It's been a couple weeks since I did a report, so here we go.
Saturday April 29th 2000
The Game Trader in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
19 Entries
20 minute time limit
Here's the deck...
10 Pokemon
4 Electabuzz
3 movie promo Mewtwo
3 Scyther
33 Trainers
4 Plus power
4 Oak
3 Bill
3 Comp search
3 Scoop Up
3 Lass
3 GOW
3 Energy retrieval
3 ER
2 SER
2 Item Finder
17 Energy
7 Psychic
7 Electric
3 DCE
This deck played extremely well. I have gone on and on in earlier reports
but I'm not going to bore anybody today. If you want a long explanation of
everything, go to one of my previous reports.
ROUND 1
vs. Watered-down sponge
This guy played a sponge, but he played with potions, no Oaks, and more like
14 basic Pokemon. He managed to draw 3 or 4 prizes by the time I drew 6.
I
think 2 of his prizes were from Electabuzz killing himself, he just didn't
attack much and when he got energy I removed it.
Record: 1-0
ROUND 2
vs. Wigglytuff deck
This guy is pretty easy to beat. I beat him twice before the tournament.
He
plays a deck with IMO too many evolutions. But this time, my hand was
Scyther and some energy removals. I started with Scyther, removed a couple
energy to stall, and I couldn't get a Oak or another basic so his Jigglypuff
pounded my to death.
Record: 1-1
ROUND 3
vs. Mono-fighting
This guy played fighting, with Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Rhyhorn (?), Onix (!)
and Lickitung. My deck does well here, because his Pokemon are weak to
psychic and grass. Plus Scyther is resistant. Mewtwo handled most of
his
Pokemon, but then he got out Hitmonlee doing 50 damage so I used Scyther.
Scyther KO'd Lee in 2 turns and from there, the rest is history.
Electabuzz
went out on a suicide mission and eventually retreated only to be KO'd by
stretch kick. Otherwise nothing exciting happened.
Record: 2-1
ROUND 4
vs. Jeff with Sponge
I know Jeff, and I know his deck. It's about like mine, but he is always
changing it around because it won't work the way he wants it to. Anyway,
this game was to decide who went to the finals. I pretty much dominated
here, he got a couple prizes but I drew all six before time was called.
Record: 3-1
ROUND 5 finals!
Vs. same guy as round 2
I can't believe he made it to the finals. His deck has Alakazam, which
helps
him sometimes, but I had Mewtwo out so with a Gust of wind it was a free
prize. His Lickitung stalled for awhile and confused me, but I eventually
drew all my prizes. I think he drew 2.
Record: 4-1
ROUND 6 playing for first place!
vs. Moltres stall deck
This guy was undefeated. I kept hearing about how his deck was ripping
through everything, and it rocked. He wildfired and stalled with Chanseys,
Lickitungs, and scoop ups. He never once attacked, so I just built up all
my
energy and was attacking him. I KO'd a couple Pokemon, but he ran 4 scoop
ups and 4 item finders so he avoided most KOs. Finally, I found
Lass. I
saved all my trainers until I was down to my last couple cards. I lassed
about 10 trainers into my deck, him 1. I had 1 less card in my deck my it
was his turn. He wildfired a couple cards away, but then I Item Findered
for
Lass and had more cards than him. He saw I shuffled another Item Finder
back
into my deck with Lass so he forfitted, knowing I would win.
Woohoo! I won!
I got $25 store credit, so I bought some sleeves for my second deck, a
Hitmonchan, and 2 boosters. I had a little credit left too. In both
boosters I got holos, Zapdos and Ninetails.
Props and slops-
PROPS to Game Trader for another tourny and decent prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd.
PROPS to Scott Gerdhardt for a great deck idea
PROPS to the players there, they play fair.
PROPS to myself, for refining my playing style and playing a little better
this tournament than my last one (which I got second)
SLOPS to Game Trader, for being out of stock of TR Boosters
Okay everybody, I'll be doing more reports and/or single card strategies
soon. See ya.
Comments go to:
Radar (seamorebns@aol.com)