"Rapid Burn"
--Energy--
25x Fire Energy
2x Potion Energy
2x Full Heal Energy
1x Double Colorless Energy

--Pokemon--
4x Charmander (Rocket)
3x Dark Charmeleon
1x Dark Charizard
2x Growlithe
2x Arcanine
3x Dratini (Rocket)
2x Dark Dragonair
1x Dark Dragonite

--Trainers--
2x The Boss's Way
1x Pokedex
1x Energy Retrieval
1x Nightly Garbage Run
2x Switch
2x Bill
2x Potion

Theme: To use Dark Dragonair's Evolutionary Light to bring out either Dark
Charizard or Arcanine as fast as possible to leave the opponent's pokemon a
pile of ashes!

Tourney:
Where? Arvada High School (Yes, 16 year olds like Pokemon, too!)       
Arvada, Colorado
When?  Thursday, May 19 2000
Why?   For fun and a holographic Mew.
Who?   About 8 people

The Rounds (Names changed to protect the embarassed)
--ROUND 1--
Vs. Mr. Smith's "Grass Attack" deck (Grass only)
How long did it last? 5 Rounds
How did I win? Opponent had no benched Pokemon on his 6th turn

--ROUND 2--
Vs. Joe's "Do The Wave" deck (Grass and Colorless)
How long? 1 round
How did I win? Killed his only starting Pokemon, Bellsprout, with a Rocket
Charmander.  It was sad.

--ROUND 3, SEMIFINALS--
Vs. Nick's "Psy-burn" deck (Fire and Psychic)
How Long? 28 rounds (whoo!)
How did I win? Drew my last prize by killing his Kadabra with a 200 damage
Continuous Fireball

--ROUND 4, FINALS--
Vs. Mr. Craig's (the sponsor) "Mr. Craig's" deck (Water and Psychic)
How Long? too long, I mean, 30 rounds
How did I win? Divine intervention, which means I knocked out his Dark
Golduck with a nice Take Down courtesy of Arcanine.  I drew my last prize
and proceeded to pick up my Holo mew.

Well, thats about it!  I have been playing the Pokemon card game since it
was first introduced.  My first deck was the combination of the Starter set,
and I have been playing ever since.

If any of you Poke-maniacs want to chat someday about Pokemon or what not,
drop me a line at GeetarzMan@hotmail.com.  Thanks, PoJo, for providing a
great web site!

-King Ian



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