Xerun posted...
Ok so how did Joey v Marik work?
The whole concept of a "Shadow Game" is real, and pretty much 1 for 1 the same explanation that the dub gave. The Millennium Items have the power to create Shadow Games with various conditions, and the conditions of that duel were that the duelists' soul essentially took real damage when they lost life points.
Joey had just taken too much damage and couldn't stay conscious long enough to declare the winning attack. He wasn't "sent to the Shadow Realm," but as he lost the Shadow Game, he was drained of all his strength and was basically dead at that point.