Hi, my name's Daniel Yagoub, and
this tournament was held about three days ago, at Fort St, in Sydney,
Australia.
My first deck that I submitted was
called Ripped Jeans. This one, a sort of sequel, is called Arrested for
Indecent Exposure (!!). A weird name, eh?
THE DECK
Fighting And Grass
POKEMON
Grass
2 X Nidoking
3 X Nidorino
4 X Nidoran Male
1 X Nidoran Female
Fighting
2 X Hitmonchan
3 X Diglett
2 X Dugtrio
1 X Rhyhorn
Colorless
2 X Clefairy
1 X Clefable
1 X Lickitung
3 X Dratini
2 X Dragonair
Thats 27...Hehe sorry, I might have left out one
or two duplicates, but I think that was right.
TRAINERS
2 X Prof. Oak
1 X Computer SEarch
2 X Pokemon Trader
1 X Superpotion
3 X Energy Removals
ENERGY
12 X Grass Energy
12 X Fighting Energy
--TOTAL 60 Cards--
THE TOURNAMENT
Round One: Me vs. Some guy around 13 with a
Haymaker.
A very interesting and long match. He got out an
Electabuzz first go, Me, a Hitmonchan. I proceeded to KO his Electabuzz, only
to have my Hitmonchan whooped by his full HP's Hitmonchan. So I got out my
evolved Dragonair with 4 energy on it and Hyper Beamed his Hitmonchan. By some
miracle, he had no energy in his hand, so I KOed it with Dragonair. He then
brought out another Electabuzz with two energy, which I took out with
Dragonair again. EVentually, I won, with Dragonair still on 80 HP.
1-0
Round 2: Me vs. (brrr) Raindance
A very easy game. Hitmonchan took care of his weak
early pokemon, winning me the game. He only got out a squirtle and a Poliwag.
Hitmonchan did the rest.
2-0
Round 3: Me vs. Psychic deck
As soon as I saw his first few pokemon, I knew I
was in for ALLOT of trouble. My deck is VERY weak to psychic, as the whole
Nido family and most of the Fighting group are weak to it. So, by some
mystical way, I happened to get Clefable, Clefairy, Dratini, Dragonair and 3
Energy in my opening hand. I sent out Clefairy, and started to pump up a
Dragonair. Energy kept coming into my hand from my deck, so that wasn't a
problem. I just kept on using Clefable and Dragonair, and they hardly got
damaged, thanks to resistance to psychic. Kadabra was totally destroyed by
Clefable, and Dragonair took care of the gastly-Haunter line.
WIN!
3-0
I was one of two people to win all of my first
three games, so I automaticaly proceeded to the final.
FINAL Me vs. Charizard deck.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Hah! I swear, this
was one of the most funny games I had ever played in my life. On his fifth
turn, he had gotten out TWO Charizards, one with three energy, the other with
2.
I just had a Clefable and Dragonair.
Dragonair with 4 energy, Clefable with one.
My turn. I Use clefable, metronome Firespin,
bingo, Charizard on 20 HP. His turn, for some reason he Switches
Chrizard and brings out the other one with
only 2 energy. he slaps down an energy on that one says done.
My turn. slap an energy on Clefable, retreat it,
bring out Dragonair. Hyper beam, Charizard on 100 Hp, but with only two
energy.
His turn, he slaps another energy on Charizard, my
turn, I Hyper beam again, Charizard on 80, with two energy. His turn, he has
no energy in his hand. He swears under his breath and says done. My turn, by
this time Clefable has an energy on it again, so I retreat Dragonair and
Metronome Fire spin. Charizard dead. He brings out his sole other pokemon,
another Charizard on 20 HP. He slaps an energy on it (Must have gotten it in
his draw phase..ah well) and uses fire spin on my Clefable, which gets KOed.
Too bad. My turn, Hyper beam-Charizard dead. I WIN AGAIN!!!
4-0!! 4-0!! 4-0!! YES YES YES YES! Erm...yes...
Anyway, I got $70 (About 40 American dollars) and
a feeling of pride.
NOW!!