I left for my trip Friday night. We went to Dairy Queen for supper. Ok, I'll skip to good part.

I stayed over night at my cousin's played a little Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, and went to bed. When we got up we pretty much left really quickly to go to the tourney.

When we got there, I met menoknow. He's one cool guy, for anyone who is wondering. Then, I hung around with him and the league people: Josh, Joe, Chris, Cody, Matt, Niki, etc.

Ok... now I'm skipping to when I opened packs because there isn't anything interesting between those. Well, I always say I pull crap, so here it is.

Cards pulled
1 Ditto
1 Poliwrath
1 Arcanine
1 Dugtrio
1 Kingler
1 Primeape
1 Tangela
1 Drowzee
2 Ivysaur
1 Metapod
1 Nidorina
1 Parasect
1 Persian
1 Porygon
2 Raticate
1 Venomoth
1 Wartortle
1 Weepinbell
1 Bellsprout
3 Bulbasuar
1 Caterpie
1 Charmander
1 Clefairy
1 Cubone
1 Doduo
1 Growlithe
2 Jigglypuff
1 Krabby
2 Magikarp
1 Magnemite
1 Meowth
1 Nidoran (Male)
1 Paras
1 Pidgey
1 Pikachu
3 Ponyta
1 Seel
1 Shellder
1 Slowpoke
2 Venonat
1 Voltorb
2 Weedle
1 Bill's Maintenance
1 Charizard ex

Wow... 1 Trainer. This is what I built. It probably wasn't the best selection on my part, but I really didn't want to have a lone Ponyta start.

My Prerelease Deck
Pokemon (22)
1 Ditto
1 Tangela
2 Ivysaur
1 Metapod
1 Parasect
1 Persian
1 Porygon
1 Venomoth
3 Bulbasuar
1 Caterpie
1 Meowth
1 Paras
1 Shellder
2 Venonat
2 Weedle

Trainers (1)
1 Bill's Maintenance

Energy (17)
17 Grass

That is all for the deck. So, here are my rounds.

Round 1 - Peter (Grass stuff)
Ok, I start off by quickly KOing a Paras and some other Pokemon with Bulasaur. Then he takes my Bulbasaur, so I bring up a powered Parasect. He takes that pretty quick, so I bring up Ivysaur. I'm able to score 1 prize before he KOs me, so I send up my Ditto with 2 Energy on it. I use it's power to switch it with Bulbasaur for KO. Good game!
1-0; 3 points

Round 2 - Niki (Grass stuff) AKA Shadowcune
Niki is playing Grass too. That would probably be because of the abundance of Grass Pokemon in the set. Anyways, I start off with Weedle. She starts with Caterpie. I Poison her right off the bat, then she hits me for ten. Her 2nd turn she evolved into Metapod, so I Poison that too. 3rd turn she pulls out Butterfree on me and takes 2 prizes really quickly (not without me racking up some damage on it, though). I bring up Venomoth and pray for the flip. HEADS! Now She's only up by one prize. I take 2 more prizes with Venomoth, then I send up Bulbasuar for game.
2-0; 6 points

Round 3 - Josh (Grass stuff) AKA Hypnotoad
Ok. Josh was an easy game all around. I got a 2nd turn Metapod and ate him alive by stalling until I sent up Paras to poison him. I took 1 prize with Paras and 3 prizes with Metapod. Good game, Hypnotoad: Ruler of the Dimentions. :p
3-0; 9 points

Round 4 - Steve (Fighting/Fire) AKA Yoshi1001
Ok. I didn't stand a chance. I did offer the ID before the match, but oh well. I lost. I'm not going into depth at all with this. He had total weakness over me.
3-1; 9 points

At this point there was a 4 way tie for 1st in my division (11-14) with Josh, Cody, Joe, and me.

Round 5 - Cody (Grass stuff) AKA Blaziking111
Cody's my brother. We IDed. No, not because of being brothers, but because of a strategic plan I was about to impliment. I also got Joe and Josh to ID. They played each other too.
3-1-1; 10 points

Round 6 - Joe (Grass/Water stuff)
Joe's cool. He always gets lucky enough to beat me though. We ID... part of my master plan. I also got the 1st through 8th place people in 11-14 to ID to assure their positions as well. SCORE!
3-1-2; 11 points

The results for 11-14 were in.
1st Place: ME!
2nd Place: Joe!
3rd Place: Cody!
4th Place: Josh!
5th Place: Niki!
6th Place: Matt!
7th Place: Peter!
8th Place: Kyle!

It ended up being a 4 way tie for 1st place, and resistance AND last names decided it. Joe and I had the exact same record AND resistance, but Krenke comes before Miller in the alphabet, so I win.
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Then, there was the Modified side event. I'll get right down to the matches.

The Deck List: Magma Melt-Down
Pokemon (16)
4 TM's Groudon
4 TM's Zangoose
2 TM's Baltoy
2 TM's Claydol
2 TM's Numel
2 TM's Camerupt

Trainers (25)
4 Professor Oak's Research
4 Team Magma Ball
4 TV Reporter
3 Team Magma Consirator
3 Strength Charm
3 Mr. Briney's Compassion

3 Pokemon Reversal
2 Ancient Tomb
2 Maxie

Energy (16)
8 Fighting
3 Magma
3 Darkness
2 Rainbow

Ok... now that Manitowoc is over too, here is the rounds for yesterday's Modified tourney.

Round 1 - Niki (Team Aqua/Suicune ex/Walrein) AKA Shadowcune
Ok, TM's Groudon is an awsome card. I took all of my prizes but one with him, and the one I didn't take I took with TM's Zangoose.
1-0; 3 points

Round 2 - Matt (Machamp/Banette) AKA Monsterprowler
Matt is my cousin, so I decide to wail on him. His Banettes are both Weak and Resistant to me, so they are OHKOs. He stalls a bit with Shuppet and Machamp, but everything gets damage piled on it. Then, I Briney for a fresh Groudon!

2-0; 6 points

Round 3 - Kyle (Walrein/Milotic) AKA Pooka
Pooka is so cool. I do agree, however, that he is too quiet. Sometimes you have to wonder about why he is so quiet. LOL. Anyways, he takes a whole one prize on my TM's Groudin that I sacrifice just so I assure a win. Good game, and I'm glad that I was able to beat the 12th place 15+ World Championship participant.
3-0; 9 points

Round 4 - Cody (Exploud/Xatu) AKA Blaziking111
Cody's my brother, so he begs for an ID. Why would I do that? I'm on a roll. So, I pretty much take everything out do to weakness. He never got a Xatu out at all.
4-0; 12 points

Round 5 - Peter (Castform/Walrein)
My 3rd Walrein deck today... YAY. Walrein is Team Magma's only challenge, so this turns out to be a slow paced game where I am only one prize ahead at all times. One prize is enough to pull off a win with only 2 minutes left on the clock. Best, and hardest, match all day. Good job!
5-0; 15 points

Round 6 - Danny (Team Magma/Banette) AKA Erma Eunice Finklebunker
This isn't even fair. He isn't playing Team Magma's Zangoose, and I am. Also, I have Weakness over his Banettes. He is able to stall for a couple turns with sleep at the end of the game, but top decking a Briney's Compassion was all I needed.
6-0; 18 points

Yay. 1st place, 1 Treecko promo, 12 FRLG packs. I think I gave the Japanese players a great name. Team Magma is an excellent deck, and the Japanese players were extremely smart to play it at Worlds. I probably would lose to them - being more experienced with the deck and all, but I think I've done well. You can keep up with the deck's record in my profile.

Just to let everyone know, I took 5th place at Manitowoc today and got 12 more packs for $15.