Hey Guys, so I thought lets write a report.
This is my first report on the gym so I'll introduce myself first:
I'm David Booij, I'm from the Netherlands and I have got to worlds by getting NC.
My English isn't that great but I'll do my best.
So we got at the hotel on Wednesday after a great holiday. I had already chosen luxchomp as the deck I would play coz I had won my Nats with it. I playtested Thursday and Friday and got 14-4 or so, that gave me a good feeling.
My brother and I wrote our lists Friday evening and made no chances, my bro played exacly the same list as I did. It was the most consistent list we could get! (the list is down this page).
Now on to the report:
Round 1 - vs Jimmy O'Brien (US) with Cursegar
Hiding behind a spiritomb he got out a Haunter with 2 energies and a Claydol. I didn't had that great but could Bright Look his Haunter and KO it with Flash Bite + Flash Impact (he played the 70HP one).
Now he had to make his setup again while I could take prices by KO'ing his Claydol and 2 Tombs. At this point he had got a Gengar X with a psy, a call, a warp and a exbelt, and he had got a Nidoqueen on the bench. He played Judge coz he needed the psy but didn't draw into it, so he sent his Queen forward and passes.
I play collector for Lucario and playdown Uxie X for the KO. He still can't get the psy so I could D-Rush his benched Duskull FTW.
GG
1-0
Round 2 - vs Adam Arsenault (CA-NC) with Cursegar
Again Cursegar :O I hadn't expect that, but the matchup isn't that worse for me.
He got a bad start and had to Pitch Dark 4 turns. My start was not so great too but I could get out a Luxray and make some KO's.
I don't remember much about this game... I made a bad mistake by attacking his benched uxie for the last KO while he had got a Manetric on the bench... but after a few turns I could take my last price and still take the win.
GG
2-0
Lunchbreak
I don't like it to have a lunchbreak, surely not after 2 rounds.
We got back to our room and ate some bread. I read 20 minutes to take some rest, took a cold shower to get awake and head up to the gaming room.
Round 3 - vs Yuta Komatsuda (JP) with Luxchomp
He directly got Luxray X. I didn't had any supporters so I got out my Garchomp X and made a KO, hoping to draw a supporter from my prices but that didn't happen, it was a Azelf.
He KO'ed my Garchomp X with Dragonite.
I Time Walked into a Uxie and Setup for 5. Got a Garchomp and KO'ed his Dragonite.
He had got another DCE and could KO my Garchomp. From there on I couldn't get anything so GG .
2-1
Round 4 - vs Morten Gundesen (DM) with Abomasnow/Ampharos
The idea of his deck was to get out an Aboma and a Amphy will he hides behind a Spiritomb. Aboma puts 20 on all your opponents pokemon (except water and grass) and Amphy blocks all powers from pokemon that do have a damage counter on it.
He got a really fast setup will I had to mimic twice to get a supporter. I couldn't use my powers coz he snowplayed every turn, and after a few turns he took all his prices.
Still a good game, and really nice deck!
2-2
Round 5 - vs Benjamin Potter (US-LCQ) (Not sure of this) with ?
He had to start and only got a Baltoy, he attached a water and passed. I attach DCE to Luxray, collector for 2 Crobat and double Flash Bite + Bite FTW
3-2
Round 6 - vs Alessandro Cremascoli (IT-NC) with Cursegar
A judge asked us if we would like to play on the stage. I ask Alessandro if he likes to and he's oke with it.
So we played this game in the spotlights ^^
Again a Cursegar XD but I had won the other 2 so this one couldn't be a big problem, could it?
I had a nice hand, menaged to get out an Luxray X and took some prices while he made his setup. I KO'ed his Gengar, Claydol and 2 Tomb and then he played.... POKEMON REVERSAL --> Heads, pulling my Bronzong G forward and locking it with a Spiritomb active.
My Bronzong had got 30 damage so after 3 turns Galactic switch I KO'ed myself, sent up a Luxray, Leveled Up, put another Luxray on the bench and KO'ed something. Now I had 1 price left and could make the last KO next turn with a new Luxray X or if I did draw into a Garchomp X I could even make a KO with it coz I had got a Garchomp with E.Gain and DCE benched.
