Well, I played in my first ever State Championship, and here's the deal:
Get there Friday night, I go to Buco's and get food, the boys play in a tournament and Dylan wins......and gets a dollar. I play a few scab games and we go to our getto motel, where I browse the gun store and ponder the pawn shop next door.
Sat,
Rd 1: Jorrel with Arcy/ Stantler
I T-2 him before he T-2's me.
Rd. 2 Sweet woman, with ??????
Well we set up, as does everyone, when.......the unthinkable happens. We are told that we will throw out Rd 1 and re- start the tourny!!!!! So we go have lunch next door, where only us and the Sweets and some annoying kid who keeps asking us what deck we are playing......and this place rocks. If I lived in the Dallas area, I'd go there every day ( and a fat man knows food!)
So back to Rd 1 ( deja vu all over again)
So now I have to face Cathy with a deck her husband built.
She has no idea whats in the deck, and has to read every card in it. It was the only thing that made the game last over 3 minutes.
1-0
Rd. 2 I can't remember, but I won.
2-0
Rd. 3, some guy with a Delta deck.
I am down 5-1, and I pull out the comeback, as he relizes too late scramble doesn't help him anymore.
3-0
R-4 Tom with Flygon EX
Well, Tom and I are old buds, and I hated to do it, but I smacked him hard.
4-0
R-5, Weldon with Flycatty
Good deck, good player, I forget I dissed the nerd with losing control ( Weldon got it wrong with his report) I get beat like a punk in watts.
4-1
Rd. 6, Vincet ( Cathy's dude) with Stellix and Typ. EX
I go up early, he starts to make a comeback, and gets antsy thinking I am stalling, but then he sees I had the nestle waiting for him.
5-1
So I'm like 4th or 5th and I got to face Ty with Flygon again
T-8
Gm. 1 we play for 51 minutes, as Flygon decks have so 20 or so actions a turn, good back and forth game, but I back him into a corner he can't work out of.
So I shuffle fast to give him a chance to play a decent game.
Gm. 2 I start with a magnmite and think I maybe shuffled too fast, but I was able to get my big boy out, and time was called.
6-1
T-4 Soles with his SD
Another really good player with a nice deck, and one of my best TX buds. He beat the one deck I had an auto loss to, so now I set for a good game. He has great moves, but I counter at every turn and 2-0 him.
7-1
Finals
Wow, I have not been to the finals in a tournament since worlds 2002 sealed deck............Of course I only played in 5-6 tournaments since.
Kyle with Flygon EX.
I thought I could win, as I had beat this deck twice already. But he was set up much faster in both games, and I misplayed like I was getting a dollar for every time I did. His Latios Ex worked like a charm, am all my luck faded. He won the first, and we never finished the second ( 36 minutes and still had 2-3 in the prize count)
7-2, second place.
Props:
Team Rocket for 3 of the T-4
Dylan and Brent for being stupid
Kyle for winning
The staff for doing a good job in a very stressfull event
Jose for a good job in his first big HJ gig
Danny for watching time.
Birch for not losing his cool when it all went bad
Virgina's Place for the best food in TX.
10 packs of DS that I pulled 2 H. Trans., and Jolt EX, Dragonite, Metagross, salamance.
Soles for being Soles!
Slops
we all know what they were.
Dylan and Brent for playing like noobs
Rocketman
Evil Leader of Team Rocket
Get there Friday night, I go to Buco's and get food, the boys play in a tournament and Dylan wins......and gets a dollar. I play a few scab games and we go to our getto motel, where I browse the gun store and ponder the pawn shop next door.
Sat,
Rd 1: Jorrel with Arcy/ Stantler
I T-2 him before he T-2's me.
Rd. 2 Sweet woman, with ??????
Well we set up, as does everyone, when.......the unthinkable happens. We are told that we will throw out Rd 1 and re- start the tourny!!!!! So we go have lunch next door, where only us and the Sweets and some annoying kid who keeps asking us what deck we are playing......and this place rocks. If I lived in the Dallas area, I'd go there every day ( and a fat man knows food!)
So back to Rd 1 ( deja vu all over again)
So now I have to face Cathy with a deck her husband built.
She has no idea whats in the deck, and has to read every card in it. It was the only thing that made the game last over 3 minutes.
1-0
Rd. 2 I can't remember, but I won.
2-0
Rd. 3, some guy with a Delta deck.
I am down 5-1, and I pull out the comeback, as he relizes too late scramble doesn't help him anymore.
3-0
R-4 Tom with Flygon EX
Well, Tom and I are old buds, and I hated to do it, but I smacked him hard.
4-0
R-5, Weldon with Flycatty
Good deck, good player, I forget I dissed the nerd with losing control ( Weldon got it wrong with his report) I get beat like a punk in watts.
4-1
Rd. 6, Vincet ( Cathy's dude) with Stellix and Typ. EX
I go up early, he starts to make a comeback, and gets antsy thinking I am stalling, but then he sees I had the nestle waiting for him.
5-1
So I'm like 4th or 5th and I got to face Ty with Flygon again
T-8
Gm. 1 we play for 51 minutes, as Flygon decks have so 20 or so actions a turn, good back and forth game, but I back him into a corner he can't work out of.
So I shuffle fast to give him a chance to play a decent game.
Gm. 2 I start with a magnmite and think I maybe shuffled too fast, but I was able to get my big boy out, and time was called.
6-1
T-4 Soles with his SD
Another really good player with a nice deck, and one of my best TX buds. He beat the one deck I had an auto loss to, so now I set for a good game. He has great moves, but I counter at every turn and 2-0 him.
7-1
Finals
Wow, I have not been to the finals in a tournament since worlds 2002 sealed deck............Of course I only played in 5-6 tournaments since.
Kyle with Flygon EX.
I thought I could win, as I had beat this deck twice already. But he was set up much faster in both games, and I misplayed like I was getting a dollar for every time I did. His Latios Ex worked like a charm, am all my luck faded. He won the first, and we never finished the second ( 36 minutes and still had 2-3 in the prize count)
7-2, second place.
Props:
Team Rocket for 3 of the T-4
Dylan and Brent for being stupid
Kyle for winning
The staff for doing a good job in a very stressfull event
Jose for a good job in his first big HJ gig
Danny for watching time.
Birch for not losing his cool when it all went bad
Virgina's Place for the best food in TX.
10 packs of DS that I pulled 2 H. Trans., and Jolt EX, Dragonite, Metagross, salamance.
Soles for being Soles!
Slops
we all know what they were.
Dylan and Brent for playing like noobs
Rocketman
Evil Leader of Team Rocket
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