Hey pojo!!!! this tournament was held at Norhtwest Cards and Comics on February 26 2000!!! this was the first DCI Sanctioned tournament held in my area... Kennewick Washington!!!!! Considering that not many people play the card game where I live they just collect about 8 were there for the tournament and more for trading...

I went there with my friend Geoff Paulson who was sporting a psy - sponge deck

I, Nicholas Levi Bergez, entered with Swinging Ninetales deck!

 

Swinging Ninetales:

 

Pokemon:

4 vulpix - arg they aren't the greatest starter but they get me my Ninetales!!!

4 Ninetales - hehe... fireblast!!!! 1 retreat!!! wee!

4 magmars, (3 fossil, 1 base set) - base set just sucks!!! fossil rules!!! and i need a one energy attack guy against energy removal decks!!!

2 dratinis - 1 energy attack and resists the psy assult!!!

2 dragonairs - i like these guys!!!

and an unexpected turn!

1 electabuzz - for those damn!!!!! hydro decks! heh heh heh Suirtle!!!! (Ash impresion...)

Energy:

23 fire

2 electric!

Trainers:

2 computer searches

1 scoop up - I'm changing this... dont need it...

1 energy search - for that special elecric energy i need

2 bills

2 energy retrievals - get those removed elecric energys back!

4 energy removal - hate discarding energy when not needed... so supers for me!

2 gust of winds - mimes!!!!! ahhhh!!!

2 prof oaks

2 lasses - you rely on trainers well wave bye bye!!!

 

Round 1!!!!! Me vs... AHHHHHH!!!! a water deck!!!!

 

I was unhappy with this first match... I just happened to get a base magamar blarg!... he gets poliwag and an articuno... flips I call tails its heads he goes first... he uses water gun for 20 I use energy removal... then oak and get a Ninetales, buzz, and magmar(fossil), energy on fossil mag. then he attaches energy and water guns... i attach a fire to elec then he goes and attaches to poli to water gun and kill... i send out mag... attach fire, use two energy removals and smog for no poison... he attaches to poli and uses potion and water guns... I get a energy search!!!!

yeah!!! I get an electric energy and attach to electa! then I comp search for vulpix!!!! use smokescreen and he attaches to poli and water guns... retreat and send out electa and evolve to Ninetales and attach fires to him and thus the rest of the game was me thunder punching and firblasting him to itty bitty bits! he seemed to run into some energy probs... poor him... 1-0

 

Round 2!!!!!! Me vs...... ANOTHER WATER DECK!!!! AHHHH!!!!!

 

I was again unhappy with this... he had a turbo blastoise deck... I don't think he shuffled... I drew my hand... and I got BUZZ!!!! YEAH!!! he sent out squirtle... and tried to use his breeder on first turn but i stopped him... hehe... he attaches water to squirt and uses bubble with no paralazation... hehe i use comp search and get elec energy attach to electa! then to crush his second turn blasty i used my lass after i energy removaled and billed!!! bye bye blasty!!! i thunder shocked for 20 and paralyzed... he evolved and didn't have any energy... I attach to electa and evolve vulpix! to Ninetales... and I used thunder punch and kod his wartortle... he gets a chansey and sends it up... hehe... he ran into some energy trouble... I punched his chansey while building up my Ninetales and well i killed his chansey and he had no energy so I had to retreat electa and bring in a fully powered ninetales to blast his articuno to itty bitty bits!!!

2-0

 

Round 3!!!!! Finals... Me vs.... GEOFF!!! psy - sponge... and the only real competition there...

 

Ok at the beginning we promised to get to the finals and provide some monumental battle... this happened... it was a very good battle! before the tournament we practiced a lot and he won every time so I was a bit worried about this one... anyways... He drew his usuall hand energys some trainers and a  movie promo mewtwo and a buzz... I get a dratini and a vulpix...  I start getting vulpix and Ninetales... and I go with a pumped Ninetales with 40 damage after he kills dratini after a couple energy removals and stuff... I procede to ko his mewtwo so he brings out another one and ko's my Ninetales... hurmph... oh well i have 2 more... not pumped though i get a dratini and start to stall... and energy removal... and try to get my other ninetales pumped... he starts to gust and bring out ninetales but I use the low retreat cost of ninetales to bring in dratini again... this went on for a while untill he ran out of gust's and itemfinders... this left me with a fossil mag and 1 Ninetales with 2 fire energys... I procede to pump ninetales while I somkescreen him... he has his mewtwo left and he ko's my mag... twas part of my plan... so... i bring out ninetales for the win!!!!!

yeah!!! the first time in a very long time that i have actually won against him and this time it counted!!!

 

for getting first place i got the bragging rights... hehe... a base set booster, 2 base set 2 boosters, a collecting binder(blarg), a holo clefairy!!! base set, and an Ivy Pikachu promo!

in the boosters i got itemfinder(base set) snorlax unholo(base set2), and a holo Alakazam!(base set 2)!!!! all in all a good deal for 4 bucks

 

 

Now i bring to you Props and Slops...

 

Props:

 - To Northwest Cards and Comics for holding the first DCI sacntioned tournament that i've heard of!!! so i could get a ranking finally...

 - To everyone who attended...

 - To my opponents for making me sweat about fighting a water deck!

 - And also to my opponents for trying not to flip when they were beaten by a fire deck...

- And Finally to my good friend Geoff Paulson for giving such a good show and an excellent finalle to my first tournament!!!!

 

Slops:

 - To my second opponet for making it a little too obvious that he was getting his blastoise with his breeder... and for not knowing how to play very well...

 

 

Well thats my Report... Next time there is a tournament and I do anywhere around good I'll make another report!!! untill next time... Farewell pojoholics!!!

- The Oppressor

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