He sent up his Gengar with 3 energy and an exbelt, played reversal --> HEADS! pulled my Luxray and KO'ed it.
I played Aaron's for Luxray, lay it down and passed.
Again he played reversal --> HEADS and he KO'ed again my Luxray.
I Poke Turn'ed my Luxray X, lay down my Luxray and pass.
He: Reversal, Heads, Luxray, Judge, KO.
I had to draw a Garchomp X or something to get it, otherwise I would lose... I drew: Random, Random, Pokemon Communication and Azelf! So I get my Garchomp X and KO something FTW
Pfffw close game! Really GG!
4-2
Round 7 - vs Pooka/Kyle Sucevich (US) with Dialgachomp
He starts Dialga attached special metal passed. I started Chatot, play Uxie for 3 but didn't draw that great. I thought a moment and than played Judge. I drew Communication and a Pokemon, search a Uxie and draw 5. I played my bench full and passed.
He played down a Garchomp with DCE and passed.
I got an Garchomp X out and KO'ed his Chomp.
He still hadn't got anything so after I Flash Impact'ed him he Poke Turn'ed his Dialga.
GG, sorry for you not drawing anything.
I waited for an hour or so and heard I was 16th (grrr why do we have a top 32???! XD). I had to play the guy from round 4.
TOP 32 - vs Morten Gundesen (DM) with Abomasnow/Ampharos
Before the game I tried to figure out how I could win against this deck without a Dialga X. But the only thing I could think of was being really really fast. What wouldn't be that easy as he would be ready at turn 2/3 :S
The other option was switching his energies to the bench and hope he couldn't get more energies XD
Game 1:
He started with Jirachi but got 2 other pokemon so I couldn't donk him.
I kept my bench small so he wouldn't win that fast. But I couldn't make a good setup.
He started attacking turn 3, will he has an Ampharos benched.
I tried to swoop his energies to the bench with ambipom. But he had enough energies in hand so I scooped.
Game 2:
I started with Luxray, Call, DCE and Collector. Coz I didn't want a full bench I attached DCE to Luxray and use Bite on his lone Tomb.
He played Collector and used Darkness Grace for a Aboma.
I played Collector for 2 Bats and KO'ed his Tomb. Then I Bright Look'ed his Bat and KO'ed it.
Because of my fast start he couldn't get his Amphy. He scooped after a few turns.
Game 3:
He got Aboma and Amphy out turn 2. I knew I couldn't win against that, so I tried to get a chatterlock but didn't draw an energy from my uxie...
He made 6 KO's FTW.
GG mate!
1-2
I ended 22th in a really nice tournement and am happy with it. I think it's a really good performence for my first year masters.
Here's my list:
2-2 Garchomp X
2-2 Luxray X
2-1 Uxie X
1 Toxi
1 Zong
1 Ambi
1 Lucario
2 Bat
1 Azelf
1 Chatot
1 Unown Q
20
4 Collector
4 Cyrus's
4 Turn
4 Spray
3 Gain
3 Radar
2 Communication
1 Bebe's
1 Judge
1 Aaron's
1 Luxury
1 Night Maintenance
29
4 DCE
3 Call
2 Lightning
2 Psy
11
Props:
- My brother Olaf for playtesting and everything!
- Anna for playtesting end all other help she has given me!
- Bert, Danilo, Melchior, Roan and Emanuel for playtesting!
- All the Dutch and Belgium players (and parents ofc.) that were at worlds for being there!
- Everyone who was rooting for me!
- My parents for being that great supporters!
- Yasmin for getting 5th in her first year masters!
- Luxchomp for being a great deck! I love all the options it has!
- TOP 32 and NC in my first year masters!
- All the staff, judges, translators, volunteers and everyone who helped the tournement being this great!
Slops:
- Long, long, long flight (36 hours...)
- Everyone who dropped... it's worlds! It's for fun!
