GATRAID Raleigh Qt at Pullen Community Center Raleigh, NC Sat. September 29, 2001 Roughly 45 participants in 11-14 Well, it's been about 1 year since I posted anything in the Killer Deck Reports, so I decided to write about my awesome performance. Actually Toys "R" Us did. Well here's my deck: Gatraid STS Style Pokémon: 18 4 Totodile 4 Croconaw 3 Gatr! 2 Cleffa 2 Elekid 1 Smergal 1 Pichu 1 Magby Trainers: 25 4 Elm 4 Wrath 3 Trash Exchange 2 Erika 2 Secret Mission 3 Double Gust 3 Focus Band 2 G. Berry 2 Sprout Tower Energy: 17 16 Water 1 Steel Round 1 vs. Nice kid with Jumpluff deck He's real nice, use to league, but not tournaments. I win the high roll. I start off great! He gets turn 3 Jumpluff, I get turn 4 Gatr and win turn 6! 1-0 Round 2 vs. David Dutre (Bling Bling) with a 1337 Dark Blastoise deck This was a pretty close match. But, with the ruling playful punch is not affected by focus band, It was pretty easy. 2-0 Round 3 vs. Kid with R. Zappy/R. Mewtwo Pretty easy match. 3-0 Round 4 vs. Cheater with S. Gengar/S. Alakazam/Dark Dragonite Before the match I asked "Did you go to the Roanoke qt?" "Yeah, I got second" he replied "Then why are you playing here?" "Did I say second? I meant third." "I also got third at the STS" Now I knew he was a liar, but he was a cheater too. He tried every cheat in the book. And I caught everyone of them. I won VERY easily. 4-0 Round 5 vs. Megan (I think) with Meganium This was a pretty easy match. Real easily considering it was grass... 5-0 only one more to go Round 6 vs. Steelix/Slowking/R. zappy We had deck checks, so we saw each other’s decks This was going to be hard. He got out 2 I got out Magby but Steelix killed him. Then I got out Pichu. But he only got 60 on the three kings before being killed. It was down hill from there… 5-1 I made Top 8 3rd seed (Yeah me, not you Bryson :P, I checked) Top 8 Round 1 vs. Megan Again This time I start with Elekid, and a lot of useless trainers… It was impossible to win. The only other basic I got was a Totodile… Easy loss. My prizes were all water too, so Riptideing was near impossible anyways. I got 18 packs and a deck box for playing, pretty nice if you ask me… Later on we had a small ND draft, in which Pinco ()wned by the way. At the end of the day I went home happy. My family ended up with 56 packs, 8 Gym Challenge theme decks (2 of each) and 8 Rocket decks (4 of each). All for FREE! See my mom ordered 15 pizzas for everyone, so the store gave my mom 20 packs and 2 theme deck boxes, not to mention 75 bucks in donations… Props and Slops Props to me for making top 8 Props to my bro for making top 8 Props to Ryan/Reepicheap/Insane Gatr V.5 Props to Toys “R” Us for ()wning Props to the Booster Draft Props to Jeff for forcing them to let us shuffle No “Slops” to day Jake Negley IM at Negleyjj Negleyjj@aol.com