Hi! KarateKid13 (chris madsen) here! I was at the tourney in a place
called "The Card Shop" (imaginitive name, eh?) in denver, colorado, on
the 15th of august, 2000. 28 people came. Gym was just released, and i
got a bunch of good cards, and traded to get REALLY good trainers. I
then decided to add them to my potpourri deck. So, here it is.

The _.-=NEW=-._ Potpourri:

(Note: gym is NOW OUT! You may now stop enclosing translations!)

Pokemon: (13)
3 Electabuzz (base)
3 Scyther (base)
2 Machop (rocket)
2 Ponyta (jungle)
2 Squirtle (rocket)
1 Ditto (fossil)

Energy: (18)
4 DCE
4 Full Heal Energy
4 Rainbow Energy
6 Electric

Gyms: (3)
3 No Removal Gym

Trainers: (26)
3 Bill
3 Oak
3 CPU Search
3 Secret Mission
4 Good Manners
4 PlusPower
3 Scoop Up
3 GOW

(please don't fix my deck because it'll probobally be updated by when
this gets posted.)

Well, it was a 4-prize (kinda the standard in denver) 6-game swiss style
tourney (dunno why, but i always go to swiss-style tourneys). The
qualifying round would be one single-elimination game per person to
halve the number of participants. The prize for first was 10 Gym Heroes
boosters. The prize for second was a Lt. Surge deck. If the person who
came in first beat some guy named john who works there, that person
would get 5 rocket booster packs, too.

Qualifier vs. guy with Legendary Birds deck:
He had 2 articunos (fossil), and a moltres (fossil). I had a scyther.
>From this point on, i knew he had a SUCKY deck. He said he was gonna
win. I said "umm no". He attached a fire energy to moltres and used
wildfire. he made me discard...a full heal energy. I used good manners
and got ditto. I oaked, played a buzz, oaked again, played another
scyther, attached a DCE to ditto, and passed. He used maintenance. WHAT
KIND OF IDIOT USES MAINTENANCE? Then he passed. I used CPU search, got a
DCE, attached it to ditto, retreated scyther, placed ditto, and used
dive bomb, but flipped tails. Fast forward a few turns. I'd successfully
used dive bomb, k.oing moltres. He then put up an articuno, which my
ditto blizzarded twice for a k.o. I then proceeded to k.o. his other
articuno the same way.
1-0 (i told him to look in the deck garage at pojo.com to see what decks
would be worth spending money on.)

Round 1 vs. little kid with Turbo Puffballs deck:
He had a really good deck. I got a machop, buzz, and ponyta out early.
My machop got 2 of his pokemon, then i scooped it right before he was
gonna k.o. it. I played a no removal gym. He didn't know what it did, so
i told him. He didn't believe me, though, so i called the judge over.
The judge explained it to him, and the kid said "oh ok". Back to the
game. He had a wiggly. NOT GOOD. I'd gotten a scyther by then, so i put
it up as a wall while i put a rainbow on machop. I them did all i could
to get 2 pluspowers. I used some bills, secret missions, and a computer
search, and finally got those pluspowers right when he k.oed my scyther.
I attached 2 pluspowers and a dce and did 80 for the k.o. Then he put
out...a SCYTHER! NOT GOOD! he slashed with a pluspower, k.oing my
machop. Fast forward a few turns. I'd thunderpunched his scyther into
retreatville, and he put up another wiggly with a Grass energy. He
lullabied, but on my sleep check i flipped heads. I thunderpunched,
flipping heads. He attached a grass energy (out of DCE, i suppose) and
lullabied. I flipped heads on my sleep check again. I used CPU search
for a pluspower, attached it, and flipped tails on thunderpunch (but got
40 via pluspower) for the win.
2-0 (that kid must've been 6 years old! He was great!)

