Deck:  Triple Knock Out (TKO)
                         Date of event:  3/9/2001
          Location of event:  Melbourne, Florida:  Books-a-Million
                         Number of people: 32
Price of Admission: N/A(I traded Brock's Ninetails to the gym leader)


Hello, everyone!  Christopher Howard here with some exclusive tournament
coverage.  I went to my grandparent's house for a few days. My exams don't
start until next week, so I just took advantage of those parent teacher
conferences (three days in a row!!!).  Anyway, there were a few rules to
obey by.  Base-neo, must have at least two gym trainers in your deck(don't
ask me), and it was single elimination but the finals were the best of three
matches.  Well, onto the deck listing!!!

Triple Knock Out

Pokemon: 17

3x Jigglypuff (for Wigglytuff)
3x Wigglytuff (60 damage for 3 colorless energy)
3x Rocket's Zapdos (reclean, reuse, recycle)
3x Electabuzz (Tied with cleffa for best PKMN)
3x Erika's Dratini (Shuts down haymakers, mainly Sneasel)
1x Ditto (Shuts down R's Zapdos, Sneasel, MP Mewtwo, etc)
1x Cleffa (Tied with Electabuzz for best PKMN)

Energy: 14

10x Lightning Energy (Everyone to attack)
4x Double Colorless Energy (Jiggly,Wiggly,Ditto,Dratini,retreat,etc)

Trainers: 29

3x Computer Search (find oak, plus, scoop, nightly garbage run, etc)
3x Professor Oak (best trainer in the game)
3x Item Finder (get back those important trainers)
3x PlusPower (Make those powerhouses stronger)
3x Gust of Wind (Bring out weaklings)
3x Gold Berry (Defense wins championships)
3x Berry (Defense wins championships)
3x Super Energy Removal (Slows down Sneasel and others)
2x Scoop Up (damaged electabuzz/zapdos with no energy = no good)
2x Celadon City Gym (Defense wins championships)
1x Nightly Garbage Run (Get back those KOed PKMN or energy)



This deck performs very well for me (it's currently 20-2).  I chose to use
this deck during this tournament due to the fact because Sneasel was gonna
be heavily played.  Well, I signed in and then waited around for about 20
minutes going here and there trading cards and playing pre-matches (I went
2-0 in those matches).  Finally, they announced the pairings and the
tournament officialy started to go underway.

Match one: (FIRST ROUND)
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Sarah(Flower Power)

I get the following:  Jigglypuff, Electabuzz, 2x DCE, GOW, Oak, and celadon
city gym.  I start Jiggly and bench the Buzz.  I win the flip and draw a
item finder.  I then attach a DCE to Jiggly and pound.  She draws, she uses
Mary twice and shuffles back item finder, DCE, gold berry, and grass energy
to her deck, and then uses dance.  I draw Wigglytuff, attach DCE to
Wigglytuff, oak away three times, and get full bench to wave away her only
Scyther and I win the first match.
Record: 1-0
Card Of The Match:  Wigglytuff

Match two: (SWEET 16)
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Brian(Sneasel Army)(NOTE: he is my cousin)

I mulliganed and then got Buzz, lightning energy, computer search, gust of
wind, oak, pluspower, and berry.  I lose the coin flip, he draws, bills,
benches a Buzz, attaches both a pluspower and a darkness energy to sneasel,
and then gets all tails (roflmao).  I draw a Rocket's Zapdos, bench R's
Zapdos, gust out to his benched Buzz, attach lightning energy to Buzz,
computer search away berry and pluspower to get E's Dratini, oak away to get
2x Lightning energy, computer search, berry, item finder, DCE, and a gold
berry; and then thundershock him for 10 + paralysis.  He draws, attaches a
Rainbow Energy to Sneasel, and passes turn.  I draw a R's Zapdos, bench it,
computer search away the rest of my hand except DCE to get oak, and then
thunderpunch for 40.  He draws and passes his turn.  I draw a Wigglytuff,
drop DCE to E's Dratini, oak away to get Buzz, SER, item finder, gold berry,
lightning energy, berry, and pluspower; drop Buzz to bench, drop pluspower,
and shock + paralysis for KO and I get Jiggly for prize.  He brings up
Sneasel, draws, and swipes for 40.  My Buzz is fully healed, I draw an item
finder, use both of my item finders to get pluspowers, and then thunderpunch
for 60 to KO Sneasel and win the match.
Record: 2-0
Card Of The Match:  Electabuzz

