From: "Turks" <jake_jeckel_tajb@yahoo.com>
To: <profpoke@pojo.com>
Subject: Rapidfire Beatdown Duy Do Shotokan Anime
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003 11:59 PM

Rapidfire Beatdown 
Duy Do
Location: Shotokan Anime; Hurst, Texas
3/29/03
Participants: 22
Fee: $3
1st Place: $30 store credit
2nd Place: $10 “        “
3rd Place: $5 “        “
4th and 5th Place: LON Booster

 Monsters: 3x Gemini Elf (got lucky in boosters)
                 3x Goblin Attack Force (can whoop up
on Gemini Elf)
                 2x Bazoo (say bye-bye to your Jinzo)
	     3x Mad Sword Beast (I’m gonna mess up your face
down monster first)
	     1x Witch of the Black Forest (go fetch me Jinzo)
	     1x Jinzo (Did you wanna use that mirror force?)
	     2x Hayabusa Knight (possible one turn kill)
	     1x Cyber Jar (starts the game over)
	     1x Kuriboh (Thanks for saving my ass)

Magic:  1x Raigeki (I didn’t mean to kill all of your
monsters)
             1x Premature Burial (gets my Jinzo after
Graceful Charity)
             1x Monster Reborn (can I please use your
Blue Eyes?)
	 1x Dark Hole (see Raigeki)
             2x Axe of Despair (monster steroids)
	 1x Mage Power (see above)
	 1x United We Stand (see above)
             2x Heavy Storm (play it safe before I
attack)
   	 2x Giant Trunade (see above)
	 1x Change of Heart (I’ll kill you with your own
monster)
	 2x Graceful Charity (hope I get Monster Reborn and
Jinzo)
	 1x Snatch Steal (I’ll tribute your Jinzo for my
Jinzo)
	 1x Swords of Revealing Light (stall)
	 1x Pot of Greed (2 free draws? Sure why not)

Traps: 1x Solemn Judgement (stops almost anything)
           2x Waboku (chains with Heavy Storm)
           1x Mirror Force (@$$ saver)
           1x Imperial Order (who needs a magic
jammer?)
           1x Call of the Haunted (see Premature
Burial)
           1x Magic Cylinder (right back at cha!)
           1x Torrential Tribute (surprise Dark Hole)

Total: 43 cards

Tournament:
Round 1:
Me vs Kelly(rookie)
	Since he was a rookie, I tried to take it easy on
him.  He also had a beatdown deck.  I don’t really
remember how this duel went but it went by pretty
quick, about 5 minutes total.  The only time he hit me
was when he brought out his Summoned Skull.  Both
times I brought out Hayabusa Knight with a power up
and just hacked away at his life points.
1st match: 8000-0
2nd match: 5500-0

2nd Round

Me vs Kevin Tran (my best friend)
	He ran a beatdown too.  He defended early pretty well
with Waboku.  I eventually got his field clear with
Trunade and attacked him with my GAF and Gemini Elves.
 He got a last push with a Mech Chaser supped up with
Axes, but I had a Cylinder waiting.
	In the second match he got a crap draw with nothing
but magics and one monster.  He laid it face down, so
I got my Mad Sword Beast with a Mage Power and slowly
hacked at hi LP.  He got me pretty good with a
Cylinder when I attacked with a powered up Bazoo, but
I killed him in the next turn.  This duel was hard cuz
I didn’t want to keep my friend from placing.
1st match: 8000-0
2nd match: 6900-0

3rd Round

Me vs Tyler
	This guy handed my @$$ to me last week with his
suicide beatdown deck, so I was out for retribution. 
He started out with a face down monster and a face
down M/T.  I then played Swords to flip over his
monster, which was a Hysteric Fairy.  I then Snatch
Stole it to tribute for my Jinzo.  He negated my Jinzo
with a Solemn Judgement; frustration starts to kick in
at this point.  I placed a Waboku and a Magic
Cylinder.  He brought out a Kycoo with an Axe and
attacked; of course I Cylindered his attack.  I was
able to draw my Hayabusa and I equipped it with 2 Axes
and took out his LP.  He then summoned a Jarai Gumo;
he called it wrong.  He was down to about 700 LP.  I
played Waboku to stop the attack.  I don’t remember
much, but I remembered I attacked a face down monster
with my Mad Sword Beast.
	The second match went by much quicker.  This stared
out similar to the first one with me drawing Change of
Heart and trying to tribute it for my Jinzo; he,
again, Solemn Judgmented my summon.  He then basically
killed himself when he called it wrong with his 2
Gumos.  Revenge is oh so sweet!
1st Match: 4000-0
2nd Match: 5800-0

Final Match
Me vs Mike
	We both ended up winning all of our duels 2-0 so we
faced each other in the Final Match.  I was kinda
nervous, because this was the first time I played Mike
and I didn’t know what he had in his deck.  The first
game went down to the wire.  He played a Harpies
Brother and a face down M/T.  I then played Heavy
Storm and Snatch Stole his Harpies.  I then Summoned a
Bazoo with an Axe and a Mage Power.  He was down to
3600 LP.  I thought that I had this one in the bag but
I was so wrong.  He Dark Holed my monsters and
summoned a Witch of the Black with and Monster
Reborned my Bazoo. He attacked and I activated Waboku.
 That was close.  I drew a friggin Jinzo.  In his turn
he attacked my LP directly.  I was down to 4400 LP.  I
then drew a Change of Heart and tributed his Bazoo for
my Jinzo.  I attacked his Witch and he brought out
Hayabusa Knight.  It gets kinda fuzzy after this but I
remember that he was down to 900 LP and I was down to
700 LP.  For some reason the second matches for me
were kinda lucky today.  I remember taking him out
pretty quick with a powered up Hayabusa.
1st Match: 700-0
2nd Match: 6700-0

Props:
For getting first place for the first time.
For my friends Johnnie and Calvin getting 3rd and 5th
repectively.
For getting Kycoo and Dark Spirit of the Silent in my
prize packs.
For trading my 2nd Cylinders and a Mirror Force for a
Gemini, Mage power, United we Stand and an Axe.

Slops:
For that annoying kid that kept on crying and
surrendering whenever he lost some LP.
For Kevin not placing.

My name is Duy Do.  Yall can email me at
jake_jeckel_tajb@yahoo.com or chat with me on my AIM,
skylineturks001.  Thanks.