Hey PoJo!!! I went to a big tourney at the Gathering Ground in St. Louis Mo.
on oct. 4. It was a dci sanctionded, LARGE tourney. About 40 people played,
and about 25 more came just to trade.
Befor I get started, I will start with listing my deck and the explanation
for each card.

20 Pokemon
3 Gengar - Great card, great power
3 fossil Haunter - Great Card, needed for evolved Gengar
4 fossil Gastley - Needed for the evolution

3 Mr. Mime - He is an incredible basic

4 Hitmonchan - A great basic pokemon.
2 Hitmonlee - A good card and great vs. the ever popular Chancey

1 Ditto - very good vs all those low hp pokemon. and good vs. haymaker

25 Energy cards
12 Psychic energy - To power psychic pokemon
13 Fighting energy - To power fighting pokemon

15 Trainers
3 Energy removals - needed in all decks
2 Super energy removal - works well with e.r.
2 Gust of wind - wonderful disruption
2 Prof. Oak - The #1 card
2 Bill - The #2 card
2 Item finder - Good for recycling cards
2 Comp. Search - A great finder

Now for the tourney...

Round 1 vs Vinny
game 1-Vinny was a BRAND NEW player. this was his second game ever. he got
abra who suffered a quick death by ditto.
game 2-He got a charmander and I got a hitmonchan and a Mime. Sorry vinny

Record- 1-0

Round 2 vs Jason
game 1-Jason is a REALLY good player but he just got a bad hand. Ghasty
licked his Ghastly to oblivion before he got any energy. Then his Buzz came
out and laid the smack down for a few turns. eventually, I powered up a lee
and laid some smack down myself. all he had was a chancy and lee killed him
FAST (he had 20 damage from a previous stretch kick)
game 2-I got a HORRIBLE draw and his buzz killed mime fast.
game 3-we played for about 5 minuts exchanging blows between his lickitoung,
my chan, then his buzz and my haunter. Eventually I got gengar and finished
him off by killling buzz and licki with 1 attack.

record- 2-0

round 3 vs ???
??? was VERY good. these were the 2 HARDEST fights I EVER had beside the
Gathering Ground classic "Grund Vs Parnas" where dugtrio almost won it for
me!!!!!!! (I am Parnas). U all hafta know who Tyler Grund is.
game 1- this game was so lengthy and so strategic that I cant remember a
thing.
game 2- before I start, I would like to say that this game got a time
extention because  it was a such a great match. we had the ENTIRE store
there. thats about 60 people watching.
start: he played a dangerous alakazam, moltres, ninetales deck. the start was
his Moltres vs my mime. mime was the first to attack striking early blows
while a vulpix gaind strength in the background.
I killed moltres and vulpix came forth and confused mime. I killed my self.
Gengar came out and spilled a little blood for mime. when ninetales came
forward and killed gengar, it got personal.
lee came on out and I had to oak so I could get lee attacking. lee did his 50
and died. then came something really funny. mime vs tales. it was death
written all ovr the place. after kadabra came out, the crowd started
gathering. he gusted  and kadabra went **SMACK****SMACK****SMACK** and pimp
slaped my chan then lee. from that point on it was all ditto.slowly, ditto
started to die after damaging alot, but not killing anyone. he got killed.I
brought out the sweet GENGAR. Gengar repetedly made the opponent keil over
but gengar got it in thehead from moltres. moltres still has his beak stich
in gengars forhead.
Those were some INCREDIBLE games. BTW: this guy got 2nd.

Record- 2-1

round 4 vs ???
??? wasnt very good.
game 1- he was playing raindance and I had gengar. it got really ugly.
ditto laid the smack down for about 5 turns till he got blastouise. at wich
point lee laid the smack down. I won
game 2. lapras wrecked 2 mimes then chan wrecked lapras then articuno wrecked
chan then ditto won it for me, god.

record- 3-1

I dont know how it happened, but I didnt mae it into the final 8. I got 2
free fossil packs because when little kids saw ditto lay some smack in the
BIG game, they all bought a bunch of them from the store .

Please put this in killer decks!!!
Thanks not just a ton, but 2 tons and 32 pounds - DeadPool -
CallMeDeadPool@aol.com