Match three: (ELITE 8)
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Ashley(Fall Into The Trap)(See Brian's Note)

I get Jiggly, Wiggly, 2x DCE, 2x lightning energy, and computer search.  I
start an alone Jiggly.  I lose the coin flip again, she draws, benches a
scyther, computer searches away 2x gold berry to get sneasel, drop darkness
energy on sneasel, and passes turn.  I draw a Rocket's Zapdos, bench it,
drop DCE on Jiggly, and use lullaby.  Unsuccessful awake attempt by E's
Dratini, she draws, applies Rainbow energy to Sneasel, and ends turn without
any luck of waking up that Dratini.  I draw a berry, place berry on Jiggly,
drop lightning energy to Jiggly, evolve to Wiggly, computer search away the
rest of my hand for oak and get Jiggly, celadon city gym, SER, GOW, gold
berry, lightning energy, and E's dratini; then, I bench E's Dratini and
Jiggly, and wave away for the KO getting another SER for my prize.  She
sends out Scyther, draws, and passes her turn up.  I draw a lightning
energy, gust out the Sneasel, use wave to KO it and get yet another GOW for
a prize.  She sends up Scyther, uses IOR (imposter oak's revenge), oaks
away, RSA(rocket's sneak attack) me, and finished the evil combo with a
successful TRT (rocket's trap) and then drops grass energy to Scyther. 
Then, put down a chaos gym, drop E's Dratini to her bench, and dances.  I
draw a Jiggly, bench it, and wave for 50. She draws, uses an unsuccessful
computer search, I cannot use it, drops DCE to Scyther and slashes for 40
(berry on Wiggly).  I draw a SER, flip tails on SER and my Wiggly gets
SERed, and I pass my turn.  She draws and slashes me.  I draw a computer
search and pass my turn yet again.  She draws and slashes me for the KO.  I
send out R's Zappy, draw a scoop up, and plasma for the KO getting a DCE for
a prize.  She sends out E's Dratini, draws, and passes up her turn.  I draw
a lightning energy, drop it to Jigglypuff, and plasma.  She draws and yet
again passes her turn.  I draw a scoop up, apply my DCE to Jiggly, and
plasma.  She draws and passes.  I draw a lightning energy, drop it to Jiggly
with DCE on it, and plasma.  She draws and forfeits because she didn't get a
basic and her E's Dratini had 30 damage on it.  Great game Ashley.
Record: 3-0
Card Of The Match: Wigglytuff + Rocket's Zapdos (couldn't choose)

Match 4: (FINAL FOUR)
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Jonathon(Got Da Block On Lock Whodea)

