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Witten Challenge 19 march 2005 - Germany - Kevin De Mooij
55 participants
15+: 33
14-: 23

(not sure about the 11-14 and 15+ though)


Okay, So, since last week, I've been looking trough EX: Deoxys for decent cards, well, then I saw Shiftry, and I tested all kinds of Back up with it, "perfecting" the deck as it is.

Now, 3-18, I decided to send my brother, who hasn't played Pokemon for a year, to the 11-14, with a DragTrode deck, I wanted to learn him everything about the deck, but wanted to watch DVD.. -.-

Oh well, 3-19, driving for Witten at 6:00 AM, sick.
On the road we laughed at the German names for the exits (Ausfart) At 9.00, We arrived at the place, but we decided to stay in the car, waiting for the other Dutchies to arrive (Rainbowgym / Lia & Co)

After a minute or 5, 10, we saw them circulating around the parking place XD So I walked to them, and we went to the Haus der Jugend.

The deck:

ShapeShift

Pokemon: 22
1 Jirachi HL
3 Dunsparce SS
2 Chichou HL
2 Lanturn HL
2 Clamperl HL
2 Gorebyss HL
2 Seedot DX
2 Seedot SS
3 Nuzleaf SS
2 Shiftry DX
1 Shiftry HL

Trainer: 21
4 Prof. Oak's Research FRLG
3 Steven's Advice HL
3 TV Reporter DR
2 Desert Ruins HL
1 Master Ball DX
1 Rocket's Admin. TRR
1 VS Seeker FRLG
1 Rare Candy SS
1 Crystal Shard DX
1 Celio's Network FRLG
1 Life Herb FRLG
1 Switch RS
1 Copycat TRR

Energy: 17
6 Psychic Energy
4 Double Rainbow Energy
3 Rainbow Energy
2 Scramble Energy
1 Multi Energy
1 Grass Energy

So, In my metagame, draggy kinda died, so you could consider this breaking a metagame =)

Round 1, VS Behrad Hasseini, with DragTrode Game 1:
Ok, He starts godly, sars for voltorbs and dratini, I used jirachi to search for early Lanturns, and PORing like crazy cause I couldn't find my crystal shard. So, he sends up Draggy, to kill Jirachi and a Dunsparce, then I use a Gorebyss to do 80 damage, planning to KO draggy with a Shiftry, he retreats for a electrode, and kills my Byss, I send up Shiftry, and do 60 damage with Stadium power, He sends up TR Sneasel, and does an exact 110 damage with 4 darkness >_< I sent up Lanturn, scrambling to do 90 to the Sneasel, KO, He Sends up another electrode, and KO's my Lanturn, from there I couldn't recover, and found out that my shard was in my last two prizes >_<

Game 2:
He starts exactly the same, and I start a bit weaker, I get a quick Shiftry HL, and I'm able to KO sparce and damaging his electrodes, I POR a lot again to find the shard, but couldn't get it, so, He does 70 with an electrode, and I KO him, He sends up a draggy, and I use Lanturn with DRE to do 80, from there, I drew pretty bad, and it took a while for building up something to KO again, then, he benches TR Mewtwo EX, which gets pretty much screwed by desert ruins, he KO's something, and I use Lanturn to KO TR Sneasel EX, drawing 2 prizes, leaving one left.
He sends up Mewtwo, which had 80 damage by now, and KO's my Lanturn, drawing his last prize (I was confused and playing quick because we had only 3 minutes left, if I had just paralyzed (gorebyss) his sneasel, I could win >_<

0-1

Round 2, VS Heinz Könings, with Blasty ex/ Quagsire I start real bad (though 1-1-1 Shiftry in hand), and he starts a KO fest with T2 Quagsire, I finally draw a POR, and able to DRE a Lanturn for the KO, from there, I KO'd some squirtles and Qwilfish, till prizes were equal, since scramble wasn't providing anymore.
I set up 2 Shiftry DX, and wait for energy, he eventually gains Blasty ex, and KO's Lanturn, prizes were 2-1 now, I send up Shiftry 1, doing 60 for stadium power, and let desert ruins do its work. , he does 80 and removes an DRE, I retreat for Shiftry 2, and KO the stoise for my last two prizes.

Game 2:
I start godly, Sarring for chinchou's and seedots, and PORing everything I need, and I'm able to KO a lot due DRE and Lanturn, and finishing it with a gorebyss which did 120 by then =)

1-1

Round 3, VS Sebastien Schröder, With Dark crobat/ Crobat EX/ Togetic Game 1:
He starts with a lone togepi, I with a lone clamperl, I begin, I attach a psychic, he attaches a grass energy, making me asleep, I draw nothing, passing to him, he flips mini-metronome heads for 10 damage and paralyzing me, I topdeck POR, attach a multi energy, play POR, gaining a master ball, which gets me gorebyss, Game.

Game 2: He starts a lot better now, we both setup, and he goes quick dark crobat poisoning and doing 30 to my tree, I do 60 with a Shiftry, then he S! TMs for a golbat (D bat was Candied) and tries to evolve directly in Crobat EX, I call a judge, since S! TM says: "this counts as evolving", and he confuses me, I Search for lanterns, just in case, but flip heads though for confusion, knocking out his golbat, he cant do much, so I use Lanturn for the final knock out.

2-1

round 4, VS Kai-Andre Sieper, with Ludicolo/Magcargo Game 1: He starts with lotad, I try to T2 KO him with DRE and nuzleaf SS, which doesn't work, though, I can get Shiftry T3, Knocking out lotads, slugma's, and a Dunsparce, He eventually gets the ludicolo magcargo combo, but by then my gorebyss was able to do 100, Knocking out about everything

Game 2:
I laugh at him using Lanturn T2 to knock out everything.

