Who: Sandman
What: Tournament
Where: Mall, - Los Angeles, Ca.
When: April 7, 2001
Why: $ 100 Gift Certificate to Electronic Boutique
How (many): 64 players

Once again this was a single elimination tournament.  They drew the brackets by age that way the old player would play the old players and young against the young. So here we go. Im not a shame to say it went bad for me so here is my Infamous “ME TOO” deck. I made some modification but I think thats what messed me up cause I really didnt have much time using Cleffa.
 
"Me Too"
3 Clefable
4 Clefairy
3 Hitmonchan
3 Ditto
2 Cleffa

3 oak
2 Elm
2 bill
3 gust of wind
2 switch
2 scoop up
2 cpu search
2 item finder
3 NGR
2 Super energy removal
3 Energy removal
2 Resistance Gym

4 Double Colorless
7 fighting
4 Recycle
2 Full Heal

The strategy was to try and get cleffa out first so that I can quickly get my team of clefables going. Chan is my buzz killer and ditto is my mp mewtwo killer. I didnt expect to see TR Zapdos and Blaines moltres as well as gligar and scyther running wild. Here we go.

Round 1 vs. Pidgeot Deck
This guy was stuck with a pidgeot deck that gusts your only pokemon up for the win. I remembered this deck back in the days so I went at it. My luck no cleffa on the opening hand but I got chan out to his electabuzz. Took that out then the birds came in and chewed up my chan. Finally cleffa comes and in three turns I have a good set up of clefables. He manages to stop one but by that time all I needed was one prize. In comes his doduo who takes me 4 turns to KO.
Winner 1-0

Round 2 vs. Classic Hay
This is where it got hard. He brings out chan to my cleffa. Baby power fails me and cleffa is gone in 2 turns. I bring in ditto who takes his chan out but to my bad luck he has a fully powered mewtwo on the bench. Mewtwo takes out my ditto and he gust another one for the lead. I bring in clefable and copy for 40 damage. He then item find for the gust again and takes out my chan. Im in trouble. Clefable takes out mewtwo and then he runs into some bad luck. He uses lass and removes my last oak back into my deck. I didnt mind cause he lassed away his 2 elms and another gust. Then he just sits there and watches me copy his hay guys for easy KOs. Turns out he had no luck on the draws and was only getting wrong energy. Lucky break for me.
Winner 2-0

Round 3 vs. Legendary Bird Deck
No such luck this time. This guy ran a Moltres/TR Zapdos deck. I cant remember if the moltres was blains or TR but it was the one with the 40 attack and poke power that does 10 back to you every time you hit it. Here it goes. I start with Ditto and him with scyther. I try to swordance for the first three turns but this guy doesnt give up energy removing me like crazy. I soon run out of energy so I have to NGR most of my energy leaving a couple of my chans in the discard pile. Big mistake. Were both down to three prizes and both our decks are low. I have the advantage by 2 cards. He brings in his ditto to face my clefable. A big stand off for a while. He sees his deck losing out to mine so he brings in trZapdos and KO my clefable. To which I take out his Zappy with my other clefable. He then brings in ditto again. Were both down to 2 prizes and I still lead by two cards. Then the surprise. He NGR three cards back into his deck and then Item finds for another NGR. Im pretty mu!
ch!
 doom so I use my cpu search and
 get a chan out. I bring chan in and he takes out his ditto. At this point Im down to 3 cards in my deck and needing one more prize. He brings in Moltres and KO my chan. I bring in clefable and copy his attack. Then he finishes me off by retreating Moltres and bringing in Ditto for the stall and the win. Nooooooooooo!!!!
Lose 2-1

Wow it looks like Im losing my touch. My 37 game win streak is over. Now to start a new one.

Props: To the guy that beat me a very good player, for the mall giving away free chalupas after the event, and to Myself for not throwing a tantrum after I lost.

Slops: To those guys charging pojo $3,000 to keep the message board open, for my wizards telling me to go see the pokemon movie for the free card and then the next day they give them away for free, for this nerd at the tournament winning it all and then telling everyone else that we suck and for dumb cleffa not coming out.   

Sandman
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