the tournament was held just outside Gamers Haven at Lincoln Mall Linclon,
Rhode Island. Japenese was allowed, so i brought my electric deck which
stands up to the other players. the deck Raichu's Revenge is a strong deck,
but it's still in the making anyway, you may need a translator, but here it
goes:

Raichu's Revenge
4 Mereep
2 Mokoko
3 Denryu
4 Base Electabuzz
2 Surge's Electabuzz
4 Scyther

3 Gust of Wind
4 Kurima
2 Sitch
2 Gambler
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Nuts
2 Breeder
2 Trader

18 Lightning
4 Double Colorless

The tourney was a best out of 5, and boy I prayed I only needed to play 3.

Round 1- vs. Raindance
As I said lighting vs water is not very good. I won the toss. He started
with two squirtle. I start with base buzz. The first one dies in 2 rounds,
the second becomes blastoise. kills my buzz. Send out surges buzz. energy
recollect. He hydropumps. I release it all and get 2 out of 4 heads and
destroy blastoise. now he has lapras. Awww... how cute. i faint. base buzz
is out again, and I get lucky on thunder punch. it appears that raindance
isn't ready for 6 electabuzz.

Round 2- vs. Blaine's Deck
Okay, gym decks are good, but they to be mixed with other cards! what the
heck is a mankey going to do?! he wins flip. he has no energy. he starts out
with ponyta. i use mereep. i evolve turn 2, trade for denryu turn 3, evolve,
put the 3rd energy on, and bamo! 40 to the ponyta, paralyzed, and ten to
some growlithe. next kill ponyta, 10 more to two growlithe. 2 more turns and
each are gone gone gone.

Round 3- vs. all fighting haymaker
well, weakness is bound to jump in somewhere isn't it. buzz's are dead. a
mereep is badly wounded. <horn sounds> scythers to the rescue! retreating
game time. slash slash bye hitmonlee. retreat thunder punchbye bye machop.
switch scyther slash slash slash. hitmonchan is defeated. I claim victory.

there were no prizes at this tournament. in fact there were no winners
either. but there were losers. everybody but me. and that makes me a winner
<smile>

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