Once again Battlenet let us use their facilities and a great CC was had by all! A slightly dissapointing turn out for a fairly important tourney but the players enjoyed a super day!
In the 10- age group my son Shaun Banham (PokePup1) took the spoils with a classic Blaze/Blaze ex/Rayquaza ex/Pidgeot deck which only lost once all day and that was to a water deck played very nicely by Daniel Holland. Shaun also took the overall tourney in a final place face-off with Stephen Green who played a superb tourney with a very well built Dk Dragonite/Dk Electrode/Rockets Sneasel ex deck. Shaun played against a couple of these decks during the day and the stadium card Mt.Moon was crucial in these match ups preventing a early set up with these Dark decks!
In the 11-14 age group Stephen Green took the honours only just missing out on the overall title which went to Shaun Banham (see above )
And in the 15+ group Adam Gadir narrowly pipped Tariq Sagiar to the post with a Dark deck with a couple of Togetics teched in there which wreaked havoc against some of the other Dark decks! Bruce Kelf also played very well all day and almost took the 15+ title but lost his final swiss match thus forcing a four way play off (Top 4 ) which Adam went on to win. Some extra prizes were given away for good sportsmanship which went to Mitchell Allen who, despite losing all his matches, never once whinged or complained and set an example to the other players! If there was a place at Worlds for the best behaved and nicest manner then Mitchell would take it hands down! Also a Pikachu World collection was given out to the overall winner Shaun, who promptly gave it to Bruce Kelf who he had beat in the final round of swiss which forced Bruce into the play off! A nice gesture from the overall winner! A thoroughly enjoyable tourney was had by all and now we look forward to our next CC on the 27 March.