The Dark Toxicroak
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We wanted to go somewhere closer but everything was on the same day as ours so we decided to do what ended up being over a 40 hour drive in total round trip to oregon. 4 of the best players in alberta and imo the best pokedad came down. 2 top 32's at worlds Me (grinded in) and someone who has been owning it up all year. We heard oregon would be huge and thought it would be nice practice for the junior who never gets to play in top cut and good for ratings?
The drive was fun playing brawl and such but we were all so tired. We arrived at the shiloh after almost 2 days of driving ( 22 hoursish) and then we play some locals. I beat one with cursegar and they say gym says it will be what to look out for. The other guy says im glad you gave up on it ... its trash. Yeah maybe your list was but jeez. I felt my list was perfect vs what was being played and there is only one thing I would change. A basic dark to KO feinting spell gengars with. Frick it was annoying to not have anything like that.
I decided to play the DS tourney which is in bewtween rounds so basically I play a round and after im done run over and play ds? Anyways I ended up getting second in that too. I hadn't played in a DS tourney like that before (none in canada) and hadnt even played forever I attribute my second place mostly to not knowing what was happening. My team was really good and such I just did dumb things. EG not knowing Shedinja gets hit by dark >.> I lose one match to get 2nd however I am undefeated after the 4th round with no other undefeateds and get down paired twice? why was it like this? it really mest my opponents win percentage >.> and made me get second. but oh wells was fun. Best moment was one hitting a zapdos with a STAB rain boosted helping handed mystic water boosted surf and my opponent staring at his game and looking up and saying " impossible" completely straight faced and emotionless.
We hit up a target and buy some 1 dollar vitamin water mmmmmm
I was wearing a superman hoody with a detachable cape and said if I made top cut would wear it.
Round 1 vs BLG/dialga
This is a pokeparent from oregon and we have a nice chat. He takes a nice lead which is normal vs cursegar and I can get out mewtwo easy but I see a blaziken and with the pace of play don't think that I could take enough prizes to catch up with mewtwo so decided to go just use Gengar. Once I get set up I take a bunch of prizes and then darkpalm anything he attaches energies too or that could cause a stall to my comeback like luxray( If I can) I wager him and win both times afair and at one point he azelfs and sets his prizes in a specific order only to not pick the cyrus he needed. Its okay he was fine with me winning and his only way of winning was for time to be called on the right turn and for him to bring up something and stall.
1-0
Round 2 vs Fire Arceus/ Heatran/ Typloshion/ Duskull/ Cynthias feeling/ Lucky egg/ Potion
Anyways he takes the lead but I hear this is just a match in cursegars favor 55-45 probs ?
I see a psychic energy as he is shuffling and assume he is playing cursegar... mirror ugghs. When he starts with heatran i am confused and once he plays fire arceus I am thinking oh mewtwo time. Next turn he plays Cyndaquil >.>. It took a while but I ended up winning. I congratulate him for winning his first round in his first tourney and wish him luck the rest of the day.
2-0
We goto jack in the box and I am super impressed. I get the biggest burger I have ever seen and a medium pop that would easily be a large in canada for about 4 dollars cheaper then it would be. Jack in the box <3
Round 3 vs Gustavo w/ Gengar
He starts with a mewtwo to my Spiritomb. I know he will need to attach lots of energies to mewtwo to have it do anything and won't be able to retreat easily. Gustavo gets 2 claydols super fast and takes 2 prizes off mewtwo. I retaliate by shadow room Koing his gengar with a shadow room gengar for 2 prizes. He plays Nidoqueen and dusknoir >.> and gets a sick darkpalm on my cursegar with energies. (2 stage 1 techs was really unexpected and clunky I assume) This makes me have to attack nidoqueen with gengars poltergeist which does 90. I dont remember what exactly happened but it ends up him 1-2 and I have to KO his feinting spell gengar, if the flip goes my way he is left with nothing and if not I lose. Anyways Heads ftl
2-1
Round 4 vs some guy wearing shades w/ Flygon
Before the match I tell him his shades are intimidating and I could wear a cape but I dont need to intimidate. I also say I can see his hand in his glasses but he says I cant? IDK
I see a Trapinch and am happy/ sad because I figure mem lock version has good odds off beating Gengar but any other version will just get rolled. I figure that if I play correctly gengar can beat all versions. I get set up and anytime he plays an energy I dark palm that Pokemon... however he has so many claydols in play (at one point 3? lol) he gets everything back out easy. Key moves in this game were Koing an expertbelted flygon with curse and him making a riddiculous misplay but even then IDK if he could do it. He played moonlight to retreat his noir and then tried using his broken time space that wasn't in play. But he didnt have it in play and I had a tomb active to stop candies. It was closer then I expected but I am able to win it.
