Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What Won 2009 Regionals Thread

Agreed. If the Dialga list [is good and] runs at least one Unown G, it's a favorite vs. Machamp, unless they hit 4 heads on Hurricane Punch all game.
 
I'm not saying you're wrong: Machamp had 3 1st place Master, 1 2nd place, 1 3rd, and 6 4th places. Dialga had 4 1st place, and 2 more with Palkia G; 3 2nd, 3 3rd (2 more with Palkia), and 2 4th. Very good for both decks. These were, by my count, the best 2 decks at Regionals.

Keep in mind that not many people play Revenge Machamp, which I find to be extraordinary against G, and that certain techs need to be in place, which most people don't play, opting unwisely for Speedchamp. If these elements were installed, I think Champ would do even better.

That said, BR and Nats will likely be a different ballgame for both decks.
 
At Mountain West Regionals, it was a Machamp vs. Dialga final, the Dialga played at least a 1-1 ToxiTank line and at least 1 Unown G, yet Machamp was able to pull it off, only flipping all 4 heads once during the best of 3, however the list was a bit different, playing a Regirock and Stark Mountain combo, and just some other little odd things that I guess just made it good enough
 
At Georgia, the winning combo seemed to be Mesprit. Second place, also Machamp had Uxie Lv.X. G decks well represented too.
 
PokePockets said:
At Mountain West Regionals, it was a Machamp vs. Dialga final, the Dialga played at least a 1-1 ToxiTank line and at least 1 Unown G, yet Machamp was able to pull it off, only flipping all 4 heads once during the best of 3, however the list was a bit different, playing a Regirock and Stark Mountain combo, and just some other little odd things that I guess just made it good enough
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Thanks Ethan, but it was mostly misplaying on my part and his ability to get heads on a critical Super Scoop Up, saving his poisoned Machamp with twelve damage counters on it. I also didn't expect him to play three Baltoys and three Claydols.
 
Hmmm, I'm not sure I like that "I misplayed" stuff. There is a way of thought in sports that says you don't disparage your opponent's ability by saying he won by luck or your own mistakes. In football, a bad ref call can be critical, but any smart coach or player will say that it wasn't decided on one play or another, but a combination of things, including how well the other team played. Have I every misplayed and lost a tournament? Sure! Is luck 50% or more of this game? Sure! But we knew that going in.

So, Adam, why not just say you both played well, you both misplayed, you both had lucky strikes here and there, but the better deck won that day? And I'm not looking for a flame-off, I'm just stating my opinion.
 
I know that the focus of this thread is Masters but I would love to know if the same decks were popular in SR and JR our if there was more variety. For those Regionals that only reported Masters, would you mind adding SR and JR without the last names of players please?
 
ADAM said:
Thanks Ethan, but it was mostly misplaying on my part and his ability to get heads on a critical Super Scoop Up, saving his poisoned Machamp with twelve damage counters on it. I also didn't expect him to play three Baltoys and three Claydols.
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Oh geez, Adam just HAD to show up didn't he >.>. Just kidding man.

I'm not trying to say that you played bad, or that he completely lucked you (because I am still remembering that Toxicroak donk from Game 1, haha) 3-3 Claydol probably did cause you a problem, and the SSU's in his deck were interesting.

I didn't pay attention the whole time, and yeah you did misplay a bit, but really, overall you did do well
 
Top8 Countdown :

Western Canada:
1. Kingdra
2. GeChamp
3. Toxitank
4. Ttar
5. Kingdra
6. Abomasnow Variant
7. GeChamp
8. Machamp

NorCal
1) Weavile/Houndoom/Toxicroak/Skuntank
2) Dusknoir + Gengar
3) Giratina X + Leafeon X
4) Machamp
5-8)??????????

Socal
1) Weavile/Honchkrow/Toxitank + ZANGOOSE.
2) Gengar Machamp
3) Machamp
4) Machamp
5) Beedrill
6) Machamp
7) Machamp
8) Typhlosion/Infernape

Eastern Canada
1. Kevin L Dialga G
2. Bin H Gengar
3 .Matt K Gengar
4. Zach L. Gengar + Machamp tech
5. Terry K. Dialga G + Palkia G
6. Colemen F. Dialga G
7. Sebastian S.GG + Weavile
8. Arthur Machamp


North East
1st - Darrell M. (Dialga + Techs)
2nd - Greg S. (Gengar/Machamp) - (I think)
3rd - Ben S. (Dialga + Techs)
4th - Frankie Durso (Machamp)
5.Drew G. (Galactic Toolbox - Weavile/Krow/Dialga/Doom/Bat + More)
6.Frankie Diaz - (Manectric/Cresselia/Palkia)
7.????????? - (BlastCatty)
8.?????????

