This tournament was held at Austin Texas in games unique at lakline mall. Roughly 27 people participated, and this was 1 round matches. Here is my deck: 22 water energy 4 energy retreivals 3 energy removals 4 super energy removals 3 bills 4 oaks 2 computer searches 4 magicarp 3 gyrados 4 squirtle 3 wartortle 2 blastoise 2 kangasgahn (english jungle, if not allowed by pojo, can be replaced with 2 chanceys) Here is the report: round one I play against a psysic electric stall deck i do well, mutilating his pokemon with gyrados and blastoise, and he lays down a mr. mime rendering all my pokemon useless. he forces me to fight with a magicarp. well, we tie 3 prizes a peice, but he has more bench. 1 loss. round two I play against a beginner with a mono electric deck it is pretty much one sided, he has very little energy, and what he does get, i remove from him. when he sees a wortortle turn into a fully loaded blastoise, which then was followed up by two fully loaded gyradoses, he gave me my remaining prizes and forfeited. 1 loss, 1 win round three I play against a water fighting deck I started with a kangasgahn and he started with machop. he took out my kangasgahn due to weakness, but that was the end of that. i bill, get an oak, play it, get a blastoise and gyrados,evolve, raindance, oak, raindance some more, and murder him with 3 gyradoses. He gives me my remaining prizes, too, and forfeits. 1 loss, 2 wins round four i play against a colorless electric deck same old story, he pours all his energy onto one pokemon on the bench while i kill his active and e-remove the one he is building. 1 loss, 3 wins semi-finals (at this point, the top eight are paired up for elimination rounds) I cant remember what colors exactly, probably fighting electric he wastes energy on a zapdos that i continually strip of energy, while i kill his basic. 1 loss, 4 wins (note: my previous record was used to see if i would be paired for semi finals, this was to see if i continue to the finals. i do.) finals i play a grass (somthing) deck This round was to see if i play for 1st and 2nd or 3rd and 4th its close, i almost deck myself, but pokemon with no energy cant last very long. I pull out ahead and draw my last prize with 5 cards remaining in my draw deck, buy a win is a win. finals-second round i play a mono grass deck His deck is good, ive seen him play, its designed around venosaur/energy trans/pokecenter/and just plain beatdown. He got a bad drawand all he could get out was a beedrill and an ivysaur, but they just werent a match for gyrados' dragon rage. I win first place and bag a twenty four dollar gift certifacate! E mail any helpful info and suggestions to CHMercer@prodigy.net Does anyone think i should put in jungle? maybee polywraths? any help would be apriciated. Thanks!