Roberts Sponge v1.0 (Electric/Psychic)
by Carl Roberts
Logans Card Shop
North Vernon, Indiana
Satruday, November 4th
Roughly 12 total participants

   Well this is my first tournament in real life. I play on apprentice
regularly and am ranked pretty high, was top 20 at one time. So I borrowed
some cards from a friend and put a sponge together. After extensive
playtesting with my sponge vs his wiggly I arrived at this deck.

Pokemon
4 Electabuzz
3 Mewtwo (promo)
3 Chansey

Trainers
4 Professor Oak
3 Bill
4 Computer Search
3 Item Finder
3 Lass
3 Scoop up
2 Gust of Wind
3 Energy Removal
3 Super Energy Removal
2 Nightly Garbage Run
1 Resistance Gym
1 Narrow Gym (would be a resistance gym but didnt have another)

Energy
8 Psychic
6 Lightning
4 Double Colorless Energy

Me and my friend Joe Turner, (who is a very good player, who loaned gave me
the cards, took my to the tourney, AND went 6-0 at the tourney) we
playtested this alot, a very lot. I was hoping to do good and before I knew
it I was flipping the coin in my first real tourney in the first game of the
tourney.....

GAME 1 Roberts Sponge 1.0 vs Bo with exact copy of classic haymaker.
Hrmm, sponge vs classic hay........ >:)
I got to go first! (I have a severe problem with coin flipping, this was the
only game I got to go first.) I have an active mewtwo and a benched chansey
vs his active hitmonchan and benched buzz. I computer searched using two
psychic energys for energy absorption fuel and got an oak, I oaked, played a
psychic energy and used energy absorption. He used energy removal, and
jabbed for 20. I played another psychic and koed hitmonchan. He played an
energy under buzz and tried to paralyze me to no avail. I played an energy
under a benched buzz, removed his energy, and psyburned for 40. He must have
drew crap because he didnt do anything and I koed him for the win.
Record 1-0-0  Points-7



Right now I'm expecting to have to play my friend Joe or my Friend Andy, (
both use wigglys) and lose. But I fate has decided otherwise.

GAME 2 Roberts Sponge 1.0 vs Phil with wierd magmar deck.

This guy was running the tourney, I started out good. He had a scyther out
with a dce under it, I removed it, itemfinder with 2 psychic energys, got
bill, oaked, EA. He played a super Er and a reg ER, woulda hurt except I had
another psychic in my hand, EA, he got a lickitung out and a magmar on
bench, I played resistance gym, 30 to lickitung. He paralyzed me a couple
times and finaly scooped him up. Mewtwo got poisoned. I retreated and
brought out buzz, punched, buzz eventually got 60 damage on him and was
poisoned, I oaked, scooped up electabuzz, played a mewtwo, played a psychic,
EA. He poisones my mew, but not before I ko him. His lickitung comes out,
(we were playing with a 20 minute timelimit) there is about 5 minutes left.
I'm up 2 prizes to 1.  He paralyzes me about 90 times. and I dance my guys
around by retreating , gusting, scooping, lassing, whatever to keep from
being koed. Well the probelm was I was about to deck myself, If time didnt
end by this turn I lose, well I had 5 trainers in my hand and a lass, I
lass, turn over.  Time up, I win.

Record 2-0-0 Points 14

Yeah! I am 2-0! Now I really, really expect to have to play a dreaded
wiggly. (Joes wiggly is awsome, he has a deck report about it in octobers
Killer deck reports, he also might have one in this months) But no! I
play..........

GAME 3 Roberts Sponge 1.0 vs Eric Perdue with gastly/haunter deck

This game was ugly......for him. He only had an active scyther, played a dce
first turn, I removed it computer search with energy absorption fuel and
oaked, played a psychic , EA. he played an energy and made it my turn, I
remove the energy, and psyburn for 40.  He draws a gastly, gets it out front
only to be gusted back by me and koed. he playes an energy and passes, I
psyburn for 40. He evolves into haunter (the one with transparency). I try
to psyburn, he flips, tails, ko, game.

Record 3-0-0 Points 21

Go mewtwo!!!!!!
It was inevitable, the match against Joe.

GAME 4! Roberts Sponge vs Joe Turner with Turbo wiggly deck.

This was awful. My coin flipping skills let him go first. =( We were the
only people who were still undefeated. Like I said, this game was awful. He
Rocket Sneak Attacked 2 Oaks and a lass from my starting hand. (That card
should be banned) I had crap, he got wiggly out in the usual wiggly fashion,
got 2 prizes for the benched win.

Record 3-1-0



Tough break for me, oh well, cant let it affect me, I'm still in this.

GAME 5 Roberts Sponge 1.0 vs Andy Johnson with...ANOTHER WIGGLY!

MAN!!!! This is another one of mine and Joes friends. (he tried to copy Joes
deck card for card) The wierd thing with Andy is he has been coming to
tournaments for a while, and the way Joe tells it, he is usually in first
until he playes Joe, gets beat, and lets it affect his playing. This tourney
was no different.

He goes first. (Imagine that) he has hitmonchan out, I get a couple energy
in my discard and absorb, next turn I remove energys from his hitmonchans,
and ko one, next turn same thing, next turn a scyther. He couldnt get
anything out, mewtwo and electabuzz cleaned up, Game

Record 4-1-0 Points 28

PHEW!!!!!! The way we played this tournament you can only play a person
once. Joe was already a lock for first, because, even if he lost he beat me
and that would make him win even though our records were the same ,but it
didnt matter, I was a lock for second if I could win this last game. Luckily
I had already played all the top people. >:)  Now time its show time....

GAME 6 Roberts Sponge 1.0 vs Kid with a , ummm scyther?

Not much of a show here. He played an energy, I removed it, I got Ea fuel,
used EA, he played another energy , I removed it, 40 damage, next turn he
didnt get a basic, game.

Record 5-1-0 Points 35

YEAH!!!!! Not bad for my first tournament. I got second overall and won my
age group (15 and above). Joe went 6-0, he won the tourney.  Andy went....
well you'll find out in the SLOPS.  The deck performed extremely well, this
was a good tourney with varied decks.  Well now here are the props and
slops.

PROPS!!!!!!!
PROPS to Joe for taking me to the tourney
PROPS to Joe for loaning/giving me the cards
PROPS to Joe for winning the tourney with a record of 6-0
PROPs to Logans Card Shop for hoasting the tourney
PROPS to mewtwo promo, YEAH!
Props to Joes mom for driving us

SLOPS!!!!!
Slops to rocket sneak attack
Slops to ROCKET SNEAK ATTACK
Slops to Andy for being overconfident, and not paying attention in his
games, (he went 2-4)
Slops to little kids who stand up while they play. (why do they do that when
they start beating another little kid?)


well! I think thats enough slops. Was a great tourney and look forward to
the next one.

Carl Roberts
carl1216@hotmail.com


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