3-1
Round 5 vs Garchomp/ FRENCH FISH
He has to play an azelf and plays claydol. He also has lunatone to discard magikarps. This makes up his 3 bench so anything he plays allows me to dusknoir. Anytime he attaches energy I dark palm whatever he attached to and then shadow skip to mime. He is hilarious and says stuff like “ I have figured out what your doing and I don't like it one bit.” It was good fun which is what he says he was there for. Anyways he goes 5-2 with a really cool deck with his only losses to Canadians. Very impressive.
4-1
Round 6 vs Kenny Wisdom Luxchomp
I get a good start but he has everything and just rolls my mewtwo when I try to get it out. He gets 4 prizes and my field is claydol, claydol, dusknoir. I am able to dark palm something and wager him to a 3 card hand. Then somehow I am able to set up a Gengar ..... he either didn't run sprays or he just prized a lot an never drew any. It allowed me powers all game and I was able to comeback even after he wouldnt let me attach the energy I forgot to but oh well that is the norm for tourneys. I get it down to me having 3 prizes left or something and him 2 he wasted all his stuff early on trying to dragon rush repeatedly and he did 3 turns in a row I think. I get put in a position where I can night maintenance my cursegar back into the deck azelf for Gengar X attach a expertbelt to gengar level up gastly rare candy to the other cursegar I just NM'd for to double curse off of luxray shuffle the x back into the deck and then compound pain for 3 prizes and to bench him. He was super polite and took this loss with class and I was really impressed. Whatever happened with the sprays really messed him up but at lots of points but lots of the time he just didnt have enough pokemon to use em I guess.
with a sick comeback
5-1
Round 7 vs Isiah w/ Palkia
with such a heavy list ( Palkia, garchomp, luxray and pixies oh and claydol) I figured no mewtwo counter and I was right. When I got mewtwo out he scooped. Afterwords he asks to see my cape so I show him it.
6-1
SO playing a super stressful deck I manage to make top cut. I hate having to comeback every game to win however I figured that if cursegar made top cut it would have really good odds of winning it all and as it turns out I was right. No good SPs that made top cut had a mewtwo counter and all the ones that did were knocked out by the SPs without mewtwo counters because they were more consistent. My bracket was a canadian another canadian an american a canadian >.> ( I figured canadians wouldn't lose to anyone but another canadian )
Me and connor went for a PGP and discussed how easily the jumpluff match would be won .....
I shake bidier's hand and say whatever happens happens
I put on my cape as the match is starting.
top 16 Dexter( Cursegar) vs Bidier ( Jumpluff/ Gengar SF )
It was kind of funny because we were the west coast canadians to grind in last year and we were playing. I didnt think he had gengar and was expecting straight Jumpluff however since I wasnt expecting gengar I misplayed my unown G in the first match which could of been hard. He had a bad hand and when he fixed it with copycat or claydol I wagered and dark palmed or something. The first fame was so one sided it wasnt even funny.
1-0
Game two I knew he was playing gengar so I didnt play my unown G. He did get set up more and get a feinting spell flip on my expert belted gengar to take the lead but it left him with nothing. I was able to double curse to a baltoy and expert belt a gengar x to take 3 prizes ftw. I don't think he had bts and if he did he never drew into it. This made it so he couldn't candy at all when I brought up spiritomb and probably was what made the games so one sided. But I never asked whether or not he did.
2-0
I know andrew isn't playing a counter and I tell him Im sorry we have to play and such ( would of been nice to have 3 albertans top 4
Top 8 Dexter (Cursegar) vs Andrew( Luxchomp)
game 1 I get a turn 2 mewtwo he scoops
game 2 I get a mewtwo and he cant take 4 prizes he scoops. At one point me and andrew play a wager and we both agree on rock paper scissors over rock paper scissors shoot because that is what we do. Andrew wins and right after a judge is like nope redo you have to do it right.... ? We were fine with it so it made no sense. I told andrew it would be fine and I doubt much would change and he beat me again oh shucks ?
I figure colin doesn't run a mewtwo counter but no one can 100 percent confirm. As soon as I see blaze I am sure he doesn't.
top 4 Dexter (cursegar) vs Colin (luxchomp w/ blaze tech for dialga)
Game 1 is stressful because he has so much sprays in his starting hand.eventually I lay down my mewtwo with an expertbelt knowing he won't be able to touch it and he scoops.
game 2 I get mewtwo out easier and he scoops because He could only take 3 prizes and you need 4 for the game to count.
