Golden Memories NY,Mastic
28 Attendence
12/27/99

Well this Monday morning I was in a pickle. My  mom took our only car to
work. So my grandmother drove me to Golden Memories. We stayed for for half
and hour. From 11am-11.30am. Well We went back to my granmothers house for
another half and hour. At 12pm we left. I saw the regs there-Jason Imperle,My
partner in crime VISHAL, Glenn Katzen(third in the world,and very popular
with the ladies).  We found out that Rick the man& the owner had hes wife
take hes car. And hes keys to the shop. But one of hes workers Jeff the
cooliest man who plays star trek  had a key. We all conviced him to open the
store and call Rick.  He did and he got there 30 mins before the tourney. Me
and Vishal just takled over stragey. He has a Magmar/Buzz deck(very good
fast)Me playing Hot Jalepeno v 1.5
Hey my name is Vishal with another tournament at Godlen Memories. It was on
December 27 and about 20 people entered. The 2 best people there(imperiale
and katzen) switched their decks finally. Ok, here is the deck.
Pokemon:
4 Magmar
2 Scyther
4 Electabuzz
2 Taouros

Energy:
10 Fire
10 Electric
4 Double Colorless


Trainers:
4 Energy removal
3 Super Energy Removal
3 Scoop Up
1 Itemfinder
3 Gust of Winds
3 Oaks
4 Pluspowers
3 Computer Searches

Well on to the tourney-

Round 1 Gary Flood-I never really played this kid before. He plays Psi stall.
But not much of a stall.
Game 1-I started off real good. Magmar,Buzz some trainners and a couple of
energies. Just destoryed him. Then sent out gastly and boom. I drew my last
prize when I destoryed hes Kazam with a Mime,-------
Game 2- Started w/ a Scyther energie and a oak. oaked and played some buzzes.
Gastly came out and kicked. I love him :). Well this game ended up running
out of time. So I get the 1-0 win 3 points yes
1-0 3=points
Round 1: Jason Imperiale: This guy is like number 9 in the world. I played
him twice before this game. He won one and we tied the other one. He would
usually play 4 mewtwos 4 hitmonchans 4 Mimes but he was trying Rain Dance
this week.

Battle 1: Once I saw 2 Squirtles out my eyes widened out. It was a bg
surprise. I look next to me and see Glenn Katzen have 2 moltres's out and
realize that he's playing stall and Jason is playing Rain Dance. Well all I
got out was Magmar so right away I search for Electabuzz. I scoop up Magmar
and do 20 with no paralize. After I kill that Squirtle He gets Blastoise on
teh bench and full Articuno out. I draw another Electabuzz and build him up
as the first one dies. I send out Buzz and kill Articuno. He sends out
another Articuno, but I gust for Blastoise and paralize him. I then flip
heads on a thunderpunch and he's out. he didn't have enought time to build
Articuno up before I kill it. He was out of basics. I won.

We played 2 out of 3. I was feeling cocky because I beat him easily.

Battle 2: I kill his first Squirtle with Scyther. Then I kill an Articuno
with 2 slashes and a plus power. He gets out Blastoise. I draw Electabuzz
and retreat Scyther and do shock with no paralize. He kills me with a plus
power. I then send out Magmar, Stupid move. Smokescreen 4 times before he
finally flipped a head. He has 4 left so I slash with a pluspower to kill
it. Out comes Lickitung. As he stalls with 2 Lickitungs, he has a full blown
Articuno on the bench and a Blastoise. After killign both Lickitungs He
paralyzes me with freeze dry and then blizzards for a heads to electabuzz.
All I have left is Electabuzz. I gust for Blastoise and do 80. I draw a
Magmar and put him down. He retiervals and attaches another energy to
Blastoise to retreat him.  He goes for Blizzard and flipps tails. Blastoise
has 10 hp left. If he flipped heads he would have got his 2nd to last prize
and kill magmar, but if he flipped tails electabuzz would die but Blastoise
would die also and I would have my last prize. He flipped tails. I started
screaming " I beat Jason 2-0. "

3 Points
1-0 games 2-0 battles

Round 2- Allison Imperle(Jays younger sister with a good buzz,magmar)
Game 1-I just got one Gastly.LOL then all I got was fire enegry. I quit cause
I didnt want to waste time.
Game 2-TIME LIMIT LOSS. I ws about to kill her Scyther to make it 2 prizes,
Shoot.
1-1=3 points
Round 2: Alan Hofler: I played him once before and beat him 2-0. He's pretty
good.

