The tournament that I was entered in was in Forty-Fort Pa.  It was at a place
called Avenue Collectables. The date was October 30th.  This was the first
tournament I entered and I did great!!! There was exactly 16 people here.  I
have been collecting for some time trying to build the ultimate deck and I
think I have it. 
Here it goes......

17 water energy 
12 Fighting energy

3 Charmander
2 Charmeleon
1 Charizard

1 Hitmonchan
3 Machop
2 Machoke
1 Machamp

2 Seel 
2 Dewgong
2 Squirtle
2 Wartortle
1 Blastoise

2 Professor Oak
3 Bill
1 Pokemon Trader
1 Computer Search
2 Super Energy Removals

Notes for this deck to be successful:

Get Blastoise out as quick as possible!!
After Blastoise is on your bench use the trader cards to get
the Charizard evoulution out.  After Charizard is on the bench, use blatoises
rain dance to put water energy on Charizard.  Then use energy burn and toast
'em.

<editor's note:  You know, this would be a great strategy....if Charizard were a WATER POKEMON!!!  For those of you wondering, yes, this is completely illegal.>

Here's the results:

(single elimination) 

Round 1:
 Me vs. ???

He was playing a fire lightning deck
I toasted his electabuzz with hitmonchan then i won cause he had no pokemon
on his bench.

Round 2 :
 Me vs. Dylan

Dylan was playing a stall deck with a lot of Chanseys in it.  i sent out
machop as my basic pokemon and used a computer search to get hitmonchan. I
beat him by taking all of his prizes.

Round 3:
Me vs. ???
        This kid was using a power reserve deck i killed his pokemon with
blastoise

Finals:

    Me vs. my freind Doug

Doug was playing a fire water deck that i helped him develop.  It was a
pretty even match i started with seel and he used magmar(fossil) we each had
about 3 prized left when i drew a dewgong. (i had another seel on the bench)
I evolved seel and sent him out.  I killed his arcanine for the win!!!!!

Not bad for my first tourney... i walked out with 8 boosters and a fossil
theme deck.


Neil Mucha
Nelly386@aol.com