Connor is expecting me to just use mewtwo and beat him. Which in a perfect world would happen. We go for a PGP and I ask him how to beat him. The judge is in the bathroom and laughs. We always play together and look alike; we aren't brother but we are broskis. I tell him whatever happens happens and love and such.
top 2 Dexter (Cursegar) vs Connor (Luxchomp)
game 1 mewtwo and azelf are prized ( nice cut connor ) and I set up for the mewtwo expecting one of them to be their ( the only thing I drew to search my deck was a lux ball so I had to retreat to claydol to do it but it didnt matter until they were prized >.> . I scoop eventually.
Game 2 a quick mewtwo makes him scoop
game 3 he donks my unown G
9-2
So I lose a match that was definitely in my favor. I am sad but it happens. Cursegar was the best play imo and I almost had it . Connor thought cursegar was such a good play too but was more comfortable with Luxchomp. I didn't need mewtwo to win the match but it really made it easier especially when I was about to pass out in top cuts. We did what we wanted to do which was bring home some trophies and we succeeded.
The whole tournament I had to ask people to play faster or at least the regular pace they played at. When you are under a trainer lock and wagered to 3 cards what are you going to do. They try to think about what they can do but really? It was really frustrating that people play slower under these conditions when if you cant do anything it should take you less time to think lol but its so understandable. I am pretty sure I could lose all my games due to time but I made sure my opponents weren't all of a sudden being slower when they got ahead.
GOOD
Connor winning
2nd place in both tourneys
SSBB
impossible
meeting cool people
huge events
dirk driving
andrew driving
not being there till 3-4 am like expected
Jack in the box.
losing to a clanky gengar list?
AMAZING deck choice / list for the tourney
random officers lurking at 3 am ?
BAD
having such a hard time making it to the cut to have a non epic top cut
missing school I guess?
Okay so now its on to my home town tournament. Which to me is probably the most meaningful tournament of the year. I really feel winning in our area is much harder then doing well in a huge tournament. Fewer players means your more likely to hit that bad matchup, more likely to run into a good player etc etc. Plus there is a huge pride factor in winning so I wanted to do well.
I have Cursegar, Luxpluff and Luxchomp built before the tournament but have not practiced enough with Luxpluff (or else I probably would of used it.) I knew cursegar was amazing but figured people would have mewtwo techs now and I really hated always playing from behind potentially losing to time. I decided to play luxchomp because I love decks with options and luxchomp has so many. However Shawn B uses my cursegar and ends up winning seniors.
Round 1 Vs Jessica N w Charizard /Infernape G
This is my friend's wife and I haven't played her before so I was really looking forward to it. She gets a very mediocre start and isn't able to set anything up. I never see a charizard all game and when she finally gets to uxie to try to set up I have a spray I opt not to use it however because I am so far ahead and want to play a half decent game. However she still doesn't get anything. Tough break it would of been fun to have a better game but oh well. GG and better luck next time
1-0
Gordon ends up losing his first round... harsh. Anyways I am really proud of Cynthia for keeping it together during this really intense game, what an accomplishment.
Round 2 vs Spencer w/ Cursegar
Having played this the week before I know how I am suppose to attempt to beat it. However if the conditions are right it just isn't possible. He takes a couple turns before he plays mewtwo down which allows me to get everything ready to KO before the level up. However he brings it active with an expert belt allowing me to uxie X zenblade it for 2 prizes. From there it was just downhill as he didn't have much of anything set up
I am feeling good now because all of the cursegar with mewtwos have a loss making me unlikely to play any? Most matchups will be in my favor or mirror and I am fine with the mirror.
Round 3 vs Tracy with Furret/ Gengar/ Nidoqueen/ Cressilia
I actually really liked this deck. What made it so brutal was her start I go second and am able to bite her sentret or something equally pointless. Then she is able to set up both a claydol and a furret. At the time all I know is its some kind of gengar and it has nidoqueen. She uses furrets attack and gets 2 cards. I assume a rare candy and nidoqueen or something similar. I decided that although furret was annoying that it would be easier to KO later in the game then a nidoqueen would so I take out the nidoran quick. She opts to get out a feinting spell gengar and start applying pressure which turns out to be brutal because of my lack of unown G in my deck. I am not going to KO her for a flip no way. So i decide to set up for an uxie/ expert belt kill by using a crobat and whatever that 60 damage attack was. So it takes 2 turns. Anyways this game ends up going to time which is sad because it was so EPIC. We both make misplays though ... I cant say what hers were but she says she did and I forgot to use healing breath which vs a spread deck isnt nice.
