Water Pokemon Master
10th August 2003, 11:07 PM
I went to San Diego yesterday and went to the R/S Challenge Series Tournament. Before I say anything else, I suggest everyone find one in your area because there are so many prizes you can win and lots of fun to have. Anyways, we battled each other on Gameboy and TCG and everyone had such a good time. \
First off, the rounds went like this:
TCG-Gameboy-Gameboy-Lunch Time-TCG-Gameboy-Gameboy
For the TCG, we were given 6 R/S packs at the beginning of the tournament and had to construct a 40 card deck. I luckily was able to make a Treeko Stage 2 line and a Kirlia deck. Unfortunately for the kid across the table of me making his deck, he had 4 Silcoon and 2 Beautifly, but no Wurmple, and had to make an all basic deck with one EX and one Stage 2 line.
Then we went on to Gameboying and had to have 3 LV 50 or less Pokemon holding three different items. When it was announced over the Microphone that no unobtainable Pokemon were allowed, I saw two people put their GB's under the table and do something. Wonder what was going on? As for me, I never heard any rule about no two of the same items that could be held by a PKMN, so I had to switch my Milotic's Sitrus berry for an Oran one. Then, a few lucky people each round were able to battle in front of everyone on TV.
For prizes, at the begginnig of the tournament, there was a drawing for a GBA SP and E-reader. Anyone who participated was automatically entered into the drawing, and at the end of the tournament, the people who won it would be announced. Then, if you came in first place for your age group, you could get a R/S booster box, $200 gift certificate to PokemonCenter.com, and a medal.
Okay, now for my results. (worst to best) I was defeated once on the second round for the TCG due to me not shuffling my deck and getting all grass energies and one Koffing. Luckily, I won everything else including both Gameboy and the TCG. Later, I got to battle on the TV for the last round and destroyed my opponent with my Ludiciolo's Giga Drain. Then the drawings for for the SP and E-reader were announced and guess who won the SP, me! What I was most excited about was that I won the 11-14 age division and got a medal, R/S box, and a $200 gift certificate to PokemonCenter.com! In the R/S box, I got 20 Ex cards too! If you don't believe me, click the following link for the pic and the other stuff I got and won:
http://pokebeach.topcities.com/rschallenge/15.jpg
To view pictures of the event, clck the following link:
http://thepokebeach.cjb.net/rschallenge.shtml
EDIT: Oh yeah! There is going to be a Pre-release EX Sanstorm Tournament in the same place on Saturday, Sep. 6 before the set is even released. Since we will be getting Sandstorm packs to make decks for the tourny, I guess I will have some of the card images on my site before anyone else as well as some more of the set info and another report for it.
First off, the rounds went like this:
TCG-Gameboy-Gameboy-Lunch Time-TCG-Gameboy-Gameboy
For the TCG, we were given 6 R/S packs at the beginning of the tournament and had to construct a 40 card deck. I luckily was able to make a Treeko Stage 2 line and a Kirlia deck. Unfortunately for the kid across the table of me making his deck, he had 4 Silcoon and 2 Beautifly, but no Wurmple, and had to make an all basic deck with one EX and one Stage 2 line.
Then we went on to Gameboying and had to have 3 LV 50 or less Pokemon holding three different items. When it was announced over the Microphone that no unobtainable Pokemon were allowed, I saw two people put their GB's under the table and do something. Wonder what was going on? As for me, I never heard any rule about no two of the same items that could be held by a PKMN, so I had to switch my Milotic's Sitrus berry for an Oran one. Then, a few lucky people each round were able to battle in front of everyone on TV.
For prizes, at the begginnig of the tournament, there was a drawing for a GBA SP and E-reader. Anyone who participated was automatically entered into the drawing, and at the end of the tournament, the people who won it would be announced. Then, if you came in first place for your age group, you could get a R/S booster box, $200 gift certificate to PokemonCenter.com, and a medal.
Okay, now for my results. (worst to best) I was defeated once on the second round for the TCG due to me not shuffling my deck and getting all grass energies and one Koffing. Luckily, I won everything else including both Gameboy and the TCG. Later, I got to battle on the TV for the last round and destroyed my opponent with my Ludiciolo's Giga Drain. Then the drawings for for the SP and E-reader were announced and guess who won the SP, me! What I was most excited about was that I won the 11-14 age division and got a medal, R/S box, and a $200 gift certificate to PokemonCenter.com! In the R/S box, I got 20 Ex cards too! If you don't believe me, click the following link for the pic and the other stuff I got and won:
http://pokebeach.topcities.com/rschallenge/15.jpg
To view pictures of the event, clck the following link:
http://thepokebeach.cjb.net/rschallenge.shtml
EDIT: Oh yeah! There is going to be a Pre-release EX Sanstorm Tournament in the same place on Saturday, Sep. 6 before the set is even released. Since we will be getting Sandstorm packs to make decks for the tourny, I guess I will have some of the card images on my site before anyone else as well as some more of the set info and another report for it.