3-1

Round 5 VS Cetin Yildirim, with Blaziken/Pidgeot Game 1: He starts AWFUL, really, I feel sorry for him, I use T2 Shiftry HL and DRE to quick KO pidgey and Dunsparce, he sends up another sparce, paralyzing me for 3 turns O.o Sick, I eventually draw life herb and flip heads, removing paralyze and 4 damage counters, I knock out more, till he gets blaze EX, which took a little longer to knock out, but, I won.

Game 2: We both start bad, but one of us used a rockets admin, getting great hands for both of us, I built up gorebysses, but sent up a Shiftry, knocking out early basics, then he gets the engine running (when I had 4 prizes left), he does 40 vs. my tree, and I shard his quaza EX, that hurts.
He then ATMs me, knocking out both shiftry's and discarding about 2 DRE's and a scramble O.o, I try to rebuild, then he sends up blaze EX, and knocks out one of my gorebyss.
I played desert ruins again, and I paralyze (yay) him, + doing 20 damage, he already ran out of switches and warp points (or were prized?), and passes, I topdeck scramble (prizes were 2-1 then) omfg, that felt like.. wow XD doing 120 +10 for desert ruins = game.

4-1

Round 6 VS Konstantin Beck, With Ludicolo/Magcargo Game 1: clamperl vs slugma, I attach psychic, he collect's, I used celio for gorebyss, attach a rainbow, game.
Game 2: I start bad, real bad, I finally drew an energy, and I made a wish (yeah, it got me a lanturn) , his lombre knocks out my jirachi next turn, and I sent up lanturn, using his power and attaching DRE for the KO. He then only had camerupt left, which I did 80 to with the DRE, and a next DRE finished it.
5-1

Wow, except for round 1, that went great, my deck worked fine, and all games and opponents were great to play against =) I came in 2nd, out of 32 15+ players, making the cut.

T8 VS Jens (Baumgart?) with Dark weezing, Dark Arbok, Dark Muk

I start great, he too, but I manage to get 2 DRE in my hand and a scramble, and a lanturn ready for the knock-out fest.
BUT, he decided to rockets admin… which got me a reaaaal bad hand ( a lot of basic pokemon), then I fanned away every attacker just to stall, until I drew POR, which got me at least one DRE and a Steven =) Then, I send up lanturn, doing 40 first, and then knocking out his dark beasts, because he had a rockets hideout in play, and I couldn't find a desert ruins, when I had 1 or 2 prizes left, I finally got a ruins, then he gave up.

Game 2: I start great, not godly, but not bad at least, and I use gorebyss for early KO's, then he R energy his dark weezing, knocking out my byss, then, I got stuck, eventually, I got a Shiftry, which slashes trough a lot of pokemon, then I got a Lanturn, and gorebyss, and had an army vs Dark pokemon with no energy, using Shiftry team up (Fan away + Shiftry HL main attacking) to win.

Quarter Finals VS The German Champ (Dennis Draheim) with blaziken

Game 1: I actually don't remember much of this game, but he started bad, so did I, But when I used shiftry + DRE + shard + Desert ruins, he couldn't recover.
Game 2: ok, I had tons of luck this game, it wasn't even funny O.o Ok, we both started fast, and I used sar + make a wish to get quick gorebysses and Lanturns, he sent ray to KO jirachi, I sent the energy to lanturn, and attach DRE for the KO (desert ruins was there already) he sends up another quaza, which, I think, I knocked out with Shiftry DX, then, he gets blazy X, Knocking out Gorebyss, I sent up another byss, and KO for the last 2 prizes.

Finals VS Toni Lampert With Crobat X and Dark Crobat.
Game 1: We both started out quick both SaR, and I made wishes for lanturn and shiftry, I used shiftry to fan away the important pokemon, and KO'ed them with Shiftry , he gets the combo (2 dark Crobat, 2 bat
X) and uses Dark Crobat to poison + skill dive vs shiftry, I do 60, and desert ruins damages the Crobat EX's, then, he KO's my shiftry, I got a little too enthusiastic and lay damage counters on the bats for ruins, since Lanturn's power is triggered in your turn, and desert ruins is between, I couldn't save the energy, which messes me up, I DRE lanturn for the KO, and again for Cro X, but then I couldn't retreat for shiftry, cause I was missing that energy, and got stuck, he KO's lanturn, leaving us both with one prize left, I sent up chinchou with one energy, and copycatted, if one of my prizes was DRE, or lanturn, I lost, I may draw 11 cards for the copycat (out of my 16 card deck) and got both lanturn and DRE, so I won. Great Game =) Game 2 sucked, he gets nothing, I get a quick shiftry HL with DRE (T2), and KO everything, I built up some lanturn, just in case =)

1st.
I received a medal, a trophy, and 18 DX boosters, yay =) On the way back home, we really got irritated because we almost ran out of fuel, and apparently, in Germany, there is no gas station in 80 kilometers (50 miles), when we finally found 2 (yeah, next to each other >_>) we could go back home.

Props:
- Organization team, the tournament was real good organized.
- My dad, driving us to Germany.
- Frans , trading Pidgeots and nice to talk to =)
- Lia, Jasper, Arnoud, you rock
- The chocolate in Germany.
- My deck, I fell in love with it
- Arco, nice to talk to
- Maxim, mental support? XD
- Dutch team, 2 out of 6 in Top 8, the others all 3 swiss wins, I think
- My brother, picking up the game in one day
- German "schnitzel"
- All others I forgot to thank

Slops:
- Germany, for not having gas stations anywhere (45 minutes-search for 1)
- Cheaters, if there were any, UGH
- Our (Dutch) local distributor
- My dad, for being not there when you could order pizza (long story)
- My brother when he was complaining a bit too much on the way back
- All others i forgot to give slops to =)