Whew! What an awesome weekend we had!! It was truly incredible! Still haven't caught up completely yet, but here are some details for the inquiring minds who want to know!
Saturday for the TCG we started out with 241 Masters with 8 rounds and Top 32, 94 Seniors with 7 rounds and Top 16, and 51 Juniors with 6 rounds and Top 8 for a total of 386 for day 1.
Sunday for the VG Championship we had 106 Masters with 7 rounds and Top 8, 35 Seniors with 6 rounds and T8, and 27 Juniors with 5 rounds and Top 4. for a total of 168
So our player total for the 2 days was 554. Was really a great time there at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison - absolutely love the venue... plenty of room to sprawl out, beautiful view of the lake out the massive windows, they had good, reasonable food on site, it was an easy location to find... overall I think everyone loved it!
Here's a link to
my Album of pictures from the event... I have more to add that I'm waiting on receiving, and I haven't had a chance to tag or comment on them yet, (so feel free to do so if you'd like). Also if anyone has any they would like to share and have me add, by all means please feel free to send them to me or send me links to yours, I'll be happy to add/include them!
How about a list of some winners? Here ya go!
For the TCG - (386)
Juniors (51)
1st - Joey R
2nd Nathan L
3rd Joshua F
4th Jon-Luc M
Seniors (94)
1st Ben M
2nd Sarah M
3rd Jeremiah W
4th William B
Masters (241)
1st Casey S
2nd Adam V
3rd Isaiah B
4th Michael S
For the VGC - (168)
Juniors - (27)
1st Beau B
2nd Jackson S
3rd James R
4th Peyton F
Seniors - (35)
1st Brian H
2nd Grace A
3rd Ashton C
4th Marcus J
Masters (106)
1st Corey M
2nd Stephen M
3rd Zach D
4th Brian J
Each day I gave away 2 Pokemon hats that I'd made... On Day 1 it was Umbreon and Pikachu, and on Day 2 it was Mew and Mewtwo. Here are the lucky hat winners -
Umbreon - Galen W
Pikachu - Nate T
Mew - Darrin C
Mewtwo - Marcus J
We had 2 'Guess How Many' Jars - a big jar of goodies to guess each day. On Saturday it was Gourmet Jelly Beans (Jason E won that one) and on Sunday it was Chocolate Kisses and Reeces pieces (won by Shawn M)
In the Activity Center, we gave away over 2 boxes of Booster Packs to lucky winners posted on the Winner Wall after each round for 5 different Free Mini-Games that were always available to play in between rounds or if you finished your matches early... You could play Pokemon Yahtzee (get a Yahtzee of 5 Pokemon in 3 rolls) , Dice Stacker (see how many dice you could stack in a single column in 15 seconds), The Headless Flipper (see how many tails in a row you could flip), Guess the Pokemon (reach your hand into the special Bag without peeking and see if you could guess which Pokemon figure was inside in 15 seconds), and It's Super Effective! (see if the Pokemon die you rolled was Super Effective against the Pokemon we rolled!). Lots of fun Mini-Games to amuse yourselves with!
There were also lots of things to color in the Art Corner as well as an Original Art Contest on both days. I'm not sure I got the names of all the winners there (a winner for each age group for both for Coloring and for Original Art) but I do have the winning pictures/drawings/objects and many of them posted in the Album, so be sure to check them all out! Very creative group we had! One winning submission was even an amazing 3D Shining Raquaza figure! Did you see that thing?! (
here it is) Awesome, hard to believe it was made out of paper!
Also Players who Preregistered on Friday got entered in a special drawing for a chance for a triple Door Prize win - a Playmat, a Hat, and a Binder, all 3! That lucky winner was Samuel R! Congrats!
Let's see, what else can I tell you about the event... oh Marriland was there playing in both the TCG and the VGC, and delighted several of the Video Game Players by taking time to talk with them, taking pics with them, signing some autographs, and even signing several DSs! They were very excited to be able to meet him in person after having watched so many of his Pokemon videos on his website,
Marriland.com and on Youtube.
Finally, I'd like to give our fantastic Organizer Jimmy Ballard some BIG, BIG kudos for running such an amazing event! Aside from just a few little glitches, both days ran very smooth and on time and overall he did an INCREDIBLE job in making this Regional Championship Event a wonderful weekend to remember! He put a sick amount of time into planning it all out, and surrounded himself with a great staff of about 35 Judges, Runners, Computers, Helpers and others, including his fantastic wife Debbie, his hard working family, and his right hand man, Head Judge Troy Lesky. Certainly a job well done and I know I can speak for everyone on his Staff in saying 'Jimmy you're the BEST! We luv ya man!!'
I'll no doubt think of something else I forgot to mention, but until then...
See you all there next year everybody!!
