SalaManders By. Dawg Noble Agincourt Recreational Community Center Scarbourgh, Ontario, Canada Saturday, May 5 2001 Roughly 150 participants This was a STS qualifier. My very first one. I was surprised at all the good players there. Anyway this was a 6 round swiss style tourney with the top 16 players with the most points battle for prizes. Everyone got at least 1 booster pack for entering, and cost nothing to enter. The prizes were... 17th and lower-1 booster pack (Gym Heroes) 9th-16th-4 booster packs (Neo) 5th-8th-14 booster packs (Neo) 3rd and 4th-1 Neo booster box (36 Packs) 1st and 2nd-24 booster packs (Neo) and an all expenses way trip to New Jersey for the ECSTS. There were a lot of good decks and I thought I didn't have a chance. But my deck was a lot better then I gave it credit for. My deck is... Pokemon: 15 4 Blaine's Charmander (Kindle) - Get those energies off 3 Clefairy (Neo) - For Clefable 2 Clefable (Jungle) - I HATE Rocket's Zapdos 3 Magmar (Fossil) - A must for a fire deck 2 Cleffa (Neo) - Draw power 1 Magby (Neo) - I really HATE Slowking Trainers 29 3 Computer Search - Get what you want 3 Item Finder - Get used up trainers 3 Gold Berry - Free Super Potion 3 Rocket's Sneak Attack - Get needed trainers out of their hand 2 The Rocket's Trap - Get 3 cards out of their hand 1 Imposter Prof. Oak's Revenge - Pretty Good In Order (Prof., Sneak, Trap) 4 Energy Removal - No energies for you 4 Super Energy Removal - 2 - For - 1 Coupon 2 Prof. Oak - A must for all decks 2 Prof. Elm - To save some good cards in hand 2 Narrow Gym - Savoir, saved me in decks with Wiggily, Sneasal, EcoGym. Energy 16 4 Recycle - Get it back when: Super, Retreat, K.O'ed 12 Fire - Duh! Round 1 SalaManders Vs. Potpurri I hand a VERY bad hand. His deck was good but with one flaw. Too Turbo! 4 Oak, 4 Bill, 3 Misty's Wrath. No need to get rid of his energies. He knew he lost. He decked out on the tenth or elevinth turn. 1-0-0 3 points Round 2 SalaManders Vs. Maganium/Venusaur Deck Three words. I got hammered. I was doing O.K. in the begining but onece he killed my Magby it was over. His Powers worked and I got busted up. All I have to say is TOO MANY SOLORBEAMS. I got mad at the end of the tourney because his only win was against me :( 1-1-0 3 points Round 3 SalaMaders Vs. My friend Rob w/ Turbo Clefable This was a good deck. I could have died easily but I survived. He was killing me but, his deck was running out, so was mine. He had one less card in his deck and wanted to tie. I agreed because I had a gut feeling that I would die if it went on. 1-1-1 4 points Round 4 SalaManders Vs. RainDance Weird Deck. RainDance without any Blastiose(LOL). This was energy removal chaos. I used all my supers. All removals. And used Kindle around 7 times. Kind of hard to attack when you have no energies. Eventhough I had his weaknes he didn't draw 1 prize. I killed him with Charmander. 2-1-1 7 points Round 5 SalaManders Vs. Grass deck His deck was better then I thought. But every time he got an energy he needed I trapped him or removaled him. It got down to wire but with 1 prize left each and about 3 seconds left on the clock, he oak'ed and tried toget a gust but didn't. He passed. I passed. And I win because that oak left him without a deck 3-1-1 10 points Round 6 SalaManders Vs. HeyMaker (Zap, Buzz, Ditto, Cleffa) I NEEDED this win if I win i get into the playoffs. This game was too intense to remember. All I know is that it got a little close because he needed a heads to win and got......TAILS. I was happy because I he decked out in the process of triing to get the heads. But I don't blame him. It was his only choice to win. After Round Robin: 4-1-1 13 points That locked me in the top 16. After everyone finished I found out that I was 9th. I would face the 8th place person. It was my friend Rob again. Top 16 Round 1 SalaManders Vs. Rob w/Turbo Clefable This was the closest match yet. Until i made the biggest mistake. I oaked to heal a Magmar. That was such a dumb move!!! He kept on stalling with Clefable and decked me out. Full Record: 4-2-1 13 points. siece my match was the closest and longest I got 9th. Oh and guess what. Rob won his next two games and tied for first in the 11-14 agegroup. Lucky kid won a trip to the ECSTS and 24 boosters. Anyway all the people in my team (Team Canada) did really good in both agegroups. This is who they are, place, and what they won. 10 and under Brian 1st 24 boosters and trip to ECSTS Sarah 3rd 36 boosters Cody 4th 36 boosters 14 - 11 Rob 1st 24 boosters and trip to ECSTS Chad 1st 24 boosters and trip to ECSTS Mike 3rd 36 boosters Steven 5th 14 boosters Jon 10th 4 boosters Jesse 11th 4 boosters Me 9th 4 boosters Side Event Robin 1st 15 boosters Marcus 4th 7 boosters All of us got 214 boosters and 6 trips to New Jersey for no entry fee. I could't beleive it when I saw it but it's true. Qualifiers ROCK !!!!!!!! In my packs I got PokeGear, Arcade Game, Magby, and Ampharos. I was mad at what I got so I bent the Ampharos in half.(Time to go to those anger management courses. LOL) Props & Slops Props to... Wizards for having amazing qualifiers My friends for doing so good. Me for doing good with what people say is a "BAD" Deck Pojo for postig this Slops to... My opponents that decked out. 3 of them. Me. I bent my Ampharos in half.(I'm regretting it now) (LOL) My Friend Alex. Someone stole his deck and counldn't play in the side events. He had 2 of my extra recycle Energies too... This guy Rodent. Had a record of 1-5 and said that he got 17th place and just missed out. *cough LIES cough* (LOL) My friend Derek for getting people mad saying that they like cats (LOL) *Advice to all: Go to the qualifiers. It has really good players to practice on and the prizes for doing good are unbelieveible. Go to a qualifier when ever you can. Dawg Noble thesepretselsaremakingmethursty@hotmail.com