hello my name is Lim M. I have just played my first tournament. It was not DCI sanctioned but it still has prizes. The way thisi tournament went is that two people play one game. The winner and loser report to the judge and he records the result. In this tournament, I fought 8 battles. Using this deck, I won 7 out of 8 games. The deck included: Pokémon: 16 cards 2 farfetch'd(great against almost all enemies) 2 Chansey(staller, and big hitter) 1 Onix(Also good staller) 1 Machamp(good hitter + good Pokémon Power) 1 Machoke( good hitter + can take damage and deal good damage) 2 Machops( good health + good attack) 1 Hitmonchan(better if you have more but it's great to have at least one) 2 Gastly(Need to get Haunter + sleeping gas) 1 Haunter(I only needed 1 + Hypnosis is a BIG staller) 2 Mewtwo(Great against Blastoise and Charizard) 1 Jynx(Lots of energy + good hits) Energy: 27 12 Psychic 12 Fighting 2 Double colorless Trainer: 17 1 Professor Oak(good if you have bad cards in hand) 3 Bills(must have) 2 Switch(gotta switch Pokémon for strategy) 3 Potions(gotta heal) 2 Gust of Winds(good for strategy) 4 Energy removal(Big annoyance) 1 Super Energy Removal(Huge annoyance) 1 revive(Good if your good pokémon die) Don't just copy my deck, change it if your want. If you don't have some of these cards, than improvise alittle. With these pokémon, I pretty much always drew a good hand at the beginning. I don't really have a good memory of what happened but I remember only some of it. I will tell you what I remember. First Match: Me vs. small kid. I'm sorry but I don't remember his name or his entire deck type. All I remember is that he used fire and colorless. I first drew a Mewtwo and he drew out a Farfetch'd. During the battle, he had different rules than what the real rules are so that is how he has been winning. So after he was straighened out, he lost big time, my finishing pokémon was Chansey. Second Match: I don't remember. But I won because of Farfetch'd. Third Match: Me vs. Chris T. (Fighting and Colorless and Fire) This match I remember a lot. My starting pokemon was Machop and his was Ponyta. This battle was pretty quick because he had a bad hand. Then he got a Chansey and I got a Hitmonchan. Before we got these pokemon in, I got Hitmonchan to full strength. Then I switched to Hitmonchan and killed his Ponyta. Then with 2 Special Punches. I won the game. Fourth Match: Forgot this battle. Fifth battle: Me vs. David D. (Mostly water and fire) My first pokemon was Jynx and his was Poliwag. In the following turns I found a Hitmonchan, Onix, Mewtwo, gastly, and Farfetch'd. He found a Seel( which he turned into a Dewgong), another poliwag, and charmander. I filled all of my pokemon with energy while using energy removal on his dewgong. He didn't get much energy. I didn't do well with Jynx and his doubleslap. With 10 turns, I only killed one poliwag and brought the other one to half health. When my Jynx died, I put in Hitmonchan. I killed his poliwag in one hit. Then he sent in his Charmander. He tried to get enough for Ember but he couldn't find a fire energy so I killed it in one turn. His last pokemon was Dewgong, he was still looking for some energy when he found a Chansey. So after I killed his Dewgong, he tried to use Scrunch when he found a double colorless energy. He failed both times and he died and I won the Match. Sixth Match: Me vs. Chris T. again. He had a second deck which had Blastoise, 2 Ninetailes and some really strong pokemon, but he let his friend borrow it and he was in a battle so he had to use the same one has before. This battle kind of started the same as before. He killed my Chansey and I killed him with my Mewtwo and Hitmonchan. But my final kill was with my Mewtwo. Seventh Match: Me vs. Andrew M.(Electric, Fire, Fighting) I started with a Gastly and a Hitmonchan. He started off with a Charmander and Hitmonchan. The two hitmonchans used jabs but I used some potions so I killed his Hitmonchan. He brought out his Charmander and used Scratch. I used a switch card and used gastly to put him asleep. He then in two turns got a Zapdos and Growlithe. I got a onix and tried to kill his Charmander because he used energy removal on my hitmonchan. Near the end of the match. He had a Zapdos with 4 electric energy and an Arcanine with 6 Fire energy. I killed his zapdos with a Chansey but he used revive to bring it back and filled it with electric energy. His Arcanine killed one of my pokemon and he just needed to kill one more pokemon. He then put in his Zapdos and almost killed my Hitmonchan that I used Potions on. I switched to Machamp who was not injured at all. Then I knew I was going to lose because he killed my Machamp in one hit with Thunderbolt and I had just experienced my first lost in the tournament. Eighth Match: Me vs. Eric G.(grass and water) He didn't get to use any water on me but I was watching him use water against someone else before I challenged him. He started out with a weedle and I started out with a Machop and Gastly. He went first. His Poison sting poisoned Machop so it did 20 damage. I got a Mewtwo so after I gave Machop some energy, on my next turns I gave Mewtwo energy. He got 2 bulbasaurs in his next two turns. When I attacked with Machop, it did 20 to Weedle and did 10 to me because of poison. He put down Bulbasaur and attacked. Because of poison, I just needed 10 more damage before death. When I attacked, we both died. It was Bulbasaur vs. Mewtwo. I almost killed Bulbasaur when he switched. I used gust of wind to bring it back and killed it. He had only one grass energy in his hand so he gave it to his Bulbasaur. I kept using Psychic attack and killed his Bulbasaur. That was my last match. Sorry for the long story. If you have any comments, send it to MikeL323@aol.com