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UK Nationals 2012 Report and List – PokeClass Episode 77

Hey everybody! Saturday the 30th June brought us to UK Nationals, the same weekend as US Nationals and I was excited for the biggest tournament of the year in the UK. Within this episode, I start off by showing you the list I used for the tournament and follow up with how the day went for me.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoQ8WtUVatk[/youtube]
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Pikkdogs Day 2 Nationals Report

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there.  This is Pikkdogs here with a review of the second day of Nationals.  I’m sorry that this was so late, but I was ill the 2nd day and I didn’t feel up to writing another report.

Day 2 Report

I had a tough nights sleep the night before, so I was very tired going into this day.  I started the day with another plate full of waffles, which is a good thing.

Round 6 vs Darkrai/Tornadus/Mewtwo

My opponent goes first again and flips over a Mewtwo EX.  Yay, I get to play another one of my bad match-ups.  He doesn’t get an energy drop, so I think I might have a chance.  I use an N on my turn, but my hand afterwards is very bad.  This makes me lose an energy drop myself, I also don’t have another supporter or things like Eviolite.  On his next turn he gets a DCE on Mewtwo and attacks with “X-Ball”.  I am able to take away the damage on my next turn, and I use Pokemon Catcher to stall and bring up Darkrai EX.  This goes on for a while where I am able to keep my Entei up and stall with Pokemon Catcher.  But, he eventually gets energy on Darkrai and is able to get a second DCE on Mewtwo.  I still have a supporter drought on my side of the field, and I have to scoop once he has a third DCE on Mewtwo.

 

2-4– I wanted to get a 500 record for the tourney, so going behind 2 games is not something I wanted to do.  But there were still 3 more rounds where I could still get a winning record.

Round 7 vs Accelgor

I’m sorry that I don’t remember much for this round because I forgot to take notes, but I know it didn’t go well.  I had never played this deck before, but I did here one good strategy when I was reading some random article.  I read that a good strategy was to only attack Accelgors so that your opponent will fill up their bench and not be able to get an Accelgor chain.  I might have been able to use Pokemon Catcher to kill the Vileplumes, but I tried to do the bench thing.  On cue my opponent started first with Sunkern and began to fill the bench.  He only had one Accelgor line going, so I thought I could lock him.

This made the game very long, but he had the upperhand later in the game.  I eventually decided that I needed to take away his free retreat Tyrogue, but these couple prizes didn’t really help.  He still was able to get a lot of special conditions, and he kept the lock on for the most of the game.

2-5– Not happy after getting paired against a trainer lock deck.  I didn’t really have any experience against this deck, so I probably made some misplays.  If i would have been aggressive on the Vileplume I might have been able to win.

Round 8 vs Kim with Klingklang

This is my first game against a Klingklang deck, so I am excited to see how it goes.  Kim was a very nice person from Virginia, it was fun to play against her.  She starts first with a Cobalion, she attaches and then passes.  I get a good start and get a steady chain of supporters which allow me to get everything I needed except Eviolite.  Fortunately I didn’t really need any Eviolite.  I was able to use Pokemon Catcher and her weakness to my advantage.  Because she had prized her Kyurem EX she really didn’t have a chance.  It took me a little while to KO all of her EXs, but after I took away all the Klingklangs she didn’t have much of a chance.  I end up with a 6 prize win.

3-5 – My chance to get to 4-5 just got a little better.  One more game to give me an okay record.

Round 9 vs CMT I think

I don’t really remember much about this game and I didn’t take notes again.  If I remember what happened I will update this report.  All I know is that I did win.  It might have been against a CMT.

4-5– Well that is not a great record, but its not terrible either.  It is about what I thought I would get.  But, I thought I would get a little better match-ups then I did.  Oh well.

Conclusion and 64 Man Pod

Nationals even brought out a bug catcher.

 

After the main event wrapped up we went to lunch.  I had some good Chinese food and some root beer and cheese curds from A&W.  Up next was a big side-event, the 64 man Pods.  This was more of a fun event that had packs as prizes for winning either 3 or 4 games of a 4 round Swiss event.  I wasn’t feeling to excited since I didn’t do well at the main event.  I started the four round tournament with a bye since my opponent did not show up after lunch.  In the next round I played an Eels/Raikou deck.  Since he could only do about 100 damage, he really couldn’t do much to me.  My deck worked fine as I got to 2-0.  In my third round I played one of the best games I had played in a long time.  This was against a CMT deck.  The opponent should have beat me, but I used Pokemon Catcher to attack the Mewtwos before they were Eviolited.  I was able to get a good 3 prize lead when time was called.  Even though I had just 1 prize card left, I almost lost because I was one turn away from decking out.  But I was lucky enough to win after turn 3 because I was fortunate that time wasn’t called on my next turn.  So I go to 3-0 and am guaranteed some packs, but I can win with some luck.   In the 4th game I play against Jesus from Florida.  He was a nice guy who informed me that he and his wife just welcomed their first girl, congrats Jesus!  This game was against an Eel deck that had 3 Mewtwo in it.  Jesus was not able to get a lot of energies on the field because I kept on knocking out his Eels.  The ending of the game was almost like the opposite of my previous game.  I am able to get a prize lead and Jesus is about to deckout, but I am not able to find another Entei EX when I really needed it, and Jesus ends up winning.  I do still get 5 packs for winning 3 games, but I don’t pull anything good.

After the tournament me and the crew went back to the motel because I wasn’t feeling well.  I immediately went back to the bed and fell asleep.  My buddy James later showed up with some food for me and I started feeling better.  Big thanks to James for that.

So that wraps up my Nationals for this year.  I had a really fun time, especially on the first day.  The concert combined with Day 1 was very fun.  Big thanks to Good Luck Varisty for organizing the concert.  Also big thanks to the judges.  The tournament ran a lot smoother this year than last.  There were a lot of delays on the second day, but that was more due to players playing late into time than anything else.   It kind of sucks that I did poorly in the main event, but did well in the side evemt, but that’s how it goes sometimes.  I finally have my pictures together, I fused them all together in a Youtube movie which you can see below, enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrtpUGnWxg&feature=youtube_gdata[/youtube]

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Pikkdogs Day 1 U.S. Nationals Report

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there.  This is Pikkdogs with a U.S. Nationals report. I will try to paint the picture of the whole event, instead of just giving you a basic report.  On a personal level I did not do a lot of testing for Nationals, so I was not expecting to do well.   I just wanted to go along for the ride and take pictures and stuff to pass on to you guys.  So without further adieu, let us take a look at my report.

