My killer deck:

9x Fighting Energy
2x Hitmonchan

11x Psychic Energy
3x Abra
2x Kadabra
1x Alakazam
2x Mewtwo (to take down those power houses like Charizard and Blastoise) 

4x Double Colorless (To power those colorless that need 4 energies! And get 
farfetch'd out faster)
3x Farfetch'd (of course)
1x Kangaskhan
1x Chansey (of course again)
1x Jigglypuff ( I was trying this guy out in this deck, (I had a clefairy in 
here in its place) it happened that I didn't even run across the jigglypuff 
in the tournament!)

2x Item Finder
2x Super Potion
1x Energy Removal
3x S.E.R.
1x Prof. Oak   (I know 1's a little risky but it worked!)
3x Energy Retrieval
3x Switch
2x Bill 
2x Gust of Wind
1x Scoop Up

	Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I started this, and it's ben 
a few more since the tourney, but I got sidetracked, and I couldn't finish it 
right away, but here it is:
	It was a 2 week tourney, well 2 Saturdays, it was only supposed to 
last 4 hours, and it started going overtime so Matt, the books-a-million 
employee that was running the tourney, he also is in charge of  Pokemon 
League, said that we would have to finish the tourney next week.

	The first round went very quickly, I was facing Col, A regular at 
Pokemon League, and I knew he wasn't all that great, he is good mind you just 
not as good as me, I had played him before. I felt kinda sorry for him but he 
wasn't to annoyed. 

	I can't remember most of the first week, but I know that round 2 was 
against my friend Kyle, I got the worst draw and lost without killing any of 
his pokemon! It was the major coincidence that I also had to face him for the 
tournament!

	The third round I got a guy disqualified, he came withe this hunk of 
about 80 cards in his hand and I told him a couple of times to get his cards 
to the right number, it really seemed like it was an accident, but he came 
back and on like the third time I called deck check and he still had 5 extra 
cards, so he was disqualified, Matt had seen me telling him to get his cards 
right so he didn't just give him a warning. I kinda feel sorry about it, but 
Matt said that was the guy the thought had stolen some boosters a couple of 
weeks earlier. 

	The other rounds were all against people I didn't know, and I didn't 
think of getting their names. =^(   <-- sorry to you guys.

	The second week I remember a bit better. My first fight was against 
Slater, he's really nice and he's a good collector, but he's not a super 
great deck builder. His strategy with his deck and the way he played it was 
really good but there weren't enough trainers so I slaughtered most of his 
pokemon, he didn't kill one of mine. He has close to 1 or 2 hundred (not 
different, just some that are doubles) Japanese pokemon cards most from gym 
and they are really interesting to look at.

	FINALS   (Bum,Bum,Bummmmm!)
	My friend Nick, a very good player was playing Kyle and My friend 
Jeremy was playing a kid I hadn't seen often, he could have been new, anyway 
Nick and Jeremy both lost and it was a toss up between me, the new guy, and 
Kyle. Me and the new guy got heads, Kyle got tails.

	My first draw was a farfetch'd a double colorless, and an energy, and 
some other cards.
I laid the farfetch'd, he laid a scyther. I went first, drew a card, and laid 
the DC and the basic energy, pot smash for 30! He drew, and laid a grass, my 
turn, I drew, pot smash, scyther has 10 hp left. He draws, and lays another 
grass, swords dance. My turn, no escape! I pot smashed and he was out of 
pokemon!

	Final match! Kyle and I agreed that if he won I would get one of the 
five Jungle boosters and vice versa. I drew another farfetch'd, dc, and basic 
energy hand! I go first. From there on it was just a flash of cards and 
damage counters. I killed all but his last pokemon with the farfetch'd then 
used double edge with my Chansey for the win!
	The other prizes were a pokemon window sticker, and a pokemon gym 
leader t-shirt that the Pokemon League organizers wear (exclusive!), and (yes 
more!) A big ol' thick Pokemon League poster that they have to advertise for 
Pokemon League!

	Well that was it!

	¤Jonathan Pharis¤
		Fireberd45@aol.com