Wizards of the coast
Columbia mall
Columbia,maryland
October 7,2000
Tony Gregg
Deck name: You Just Lost
Dear pojo,
   This is my first tournament and i decided to send in a killer deck report
for it.It was a gym challenge pre-release tourney and about 36 people
participated.I cant go through all the matches because i played so manybut
the rules were it was a tournament where you would play whoever you wanted
and if you beat them youd get two points and if you lost you get one.Kind of
like pokemon league.Well i got there at 10:00 and met my friend scott and
noah. we signed up and got two packs for free. i got a giovannis persian and
a blaine(non-holo).My friend scott got Rockets Mewtwo in one of his
packs!!!Then our gym leader went over all the rules and stuff like that.Then
i had to get my deck checked. So here it is:

Pokemon
4:scyther
4:hitmonchan
3:electabuzz

energy
7:fighting
6:electric
4:double colorless

Trainers
4 computer search
4 professer oak
4 scoop up
3 nightly garbage run
3 energy removal
3 rocket sneak attack
3 item finder
4 plus power
4 gust of wind

   I wont go through all the matches because i played 24. I'll just go
through the key ones. By the way my name is tony gregg.


Match 1 Tony vs. Alex
   I started out with a pretty good hand and i think he started with a bad on
because he had 5 pokemon down. my hand had scyther hitmonchan a double
colorless and a couple of energy.I start with scyther all the time unless im
playing a fire deck. so i sent out scyther and placed chan on the bench. i
got to go first and when he flipped over his pokemon i saw he was playing a
brock deck so i was relieved.i drew my card and placed an energy on
scyther.he went and put an energy down on somone and said go. i drew placed
an energy down and slashed that was pretty much the whole game because i had
resistance and he had weakness.

result win
1-0

Next major game was against Jorge.
Tony vs. Jorge
 The beginning of this game wasnt good because he was playing with erikas
dratinis whenever i would get 30 damage on him he would retreat or us
potion.but then i searched for my electabuzzs and i would thundershock him
and flip heads so i could kill the next turn.Then he would bring out the
mimes whickh i would do the same thing to ecept he kept gusting out my chans.
At first i thought this was a stall but he kept oaking an using challenges.So
after about 20 minutes i had one prize left with three cards in my deck and
an oak in my hand. All i needed to get was a fighting energy or a plus power
and there were only 3 in my discard pile so i figured i had a 75% chance of
getting one so i oaked and drew 2 hitmonchans and a scoop up. so i decked my
self and he won.
Result lost
record as of this point about 9-1

Tony Vs. Glenn
       My next major match was against a boy named glenn who everyone thought
was gonna win the tournament because he had a wigglytuff deck and he was a
gym leader at his pokemon league because he was so good. I had seen him a
couple of times at our pokemon league and he wouldnt play me because he said
he did'nt want to play a haymaker. So we started and i kept gusting out his
jigglypuffs and special punching them so he couldnt get out the big balloon.
i got down to one prize and he still had six. so i just special punched a
electabuzz and won.(this is the reason i didnt play a wiggly at the tourney).
results win
record as of this point about 14-1

Next i played Dave
Tony vs. dave

   I was kind of scared because when he shuffled i saw he was playing a rain
dance but i didnt see one blastoise during the game. This match was quick. I
had hitmonchan and electabuzz on the bech he had lapras.I had a great hand
with 3 enerhy a plus power and an oak. he went first and did water gun for
ten i went attached to hitmonchan and did jab. he went and confused me for
ten i drew a scoop up so i scooped up hitmonchan brought out electabuzz
attached an energy and a plus power and oaked getting a plus power and other
stuff so i attached the plus power and figured i needed 2 more to win so i
computer seached to make sure there were 2 in my deck and there were but i
didnt get one i got an oak. Used the oak and got a search in the oak so i
searched for another oak used it and got a plus power and an item finder so i
attached the plus power and item findered for the cmputer search then
computer searched leaving a gust in my hand got the pus power and
thundershocked for 60 and the KO.
result win
record as of this point 15-1


There was about 1 and 1/2 hours left in the tourney. i checked on my friends
scott to see how he was doing because me and him were some of the odds on
favorite to win and he wasnt doing so well which was a big suprise because he
beat my friend META which won the Towson STS for 11-14( you can read his deck
report for that called called sts swingers).

   I then played some more and lost once more to the kid dave that i beat
with 4 plus powers because he had a fully pumped blastoise which knoked out
my scyther and electabuzz because they had no energy.

Then the tournament ended i gave my paper to my gym leader and he went to see
who won. My final record was 22-2.I wa spretty confident that i would win.The
people from 1st to 8th were supposed to get prizes but when he came out he
said to mant people were tied for  8th so he did 1st-4th and last- fourth to
last which got alot of people mad.I forget who got those positions but i
remeber 1st to fourth.4th was the kid with the wigglytuff deck's dad with 30
points .3rd was a older guy with a rain dance with 31 points .2nd was my
friend noah with 32 points. And with a landslide win 1st was me with 46
points.I was dissapointed that my friend scott didnt place but he was lucky
because he got the 3 attck mewtwo which in my opinion is the 2nd best card in
the gym chllenge set because i think rockets zapdos is the best. for my
prizes i got 12 booster packs,an empty booster box, and a "deeds not words"
magic shirt( which i gave away because i had 2 since i won the invasion
pre-release tournament last weekend and got one for that to).In my packs i
got 3 holos they were blaines arcanine, giovannis persian(my 2nd of the day),
and Mistys goduck. Overall my day was pretty good( it was my birthday too
:-)).

Now for props and slops
props to me for winning
props to my friend scott for being an awesome pokemon player
props to my friend Meta for winning Towson STSQ
props to my friend noah for winning second and trading his rocket zapdos to
me :-)

slops to prop 15
slops to prop 2t
slops to prop 15
slops to prop 2t
slops to prop 15
slops to prop 2t
slops to prop 15
slops to prop 2t

Questions or comments my email is Salomon 4ever@aol.com
Thanks for reading