An Overview of Nats.

The Convention Center

The Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis was again the site of U.S. Nationals.  If you were at Nats last year, you pretty much know what the decor is.  All of the decorations that we saw last year were back this year.  Maybe a couple of the banners were different, but for the most part the convention center was laid out and decorated the same.  If you don’t know how it was, I will give you a little description.  Most of the events of Nationals happened in  a large ball room type thing.  Small rooms were also rented out across the hall from the Ball Room.  There are a couple rooms dedicated to casual play, and a couple rooms where Troll and Toad and Collector’s Cache have set up stores.  The hallway is where a lot of people hang out, and where some registration lines are.  The ball room is very big. When you first walk in you see the Video Game competition on your right, and then the Junior TCG players on the left.  The left side continues to hold all the TCG players.  On the right side the VGC players give way to an information desk and a couple computers where you can play the game online.  After that is the league area where you can get some trading done, play in league matches, or play in the side events.  Scattered across the ballroom are things like Reshiram Statues, Tepigs in costumes, and different kinds of Pokemon banners.

Overall, the convention center is  a really cool place for an event like this.   It is very big and has a lot of places to grab lunch right next to it.  Its central location in the U.S. also helps draw in a lot of players.  There were about 1500 players in this event, that is the most ever!  Gotta love that.

About Indiana and Other Stuff

Even though the location for Nationals was pretty cool overall, the weather was not.  The official high for Thursday was 104, and it was pretty much the same for the rest of the weekend.  This made it difficult to go anywhere that was not air conditioned.

Things were hot outside, but even hotter were the judges and all the staff.  Big ups to everybody who had a hand in making the tournament run as well as it did.  I got a little flack last year for calling the judges and staff out for the very long delays that we had.  The delays last year were terrible, first we had a repairing during 1st round that cost us about an hour.  Then we had multiple very long waits between rounds.  While there were longer than expected waits between rounds, they were not even near as long as last year.  There were also no re-pairings or hold-ups after pairings were announced.  A big thanks should go to the judges because they did so well.

Decks Being Played

It is very hard to see what is doing well and what everyone is playing, but so far it seems that a lot of people are playing Metadecks.  There are a ton of Darkrai decks, some Terrakion, and some Mew Lock.  Darkrai seemed to be the most popular Pokemon of the day.  There were a lot of variants, but I would say that the most popular variants were ones with Tornadus EX and not a lot of energy removers.  Trainerlock was also a big thing on day 1.  I didn’t play any personally, but there sure were more than I would have thought a couple months ago.  Most of these decks were just Mewlock Variants, so nothing special.

Overall, deck selection at Nationals was fairly boring.  There were a lot of Eel decks, Darkrai, Mewtwo, and Terrakion.  Basically all of the decks that have been meta for the last couple months, so nothing really exciting in that front so far.  Maybe on days 2 and 3 we will see some more exciting decks doing well.

I was kind of disappointed by this because last year we had Reshiphlosion come out of nowhere and be a very very popular deck.  We didn’t see anything really close to this in 2012 so far.  So far, all is going as expected.

My Nationals

Day 0

My nationals trip started out at Noon on Thursday.  I had to work a couple hours in the morning, but then I was able to take 5 hours off and get an early start  to my summer vacation.  One very bad thing about my 5 hour drive down to Indy was that my A/C ran out of juice about an hour into the trip.  This meant that I had to spend the next 4 hours roasting in the car, that was no fun.  But, once I got to Indy things started getting better.  I got into the convention center at about 5:30 and got registered early.  Then I went over to the Troll and Toad shop to sell some old commons for a little bit of cash.  After making my hotel-mates James and Frank wait for like a half an hour, I finally got my money and was able to go to the hotel.  We had a cheap hotel by the airport, but it was actually one of the best cheap hotels I ever have stayed in.  I expected filth and broken things, but this place felt like a moderately good hotel.   I know that I have spent 30 bucks more on hotel rooms than this and still didn’t get a room this nice, so big ups to La Quinta.  After we checked in James and Frank wanted to head back to Indy to get some more play testing done.  I should have gone with them to improve my deck, but I was really tired so I went over to Hardees and got a burger before turning in early.

Day 1

I woke up feeling very nice since I just had a good sleep.  Once I got woken up I went down stairs and found some waffles and bagels for breakfast.  Really good breakfast, it wasn’t the biscuits and gravy of last year’s nationals, but it was pretty close.  After eating lots of food Frank and I traveled downtown to get ready for round 1.  I got to see a lot of cool people before round 1, and was happy to get to chat with a lot of people during the day.  Talking with Adam from Sixprizes was a highlight of the day, I love you man.  I also got to see the war dance of Team Warp Point and Team Hovercats.  I have included the video of this below.  After a short players meeting and a short wait after, we were ready for round 1.  I played Quad Entei, if you wanna see my list, you can look at a very very similar one here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HIxf_Fr2Gs[/youtube]

Round 1 vs Dallon F. with CMT (Maybe)

Dallon was a cool guy that I had never met before, he seemed like a real nice guy.  I start the game by mulliganing three times and starting 2nd, giving your opponent 3 extra cards never helps.  He starts first and flips over a Mewtwo, which is one of the cards that can kill my deck.  He uses a Smeargle for an N and a supporter and ends up attacking the 40.  I N us again and I have more than enough energy and supporters, but I never see an Eviolite.  I also never see a Professor Juniper, PONT is great but if you never see a Juniper losing that extra card each time will eventually catch up with you.  That is what happens in this match-up, I started good but not having the Eviolite, a Juniper, or heads on my Life Herb flips eventually did me in.  The game ends when I can’t get rid of damage counters on my active and he uses a Seeker to end the game.

0-1 – Not mad, Dallon was a cool guy and I didn’t expect to win.  So congrats Dallon, hope you will continue to do well the rest of the weekend.

Round 2 vs CMT vs Rob from New Jersey with Dakrai/Tornadus


This round was against another guy that was very nice.  Before our match he offered me some candy and a Squirtle sticker, which I gave to my buddy James to finish off his collection.  Anybody who gives me candy is good in my book.  This game was a pretty good one.