Battle 1: He got out Pinsers and Scythers. It was a piece of cake with
Magmar out. I won in like 3 minutes.

Battle 2: This time he got out Pinsers only and I didn't get out Magmar, I
got out Scyther. His mistake is that he told me that he had no energies in
his hand. So whenever he attached an energy I would super energy removal(al
I had) because I knew he barely drew any. He realized he made a Mistake and
Scytehr killed his Pinsers.

6 Points
2-0 Matches 4-0 Battles

Round 3-Anthony ???????/ lol with a horrible Water/Grass deck. My god he
sucks.
Game 1-I could have killed him first turn but I rather of stalled to bring
out the mimes. Uhh I love get kids pisst. I killed hes Speaow's with quick
thunder punches.
Game 2-Once again I just sit back and relax. Build up my scythers and boom
dead.
2-1=6 points
Round 3: Glenn Katzen: I never played him before but he is liek number 4 in
teh world so he has to be good. He would usually play 4 Scytehr 4
Electabuzzes 4 Pinsers but today he was playign the awsome super stall.

Battle 1: He got out teh Alakazam, Chansey connection second turn. Noticing
he had 3 Chanseys on teh bench, 1 Alakazam, 1 Lickitung, and another Chansey
out, I knew I was beat. Everyone had 10hp left and he pokecenters. I just
forfeited after that.

Battle 2: Again he got out the connection in liek 4 turns. Same story.
Everyone had 10hp left and he centers. I forfeit again. SCREW THAT.

6 Points
2-1 Matches 4-2 Battles

Round 4-Danny Quin w/ a very good Arcanine/Stall deck very good.
Game 1- I hated doing this but i put out mime. The only guy who can hurt me
is Growlthe(sp) So I just used this combo-Thunderpunch,Retreat Mime.
Game 2- I just stalled with mime till time expires.
3-1=9 points
Round 4: Allison Imperiale: She's 8 but dont underestimate that little girl.
Her brother(Jason) makes her decks so their good. She's plays 4 Scyther 4
Magmar 4 Electabuzz. Almost liek mine except for tarous.

Battle 1: Really good and long battle. Scyther vs Scyther, Buzz vs Buzz
Magmar vs Magmar. We had it all. But in the end she made a mistake. I
stomped with tarous for 20. She then thunderpunches for 40. She didnt think
of Rampage. So I rampage for 60 and get my last prize.

Do to the length of the 1st battle and the fact our cards git mized up. We
didn't play a second game. Oh yeah, before teh game she said" if you can
beat my brother, you can beat me".

9 Points
3-1 Matches 5-2 Battles
Ok, here was the final 8.

1st seed: Michael Hofler(Alans borther). He pkayed Wiggly and beat Glenn
Katzen. 12 points.
vs
8th seed: Allison: She beat her brother(9th seed). 6 points.

2nd seed: Stall kid who Glenn copied off of. 12 points
vs
7th seed: Alan Hofler(kid I beat). 7 points(he tied which is 1 point)

3rd seed: Glenn(number 4 in world)9 Points
vs
6th seed: Ryan(my parter(we split our winnings)He was playing Potpourri. 9
Points

4th seed: Me
vs
5th seed: Mike flood(fianlly did better tahn his brother Gary). He was
playign Htimonchan, Scyther. 8 pokemon in all :0. 9 points


Well on the tourney me and vishal both advance. I vs Glenn Katzen while he
takes on Mike Flood. Heres what happen-

Round 5 Quater Finals-Glenn katzen(third best in the world) The funniest
thing is that He brought hes POKEMON the cd in. We all where laughing at him.
Making fun of him. He was playing the almightly Moltress Stall with magmars.
Game 1- I quit cause He just stalled. he didnt kill anyone. He just used
pokecenter a lot. Hes deck is the newiest type of deck. I hate to see when
Rocket comes and people just wreck others.
Game 2- get this... I placed  a psi energy on ElectaBuzz. So I can use
thunder punch later. Well liek the dumbo iam later i placed a double coloress
on Electabuzz so when I attack I can retreat using the double. Well Glenn
laughes. I  now have 1 psi/1 double on electabuzz.Iam so stupid. Well this
ends up me quiting cause I had to run out and get a retainer for my teeth.
Man.
Quarterfinals: Mike Flood: I faced him twice before. Beat him both times.

Battle 1: Before the match he said he would give me the win if I gave him a
foil because he had work. I said no. He got out hitmochan I got out
Electabuzz. I drew a Scyther and scooped up Elecatabuzz. Everytime I would
send out a Scyther against his Hitmonchan he would scoop up. I could have
sworn he was playing more than 4. Oh well He kept gusting for Electabuzzes
with Hitmocnhans out and killed me. I ran out of Basics.

