Well Dad was really nice and drove me two hours to Orlando to go to the SBZ so first I give props to him. Two props, infact ;x. We got up at 4:45 and left at about 5:38. I slept the whole way and we got there just as the sun was coming up, around 7:38. We found Coliseum of Comics and it wasn't open yet so we ate at Denny's. Why am I bothering you with this stuff lets get back to the pokémon part: When we got back to the Coliseum, I met Renee and Doug and a couple of other tourneygoers waiting outside the store for opening time. I managed to get two EX Chikoritas and an EX Bayleef free from Tim Santo, I gave him some Horsea and Breeder Field to help his Kingdra deck. I also still had Time Capsules in my deck and needed some Town Volunteers. I managed to get one for a stack of commons and traded away my other time capsule for a Volunteers. Now I had finally completed the deck, which is as follows:

"wild Growth"

17 Pokémon
4 Chikorita EX(50HP)
2BayleefEX
1BayleefN1
2 MeganiumN1
2MeganiumEXH
1UnownM
1Tyrogue
4Cleffa

30 Trainers
4 Focus Band
4Double Gust
3Switch
2 Pokémon Breeder
2 Town Volunteers
1 Energy Stadium
1 Pokémon Trader
2 Pokémon Fan Club
3 Breeder Fields
4 Copycat
4 Elm

