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Virginia's Autumn Battle Roads 2008!--Now with Photo Link (end of thread)

Rogue,
Given that the day will be a long one, plan on a 20 min break after the 40 min round. My advice personally will be to go to Kroger and get some prepared food or some chips. (Or better yet, if you are local, eat a lunch before 11 just like Chesterfield County Public Schools do everyday!) There wll NOT be time to go to Topps and get Chinese.

Awwww.....well, I guess its time to scrape together some scraps from home to eat...:biggrin: Also, totoro, you may have said it, but when do you anticipate swiss rounds ending?
 
great tourny today Mr and Mrs T.

congrats to arron, pat, nick, mr. washington, and mark for making top cut and an extra congrats to arron, pat and mr washington for making top 2.

More congrats to arron for going 5-0.
 
So close to the top cut!! Well, that of course means I'm getting better.:biggrin: Thanks for event Mr. and Mrs. T! WHOSE READY FOR CITIES?!:lol:
 
arron won? nice job and good job to patrick, and everyone else :D

leah, my ratings havnt changed at all since the hobby works br, can u check it out? thanks
 
I did win charchar.:biggrin::smile::smile::biggrin:

Good games Patrick. I can't believe our first game in top cut went 50 minutes.

Good job Johny and Mr.Washington.( Swalot and Gardy are so good!!!!:biggrin::biggrin:)
 
Whew, 6 (!) Battle Roads later---dunno about you guys, but I am tired!!!! Congrats to all the players who did well, all the new players who had a good time at their first Pokémon events, and to those vet players who keep coming back just cause you LOVE this game! Thanks to all my judges, and of course, Pam--you are the best people in the world to work with!
I gotta say I loved the way the VM cards spread out here. IIRC, we had 6 unique juniors and 6 unique masters win these here. Arron and Patrick were the only two to grab more than one of these with 2 each but they're in great company with Steven and Pachi.

Not much time to rest, because it's looking like a Stormfront is heading toward Virginia soon!! Get ready Fairfax and Warrenton--the storm will hit you first!!

I'll get photos up in the usual place asap--remember I didn't have my camera for the first two BRs (Warrenton and Woodbridge) so if anyone has any .jpgs of those two (ahem, Shadow Card) please send em my way.
 
charchar: we're on it :thumb:

wow, the VA Brs are over. What a journey it has been. Such a long thread this has become :lol:.

About preregistration lists: I know this may apply to people who don't visit here, but I also know it does apply to some reading here. If you preregister and later find out you cannot come, you need to call the store and have your name removed. Call/PM/e-mail me if you have to (for a Fairfax event). If you do not, continual abuse of the preregistration list will result in discontinuing your ability to preregister for Fairfax events, even if you do show up on time (you will have to enter the tournament as a walk-in). This applies to other events as well: if I hear from a TO that you are abusing his preregistration list, you will no longer be allowed to preregister at Fairfax. That may sound mean, but adding your name to an event you cannot attend complicates and prolongs registration as well as prevents other people from playing. We do preregistration to avoid first-come-first-serve. I don't want people to have to camp out in front of a store in order to ensure they play in the event.
(No, none of you are going to convince me to drive down to Midlothian on a Friday night to camp out on totoro's lawn)
That said, I should have the preregistration list for Fairfax by Tuesday :smile:

WHOSE READY FOR CITIES?!:lol:
Don't we have a prerelease to go through first? :thumb:
 
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Ditto for Midlo events--a certain gymmer from NoVA named after a Vulpine video game character seems to always prereg and then not show up.... thin ice time for him.
 
Mr T
Have you tossed up the schedules for PRs and Cities?



Johnny... it was AMAZING how you went through a drought and just modified and modified and modified until you created the HOTTNESS that is the NEW Gardevoir ... awesomeness...
 
As a rule, I try not to put event schedules up here until they are on the go-pokemon.com site But since I've already mentioned it here, the first weekend of prereleases will be Saturday Oct 25 in Fairfax (2 flights as usual) and
Sunday Oct26 in Warrenton (they had such an awesome turnout for the BR, they really deserved this!)

CCs are still very much up in the air--I have absolutely no idea if I'm running 1 or 100!
 
Mr T
Have you tossed up the schedules for PRs and Cities?



Johnny... it was AMAZING how you went through a drought and just modified and modified and modified until you created the HOTTNESS that is the NEW Gardevoir ... awesomeness...

thank you. It just shows if you stick with a deck, find the weakness, try to take it away, you can win. It is also the first time I played 1 deck for every event in the season so far.

@totoro: the more cities the better.
 
BRs also start in 13 days. POP's really taking it up to the last second.

CCs are still very much up in the air--I have absolutely no idea if I'm running 1 or 100!
If you're only running one, send us back to the Dale City fire department for what could be the biggest CC ever.
If you're running 100, I'd guess that POP is trying to punish you :tongue:.

I can never figure that particular grammar problem out....the word nerd could probably tell us though.:biggrin:
"Who's" is the contraction for "Who is/has" like "it's" is the contraction for "it is/has."

"Whose" is possessive like "its" is the possessive form.

Who's going to the tournament?
Whose deck is that?
 
I did win charchar.:biggrin::smile::smile::biggrin:

Good games Patrick. I can't believe our first game in top cut went 50 minutes.

Good job Johny and Mr.Washington.( Swalot and Gardy are so good!!!!:biggrin::biggrin:)

And the second game was over in what seemed like a blink of the eye. Goob Job to all of the BR players espically Rogue who over the course of the VA BRs worked his way up to Second when it was over and done with. :thumb:
 
Alexander here.

Congrats to thouse who won in Midlothian, and to thouse who played red face paint. I wasn't able to go because I had something going on. Fortuanatly it was right next to Dream Wizards, so I went to the Rockville BR's. I made 2nd. I was using SpeedZone, which basicly means 5 Starter MagneVire. The finals were so intense, it was this kid who had never top cutted before, who beat L.J. (is that his name?) in T4. He was using some really wierd Kingdra/Empoleon/Kyogre deck, and a lot of burn cards like PokeDex and Unown R (o_0), and our first game took 55 Mintues and he won by putting me in a position where no matter what, Kingdra or Empoleon could take the last prize card. Second Game I played furiously and Palkia Lv.X won it for me when time was called. So yeah... Magnezone Vs. Kingdra/Empoleon in Sudden Death. It lasted more than 10 turns, both of us not drawing what we need. You can read more about my Rockville exprience on Pokebeach... for thouse that go there.

I would be really happy if we got a CC in Dale City, it's 5 mintues away from my house, compared to the 45 minute trek to Hobbyworks, and then even longer for almost anywhere else. Woodbridge isn't so bad, but recently a lot are on Sunday and I can't go on Sunday, period.
 
Octillery49, he doesn't know yet, probably.

Shadowcard, I doubt that BRs will start in 13 days. BRs just ended.

BTW, everyone, the Midlo, VA Beach, Lusby, and Rockville prereleases are also on the tournament locator. (Am I really the only one who checks the tournament locator?)

Alexander, doesn't your PokeBeach bio say
My Loyalties are with Beach. I will not go to Gym or Serribi.
:tongue::lol:
 
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Octillery49, he doesn't know yet, probably.

BTW, everyone, the Midlo, VA Beach, Lusby, and Rockville prereleases are also on the tournament locator. (Am I really the only one who checks the tournament locator?)

Probably he will have them here, or, probably he doesn't know yet?

I check the TL.:thumb:
 
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