The following table is a tally of all Top 4 finishes in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship main events, based on the total placement count of each region.

This ranking is ordered in a similar style as the Olympics – they are sorted by the amount of 1st-place finishes, followed by 2nd-place finishes, then 3rd-place finishes, and finally 4th-place finishes.

World Championship Tally

Rank Region 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total 1 Japan 8 3 5 1 17 2 Taiwan 2 2 1 5 3 Italy 1 2 2 2 7 4 Hong Kong 1 2 3 5 Panama 1 1 2 4 6 Singapore 1 1 1 3 7 Canada 1 1 2 Greece 1 1 2 9 Chile 1 1 10 United States 4 4 3 11 11 Australia 1 1 2 12 Mexico 1 1 13 Germany 2 2 14 Thailand 1 1 2 15 Poland 1 1 16 South Korea 3 3 17 Austria 1 1 United Kingdom 1 1

Before 2018, Japan was the only region to have won multiple World Championships. This changed in 2018 when Taiwan won their second World Championship, 5 years after their first World Championship victory in 2013.

Despite having the second most amount of final appearances, the United States has yet to win a World Championship. The United States has been in 4 World Championship finals – 2008, 2010, 2013, 2016. However, they were defeated twice by Japan, once by Panama and once by Taiwan.

Japan holds the record for the longest win streak of 3 consecutive years – winning the World Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017.

Hiyama Shunsuke became the very first and only two-time World Champion when he won the World Championship in 2015, 2016.

Galileo De Obaldia has made the most appearances at the World Championships, having earned his invitation to the World Championship in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019.

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