Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Top2 in STL Report

louist200

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Wednesday night I have no idea what I am playing. Luckily my savior MukMan is on Face Book. Send him a message and he sends me a Gengar/Zangoose list. I realize that if I can pull up a claydol they have to burn a switch or a warp to get rid of him. And even better he cant be affected by special conditions. So I can play Skuntank and Toxicroak quite easily. So i play a few games over the phone since hamachi isn't working and decided that's what I want to play. So Friday Clay checks me out of school at 1 and we head out. We do the five hour drive fairly uneventfully till I realize that I bought Monopoly for my Ipod. Me vs Benny vs Taylor vs Clay and Tino. They were alternating driving so they worked as a team. But my I pod dies with out saving so all Clay and tino's manipulation had gone for nothing. Well we get there throw the stuff in our room and go over to the mall. Jason is helping people out with decks so he takes a look at mine. He says that I should take out the lookers and the Zangoose for Crobats poketurns and Powersprays. ( he had told me to take out other stuff) I stick to my list because it seemed like he was making a deck with a different theme. Well I realize that it is 9 and I haven't eaten so i run to the food court and get some tasty subway. That night I get some pillows and make a pallet. The we wake up at 6am Shower and get going. Once we get there Clay remembers the game of Cows we were playing in the car and tells me to take this Miltank card to get some points. Sadly we passed a cemetery on the way home.

Round 1 Garret with (Gengar/Machamp)
I come out Bts into a haunter and poison him with skuntank while I am a gastly so he is at 50 turn 2. I also dont let him get a claydol set up ever.
1-0
Round 2 Josh (Machamp/gliscor)
We both come out fast but I kill his baltoys early and he cant get a machamp up.
2-0
Round 3 Bryan (Porygon Z)
I come out and just keep killing. I hit some flips on fainting spell and he cant recover. But we kept this game fun even though he was sad he was losing. he prizes his last unknow G so I win.
3-0
Round 4 ???? (poison)
This guy is running poison. Not toxictank. Not the thing with Mightenia poison. He played Toxicroak Muk mightenia he played everything. I had a god hand if i had started with anyone but skuntank. I mean even my unknown G would have been better. I don't have call so I do what little I can and eventual get out a gengar and just keep killing he misplayed like crazy. I miss all my fainting spell flips and it is just sad. I run out of energy and am forced to fight with a zangoose with 1 call on it and keep him switching between a muk with no energy and a Skuntank. I kill the skuntank and he top decks a crobat and snipes a benched toxicroak. I am wigging out since I knew I had the game easily if I had anything other than a skuntank as a starter.
3-1
Round 5 Anna (Dark G&G)
This is the one time everything goes perfectly. I pull up the claydols and poison them she doesn't retreat and they die from poison. I kill the weaviles the second I see them. there is nothing she can do.
4-1
Round 6 Daniel (Dusknoir)
I was talking to her and her dad earlier and they tell me they had forgotten to put in Dusknoir DP. I then find out that I am playing her so I feel kinda bad. I donk turn 2 so my info doesn't help me.
5-1
Well I turn in my deck and over hear that one of Vince's juniors judges was feeling sick so I decided to help him out and help watch over juniors. Till their round ends. After that I go get some sonic that is so greasy. Also the little paper thing that it came in was even more greasy than the burger.
I find out I am playing Payton W. who top cutted with Bellawesome. I get my mental prep going and go Zen

Top 8 Payton W. (Bell awesome)
Game 1
I start off by killing his Shaymin and his claydol. I hit a couple of flips and that lets get up on prizes. I just do what Gengar does to win.
Game 2
He starts off with odish and I am forced to go first. I use pitch dark. He draws and passed with no way of getting basics. My turn I go rare candy gengar attach physic play bts use poison structure and shadow room for a kill on his only basic. I am super happy since I got glass but keep it cool till I am outside.

Top 4 Allah (Dialgia Palkia)
Game 1
I start off and use gengar to kill his Skuntanks. He misplays by playing 5 bench without getting out a Palkia. I just kill everything that has powers.
Game 2
I come out fast and hard without letting him set up anything. He is pretty bummed that he didn't win.

Top 2 K8lin W. (Kingdra/Weavile)
Game 1
I realize that to kingdra gengars attacks are like like slapping them with noodles. I kill every thing with powers but have to rely on
hitting flips to kill kingdras. She uses her weaviles quite well and just kills me.
Game 2
The same as game one but she plays her broken time space first so I couldn't poison. Both games came to 1-1 prizes but she wins.


Grats to K8lin for 2 grate games.
Vince we had some bumps but it was fun.
The art contest was at a great position and had a great winner.
Amy you did a great job judging.
Chas The power of the Cow man Me 2nd you first GTS
Props
Chas for getting 1st
Jason for making great games.
Jason and I breaking ten point in Pokemon ball bounce
Jason's circle of hate
Nick for having a great sudden death match.
going up 100 points
And Sam was the best Coke slave ever.

Slops
Sonic
Being 3 short of a top 16
Sonic
 
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Great Run Man! Way to step up! Your better than me now! Keep it up for Nats and you'll be a Worlds Competitor! :thumb:
 
Nice job! But now I have even more competition, great.

Oh, by the way, NEEDS MOAR SPELLING. Work on your grammar, man.
 
Congrats man! I am so glad you managed to pull off second. GTS! And thanks for the moral support/Miltank for top 8 and on. However, Chas, not Chaz. :p
 
Congrats Louis!! Its been a good year for you finally after many years of pluging along. :thumb:

You get to keep the cards dude...you earned all 60 of them.:smile:

But as a teacher, you do need to show some book learnin and write and spell like the intelligent dude you are in real life. People judge you by how you write. No spell check is just a bad excuse for appearing ignorant :thumb:

Kick arse at Nats Rupert...Tell Harry and Hermione we all said hi!! :tongue:

Clay
 
Louis, way to go! it was great watching you go to the final table! GTS!! Good luck at Nats, we"ll see you around town! Everyone there was pulling for you, it was your "destiny" to be playing for all the marbles!
 
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... You do realise I was on my grand mother comp w/o spell and grammar check
And that's a valid excuse because?
Congrats Louis!! Its been a good year for you finally after many years of pluging along. :thumb:

You get to keep the cards dude...you earned all 60 of them.:smile:

But as a teacher, you do need to show some book learnin and write and spell like the intelligent dude you are in real life. People judge you by how you write. No spell check is just a bad excuse for appearing ignorant :thumb:

Kick arse at Nats Rupert...Tell Harry and Hermione we all said hi!! :tongue:

Clay

I was just pokin' some fun at him. I didn't seriously mean any of that, except the congratulations part, of corse.

Yeah though, you gotta go kick some more butt at nationals since Sam let us down. :nonono:
 
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Congrats Louis!

Nice to see a very good tourney for you.

Sorry we didn't make it there. I imagine there are at least 8 people who are quite upset that we didn't make it. My two seniors would have made it a top 16 cut.

Rick
 
Woo my 2nd favorite Senior gets 2nd!

I can't wait for you to age up and start giving us masters a run for our money.
 
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