He starts and flips a Darkrai, which is a good match-up for me.  He ends up using Dual Ball for two Smeargles and ends up using my N like 3-4 times in the first 2 turns.  After our Ning was done, we started trading shots.  He had energy on Darkrai EX and started hitting and spreading.  I was able to heal most of the damage and I am able to get at least one good hit on everything on his field.  The problem was that I wasted my Pokemon Catchers early and did not have the ability to bring them up and actually take prizes.  Right when time is about to be called my opponent has finally ran out of bench space and has to give up prizes.  So, he decides to scoop and I get my first win

 

1-1-  Good game, thanks man. Time for lunch.  I walked over to the mall and hit the food court.  I saw a Chick-Fil-A so I decided to go there and have my first go at this fast food restaurant.  It had some pretty good chicken, but I couldn’t stay there for too long since pairings would soon be up.

Round 3 vs Jackson I. from Ohio and Darkrai/Tornadus/Mewtwo

What’s with my opponent’s and the double thumbs up?

I go all this way to play Jack, who lives about 40 miles from me!  It kind of hurt to play Jack in round 3.  On one hand of course I wanted to win, but on the other I knew that Jack had a much better chance to Top then I did.  I almost thought of scooping, but then I decided to play it out.

Jack starts first with Shaymin and is not able to do much on the first turn.  I had a pretty bad start.  I didn’t have the energies I needed, and I had to use Juniper with a lot of valuable healing trainers in my hand.  I was forced to burn resources for no reason, and that hurt me later.  Jack decides to try Mewtwo EX against me and gets two of them and uses Eviolite on both of them.  This makes it very hard for me to OHKO them.  He doesn’t do a lot of damage, but I run into trouble when I get two tails on Life Herb flips.  No matter how many Junipers I used and resources I burned I could not find a second Entei to keep me in the game, so Jack takes care of my Entei and wins.

1-2– No shame in losing to a great player like Jack.  I just wished that I could have given him  a better game with a better hand.

Round 4 vs guy from Milwaukee with CMT

This is another CMT, man this sucks.  We start the game by talking about weird mascots, and it turns out that he has been to my hometown area  a couple times.  But, the talking time is over and the playing time is here.  I finally get to start first and get a good string of supporters going which gives me everything I need.  He is forced to Juniper a lot of resources away early to keep up with my speed.  He did make up some time when I was forced to use a Max Potion before I was ready, he used Pokemon Catcher well to slow me down.  I get the first Knockout with a Catcher Kill on a Celebi Prime, this lack of energy acceleration ends up hurting him later.  Without energy acceleration and enough Eviolite early enough, his Mewtwos were not able to control the board like they normally do.  He is forced to use Tornadus EX, which is never good against my deck.  I do have a hard time getting 6 prizes and ending up winning the game 3-6 on prizes after turn 3 was over.

2-2 Is not bad.  I was only hoping for about a 500 record, so no matter what happens, I should be almost on my way.

Round 5 vs guy from Chicago with Darkrai/Tornadus/Mewtwo EX

My round 5 opponent

I forgot to take notes on this match so my report for this game will not be very detailed.  This was another game that showed off how good Mewtwo is, and how okay the other two Pokemon are.  We start the game trading damage, I would be okay but I miss a ton of flips on Life Herb and have to give up an Entei.  I am able to recover, but he hits a crucial heads on burn to keep his Darkrai up for a long time.  I keep on holding my own against Darkrais, but he finally draws into a Mewtwo and a Shaymin.  After several Dark Patches he was able to get one boat load of energies on Mewtwo, and I just scoop.

2-3 – Not a great record, but it is what I expected.  I was just happy to be there and enjoy the day. Below is a video of my pictures from both day 1 and day 2.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrtpUGnWxg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

The Afterparty

After a quick trip back to the hotel to get started on this article, the time I have been waiting for had finally arrived, the 2012 After Party.  This is the Good Luck Varsity concert that I had been talking about for a long time.  I got there when things were still setting up and I got to talk more with my buddy Adam from 6P.  It was funny, at one moment we were talking about Ed and my nipple started shaking.  Now my nipple normally shakes when I’m taking to Adam, but this time it was shaking because my phone in my shirt pocket was ringing, and it was Ed calling me.  That was a good coincidence.

Wasim on drums with PK Fire with the Onehitko shirt on.

PK fire was first on stage.  They did a good job considering they were missing some of their band members.  Good Luck Varsity drummer Wasim B.  joined them onstage wearing a Onehitko T-shirt!  They did a fine job and led the way for the next act, Rival Summers.  They did a little more artsy take on Rock and Roll and started to bring the tempo up.  Then all hell started to turn loose when GLV hit the stage and sang their newest single “Lakes”.  The moshing started and didn’t stop for about 45 minutes.  At one time my buddy Frank had lost his trademark stuffed Snake that he wears as a scarf, I tried to get it but was promptly elbowed in the ribs by someone, oh well.  GLV absolutely killed it, I never yelled so hard before without making so little sound, man it was loud.  When they closed the show with “Liars and Thieves” I think the world seemed to stand still.  Awesome show guys,  if the show goes on again next year, I expect to see a lot more people there.

Conclusion

I had a great day on day one.  I will try to do a day 2 report too, so come back tomorrow for that.  This day was great because it was full of Pokemon, music, and friends.  There were so many cool people that I talked to today, so thanks everyone and sorry that I can’t mention all of them.   I had a great time and I am looking for a good day 2 as well.

Preparing for Nationals 2012 – PokeClass Episode 76

Hey everybody at OneHitKO, apologies for this one being a tad late, but should be perfect for those of you already in Indianapolis, testing franticly for Friday’s action. For those of you starting Nationals on Saturday, this episode should be perfect for ironing out any problems in your decks and will help you to test against the field of decks that are already taking over National Championships all over the world!

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHGCRInN6pU[/youtube]
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The Rise of Itemlock at U.S. Nationals?

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there.  You may call me Pikkdogs, or Miss

the design for the 2012 onehitko Nationals shirt

Jackson if you’re nasty.  Today I am here with an article for you.  This article will be about two decks that could be very impactful at U.S. Nationals.  I’m not exactly sure how this article will go, but we’ll just have to see. 

