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A whole week of pokemon! Georgia Marathon report with pictures!

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So, after about a month of talking my parents into it, I was finally given permission to go to the Georgia Marathon
Cheryl Kidd, Josh and Danyelle's mom, drove my best guy friend Bobby and I to Georgia. I payed for all of the gas and part of the hotel, Bobby helped with the hotel.

I don't really think anyone cares about how fun it was, giving Ness wake up calls at 4:30 AM, etc, so I'll just skip to the report.

Oh, and here's me, texting at one of the tournies. Danyelle is next to me

Here's bobby, playing against Tatiana and her horrible extensions. Josh is watching:









Day 1 - Some card store in Newnan

I play luxray/garchomp

Round 1 loss to speedrill. Emily Hibbs. Ambipom g and chatot start. Prized 3 cyrus. Took like 6 turns to get set up. Would have won but she dropped 2 plus powers.

Round 2 win against machamp. TJ Sawyer. Sprayed unown q to prevent donk. Trapped Uxies until he was forced to send up machamp with roserade gl. Zen blade KO and flash impact ko on lone machop.

Round 3 win against Shuppet Donk. Spray his immediate uxie. Win on time, play it through for fun, aarons luxray, bright look bat g for ko game.

Round 4 win against salamence. Drag up sally with 4 energy and kill it. Spray claydol 3 times while bright looking bagons and killing them, then kill claydol. Take last 2 prizes with uxie x killing his expert belted uxie.

Round 5 against gechamp. Win. Topdecked candy champ takeout. 3 take outs later he flips heads. Desperate, baltoy to draw 2. Kill. Trash bolt kill uxie game.

Round 6 vs seena dialgachomp. Win. 6-0 him. He forgot about sunyshore but i didnt matter much, i only had 1 prize left. He scoops.

I drop.








Day 2 - community center

I play sp toolbox

Round 1 win vs blaze/blaze. Spray his uxie, weavile 1-shots everything with a special dark and an expert belt.

Round 2 loss to dylan bryan. Crap start, got trainer locked all game. Curse kills my weavile g. Warp wins him the game, as he can kill anyone on my bench.

Round 3 win vs colt. He nearly double donks me but I topdecked 2 pokes and then a roseanne. Roseanne for mewtwo and weavile g. Level up and expert belt the mewtwo, he scoops.

Round 4 win vs heidi craig. Gyarados. I start special dark on honchkrow and kill her sableye. Next turn i kill her. Magikarp. I kill another sableye the same way. KO gyarados with a mewtwo and expert belt. Ko uxie with drifblim, then bring mewtwo up for another ko on gyarados. Very nice player, very fun game. :)

Round 5 win vs Robby. Shuppet! My mewtwo X is prized and I started with azelf. He double blowers mewtwo and kills it the turn after I get it out of prizes. I use drifblim to get my last 2 prizes. Weavile walling ftw.

Round 6 vs Justin Sanchez / therage. Lady GaGa. I wall with mewtwo x, psyburn for 2 prizes. One on unown g, one on Sableye. Giga burn garchomp c. Need aarons the whole game but it was my last prize. Recover keeps healing my mewtwo x, shafts him hxc. Win on time, I should have lost. Sorry buddy.


Me and 3 others drop before top cut.







Day 3 - Stevi B's Pizza!

I play gengar/spiritomb lock

Round 1 - Travis - Lady GaGa + Manectric

I set up decently but he bright looks my claydol and kiills it due to expert belt. I looker myself to try to get my azelf to get my gengar x out of prizes to level down the luxray and shadow skip it for ko but I whiff. I keep his trainers locked and force him into submission. I Compound pain his claydol and he can't do anything. Gg.


Round 2 - Alex Haas

Haha same last name
He can't do much all game. I keep my hand down to around 2 cards and keep him trainer locked until I kill his chatot. Shadow skip keeps him locked and kills 3 pokemon. Compound pain and 2 crobats kills his guarded baltoy, then I shadow skip his nidoqueen with an expert belt and a crobat for game.

Round 3 - Dylan Bryan with mirror.

Mirror. We trainer locked each other for like 6 turns getting set up. I make the mistake of dropping a stadium, allowing him to relicanth for 90 dmg. I eventually make a desperate warp point move, but he sends up claydol instead of nidoqueen. He uses warp energy and kills my uxie for game. :/

Lossssss.


