event and register a new one with the corrected data.

Cancelling an event
If it turns out that an event can’t be run (for example, because too few players showed up or because
the event venue won’t be available on the scheduled date), you need to cancel said event.

If the event hasn’t been approved yet, you can cancel it by clicking on the event’s number on COSSy’s
start screen and hitting “delete” on the bottom of that screen. This will remove the tournament
entirely.

If the event has been approved already, you can cancel it by clicking the appropriate ”CANCEL”
button on COSSy’s start screen. You will be prompted to enter a reason for the cancellation.

If it turns out you cancelled the wrong event and you want to run it after all, you can cancel the
cancellation by hitting “REINSTATE”.

Running a tournament

Entering players
The first step of running an event is to register all players who want to participate. To do so, use
COSSy’s start screen and hit the “yes”/”no” in the “Randomize?” column of the appropriate
tournament. The following screen will appear:
- For each player, enter their COSSy ID into the “Card Game ID” field and hit “ENTRY”. Their
entry then appears in the entry list below. If that player has registered a user name already,
it will also appear there. You can delete players from that list at any time by using the
appropriate button (for example, if you mistyped a number and entered a wrong player).
Instead of entering each player’s ID manually, you can also use a barcode scanner to scan
players’ plastic cards.
- Once everyone has been enrolled, enter a number equal to or greater than the number of
participants into the “Maximum No. of Participants” and then hit the adjacent “Randomize”
button.
- If you have more participants than your venue has room for, you can enter a maximum
number of participants in the appropriate field before hitting “Randomize”. This will
randomly select that many participants from the enrolled players, with the ones not selected
being unable to participate. If, in that case, someone who was selected wants to withdraw to
let someone else play instead, use that player’s “withdraw” button.
 - If you have entered any new players in the event, you must enter the correct number of new
ID numbers before the program can continue to the next step. It is advisable to keep a
running tally, to prevent delays trying to locate which ones are the new ones.
- Once you have completed those steps, click “Confirm” and then “Back”, which will save the
enrollment and bring you back to COSSy’s start screen.

Create pairings and enter results

Next, you can create pairings for the first round. To do so, hit the “no” in that tournament’s “Enter
results” column. The following screen will appear:

- Here, you will see the pairings for the first round. Pairings for the first round are generated
randomly for the first round. For consecutive rounds, COSSy pairs played with roughly equal
number of match wins against each other.
For each pairing, the players’ COSSy IDs are shown, along with their username, if they
entered one. From this screen, you can print pairings and result slips by using the
corresponding buttons.
- Please note that the “RESET” button on top of that page (not visible on the above
screenshot) will reset the ENTIRE tournament back to round 1, with all results being
unrecoverably lost. Make sure to not use it accidentally!!
- When results start coming in, hit “Enter results”. Another screen will appear:

- There, choose “win/lose” for each pairing.

Note that this “win / lose” refers to the player listed on the left-hand side. If the player listed
on the right-hand side won the match, the result for this pairing is “lose”.
Also note that draws are not possible in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. Instead, certain procedures exist
to determine a winner if the match isn’t decided at the end of the round time. For more
information on those, please refer to the official Konami tournament guidelines.
- If a player wants to drop from the event, check the box adjacent to his ID, labelled “abort”.
- Once you have registered all results for one round, click “REGISTER” and return to the
previous screen. You’ll note that now, the winners of each match are displayed with a yellow
background.
- You can now use the “Create next round groups” to pair the next round, or “display ranking”
to see standings.
- Once you have completed the above steps for each round of your tournament, click the
“SUBMIT” button. This will report the tournament results to Konami and have them entered
 into the worldwide ratings and rankings. Thus, please make sure that the results are correct
before submitting them.
Note that hitting the adjacent “END TOURNAMENT” button will instead CANCEL your event –
make sure not to use this button accidentally!
- After you have submitted the results, you will be directed back to COSSy’s start screen.

Reporting a tournament / changing event results

If you ran the tournament with COSSy access on-site, you were able to report the results as described
above. If you didn’t have COSSy access on-site and thus ran the event using other means, you need
to manually enter all pairings and results before you can submit those.
Note that although COSSy offers a form to report your tournament results via fax, Konami doesn’t
accept fax forms except in circumstances where the method described below can’t be used.
To manually enter results, click on “Results Revision” on the tournament’s column. The following
screen will appear:

- Here, enter the number of participants and number of new ID registrations.

- Next, enter each pairing, with its round number and the COSSy IDs of both players. Again, the
left-hand field is for the winning player, and the right-hand field is for the losing player.
 Note that although there is an option to enter draws, these are not supported by the Yu-Gi-
Oh! TCG.
- You can ignore the “Judge’s ID” field.
- Once you are done entering all pairings, hit “SAVE”.

Note that you can also use this screen to change individual results after you have submitted them. To
do so, simply choose the appropriate match entry from the list on the bottom of the screen, edit it,
and hit “confirm”.