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| - The students, save for a select few are categorized as being the weakest Duelists among the dorms, having very weak decks and poor strategies which cause them to lose most of the time. In some cases students from this dorm have never won a Duel at all and drop out. Slifer Red has the worst dorm and the least to no privileges out of the three dorms. Upon seeing it for the first time, Syrus Truesdale referred to it as "an outhouse with a deck". Their welcoming feast was a small tray of rice, sardines and sauces held in a small dining hall. Chazz Princeton has made the interior of the dorm more luxiorious for the students when he moved in. The state of the dorm is likely designed as incentive for residents to either try advancing to a higher dorm and acquire a better standard of living or leaving the school. The head of the Slifer Red Dorm, in the anime, was previously Professor Lyman Banner. After Banner (as Amnael, the 7th Shadow Rider) lost a Duel to Jaden Yuki his body was destroyed but his cat, Pharaoh, caught Banner's spirit in his mouth to stop him from leaving. In the manga the head of the Slifer Red Dorm is Midori Hibiki. In the beginning of the anime Dr. Crowler expressed a great disdain for the students in this dorm, going as far as to set up stakeouts and sabotaging Duels to find any opportunity to expel Slifer students. The students in Obelisk Blue shared his dislike and usually exploited the Slifers' low ranks by calling them "drop-out boys" (In the dub this is replaced by terms such as "Slifer Slacker", "Slifer Slime", or "Slifer Scum"). However, as time continued, students from all dorms began flocking to Slifer Red. Examples include Alexis Rhodes, Tyranno Hassleberry, Syrus Truesdale and Bastion Misawa. However, by the end of the series, the only student officially enrolled in Slifer Red appears to be Jaden Yuki and has graduated as a Slifer Red student and went on a journey.
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