Thanks for reading my report. I hope you did enjoy it
This is my first report on the gym so I'll introduce myself first:
I'm David Booij, I'm from the Netherlands and I have got to worlds by getting NC.
My English isn't that great but I'll do my best.
So we got at the hotel on Wednesday after a great holiday. I had already chosen luxchomp as the deck I would play coz I had won my Nats with it. I playtested Thursday and Friday and got 14-4 or so, that gave me a good feeling.
My brother and I wrote our lists Friday evening and made no chances, my bro played exacly the same list as I did. It was the most consistent list we could get! (the list is down this page).
Now on to the report:
Round 1 - vs Jimmy O'Brien (US) with Cursegar
Hiding behind a spiritomb he got out a Haunter with 2 energies and a Claydol. I didn't had that great but could Bright Look his Haunter and KO it with Flash Bite + Flash Impact (he played the 70HP one).
Now he had to make his setup again while I could take prices by KO'ing his Claydol and 2 Tombs. At this point he had got a Gengar X with a psy, a call, a warp and a exbelt, and he had got a Nidoqueen on the bench. He played Judge coz he needed the psy but didn't draw into it, so he sent his Queen forward and passes.
I play collector for Lucario and playdown Uxie X for the KO. He still can't get the psy so I could D-Rush his benched Duskull FTW.
GG
1-0
Round 2 - vs Adam Arsenault (CA-NC) with Cursegar
Again Cursegar :O I hadn't expect that, but the matchup isn't that worse for me.
He got a bad start and had to Pitch Dark 4 turns. My start was not so great too but I could get out a Luxray and make some KO's.
I don't remember much about this game... I made a bad mistake by attacking his benched uxie for the last KO while he had got a Manetric on the bench... but after a few turns I could take my last price and still take the win.
GG
2-0
Lunchbreak
I don't like it to have a lunchbreak, surely not after 2 rounds.
We got back to our room and ate some bread. I read 20 minutes to take some rest, took a cold shower to get awake and head up to the gaming room.
Round 3 - vs Yuta Komatsuda (JP) with Luxchomp
He directly got Luxray X. I didn't had any supporters so I got out my Garchomp X and made a KO, hoping to draw a supporter from my prices but that didn't happen, it was a Azelf.
He KO'ed my Garchomp X with Dragonite.
I Time Walked into a Uxie and Setup for 5. Got a Garchomp and KO'ed his Dragonite.
He had got another DCE and could KO my Garchomp. From there on I couldn't get anything so GG .
2-1
Round 4 - vs Morten Gundesen (DM) with Abomasnow/Ampharos
The idea of his deck was to get out an Aboma and a Amphy will he hides behind a Spiritomb. Aboma puts 20 on all your opponents pokemon (except water and grass) and Amphy blocks all powers from pokemon that do have a damage counter on it.
He got a really fast setup will I had to mimic twice to get a supporter. I couldn't use my powers coz he snowplayed every turn, and after a few turns he took all his prices.
Still a good game, and really nice deck!
2-2
Round 5 - vs Benjamin Potter (US-LCQ) (Not sure of this) with ?
He had to start and only got a Baltoy, he attached a water and passed. I attach DCE to Luxray, collector for 2 Crobat and double Flash Bite + Bite FTW
3-2
Round 6 - vs Alessandro Cremascoli (IT-NC) with Cursegar
A judge asked us if we would like to play on the stage. I ask Alessandro if he likes to and he's oke with it.
So we played this game in the spotlights ^^
Again a Cursegar XD but I had won the other 2 so this one couldn't be a big problem, could it?
I had a nice hand, menaged to get out an Luxray X and took some prices while he made his setup. I KO'ed his Gengar, Claydol and 2 Tomb and then he played.... POKEMON REVERSAL --> Heads, pulling my Bronzong G forward and locking it with a Spiritomb active.
My Bronzong had got 30 damage so after 3 turns Galactic switch I KO'ed myself, sent up a Luxray, Leveled Up, put another Luxray on the bench and KO'ed something. Now I had 1 price left and could make the last KO next turn with a new Luxray X or if I did draw into a Garchomp X I could even make a KO with it coz I had got a Garchomp with E.Gain and DCE benched.