Round 4 - Harrison - lady gaga with dialga tech. He can't draw into anything while I keep him trainer locked. Shadow skip and level down kill his pokemon one by one. Sorry dude :(

Round 5 - Emre - Gechamp
We start about evenly and I take a prize with shadow skip, keeping him locked. He uses relicanth to snipe it, gaining two prizes. Poltergeist kills the relicanth. After a few prize trades I flip heads on fainting spell, killing his machamp x. I then kill his claydol with a crobat and relicanth. GG.

Round 6 - Carson Roll - Ampharos/TTar

Autoloss anyone? I got stomped. Ttars 1 shotting gengars with nothing for me to kill is ridiculous.

Top 8 the same thing happened. Carson Roll owned me. I'm putting an azelf x in my deck for tomorrow...




Day 4 - Some card store in lawrenceville

I play gengar / spiritomb lock

I'm playing gengar again, but this time I have 2 lookers, turns, candies, and 1 azelf lv x. Bing saved us cause Cheryl is directionally retarded.

Round 1 vs dialga/slaking

Keep him locked While killing his dialga g, then snipe his claydol for 90 with relicanth and he scoops.


Round 2 vs Matt Thompson with blazeray.

I start strong and keep him locked all game. Level down + belted shadow skip kills 3 of his pokemon. Shadow room takes my last prizes.

Round 3 vs. Keith Haas with dialgachomp

Same last name again!
Trainer lock kills his only usable cards in his hand. I take 4 prizes off sacrifices, then use shadow skip and curse for my last 2 prizes.

Round 4 vs. Dylan Bryan. Lossss. Gengar.
We both start strong, but I prize an unown g. My claydol was unguarded so he killed it and I couldnt develop my field after my nidoqueen went down. I had to keep my bench to 3, knowing he runs dark palm noir, which gave him quite an edge.

Round 5 vs. Jim Roll/JRWaxMan with gechamp
I get a gengar x out and kill his claydol asap, but he shadow rooms to knock it out. I kill a gengar with crobat + uxie + belt while I get my queen out. His relicanth snipes my claydol for 90, and next turn he amnesias my poltergeist, hoping I dont have an energy for queen to kill it...but I do. I try to relicanth for my 2nd to last prize, but I mistaked and counted his devoluter as a tool, so I only do 30. He drops an uxie, hoping for a way to kill relicanth, and whiffs...I only had 1 trainer in my hand anyway, however. I snipe his uxie with a crobat, then finish off his spiritomb for game. Gg man, youre a friendly guy.

Round 6 vs Orion Craig with blazeray losssss

I can't get anything out. I had the worst hand ever. :/ My pokemon go one by one.

Top 8 vs Harrison with Blazeray win
Game 1 he had a horribad start and couldnt do anything through my trainer lock slaughtering all of his pokemon.

Game 2 he starts much stronger than I do, and I skip trainer lock and go for stormfront gengar. We trade prizes, he picks things off of my bench, and eventually I am able to curse to his luxray gl x and shadow room it for game, he only had one prize left. Good game mang.

Top 4 vs Dylan Bryan with mirror. Win.
Both games go the same way. I'm 1 energy attachment ahead of him the entire time. We keep each other locked, but my field is crippled because I need to keep my bench to 3 because I know he runs noir. Shadow skips go by, and both games end with me killing claydol after an expert belted queen.

Top 2 vs Emre with GeChamp. Win.
I keep him locked the entire game with a series of shadow skips, he has crap hands both games and fails to even pose any threat to anything on my field...gg mang, sorry.

WINNERRRRR!!!







Day 5 - McDonalds

I play gengar/spiritomb lock

Round 1 vs colt...again...with shuppet + techs.

I just shadow skip with trainer lock until I take all 6 prizes.

Round 2 vs Rob Skeffington with blazeray

Hes got the game after killing 3 spiritombs and a claydol. I realistically cant lock any more but I level down his luxray and dark palm his benched garchomp c. A few shadow skips gets me tied on prizes. He ends up dragging up baltoy to take his. 5th prize, but level down behind a spiritomb followed by a shadow skip ends the game.

Round 3 vs Dialga/Garchomp

He drops 3 special metals and gets a crazy set up the first 3 turns. After a compound pain for 2 prizes, he removes my 2 psychic energy and kills me...I just scoop

Round 4 vs VIC!

RULE TWO OF POKEMON: BEAT VIC!

