Pokemon Championship tournament excitement

I didn’t have time to write about the exciting Pokemon tournament I participated a couple of weeks ago.

The City tournament was on Saturday and we found out about it on Thursday! We weren’t sure if we would be able to go or not but on Friday, on a whim, we decided to go to it any way.

I had no deck to play with. We gathered up my cards and put together a Fighting deck. It was a really poor deck. Rampardos was the best card I had and the evolution chain was kind of weak. I had no trainers and no supporters. I called my deck ‘little ninja’ – ninja because it was a fighting deck, and little because, the deck still has a little growing up to do.

We were joking that going to the city tournament with my deck was like going to a sword fight with a banana! :-)

Here is a picture of me at the tournament in my ninja like dragon jacket.

I got there at about 9.30 or so and there were a few people waiting; all them with a huge binders of Pokemon cards in tow. The collections that these people had were impressive for sure. I played a warm-up game with a guy there and lost pretty easily. :-(

The tournament started at about 11.00 and I played my first game. My opponent had really really good cards and very strong deck but he didn’t understand the cards and the rules very well. The game continued for a while and we were both at 2-2. Since the time was up, the judge said that who so ever gets the next knock out, wins. I noticed that one of his benched pokemon had a lot of damage and I used one of my cards that did damage to the benched pokemon and got a knock out and won the game! I didn’t expect to, but it was great to win a game.

In the next game, my opponent was a guy named James L. I asked him what kind of deck he had and he wouldn’t even tell me. Turned out that he had a Blissy deck. He won the game very quickly. His cards were doing 80+ damage to me and I had no Pokemon that was very strong. remember, I only had one Rampardos with 120 HP.

Later I found out that James L. is the best Pokemon player in the state of California! I don’t feel too bad, I was beaten by the expert. And Blissy deck is considered one of the strongest deck.

I played two more games and they were nice. I lost them both but I did do some damage. Considering how weak my deck was, I felt pretty good.

I also met Kim Cray from Pokegym.net and he gave me a special Pokemon dice! cool. He also suggested that I might consider playing with proxy deck or dummy deck and that was a great nugget of information.

At the end, we all got a special promo card and a poster and a tournament pin!

All in all, a very intense experience!