3-0
Round 4 vs Terry MR UGLY from ontario
I am so glad I get to play him because I never had before. I was sitting beside him some games and know he is playing luxchomp but am not sure as to what his techs are. I start with an opening hand that can only be called epic for a mirror match (Ambipom G ,DCE, Toxicroak G) I think he gets off a turn 2 dragon rush ... allowing me to KO with Ambi allowing him to move a DCE to the Azelf I had to play because I misplayed using a roseannes instead of bebes to get garchomp X ( however I know one is prized so its not that big of a misplay just sucks having azelf unecessarily benched.) I am able to KO both is garchomps before they do much which is huge in the mirror. Especially when then don't have 2 luxrays in play to be able to bring something up next turn. In fact I think one of his is prized. This allows me to have a pretty clear advantage but he is able to hold it together. He uses a Mismagius to do 60 to my ambipom but I get the turn. There is some damage on Mismagius allowing me to Ko it with Toxicroak after I bring up my azelf for him to kill. ( HATE the waste bench space) He has to use 3 poketurns to KO my toxicroak G and at that point I bring up his bronzong G with luxray. Only to find out his other turn is prized. However time was called pretty quickly .
4-0
Okay so no one else is undefeated because Andrew loses to a girl
lol. This means I am downpaired. I think I will make top cut regardless of what happens but don't know because of the down pair and consider just forfeiting. However without being positive I decide it isn't worth the risk. ( my opponent is 3-1 and will not make top cut fore sure if I win) He is playing a hard matchup for me anyways so I know it won't be easy.
round 5 vs Doug D with Cursegar
This is Connor's dad so I figure his list will likely be super similar to the list I ran last weekend with mewtwo and wagers. It is scary. He starts with a spiritomb and is able to get mewtwo out asap however I know there are a few things I can do. I have the cards to either chatter lock or Azelf lock however I go for the Azelf lock because it will force him to play another spiritomb down allowing me to take more prizes if he does end up getting mewtwo out. He can either KO himself eventually or I can crobat flashbite kill it. Eventually I have the cards to KO his mewtwo before he levels it up but he comes back with a feinting spell gengar. FRICK these are annoying. I once again set it up so I can use uxie for the KO but it is an uxie X and I have to flashbite to do it . After his mewtwo threat is gone i decide to KO his support so if he wagers it will be super risky for us both. At one point with 2 cars in hand he tries to uxie and I spray. I am able to take all 6 prizes before time. Making this the second year I have gone 5-0 in swiss at Alberta Provincals.
5-0
I go into top 4 knowing I have a huge advantage over my opponent because his deck is not made for the mirror match. It is a Luxchomp deck built to be better vs evolution decks but there are a few things that make this matchup annoying 1 Sunnyshore. and 2 his pokedex handy. It really made his list fast and able to get out of bad hands easier. However he tells me he only runs 2 DCE and I hope to somehow use this to my advantage but :/
game 1
We both have really good starts however I am not gettign any energy allowing me to do nothing! He gets 3 Kos and I scoop
Game 2 is so epic. I make 1 misplay bring up an ambipom to take a prize when he has a pokemon with energy active >.>. Anyways So many sick plays are made. I dont really get to Garchomp much but I luxray up his garchomps and OHKO them with snap attack before he can use em. I win the game by flash biting the azelf on his bench with 6 counters on it. ( Knew this would be one of my last prizes and didnt want to free up the bench space for him) and Then Koing his uxie x with mine.
Game 3
UGHH. Such a sick start I am able to drop so many cards and then uxie for 4 I believe ... no supports or trainers.... ummm :/ He takes 3 prizes and time is called .... I never drew a supporter all game. It was brutal. I even made it hard for him by power spraying his uxies leaving him with such bad hands only for him to top deck cyrus rofl. I just wasn't meant to win this game of course I am upset a bunch because we both know that I would normally be moving on. Even the judge agrees that my hand / drawing was ridiculous. Its great that will makes top 2 though super proud of him and a major congrats.
SO the second year in a row I go in at top seed and lose to the bottom seed first round. The only thing better is that it wasn't to Gordon this year :/. Would of loved to win my home town or at least get another second but a 3rd and a second is good enough for me.
Andrew and Will play in top 2 and both of them have both their garchomps prized first game rofl. We leave to go have dinner with my GF
PS Shawn wins provincals. HE is just rolling everything and I am super proud of him for doing it.
