Larry's Comics
            Saturday, February 5th , 2000
            Roughly 27 total participants
             Double elimanation

1st place - 6 Packs
2nd place - 4 packs
3rd place - 3 packs
4th place - 2 packs
5th place (raffle) - 1 pack

It has been about 3 weeks since I have been to a tourney so I decided to
test my tweaked version of The Sponge ; here it is :

The Sponge v2.1

Pokemon :

4 Electabuzz
3 Promo Mewtwo
3 Scyther ( Most versatile pokemon )
2 Jigglypuff ( Mime / Psy decks)

Trainers :

4 Bill
3 Professor Oak
2 Gambler
4 Energy Removal
2 Super Energy Removal
1 Computer Search
2 Item Finder
2 Scoop Up
3 Gust of Wind
4 PlusPower
2 Energy Retrieval

Energy :

8 Psychic Energy
7 Electric Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy

Round 1 vs Joey C ( Hay variant )
The only person I am really scared of.
Game 1 :
He started with Buzz against my mewtwo. I play psy oak absorb. He SER's me,
both psy. I ER
him and it goes back and forth for a while he picks up the win.
Game 2:
I start with a Buzz and him a Mr.Mime. I hate playing against mime! I search
for a jiggly
play DCE . He ER's it. I manage to pund it away . He takes out jiggly and 2
scythers with 2 Buzz with help of a scoop up
Things are looking down. I loose.
0-1

Round 2 vs ray with Psy/fight
This kid is a newbie but he is ok.
Game 1:
Starts off with a full bench. Mew as his active 2 hitmonchan , 1 hitmonlee,
and 2 mew benched. He plays a psy. I flip my mewtwo over play psy and oak
absorb. I get 3 Gusts in my hand. I kill off mew , 2 hitmo's , and hitmolee
with mewtwo befoer he finally kills it with a mime. I come out strong with a
buzz and jiggly
and pull out a win.
Game 2:
Not so easy this time. He only plays psychic resistant pokemon and mime. I
take him out with a Buzz with +power shocking him for 20 and doing it again.
Then Scyther goes to work. I win
1-1

Round 3 vs evan with grass
I know him from magic , he is a newbie in pokemon
Game 1:
He has flocks of Zubat and grimer and evolves. Kangaskhan takes out 2 mewtwo
but then mewtwo takes out his whole bench 1 hit each.
Game 2
He stalls me out to 1 card left I item finder for a +power and a gust then i
kill a Golbat for the win with Buzz
2-1

Round 4 vs Japanese little kid who wouldn't tell me his name with Fire
This 6 year old thinks he is all that.
Game 1 :
He take out an early scyther. I remove all his energy and take out his
Rapidash,
Ninetales and magmars.
Game 2:
I keep his energy at 1 or 2. I scoop up 2 hurt scythers and kill him with
Buzz.
He almost cried.
3-1

Round 5 vs Goblin with Fearow deck.
He says to me "You will know the true power of fearow after this match"
Game 1 :
I smoke a spearow and farfetch'd with buzz. I finish him off with Jiggly
with a +power.
Game 2:
I Kill him 1st turn Buzz with 3 +powers.
4-1

Round 6 vs Paul with Stall
All his pokemon are resis. to psy so i used mostly Buzz
Game 1:
I kill a lickitung and a kangaskhan for the quick win.
Game 2:
Stalls me out , I oaked 2 times for the quick Buzz but he had 2 chanseys a
lickitg and a buzz with
pokemon centers and Scoops ups.
Game 3:
He has to go.
5-1

I couldn't believe i was still in after this point.

Round 7 vs Mike with Hay
He always gives me a hard match but i ALWAYS beat him.
Game 1 :
I forgot that he had +powers in there oaked 3 times getting them and killing
scyther.  2nd turn
Game 2:
Forgot 2 lay down his prizes
Game 3:
He Made a big mistake SER'ing my mewtwo then killing it the same turn
wasting the SER. He needed it later on as i killed his hitmonchans with
scyther
6-1
I had at least 2nd place after this point.

Round 8  vs Joey C. with hay variant
Not again !! he was still unbeaten do i had to kill him this round and again
in the finals to get 1st place.
Game 1:
His Mime countered with Jiggly and his Scyther killed of with buzz in 2 with
help of a +power
Decked himself late game
Game 2: We both had no energy left after a SER and ER war. I used all my
Item Finders and everything but a late gambler
Shuffling 14 cards back into my deck gave me the win
7-1

Finals vs Joey C. with hay Variant
At this point we were both 7-1 and this was it.
Game 1:
Jiggly took out 2 Mime and Then Buzz Ko's his last scyther he was benched.
Game 2:
He was not very Confident now that i had beat him 3 times in a row. 2nd turn
KILL!!
Mewtwo pumped 1st turn his lonely Scyther. I oak 3 times for 3 +powers and
kill him
8-1

I win 1st place!!
I choose 4 Fossil and 2 Base packs.

MVC (Most Valuable card):

PlusPower ( Its amazing what a little more damage can do. )

Runner up:
Gambler ( 4th and 5th oaks kinda)

Props and Slops

Props to me for getting 1st
Props to my dad for waiting 6 hours for me to finish
Props to Alan for giving me the contents to his magic deck
Props to Scott G. For making the spong

Slops to Joey for being so hard to beat
Slops to Alan for quitting pokemon

Thanx for Reading ,
Richie
All hate mail , Trades , and Comments to
Richie Luiz
Limp_Bizkit97@hotmail.com

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