Before we start the article, I got a couple things to go through.  First, this will be my last article before Nationals.  I will be attending Nationals, so if you are going, make sure you stop the fat guy with the onehitko shirt and say hi to him.  Ed just informed me that I will be selling Onehitko shirts for 5 bucks (which is the cost of the shirt, again Pikkdogs doesn’t make any money), and I will be handing out business cards.  Which is ridiculous because if we are a “business”. then Oscar Meyer Hot Dogs are made out of “Pork”, Pamela Anderson’s boobs are “natural,” and Ryan Seacrest has a “girl friend”.  But anyway I guess I have some cards to hand out, for some reason. 

 If you are not going, I will try to keep you guys informed about what is going on.  To keep updated you can follow me on Twitter and check the site each night for my daily report.  Last year I did have some problems with getting Twitter to work inside the convention center.  But, I do have a better phone now and I will try to tweet more, so follow me on Twitter, my username is “pikkdogs”.   Me and my buddy James might try to get some video going, but there is a lot going so don’t hold your breath if it doesn’t get posted right away. Read More

Top Ten Decks for Nationals

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there.  It may be hard to believe, but we are just days away from U.S. Nationals 2012.  This is the big one folks.  No, it may not be the most important tournament of the year, but it is sure the biggest one.  So as you guys are packing your swimming suit, underwear, and extra pounds of bacon (or is that just me?) make sure to take a quick second to look at my article at the top 10 decks to watch out for at Nats.  Yes I am just a fat guy who never wins anything, but maybe I’ll surprise even myself and tells you something that might help you at Nats.  But first, let us welcome my extra-dimensional sidekick Pedro.  Hey Pedro!

Hey Pikkdogs. 

                For your news article today Pedro, since it is the anniversary of the death of one of my heros, will you please talk about him.

Okay, no problem.  Today is the anniversary of the death of one of Pikkdog’s heroes.  Liberace was a very gifted pianist-

-No, Not Liberace.

Well, I thought because of the way you dress you might be a Liberace fan. 

No I’m not a Liberace fan.  Try again.

Okay, I think I got it this time.  Today we mourn the death of Emperor Caligula.  Caligula was the Roman Emperor who was known for participating in wild orgies-

No,  Caligula is not my hero either.

I thought you are one that would appreciate a crazy emperor who is drunk with power that regularly throws orgies. 

No.

Well, I would talk about Cher, Richard Simmons, and Elton John; but they aren’t dead yet. 

None of those people are my heroes, and stop with the gay jokes.  I was talking about Smedly Butler.

Oh of course.  Wait, whose Smedly Butler?

He was a marine-

And you said stop with the gay jokes.

I don’t  like him just because he was a man in uniform.

So you do like a man in uniform. I always thought all those pictures of girls with nice boobs were just cases of over compensation. 

Not what I was trying to say.    Smedly Butler was a marine who served during the early part of the 20th century.  He served in the Phillipines and in France during the First World War.  For his service he became the most highly decorated soldier of his time.  After the wars he began serving in what would today be known as the CIA.  There, he did things like assassinate foreign leaders for the benefit of the U.S. government  and U.S. businesses.  He was also offered the job as a figure head leader of the United States in the Business Plot, which was a coup attempt to make the U.S. a Facist government in the 1930s.  But, Butler decided to change his life and reported the Coup attempt to the media, and then became a speaker against U.S. imperialism and a peace advocate.

So he was a crazy guy that thought that someone was going to overthrow the president.  I would think that Liberace would be a better hero for you. 

Well that was a disaster.  Let’s please just move on and go to the article.

Ten Decks to Watch Out For at U.S. Nationals

                10.    Triple V/Mew Lock

Mewlock is the oldest deck in this list, but it could be perhaps the fastest rising deck of them all.  Kyle “Pooka” Sucevich ran this deck in a Battle Roads a couple weeks ago, and that started a fair amount of buzz for this deck.  That momentum should carry into Nationals.  You might also see this deck without Mew, and the actual Vanilluxe.  But, the idea is the same.

What to Watch Out For– Mew Lock is a slow moving deck that can easily come back from 5 prizes down to win, it is the comeback kid.  It works by Lost Zoning Vanilluxe and Unfezant BW, and then using Mew Prime to use their attacks.  The player first uses “Double Freeze” to paralyze the defending Pokemon and slowly chipping away at HP.  Then you use “Fly” to knockout the defending Pokemon and prevent an attack for next turn.  Vileplume is also in this deck to make sure that you can’t heal paralysis.

How to Beat it–  The deck is the most vulnerable early.  If you start the game fast and use Pokemon Catcher to take out Oddishes, you should be able to stop the deck before it starts.  If you do not take out the Vileplume line before your opponent sets up, you will basically be trapped until your opponent misses some coin flips.

Link to ListHere is the link to my Mewlock Deck from Cities.  There are some changes I would make to update it.  Most decks would not run Relicanth or the other fire Victini.  Most decks just run Mew to put people in the Lost Zone.

9.  Quad EX Decks

No two Quad EX decks are the same, so it is hard to stick them all into one category, but they are not all that different.  You may see Quad Groudon EX, Quad Entei EX, or Quad Kyurem EX.  Those are probably just the most popular Quad decks, you could see even more variants.  These decks are very simple and use trainers to get the most out of EX Pokemon.  They are also fairly quick and fast recovering.

What to Watch Out For–  These guys will take three turns to setup, but then they will do consistent damage of 90-120.  Usually these decks include Eviolite, Potion, and the combo of Max Potion and Energy Switch to keep their Pokemon alive for a longer period of time.  Once you do finally get a knock-out they will use Exp. Share to transition from one attacker to another.

How to Beat it–  Trainerlock and energy removal are good things to use against these decks.  As an attacker, you should Eviolite an EX that can do a lot of damage.  Most quad decks are ok at getting 2HKOs, but 3HKOs might give you an advantage.  If you play along with these decks and keep them in the game, you could very well lose a very close game in the end.

Link to ListHere is the link to my Entei EX list I ran at my last Battle Roads.

8.  Zoroark Decks

While I like to take all dark decks and group them together-

-Does that make you a racist?

I’m not sure, but to be sure I will split them up in this article.  Zoroark decks are known as more budget forms of the Darkrai EX decks that did so well at Spring Battle Roads.  But, they are fast decks that can do a lot of damage, so they are serious decks that you need to take!!!!well!!!seriously.