Connor flops but thats okay
Props
Cynthia for decided to play and winning a really close match vs Gordon
Shawn for winning Seniors
Will for beating me to make top 2 GJ buddy hope for some rematches sometime
Andrew for winning with an interestingly teched deck
Terry for coming out and his son for winning
All my other opponents
Especially Spencer for his hilariousness
John for running such an amazing tourney (FREE PACK FOR EVERYONE <3)
Adopt a champion
2 trophies within 7 days
Connor for being a good bro and getting some vitamin water and for PGPS
Everyone for coming out
The awesome slideshow
Gordon for play a really interesting rogue and still going 4-1
Kassie for coming to watch top cut (even though I was out by the time she got there)
Basically everything was props
Luck just doesn't love me right now but hopefully that will be fixed before regionals and nationals Congrats to everyone had a blast
The drive was fun playing brawl and such but we were all so tired. We arrived at the shiloh after almost 2 days of driving ( 22 hoursish) and then we play some locals. I beat one with cursegar and they say gym says it will be what to look out for. The other guy says im glad you gave up on it ... its trash. Yeah maybe your list was but jeez. I felt my list was perfect vs what was being played and there is only one thing I would change. A basic dark to KO feinting spell gengars with. Frick it was annoying to not have anything like that.
I decided to play the DS tourney which is in bewtween rounds so basically I play a round and after im done run over and play ds? Anyways I ended up getting second in that too. I hadn't played in a DS tourney like that before (none in canada) and hadnt even played forever I attribute my second place mostly to not knowing what was happening. My team was really good and such I just did dumb things. EG not knowing Shedinja gets hit by dark >.> I lose one match to get 2nd however I am undefeated after the 4th round with no other undefeateds and get down paired twice? why was it like this? it really mest my opponents win percentage >.> and made me get second. but oh wells was fun. Best moment was one hitting a zapdos with a STAB rain boosted helping handed mystic water boosted surf and my opponent staring at his game and looking up and saying " impossible" completely straight faced and emotionless.
We hit up a target and buy some 1 dollar vitamin water mmmmmm
I was wearing a superman hoody with a detachable cape and said if I made top cut would wear it.
Round 1 vs BLG/dialga
This is a pokeparent from oregon and we have a nice chat. He takes a nice lead which is normal vs cursegar and I can get out mewtwo easy but I see a blaziken and with the pace of play don't think that I could take enough prizes to catch up with mewtwo so decided to go just use Gengar. Once I get set up I take a bunch of prizes and then darkpalm anything he attaches energies too or that could cause a stall to my comeback like luxray( If I can) I wager him and win both times afair and at one point he azelfs and sets his prizes in a specific order only to not pick the cyrus he needed. Its okay he was fine with me winning and his only way of winning was for time to be called on the right turn and for him to bring up something and stall.
1-0
Round 2 vs Fire Arceus/ Heatran/ Typloshion/ Duskull/ Cynthias feeling/ Lucky egg/ Potion
Anyways he takes the lead but I hear this is just a match in cursegars favor 55-45 probs ?
I see a psychic energy as he is shuffling and assume he is playing cursegar... mirror ugghs. When he starts with heatran i am confused and once he plays fire arceus I am thinking oh mewtwo time. Next turn he plays Cyndaquil >.>. It took a while but I ended up winning. I congratulate him for winning his first round in his first tourney and wish him luck the rest of the day.
2-0
We goto jack in the box and I am super impressed. I get the biggest burger I have ever seen and a medium pop that would easily be a large in canada for about 4 dollars cheaper then it would be. Jack in the box <3
Round 3 vs Gustavo w/ Gengar
He starts with a mewtwo to my Spiritomb. I know he will need to attach lots of energies to mewtwo to have it do anything and won't be able to retreat easily. Gustavo gets 2 claydols super fast and takes 2 prizes off mewtwo. I retaliate by shadow room Koing his gengar with a shadow room gengar for 2 prizes. He plays Nidoqueen and dusknoir >.> and gets a sick darkpalm on my cursegar with energies. (2 stage 1 techs was really unexpected and clunky I assume) This makes me have to attack nidoqueen with gengars poltergeist which does 90. I dont remember what exactly happened but it ends up him 1-2 and I have to KO his feinting spell gengar, if the flip goes my way he is left with nothing and if not I lose. Anyways Heads ftl
2-1
Round 4 vs some guy wearing shades w/ Flygon
Before the match I tell him his shades are intimidating and I could wear a cape but I dont need to intimidate. I also say I can see his hand in his glasses but he says I cant? IDK
I see a Trapinch and am happy/ sad because I figure mem lock version has good odds off beating Gengar but any other version will just get rolled. I figure that if I play correctly gengar can beat all versions. I get set up and anytime he plays an energy I dark palm that Pokemon... however he has so many claydols in play (at one point 3? lol) he gets everything back out easy. Key moves in this game were Koing an expertbelted flygon with curse and him making a riddiculous misplay but even then IDK if he could do it. He played moonlight to retreat his noir and then tried using his broken time space that wasn't in play. But he didnt have it in play and I had a tomb active to stop candies. It was closer then I expected but I am able to win it.