I lost the flip and get 2x Erika's Dratini, 2x Lightning energy, cleffa,
double colorless energy, and computer search.  I start Cleffa and have one
E's Dratini benched.  He starts Murkrow and has a benched Snorlax, he draws,
uses mary, drop Fossil Psyduck to bench, retreats for it, puts Psychic
energy on it, and uses headache.  I draw a Jigglypuff, attach a lightning
energy to cleffa, and eeeeeeek away to get 2x Rocket's Zapdos, SER,
Jigglypuff, Item finder, lightning energy, and Nightly garbage run.  He
draws, places a Sneasel on bench, drops Darkness energy to Murkrow, and
headaches.  I draw a Erika's Dratini, attach Lightning energy to R's Zappy,
retreat for Zapdos, and plasma for 40.  He draws, retreats for Murkrow,
gusts up benched Jiggly, and mean looks it.  I draw a berry, SER discarding
Cleffa's energy to SER Murkrow, use Item finder to discard Jiggly and E's
dratini to get back SER, use NGR to put them back into my deck, and I then
pass my turn.  He draws, retreats for Psyduck, applies Grass energy to
Murkrow, and headaches away.  I draw a lightning energy, drop it to active
Jiggly, retreat Jiggly for Cleffa, and pass turn.  He draws, uses Mary,
benches Rocket Oddish, and uses headache.  I draw a berry, retreat Cleffa
for Rocket's Zapdos, and use plasma for the KO (I have already used it once)
and I get a Erika's Dratini for my prize.  He sends out Sneasel, draws,
attaches rainbow energy to Murkrow, and ends turn.  I draw a gold berry,
attach it to Rocket's Zapdos, once again SER his Murkrow, and plasma away. 
He draws and ends his turn. I draw a computer search, use computer search
away two berries to get an oak.  Oak away to get computer search, pluspower,
wigglytuff, scoop up, DCE and a lightning energy.  I drop pluspower,
computer search away lightning energy and scoop up to get pluspower and get
the KO getting another scoop up for my prize.  He sends up Murkrow, draws,
benches yet another sneasel, retreats for snorlax, and passes up turn.  I
draw a oak, use it to get 2x lightning energy, jiggly, DCE, gold berry, SER,
and GOW.  I gust up Sneasel for the KO and I get another Oak for a prize. 
He sends back up Snorlax, draws, benches Rocket Oddish, and ends turn.  I
draw a DCE, use oak to get Wiggly, Buzz, lightning energy, berry, gold
berry, and gust of wind; then I gust up a Rocket Oddish, drop gold berry on
Rocket's Zapdos, and burn for the KO getting a Ditto for my prize.  He sends
up Snorlax, draws, breeds to Dark Vileplume, and ends turn.  I draw a
Wigglytuff, evolve Jiggly with DCE to Wiggly, drop lightning energy on
Wiggly, and use plasma.  He draws and passes up his turn.  I draw a Rocket's
Zapdos and burn for the KO getting a scoop up for my prize.  He sends up his
Murkrow, draws, and then forfeits.  That win propelled me into the
tournament finals!!!
Record: 4-0
Card Of The Match:  Rocket's Zapdos

Match five: (FINALS)
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Dustin(Spongy Stuff)

I mulliganed and then got 2x Erika's Dratini, Cleffa, Buzz, Celadon City
Gym, SER, and GOW.  I lose the flip once again and just found out that he
has started an alone neo Clefairy.  He draws, bills, benches Erika's
Jigglypuff, attaches Psychic energy to clefairy, and passes turn.  I draw an
item finder, play celadon city gym, and then end my turn.  He draws, plays a
DCE to Erika's Jiggly, evolves to Clefable, comp searches away two psychic
energy to get MP Mewtwo, gusts up buzz, oaks and then 40 to me for
thunderpunch.  I draw and pass my turn that fast.  He draws, drops psychic
energy to MP Mewtwo, and punches 10 to himself for the KO.  I bring out
Cleffa, draw a Rocket's Zapdos, bench it, and end my turn.  He draws,
benches a Chansey, attaches a DCE to it, gusts up my Rocket's Zapdos, and
burns it for the KO.  I send out Cleffa, draw a lightning energy (ABOUT TIME
TOO) and use eeeeeeek to get Gold berry, item finder, SER, pluspower, scoop
up, lightning energy, and gust of wind.  He draws, computer searches for a
DCE which he attaches to his Chansey, and then uses eeeeeeek.  I draw a
lightning energy, attach it to E's Dratini, SER his chansey, and pass my
turn away.  He draws, bills, drops Psychic energy on Clefable, retreats for
Erika's Jigglypuff, and hits heads on pulled punch.  I am looking very bad
right now.  I send out an alone Erika's Dratini, draw a berry, apply it to
Erika's Dratini, drop pluspower down, and hit tails on the tail strike.  He
draws, drop a psychic energy on Clefable, retreats for Clefable, and hits
heads on tail strike.  I draw a gust of wind, gust up an energy-less MP
Mewtwo, and hit tails again on my tail strike.  He draws, attaches a psychic
energy to MP Mewtwo (active) and uses absorption to get two psychic energy. 
I draw a DCE, apply it to E's Dratini and hit heads on tail strike.  He
draws, retreats for Clefable and he hits heads on the tail strike to KO me
for the first match of the finals.
Record:  4-1
Card Of The Match:  Erika's Dratini