What to Watch Out For– Zoroark decks contain a lot of Darkness Pokemon and want to use Zoroarks swarm like attack to do a lot of damage.  These decks also use trainers like Dark Patch and Dark Claw to do a lot of damage fast.  These decks are not fancy, they  will just be doing a lot of damage to the active quickly.

How to Beat it– These decks don’t have the energy removal that Darkrai/Tornadus decks do, so if you just rush them with fighting Pokemon you should be okay.  If you don’t play and fighting Pokemon make sure to use Pokemon Catcher to get a knockout each turn.  Even if you don’t take out a Zoroark each turn, just taking out a Darkness Pokemon is good enough to limit the damage potential of the deck.   If you can use Pokemon Catcher effectively you should have a good shot at taking the win.

Link to List Here is the link to Ed’s budget Zoroark deck.  If you wanna run it just put in Pokemon Catchers and stuff like that.

7.  Durant

I feel safe in predicting that almost nobody will play Heatmor DE in their nationals decks.  So, anybody who plays Durant will not be making a bad choice.  This deck did very well during Cities season, and should have fairly similar match-ups during Nationals.  Durant may not have as much player support as it did several months ago, but that doesn’t mean Durant decks shouldn’t have an okay go at Nationals.

What to Watch Out For– Of course Durant is a very fast deck that will be milling 4 cards per turn starting turn 1.  This will make it very hard for you to setup any kind of complicated deck, because your opponent will be discarding your resources.  Your only hope is that you can start OHKOing Durants very quickly, or you can get setup quickly.  Also, watch out for energy removal, Durant decks will try to take out your energy.  If you need three energies to attack you could be in trouble.

How to Beat it–  Hit it for weakness or find a way to consistently hit it for about 100 damage with an attack that only costs 1-2 energies.  Make sure to use basic energies instead of special energies, much harder to remove.  Also, using 2 Super Rods or something like that will help you refresh your resources after they are discarded.  Also, don’t put down more than 1 Pokemon if you don’t need to.  Durant decks rarely do damage, and if they do you will see it coming.  If you put down other Pokemon they will be Catchered up in an attempt to stall you.

Link to ListHere is a link to our buddy Airhawk’s Durant deck on www.sixprizes.com.

6.  Klingklang EX

Klingklang EX is a deck that was popularized by Onehitko.com’s own TAndrewT.  It uses Klingklang BW to move energy between a bunch of EX Pokemon.  It is a deck that can take advantage of almost any weakness, and a deck that is hard to disrupt since almost any Pokemon can retreat for free because of Darkrai EX.  It is a little slow but it is a deck that is very hard to beat once it is setup.

What to Watch Out For–                The Klingklang player can hit almost any Pokemon for weakness, which makes it hard to beat.  So, watch out for Pokemon that can OHKO you, it could happen quickly with energy switching.  It is also important to OHKO your opponent, since it is easy to use Max Potion in a Klingklang deck.

How to Beat it–  Trainerlock can hurt it early, but you don’t need trainerlock to beat it.  It is most vulnerable early on, so make sure to target the Klingklang line so that they can’t setup.  Also, make sure to include some Lost Removers so you can get rid of the Rainbow and Prism energies, those make things a lot easier for the Klingklang player.  You can also take advantage of weakness, if your opponent drops anything that you can hit for weakness, use your Pokemon Catchers to get it active.   A fire deck will do well against Klingklang, because it is fire weak.

Link to ListHere is the article in which TAndrewT unveiled the Klingklang EX deck.

5.  Quad Terrakion

Quad Terrakion has evolved from a counter deck that was used at States, to a deck that is well rounded enough to become an actual deck.  Give It three turns and it should be able to use cards like Exp. Share to keep the 90 damage coming turn after turn.  It also can hit almost all lightning and dark Pokemon for weakness, that means that it can OHKO some of the best Pokemon around.  This deck may not be the most impressive on paper, but if it is sitting across from you, watch out it is a serious deck.

What to Watch Out For– Plan on it doing 90 damage each turn, so don’t think that you might be able to take it slow just because you can get a KO this turn.   Look out for energy removal, these decks do have those energy disruption cards in here, so take it easy with the special energies.  Finally, look for Ruins of Alph, just because you have Tornadus EX in your deck doesn’t mean that you can hide behind your resistance.

How to Beat it–  Becareful who you knockout and use Pokemon Catcher to bring up low energy Terrakions.  Make sure to manage the amount of energy on the field, if you can take energy off the field you will start to starve the Terrakions.  And, remember to never KO a Pokemon if you are not ready for the 90 HP next turn.  Another good strategy is to use Crushing Hammer to remove energies, energies are very important to this deck, if you take them away they will be trapped in a corner.

Link to ListHere is an article that has a fighting/Terrakion list in it.  Its at the bottom of the article.

4.  CMT

                With the success of Darkrai over Zekrom, CMT is now starting to crawl back into the championship picture.  CMT has been successful since States, and it is simply the fastest most disruptive deck out there.

What to Watch Out For– Mewtwo EX can take out any evolution line easily in the first few turns, so you will need luck to beat it with an evolution deck.  Mewtwo EX can also hit those Quad decks for a lot of damage if it gets a lot of DCE on it.  Don’t forget about Celebi Prime, it can not only provide energy acceleration early, but it can help add an extra energy late game if needed.

How to Beat it–  The best way to beat CMT decks is to tech a couple of your own Mewtwo EXs in to your decks and return “X-Ball” KOs with an “X-Ball”  of your own.  Using Lost Remover on those DCEs is almost important in keeping the damage down from Mewtwo.

Link to ListHere is the CMT list I tried for testing.

          3.  Troll

                Troll, a deck that consists of Terrakion, Tornadus, and Mewtwo EX, is my pick to win it all this year.  It can hit for weakness on a lot of decks, and is just really consistent.  I don’t usually like decks that are made to counter popular decks, but this one just seems to work.  I love the fact that this deck usually uses Super Scoop Up when it gets into dangerous situations, love that card.  Troll is just a very well balanced deck that gets a good advantage over most of the decks in the format.

What to Watch Out For– Troll can hit a lot of decks for weakness, so if you can hide weak Pokemon do so.  This deck likes to start Tornadus and then get energy spread apart on the field.  This makes the deck very versatile, so watch out for attacks out of nowhere.  Troll players are usually really good and very calculating, if you play Troll you might have to match wits with a very good player.  Also, if you play CMT look out for the Mewtwo EX drops out of nowhere.

