Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

(not so) Live Nationals updates with pictures plus report. (Nationals report is up!)

Professor_Chris

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We'll be updating our website, live during the Professor Cup and Nationals with pictures an information. We'll also be taking high-res pictures of the pairings so you know who is playing who.

www.mspokemon.com

I'll post my completed report here later, if you want to read it as it happens (probably updated between rounds and at the end of the day) itll be on the main page of our website.
 
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I look forward to seeing your pictures! Do they have wireless internet there or are you at a hotel?

(also, there are 2 topics for that website you have listed now - lol)
 
Water Pokemon Master said:
I look forward to seeing your pictures! Do they have wireless internet there or are you at a hotel?

(also, there are 2 topics for that website you have listed now - lol)
Yeah, my dad posted it. But I figured It'd be pointless to have a topic each time we update the site, so this will be our official one. ;p Actually, we're on Cellular internet, but I am back at the hotel right now.
 
Well, looks like the updates won't be as live as I had hoped them to be. =( We'll update when we can, since its lunch now, I'm about to put the first two rounds on my webpage. I don't have the camera, so I can't upload pictures and my dad is off to get lunch.

[EDIT]Darn cheap news script. =/ I just realized that the report I spent good bit of time last night didn't save. x__x So, unless I feel like trying to do it again, Day 2 will be a mystery for now. =/ [/EDIT]
 
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Seeing as this is just too good to post later. I'm going to post it now and here. My day 3 report. Unfortuntately, is late, I don't remember many names, and I don't remember the rest of my matchups for the Prof. Cup. =( I didnt do well though. << >> But if you wanna skip my lame report, go to the props for the awesome stuff. ;p

Round 1 vs Jim ?. (Dark Electrode/Dark Ampharos)
I get a Torchi start, Rare Candy, Pidgeot, and energy. I draw into nothing. =/ gg
0-1

Round 2 vs ??? (Primetool)
I go first, he mullgans like 3 times. I T1 Pidgeot with Torchi active. Attach an energy, put him to sleep, he fails sleep check, attaches an energy an passes, I Rare Candy to Bex, attach energy. Tails. Tails. gg
1-1

Round 3 vs ??? (Crobat/Beedrill)
I get a Ray start and go first, He Poison Spurts and Ruins me. I Dragon Burst his active. I Switch out of it or something, Burst his Crobat, bring Ray back again, he Pows! it and KOs it with Triple Poison and DRE, exactly like I wanted :D I ash his Crobat, and a few more things. I win it pretty easy, benching him out before I take my last prize.
2-1

Round 4 vs Chris B. (Krayzie; Ludicargo)
He gets energy screwed, I ash Lotads left and right, he finally gets a Rare Candy, Ludicolo, Scramble, only to be Rex'd.
3-1

Round 5 vs Chris S (TRUK; Metagross)
I start this game off with a 3 prize lead. Then I make a couple of minor misplays and end up losing 3 exs to him. Darn Metagross ex totally came out of no where. =/
3-2

Round 6 vs Jose E. (Metaking)
The match is somewhat of a blur, Moltres comes out early, does some pwning, Bex follows, I think I bench him out. He got nothing set up,I killed it before it could become setup.
4-2

Round 7 vs Jason K. (Ness; T2 Medicham)
I'll say this upfront, I top decked and I top decked WELL. His T2 was more like a T3-4, I can't get Moltres in play before he evolves becuase I was stupid and left no bench space. ._. I'm building up thing on the bench, he pure powers my bench, so I'm like, "I gotta make hm kill something since he won't take the easy prize on the Sparce" So my active Torchic becomes a Combusken and I start attaching energy, after the second one hits Combusken I Lunge and suceed! Well, yeah, not he HAS to kill it. :D So he Sky Kicks, I play Moltres with 4 fire energy just in case he luck sacks a ER2. He brings up Medicham #2 and Pure Powers or something. I Moltres and Discard, he nails an ER and admins, I top deck an energy and Sky kicks. :D Yay 2 more prizes on my turn. He uses Meditite to KO Moltres, but I can use Powers again so I Fire Starter up, Retriever Moltres, send it active and KO. He gets his third Medicham up, admins me again, I top deck HPS. My turn comes I draw a WARP POINT with his Jirachi on the bench and one prize left. :D How lucky am I?
5-2

Round 8 ???? (Machamp)
Wow. I really should remember his name since at met him at World's last year. =( Moltres takes out the first Machamp and in a Heads I die, tails I live situation, I live. After he KOs Moltes, I Rex his other one, then I Blaze a bit, getting down 2 to 4 prizes when time is called. He can't catch up, and if he could I'd take next prize and win.
6-2

So we wait and wait, standings go up and I'm tied for 31-32 with Ben! Yes! I'm in~! :D Not only am I in, but so is my MOTHER. So thats sweet. Now we have to wait a bunch more for pairings. =/

