Beating the Pants off You Ver 1.0 (Electric/Psychic)
by Damon Byg
Mayhem Collectables DSM
Des Moines, IA
January 20th, 2001
Roughly 34 Participants
This is my first tournament report and it has almost been a week since the
tournament. I will probably not remember too much as I didn't have time to
write anything down in-between rounds. Rounds were 30 minuets long and it
was a four round swiss. Usually there are multiple age groups at these
tournaments but this weekend not enough 15+ and 10 and unders were there, so we
got grouped into one big tourney.
Beating the Pants off of You Ver. 1.0
Pokemon (12 Basic, 4 Evolutions)
4 Team Rocket Zapdos
4 Movie Promo Mewtwo
4 Fossil Slowpoke
4 Slowking
Trainers (26)
3 Super Energy Removal
2 Resistance Gym
2 Sprout Tower
3 Bill
2 Rocket's Sneak Attack
2 Switch
2 Nightly Garbage Run
2 Computer Search
2 Professor Oak
3 Pokemon Center
3 Gust of Wind
Energy (18)
9 Psychic Energy
7 Electric Energy
2 Full Heal Energy
Now on to the report,
Round One vs Some Kid (Psychic/Colorless/Fighting)
Before the game even started I had to call the tournament judge over and point
out that my opponent had red marks on the back of one of his cards.
Apparently his little brother had gotten ahold of his deck with a red marker and
marked some of his cards. The more noticable ones were an Imposter
professor oak, and a Kangaskhan. *Note* This is why you should take
really good care of your cards. Right after we made some proxies so he
could finish the tournament, the judge announced that at the next tourney if he
caught someone with marked cards or proxies they would be asked to leave.
As for the game I really didn't want to play someone this young but we started
anyways. I started with TR Zapdos and started blowing away his pokemon
with plasma, SERing the ones that got more than one energy. I occasionaly
switched to MP Mewtwo when they were weak or I could take them out with two
shots of Psyburn. I don't think that he even took a prize.
1-0
Round 2 Vs. Danny Durbin (Electric)
I felt that this would be a very close game, but then Murphy's Law reared it's
ugly head behing Danny. I started with a TR Zapdos as active and one on
the bench. He started with a lone Lt. Surge Electabuzz Non-holo. I
won the toss, attached electirc and plasmaed, he removed the energy and passed.
I attached my second electirc that I had starting and plasmaed, getting the
energy that was removed. He drew and said "That's game..."
He didn't draw any more pokemon or draw power to save himself. Since we
finished so early we decided to play another game just for fun.
2-0
Round 3 Vs. Bret "Kittyfox" Larwick with Resist You!
Deck List after the report.
This is the matchup I was dreading... Kittyfox had just built the deck the
night before the tournament and I helped him out by trading him the cards he
needed for it. We never got a chance to playtest either of our decks until
the tournament. I lost this matchup but I made Kittyfox work for every
pokemon he knocked out. I started with a TR Zapdos active and one benched.
He started with a lone Wooper. I got to go first and luckily I had a
Resistance Gym in my hand which I played, along with my only electric energy
just to do 10 damage. To make this shorter, after I finally knocked out
his Wooper he just brought up another one to knock my TR Zapdos out that had 60
damage on it. During the time we were trading blows I had drawn two more
TR Zapdos. After he knocked out my only pokemon that was doing damage I
never drew another lightning energy. I drew plenty of Psychic energy but I
couldn't find a psychic pokemon to put it on. Also during the match I only
saw one bill and one SER. I kept going by switching my TR Zapdos with the
other and Pokemon Centering when needed as he built up his bench. He
finally brought up Sneasel and beat up my two TR Zapdos in the next two turns.
Murphy probably bonked me over the head with a mallet :)
2-1
Round 4 Vs. Some Kid (Psychic/Colorless)
This is probably the only round I cannot completly remember. Although It
was a very close game, we kept trading prizes throughout the match. But in
the end a well placed gust of wind gave me victory. Now all I had to do is
win the Tie Breaks and I would be in the final four.
3-1
Unfortunatly I didn't make it into the final four. Had my opponent in the
first round won at least one game I would have been in for sure, I got edged out
by one point. Kittyfox however was a definate finalist as he didn't lose a
single game all day. Ah well there is always next month's tournament.
Kittyfox's Resist You! Deck
Pokemon (14 Basic, 2 Evolutions)
2 Pichu
3 Scyther
3 Wooper
4 Sneasel
2 Jigglypuff
2 Wigglytuff
Trainers (27)
4 Bill
2 Professor Oak
2 Computer Search
2 Scoop Up
2 Nightly Garbage Run
2 Professor Elm
4 Plus Power
1 Trash Exchange
2 Gust of Wind
2 Item Finder
2 Sprout Tower
2 No Removal Gym
Energy (17)
4 Recycle Energy
4 Dark Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy
5 Grass Energy
That's it for Now,
Damon "TevonSC" Byg
dbyg@ames.k12.ia.us