I start and try to get set up but he gets a bebe turn two and bright looks claydol to get around my spiritomb. I try to cosmic twice but both are met with power sprays. He kills claydol and I bring up tomb to evolve my benched baltoy. I get a cosmic off after he kills the tomb, and I shadow skip his absol g x. I candy into dusknoir and dark palm his benched luxray gl when my turn starts. Shadow room KOs his uxie x. Next turn I curse to absol g x and level it down for ko. He has 3 prizes at this point. Next turn I level down his luxray gl x and shadow skip it for ko. He gets a few things in play, I skip for another prize, and looker his 10 card hand into his deck. He doesnt draw what he needs to trap my claydol up, and he scoops.

Round 5 vs Alex Kent with BlazeRay

I poltergeist his lone toxicroak g for 360 for game. Sorry mang.

Round 6 vs Harrison with random sp stuff
He gets a super fast kill on my haunter and claydol even through a spiritomb lock, royally screwing me over. I can't do anything.

I end up placing 7th.

Top 8 vs Dialga/Garchomp - James Hames

Miserable loss. Game 1 I have a slow start so I just scoop. Game 2 he always had a response every time I killed something, I scooped.


Day 6 - The Gaming Pit

Round 1 vs Carson Roll with gengar

He has a pretty mediocre start but I kill his first fs gengar with an uxie + belt. He uses a lot of resources to get another out but I warp point + dark palm it. I take a few prizes with shadow skip and the game is sealed.

Round 2 vs Matt Alvis with Dialga/Garchomp

I get a t2 fs gengar with an expert belt and poltergeist his dgx for ko. He has 5 trainers, 2 of them being sprays. I don't use powers the next 2 turns so he can't get rid of them, so I score 2 more poltergeist KOs. He kills me with garchomp x and poison. I push up spiritomb and set up cursegar and shadow skip for another prize. Trainer lock screws him over and I get down to 1 prize. He earthquakes my azelf. I need to level down his garch x and shadow skip it for ko. I looker his spray away but he draws another. I cosmic and whiff the warp for game. I use my second claydol and hit it off my last caArd. I can kill anything on his bench...gg.

Round 3 vs Aaron Curry with sableye/honchkrow gengar counter.

4 spiritombs die in 6 turns. Then azelf dies. I get to 1 prize with shadow skip and dusknoir but he uses mewtwo x and a belt to kill my belted noir.

Round 4 vs Stephen Silvestro win. W/regigias
Silvestro was running regigigas but he couldnt get set up because he prized all 3 bebe and couldnt use trainers. I get gengar set up and he scoops.
Sorry buddy.

Round 5 vs TJ Sawyer with shuppet donk. Loss.

Im yet to lose to Tom. Shuppet is a great matchup for me but I couuldnt lock him or get a queen out til the end of the game. :/

Round 6 vs ? With shuppet donk

He cant do anything vs my spiritomb lock. He locks up my spiritomb but is behind on prizes, even though my warp energy is prized. Neither of us can move so my prize lead wins me the game.

Top 8 vs robert arguelles with mirror, nearly card for card. Win.

Game 1 I go first and get an energy advantage. He fails to get shadow skip gengar out to return my ko. He desperately uses hypnosis on haunter and I flip 3 sleep tails in a row. This buys him some time but its not enough and a series of shadow skips takes the game.

Game 2 is pathetic. Bobby cant get anything out and I easily shadow skip my way to winning.

Bobby is probably my best guy friend so winning actually felt bad :(

Top 4 vs Matt Alvis

Game 1 he tanks me hardcore and I just cant get enough damage on the board.

Game 2 I play very quickly as he tries to stall me out. Time is called on his turn while Im 1 prize ahead and he cant take a prize.

Sudden death should have been mine. I poltergeist to try to ko his dialga g, and hit it for 60 plus crobat, but my expert belt allows his topdecked roseanne to get skuntank g and poison me and second strike for the between turns ko. :/
I shouldnt have dropped the belt. One misplay usually loses games.




We hit a kentucky city on our way back to wisconsin. Lexington. I built luxape 20 mins before the tourny and forgot poketurns but still pulled a 3-0 drop.




