kevin [mailto:kevindemooij@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:26 PM Deck report Worlds 2004 And there`s me again =) Finally back home from worlds.. and tired as hell *sigh* And I`ve just read Hedge`s report, and I was like..omg, that deck.. I like it ^^ Well, I could write a book about how my vacation in the US was, and already did, but in dutch and I`m just too lazy to translate the whole thing. So I`ll start right away ^^ Crobyss: 4 Zubat 3 Golbat 3 Crobat 4 Clamperl 3 Gorebyss 2 Dunsparce 1 Uglybuff 1 Jirachi 1 Ditto X"D 22 2 Prof oaks research 2 Copycat 2 Steven 2 Wally 1 lanette 2 Rare candy 2 ATM rock 1 Life herb 1 Reversal 1 Lure ball 1 Desert ruins 1 Ancient tomb 1 Fast ball 1 Desert shaman 2 Warp point 25 7 Psy 2 grass 2 multi 3 DRE 1 Rainbow 15 Something like this, I wrecked the deck a while ago >__< Deck story (now that`s exciting, isn`t it?) First, I tried to play this with a 2/2 Xatu (SS) line in it, But then i decided it could be a lot faster if I just dropped that... sooo Here`s the result, it won all practise matches, and got some people in panic =D Round 1 vs. Someone with Crobyss (srry, forgot your name) Mirror match first round.. like >__< Well, we both started out very fast, but the main differance was that he swarmed some gorebyss, and the only thing I could get was crobat. I started a bit faster and triple posioned him, that forced him to retreat his clamperl with energy for a dunsparce, and got him some more clamperl, then I got up the second and third crobat, and killed his sparce, he attacked for 50, I benched my ditto, attached a energy to it, and triple poisoned, then he switched for golbat, confused me, and I topdecked life herb X"D and flipped heads too =P ahwell, then I copycatted, got an ATM, clamperl, gorebyss, DRE, and an psy nrg, i used ATM rock to get rid of all of his double rainbow, attached psy to ditto, triple posioned, he was stuck cause all his energy was gone.. so i won =) 1-0-0 Round 2 vs.. alexis diaz (this one I remembered =) (duh, 6 of the 8 persons I played made the T32) Well, he started with a lone torchic, and me with zubat, he attached, my turn, i rare candied, DREed, triple poison, he attached another energy and evolved into combusken, attacked (30) My turn, I benched clamperl, oaked research for a fresh hand, triple poisoned, then he evolved into blazi EX >_< Attacked for 50, and I drew a DRE =D I retreated for clamperl, trained him into gorebyss, attached DRE, killed blazi ex, then he gets some more torchic, which were quickly killed by gorebyss 2-0-0 Round 3 vs Pat.. with lanturn & aqua`s lanturn This was an easy game for me, I get an early gorebyss, he didn`t get even one lanturn, killed 6 chinchou`s XD 3-0-0 after this round, I was 1st (highest tie break and everything) in the 15+ category!! *Happiness* Round 4 vs Eric Craig [ Shiftry + Delcatty + Furret ] This was exactly what I feared.. Ahwell, He started of with iggly/dunsparce and makes an quick start, I rare candied 2 of my zubats XD just in case Eric had any ATMs or so. 2nd turn he evolved his pokemon, then passed, I evolved the crobats and triple poison something, He evolves just about everything, made sure he had the same number of cards in his hand, and then kills my bat >__< (darkness+ boost) I sent out a new bat with DRE, benched zubat, attached grass, poisoned him.. he then attached a new boost, and killed another bat.receives damage, and I put my gorebyss active, golbat, and killed that evil tree, he is trying to build op a new one, then passed, I fip heads for my reversal, and the new shiftry is now active, retreated for golbat, evolved, DRE, and then triple poisoned again XD.. he just boosted and killed the last bat.. receives poison damage, I send up gorebyss again, and killed another tree, he wasn`t able to rebuild again, so I won. Veery difficult game, nice deck eric =) 4-0-0 Round 5 vs JR Palumbo - RAMBO He starts out pretty fast, I basically get nothing more then a gorebyss out, he evolves a lot, passed, I benched some zubat, then killed a sparce, he sent out Blaziken EX, and killed everything what I benched. 4-0-1 Round 6 vs Chris Fulop - blaziken variant We started this game too early >__< I start, attach energy to clamperl, passed, He started with a lone skitty, then oracled, my turn.. at least, then we figured out that we started too early and have to start all over again.. >____< Ahwell, 2nd game we both started out very fast, I triple poison everything he has, and he kills every clamperl I bench. I finally draw one of my ATMs, and that was a major hit, cause that costed him belossom, and 2 blazikens, I just continue poisoning, while he is rebuilding, Then he gets another Bex, and killed another gorebyss, now he is down to 1 prize.. and all I could do is just.. ATM again XD, that just was a maaaajor hit, costed him like 3 prizes, and he was then unable to get anything again, I still had my crobats, and he had just..delcatty, I poison a couple of things, till I`m down to 1 prize too. that`s when time has run out. 4-1-1 Round 7 vs Adam.. [ Medicham + Lanturn ] Well, when the judge shouted: GO! , like 12 players raise their hands XD, So Adam and the rest explains what