Hey guys! Well its me again with TWO reports in one! One is a Gym: Challenge
release tournament report at Wizards of the coast store Willowbrook Mall,
Wayne New Jersey, and another is a normal tournament at Time Warp comics and
games in Cedar Grove New Jersey.

This is the deck I used in both tournaments.

Arkanoid, formally known as Equalizer. Same Pokemon, same Trainers. same
energy, better concept.

Arkanoid by Rob Z.
Pokemon(13)
3 Movie promo Mewtwo
3 Electabuzz
2 Chansey
2 Ditto
1 Brock's Ryhorn(the rare one from Gym: Heroes)
1 Mr. Mime
1 Scyther

Energy(19)
4 Double colorless energy
7 Psychic energy
8 Electric energy

Pokemon(28)
2 Bill
2 Professor Oak
2 Computer search
3 Item finder
2 Gust of wind
2 Scoop up
2 Super energy removal
2 Energy removal
2 Nightly garbage run
2 Rocket's sneak attack
2 Narrow gym
2 Plus power
1 Energy flow
1 Lass
1 Switch

As some of you who were/are addicted to the very VERY fun game, Arkanoid, you
know that you are the spaceship, Vaus. This deck revolves around that theory.
Before I begin, you may see my random and different trainers. It mixes in
with the theory. Remember when you hit a non-solid block, and it breaks and
gives you a special cell-like object, and if you catch it you gain its power?
Well that is part of the theory.

The theory is, use what you get, when you want too, when you need it. You are
always gonna get something different, and with all these different things,
you are always going to have something ready. The cell-like objects were
almost always welcomed, same here.

Now the reports from the tournaments I entered on Saturday 7, 2000 A.D. of
the month of October. Hey, the guidelines said the date of the tournament...

First tournament- Gym: Challenge release tournament
The tournament was two hours long, from 10:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. I won 17
matches, no loses, and 34 points. I played too many people to have an actual
report, but I won first place for nine first edition of Gym: Challenge packs.
Really I got eleven packs counting the two I got when I paid a dollar for
entering the tournament.

I pulled 5 foils out of the 9 packs I won, which was really beating the odds.
The first two packs had no foils in them so it is really 5 out of 11, still
not bad.

Time Warp tournament
Ok this one I can describe. Gym: Challenge wasn't allowed, but I still wanted
to play. Here is the report.

Me vs. Jim T. a.k.a. MrRk9 with his Clefable center deck, which really works.
My hand was bad, and so was the cards I drew. I just kept trying to survive
as he drew prize after prize. It was some where between where I had five
prizes and he had four. I had just gained a prize, even though after making
an awful mistake. It was my Ditto vs Jim's Clefable. I forgot to metronome
for minimize, which was a bad mistake. He retreated for his Movie Promo(MP)
Mewtwo, and ko'ed my Ditto. Believe it or not, this was going to help me down
the road. I somehow started to draw energy, after a long match. I actually
started to kill his Pokemon, with out prize levels becoming even and low. It
was one prize vs. one prize. All I had to do was knock out one Pokemon, so I
took out my Chansey. If he metronomed, Clefable would kill itself. He
metronomed, but for Scrunch. He got heads. I forgot what happened next, but
either way, I ended up killing him via Chansey like two turns later. Great,
great game.
Round 1- 1-0

Me vs. Ralph with his Movie Promo Mewtwo deck with Chansey, Scyther, and
Erika's Dratini.
Another hard match. We both started out slow, but I still beat him in the
game. Rather slow match.
Round 2- 2-0

Me vs Steve T. with his I forgot what his deck was.
Wow, I thought Steve T., Jim T.'s brother(both Jim and Steve are Team Meow
members by the way.), would put up more of a fight. Really it was cause I got
a bigger edge.
Round 3- 3-0

I won first place. Steve and Jim had to fight each other, in a long match.
Jim won, gaining second, and Steve got third.

I got $15 credit, which was appropriate for a 6 person tournament. I got a
Scrye, the new issue, and three packs.

Well, those are my two tournament reports in one.

Props
God out course! Without Him we wouldn't be here!
Team Meow, my team.
Ralph, Steve(another Steve, Ralph's friend), and Bill, three non-Team Meow
members who are really cool.
Everyone in the tournament.
Wizards of the coast for the cool release tournamet(their doing a great job
with the game right now).
All the sites doing a good job to bring us Pokemon news first-hand and
correct.
And all the other props I forget to mention.

Slops
Some slops, can't remember them all.
Satan for all of his evil.
All the other slops.

Robcatpz@aol.com My email, where you can send me all kinds of comments,
suggestions, ramblings, etc.