The tournament was in The Bronx, New York at the "Card Park" building on the 6th floor in the "Pokémon" area. The date was 7/9/99. About 16 people The deck is like this (I will tell you the type, name, how many of it, and why it's there): Basic Pokémon: Colorless-Doduo-3-To evolve, serve as bait, or to use with a trainer card. Electric-Zapdos-1-To attack hard but be builded up first. Electric-Pikachu(Jungle-2-To evolve, serve as bait, use with a trainer, or destroy the opponent's bench. Electric-Voltorb-2-To evolve, serve as bait, or to use with a trainer card. Fire-Charmander-3-To evolve, serve as bait, or to use with a trainer card. Fire-Growlithe-3-To evolve, serve as bait, or to use with a trainer card. Evolved Pokémon: Colorless-Dodrio-2-To help other Pokémon with high retreat cost retreat and attack for a possible 80 damage. Electric-Raichu-1-To attack. Electric-Electrode(Original)-1-To become energy for Zapdos Fire-Charmeleon-2-To evolve, serve as bait, or to use with a trainer card. Fire-Charizard-1-To destroy Fire-Arcanine-2-To hit hard and fast Trainers (name, amount, why): Gust of Wind-4-To destroy plans. Switch-4-If those Dodrio's die or if you don't have Energy. Revive-1-To bring back that Zapdos. PlusPower-2-For a pinch hit. Energy Retrieval-3-To draw energy for Zapdos Energy cards (type, amount, why): Double Colorless-2-Stick 1 to 1 Dodrio along with another Energy for Rage. Fire-13-For Elemental fire destruction power! Electric-8-NOTE: PLUS ELECTRODE=10-To charge your Pokémon up with electric power! Tournament results: First Round Match 1: Me vs Tony Randin: This kid looked mad old for 13 years old. I mean come on I'm 13 years old and I'm only 5'3" but this guy was looking atleast 6 feet tall! Anyways he had a "Rainbow" deck he called it. It had six colors. The only evolutions I saw were 2 Charmeleons 1 Exeggutor and 1 Kadabra. This was a sad match for a guy this tall he should of bullied some kids for good cards. Anyway he never killed me though he got my Raichu down to 10 but mostly because I did Thunder twice and chopped off 60 health to myself and he hit me with an Abra's psyshock with did'nt even paralyze me. I finished it by using Thunder+ 2 PlusPowers on his Charmeleon. I killed myself but won nevertheless. Quarterfinals Match 2: Me vs some girl named Amber What was this girl like 8 years old? She had a modified Brushfire deck as far as I can tell. She had 2 Ninetales, 2 Charizards, 2 Arcanines, a Venusaur, 2 Nidokings and 1 Nidoqueen. She even had a Rapidash that I wanted. Anyway she did'nt want to trade so I got pissed. I was thinking of going easy on her but now I was going to rip that cheesy deck of hers apart. She went first and opened up with a Pokédex and three Bills. She must've gotten another Bill and Pokédex because she just used them again. She put an energy on Charmander and scratched my poor Growlithe. My turn, I was pissed so I just drawed my card and said "Go." I kept doing that until I had about 4 or 5 cards left in my deck. She had killed 4 of my cards while I did'nt kill none of hers. The time came. My Zapdos already had 2 Energy cards on it, so I put another one, and Buzzapped my Electrode onto Zapdos. I evolved my Dodrio's and plugged them with a double colorless since they each had 1 fire already. I evolved my Charizard and put an electric on him. It now had 8 energys on it. So I attacked with a 2 PlusPowered Thunderbolt after I Gust of Winded her only Pokémon able to fight, Charizard. I drew my first Prize. An energy retreival. She went and sent a Ninetales with 1 energy that she just placed on it. My turn I retreated and placed one energy on Charizard. My Charizard was out so I just kept using Fire Spin until I had one card left to draw in my deck and in my prize piles. She Lass'd me so I got about 7 cards in my deck. I put my last energy on Charizard and Fire Spinned her Arcanine. I won. Semifinals Match 3: me vs Sam Gull He had a "Water Blast" deck plus a Cubone. This was easy for me as I just zapped his water Pokémon and burned his fighters. This match had a record of 2:03! 2 minutes and 3 seconds! Anyway I won with my Raichu's agility on his EeveE which had 10 health. Finals Match 4: me vs PB This was tough. He had Electric, Fighting, and Water. My weaknesses. I worked my way through it though. I retreated with Retreat Aid. Gust of Winded his Blastoise for my Raichu. The rest I just had to keep cool, use my PlusPowers and Charizard and Zapdos. Near the end it was his turn, we each had 1 more Prize. He attacked my Pikachu with a Machop and I was down to 10. He was at 20. After that it was Spark and I won $50 store credit. Remember that Rapidash I wanted? I bought 4. And then I bought the two Jungle decks. And that is the end. To reply: Khalid Ilahi redzar@hotmail.com _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com