How to Beat it–  It is very hard to beat Troll because it is a very diverse deck.  If you play a lightning deck, they will never drop down the lightning weak Tornadus, but will try to make you beat all of the Terrakions.  So it will be very hard to hit for weakness, you just have to put on your thinking caps and try to out think the Troll player.  Just try to make your deck run the best way possible without playing into the Troll players hand.

Link to ListHere is my try at a Troll deck.

 2.  Zekrom and Eels/ Eel Box

                Zek/Eels was once the #1 deck, but Darkrai proved that it could win the most decks during Spring Battle Road season.  Does that mean that Zekrom is inferior to Darkrai?  No, Spring Battle Roads will be nothing like Nationals.  I will not be the least surprised if Darkrai decks do poorly and Eel decks take the top spots.

One note here, I am grouping the Zekrom deck and the Eel Box deck together.  This means that this category includes everything from Zekrom to Terrakion, as long as the deck has an Eelektrik in it.

What to Watch Out For– Zekrom decks are most aggressive offensive decks out there.  They can easily hit for 150 damage without much thought.  They are also very high on recovery, those lightning energies are like boomerangs, they just keep coming back onto the field of play.  If you want to beat this deck you need to dodge attacks that can hit for weakness and Pokemon that can hide behind their own resistance.  Eelektrik is  a major part of decks that have really good Pokemon in them, those decks are hard hitting and very consistent.

How to Beat it–  Eel decks are susceptible early game.  If you can do 40 damage on turn one you do have a good chance of donking a Tynamo.  If you can’t get the donk, you can always use Pokemon Catcher to knock out a Tynamo or Eelektrik before its owner gets full use out of it.  As long as your opponent cannot attack you right away, you should be able to knock out those Eels before they really do what they are supposed to do.  Fighting Pokemon are also hard for this deck to beat, you might see Zapdos or Tornadus EX to fight against the fighting Pokemon.  You should be able to outclass the Zapdos, and make sure to include Ruins of Alph to make Tornadus beatable.

Link to List Here is the decklist I use for testing.

  1. Darkrai/Tornadus EX

Darkrai/ Tornadus EX is the hottest deck out right now.  It is the deck that everybody is talking about.  It won a lot more Battle Roads than almost any other deck.  It is a fairly quick deck that can attack quick and do a lot of disruption to you.  Look out for energy removal cards and Weavile UD, these cards could screw up any strategy that you have going.

What to Watch Out For– Look out for energy disruption, make sure you have a reliable way to get energy back from the discard because you will need it.  Also, watch out for Darkrai sniping your bench for 30, they could be setting you up for an OHKO next turn.  You may want to not drop a Pokemon until you absolutely need it.  Most decks like this also run Sableye, so watch out for them getting their trainer cards back.  Finally, watch out for trainers like Dark Claw and Dark Patch, these make the deck harder hitting and easy recovering.

How to Beat it– There are some things you can do to beat Darkrai decks.  One, they do not really like trainerlock, so that is an idea.  Make sure to run plenty of Ns, you don’t want your opponent to use those item cards they just got back with Sableye.    This deck does not do a whole heck of a lot of damage, so if you have a hard hitting deck you should be able to go toe to toe with it and win if you can avoid the disruption.  And finally, watch out for Weavile Ud.  You should be able to use Pokemon Catcher on Sneasel to avoid having to discard an important card.

Link to ListHere is a link to the deck that won Nationals in the great Country of Finland. Thanks go to our brothers from www.thedeckout.com for that one.

 

Conclusion

Well, that’s all I got to say.  Just to let you know, I know that I will be wrong on some of these choices.  There will probably be some popular deck choices that I didn’t talk about, but these should be some of the most popular ones.  Also, make sure to watch out for rogue decks, I have a feeling that a Mismagius deck could hit the scene and do some damage.  Make sure you are ready for anything, not just the ten decks that some jerk like me comes up with.

Pedro, it is now time for you to wrap this thing up.  Since I did a top 10 article, why don’t you carry on the tradition of doing a David Letterman style top 10 list?

Okay.  Today’s Top Ten List is the Top Ten Reasons That you will be late for U.S. Nationals

Number  10.  You stayed in your car too late because you were jamming out to “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen. 

No shame there.  She is one cute Canadian.

Number  9.  You stayed in your motel too late because you were making out with your girlfriend, wait nevermind you’re a Pokémon player. 

He’s offensive, but not wrong.

Number  8.  Your hotel offered free Biscuits and Gravy. 

That was me last year.

Number  7.  You waited too long to get screwed in the Troll and Toad selling line.

Too be fair, they do have overhead.

Overhead? That sounds like something that happens in an orgy (by the way, this is the third use of the word “orgy” in this article.  I have a feeling this article will soon get censored).  Number 6.   You got lost in the Convention Center trying to find out where they sell those little balls of ice cream. 

Those are some amazing little balls.

That’s what she said.  Number 5.  You overslept because your roommate stayed up late watching “Weird Sex” on tv. 

Did you see that one where that guy makes out with his car?  That was quite the episode. 

The number 4 reason you will be late for U.S. Nationals is that your car broke down  because you thought that it could run on Double Colorless Energy after you ran out of gas. 

It seems like a sound principle.

Number 3.  You were late because you bought a Dark Explorers box from Troll and Toad and had to pull all 5 of your Kyorgre EXs. 

That’s me.

Number 2.  You spent the entire night rocking out to Good Luck Varsity,Rival Summers , and PK Fire at the 2012 Unofficial Pokémon Nationals Afterparty. 

Party on Wayne.

Party on Garth.  And the Number 1 Reason you are going to be late for 2012 US Nationals is!!!!!!..  f***ing road construction. 

Nice Job.  Good night everybody.

EelZone: The Thunderrated Nats Deck

I think I’ve lost my spot in Tier One.

Hey, it’s me, coolestman22 again. I’m trying to get a couple deck analysis articles in before Nats, so those of you who are going can see more options than just Darkrai/Tornadus and Zekeels.

As you guessed from the title, the deck I’m going to be reviewing is EelZone, a deck that I feel is extremely underrated.

EelZone’s history is that it was the BDIF during Cities. It had the most wins of any deck, and had good matchups against everything not Donphan.

