> > this is what my fighting deck is:
> > 2 rhyhorns
> > 1 rhydon
> > 2 hitmonchans
> > 4 machops
> > 3 machokes
> > 2 machamp
> > 1 chansey
> > 1 farfetch'd
> > 1 mankey
> >
> > 1 bill
> > 1 switch
> > 1 super potion
> > 1 computer search
> > 3 potions
> > 1 poke ball
> > 1 pokemon center
> > 1 energy retrieval
> > 2 gust of wind
> >
> > 29 fighting energies
> > 2 double colorless
> >
> > in my deck i used all of my pokemon to fight with but two, chansey and 
mankey. some people may say i shouldnt use chansey just for a wall so i can 
build up the rest of my pokemon but that isnt all i did with it. i realise 
that it is a powerful pokemon and so i used it  as a wall and i also put 
energies on it so when it is about to be killed it can dish out some mucho 
damage. i used manakey for its pokemon power and it helped me a lot. i 
think the rest of the cards in my deck are self-explanatory.
> >
> > okay, ill tell you about the tournament. this was at a local store 
called RPG outpost in abington, PA. this was kind of a tournament but we 
didnt play everyone and it wasnt any type of single elimination but you 
could say it was one. there were about 15 kids there and we played 6 games. 
> >
> > my first game was against a nice kid named shawn. he had pretty good 
fire-fighting deck (with a few colorless) i dont know every card in his 
deck but it was good. at the beginning he took out two of my pokemon with a 
magmar. (they were a machop and rhyhorn) after a few turns i had gotten 
another machop and a machoke. i computer searched for my machamp and i was 
back in the game. my machamp needed one more energy to use seismic toss. i 
got the energy the next turn and knocked it out. my prize was an energy. he 
had a nother magmar with full enerhy on it and he used flamethrower on me. 
machamps pokemon power hit him with 10. it was needed because i knocked it 
out too. but all this time he had been building up a ninetales!!!!!!! it 
knocked me out with one shot and i was back to little cards. all i had was 
a rhyhorn and a mankey. i had two energies on rhyhorn so i put him out and 
used leer and it worked. the next turn i got a farfetch'd and after he KOed 
my rhyhorn (bye bye rhydon) not to mention my LAST!! i put out my 
farfetch'd and since ninetales had been out so long he needed 30 more 
damage. i used leek slap and for the first time a miracle happened.... 
             my coin landed on heads for the 1st time all game. i knocked 
out his ninetales finally and we battled until he got a revive had two 
vulpixes on his bench and he revive mr. 
Im-going-to-flame-your-sorry-keester-with-fire-blast (ninetales) he knocked 
out my pokemon, took his second to last prize but i finbally got my second 
machamp and did all that evolution stuff and knocked it out again,. we both 
had 1 prize. he revive his ninetales a gain and beat me.
> >
> > the second game was pretty much the same but this kid had an electric 
haymaker. he had 4 electabuzzes and he kept paralyzing me with them and one 
with only two pokemon knocked out.
> >
> > the next person had to forfeit because he came not knowing how to play 
so me and two other kids (the same two who beat me) helped him learn to 
play. they made him a deck and i tought him to play. by the time the deck 
was made it was too late. next person.
> >
> > this kid i didnt even see because he decided to stop playing for the 
day. win number 2.
> >
> > this game was against the store owner's son. he was and eccentric, 
wild, little over-confident punk. he was 7 and once tried to go twice but 
he got away with lots of stuff because he was the store-owners son. he had 
a grass-psychic (is that spelled right?) deck. i beat him bad. i 
annihilated him with machamp and chansey. (see i told you the giant white 
puff was good) he gave me trouble in the middle of the game because i didnt 
get some energies for awhile.
> >
> > i finished with a 4 win 2 lost record. i got a young jedi starter and 
booster (i had to pay 12.00 to get in the tournament but i got a power 
reserve free, kinda) it was okay and we were allowed to play but they games 
didnt count. i played one more person and it was the store-owners daughter. 
same age as her brother and even more annoying. she WAY too over-confident 
with a water deck. i beat her bad and i mean BAD! i beat her in about 30 
seconds (well maybe a minute) she was D.Q.ed earlier by her dad for 
complaining people were cheating. she was a sore loser and said she would 
beat me if i played her again and she said i was just lucky. yeah! thats 
why you didnt knock out any of my pokemon. before the tournament started i 
beat a kid really bad. he was nice and had a grass-electric-psychic-water 
deck. you can see why i beat him. he put enrgies on the wrong pokemon. put 
it this way he put 3 water energies and 1 electric energy on zapdos and 
tried to attack. pathetic.
> >
> > if you want to e-mail me you can at bnieto@adelphia.net 
                      see ya!
> >