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Saturday May 20th, 2000
32 total Participants

        My name is Josue Rojano and i am a first time writer to the Pojo. 
The main reason I decided to write to you guys is because I am incredibly
happy with the way my solar power deck has defeated my opponents. I created
the solar power deck the day of the tournament in Fan Quest so I really
wasn't very experienced with the deck but I decided to use it as my
tournament deck, I was also kind of mad because Diane (the owner of Fan
Quest) only let us use one deck. I had played the deck earlier that day at
"toys R us" in the league and it was undefeated so i went into the tournament
confidently. Also that was my first tournament I had ever been to since they
really don't have any tournament here where I live. So without furthur ado
here is my SOLAR POWER deck!!!!!!!

        Pokemon                                         Trainers

    4   Bulbasuar                               2   Gambler
    3   Ivysaur                                     4   Pokemon Center
    2   Venusaur                                    2   Challenge
    2   Scyther                                 2   Bill
    1   Pinsir                                      2   Professor Oak
    3   Dratini                                     2   Energy Retrieval
    2   Dark Dragonair                      2   Pokemon Trader
    3   Grimer                                              Total Trainers
    2   Dark Muk                                                    16
        Total Pokemon
                22                                                  Energies
                       
                                                                    22     
Grass                                                                          
Energy


   
            ok first of all when i got there i was quite nervous because as i
mentioned before it was my first tournament ever so i was extremely anxious
for my first match but Diane said the rules to us again they were basically
the same as in the league except for no japanese cards aloud.  So finally the
first match started it was against a guy named peter.  he was using a
thunder/ fighting deck so i figured it would be a tough match.  Oh yeah the
tournament was single elimination with best 2/3 victories to advance.  in the
beginning i started out pretty good but he used a challenge and ofcourse i
said yes, but after he flipped over his cards i noticed he had 4 magnemites
in his bench and another magnemite was his active pkmn. So he made a mistake
making his deck because he thought rocket magnemites counted as a completely
other type of card but Diane gave him a chance and told him to substitute his
magnemite with an energy. Either way I started crushing him because he
wouldn't draw any basic pkmn.  So it was smooth sailing with my Scyther. I
beat him in 7 turns.
(1;0)
    My second match with him was actually alot tougher because he got out his
Machamp evolution but Venusaur was too much for Machamp and when my Venusaur
was about to get knocked out i used energy trans put all my energies on my
dratini with no damage on it and used a pkmn center taking away all damage
counters from all of my pkmn after that i used energy trans again and used
solar beam to kill the machamp.  Then he used Hitmonchan to hit Venusaur for
40 and after that it was over because there was no chance of him defeating me
so he gave up.
(2;0) I beat him 2 straight to go on to the quarter finals

    My next match was very strange because it was unfortunately against my
little brother.  I was sad because only one of us would go on to the semi's. 
Not to mention that his deck was quick kill and this deck is extremely weak
against that.  He was also playing a Grass deck but his was focused on
Beedrills and 4 energy removals and 4 super energy removals.  The first match
was a beating from the word go, but the beating was being inflicted on me. 
Not to mention that it was the quickest victory in the tournament :( quite
embarassing.
(0;1)

    The second match looked like it was going to be the same as the first.  I
started out with my only basic at the time dratini and my brother started out
with weedle while having another weedle and a Grimer in his bench. Well
anyways i had 2 pkmn centers in my hand which let me stall for a little while
meanwhile i hoped to get a grimer because i had 2 dark muks in my hand. i
used up both my pkmn centers and i had a bulbasaur and a grimer with 1 energy
on it in my bench.  My brothers bench was a beedrill and a Muk  which stopped
all pkmn powers from working so i thought i had lost but i ended up getting
an ivysaur and venusaur in my next 2 turns.  So I ended up taking the match
all the way to the point where i had 3 cards left in my bench and my brother
around 10.  i thought i was decked but i didnt keep a good eye on my prizes. 
So I beat his Muk  still thinking i was decked but when i drew my prize i saw
i had no more prizes and won round 2
(1;1)
   
    OH MAN WAS I SCARED I WAS AT THE BRINK OF ELIMINATION!!!!! But I was
still in it I started out with an incredible hand 1 scyther 5 plant energies
and a trainer which i forgot which it was. i thought i was going to kill him
but he surprised me with his weedle as his active and kakuna & Beedrill in
his hand.  Lucky for me he didn't have very many energies at least not enough
to power beedrill up leaving him helpless and defeated
(2;1) Unfortunately my brother got stopped in his tracks by me but the best
of luck to him in the next tournament

        The #1 ranked player at the tournament was next in my massacre list
or so i thought because the first match was a total assasination, his
haymaker deck crushed me.
(1;0)   oh no! it doesn't look to good for me because i have to beat the best
guy there 2 times in a row to advance to the finals.  he beat me in 8 minutes

        I was psyched up for my next match with him because i thought i had
figured him out.  He started laughing when he saw his hand but i almost
started crying because i had only one basic pkmn and that was Dratini.  He
started out with hitmonchan and went first, i knew i was going to lose if i
didn't get anything good in my next hand and he  jabbed me for 20.  I drew a
scyther I WAS SO HAPPY!!!!!  i let dratini die and brought out scyther he
held hitmonchan off and killed it eventually.  Meanwhile I got a Dark
dragonair and a bulbasaur in my bench.  I started using DD's pkmn power to
get out my venusaur.  After i got it out my scyther was anihilating Cameron's
pkmn.  but then everything started going wrong he all of a sudden used
gamblers and professor oaks until he put in 3 plus powers on his Scyther (yes
scyther he had it in his deck) and inflicted 60 damage on my scyther bearly
enough to knock out my scyther My scyther had 10 damage on it already and
after that i lost the match because there was no way i could come back seeing
as how he had a hitmonlee fully powered same as Hitmonchan.  So it was over
for me.  He defeated my Solar Power deck and advanced to the finals and
crushed his opponent even worse than how he crushed me.  Overall for my first
day with this deck i think it did pretty good.

    Josue Rojano
Iamjoboski@aol.com