What's up?  Every week I go to Collecter Mania in Parker, Colorado to
participate in the Pokemon League.  Usually 10 to 20 come to compete.  This
was on March 16 2000.

Here's my deck:

15 grass Energy
12 Psy Energy
1 Pinser
1 Fossil Gastly
1 Jynx
1 Paras
1 Parasect
1 Promo Mewtwo (from movie)
1 English Promo Mew
1 Scyther
1 Tangela
1 Jigglypuff
1 Wigglytuff
1 Kangaskhan
1 Farfetchd'
2 Abra
2 Kadabra
1 Super potion
2 Pokedex
1 Energy Search
1 Pokemon Trader
1 Nidoran Female
1 Nidorina
1 Nidoqueen
1 Bellsprout
1 Weepinbell
1 Pokeball
1 Bill
1 Defender


I modeled this deck after a similar deck I saw on the Pokemon TCG site, so I
majorly credit them.  Anyway, here's the report

Round 1 Me vs Brother
This took little time.  He has a water/fire deck.  No offence, but he had a
crummy deck.  All the fire pokemon had low HP and no resistance.  Even when
I left my grass Pokemon out with my weekness, his pokemon only did 20
damage.  That's not much when you have a Scyther.  Finally after a 7 minute
game.  My Mewtwo used Psyburn and knocked out my brother's Charmander.

Round 2 Me vs Nosey 10 year old
This was a somewhat close match.  He had an electric/fighting deck.  He was
up 4 prizes to 6.  Then I attached the final energy to my Kangaskhan.  I
guess I was lucky with coin flips and knocked out about four of his Pokemon
with it.  Then it  died and he had 3 prizes, I had 2.  Then I sent out
Weepinbell and Razor leafed his Pokemon to death.  Before I left, he wasn't
certain I won so he counted the pokemon in his discard pile.  Sure enough he
had six and I was on to round three.

Round 3 Me vs. little kid
This was a pretty easy win.  I think he had a fighting/water deck.  After he
had knocked out my Paras and my Mew, it was time for me to get serious.  I
sent out my Wigglytuff and did Do the Wave.  I had a full bench so 60
damage, POW!  Then since the rest of his Pokemon were low HP, he started
whining and pretty much gave up.  There you have it, pesismism gets you
nowhere.  Now I was off to the semi final.

Round 4 Me vs a lady, yep a 30- 40 year old lady
Ok this was weird.  Me and my friend are thirteen and us and a couple of
other kids are in middle school.  But this was a lady.  Come on shouldn't
there be some age restrictions?  Any way I had extremly bad luck.  Ok when I
drew my first seven cards, I got a lousy Paras.  She got a Growlithe.  I had
no other Pokemon so I couldn't retreat.  I drew my card, oh good for me a
cruddy Abra, at least it was a Pokemon.  She attached her second fire energy
to Growlithe.  She attacked, thirty damage.  I drew my second card, oh cool,
Promo Mewtwo!  I didn't have any energies yet so I used a Pokedex.  Great
next 5 cards no energies.  Her turn, bye bye Paras.  Well I could go on
forever, but you could kind of see the way this game is heading.  I lost and
got in third place.  Not bad, but I could have done better.

Well that's all for now.  If you have any questions or comments you can
e-mail me at BroncoFan@izap.com.  My "fake" name is BroncoFan 33 so you can
adress me by that.