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Pokemon Tournament Reports
Greenfaulds EX
Legend Maker Prerelease, Feb 12th 06
Report by Cole Bendall (PokeGuru)
Following a long
series of events including refurbishments at venues,
weird pubs and old men in white tank tops, we ended up
having a new, cleaner pub to run our events in. Problem
was, it was about another half hour away from our
original venue. =/
So, a train and a
cramped car journey later, I and my friend, Andrew R,
arrive at the venue, along with our TO, Chalkey, Allan R
and our TO's son, Conan. We get set up and a long banter
session later with the other 15+ entrants, we get to
opening our boosters.
Since I'm writing
this ages after the prerelease, I can't remember the
exact contents, although I do remember Lanturn, Lilleep
and Muk as my main Pokemon, with a Spinda draw and
Misdreavus stall.
My first round was
against this player from Aberdeen - he played a lot in
the WotC days, but only recently restarted with the
game. The match went quite quickly. He just couldn't
draw basics, and my T2 evolve to Muk basically destroyed
him from there.
1-0
Next round was
against Alistar F, who knocked out my Muk early, and
went on with a Machoke beatdown from there. Checked to
see if I could stall any longer, but couldn't.
1-1
3rd round was against
Ali F's dad, John F. We had each taken one prize each,
and he'd put up Wynaut as active. I had heard about a
previous game, where he basically used Wobbuffet's
Shadow Tag attack to annialate the opponent.
Unfortunately, he couldn't appear to draw it. So while
he stalled with repetative Wynaut confusions, I started
to build up a benched Lanturn. After a bit, I retreat
for Lanturn and start beating him down from there. Time
is called and I'm 2 prizes ahead of him, so I win.
We then hear that 15+
has a top cut. A few were at 2-1, so I was nervous.
Turned out I was the highest ranking 2-1, and had to
play the undefeated 3-0 - Andrew R. =/
4th match, we both
took 1 prize early. We were stalling for a bit just
blocking each other's attacks. I thought I was doomed
for a bit until I managed to draw a React Energy to
fully reheal my active Tangela. His downfall comes where
he uses Spinda's draw attack and rolls 7 heads, thereby
drawing 14 cards. He ends up with 5 cards in his deck.
While the prizes end up getting to 1-1, I hold out those
5 turns and deck him to win.
So I win 15+, which
was good. Andrew R gets Arcanine ex in his prize
boosters, which is bad. =( I buy some boosters after the
prerelease and get a Banette ex, which is good. Nature
is rebalanced once again.
Props-
Andrew R for a great
final match
Our TO, Chalkey, for
coping with the larger numbers than usual
The prize boosters
which were pretty cool throughout
My POP 2 prizes -
ended up with a Pidgeot and a Venusaur
Nice venue
Slops-
Andrew R getting the
Arcanine
The slightly too
small deckbox
Tournament Software
for crashing at one point
Well, I'll be
reporting again soon from the Greenfaulds CC on Feb
26th. See you then!
~PokeGuru
cole (dot) bendall
(at) btinternet (dot) com
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