He sent up his Gengar with 3 energy and an exbelt, played reversal --> HEADS! pulled my Luxray and KO'ed it.
I played Aaron's for Luxray, lay it down and passed.
Again he played reversal --> HEADS and he KO'ed again my Luxray.
I Poke Turn'ed my Luxray X, lay down my Luxray and pass.
He: Reversal, Heads, Luxray, Judge, KO.
I had to draw a Garchomp X or something to get it, otherwise I would lose... I drew: Random, Random, Pokemon Communication and Azelf! So I get my Garchomp X and KO something FTW
Pfffw close game! Really GG!
4-2
Round 7 - vs Pooka/Kyle Sucevich (US) with Dialgachomp
He starts Dialga attached special metal passed. I started Chatot, play Uxie for 3 but didn't draw that great. I thought a moment and than played Judge. I drew Communication and a Pokemon, search a Uxie and draw 5. I played my bench full and passed.
He played down a Garchomp with DCE and passed.
I got an Garchomp X out and KO'ed his Chomp.
He still hadn't got anything so after I Flash Impact'ed him he Poke Turn'ed his Dialga.
GG, sorry for you not drawing anything.
I waited for an hour or so and heard I was 16th (grrr why do we have a top 32???! XD). I had to play the guy from round 4.
TOP 32 - vs Morten Gundesen (DM) with Abomasnow/Ampharos
Before the game I tried to figure out how I could win against this deck without a Dialga X. But the only thing I could think of was being really really fast. What wouldn't be that easy as he would be ready at turn 2/3 :S
The other option was switching his energies to the bench and hope he couldn't get more energies XD
Game 1:
He started with Jirachi but got 2 other pokemon so I couldn't donk him.
I kept my bench small so he wouldn't win that fast. But I couldn't make a good setup.
He started attacking turn 3, will he has an Ampharos benched.
I tried to swoop his energies to the bench with ambipom. But he had enough energies in hand so I scooped.
Game 2:
I started with Luxray, Call, DCE and Collector. Coz I didn't want a full bench I attached DCE to Luxray and use Bite on his lone Tomb.
He played Collector and used Darkness Grace for a Aboma.
I played Collector for 2 Bats and KO'ed his Tomb. Then I Bright Look'ed his Bat and KO'ed it.
Because of my fast start he couldn't get his Amphy. He scooped after a few turns.
Game 3:
He got Aboma and Amphy out turn 2. I knew I couldn't win against that, so I tried to get a chatterlock but didn't draw an energy from my uxie...
He made 6 KO's FTW.
GG mate!
1-2
I ended 22th in a really nice tournement and am happy with it. I think it's a really good performence for my first year masters.
Here's my list:
2-2 Garchomp X
2-2 Luxray X
2-1 Uxie X
1 Toxi
1 Zong
1 Ambi
1 Lucario
2 Bat
1 Azelf
1 Chatot
1 Unown Q
20
4 Collector
4 Cyrus's
4 Turn
4 Spray
3 Gain
3 Radar
2 Communication
1 Bebe's
1 Judge
1 Aaron's
1 Luxury
1 Night Maintenance
29
4 DCE
3 Call
2 Lightning
2 Psy
11
Props:
- My brother Olaf for playtesting and everything!
- Anna for playtesting end all other help she has given me!
- Bert, Danilo, Melchior, Roan and Emanuel for playtesting!
- All the Dutch and Belgium players (and parents ofc.) that were at worlds for being there!
- Everyone who was rooting for me!
- My parents for being that great supporters!
- Yasmin for getting 5th in her first year masters!
- Luxchomp for being a great deck! I love all the options it has!
- TOP 32 and NC in my first year masters!
- All the staff, judges, translators, volunteers and everyone who helped the tournement being this great!
Slops:
- Long, long, long flight (36 hours...)
- Everyone who dropped... it's worlds! It's for fun!
Thanks for reading my report. I hope you did enjoy it
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