Tide of 0wnage
by David Friedlander (General Raikou)
Yo, it’s General Raikou. Me and my dad woke up at
RipTide of 0wnage
-----Pokemon (18)
4 Totodile
3 Croconaw L41
3 Feraligatr(riptide)
1 Brock’s Mankey
3 Cleffa
1 Elekid
1 Igglybuff
1 Magby
1 Smeargle (ND)
-----Energy (17)
17 Water Energy
-----Trainers (23)
3 Double Gust
4 Focus Band
3 Misty’s
Wrath
1 Narrow Gym
1 Nightly Garbage Run
4 Professor Elm
1 Recall
2 Secret
2 Rocket’s Training Gym
4 Trash Exchange
Not much strategy
to this deck. =/ Just
0wn all other decks with fera =/
There were around
85+ people there. Only
32 in the 11-14 and 17 or so in the 10 and under. Practiced a bit, got jonathan brooks and his dad to sign blastoise and alakzam cards. The judges were Jonathan Brook’s dad..Dave Brooks
(PokeDad) and Pokesensei.
Before the tourneh I ate some nasteh mcdonalds bagel thingy…never
having them again.
Round 1
vs. Alexia Painter with an interesting Psychic deck
I got
to go first and she started out with some sabrina’;s abra and some other
stuff. I had like a cleffa
or a totodile…after a few turned I had a croconaw and was able to sweep away for a few
Record: 1-0 3
points
Round 2
vs. Jessica Bourne
She had
that dreaded steelix and slowking
deck. I was getting crap with my cleffa’s eeks’ but finally got a feraligatr going before she could do anything with a steelix. I
eliminated the neo onix quickly. She really never got anything started up
until the end. She had a steelix with 2 metal energy and I
had about 7 water enrgy in the discard with some more
water in the deck. I was able to wrath
once getting about 5 or 6 more water into the discard and then I secret missioned discarding any three cards to draw the rest of my
deck. To my amazement they were water
and enough in my discard to do around 150.
I beat the steelix for the last prize.
Record: 2-0 6
points
Round 3
vs. Mathew Charles
We playe tested before the tourney…I beat his slowking/umby pretty easy before. This time he gave me a challenge. To my luck he never flipped for slowking…but I had to flip for that annoying chaos
gym. It wasn’t til
the end when he realized he could flip.
By then I was able to hold out with babies and mankeys
until I got a croc and a fera
powered up. His umby’s
and slowkings couldn’t hold out against fera’s great power.
Record: 3-0 9
points
By this time I was
happy and amazed I have gotten this far…only one more needed for top 8…could I
get it.
Round 4
vs. Nick Yurick
First
of all he had these huge stuffed annoying pokemon
dolls. I thought I’d be nice and let him
keep them on since they weren’t that big of deal. We play…he goes first and knows how to roll
my dice..most every roll he
gets a four. At the beginning I had my
croc out before his and was almost able to knock his out…just that I didn’t
draw the third water energy I needed and instead I got a trash exchange. After that he kept going through and eating
away at what I tried to build. He
won. But this is the thing…he had japanese cards in his deck…and the
TO allowed him to use PAPER proxies instead of AMERICAN CARDs
for the translations in his deck. Also
he had 2 cards in the sleeves…which I did not notice and was probably my
fault. He was not even disqualified when
his deck was checked in the top 8. The
TO was so stupid in letting people use paper proxies for the cards. See I wouldn’t be so mad at this guy if his
deck was fully legal and he had the proxies.
I had to actually wait a little bit to get my american feraligatr to use
outside my deck as a translation and he comes up in here and uses 5 cent paper
translations. The Tournament Director
really pissed me off. Even the judges…PokeSensei and Pokedad wouldn’t
try to stand up for the DCI rules.
Another thing I am wondering about is why Jonathan Brooks was allowed to
play…He had already won the qualifier in Philly and was not allowed to win
another, but that I didn’t mind so much because he plays a legal deck and
stuff. ;/
Record: 3-1 9
points
Now I was talking
to everyone from
Round 5
vs. Kwame Hart (fellow Raliegh
guy =/)
He had a Arcy/slowking against my
deck. I made a few fatal errors during
the game which cost the game. I forgot
he had cinnabar gym in play and thought I knocked out his arcy
when it did not which really put me on the spot. Then it was the battle of the elekids, and he flipped more heads than me. He won it on time. Oh well.
Record: 3-2 9
points
David Friedlander
AKA General Raikou
PS: I’d post an
image of the signed Alakazam and Signed Blastoise, but they don’t show up too well with my scanner
so =/.