3-1
Round 5 vs Garchomp/ FRENCH FISH
He has to play an azelf and plays claydol. He also has lunatone to discard magikarps. This makes up his 3 bench so anything he plays allows me to dusknoir. Anytime he attaches energy I dark palm whatever he attached to and then shadow skip to mime. He is hilarious and says stuff like “ I have figured out what your doing and I don't like it one bit.” It was good fun which is what he says he was there for. Anyways he goes 5-2 with a really cool deck with his only losses to Canadians. Very impressive.
4-1
Round 6 vs Kenny Wisdom Luxchomp
I get a good start but he has everything and just rolls my mewtwo when I try to get it out. He gets 4 prizes and my field is claydol, claydol, dusknoir. I am able to dark palm something and wager him to a 3 card hand. Then somehow I am able to set up a Gengar ..... he either didn't run sprays or he just prized a lot an never drew any. It allowed me powers all game and I was able to comeback even after he wouldnt let me attach the energy I forgot to but oh well that is the norm for tourneys. I get it down to me having 3 prizes left or something and him 2 he wasted all his stuff early on trying to dragon rush repeatedly and he did 3 turns in a row I think. I get put in a position where I can night maintenance my cursegar back into the deck azelf for Gengar X attach a expertbelt to gengar level up gastly rare candy to the other cursegar I just NM'd for to double curse off of luxray shuffle the x back into the deck and then compound pain for 3 prizes and to bench him. He was super polite and took this loss with class and I was really impressed. Whatever happened with the sprays really messed him up but at lots of points but lots of the time he just didnt have enough pokemon to use em I guess.
with a sick comeback
5-1
Round 7 vs Isiah w/ Palkia
with such a heavy list ( Palkia, garchomp, luxray and pixies oh and claydol) I figured no mewtwo counter and I was right. When I got mewtwo out he scooped. Afterwords he asks to see my cape so I show him it.
6-1
SO playing a super stressful deck I manage to make top cut. I hate having to comeback every game to win however I figured that if cursegar made top cut it would have really good odds of winning it all and as it turns out I was right. No good SPs that made top cut had a mewtwo counter and all the ones that did were knocked out by the SPs without mewtwo counters because they were more consistent. My bracket was a canadian another canadian an american a canadian >.> ( I figured canadians wouldn't lose to anyone but another canadian )
Me and connor went for a PGP and discussed how easily the jumpluff match would be won .....
I shake bidier's hand and say whatever happens happens
I put on my cape as the match is starting.
top 16 Dexter( Cursegar) vs Bidier ( Jumpluff/ Gengar SF )
It was kind of funny because we were the west coast canadians to grind in last year and we were playing. I didnt think he had gengar and was expecting straight Jumpluff however since I wasnt expecting gengar I misplayed my unown G in the first match which could of been hard. He had a bad hand and when he fixed it with copycat or claydol I wagered and dark palmed or something. The first fame was so one sided it wasnt even funny.
1-0
Game two I knew he was playing gengar so I didnt play my unown G. He did get set up more and get a feinting spell flip on my expert belted gengar to take the lead but it left him with nothing. I was able to double curse to a baltoy and expert belt a gengar x to take 3 prizes ftw. I don't think he had bts and if he did he never drew into it. This made it so he couldn't candy at all when I brought up spiritomb and probably was what made the games so one sided. But I never asked whether or not he did.
2-0
I know andrew isn't playing a counter and I tell him Im sorry we have to play and such ( would of been nice to have 3 albertans top 4
Top 8 Dexter (Cursegar) vs Andrew( Luxchomp)
game 1 I get a turn 2 mewtwo he scoops
game 2 I get a mewtwo and he cant take 4 prizes he scoops. At one point me and andrew play a wager and we both agree on rock paper scissors over rock paper scissors shoot because that is what we do. Andrew wins and right after a judge is like nope redo you have to do it right.... ? We were fine with it so it made no sense. I told andrew it would be fine and I doubt much would change and he beat me again oh shucks ?
I figure colin doesn't run a mewtwo counter but no one can 100 percent confirm. As soon as I see blaze I am sure he doesn't.
top 4 Dexter (cursegar) vs Colin (luxchomp w/ blaze tech for dialga)
Game 1 is stressful because he has so much sprays in his starting hand.eventually I lay down my mewtwo with an expertbelt knowing he won't be able to touch it and he scoops.
game 2 I get mewtwo out easier and he scoops because He could only take 3 prizes and you need 4 for the game to count.
Connor is expecting me to just use mewtwo and beat him. Which in a perfect world would happen. We go for a PGP and I ask him how to beat him. The judge is in the bathroom and laughs. We always play together and look alike; we aren't brother but we are broskis. I tell him whatever happens happens and love and such.
top 2 Dexter (Cursegar) vs Connor (Luxchomp)
game 1 mewtwo and azelf are prized ( nice cut connor ) and I set up for the mewtwo expecting one of them to be their ( the only thing I drew to search my deck was a lux ball so I had to retreat to claydol to do it but it didnt matter until they were prized >.> . I scoop eventually.