Battle 2: I started asking about that deal and now he raised it to 2 foils
so I said no. He got his btother to call in sick for him. Ok, this time it
was different. I gust for Hitmonchan when I had Scythers luck. I slashed his
only basic to death.out and he couldn't draw a scoop up. He kept trying and
trying. No luck. I just slashed his onlt basic to death. I win.

Battle 3: All he got out was Scyther. I got out Scyther and Taouos. He
swords dfanced and slashed with a plus power to kill Scyther. I send out
Tarous and attach a double colorless for stomp. He slashes me. Mike started
saying "damn I made a mistake". I couldn't think of what it was. Then I said
"RAMPAGE" so I attach a fire energy and rampage him to death. That was his
only basic.

4-1 matches 7-3 battles.Ok This was the final 4.

Me vs Allison

Glenn vs Stall kid (lol, stall vs stall)

Semifinals: Allison again.

Battle 1: Another rollar coaster battle. She had 1 prize left and I had 2.
She had out Buzz with 10 hp left and Scytehr on bench with full Hp. I
itemfinder for a gust of wind and gust for Scyther. I have one plus power in
my hand. I attach it and oak. I get a search but no Pluspower. I search for
one and if I flipped heads Scytehr would be dead. I flipped. Tails. She
retreat and thundershocks hoping for a paralyze. no paralyze. I smog. get my
second to last prize. Then I kill Scytehr and get my last prize.

Battle 2: She makes teh mistake again. Scyther is her last pokemon and I
stomp for 20. She slashes and then I rampage and kill it. Her last basic
dies and I'm in the finals.

5-1 matches, 9-3 battles

It was me vs Stall kid in finals. Katzen had a moltres with 12 fire energy
and stall kid had a moltres with 13 fire energy. Katzen used dive bomb 15
times and got 14 tails. Stall kid used it 7 times and got 6 heads and won.
The other match was just long. Stall kid was gonna deck but he used gambler
and Katzen decked himslef. It was so long.

Ok, I'm in the finals(the best I've ever done) against awsome stall deck
kid. I never faced him.

Battle 1: I was hoping for him to just get an abrfa and quick kill for me,
but he got out 3 Chanseys. I'm about to kill All of em and he pokecenters. I
deck myself. First time I lost to a stall by decking meself. I usually
forfeit.

Battle 2: This time he got out the connection second turn. On the second
pokecenter I forfeited. Oh well.

5-2 matches 9-5 battles
For second I could have picked 10 bucks in cards or two boosters. I picked
to boosters. When I'm about to get 2 German 1st edition base set boosters,
Rich ( owner of store) changed his mind to american only. So i pick 1st
edition fossil. He says ony one of those. So I get the first edition and
give Ryan teh regular fossil. I got a non foil Raichu and I think Ryan got a
non foil Zapdos. Next week Ryan's making a curse deck. I let him borrow 2
gengars.  The deck is so awsoem. I'm thinking of adding Lass to my deck
because it killd the stalls when the have a pokecenter. And gambler to get
cards in my deck. Slops and props.


Well I got my retainer and went straight back. I made it in time seeing my
partner() vs Super Stall Kid.(Mike) Well lets just say read hes section.
So I open my bosster pack(which he won)And got a gambler and fuji
kabotops. Iam going to make a gangar deck for sure.

PROPS-My mom for driving there and back so many times to wait for me to
finsh(
stall vs stall caused it all)
PROPS-Me for doing the best I ever did.
PROPSAllison for beating Michael Hofler( twice her age)
PROPS-Me for wrecing teh Inperiales(3-0 matches, 5-0 battles)
PROPS-Me for doing better than Tommy Dielna two times in a row

SLOPS-Stall kid for beating me in finals
SLOPS-Rich for not letting me have german 1st edition
SLOPS-Ryan Throung for winnign every tourney with potpurri and my parter gets
7th
with it. Shows the competion Ryan plays against
SLOPS-Tommy for not making top 8 with his Wiggly deck



PROPS to jeff for opening the store
PROPS to jason imperle he got 9th with a raindance that made me inb the
quaters
PROPS to tommy delina who also made a new deck-Wigglys,Nidorno( f ) and got
13th place

SLOPS to gelnn who just had to liestien to hes stupid pokemon cd
SLOPS to Anthorney. He acted all cocky thing he will beat me
SLOPS to Hot Jalepono Potpouri v 1.5It sucks. I cant wait to use ANTI-Stall