Match 6:
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Dustin(Spongy Stuff)

He mulligans and I take those two cards to get a starting Rocket's Zapdos
and benched are Erika's Dratini and Buzz, in my hand is gold berry, SER,
oak, computer search, berry, and pluspower.  I yet again lose the coin flip.
  He draws, attaches a recyle energy to it, and passes.  I draw a lightning
energy and then I plasma.  He draws and passes.  I draw a scoop up and
plasma.  He draws and passes again.  I draw a nightly garbage run and
plasma.  He draws and forfeits.
Record:  5-1
Card Of The Match:  Rocket's Zapdos

Match 7:
Me(Triple Knock Out) vs. Dustin(Spongy Stuff)

He mulligians again and I take advantage of that opportunity to get a
Erika's Dratini starting with the bench of Rockets Zapdos and Jigglypuff. 
My hand is 2x Lightning energy, computer search, gold berry, scoop up, and
pluspower.  I finally win the coin flip.  I draw a Ditto, bench Ditto,
computer search away scoop up and lightning energy to get a DCE, drop the
DCE on Erika's Dratini, place down pluspower, and hit heads on the tail
strike.  He draws, computer searches away two psychic energies to get a
psychic energy, attaches a psychic energy to Clefairy, and ends turn.  I
draw a Wigglytuff, drop a lightning energy to Jiggly, evolves to Wiggly, and
hits heads on the fatal tail strike which gets me a berry.  He draws,
evolves to Clefable, computer searches away his hand to get oak, oaks,
benches chansey, and hits tails on tail strike.  I draw an oak, drop berry
to Dratini, gold berry to wigglytuff, oak away to get Jiggly, lightning
energy, buzz, oak, item finder, rocket's zapdos, and gold berry; use item
finder to discard buzz and Jiggly to get comp search to comp search away
gold berry and buzz to get oak, then I oaked to get berry, 2xlightning
energy, GOW, SER, item finder, and gold berry; use item finder discarding
one light and gold berry to get Plus and then I wave for 50.  He draws,
attaches a psychic energy to chansey, drops down a pluspower, and uses wave
for 30.  I draw a Nightly garbage run and wave to get a Jiggly as a prize. 
He draws, sends out chansey, and ends turn.  I draw a GOW, drop Jiggly and
wave for 60.  He draws, drops psychic to chansey, and hits TAILS on scrunch.
  I draw a scoop up and wave for the KO and the tournament win!!!!
Record: 6-1
Card Of The Match:  Wigglytuff

The prizes for the tournament went as the following:

1st--a factory sealed box of neo genesis booster packs
2nd--$20 store credit
3rd--$10 store credit
4th--$5 store credit

Well, I guess it's time for some props and slops...

Props to:
-Wade Hampton High School's JV and Varsity soccer teams
-my dad for not having a problem dropping me and my cousins off at the 
league
-the gym leader there at the tournament (he was very kind)
-getting a free booster pack for entering tourney
-Pojo's Apprentice League (This Thing is SOOOOOO cool!!!)
-the word "w00t"

Slops to:
-me for having to play my own cousins (sorry Brian and Ashley)
-some of the packs I got (RARES:  Time Capsule, Donphan(I got FIVE),  sorry
typhlosion with some kind of entering pokemon power, etc)
-Dustin for almost beating in the tourney's finals
-the phrase "I would have beat you if I didn't get that crappy hand)


Well, that's my KDR.  I hoped you enjoyed reading this KDR.

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