Game 2 a quick mewtwo makes him scoop
game 3 he donks my unown G
9-2
So I lose a match that was definitely in my favor. I am sad but it happens. Cursegar was the best play imo and I almost had it . Connor thought cursegar was such a good play too but was more comfortable with Luxchomp. I didn't need mewtwo to win the match but it really made it easier especially when I was about to pass out in top cuts. We did what we wanted to do which was bring home some trophies and we succeeded.
The whole tournament I had to ask people to play faster or at least the regular pace they played at. When you are under a trainer lock and wagered to 3 cards what are you going to do. They try to think about what they can do but really? It was really frustrating that people play slower under these conditions when if you cant do anything it should take you less time to think lol but its so understandable. I am pretty sure I could lose all my games due to time but I made sure my opponents weren't all of a sudden being slower when they got ahead.
GOOD
Connor winning
2nd place in both tourneys
SSBB
impossible
meeting cool people
huge events
dirk driving
andrew driving
not being there till 3-4 am like expected
Jack in the box.
losing to a clanky gengar list?
AMAZING deck choice / list for the tourney
random officers lurking at 3 am ?
BAD
having such a hard time making it to the cut to have a non epic top cut
missing school I guess?
Okay so now its on to my home town tournament. Which to me is probably the most meaningful tournament of the year. I really feel winning in our area is much harder then doing well in a huge tournament. Fewer players means your more likely to hit that bad matchup, more likely to run into a good player etc etc. Plus there is a huge pride factor in winning so I wanted to do well.
I have Cursegar, Luxpluff and Luxchomp built before the tournament but have not practiced enough with Luxpluff (or else I probably would of used it.) I knew cursegar was amazing but figured people would have mewtwo techs now and I really hated always playing from behind potentially losing to time. I decided to play luxchomp because I love decks with options and luxchomp has so many. However Shawn B uses my cursegar and ends up winning seniors.
Round 1 Vs Jessica N w Charizard /Infernape G
This is my friend's wife and I haven't played her before so I was really looking forward to it. She gets a very mediocre start and isn't able to set anything up. I never see a charizard all game and when she finally gets to uxie to try to set up I have a spray I opt not to use it however because I am so far ahead and want to play a half decent game. However she still doesn't get anything. Tough break it would of been fun to have a better game but oh well. GG and better luck next time
1-0
Gordon ends up losing his first round... harsh. Anyways I am really proud of Cynthia for keeping it together during this really intense game, what an accomplishment.
Round 2 vs Spencer w/ Cursegar
Having played this the week before I know how I am suppose to attempt to beat it. However if the conditions are right it just isn't possible. He takes a couple turns before he plays mewtwo down which allows me to get everything ready to KO before the level up. However he brings it active with an expert belt allowing me to uxie X zenblade it for 2 prizes. From there it was just downhill as he didn't have much of anything set up
I am feeling good now because all of the cursegar with mewtwos have a loss making me unlikely to play any? Most matchups will be in my favor or mirror and I am fine with the mirror.
Round 3 vs Tracy with Furret/ Gengar/ Nidoqueen/ Cressilia
I actually really liked this deck. What made it so brutal was her start I go second and am able to bite her sentret or something equally pointless. Then she is able to set up both a claydol and a furret. At the time all I know is its some kind of gengar and it has nidoqueen. She uses furrets attack and gets 2 cards. I assume a rare candy and nidoqueen or something similar. I decided that although furret was annoying that it would be easier to KO later in the game then a nidoqueen would so I take out the nidoran quick. She opts to get out a feinting spell gengar and start applying pressure which turns out to be brutal because of my lack of unown G in my deck. I am not going to KO her for a flip no way. So i decide to set up for an uxie/ expert belt kill by using a crobat and whatever that 60 damage attack was. So it takes 2 turns. Anyways this game ends up going to time which is sad because it was so EPIC. We both make misplays though ... I cant say what hers were but she says she did and I forgot to use healing breath which vs a spread deck isnt nice.