T32 vs Tom D (Ludicolo)
So, yeah, they give me 1st seed, the undefeated player. =/ I win the roll and choose to go first. I pwn him and I pwn him good with a 0-4 win. I was like YES! I can win this! He chooses to go first, this game would have played out EXACTLY like the first had I not prized Jirachi. I got stuck with no draw and no Pidgeot for like ever. =/ Not only that but I still got down to like two-three prizes. But his Ruins takes out my Rex on the bench for the win. Third game, my start is still less than ideal, but he takes the 1st two prizes, and time is called before I'm able to launch my counter attack. I lost as soon as he drew his 1st prize since there wasn't much time left. I had planned to have an early assault with Moltres, but I had a Pidgey start with no energy so gg. =/ Turn two Pidgeot wasn't any help without energy either :nonono: Had the game continued, I'm fairly confident I could have taken it, if not, it would have been close. Who ever says Ludicolo is an auto-win vs Blaze is sorely mistaken. =/ The match-up is atleast 50/50 (60/40 if its me, because I'm so awesomely lucky ;D). My parents even told me that people were saying they couldn't believe I took one game,but honestly I lost the second and third on bad luck and time. Ben lucksacked and got the easier match versus the Blastoise deck. ;p

Now for the best section! PROPS!
My Mother for making T32.
My Mother for beating Fulop in Round 7. :D
Fulop for being an awesome guy and not dropping (and winning) to help my mother's TieBreaker%.
Fulop for being an awesome person anyways and also signing my Prof. energy the day before.
My mother for beating Moss in Round 8! (Never let him live it down people ;p)
[story]Alright, so, I just finished my last match, I go and find my mother, tell her I won and ask how she did. She tells me she won! I was like (in a pretty loud voice because I was excited/shocked) "You beat Moss!! *laughter*" little did know Moss was just a little bit behind her, he of course over hears and comes over and explains his defeat, and the fact that my mother should have had him by T4. But it is still SO awesome that she beat him. XD And funny too, because we were talking about how funny it'd be if she actually did beat him.[/story]

Slops
My sister missing the cut in 10-. =( Her 1st round opponent dropped with no wins 2nd-3rd round and screwed her %.
My mother for losing to a lame T2 deck in the T32. =(
Not making Top 16 (boy, don't you know they'd have fun trying to figure out who in the T32 got that one trip. ;p)

Thats all for now. I'll update later if I have something to add.
 
GJ man. Rough luck on the bad beat vs Tom, but I'll be honest, Tom's Ludi list is pretty strong vs Blaze, and while I've heard some say that Blaze vs Ludi is roughly close to 50-50, the lists Tom uses and I've used before are not close to as good of matchups for the blaze list. The ruins really hurt it, and It is at least 70-30 Ludi's favor more often than not. Time hurts that matchup too alot, because even if you trade off games 1 and 2, game 3 is always in Ludi's favor because its slightly faster.

Also, GJ to your mom, she played our game strong, only made a few mistakes. One bit of advice to her would be to spread her dark energy out more when on the bench. She did a good job keeping Darks off her actives needlessly, but she left 2 dark on a Sneasel on the bench I woulda Reversaled if my coins had heads on them, which woulda put me back in the game. Besides that it was a very well played out game, but I had some awful luck anyways. She prolly woulda beat me more than 50-50 either way so I don't feel too bad, a win woulda been an upset for the matchup.

Also, feel free to mock Moss, its a fun game, and overall worth it. I mean, even tho I had the same record and also lost to your mom, I will still mock him endlessly ;)
 
Tyranitar666 said:
GJ man. Rough luck on the bad beat vs Tom, but I'll be honest, Tom's Ludi list is pretty strong vs Blaze, and while I've heard some say that Blaze vs Ludi is roughly close to 50-50, the lists Tom uses and I've used before are not close to as good of matchups for the blaze list. The ruins really hurt it, and It is at least 70-30 Ludi's favor more often than not. Time hurts that matchup too alot, because even if you trade off games 1 and 2, game 3 is always in Ludi's favor because its slightly faster.

Also, GJ to your mom, she played our game strong, only made a few mistakes. One bit of advice to her would be to spread her dark energy out more when on the bench. She did a good job keeping Darks off her actives needlessly, but she left 2 dark on a Sneasel on the bench I woulda Reversaled if my coins had heads on them, which woulda put me back in the game. Besides that it was a very well played out game, but I had some awful luck anyways. She prolly woulda beat me more than 50-50 either way so I don't feel too bad, a win woulda been an upset for the matchup.

Also, feel free to mock Moss, its a fun game, and overall worth it. I mean, even tho I had the same record and also lost to your mom, I will still mock him endlessly ;)
I won't deny its stronger than most against Blaze, the 4th Ruins caught me off guard, but by the time he played it in the 1st match, I had the game won already, and made sure my Bex was 10 off from KO when if came around to my turn for my winning Ash. The second game is where the Ruins made the difference, he got my Rex within 10, I had to bring it back and there was no way I could take my last few prizes in time since he had a Cargo on the bench. =/ Being stuck without my Pidgeot or draw for the first half or so of the game sucked alot too. x_x It definately does have the time advantage. I was hoping for a fast start like the 1st game, but the Pidgey start with no energy kinda blew that plan out of the water. <_> What I wouldn't have given for a Torchic start w/ energy. :frown: (+Rare Candy, Bex, and another energy) Once Ludicolo takes a prize or two it has enough search to eat up the clock easy. =/ [rant]Heal Energy sucks too.[/rant] <_< >_>

I made sure to teach my mom only to use the darks necessary to KO without obvious risk of loss. I suppose I should have spent a little more time teaching her to spread them out when not in use too. c_C
 
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