Round 2 vs. guy with "Lapdance" (rain dance variant) deck:
He started with 2 laprases and a squirtle. I had a buzz, a squirtle, and
2 scythers. SWEET! Fast forward a few turns. I'd k.oed a lapras via 1st
turn thundershock and 2nd turn thunderpunch, gusted a squirtle, and
k.oed that too. His other lapras confuse rayed. YES! No confusion! I,
without any card drawing, needed a lucky thunderpunch to win. I flipped
my aerodactyl coin. It spun wildly, almost madly in the air. It stopped
going up and started coming down. Falling...Falling ever closer to the
table. It landed, flipped once, twice, three, four times. It landed
on.............................HEADS! YES! I WIN!
3-0 (he said i just got lucky because he had no card drawing. When i
reminded him that i had no card drawing either, he looked a little green
around the face.)

Round 3 vs. kid with Venuseggutor deck:
I started with a ponyta and 2 scythers. He mulliganed, then got 2
pinsirs. I used secret mission to get rid of 5 cards, saving a pluspower
for later. I got a DCE among other stuff, and attached it to ponyta. I
smash kicked for 40. He used bill, but apparently he didn't get anything
worth using. I smash kicked again, killing his pinsir. But then, he put
up another pinsir with an energy. He attached another energy and used
irongrip. Phooey. Paralysis. I'd gotten a good manners, so i played the
only pokemon in my hand (machop) so i could use it. I got another
ponyta, attached a rainbow energy, and passed. He used irongrip again,
and k.oed my first ponyta. I put up my other ponyta, oaked, got a cpu
search, used it, got another rainbow energy, attached it to ponyta, and
used flame tail for the k.o. He was out of basic pokemon, so i won.
4-0 (you shoulda seen the look on his face when my ponyta k.oed his last
pinsir.)

Round 4 vs. girl with agility deck:
She had spearow, i had buzz, ditto & machop. She pecked, i
thundershocked with paralysis. Then, i thunderpunched for the win.
5-0 (she said that was her deck's first loss ever.)

Round 5 vs. kid with Bench Destruction deck:
I had a lone scyther, but i had an oak in my hand. He had a card video
game promo meowth active, and a benched (fossil) zubat. He attached a
grass energy to meowth, and passed. I oaked, and got a machop, bill, and
CPU search, among other stuff. I used bill, and got a Pluspower and good
manners. I played the basics from my hand (squirtle and machop) and used
good manners. I got a buzz. I used CPU search for a DCE. I attached it
to machop, retreated scyther, attached a pluspower to machop, and
attacked for 50 damage. His holo meowth went down in all it's glory. I
got an oak as my prize. He put a grass energy on his zubat, and passed.
I then proceeded to oak, getting a rainbow energy and pluspower. I
attached both to machop, and attacked for the win.
6-0 (i told him to take out the promo meowths and put in scythers. I
told him the dark golbats were up to him, but i suggested that he take
them out because of their low hp.)

Round 6 vs. kid with Turbo Evil Rain Dance deck:
I started with a buzz and a squirtle. He had 2 squirtles and an
articuno. I don't remember a lot about this match because i was so
excited. Here's what i DO remember: He got a blastoise, i knocked out
some articunos with my ditto, i thunderpunched a lapras, and then we
stalemated for a few turns. He got an evil blastoise. I gusted his evil
blastoise, copied hydrocannon via a ditto with 2 DCE, and did 70 damage
for the k.o. YES!
7-0

Round 7 vs. John with Stall deck:
All he had was a Mr. mime. I had 2 squirtles and a machop. You do the
math.
8-0

YES! I CAME IN FIRST!

I got 15 booster packs! 10 gym heroes, 5 rocket!

Props & Slops:

Props:
Props to my mom for driving me all the way to denver.
Props to those 2 brock's ninetales cards i got. I think that i'll build
a deck around them if i get another one.
Props to poop
Props to pee

Slops:
Slops to Misty's goldeen EECCHH! :-C
Slops to Misty's goldeen EECCHH! :-C
Slops to Nothing but Misty's goldeen EECCHH! :-C
Slops to me for getting 2 Misty's goldeen EECCHH! :-C

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