13 NRG(all of them reverse holo, why? Because it's pretty)
12 Grass
1 Recycle

The strategy was to get out all the meganiums and swarm them, with EX meg attacking and healing and N1 Meg doubling grass nrg and Unown M for the scizors I thought would be all over the place(turns out noone played any metal at all=/). For the most of my games, once I got out both types of meganium, if I didn't screw up, I'd win. And half the deck is trainers yes I know however it gives the deck incredible speed which is vital. Okay you are all probably tired of this babbling now lets get on to the matches right?
Round 1: Vs. Bob Hamblin He played a Dark Vaporeon/Houndoom deck. I rogued his AQhoundour right after it Feint attacked my banded damaged Rogue(and I flipped heads). He DG'ed a Chikorita with 1 NRG so he could get an Eeeeeeek in and next turn I Breedered the harmless looking Chiko into a fully powered N1Meganium and KO'ed Cleffa. He had benched an Eevee and had some babies out. I double gusted Eevee to KO, then he played a Mew, which I smash punched then chikorita'ed. From then on it was just baby KO's.
Record: 1-0-0
Round2: Vs. Dakota
He started out with Suicune and I got 2 Cleffa and a Chikorita and I also had a Bayleef in hand. After I evolved I Elmed, played rogue and did 30 to Suicune, then he ER2'ed my bayleef I was powering up, but thankfully it still had one nrg on it. I played another grass and KO'ed the suicune. He promoted rogue and kept smash punching. I powered the bayleef with 4 NRG and evolved it to EX Meganium, double gusted Horsea and KO. He failed an ER2 and kept getting heads for smash punch, I banded the meganium and benched it, but then he plays elekid, double gust and flips heads for the KO. Then I got out Neo1 Meganiun to KO Cleffa and he later powered up a AQ water type Kingdra to attack, but I put him to sleep and he kept using Pokémon Center and Gold Berry to heal, but he soon ran out of healing and I KO'ed that. I KO'ed the rest of his babies for the win.
Record:2-0-0
Round3: Vs. Omar
I managed to set up Meganiums fast enough to KO his phanphys before they could present a threat, then he sputtered with Magby and stalled and annoyed me a lot. After I KO'ed magby he played Pichu but I KO'ed that and the rest of his babies for the win.
Record: 3-0-0
Round4: Vs. Florienzio
This was the match I've been dreading. He played cargo and everyone assured me that he was very good. The game was really tough. I forgot to take notes, but I remember I had set up Meganiums very fast and he KO'ed two of them, but I set up and banded another and used Tyrogue to assist a KO or two. He had two fully powered Magcargos then he played a Neo1 Magmar, which I DG'ed up and attacked for 40 and sleep. I had both meganiums powered up by then. He DG'ed back and KO'ed my benched EX meganium with his Magcargo. The next turn I banded my remaining N1Meganium and attacked his Magcargo. His gold berry went off and he flipped heads for sleep and he attacked me, which I flipped heads for Band. I attacked him next turn and he flipped tails for sleep, and next turn I KO'ed him to draw the last prize to win!
Record4-0-0 Good game, Florienzio
Before Round 5 they had a raffle and gave out a lot of prizes. Matt won 4 things and gave away 3 of his prizes. He gave me a deck box. Thanks!
Anyways:
Round5: Vs. Stephen Silvestro
He got out an EX T-tar and 3 darks on it did 80 damage to my N1 Meganium, I retreated to send up Rogue and did 60 to him, Ttar had 10 HP left due to the 40 Meganium damage I did plus the 60 and 10 for a Rainbow NRG. I KO'ed his T-tar with a Chikorita and played Bayleef next turn, and evolved it into a meganium the following turn. T-tar and Meganium exchanged blows and eventually Meganium got KO'ed and so did 2 benched babies simultaneously.
Record: 4-1-0
Round 6: Vs. Vijay
He also played Magcargo however this game I was not so lucky. He got a fast set up and I simply did not. He KO'ed my Chikoritas then finished off my Babies for the rest of his prizes.
Record: 4-2-0
Round7: Vs. Chris Dressler
After the two losses, I was bumped into 7th place. If I lost this one I would not get into the top 8. So I had to win. He played an EX Plume and AQAriados combo deck. In the beginning I got my evolutions out fast because the cards were already in my hand, however I could not get any card drawing or energy cards. He got out a bunch of basics and evolved a Gloom and Plume. When he used a Pokémon Trader with a ready-to-evolve Gloom on the field, and got a Cleffa from his deck, I knew his Vilpeplume/s had to be locked up in his prizes, and things were looking up. The next turn I got a Copycat and used it. I got the energy and card drawing cards I needed from the new hand. He had out 2 Ariados, a Vileplume, a Gloom and a baby out when I got the Copycat. I energied my Meganiums and used Double Gust to knock out Vileplume and then I KO'ed Ariados and a baby or two, finally Double Gusting up a damaged AQ Gloom for the win!
Record: 5-2-0
Top8 Rounds: These were Single Elimination rounds.
Round 1: Vs. Matt: Semifinals
Before the game Matt was talking about how badly he would lose against me with his grass-weak Donphan and how I would mop the floor with him. We quickly got our donphan and a Wild Growth Meganium, respectively. He responds by playing Focus band on all his pokémon on the field. I DG his Donphan and attack it, he flips heads for Focus, then flips heads for sleep. He rapid spins back to the bench and promotes Elekid. I leave Meganium on the bench because I had no DG so I banded Meg and failed an Eeeeeeek but next turn he double Gusts up the damaged Meganium and KO's it after I flip tails for Focus. After that I am completely unable to set up anything past Chikorita because it keeps getting dg'ed. He Knocks out a Cleffa for the last prize and I lose. Surprise, Matt.
Final Record: 5-3-0
Well that was my whole SBZ Tourney experience and I admit it was very fun, coming out of nowhere(for it was my first sanctioned event), with a crazy rogue deck and 0wning my way to the top 8 and walked away with 6 boosters. I hope very much to be able to come to another event there. Looking back I'd take out a Trader and add a Tyrogue, if you want to try the deck out. Vijay also won the tournament, congratulations to him. Now as this report comes to a close I believe it is time to give out props and slops, so here they are:
Props:
1st of all to my Dad, who gave up his whole Saturday to drive me to SBZ, and for taking pictures of the event. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!=)
To everybody for coming to the Orlando event and to Coliseum of Comics for making it such a big success and Wizards for making SBZ!
To Head Judge Professor Arnoldo Garcia, Assistant Master Professor Doug Zuver, and TO Renee' Martinez! Great Job!
And another prop goes to Renee for meeting me up with Jim, who also plays pokémon and comes from where I live, and also for giving us the paperwork to help us start up a league in Sarasota. Thanks!

Slops:
Unown M… for being there.
My Topdecking ability

And here are some pictures of the event:

That's me Vs. Chris and the winner of this game got a spot in the Top 8.

A picture of some of the tournament attendees

A picture of the Top 6 table. The mass of black hair is me in the foreground. I'm playing Florienzio at the moment. That's GymLeaderPhil in the yellow T-shirt and Steven sitting to the left of him. And there's two other kids there that I don't know their name but now they're on Pojo so that should make up for it shouldn't it =)

If you attended the Orlando event see if you are In this picture!

Everybody in the Top 8 gets some of this.

The top8!


Hope to be back at another event,
Allison Nixon
elsakoo@yahoo.com