fighting/electric
Jason Imperiale
ECSTS
sat nov. 18th 2000
roughly 350 participants
Well it was a long month and a half since they announced the new format.
Testing out several different kinds of decks and ideas, my friend Glenn and i
figured that yes wiggly/clefable would be highly viable and used in the new
p15-3c enviorment. So what better guy to use then hitmonchan but with only 15
trainers it would be very hard & stupid to play 3 scoop up and 3 item finder
which was highly needed with the introduction to r zapdos and of course the
all popular scyther. So finally we took a risk playing one of the wierdest
but good evolution of Dodrio.
so heres the deck:
Jason Imperiale (Semi-Finalist)
Pokémon (20)
3 Electabuzz
3 Hitmonchan
3 Doduo
3 Ditto
3 Dodrio
2 Rocket's Zapdos
2 Machop (BS2)
1 Scyther
Trainers (15)
3 Professor Oak
3 Computer Search
2 Misty's Wrath
3 Super Energy Removal
2 Gust of Wind
1 Item Finder
1 Nightly Garbage Run
Energy (25)
10 Lightning Energy
9 Fighting Energy
3 Double Colorless Energy
3 Full Heal Energy
Welp pretty original not to many changes i would of made. The explanation of
machop was that with only one dodrio down it was a free retreat fighting guy
and against the popular clefable he could kill it in 2 turns no matter what.
Like against chan, it special punches-u ja, it special pucnches and your
dead. With machop It low kicks- u low kick,itlow kicks u low kick and its
dead. Which actually helped me a lot during the tournament. I think
everything else is pretty self explanitory. The one NGR was put in the day
before the event because of getting to many energy in my starting hand and
having to oak it away another change was the day before was -2 r chan +2
machop. Ok well lets get on with event.
Well i didnt remeber to many names or exact details so ill try my best
First round: kid (pokesensais son) mono electric with e dratini
Definetly not the easiest first round opponent. prizes went back and forth
with his zapdos on my buzz but then he played 3 e dratinis on the bechch. By
this time i had 2 dodrios on my bench giving everyone in my deck free
retreat. So i knew i was in a bit of a bind with no damage on my dodrio to
take care of his e dratinis. His active was zapdos so i retreated my active
zapdos and put out my dodrio attached an energy to a new buzz and said go. He
plasmed my dodrio i retreated him brought out my buzz and killed his zapdos.
Now the game was over using m dodrio to take out his e dratinis in 1 shot.
1-0 3 points
round 2: colorless water random kid
Well this game went fast he started off with a chansey and kangaskahn aganst
my zapdos and chan. After a couple of turns i killed him, nothig really
happened
2-0 6 points
round 3: phycic/electric wierd kid
At the begining of the match he talks about how much hes gonna kill me and
win the tourny, lol whatever. The match is a good game I take down his mr
mimes easily and ditto really helped me out to. Towards the end of the match
i had 2 dodrios a fully loaded chan and ditto on bench and fully loaded buzz
up front. he had clefable r mewtwo and zapdos with no hand. No matter what he
did i could of won so he conceited
3-0 9 points
4th round grass/electric clefable
Wasnt a bad deck he had i just think he got a bad hand. I took advantage of
this and won in 4 turns killing a buzz and clefairy
4-0 12 points
5th round Kevin Chen: fire/electric wiggly
ahhhhhhhh the hand i dreaded a lone doduo with no card drawing and he went
first. Welp i didnt fget to go that game he killed me first turn with a
zapdos- plus power :-(
4-1 12 points
6th round grass/fighting hay
Well pretty easy matych theoreticly grass and fighting arent the two
starongerst colors against free retreat. It was all going good until the
middle of the game when he shadow imaged with his r scyther, it took me 7
tries and i finally delt damage from there on it got good again.
5-1 15 points
7th round electric/fire clefable
Yes a good match up for me. The whole game went well he would smoke screen
and i would retreat for free via dodrio and retreat back ending the effect
and used machop to take care of clefable.
6-1 18 points
8th and final round: psycic fighting clefable
hmmmm not a great matchup o well give it my best and if i win im top 8, if
not still did good. Well this was a long good match. Towards the begining he
would of won unless i fliped a heads against his chaos gym with the oak, i
did :-) . From there on the prizes went back and forth We eack had 1 left. If
he had the gust he won if not i did. Welp he didnt and i advanced to the top 8
TOP 8
quater finals: Kevin Chen ( the one guy that beat me because of my bad hand )
fire electric wiggly. He told his friends that he could beat because he
did
before. O well some will never learn.
So the games starts and i get another garbage hand of 1 zapdos 1doduo and all
energy . I keep drawing into energy :-( finally when I knock a magmar out
with a zapdos out with my magmar my prize is a comp. I computer search and
establish back control easily and wind up winning the game.
Semi finals: rudy rodriguez
Welp should be a good match, but it wasnt i start with an okay hand of buzz
ditto doduo some energy and comp but he goes first and has a 2 card advantage
because of a mulligan he draws lots of cards and plays chaos gym in the end
he killed me with a wiggly tuff and zapdos. After i failed an oak via chaos
gym.
O well bronze is nothing to be ashamed of.
well heres my props and slops
props
- To my parents for taking me and my friend mike who made t8 in 15 up
division, To NJ
- To Glenn Katzen who came up with the deck
- To one of the master trainer mikes for GIVING me a tr zapdos after someone
stole my english equivlant after the first round.
- To wizards for having this great free event and all the qualifiers
- To all my opponents for being great sports
- To all the cool people i met and everyone i talked to
- To pojo if u post this up
- To rudy for having a great deck and deserved to win
Welp no slops actually just one
- Slops to wizards for having smelly bathrooms, no joke