Hey Pojoites, what's going on? This was the first good size tournament I've ever played in.  There were no card restrictions, and a 20 minute time limit on the matches, whoever was ahead on prizes at that time won. Don't stomp me if I do something wrong. The deck I used was one that I had been working on for about 3 weeks.  Here's my deck.

Pokemon (17)
4 Onix
3 Steelix
3 Cleffa
2 Clefairy (neo)
2 Clefable
2 Chansey
1 Wooper

Trainers (29)
4 Pro. Elm
4 Gold Berry
4 Computer Search
4 Lass
3 Ecogym
3 Itemfinder
3 SER
2 Switch
2 Energy Charge

Energy (14)
4 Metal
4 Recycle
4 DCE
2 Full Heal

With this setup, I try to get a Steelix w/ 4 Metal on him, a Gold Berry, and an Ecogym in play.
If they're running fire, I switch gears and go for a Chansey w/ 4 Metal.  I can imagine how frustrating it is to try and damage a guy w/ a -40 resistance on a huge HP monster, w/ that constant healing of Gold Berry.  I put in Clefable to stop Sneasel and Rocket's Zapdos, who were making appearances at this tournament.  Throw in the Cleffa /Lass combo plus SER, and your opponent has bit off more than they can chew.

Round 1 VS. Kevin K. w/ Mono Electric
this poor kid didn't have a clue what it would take to win in this environment.  He was running jungle Electrode and Pikachus.  It took about six turns to get out Steelix and power him up, I SERed his guy that was next in line on the bench, played Ecogym, and Tail Crushed to the win about 7 turns later.
After that match I heard about all the upsets that had happened.  The 3 top notch players had lost to unfortunate situations, like a lone Jiggly vs. a Hitmonchan, bad Sneasel coinflips, and bad luck to a Typlosion.  How'd that happen??

Round 2 VS. Nick H. w/ Mono Grass
As soon as I saw his openers, I thought that this would be an easy match, because I had the resistance advantage.  My opening hand was pathetic, and I never saw Steelix in this match.  I was in total disarray Elming and Eeeeeeeking for about 3 turns.  In that time, I sacrificed a Clefairy and Onix.  I finally got Chansey and started laying on the Metal and a Gold Berry. A third sacrifice about 4 turns later, he had Dark Vileplume vs. my Chansey.  I had no backup, because my Clefairies were in the discard, which meant I couldn't go for a Clefable.  To add to things, he Confused my Chansey w/ Dark Gloom.  Time was running out and I knew that i needed to at least get 3 Prizes to tie. I found a Full Heal energy in my hand, laid it on and Double Edged (for no damage to me)  'till it was tied.  He dared not try and confuse me again because his second Dark Plume would let me play trainers, such as Gold Berry, but he tried successfully.  Unlucky for him, if I flipped tails, i take no damage because of the Metals.  If only I could have retreated then Switched, I had only Grass-weakness Onix on the bench, but what do you know, he Stalls out the game while it's a tie.

In the Sudden Death, I start w/ only a Clefairy vs. his Oddish.  I did have a DCE, and got to go first, so I double slapped for a while damaging the newly evolved Dark Gloom.  I get Clefable through Elm a turn later, and Metronome against a now Dark Plume, but he laid a Focus Band on the turn before.  I confused myself, but he got tails on the  band flip, so I beat that square.

Round 3 VS. Mike A. w/ Raindance
He ran your typical Neoized Raindance.  I'm not sure who went first, but this was definitely in my favor.  Steelix showed up eventually w/ 4 Metal, and let me tell you, a Blastoise doing only 20 a turn after Oaking 3 times, doesn't hurt.  I Gold Berry away the damage easy, KO Blastoise and finish a couple of little Basics like Mantine and Tododile for the win.

Round 4 VS. Mike O. w/ more Grass...
I  might've started it off, but I had Cleffa vs. a Scyther. I Eeeeeeek and Elm while he attaches grass to Scyther for 3 turns and Slashes to kill Cleffa.  He picks up another prize somehow and goes up against a 4 Metal Steelix w/ the Gold Berry.  After Scyther fell he was using Nidorina (?!?) to confuse Steelix, which ended because a of the Full Heal energy.  I was finishing off his guys as quick as he could lay on the energy.  When I had 1 prize left he tried pulling that Supersonic thing again from Nidorina, but failed.  I Tail Crush again for the win, but I had the other Full Heal in my hand anyway.

Round 5 A Bye to the finals

Round 6 VS. Tyler W. w/ Neo Haymaker
I figured i'd  play against this kind of deck in the Finals.  He had a great deck w/ Rocket's Zapdos, Hitmonchan, and Electabuzz.  He mulligans to begin but wins the flip.  My only basic is a Cleffa against his HITMONCHAN.  He started Searching for a Plus Power, and tried Jabbing.  I thought it was over, and that I had been tagged easily.  But he had a strange flip and got tails.  I Elm, and lay down some basics, energize Cleffa and Eeeeeeek.  I think he knocks out Cleffa, while I'm building up Steelix and put out Ecogym, and somehow gets a new Active, Electabuzz.
        To my advantage, I use Wooper and put some damage on that 'Buzz.  I think he KO's Wooper and  retreating  for a 'Chan.  I finally use Steelix, w/ only 2 or 3 Metal this time.  He Special Punches a couple times but gold Berry takes effect.  He retreats for a Rocket's Zapdos and Electroburns, but now i've got 3 metal on Steelix for sure.  Some time in between he RSA's me.  His choices were Lass, Elm, or Gold Berry.  He picks Lass and attacks again.  I lay out the Gold Berry and Elm, then KO Zapdos.
I get the 4th Metal, and the Judge next to my sighs out loud.  Then I lass he hand.  I'm not sure how bad that hurt him, but his pokemon couldn't hurt me. I knew it  was over, and Tail Crush a couple of times for the win.  I remember he picked up 2 prizes, then I got 6 straight.

I won 6 boosters and a Pokemon battle stadium, for 1st.

Props to
Tyler for being a great competitor
All the judges and guys who constructed the tourney
Metal energy

Slops to
The square that Stalled out the game
His brother for saying that i cheated

pep214@earthlink.net

later, Steve