> where the heck is the War Room?

the War Room is in Norcross, GA a suburb of Atlanta.

> 
> At 04:17 PM 8/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I went to a DCI santioned tournament at the War Room with about 16
> >participants.
> >
> >My record in the tournamet was 3-2 (I lost the last game by default due
> to
> >the fact that I made a phone call
> >and was not there when the match was to begin). If I had actually been
> able
> >to play that last game, I feel I could have won and made the final round
> of
> >the tournament.
> >
> >The point of the deck was 2 fold:
> >
> >1) Get Scyther out and able to attack 2nd turn of the game.
> >2) Get Venusaur and/or Beedrill to fully evolved state and have them do
> the
> >heavy hitting late in the game.
> >
> >The cards in the deck were:
> >
> >Pokemon Cards (23 total):
> >----------------------
> >2 Venusaur
> >3 Ivysaur
> >4 Bulbasuar
> >
> >2 Beedrill
> >2 Kakuna
> >3 weedle
> >
> >1 nidoqueen
> >2 nidorina
> >3 nidorans
> >
> >3 scyther
> >1 kangskhan
> >
> >Trainer Cards (11 total)
> >---------------------------------
> >4 Bill
> >3 Professor Oak
> >1 Switch
> >2 Pokemon Trader
> >1 Super Potion
> >
> >Energy Cards (23 total):
> >-----------------------------------
> >20 green energy
> >3 double energy
> >
> >Game descriptions are below, here are the lessons that I learned at this
> >tournament:
> >
> >1) Best ratio to acheive 2 levels of evolution is the 4-3-2 ratio (basic-
> >level 1- level 2). I had the venusaur in play in every game I played, not
> so
> >for Beedrill or Nidoqueen.
> >2) Cover your Weaknesses. Both the bulbasaur/ivysaur/venusaur evolution
> and
> >the weedle/kakuna/beedrill combinations are weak to fire. I put the
> >nidoran/nidorina/nidoqueen cards in there to compensate, but it is too
> hard
> >to have 3 two level evolutions in the deck. It would have been much
> better
> >to put more Kangskhans in the deck.
> >3) The scyther/double energy combination is great. The fact that
> scyther's
> >retreat cost is 0 is fantastic as well.
> >4) I needed more healing in my deck. The method I had for dealing with
> hurt
> >pokemon's was to hide them on the Bench, if I had more healing I would
> have
> >given up less prizes. The Venusaur/Pokemon Center combination is a great
> fix
> >for this problem (Use venusaurs power to move all the green energy to a
> >pokemon that is not hurt, then use pokemon center to heal all the
> pokemon.
> >Then use the venusaur power again to redistribute the energy).
> >5) The pokemon trader is a great card. He allows me to trade any pokemon
> in
> >my hand for another in the deck. This really helps to get that one stage
> >that you need to evlove your pokemon to level 2. I like this better than
> >pokemon breeder because it helps in the case where you have the level 1
> >evolution and the level 2 evolution, but you don't have the basic
> pokemon.
> >Also in this deck that is 2/3's weak to fire, it would allow you to trade
> a
> >weedle in your hand for a kangskhan in the deck.
> >
> >
> >Game 1: Versus a Green "Poison Deck"
> >The opponent in this game had a lot of Koffings and the
> >weedle/kakuna/beedril cards in his deck. Initially in this game I had a
> few
> >basic pokemons out and the opponnent was able to collect 5 prizes off of
> >them. Most of my pokemon that were knocked out were un-evolved
> bulbasaurs,
> >nidorans and kakunas. They died because of the poison damage. I finally
> got
> >a pair of scythers in play as well as a venusaur and started to knock out
> >his koffings then beedrills. Time was called on this match and I had 2
> >prizes to go, and my opponnent 1. I lost.
> >
> >Game 2: Versus an Jigglypuff deck.
> >This game the opponnent put 2 Jigglypuffs in play. He tried to put your
> >pokemons to sleep then pound them.
> >I had a scyther in play and ready to attack on turn 2 (turn 1 put green
> >energy do a 'swords dance', turn 2 put a double energy and attack). A few
> >coin flips went my way allowing my scyther to wake up and attack and it
> >killed the 2 and only 2 jigglypuffs that were put in play. My record was
> now
> >1-1.
> >
> >Game 3: Versus a Fire deck.
> >This deck had charmander/charmeleon/charizard evolution,
> >growlithe/arcanine, and ponyta cards in it. Again in this game I was able
> to
> >get scyther to attack the 2nd turn of the game (for 60 points after doing
> >swords dance the first turn). I won this game mostly because I was able
> to
> >get 2 scythers in play and the venusaur in play. Having multiple big-HP
> >creatures allowed me to fight the fire creatures for a while then
> withdrawl
> >before being knocked out. The venusaur allowed the movement of green
> energy
> >to other un-hurt pokemons so that they could go and fight.
> >I took 6 prizes and won, my record was now 2-1.
> >
> >Game 4: Versus a Phsyic/Fire deck.
> >This deck had abra/kadabra/alakazams evolution, Jynx and
> >Charmanders/Charmeleons/Charizard in it. This was another game where
> scyther
> >was able to attack on turn 2 for 60 points of damage. I was able to knock
> >out an Abra and a pair of Jynxs before a chamander became the active
> >pokemon. At this point, I retreated the scyther (which is weak to fire)
> and
> >advanced kangskhan. I also had a venusaur in play so moved enough energy
> to
> >kangskhan so that he could comet puch (4 coins, 20 damage x # of heads).
> >Kangskhan knocked out charmander and a couple of other pokemon to win the
> >game for me.
> >
> >Game 5: Verus an electric deck.
> >This is the game I lost due to being late. The deck consisted of Zapdo's,
> >Hitmochans and evee/Jolteon cards.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Todd
> >
> >
> >
>