EelZone was hyped to be good against EX’s. If you Lost Burned 4 energy you drew 2 prizes, so if you did that three times, you would win only using  Magnezone instead of having to attack with other Pokemon.

The problem is that Magnezone is a Stage Two, and it’s hard to set up. Mewtwo Read More

Double Mini Article: Traveling with Friends and U.S. Nationals Tips

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there.  This is Pikkdogs here with a two part article for you.  The first part of the article will be about traveling for Pokemon, and the second part will have some tips for U.S. Nationals.  I know it’s a weird combination, but I am a weird person, so it all works out.  Before we get going, let’s throw it over to my sidekick Pedro for some news.  How you doing Pedro?

 Oh doing well.

What do you got us today?

Well today is the anniversary of the resignation of the office of Secretary of State in 1915 by William Jennings Bryant.  He resigned because he thought that President Woodrow Wilson was leading the nation into the war that we would come to know as World War I.  Do you like the William Jennings Bryant Pikkdogs?

Oh yeah, love the William Jennigns Bryant.  He isn’t my favorite politician, but he is up there.  He was cool because he fought for democratic principles and he was against war.  He seemed like he really cared about people.  In fact his nickname was the Great Commoner.

That’s outrageous, a politician who cares about people?  That’s ridiculous, that’s like a Kardashian that cares about hair removal. 

Yes it does sound weird.

Bryant was a supporter for prohibition, do you like the prohibition?

No, he was probably wrong there.  I don’t think you should take liberties away from people……….and I like Whiskey.

Though we should probably stop talking about William Jennings Bryant, it has been done to death on Pokemon sites.  Just last week Pokemon Dan was talking on and on about William Jennings Bryant and Populism, we should do something different. 

I guess.  We hear was too much about William Jennings Bryant on Six Prizes already, let’s just get onto the article.

Traveling for Pokemon

I’m  not really sure how I want to frame this part of the article.  I want to talk about traveling with other people to Pokemon events, but I don’t really have a format in mind.  I guess I will just talk about my experience and go from there.

Having a reliable means of transportation is important, whether you ride a chopper, drive a Camry, or an 82 Buick; it doesn’t really matter.  The only thing that matters is that you can legally make it to the tournament.  If you do not have a vehicle, it is very important for you to travel with others.  Whether you have a car or not, traveling with friends to events is important.

When you travel with friends to events you usually can hit up more events then you could by yourself.  This is because most Pokemon players usually have some kind of budgetary restraints.  If a couple people can come together can pool their money together they can find a way to hit up more tournaments, and more tournaments mean more chances at winning and becoming a better player.  I  am originally from a rural area of the U.S. and where I come from teams of card players form for the purpose of traveling together, because tournaments are usually very far away.  Traveling with friends is nice because it  gives you time to talk more about your deck and do more testing, and that always is a good thing. However, there are challenges that comes with traveling in a group.

One challenging thing about traveling with a group of players is that there is always a good chance that somebody will top cut.  If you are not the guy who is top cutting, you could be standing around for hours waiting for your partner to finish.

Something you know a lot about Pikkdogs.

Ahhh, I see what you did there.  Anyway, another challenging thing is that it is very hard to equally share gas money.  Usually the person who is driving ends up paying the greatest share for gas, which doesn’t seem right since they are providing the vehicle.  There are other challenges that can arise when traveling with other players, but as long as you only travel with friends you should be okay.

Even though there are bad parts to traveling with other players, I personally do think that it is a very good thing.  Originally when I started the game I always traveled alone.  As I began to meet more people and make more friends, I started to travel more with friends.  I find that for the most part it makes Pokémon tournaments more enjoyable.  It is especially more enjoyable when a bunch of players can travel far and get a motel room.  This leads to a lot more testing and usually some good delivery pizza.  One good rule of thumb when traveling with a group is if you go to a motel, never sleep in a bath tub.  Although it may seem cool and comfortable, it is inevitable that sometime during the night somebody will turn the facet on and get you wet, which is not as fun as it sounds.

That is really all I can say about traveling for Pokemon.  It is is usually a good thing to travel with others, so if you haven’t done it, you should.  I know you guys out there have some good traveling stories, so please leave those in the comment section, it should be fun to read those.

Nationals Tips

Believe it or not,  Nationals is just under 2 weeks away.  Although I have only been to Nationals once, I do have some tips about Nats for you first timers.  So let’s start those

Food

Of course the most important part of any event is the food.  While you will be on your own for Breakfast and Dinner, you will need to find your lunch downtown during the event.  There are a lot of places downtown that are good for lunch, but it can be hard to find a place if you don’t know what is around.  You usually have about an hour for lunch, so you do have some time to take a walk around and find some places outside of the convention center.  My first tip is to stay away from anything sit-down.  There are a lot of fancy restaurants downtown that are really expensive, so stay with something more fast food like.  There is a Steak and Shake next door, but unless you are lucky you will have to wait in line for a long time since it is very busy.  Last year Ed liked to hit the bagel shop (it was an Einstein’s I think) just a couple blocks away, it was actually a fairly decent place for lunch.  But, the best place to go for lunch is the food court in the mall.  If you walk around the streets just outside the convention center you should see signs for a mall, just follow those signs and you will eventually find a mall and a food court (I believe it is on like the 3rd floor).  Last year I enjoyed getting some Chinese food and some Root Beer from A&W.  There are a lot of places to choose from, so everyone in your group can choose what they want.  You should be able to take your time eating at the mall, and still make it back to the convention center in plenty of time.

Parking

Whenever you have an event in an urban area parking will be a bitch, it is just a fact of life.  It is actually not too  bad in Indy.  There are several parking garages in the area, some for the mall and others just for general downtown use.  Most of those will charge you at least 10 bucks a day for parking.  Last year the best place for parking was next door at Lucas Oil Stadium.  Yes, the house that Peyton built is where you wanna be.  I don’t know what it will be this year, but last year they only charged us 5 bucks a day for parking.  Security wasn’t a huge problem either, they seemed to have people watching the lot.  I wouldn’t leave my gold bars in the back window, but it seemed fairly safe.

