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William Hung's
Underground Card Laboratory
Hello all,
With the Pokemon TCG State
Championships just finished, it's
time to look through the results,
and see where things stand right
now. More importantly, since the
next Pokemon TCG set - EX: Holon
Phantom will come after
Regionals, it's a good idea to
analyze the results from State
Championships, and to perform well
in Regionals.
I will go ahead and credit the
source www.pokegym.net for
the use and interpretation of State
Championships results and reports.
Ludicolo x2 (Alabama and Minnesota)
 Machamp x3 (Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Florida) Camerupt ex (Kentucky) Medicham x4 (Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Delaware) Nidoqueen x2 (Missouri and Massachusetts) Meganium (Nevada) Politoed (North Carolina) LBS x9 (Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Oregon) Gengar (Kansas) Dragtrode (Louisiana-Lugia/Steelix, Texas-Classic) Le Metro (Rhode Island) Rock-Lock x2 (California and Illinois) Metanite (New York) Flariados (South Carolina) Flygon ex (Virginia) Unknown (Utah, Maine) Moon Rock (Wisconsin) POW! Block (Alberta - Canada)
Manectric ex Rogue (New Mexico)
These are the decks that won
State/Provincial Championships in
age 15+ group. I seriously
recommend parents out there wanting
to help their children in upcoming
Regionals to check this website, to
gain some ideas about your
children's respective age divisions,
10 and under, and 11-14.
So I would like to apologize that
pretty much all of my articles so
far, has tendency bias toward my age
group, 15 and older (15+).
Nevertheless, 15+ division is the
toughest division, without a doubt.
There are too many talented Pokemon
TCG players in 15+, in my humble
opinion, many places across the
world. Therefore, if a given deck
can handle the heat in 15+, it
should be able to handle the younger
divisions.
I'm not saying you younger folks
don't need to take your own metagame
into considerations. However, for
the most part, you can make
appropriate adjustments to the top
decks in 15+ and take care of
business.
Based on the results from 15+,
it may look safe to say LBS - or
Lugia ex/Blastoise ex/Steelix ex, as
the #1 deck. However, other notable
decks, like Espeon ex/Medicham ex,
Rock Lock, Machamp made a very
strong showing as well. The other
statistic I've omitted, and very
hard/impossible to acquire, will be
the number of top 4's, and in some
cases top 8's the forementioned
decks made.
The metagame in general, and leading
to Regionals, is very diverse and
wide open. For instance, Wisconsin
is a very competitive State. And a
15+ player manages to win with
Lunatone and Solrock, through
disruption and bench damage. I will
have a closer look at some of the
"rogue" or "random" decks that won
State Championships, but my point is
that creativity, practice, and
determination is paying huge
dividends.
That's quite a bit of information
for you folks to absorb. Until next
time, go ahead, as usual post any
comments or replies at
wilhung53@aim.com.
Best Wishes,
William Hung
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