procircuitscrub
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So my good buddy james and I have been testing for about 3 months in hopes of earning an awesome trip to hawaii...and we decided to make the 3 and a half hour trip from KY to Columbus. The night before we take on 2 additional passengers at the last min. A lady friend of Wames and a local player . We head out at about 8am end up stopping at McDonalds for some breakfast and Wames scares the crap out of several customers with his odd voices from behind a trash can. We drop off james lady friend at her college in Columbus and head to the tournament. It think we are running kinda late...but when we pull up the store is still closed. : / At this point I am guessing that there would be a lot of Glicor/Spiritomb, Gyarados, Flygon, and Gengar....and james seems to believe that people would be better and realize that gliscor is terrible. The store opens and we find out that there are like 7 Gliscor decks running around and only 1 Flygon/Machamp. So we both decide that Luxray/Blaze is the call seeing as how it auto wins the gliscor match. Pairings go up and we get started.
Round 1
VS. Tyranitar
He wins the flip and goes first...he starts with a larvitar and passes. I start luxray , call energy, and search out blaze/baltoy. He responds with pupitar and passes. Bad beats. I retreat for blaze, play claydol, radar for blaze X, cosmic into cyrus and crobat G, crobat the active, cyrus for gain, and fire and swing for 80.
1-0
Round 2
VS. Raichu
He wins the flip and flips over a pikachu. I start with luxray. He attaches an energy and quick attacks for 10 on my lux. I play call and roseanne to get a baltoy, another luxray, a blaze and a crobat G. He follows up with crazy stupid draw. BTS, baltoy, claydol, 3 pokedex, some drawers, quick balls, another pikachu/raichu on the bench and then he searches for 2 lightning and attaches them to the benched raichu. I respond with lux X gust up the benched raichu, poke turn my lux X, bring up blaze, play the lvl X, drop a crobat, gain and fire energy. Ko with jet shoot. He sets up another raichu the following turn and makes the same play searching out lightnings for the bench raichu. I retreat my blaze for lux, play lux x, drop another crobat g, poke turn my lux again, attach a fire to blaze and ko again. He goes to his turn...plays a bunch or scoop ups for some reason...flips tails on ALL of them and he passes. I bring up his claydol with luring flame...and pass. He thinks for a a bit and scoops because he will never have an attacker.
2-0
Round 3
VS. Gengar
This guy was really cool. Sorry I don't remember names all that well. But we talked a bit while we were setting up and it turns out he graduated from the same college i've been attending. I get a pretty good start....I spray his claydols the turn he drops them and I gust them up the turn after anf ko with blaze. I get 3 prizes ahead and he takes a ko with relicanth. But without claydols...he's drawing dead. I sweep this one.
3-0
at this point Wames and I are both 3-0 and hoping we don't have to play each other.
Round 4
VS. Kingdra
I find out that I got paired down and that kinda sucks. I win the flip and have to go 1st. I play a luxray and a baltoy and pass. (no energy drop ) He proceeds to BLOW UP with kingdra. Double poke drawer, baltoy/claydol, candy/kingdra, double uxie, expert belt, and I am just shaking my head. He kos my luxray. I have a baltoy active....I end up searching out another luxray with sp radar. but I have no supporters. He starts his next turn....sets up another kingdra...and i'm just getting run over. I was able to ko a benched horsea with lux X a few turns later...but that was it. I look at him and say... " best draw you can possibly get. " Yikes.
3-1
Round 5
VS. Lux/Blaze
He gets a crappy start but draws into EVERYTHING he needs to stay in the game without even having a claydol. We trade prizes the whole game. at one point I think I have him because I ko his blaze X and all he has is a blaze on the bench. he has already played 4 cyrus and an aaron. So I think there is very little possibility of him getting it back on the field. But he drops a 2nd blaze X from his hand!!!! What?! 2-2 blaze....yikes. he jet shoots my blaze and I end up luxing it up for the ko the next turn. he returns the ko with croak, and I follow up with lux x gusting up the azelf on the bench. I swing for 60 and he has no way to ko me the next turn. he has 1 prize left...and I have 2. He proceeds to stare into space claiming that he is tired for like 4 mins. I call a judge to watch for pace of play and then they call time....I get stalled out for the loss. The following turn I would have used crobat to ko his azelf and brought up blaze to jet shoot the active with another crobat for the win. Sigh....