3-0
Round 4 vs Terry MR UGLY from ontario
I am so glad I get to play him because I never had before. I was sitting beside him some games and know he is playing luxchomp but am not sure as to what his techs are. I start with an opening hand that can only be called epic for a mirror match (Ambipom G ,DCE, Toxicroak G) I think he gets off a turn 2 dragon rush ... allowing me to KO with Ambi allowing him to move a DCE to the Azelf I had to play because I misplayed using a roseannes instead of bebes to get garchomp X ( however I know one is prized so its not that big of a misplay just sucks having azelf unecessarily benched.) I am able to KO both is garchomps before they do much which is huge in the mirror. Especially when then don't have 2 luxrays in play to be able to bring something up next turn. In fact I think one of his is prized. This allows me to have a pretty clear advantage but he is able to hold it together. He uses a Mismagius to do 60 to my ambipom but I get the turn. There is some damage on Mismagius allowing me to Ko it with Toxicroak after I bring up my azelf for him to kill. ( HATE the waste bench space) He has to use 3 poketurns to KO my toxicroak G and at that point I bring up his bronzong G with luxray. Only to find out his other turn is prized. However time was called pretty quickly .
4-0
Okay so no one else is undefeated because Andrew loses to a girl
lol. This means I am downpaired. I think I will make top cut regardless of what happens but don't know because of the down pair and consider just forfeiting. However without being positive I decide it isn't worth the risk. ( my opponent is 3-1 and will not make top cut fore sure if I win) He is playing a hard matchup for me anyways so I know it won't be easy. round 5 vs Doug D with Cursegar
This is Connor's dad so I figure his list will likely be super similar to the list I ran last weekend with mewtwo and wagers. It is scary. He starts with a spiritomb and is able to get mewtwo out asap however I know there are a few things I can do. I have the cards to either chatter lock or Azelf lock however I go for the Azelf lock because it will force him to play another spiritomb down allowing me to take more prizes if he does end up getting mewtwo out. He can either KO himself eventually or I can crobat flashbite kill it. Eventually I have the cards to KO his mewtwo before he levels it up but he comes back with a feinting spell gengar. FRICK these are annoying. I once again set it up so I can use uxie for the KO but it is an uxie X and I have to flashbite to do it . After his mewtwo threat is gone i decide to KO his support so if he wagers it will be super risky for us both. At one point with 2 cars in hand he tries to uxie and I spray. I am able to take all 6 prizes before time. Making this the second year I have gone 5-0 in swiss at Alberta Provincals.
5-0
I go into top 4 knowing I have a huge advantage over my opponent because his deck is not made for the mirror match. It is a Luxchomp deck built to be better vs evolution decks but there are a few things that make this matchup annoying 1 Sunnyshore. and 2 his pokedex handy. It really made his list fast and able to get out of bad hands easier. However he tells me he only runs 2 DCE and I hope to somehow use this to my advantage but :/
game 1
We both have really good starts however I am not gettign any energy allowing me to do nothing! He gets 3 Kos and I scoop
Game 2 is so epic. I make 1 misplay bring up an ambipom to take a prize when he has a pokemon with energy active >.>. Anyways So many sick plays are made. I dont really get to Garchomp much but I luxray up his garchomps and OHKO them with snap attack before he can use em. I win the game by flash biting the azelf on his bench with 6 counters on it. ( Knew this would be one of my last prizes and didnt want to free up the bench space for him) and Then Koing his uxie x with mine.
Game 3
UGHH. Such a sick start I am able to drop so many cards and then uxie for 4 I believe ... no supports or trainers.... ummm :/ He takes 3 prizes and time is called .... I never drew a supporter all game. It was brutal. I even made it hard for him by power spraying his uxies leaving him with such bad hands only for him to top deck cyrus rofl. I just wasn't meant to win this game of course I am upset a bunch because we both know that I would normally be moving on. Even the judge agrees that my hand / drawing was ridiculous. Its great that will makes top 2 though
super proud of him and a major congrats.SO the second year in a row I go in at top seed and lose to the bottom seed first round. The only thing better is that it wasn't to Gordon this year :/. Would of loved to win my home town or at least get another second but a 3rd and a second is good enough for me.
Andrew and Will play in top 2 and both of them have both their garchomps prized first game rofl. We leave to go have dinner with my GF
PS Shawn wins provincals. HE is just rolling everything and I am super proud of him for doing it.
Connor flops
but thats okay Props
Cynthia for decided to play and winning a really close match vs Gordon
Shawn for winning Seniors
Will for beating me to make top 2 GJ buddy hope for some rematches sometime
Andrew for winning with an interestingly teched deck
Terry for coming out and his son for winning
All my other opponents
Especially Spencer for his hilariousness
John for running such an amazing tourney (FREE PACK FOR EVERYONE <3)
Adopt a champion
2 trophies within 7 days
Connor for being a good bro and getting some vitamin water and for PGPS
Everyone for coming out
The awesome slideshow
Gordon for play a really interesting rogue and still going 4-1
Kassie for coming to watch top cut (even though I was out by the time she got there)
Basically everything was props
Luck just doesn't love me right now but hopefully that will be fixed before regionals and nationals Congrats to everyone had a blast
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