Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

2009 US Nationals

If someone can tell me please. Where are the winners from. Just to know.
Like where are they from 1st and 2nd place for all divisions. Thank you

And Congrats to the winners in all three age divisions.
 
Rainbowgym: In all of the others, SP came as far as T4 or even T2, but then lost to Gengar, Gengar/Machamp or Flygon. I'm including Japan Nats here, where SP also only took 2nd.

I think the main factor rather is that US Nats has so many rounds. The Gengar/Flygon/Champs don't have the consistency and don't have enough good matchups. In the smaller Nationals (Japan was small too), you didnt have the same situation, where only the hyper consistent decks remain by Top 4. (Lux/Ape is definitely very consistent)
 
Tego makes a good point. Consistency is so much more dire in such an extensive tournament. So ultimately setup decks are at a slight disadvantage.

I just hope this doesn't signal an over hyping of luxape. It's been proven a good deck but I really think that there are plenty other decks that can compete with it.
 
Yeah congrats to all the winners. Wish I couldve been there. Now I will anxiously wait for the worlds invite list. Hopefully I'm still up there. Anyone how long it took last year to get us nats input to the computers and up?
 
And I still dont get the point of luxape :/
Maybe its because I havent played much since our nats, but the few times I used this deck Luxray was awesome but ape never seemed to be much of a help :/
Its nice to have ah eavy hitter, but split bomb isnt that great and the power never really helps.

Someone enlighten me xD
 
Grats to Austin H. In Juniors! 330 area representation from the Junior Division! HERE WE GO 330! (Ohio for the one asking)

Also:

Grats to Pooka for the win in masters! I'm sure you'll do AWESOME at Worlds!
 
Not a single SP deck made it to top 4 in our Nationals not in Masters or Seniors.
And 7 rounds top 16 is smaller agreed.
I would love to find out how many Gengar or Flygon or Beedrill decks were seen.
 
Yoshi- said:
And I still dont get the point of luxape :/
Maybe its because I havent played much since our nats, but the few times I used this deck Luxray was awesome but ape never seemed to be much of a help :/
Its nice to have ah eavy hitter, but split bomb isnt that great and the power never really helps.

Someone enlighten me xD
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I think after looking at the top three

LUXRAY/Infernape
LUXRAY/Manactric
LUXRAY/Palkia

you should realize Infernape was never supposed to be the main player
 
DarkJake said:
I think after looking at the top three

LUXRAY/Infernape
LUXRAY/Manactric
LUXRAY/Palkia

you should realize Infernape was never supposed to be the main player
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Thats what I thought, and when I saw those Lux/Palkia Deck I was sure that they were an improved version and it would be more likely for them to take it in the end.
 
Rainbowgym said:
Not a single SP deck made it to top 4 in our Nationals not in Masters or Seniors.
And 7 rounds top 16 is smaller agreed.
I would love to find out how many Gengar or Flygon or Beedrill decks were seen.
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Same with Norway's Juniors and Masters. :) We only had one SP deck on 3rd place in Seniors, that's all.

Yeah, I'm also VERY interested to hear what all the other T32 decks were, and at what point Gengar, Flygon, Beedrill were eliminated.
 
Rainbowgym said:
Not a single SP deck made it to top 4 in our Nationals not in Masters or Seniors.
And 7 rounds top 16 is smaller agreed.
I would love to find out how many Gengar or Flygon or Beedrill decks were seen.
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One word answer, tons. I think the difference here was the power lock game along with the azelf with downer material in the palkia decks. They would power lock with mesprite, power spray and downer material which really hurt the set up decks and SP decks alike early game. Add flints and you can do 80 to anyone in consecutive turns with palkia lv x early and it is GG. There were alot of these decks so electric counter was the play here in masters.
 
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