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Which Decks Won the U.S Nationals

Professor Elm

Professor Elm

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I wasn't able to attend Nationals so I am very curious as to which decks dominated over the rest. I expect that it was a very diverse playing field, but I can't say that I know that for a fact. I also heard that Ludi was dead but it seemed like some very good players were playing it (Patriarch, Fulop).
Anyways if anybody could give me an update on the decks that won I would be very thankful!
P.S Good Job to everybody who played at any National Championship!
 
Professor Elm said:
I wasn't able to attend Nationals so I am very curious as to which decks dominated over the rest. I expect that it was a very diverse playing field, but I can't say that I know that for a fact. I also heard that Ludi was dead but it seemed like some very good players were playing it (Patriarch, Fulop).
Anyways if anybody could give me an update on the decks that won I would be very thankful!
P.S Good Job to everybody who played at any National Championship!
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11-14 and 15+ were both won by turn2, i dont know about 10-
 
15+
1st Seena G (Cham ex T2)
2nd Tom D (Ludicargo)

11-14
1st Stuart B (YamaCham T2)
2nd Tyler N (Rock-Lock)

There it is, since you were too lazy to do it yourself. :p
 
Yes, Ludi is quite good. Tom lost to Seena in t2 in Sudden Death. I would have likely made t32 had I not gone 3 for 19 on Reversal flips on the day. Every deck imaginable showed up to the event as well. You'd be surprised.
 
I'll give my best guess here:

Top 16

Seena G. (Medicham ex) vs. Ben D. (Blaziken)
Seena wins

Kyle S. (Metagross) vs. Luke R. (Hariyama ex/Medicham ex)
Kyle wins

Stephen S. (Metagross) vs. John S. (Spinning Tail Tyranitar)
Stephen wins

Tom D. (Ludicolo/Rhydon) vs. Jacob B. (Magma)
Tom wins

Jordan H. (Ludicolo/Breloom) vs. Will H. (Dark Slowking)
Jordan wins

Sean G. (Hariyama ex/Medicham ex) vs. Jim F. (Slaking/Salamence ex)
Sean wins

Frankie D. (Zapdos) vs. Steve P. (Zapdos)
Frankie wins

Eddie M. (??) vs. Eric P. (Metagross?)
Eddie wins?

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Top 8

Seena (Medicham ex) vs. Stephen (Metagross)
Seena wins

Frankie (Zapdos) vs. Kyle (Metagross)
Frankie wins

Tom (Ludicolo/Rhydon) vs. Jordan (Ludicolo/Breloom)
Tom wins

Sean (Hariyama ex/Medicham ex) vs. Eddie? (??)
Sean wins

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Top 4

Seena (Medicham ex) vs. Frankie (Zapdos ex)
Seena wins

Tom (Ludicolo/Rhydon) vs. Sean (Hariyama ex/Medicham ex)
Tom wins

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Finals

Seena (Medicham ex) vs. Tom (Ludicolo/Rhydon)
Seena wins
 
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Some of the T16 decks for 15+ were:

MedichamEX/Jurachi/Wobby (1st)
Ludicargo (2nd)
MedichamEX/HariyamaEX/Wobby (3rd)
Zappy (w/o Wobby teck) (4th)

others:

Dk Slowking (Will Hung)
Metagross (at least 3)
SalamenceEX/Slaking (JimF)
Zappy (with Wobby tech) (me)


And, my vote for most-effective cards in the Nationals meta:

3rd - Rocket's Admin.
2nd - Scramble/Double Rainbow
1st - Swoop! Teleporter
 
Rock-lock was 2nd in 10-, Teletubbies was 3rd, I do not know what 1st was running, but do know it contained a Deoxys EX and maybe Blaziken!

M45
 
I am glad that there were no Blaziken.
Blaziken has been hogging the glory of many major tournaments and I am happy to see that it is slowly losing power!
I had been hearing a lot of talk about how Ludi is dead and I am pleased to see that it is still alive and strong and that now Blaze is ALMOST dead but still alive in many places.
 
Teletubies is a four-corner style deck with Tinky Winky (purple), Dipsy (green), Lala(yellow) and Poe(red), with Dunsparse starring as nunu! Deck concept developed by BANGINBOX out of Chicago!

Great deck, great name...2nd in swiss overall, 3rd in the event!

M45
 
How horrible is it that I do not know the deck that beat either my son (3rd) or James (2nd)....

Guess I was REALLY focusing on my job of judging 15+, right???

The young man that one with the Blaze deck...um...ROCKED!

M45
 
The 10- winner was Curran H from NC. He also placed top 16 at Worlds last year. If I am correct not only did he win but his brother (Jordan in 15+) and sister (Elissa in 11-14) also placed in top 8 at Nationals!!!
 
meganium45 said:
Teletubies is a four-corner style deck with Tinky Winky (purple), Dipsy (green), Lala(yellow) and Poe(red), with Dunsparse starring as nunu! Deck concept developed by BANGINBOX out of Chicago!

Great deck, great name...2nd in swiss overall, 3rd in the event!

M45
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Which Pokemon is supposed to be green?
 
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