Beating up while playing mind games
By Cedric
De Papieren Korf
Destelbergen, Belgium
Sunday, March 24th ,2002
About 18 participants


I didn’t really know what deck to play. I decided to play Sneasel/Slowking, 
but Fable/Muk might just have been better since 7 people where playing 
Slowking.

18

4 Slowpoke (2 fossil, 2 NG)
4 Slowking (NG, of course)

4 Sneasel (NG, of course)
1 Murkrow

3 Cleffa (again NG)
2 Igglybuff (ND)

Trainer 31
4 Item Finder
4 Computer Search
3 Focus Band
3 Lass
3 Gust of Wind
3 SER
3 Professor Oak
2 Elm
2 Energy Charge
2 Switch
1 Sprout Tower
1 NGR

11
4 Darkess
4 Rainbow
3 Recycle

First match against player with an illegal deck.
I first got a bye but the guy arrived after 5 minutes, when we started the 
game I saw
his deck almost completely consisted out of Neo Destiny, which wasn’t 
allowed yet. So he got disqualified and I won automatically.
Won 2-0            3 (9)

Second match small kid with Caterpie(!) deck.
When we started the game I had sneasel, killed his Caterpie on my first 
turn. Then he used some other Pokémon which I could Beat Up. Second game, 
the kid told me that I wouldn’t keep on laughing because of his ‘Super 
Pokémon’. He evolved Caterpie into Metapod and then Sneasel KO’ed it. Easy 
game.
Won 2-0          6 (18)

Third match vs Andy (one of the strongest players in our area)
Started very good, but his deck had lots of anti Slowking tech. I wasn’t 
able to take advantage of Slowking’s Power. He could just SER/ER my Sneasel 
to death. The second game I decked.
Lost 0-2         6 (18)

Forth match vs. Sehiene
First game was interesting, it was a good game. I had second turn 2 
Slowking, he had one. Unfortunately (for him) I had Igglybuff. Beat up his 
Pokémon and won.
Second game, I was playing very good, when I had only two prizes left he 
Taunted my King and Mean Looked it KO-ing some Baby’s, Murkrow and Sneasel. 
I lost the second game
Third game, again second turn Slowking. Oaked for the Darkness Energy I 
needed, and had a sneasel eady by turn two + a full bench. He had a Clefable 
but with the Sprout Tower in play he wasn’t a real threat. Just kept on 
Beating Up his pokémon and won.
Won  2-1     9 (24)

Last match vs. Clint
He played Slowking too, the first match I could stop Slowking with Igglybuff 
and won. The second and third game I lost. (don’t remember much from this 
match).
Lost 1-2    9 (27)

Ended up 5th and I won a Japanese Erika theme deck (better then nothing)

Props:
-	To the guy who traded my 2 Steelix for 2 D Gengar.
-	To the tournament organiser for making everyone win something.
-	To modified, which is  the format the next tournament will be run in.

Slops:
-	To the small kid with his Caterpie/Nidoran/Bellsprout/... deck for 
insulting me and laughing at me (he really did that :-( ).
-	SER