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    FlameToss
    Ernie Le
    Aloha, Oregon
    Eternal Elysium
    August 5th, 2000

    Hey there Pojo!,
    The Tourny I played at was at Eternal Elysium in Aloha, Oregon.  It was
the Gym Heroes Pre-Release Tourny, and it was a "Free-For-All" competition. 
The person with the most points would fight the second person with the most
points.  I got two packs for entering the tourny, which I got two foils, TR
Scyther and Misty's Tentacruel.  I practically took the chances for all the
other peeps to get a foil! HA!
Well, lemme place down my deck for you guys to check out!

    2 Hitmonchans, the mega buster, the brahma bull, the one hit kill to
colorless pokemon!!!!!
    1 TR Machop, a Hitmonchan with Colorless energy!
    2 Fossil Magmars, the Scyther recker, leaf Pokemon evilest enemy!
    1 Blaine's Magmar, you can knock a Scyther out in one turn! But, with 3
pluspowers........
    3 Gastlys, it's THE secret weapon of all time, free retreat, energy
conversion, resistance from fighting! One of the best! 
    3 Dittos, the copycat, recks 2 stage evolution Pokemon!
   
    4 Scoop Ups
    4 Energy Removals
    2 S.E.Rs
    2 Comp. Searches
    3 Gust Of Winds
    1 Item Finder
    3 Energy Retrievals
    4 Plus Powers
    2 Lasses
    2 Nightly Garbage Runs

    6 Psychic Energy
    6 Fighting Energy
    6 Fire Energy
    3 DoubleColorless
   
    Well, that's my winning deck!  Here's the tourny!
   
    Round 1, Me vs Brian
    I was playing Brian and I noticed one thing, he didn't have any Removal
cards!  Turns out, he like to play "Fair", Ha! how's he suppose to win?  This
match was very easy, I started out with Fossil Magmar while he had a
Growlithe and a Reg. Magmar.  I kept smokescreening his guys and Removing his
evergies so he couldn't attack, I had one once I killed his Magmar and his
Growlithe.
    1-0
   
    Round 2, Me vs My brother, Dennis
    I had to play my bro, his deck is pretty easy to beat, besides the fact
he's got mostly fighting resistance.  This game took me down to like 2 cards,
he do the dumbest play ever..........He attack my HItmonchan for 30, he's at
10 now, I Scooped him up and brought out Gastly, attached 2 pluspowers and
knocked out Scyther!  YAY!
    2-0

    Round 3, Me vs Michael....?
    This kid played a Charizard deck, with TR, and a whole buncha Arcanines. 
So, we started playing and I had realized that his deck was gonna die so bad
because of Ditto.  I could copy the TR Charizard and kill him with any
energy!  During the game, he got nothin good.  I copied his Growlithe and we
started to exchange blowsm but he died first.  Then, he brought out a
Charmander, Poke Breedered it in a Dark  Charizard and did that fireball
attack to me for 50.   My turn, I had 2 Double Colorless on Ditto and knocked
his Charizard out, giving me the win!
    3-0

    Round 4, Me vs David.
    Ok, David is a Pokeholic.  He knows how to make great decks, how to
trade, and how to keep his cards in great condition.  But, this tournament,
his deck had a weakness........He played a Metronoming Promo Mewtwo deck.  It
had Clefairies, CLefables, Promo Mewtwo, Scyther, and Mr.Mime? I think. 
Well, during the game, we just did nothing.  I'd attack, he'd pokecenter, I'd
Removal, he'd attached, it went on like that the whole game.  Until, he only
was down 2 Pokemon.  A Scyther and Mewtwo.  I did Lass and screwed him over!
He had like 2 Scoop Ups in his hand that I put back in his deck.  Now, I was
sure I'd win. I knocked out Scyther, then Mewtwo, giving me the hard WIN!
    4-0

    Round 5, Me vs Monroe?
    At the tourny, there was like 4 experts, and 4 newbies(I'mma Expert).  I
had to play one of the newbies that just had cards that "look good" in his
deck.  He had the Promo Mew, Promo Meowth,  Promo Venusaur, and no good
trainers?!?!?!? I knew I won the minute I found out he had a bench full of
Mew, Venonats, and Meowths.  I won with one F. Magmar, smogging all of his
little dudes.  I won the minute his last Meowth had been knocked out......
    5-0
   
    Round 6, Me vs Seth
    Lemme explain something.........When there used to be BIG tournies,
therer was always the same top 6 people.  Me, being one of them, and Seth
being another.  He plays The Original Haymaker, which is already on Pojo. 
His deck should've been easy to beat but one thing, his HItmonchans.  I could
never get a Gastly out whne I needed to.  The game was long and boring.  He
got me down to 6 cards and he didn't know wut to do.  It took him like 5min
to think of a plan, whne I already knew how he could kill me.  I had a Ditto
on my bench with 20 life left, he had a Hitmonchan on his bench.  I knew he
was gonna scoop up his active pokemon, Scyther, bring out Hitmonchan and
G.O.W for Ditto, knocking him out giving him the win.  But.......It took him
like 5 min to find that out?!?!?!  All in all, I still lost, giving me my
first loss

    5-1

    The Last Round......
    Me vs Monroe's Bro
    Man!  I had wished I wouldn't be playing a newbie, they always take too
long to play!  But, I needed this win to get an automatic first place
placing.  So, on with the battle.  I got a Hitmonchan, he had Venonat,
Tauros, and Squirtle.  He had the worst pokemon that could fight against me. 
I powered up Hitmonchan on turn 3 and was already knocking his guys out, with
ease.  He had gotten no Removals, so he was screwed.  I got the EASY win!

    Thanks!
    Thanks to everybody who I beat, I GOT 1ST!!!!
    Thanks to Pojo, the No.1 Pokemon Site!
    Thanks to Eternal Elysium, for holding a great tourny!

    No Thanks!
    No Thanks to Seth , for beating me!!!

    All in all, I got 1st place.  I got 19 packs, 12 Gym, and 7 Rocket.  I
got many, many great cards! I had gotten more Foils than rares, but I traded
most of the foils for rares!  Sounds confusin I know.  But, I still had fun,
winnning!

    Ernie Le
    IF anybody, ANYBODY, has a question about their deck, my deck, or needs
help with TCG, email me @ EHunterIce@aol.com

    L8R Pojoholics!