was going on, and that you could make the top 32 if we ID, so.. we drawed, but I`ll report our game anywayz >P Ok, I started out too fast, and Mysticed water 1st turn. He draws some cards, attached energy, my turn, I evolve something into crobat, attached DRE, and then killed some meditite, By the time he has Lanturn, I`m down to 2 prizes and a nice bench. He DRE`d for a kill, then I triple poisoned lanturn, he discards DRE for another kill, I send out something useless and passed (KO by poison), he then gets another lanturn with DRE, did 40, I retreated and triple poisoned, he wasn`t able to get something higher as 40 HP active, so I won 4-2-1 So.. I made the T32 together with like all my opponents from the swiss rounds XD I talked to some of the dutch, belgium and canadian team members, and like 3 out of 5 of the dutch team made the T32 (the other 2 won the sportivity awards XD) 2 out of 2 belgians made it, and 1 of the canadians I talked to ^^ So.. we prepare ourselves for a deck check, eat something, wish eachother good luck, and then go to our T32 area`s. T32 vs Yuki (yugi, lol) Fujimori Earlier that day, I heard people talking about the japanese magma decks, and I was like.. wtf.XD So, there was quite a language barrier, so we just used our hands to communicate ^^ He goes first, attached energy, passed, I started pretty slow.. so steven for extra cards, which were.. not too bad, but not too nice either, ahwell, I attached an energy to my Zubat, his turn, He used a friggin magma energy so my Zubat was gone.. omg, his deck really works, I lanette, find a ditto and zubat, rare candied for crobat, DRE, and triple poison, he puts down camerupt and claydoll, and then, attached 2 energies to groudon (everyone who plays or played against this deck know how it works) and used pulverize, I just retreated and put a clamperl active and KO'ed by passing, he then attached a magma energy to zangoose, camerupt+ claydoll trick, and killed the clamperl, I then used my gorebyss to get rid of the zangoose, he recovers, my turn, powered the ditto, and he used pulverize on gorebyss, I decided to retreat, triple poison again, and he then kills crobat, I put the gorebyss active again, killed his groudon, then a zangoose, then reversed his camerupt, he send out groudon, killed my gorebyss, I retreated for a golbat, do 40 damage, he killed the gorebyss, I retreated for ditto. bang XD 1-0-0 I forgot a lot about this one, but I still remember we started almost the same, he gets some early KO`s, I used my bats to kill those groudons, he then used his claydoll and desert ruins to kill all of my bats. I was able to knock out one of his claydoll, then he maxied, and used the cameruptS + claydoll trick to power up a groudon, and then killed everything I had.pretty close game, I had only 2 prizes left. 1-0-1 third game. final game for today. and I started off sooo bad.. not even 1 energy OR search/draw OR evolution card, he won pretty quick ^^ 1-0-2 so, this was were my worlds adventure ended. considering I`ve played like halve of my opponents made T16, I haven`t done too bad ^^ 1 of the dutch team (10-) made the T16 and one Belgian player made T8! (11-14) =) So.. I slept for like 3 hours? XD And then we went downstairs to sign up for the (green) pre release, I`m too lazy to report that too, so I`ll just tell you I have won 5 out of 5, With an Butterfree, Ivysaur (and 1-1 raticate + paras) deck. Sundaynight (/or mondaymorning XD) Jeanette (dutch 11-14 player) went downstairs to play some more games and trade a few cards, First, I just played a couple of games against "fat guy", and then Jeanette and I went to check out the after-release XD We have met Lugia`srealm over there, and he gave us a boosterbox full of rares, uncommons, and commons, thank you!! =D Sorry I am far too late with this report, I know, but I had to fly like 10 hours to get back here, then go to school right away, a lot of friends and my girlfriend came over in the weekend.. so, Finally, I'm back =) Props: - All my opponents, they rock! ^^ - Pokemon rocks america! - Everyone who supported the tournament in any way - Phil, getting wet is.. wet 8) - My deck, for doing well ^^ - Lia and Willem!! For everything, I stayed all the week in florida together with them and the kids =) - Jeanette, Arnoud, Jasper, and Jeroen, For being nice and great players - My dice, I flipped almost everthing heads XD - Maxim & her parents, for all the worries and stuff, and even considering letting me stay in washington. - My parents.. of curse ;) - Spencer & Landon, you guys rock 8) - Lugia`srealm/John, for supporting Lia, me and jeanette - The japanese players, konnichiwa!! XD learned some stuff there and traded a few cards ^^ Slops: - TM Groudon, for being so annoying ^^ - My new deck box, at the pre release, everyone who has one knows what I'm talking about. - The disgusting pizza I ate over there, blegh - School, for taking my precious time (and still.. my english sucks >__<) - Charley, oh.. I have been stuck for 2 days in Philly because of that thing, and the hurricane almost cancelled my trip. Well, Hope to see y'all next year (TM groudon excluded) Greetz Kevin (kevindemooij@hotmail.com)