After I go 3-2....my last round opponent decides he's going to Drop from the tournament...( yes...he was going to be top 4) so his buddy would make top cut. Then James beats the guy in top 4. ^_^ the guy was talking about how he was going to split prizes with his friend in top 2 and all this other crap. Then james completely runs over him 2-0. That was funny.
After the swiss rounds I play a game with a cool guy from muncie and we talk a bit about the format.
Overall it was a really fun trip....but bad beats and stalling keep me from top cut. Oh well. There's always next weekend. ^_^
Round 1
VS. Tyranitar
He wins the flip and goes first...he starts with a larvitar and passes. I start luxray , call energy, and search out blaze/baltoy. He responds with pupitar and passes. Bad beats. I retreat for blaze, play claydol, radar for blaze X, cosmic into cyrus and crobat G, crobat the active, cyrus for gain, and fire and swing for 80.
1-0
Round 2
VS. Raichu
He wins the flip and flips over a pikachu. I start with luxray. He attaches an energy and quick attacks for 10 on my lux. I play call and roseanne to get a baltoy, another luxray, a blaze and a crobat G. He follows up with crazy stupid draw. BTS, baltoy, claydol, 3 pokedex, some drawers, quick balls, another pikachu/raichu on the bench and then he searches for 2 lightning and attaches them to the benched raichu. I respond with lux X gust up the benched raichu, poke turn my lux X, bring up blaze, play the lvl X, drop a crobat, gain and fire energy. Ko with jet shoot. He sets up another raichu the following turn and makes the same play searching out lightnings for the bench raichu. I retreat my blaze for lux, play lux x, drop another crobat g, poke turn my lux again, attach a fire to blaze and ko again. He goes to his turn...plays a bunch or scoop ups for some reason...flips tails on ALL of them and he passes. I bring up his claydol with luring flame...and pass. He thinks for a a bit and scoops because he will never have an attacker.
2-0
Round 3
VS. Gengar
This guy was really cool. Sorry I don't remember names all that well. But we talked a bit while we were setting up and it turns out he graduated from the same college i've been attending. I get a pretty good start....I spray his claydols the turn he drops them and I gust them up the turn after anf ko with blaze. I get 3 prizes ahead and he takes a ko with relicanth. But without claydols...he's drawing dead. I sweep this one.
3-0
at this point Wames and I are both 3-0 and hoping we don't have to play each other.
Round 4
VS. Kingdra
I find out that I got paired down and that kinda sucks. I win the flip and have to go 1st. I play a luxray and a baltoy and pass. (no energy drop ) He proceeds to BLOW UP with kingdra. Double poke drawer, baltoy/claydol, candy/kingdra, double uxie, expert belt, and I am just shaking my head. He kos my luxray. I have a baltoy active....I end up searching out another luxray with sp radar. but I have no supporters. He starts his next turn....sets up another kingdra...and i'm just getting run over. I was able to ko a benched horsea with lux X a few turns later...but that was it. I look at him and say... " best draw you can possibly get. " Yikes.
3-1
Round 5
VS. Lux/Blaze
He gets a crappy start but draws into EVERYTHING he needs to stay in the game without even having a claydol. We trade prizes the whole game. at one point I think I have him because I ko his blaze X and all he has is a blaze on the bench. he has already played 4 cyrus and an aaron. So I think there is very little possibility of him getting it back on the field. But he drops a 2nd blaze X from his hand!!!! What?! 2-2 blaze....yikes. he jet shoots my blaze and I end up luxing it up for the ko the next turn. he returns the ko with croak, and I follow up with lux x gusting up the azelf on the bench. I swing for 60 and he has no way to ko me the next turn. he has 1 prize left...and I have 2. He proceeds to stare into space claiming that he is tired for like 4 mins. I call a judge to watch for pace of play and then they call time....I get stalled out for the loss. The following turn I would have used crobat to ko his azelf and brought up blaze to jet shoot the active with another crobat for the win. Sigh....
After I go 3-2....my last round opponent decides he's going to Drop from the tournament...( yes...he was going to be top 4) so his buddy would make top cut. Then James beats the guy in top 4. ^_^ the guy was talking about how he was going to split prizes with his friend in top 2 and all this other crap. Then james completely runs over him 2-0. That was funny.
After the swiss rounds I play a game with a cool guy from muncie and we talk a bit about the format.
Overall it was a really fun trip....but bad beats and stalling keep me from top cut. Oh well. There's always next weekend. ^_^