Newton, KS
Newton Hobby Center
1-15-00
9 participants

3 bill
1 switch
2 energy removal
2 super potion
1 gust of wind
1 professor oak
2 defender
2 pokemon center
1 chansey
1 snorlax
3 abra
2 kadabra
2 alakazam
2 jynx
2 mewtwo
3 gastly
2 huanter
1 gengar
2 drowzee
1 hypno
1 mr. mime
1 double colorless
22 psychic energy

me vs little kid(fighting)

At the tournament there was on kid whom noone knew to well so we called him
little kid. Now for my first hand all I got was an Abra so I had to use it.
The little kid got mochop and won the coin toss.  He said he was using low
kick and then decided he wanted to use plus power. Being my first pokemon
tournament I decided to let him do it even though it cost me a loss.

me vs Ethen(mutlicolor)

Now from what I heard Ethen was a good player and tough to beet. I started
off with a jynx and he started off with hitmonchan. As time progressed I
had alakazam on the bench along with snorlax, huanter, and chansey and jynx
still out in play. He had aerodactyl, himonchan, scyther, and lickutung on
the bench and hitmonlee in play. Using alakazam's ability I moved counters
to my benched pokemon until they had all but one hp and used pokemon
center. continuing this Ethen soon ran out of cards in his deck.

me vs Hulgoon(multicolor)

So far in the tournament Hulgoon was 0-3 so I wasn't too worried. I started
with abra and he started with a mr mime. I won the toss and hit his mime
for 20. My next turn I got kadabra and chansey out. soon I had my alakazam
and pokemon center combo going so mulgoon just used professer oak 3 times
to end the game.

me vs little kid's brother(colorless)

As this game begun I thought I was going to lose but things weren't looking
too bad. A few turns into the game I had a chansey out and he had clefable.
He could only use metronome on me and chansey only has two attacks on that
does 80 damage to the defending pokemon and to itself and one that prevents
attacks. He couldn't use the double-edge or he would knock out his
clefable. I couldn't use and attacks because chansey didn't have enough
energy but I managed to run him out of cards thus winning three games by
decking.

me vs Erik Mcgay(water/electric)

Erik was a sore loser and a well known theif so I had to keep a close watch
on him. He wasn't too happy because he lost every game so far. He started
off by doing quite well by getting out vaporean, lapras, and articuno. I
managed to take out vaporeon with kadabra but he took out my kadabra after
that(so much for the alakazam in my hand). Then I brought in mr mime with
couldn't be hurt by articuno so I killed it off. then Erik used electrodes
ability to get two energy giving me another prize. By then I had one prize
and I got it by using genger's ability to knock out his ditto on the bench.

me vs spike(plant/colorless)

wesley (a.k.a. spike, becuase of his hair) had a really close match with
me. Spike got all of his high powered colorless pokemon out which are
resistant to psychic.  So I had to think fast. I had to make sure I didn't
use any oaks or bills and hope alakazam would work as well as he did
before. Luckily persistants pays off in the end and I managed to stay
alive. I got him out of cards with him only having one prize left and close
to getting the last one.  That was the second closest game in the tournament.

me vs Chris(colorless)

Chris was the tournament holder and by this time he was 2-4 so he got mad
and threw and fit. Not only that but he said he forfeited the tournament
and left. Luckily he had bought the prizes before the tournament. So I got
a win there.

Report thus far
I had one more person to go up against and that was Dustin Bond.  He was
the undefeated winner of the last tournament and his record was 7-1.so the
bracet looked like this
me                   7-1
Dustin               7-1
Little kid           7-2
Ethen                7-2
Wesley               6-3
Little kid's brother 5-4
Erik Mcgay           0-9
Mulgoon            forfeit
Chris              forfeit

So the winner of me and Dustin got first then there would be battle for 2nd
and 3rd

final battle
me vs Dustin(multicolor)

I was loosing from the beginning on this one there seemed to be no hope in
this.  What could I expect, it was my first tournament.  I figured I better
stick with it even if I lose.  It was Dustin's Hitmonchan vs my fossil
gastly which has resistance to fighting.  That kept me alive a little until
he got out scyther. using alakazam and snorlax I kept the damage off for a
bit. Suddenly I noticed he only had 6 cards left in his deck. but he was
down to one prize and my active pokemon was 1 hp away from death. There it
was I had come so far and came so close I knew it was over I couldn't hold
out for 6 turns, but what was this magicly I was blessed with the one card
yep just one card the all mighty chansey. With this chansey I was able to
pull off the victory thus making me the 1st place winner of the tournament.





Nathan Reimer
Choco_7@yahoo.com