Above average standing at Pokemon Regional Tournament

Posted by Sonya in Pokemon | 1 comment

There is an author Garrison Keillor, who talks about a fictional town called Lake Wobegon. And in Lake Wobegon, he says, “all the men are good looking, all the women are strong and all the children are above average”.

I was above average in the lake Wobegonean way. I went to play the Regional Pokemon Tournament in Pasadena last week. Regional tournaments are held between the state tournament and the national tournament; so all the champions from the state show up there. The one that I went to was in Pasadena and had the champions from southern California, Nevada and Arizona.

I went there with my wailord and Mismagius deck; the deck I affectionately called Raging Tsunami. It is a very nice deck; I practiced with it for a week or two and I was able to defeat or hold off the most powerful deck in the Pokemon – GG deck, which includes gardevoir and Gallade. Lots of my cards were shiny holo and I also had 4 DRE cards, which are very expensive.

I won’t go into the strategy of choosing these cards, except to say that Wailord is a good defensive pokemon and Mismagius is a good offensive one, so it was balanced.

Here I am shuffling the cards – see how fast I am shuffling, you can’t even see the cards.

 

Here I am playing with James, the state’s best player in the junior division.

Of course, I lost the game with him; he had a Pokemon card Absol, which kept disrupting my strategy.

Here I am with the prize that I got for winning the sixth game of the tournament.

That’s my friend Kai next to me. And yes, I did get that hat at the tournament.

So my standing at the game was 3-3 (won three games, lost three games), but overall, out of 43 kids, I was 21st – that’s above average, or in top 50% – ok, just a tad above average – not bad at the regional level.

My dad took me there and we had a lot of fun!