Hello, I'm going to tell about one very good tournament I had.

first of all I use a different stragety, instead of putting a lot of the
same pokemon in a deck,I use many different cards (mostly becaus I've only
been collecting for a few months) but here is my deck

13 fire energy     13 grass energy   2 super potion
1 charmander     1 oddidh              1 pokemon center
1 charmeleon     1 gloom               1 pokedex
1 charizard         1 vileplume          1 switch
1 magmar           1 scyther            1 gust of wind
2 growlithe          1 pinsir               1 professor oak
2 arcanine           1 nidoran male    1 pokeball
                          1 nidorino           1 bill
                          1 exeggute         1 energy retrieval 
                          1 exeggutor        1 computer search
                            1 koffing

This tournament took place on October 30 at Toys 'R' Us in Danbury,
Connecticut

This was a one time only tournament on a saturday monday the rest are held
wednesday at 6pm

Round 1  Brushfire battle

My opponent had a brushfire style deck too.  We each drew our cards and I
got Chansey Scyther and 5 grass energy.  I played Chansey to stall for time
and he played a Pontya. After a few turns he did 100 damage too Chansey so
I returned it and played Pokemon Center to heal it and sent out a full
power scyther.  I beat it no trouble. His last one on his bench was Scyther
with only one grass energy.  I used an energy on scyther and used super
potion so I could attack 3 turns later I won. Easy victory.1-0

Round 2 Me vs. Joey.

Jeff was playing a game with all 7 types in it.  This didn't last long.  By
my bad luck I drew 4 basic pokemon with 0 energy.  I had trouble finding
energy that game and he eventually destroyed me 6 times with his blasted
hitmonlee.1-1

Round 3 Me vs. my brother

I played my brother who had a blackout style deck.  He relied on his
hitmonchans.  He neded too because he didn't have too many great pokemon
cards. I brought out a fire fleet.  Using Growlithe, Arcanine, Charizard
and a lucky lullaby from jigglypuff which lasted four turns(LUCKY) He had 4
hitmonchans and I beat all of them. It was down too I had 2 prizes left and
he had 5 prizes.  He sent out his last hope Articuno. Well he must have had
a four leaf clover in his pocket because his Articuno does well aganise
fire and his freeze dry worked 6 consective times.  I found my exeggute and
then made it exeggutor and built it up so while he made a great comeback to
make 2 prizes left a piece. I sent out exeggutor with 5 energy on it.  And
boom bye Articuno. Then he sends out a weak little Geoude.  He uses stone
barrage it works once, twice, three times, four times I started to worry
but then tails came up and I wrapped it up with Big Eggsplosion.  2-1

Round 4 Foinal match because my last one took 40 long minutes and there was
only a half hour left.  Me vs. Danny the poli man.

He only had the Poli family and a couple colorless pokemon Fearow and
FArfecthed.  I was forced to use only grass pokemon. I took out pinsir and
that worked very well I killed 3 of his cards before he finnaly got me.  I
drew Oak on my next turn discarding all my fire types and I got 4 grass
energy Scyther Koffing and Bill. So I played bill and got 2 more grass
energy. That was all I need. Scyther got 2 more victorys before losing, and
Koffing confused his last card Fearow.  I called it back used Chansey 4
turns later double edge I win. 3-1

That was all I now have 450 points I almost have my Cascade badge.  I won
an Aerodactyl card and 1 blue booster someone went 4-0 Joey oh well I got a
good record and that was my first tournament.

Striker1771 at

striker171@prodigy.net