New England
1st- Hanaan R- Gengar Cresselia
2nd- Jon F- Abomazong/Manectric
3rd- Sara C- PUMA
4th- Tyler J- Kingdra
5th- Michelle R- Kingdra
6th- Con L- Gengar Cresselia Crobat G
7th- Adam T- GeChamp Cresselia
8th- Adam Y- GeChamp Cresselia

Mountain West
1st:Machamp
2nd:Dialga G
3rd:palkia G Spread
4th:Machamp
5th-8th (No particular order)
Magnezone
Magnezone
Dialga G/Palkia G ("Legos")
Dialga G/Palkia G ("Legos")


Great Lakes
1.) Drew H w Palkia Dialga
2.) Dustin Z w Dialga
3.) Brandon R w Palkia Dialga
4.) Sam B w Dusknoir Mewtwo Lvl X
5.) Dan R w Galactic
6.) Eric R w Galactic
7.) Scott F w Palkia
8.) Austin R w Kingdra

Southern Masters
1st Omar I. w/ Garde/Gallade
2nd Aleks M. w/ Scizor/Machamp
3rd Benji A. w/ Dialga/Palkia
4th Chris B. w/ Garde/Gallade
5th Eric C. w/ AMU
6th Franco P. w/ Dialga
7th Justin D. w/ Machamp
8th Isaac C. Gengar

Southern Plains Masters
1st Martin M. (Dialga G)
2nd Brent S. (AMU/Gardevoir)
3rd Adam G. (Dialga G)
4th Cameron H. (Dialga G)
(Not sure of placing on 5th through 8th)
5th Steve G. (Kingdra)
6th Andy M. (Dialga G)
7th Jordan D. (AMU/Leafeon)
8th ????

Southeast
1. Machamp - forgot name
2. Machamp - TJ S.
3. G - Kyle S.
4. G - forgot name
5-8 = Kingdra, Torterra (I think), Machamp (I think), and G (I think)

Northwest
1st: Micheal C (Dialga G)
2nd Levi C (Kingdra)
3rd Andrew J (Dusknoir/Electivire)
4th Paul J (Kingdra)
Corey T(Gengar/Cresselia w/Blazekin tech)
Janet B (Machamp)
DJ (Palkia/Dialga G)
Mathew Chin (Gengar)

Some data is missing, but it's enough to make a final ranking :

Dialga G : 4x 1st, 4x top2, 1x top4, 3x top8
Machamp : 2x 1st, 1x top2, 5x top4, 7x top8
Galactic (not based on Palkia or Dialga): 2x 1st, 3x top4, 4x top8

Kingdra : 1x 1st, 1x top2, 2x top4, 5x top8
Gengar : 1x 1st, 1x top2, 1x top4, 4x top8
Palkia/Dialga : 1x 1st, 0x top2, 3x top4, 5x top8
GG Weavile : 1x 1st, 0x top2, 1x top4, 1x top8

Gengar/Machamp : 3x top2, 1x top4, 3x top8
Dusknoir : 1x top2, 2x top4
AMU: 1x top2, 1x top4, 2x top8
Abomasnow +other : 1x top2, 1x top8

Toxitank : 1x top4
Tyranitar : 1x top4
Leafeon/Giratina X : 1x top4
Scizor/Machamp : 1x top4

Magnezone : 2x top8
Single appearance in top8 : Beedril, Typhlosion/Infernape, Manectric/Palkia/Cresselia, Blastcatty, Torterra
 
Heatherdu said:
I know that the focus of this thread is Masters but I would love to know if the same decks were popular in SR and JR our if there was more variety. For those Regionals that only reported Masters, would you mind adding SR and JR without the last names of players please?
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Eastern Canadian Regionals

Juniors

1st: Quinn K. - Gengar / Machamp
2nd: Kayla - Blast/Catty
3rd: Justin - Torterra / Sceptile
4th: Kenzy Q. - Kingdra / Noir


Seniors

1st Alaric M. - Gengar

2nd - 4th Sorry I know the players but not the decks so I'll leave that blank


Like you I am also interested in decks for JRs and SRs
 
I guess this wasn't organized enough for you, lol, so I'll present this information one final time:

Mississippi Valley, Masters division:

1. Chas B. - Gengar/Crobat G/Skuntank G
2. Alex B. - Kingdra/Crobat G
3. Brian - Dialga G
4. Jake S. - Dialga G
5. Andrew N. - Ampharos/Manectric
6. Jason K. - Gengar/Cressalia
7. Nick M. - Palkia G
8. Kason D. - Porygon-Z/Absol/Manectric
 
Shino Bug Master said:
Top 8 Masters Northwest (OR)
1st: Micheal C (Dialga G)
2nd Levi C (Kingdra)
3rd Andrew J[Me] (Dusknoir/Electivire)
4th Paul J (Kingdra)

5th-8th
Corey T(Gengar/Cresselia w/Blazekin tech)
Janet B (Machamp)
DJ (Palkia/Dialga G)
Mathew Chin (Gengar)
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17.............................
 
ugly psyducky said:
Eastern Canadian Regionals

Juniors

1st: Quinn K. - Gengar / Machamp
2nd: Kayla - Blast/Catty
3rd: Justin - Torterra / Sceptile
4th: Kenzy Q. - Kingdra / Noir


Seniors

1st Alaric M. - Gengar
2nd Arnoud v B - Machamp/Rampardos aka SuperCheap
3rd Jasper v B - all G Pokemon

2nd - 4th Sorry I know the players but not the decks so I'll leave that blank


Like you I am also interested in decks for JRs and SRs
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Added the decks I know.
 
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