Props:
Stephen Silvestro, Michelle, Aaron Curry for being awesome
Rob Skeffington for making my day at least 3 times
Bobby Arguelles for making the trip fun
Tiffany the hooters girl being nice, I helped her with her boy problems.
Lady GaGa for giving me good music to listen to and feel free with.
Danyelle Simon for being a great girl to be around.
Cheryl for driving
Yummy pizza at stevi B's
James Hames for playing along with YugiMon
Orion Craig for giving me his packs because of our hilarious game.
Curran Hill for letting me pick on him constantly :p
Jessica for being there to talk to and teaching me to make paper stars
Ken's judging


Slops:
Never getting enough sleep
People who snap to easily
People who can't have fun
People who try to stall

You know who you all are.
 
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Thanks for the Judging props!!!!


I really enjoyed watching you play!! In my openion you are one of the best players in the country!! Danyelle, Josh and your whole group can play with anyone. Thanks for traveling down to the tournaments and we really hope to see you next year. I wish everyone good luck at State's and Regionals, I hope to see all of you at Nationals.

Thank you and your whole group for being great sports reguardless if you won or lost. One of the best things I like about Pokemon is getting to meet great people like yourself and the friends you came down with!!! I got to know Cheryl, Danyelle, and Josh at Nationals and World's a couple of years ago. They are great players and fun people to be around.

I look forwards to seeing you soon.


Ken
 
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It's not just an accusation.
He's a cool guy. I'm not saying he's a bad person/player.
Just saying he tried stalling me out
I really don't blame him for it, nor am I angered by it.
Don't get offended.

Thanks for the compliment Ken!

Thanks David :]

Hmm I'm not quite sure who you are Malocide.
 
The coolest game I've ever watched was your game against Orion. You're an awesome guy with a great sense of humor.

I'm the kid who loaned you the Blowers you used to KO the Garchomp C. Congrats on doing well and maybe next time your opponent won't circle 'won' when you double Expert Belt FTW :p
 
Haha hey mang!

I totally would have lost that game if it weren't for your blowers.

Hahaha
 
Christian: Nice to finally meet the "another Haas" that plays PTCG. Wish I could have set up better ag'st you, but your deck was set to beat my choice. You also played my son the day before (Alex). I was able to somehow beat Robert's Gengar deck later in the day. He hit the flip when time was called on his feinting guy (didnt hear the time call and had brought up the tank instead of the Chomp X). I had to 2nd strike him, after a bat drop to kill the Gengy to take a 1 prize lead...he flips and hits the heads....SD. I take it a turn later w/ chompy X hitting the energy off a Uxie set up for 4. Had to hit the special NRG since my rose's found zero basic NRG left in the deck. Had 6 or 7 specials though, so went that route and hit it.

You guys played great and look forward to seeing you at Nats.

Keith
 
hey we played round 3 in kentucky.
sorry i couldnt give you a better game my head wasnt in the game that day at all.
congrats on the start fo your season and i hope you finish it off just as good.
 
I'm glad we got to meet, and sad we never got to play! Seriously, we went 6 tournaments without playing each other.
 
It's not just an accusation.
He's a cool guy. I'm not saying he's a bad person/player.
Just saying he tried stalling me out
I really don't blame him for it, nor am I angered by it.
Don't get offended.

Thanks for the compliment Ken!

Thanks David :]

Hmm I'm not quite sure who you are Malocide.

You accuse someone of stalling you out, then say you don't blame him for stalling ( if he was, thats cheating ) and you don't mind him doing that?
 
One time I saw Christian in madison, he was singing paparazzi. thought he was a funny guy after that.
 
Christian!!!!

Glad you had fun, I did too!

Was great to meet you.



On a side note(I'm not getting involved, I wasn't even there), Alvis prolly wasn't trying to stall you out. From my personal experiences, almost everyone I've played from that area plays excruciatingly slow almost all game long.

Also:

Stigma said:
Here's bobby, playing against Tatiana and her horrible extensions. Josh is watching:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...31193_3101.jpg

You were on tilt so hard all day over those extensions! LOLd so hard
 
whats up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great meeting u guys from up north (wont hold that against you lol) you guys all played awesome. as i figure it, not counting the fun game we played and i won lol, we are 1-1. i look forward to a tie breaker in the future. to be honest your skills are sick. the fact that you played so many different decks and did so well is great. tell robert hey for me. if you guys need any cards feel free to call anytime. i dont do a lot of traveling due to medical reasons so i wont see you guys again till the next city run more than likely. but you never know they may put nats in atlanta. well good luck at states, regionals, nationals, and worlds.

tj sawyer
 
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