Team Blaze leaves Albany, NY around 7:00 a.m. to get to Milford Mass.
Its myself, my son Nick, Ben and Devon Mancini, Adam Smith, Dale
Russell, and Tim Colosi. We arrive at T.J.'s around 10:00 a.m. and he
opens the door for all the Pokemon players. There was also a Magic
large scale tournament there later in the day. Tournamnet registration
runs smoothly and we are all shortly on our way around 11:30 start
time. There was a good turnout of around 44 participants. The
tournament was run by Brian (BJJ), and Marril2K, who both did a great
job!!
On to the decklist:
Evaporator
Basically more and more trainers are being run now in Modified. More
than ever now since Slowking is banned. What does that mean? Less and
less energies are being played. So what do I do? Make a deck to drain
those special energy cards that more and more decks are using. For
example Kingdra
decks run very little energies with Recycle, Light Dragonite with Boost
Energy, Jumpluff with Rainbow, you get the picture. Also against Fire
decks Wartortle just rocks. Better band that Cargo cause on 2nd turn
Wartortle's Giant Wave is doing 80 to it. Attach recycle, rinse then
repeat. The Rogues
of course are for 1st turn k.o.'s and of course to beat down the Buzz's.
Pokemon- 18
4- Exp Squirtle
3- Exp. Wartortle
3- Jet Stream Blastoise
3- NG Cleffa
3- Tyrouge
1- Magby
1- Elekid (saved me so many times against Lilly Pad Mew and good tech
against other Water)
Trainers- 24
4- Profesor Elm
4- Energy Removal 2(Even though it's a flip, combined with Jet Stream
just drain those special energies and energy)
3- Pokemon Trader
3- Oak's Research
3- Double Gust
2- Focus Band
2- Gold Berry
1- Broken Ground Gym
1- Pokemon Tower(Remove those Recycle off of Kingdras)
1- Town Volunteers
Energy- 18
15 Water
3 Recycle
Round 1 vs. Dane Olson
Dane was playing a Noc-Loc deck with Dark Blastoise. I had Dane if I
could only flip heads on baby power. It was Cleffa vs. Cleffa with me
benching a Squirtle. I attach a Water to Squirtle and pass. He cant
Eeeeeek and then I evolve to Wartortle and attach an energy and flip
tails for Giant Wave. This happens for 2 more turns and finally he gets
basics and builds up. Its Removal Blastoise vs Dark Blastoise.
Basically between my Elekid and Removal Blastoise I easily take care of
him taking all 6 prizes to none.
1-0 3pts.
Round 2 vs. Adam Smith
Adam is on Team Blaze and he borrowed my Entei/Cargo deck for Super
BattleZone. Adam got a 2nd turn Cargo going with 4 energies. He could
not flip through baby power and I built up Wartortle by Turn 3. He
flips tails on his Focus Band. He has already built another Cargo and
that Cargo takes out my Wartortle. All I had left was babies and Cargo
easily takes them.
1-1 3pts.
Round 3 vs. Tim Colose
Paired up against another member of Team Blaze. Tim was playing his
Aquapolis Tyranitar with the 3 attacks and he uses Hitmonchan for
support. I built a 3rd turn Blastoise. He went to trade for his lone
Buzz but that was in his prizes. My Blastoise took down his Larvitars
and babies and I won by benching him.
2-1 6pts.
Round 4 vs. Jay S.
Jay was playing a Light Arcanine and Tyranitar deck. I go 1st and bench
a Squirtle nad make Cleffa active. He has a lone Growlithe. I attach
water to Squirtle and pass. He goes and attaches a Fire to Growlithe.
I trade for Wartortle and attach a 2nd Water and Giant Wave for the win.
3-1 9pts.
Round 5 vs. Barbara Geary
Barbara is another old ttime Pokemon player. I know her from past
events dating all the way back to the original Pokemon Mall Tours.
Today she was playing a Typhlosion Recharge with Magcargo and Entei.
She has pretty much torn up everyone she has played so far and told me
that it was my deck that
she feared most. I had a 2nd turn Wartortle built up and took out her
Cargo but she had babies on the bench. For like 6 turns straight I cant
flip heads to take out her babies. I now have a Blastoise with a Focus
Band attached.
And she has a Typhlosion with 3 energy, a Entei with 2 energy and no
energy on her Cargo. I double gust the Phlosion and kill it. She plays
another Entei and Howls to get Cargo built up. I flip tails for
Blastoise. We end up taking prizes back and forth. She plays a Pokemon
Cneter and clears off
damage from her Cargo that I was ready to kill. She then Ballon Berries
it back to the bench. Finally I run out of Blastoise's and time is
called and she wins on prizes. Also a big hindrance was her Weakness
Guard she kept on playing on her Fire Pokes.
3-2 9pts.
Round 6 vs. Bill Gerry
Bill was playing a Exp. Alakazam. Unfortunately all he had was a CLeffa
vs.my Rogue. He goes 1st and plays 3 Bills and 1 Bill's Teleporter and
still no
basics. He then Eeeeeks and still no basics. I end up Rogueing him on
2nd turn.
4-2 12pts.
Round 7 vs. Ben Mancini
Im going up against a 3rd member of Team Blaze. Basically this one will
decide who willl make it into Top 8. Ben started strong going 4-0 but
loses his last 2. He is playing Steelix with Buzz for backup with
Umbreon also. He starts with a Buzz vs my Rogue. He goes 1st and
paralyzes Rogue with
Thundershock. I bench a Squirtle and another Rogue. I attach a Water
to Squirtle and see if my plan works. It does he goes for the bait! He
double Gusts the Sguirtle attaches a Rainbow to Buzz and Thunderpunches
it for the prize. Buzz now has 20 damage on it. I promote Rogue and
Smash Punch for
the win.
5-2 15pts.
Top 8 is announced and here is the list with winning decks:
1. Devon Mancini 18 pts Victrebell/Murkrow
2. Jared Hawkins 18 pts Kingdra
3. Barbara Geary 17pts Big Fire
4. Bob Callahan 16 pts Boost Dragon
5. ME 15 pts. Blastoise
6. Jim Snow 14 pts. Dark Gengar
7. Adam Smith 13 pts. Cargo/Entei
8. Kevin Berghorn 13 pts. Kingdra/Steelix and I have to mention #9
9. Mike Pianka aka. Dark Zapdos 13pts Exp.Poliwrath
Mike missed making the Top 8 by .2 pts. Bummer man.
My 1st match was against Bob Callahan. Usually it is our 2 kids that
are in the finals, Alayana vs. Nick but both bombed out today because of
the mix play. Anyhow this was the match up I was waiting for. I wanted
to remove his Boost Energies all day long. He also played Steelix with
Onix Rage. I had a built up Blastoise by turn 4. He had an Active
Steelix with1 Metal and 2 Fighting and 100 damage on it. He attaches a
Memory Berry and obilterates my Blastoise. All I have are babies left.
I do takeout the Steelix with Rogue but then his Boost Dragon takes the
rest of my Babies and a Squirtle.
So Bob ends up winning the tournament beating Devon with his Victrebell
and
then Bob goes on to defeat Jared's Kingdra's deck. Congrats Bob.
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