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Western Sweden Regional Tournament Report - Pokémon

The day started off with Kevin knocking on the door as I was eating breakfast. While we waited for Marcus, we played Pokémon Stadium on the N64 to put us in the right spirit =D

central station in Malmo

At ~8:30 we hopped in the car and drove off to the central station. Here we waited for our fourth and final companion, Henning. On his arrival, he was greeted by a ravaging young bloke with arms up in the air shouting his name. This caused him to morph his skin tone to a much redder colour. He stated he didn’t know me D:

the underground maze with snorlax 

The three-hour-long train ride was sped up as we pulled out our Gameboys and DS’s. Henning and I built a great maze in the underground of Sinnoh which Kevin destroyed via “Communication Error, please reset your game”.

After waltzing about in Gothenburg, we arrived at the damp place that was to be our hang-out for the next few hours. The tournament was delayed for about 90 minutes but that just gave us time to get acquainted with the [s]Norwegians[/s] locals.

Here is the deck I built and played with blood and tears:

Pokémon:	Trainers:	Energies:
Electrode Prime x 2	Lost Remover x 1	Water x 4
Voltorb x 3	Junk Arm x 4	DCE x 4
Reshiram EX x 2	Seeker x 1	Rainbow x 4
Kyurem EX x 4	Level Ball x 2	Prism x 4
Shaymin UL x1	Eviolite x 1
	Victory Medal x 1
	Pokégear 3.0 x 1
	Pokémon Collector x 3
	N x 2
	PONT x 2
	Super Rod x 1
	Twins x 2
	Juniper x 1
	Switch x 3
	Crushing Hammer x 4
	Pokémon Catcher x 3

Finally we start and I am paired with Joel, a friendly bloke from the territory just north of ours.

Round 1/4 (no top cut)

Joel – Leafeon/Houndoom/Amoongus

I remember this deck being of topic when Undaunted was released as just being a league deck and I watched him play a friendly just before we started but other than that I had no preparation for the deck.

I start off with an active Kyurem EX and one on the bench. On the starting hand I was able to bench 2 Voltorbs and Juniper for Electrode.
He Collector’s for two Eevees and a Cleffa, which are immediately benched. Super Scoop Up (SSU) fails on his active Foongus so he attaches a grass energy to it instead and trades in his Leafeon for a Houndour through Pokémon Communication. Retreats into Eeeeeeek and wakes up.

With the luck I have I manage to Energymite for two DCE and three Prism energies. After a hasty N, I “Gust” up his Foongus for my first prize card.

Placing a grass energy on one of his Eevees, he grabs a Leafeon with Level Ball and asks Professor Oak to tell us about his New Theory. Lucky boy theorizes a Houndoom and a new Foongus. Although Houndoom’s coin flip failed for him, Cleffa stays asleep after an Eeeeeeek.

I precede setup and manage to get a Reshiram EX out with DCE. But I have no way of getting past Sweet Sleeping Face as of the moment so I pass.

SSU fails yet again for Joel and his sleeping star-shape is stuck in the active spot. With two Leafeon benched with a grass and a rescue energy respectively he has no choice but to try and burn me with Houndoom. This time the bony dog succeeds.

Burned but unharmed, I still setup, using his sleep condition to my advantage. I manage to setup a third Kyurem and pass.

Upon Cleffa’s morning-breath he is able to knock out my Kyurem with Amoongus + Leafeon dealing 150 damage, poison and burn giving a total of 180.

I return the KO and draw my second prize. Since Energymite gave him a prize, I am behind by one.

He tries to swipe another two prizes but Kyurem#2 is left standing with 10 HP.

With Twins I am able to grab a Switch and Eviolite. By switching my critically damaged Kyurem I am able to even up the prize-count by dealing the blow on his Espeon (smart Mewtwo counter).

He can’t do much and tries to stall with Cleffa but wakes up.

I use Seeker to return the veteran Kyurem to my hand. Bye-bye 17 damage counters.

As he has run out of Leafeons, he charges up a Shaymin EX. All I do is peek at my Reshiram and the two prizes I have left.

He has one prize-card left, which I am unaware of for a second. What I did was this:
I used collector to check how many energies I had left in my deck. 4 out of the 10 cards left in my deck are multi-type energies. Without thinking I declare an Energymite in belief of a guaranteed victory. But before I fulfil the effect, I see the one prize card left. I ask him politely if I may change my mind and he is generous enough to let me. Props for being a cool guy and showing everyone the spirit of the game ;)

I am forced to rely on luck as I declare Glinting Claw. Heads= I win, Tails= he survives and catches my Electrode for the win. Result: Heads
Joel, you were fun to play against and gave me my money’s worth!

Lucky ‘tard that I am.

1-0

Round 2

Marcus R. – Raindance (Kyurem NV/ Suicune&Entei Legend with 2-1-1 Kingdra)

Up against this events rogue competitor, and my childhood friend for that matter.

His deck is a fierce one but for someone as prepared as I was for his tsunamis; it was slightly in my favour.

I start with a lone Voltorb and a hand clogged with energies + PONT.

PONT gets me an active Kyurem with a DCE but that is pretty much it.

He starts off by collecting Manaphy, Totodile and a Horsea and benches them together with a Kyurem.

By top-decking Electrode I Energymite for ~4-5 energies and Knock him out.

He passes and I am able to sweep his low HP Pokémon for 4 turns before he gets a chance for setup.

The game finishes with me playing Shaymin in order to move my energies from my fully charged EX’s on the bench  to my active Kyurem , with a dozen energy attached, just for laughs, and deal 240 damage to his SEL.

just seconds before I play Shaymin

Sorry my friend…

2-0

Round 3

??? - Zekrom EX/Tornadus/Thundorus

Since this match was filmed, I decided not to take notes and therefore I won’t be writing about this game in detail as I want to be as accurate as I possibly can.

He played no catcher and I misplayed a lot. I was ill-prepared for Zekrom EX but knew that it was my worst match-up.

Friendly and very well-mannered opponent. Looking forward to the next time we get to force animals to cruelly disembody themselves :)

2-1

Round 4

Gustav – Truth

[s]I win[/s]

I start (again)

Have the perfect set-up hand with NO energy!

He collects a Pichu, which he benches, a Zekrom and a Chansey and retreats his Phanpy with DCE. I grab Shaymin and use Energymite twice in order to put myself behind in prizes, thus disabling any twins he might have. From now on I will call this “Energymite-Lock”.

I am fully setup on round two but his Pichu is asleep so I pass.

He passes after evolving into Duosion. By gusting and KO’ing his Duosion I maintain disruption.

After turns and turns of us just passing (and the occasional KO from me)because of his sleeping Pichu, he declares me as the winner but insists we finish playing for the sake of the judge.

With a result of 3 wins and 1 loss, I finish third and punch Kevin for drawing his second Mewtwo EX! At 8 pm the four of us toss ourselves into the train with a smell of sour Cheese Doodles tingling the insides of our nostrils.

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