gatheringground Tourny By Tyler Grund 4/24/99 When the Gathering ground started doing tournys for pokemon, i intended to go to each one. Well, i missed last weeks because of that really cool Mall tour (where i Met a really cool guy from the pojo..Bill) and i was a bit off of the metagame. So I was a bit worried:) I went to this Tourny of 48 participants with my girlfriend playing with a VERY GOOD raindance deck i made, and me playing with this: Pokemon: 4x farfetch'd (of course:) I ended up seeing this guy in every deck!) 2x chansey (not as effective in this tourny, he might be gone soon) 1x clefairy 4x hitmonchan 4x electribuzz (very GOOD CARD...nice hoser against Farfetch'd) Trainers: 4x energy removals 4x super energy rem. 4x Bills 3x professor Oaks 1x Gust of wind ( i like this card better now...more will go in) 3x Scoop up (my new LIKEY LIKEY card:) this guy does some amazing things i never thought of before this tourny...boy do i like him now:) energy: 9x electric 13x fighting 4x dbl colorless. Ok, this new form of my Farmonchan deck is SO MUCH MORE POWERFULL than the first two. the electric aspect alows it to take on raindance better, and since I KNOW there are copycats out there, i fig. he would give me an edge against other Farfetch'd based decks...it worked. At the beginning of the Tourny, I get bad news, the last tourny i was at and won, was SUPPOSED To be DCI sanctioned, well come to find out, they didnt have the DCI MEMBERSHIP cards there, so that fell through, so THIS became the first DCI sanctioned tourny here at the GATHERING GROUND. That kinda stinks, but no biggy, im not into pokemon for the rankings anyways;) Tourny was 5 round to the final 8... dci sanctioned First round: I THINK this is the same kid from my last tourny! im so unhappy to beat him agian FIRST ROUND. game1: all he sees is magicarps and my electribuzz game2: one Carp, and i get one hitmoncan, win in two turns 1-0 Second Round: oh boy, against Chase Mosmen...this sucks, hes the one who won the tourny I missed. I was a little afraid, because we were playing almost exact decks...except, he ran with Plus Powers....good idea, but i can never get them to work for me. game one: we battle like crazy, we both have one prize and i deck him...whew. game 2: I get beaten down, im in defense the entire game. at this point..we think there is 2 min. left in round, so we try to stall to get a bi....and dontcha know it...the jugde messes up we actually have 12 min...AAGH. game 3: back and forth...but im all excited because i have 3 prizes left and he has all six....and im hoping for a time call so the match would be awarded to me.....but nothing...ARGH AGAIN...some how, the war gets pushed in the wrong direction and he eventually gets all six prizes. My deck's resources were sucked dry early...hmm thats annoying. My first loss in any tourny. makes me think. Good Job chase, your a cool guy, and a good player:) 1-1 Round 3: at this point, i thought i couldnt get into the final eight! this was the first time i was beaten, and i didnt know anything about it... so i played half heartedly, until someone told me if i go through my next 3 rounds unbeaten, I would go to the final 8 for sure! SO, i get back into the "poke" mode. Game 1: dont remember kids name except for his last name...seman...:) sorry, it was a funny last name:P hes playing a green deck, that actually gives me more trouble than i thought it would..but i eventually get him. Game 2: very fast...he gets little help, and i get a LOT of good trainers.. 