Hye Pojo. I recently participated in a tourny at Megaplay videogames in
Houston Texas. It was a single elimination tournament and probably the
hardest tournament I have ever been to. Everyone took their absolutely best
deck and I decided to take one of mine. I play a modified Speedrill deck.
Here it is:

"Bugcatcher's Dream"
(a.k.a Speedrill)
Pokemon:
4 Weedle
3 Beedrill
3 Pinsir
3 Scyther

Trainer:
4 Computer Search
4 Pluspower
4 Breeder
4 Bill
3 Scoop Up
3 Professor Oak
3 Super Energy Removal
2 Gust of Wind

Energy:
16 Grass Energy
4 Double Colorless


It was single elimination , so everyone played twice as good knowing that one
screw up would screw them the whole tourny. The reason everyone was playing
so good is because of the prize. It was a box of sealed Basice boosters, and
a gift box with a Power Reserve theme deck and a starter deck. Well, it was
four rounds, then semi and finals. Every round was hard, literally! If you
lose, you go home.

Round 1
Speedrill versus Insane Wiggly
I am not sure if you have heeard of insane Wiggly but it is a hard deck to
beat, It is a Haymaker with low energy count, and wigglytuff. This particular
Insane Wiggly was hard to beat. The reason: Fossil Magmar. He starts with
Magmar as active, I start with Scyther and 2x Pinsir on the bench. He goes
and attatches and smokescreens for a couple of turns. After a Scoop Up I
realize he has no energy so I immidiately Super Energy Removal. I put Weedle
on my bench and attatch energy to it. He kills Scyther and draws a prize. I
attatch a DCE to Weedle, evolve to Beedrill (breeder), then, agaisnt a no
damaged Magmar attatch a  Pluspower. I Twineedle. Flip one coin.....heads!
Flip another....heads again! Yes, Magmar gone. Up, Wiggly. He comes out and
does the Wave for 30. Only having another Jiggly and a Doduo on the bench. i
gust out Duo and Attatch PP plus Poison Sting. Dead Duo. He Oaked and put
down 2x Duo, Jiggly, Magmar on bench. He Does the Wave to kill me. I come out
with Pinsir. My only Pokemon. I used Irongrip. If it is tails, I lose. Bam!
Heads! Paralyzed, he attatches energy to magmar. He passes. I attatch
Pluspower and Guillotine for 60. Dead wiggly. He comes out with Magmar and
does 40 to Pinsir+poison. I was definitely screwed. I draw an oak. Thank God.
I oak and get Scyther, Weedle, Breeder, Beedrill and my third Pinsir. I then
Irongrip.   It went back and forth fromt here but I came out on top with
Beedrill.

Round 2
Speedrill versus Rain Dance
I had no chance in this game, but pulled through somehow. He started Squirtle
and Magikarp. I started with Scyther and Weedle to the bench. He came out
with a Blastoise by turn 5 and Rain Danced onto himself. He wiped out my
Scyther and Pinsir follwed. I looked Screwed. I had sacrificed two Pokemonand
Beedrill came out to take on that damn Blastoise. Then he came out with two
more blastoises. I was gonna give up,  but I wanted to finish in style. I
decided to Irongrip his Blastoise a bunvh of times. Turns out, I paralyzed
him twice. I attatched Pluspower and Guillotined his ass. all of the sudden I
was back in the game. He started getting nervous, He left beedrill with 10
HP, but I sacrificed Beedrill to kill off his third and Final Blastoise. He
was up 1 prize to 3. He had 1 left. He came out with Gyarados next. He was
Beedrill bait. I atatched 2 Pluspowers then Poison Sting. He came out with
another Gyarados which had 1 Energy. He attatched that energy. I super energy
removaled him then came out with Pinsir for the kill. He had a lone magikarp
against my Pinsir. He loses.

Round 3
Speedrill versus Speedrill!!
Somehow the kid I faced played Speedrill too. He went 1-1 the first two games
and knew he was screwed but still didnt let me win. He came out with a Weedle
and a Pinsir early. I came out with a lone Scyther. he evolved int Beedrill
on turn 2. He attatched DCE to Beedrill and passed hsi turn. I came out with
2x Scyther and a Weedle. I gusted out the beedrill. 2x Pluspower, and did
Slash for 80.  Dead Beedrill. He killed off a Scyther and Pinsir, then I
followed by killing his Tangela and Pinsir. It was an all out war. He took
out my last 2 Scythers and I took out his Beedrill. He had 2 Prizes left. I
had 1. He had a Beedrill out with no damage and I had one card left in my
deck. I hoped it was a Pluspower. He put down Weedle. Big Mistake. He would
have won had he not put down Weedle. He killed Scyther, but I came out with a
Pinsir. He didnt think I had a DCE in my hand. I did. I attatched a DCE,
gusted the Weedle. Guillotine. Game

Round 4
Speedrill versus Stall
This game was boring but difficult. He started Mewtwo and it stood there for
about 20 damn turns. Just when he was running out of energy, he uses
retrieval. By then he had Chansey, another Mewtwo and Alakazam out. I killed
Chansey with Beedrill, then I finally got a Super Energy Removal to removal
that ddamn Mewtwo. I won with about 3 cards left in my deck.

I qualified as Number 2. The other kid was undefeated with a Haymaker deck.

Semifinals
Speedrill versus Haymaker
He played a Haymaker with Aerdoactyl. It was hard because of Electabuzz. he
started hitmonchan. I started with Weedle. A couple of turns passed by and I
had Beedrill out. I did Twineedle a couple of turns and managed to get more
Energy. I then Poison Stung and his Hitmonchan just couldnt stand against my
Beedrill. He came out with Electabuzz.I hated him. The Electabuzz killed
Pinsir, Beedrill, and Scyther, Finally I downed him and he was dead from
there.

Finals
Speedrill versus Psymaker
This was a weird Haymaker with MP Mewtwo, Mr.Mime and Jynx. He had Tauros in
it too but it worked well. He started Tauros and Jynx to the bench, I started
a lone Weedle. I poison stung him. I soon got out Pinsir to challenge the big
fat bull. I Guillotined and killed him off. He then came out with a friggin
Mewtwo and pluspwoer to kill Pinsir. Then it was the calssic basic Pokemon
Battle. Scyther versus Mewtwo. He beat my Scyther with Mewtwo and Beedirll
came out. I killed Mewtwo with Beedrill. THne came out a Jynx with Mediatate
killing Beedrill. He had 2 Prizes left. I had 3. I came out with another
Weedle and evolved it to a Beedrill. Pinsir killed off a Jynx, and then
Mewtwo killed Pinsir. I was nervous. Beedrill Poison Stung Mewtwo to kill him
and he came out with Mr.Mime. Oh no!! I couldnt beat him with Scyther or
Beedrill, and I had no Pinsirs in my hand. I CPU Search for Pinsir and
attatch energy to him. After a turn I irongrip Mr.MIme and paralyze. He them
mediates for 30. Pinsir was nearly dead but I killed Mr.Mime with him. Tourny
to me.
I pulled about 3 Charizards and 4 Blastoise in that box. It was awesome!
Thanks Pojo, need deck help or have an improvement to my deck, email me.
Juan Ayala
Chevycorvette007@aol.com