2-1 Round 4: Older player...im so sorry i dont remember his name, but he was REALLy a nice guy, and playing a fun green deck Game 1: beat him after about 7 turns of back and forth Game 2: FIRST TURN KILL WITH hitmonchan! woopy. I give credit of that one to Scoop up. I had a buzz out first and a hitmonchan at bench. He had one pokemon w/weakness to fighting, i went first and scooped my buzz, layed down a fighting energy, and got his basic. Round 5: ok...I have to say, THIS guy is the BIGGEST A-HOLE IN THE GAME OF POKEMON! NO JOKE! even the JUDGE hated him...but you know what? His entire FAMILY is a bunch of A-HOLES!! they ALL acted like jerks!! they took pokemon TOO seriously, and 4 family members were in the tourny....ok...here I go: Game1: starts off with him calling my girlfriend a BITCH! for not passing him her pen...but of course she was using it! I said be carefull she IS my GF..and he says " oh i dont care, im not afraid of you!" what?? thats pretty rude! so we start, and HE doesnt want to use my dice, he says they may be weighted! ok..fine, we use your nickle...argh. I go first... EVERYTHING I DO IS AWSOME, AND EVERYTHING I DO MAKES HIM MAD. He yells at me because my hands went under the table for a sec because his turn was SO LONG..(like 6 min)...he almost calles the judge... THen, i use like 3-4 of my energy removals on his weak Beedrill, and he accusinly askes, noticably annoyed, how many i had in my deck!!! i sigh and ask...do you want to COUNT Them....and in a VERY snoddy way (which is the way he talks) he lets me know he WILL at the end...*sigh* fine... well, i beat him BADLY...he gets NO prizes EVER...i get all six Game 2: we start by cutting decks....i cut his...THEN, he cuts mine in three, and to speed things up I put them back together....HE CALLS THE JUDGE!!!! and trys to get me disqualified!!?!?!?! as i said...an a-hole! anyways...he it doesnt work and he has to cut my deck again, he cuts, and cuts, and cuts, for like a min.!! well, we get on the way, and he has no hope...once again, HE DIES with nO prizes taken....what a DORK...But, i make the mistake of ACCIDENTALLY getting ahead of myself, and placing two energys...he catches it,and AGAIN trys to disqualify me....MAN...WHY??? ITS POKEMON!?!? hes trying to trash talk...IN >>POKEMON!?!?! lol oh, and in the end he DID count my deck..he was visually disapointed to see my deck WAS in fact legal...what a dork. 4-1 im in the final 8....whew:) Round one of finals: im against Cameron Heise. this is the kid that in my first report i said cheated...im so sorry he really didnt i just got word from other he did, but hes a good kid that messes up...so let the record be known, he aint NO cheater:) game one: hes playing raindance, but his deck's luck is all dried up...two magicarps is all i seee.. game two: same as first game but faster...Ive seen him before w/this deck, its good, its just his luck was not there. Round 2 of finals: agianst GOOD Ol' Jason Waters....this kid has consistantly been in the top 4 in every tourny but the first..hes good:) game 1: back and forth, but i eventuallly overcome him.. game 2: a bit faster, his deck was probalbly not shuffled enough...sorry waters..ill see you next week:) (he went undefeated until i played him, so his deck WAS good!) Ok, FINAL ROUND agianst: Sam Nansel....lol....ok, i laugh because i have been talking to this kid over email for about 2-3 weeks about my strategies....:) he knows me as well as i do... His deck is MY deck with Jynx instead of electibuzz...he is also playing with plus powers...im thinking about them more now though:) Game 1: im on the offensive THE ENTIRE TIME! buuuut, guess what, chansey does me in..he scrunches a couple of times...JUST LONG ENOUGH TO DECK ME...ARGH! game 2: :( i lose...this sucks, we go at it, but he has a response to everything i do...man..hes lucky. good job Sam, your really good:) well, I place second. Thats the first tourny i place second in, and you know what...im happy, because i lost to someone I helped out. But of course, i will always feel a LITTLE bad about letting everyone in on how good farfetch'd is...:) I get 7 packs of japanese..so not to shabby, but of course they only have 3 basic packs left, so i have to settle with 4 jungle...not to bad, but i can play with them yet...not to mention my only three jap rares i got in the basic set was 2!!! clefairy dolls and ONE item finder...argh. See you all next week with another edition of TYLER's TOURNY REPORTS:) TYLER GRUND tylergrund@hotmail.com