Hotels

Of course it is best to be at a hotel downtown.  You normally can find a decent deal on a hotel room that is connected to the convention center.  This saves you a lot of worries, because you don’t have to deal with driving back and forth to and from downtown each day.  You still may have to worry about paying for parking, but at least you don’t have to move your car each day.  But, I still think that the best deal is a cheap hotel room on the outskirts of town.  Even though you will have to drive in each day, it is still a heck of a lot cheaper than paying for a hotel room downtown.   If you book early you can sometimes get a decent room for 40 bucks a night!  And no the room won’t be that great, but this is Pokemon, you shouldn’t expect to be living the high life.  Cheap hotel rooms are usually where they are at.  Last year I loved our room because we got free biscuits and gravy, I sometimes still wake up and fantasize about biscuits and gravy.

Are “biscuits and gravy” what you call your testicles?

Of course.

Miscellaneous Tips

The first miscellaneous tip is to bring snacks and water to the convention center.  Snacks and Drinks at the convention center are usually marked up about 300%, so you might not want to waste your money.  Make sure to bring a small bag and stick some drinks and snacks in there, you will surely need it later.  A second tip is to wear comfy shoes.  Nationals will give you about 8 straight hours where you are on your feet.  Sure you do sit down when you are playing, but most of the time you will be waiting for the next rounds parings to be put up.  And while you are waiting you are likely to be walking around the convention center looking at everything that is going on.  One bad thing about the convention center being so big is that it takes a lot of energy to move around.  At the end of the day last year I was really tired and my feet hurt really bad.  I didn’t have the best shoes on, but they were fairly comfortable, yet my feet were still killing me.  So make sure to make sure to prepare for a long day on your feet.

And finally, make sure you guys make it to the Unofficial Pokemon Nationals Afterparty.  It is at 1850 S. East Street in Indianapolis at 7:30 on Friday.  The concert will have performances by Good Luck Varsity, Rival Summers, and PK Fire.  So after you go 6-0 in the Swiss Rounds on Friday, head over to see some of the coolest Indy Rock bands in the Midwest play in Indy.  It will be a good time, so make sure to plan your schedule ahead of time.

That’s all I really got for Nationals tips.  I hope you guys will be able to make it, and I know that you guys will have a fun time.  What kinda stuff do you got for us to end the article Pedro?

Well, Foxnews.com is reporting that a jar of anti-freckle cream has been found on the island of Nikumarroro in the South Pacific, which is a clue that Amelia Earhardt might have crashed there on her last flight.

We all know that she was not left on a deserted island, we all know from Star Trek: Voyager that she was abducted by aliens and then put in stasis and taken to the Delta Quadrant. 

No. The only thing we learned from Star Trek: Voyager was that putting Jerri Ryan in a tight jumpsuit will give you three extra seasons.  That was a great jumpsuit, can we see a picture of it?

Nice. You know you’ve been showing a lot of pictures of boobs lately.

Yeah that is kinda what I do.

Well, I have a picture of you with a lot of wieners for payback.  Show the pictures of Pikkdogs with a lot of wieners. 

That was one of my favorite days, so many wieners.  Good night everybody.

2012 Unofficial Pokemon Nationals After Party Contest!!!! Free Tickets to a Concert with Good Luck Varisty, PK Fire, and Rival Summers

A big hello to all you OHKOers out there. 

Nationals last year was great, but it just was missing some rock and roll.  That will not be the case this year.

I am here to confirm to you that there will be a Pokemon Nationals After Party this year.  On Friday June 29th, the first official day of Nats, there will be a concert after the Swiss rounds are over.  It will be held just a couple miles away from the convention center at the local VFW.  Here is the exact address: 1850 South East Street, Indianapolis, IN 46225.  It is just a little jaunt from the convention center, and the concert will start soon after Swiss Rounds end (officially scheduled to start somewhere around 7:30 local time).

The concert will be headlined by some of the craziest and most attractive indy rock bands from the midwest.  Here are the bands that will play:

  • Good Luck Varsity.  Here is their link, here is a link to my favorite GLV song.
  • PK Fire.  Here is their link, and here is a link to an episode of the Noozles.  Sorry PK Fire, but I couldn’t find a good video out there, you guys have the best name, that should count for something.
  • Rival SummersHere is their link, and here is the link to my favorite RS song.

There will be a $3 cover charge that will be used to cover the rental of the venue.  This is a really cheap cost to join what will be a very cool event. 

I shall be there, it is sure to be a good time for all involved.  It will be nice to get a chance to connect with all different people from the Pokemon world and blow off a little bit of steam.  I know these bands are really cool and it should be a great time.

So make sure you guys plan to have a ride to the VFW right after Swiss rounds are over.  Mark your calendar now, cause it should be a great time.

Contest

Sure the tickets are cheap, but why not party on the tab of Pikkdogs?  To help promote the concert and as a part of my ongoing 200th article celebration, I will give away a pair of tickets to each of the six winners of our 2012 Nationals After Party Contest.

Here are the rules.  The contest will be open until 11:59 PM on May 15th, 2012.  The contest is open to everyone except me and Ed.  Everybody can play and win, but obviously you will have to be in Indianapolis for Nationals to redeem your tickets. You can enter multiple times, but you may only win once.

So here is what you need to do to enter the contest.  The way to win this contest is to send an email to me (pikkdogs@onehitko.com) and answer only one of the questions below.  Entries that answer more than 1 question will not be entered into the contest.  There will only be one winner for each answer, and the first person to answer the question wins that prize.  If you answer a question and are the first one to do so, you cannot be wrong, just as long as you write something like “Answer #2: Chris Webber”, you will win.  The final requirement is that the subject title on the email be “OnehitKO Contest Answer”.  So all you have to do is be the first one to answer one of the questions below, and have “OnehitKO Contest Answer” in the subject line of an email to “pikkdogs@onehitko.com” and you will win.  Here are the questions:

1.  What do you like most about the Noozles?

2.  Why do you think Pedro and Tom Bosley are enemies?

3.  What is the thing you like least about the philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard.

4.  Who would you like to see Pikkdogs interview next?

5.  What is your favorite band of all the bands that will play at the Nationals After Party?

6.  What food is better to have while shopping for furniture than meatballs?

 

So all you guys gotta do is be the first to answer one of these questions, and I will buy you two tickets for the 2012 Pokemon Nationals Unofficial After Party with Good Luck Varsity, PK Fire, and Rival Summers.  So get those emails out as fast as possible, and if you win I will send you an email that will ask you for your name, and those will go on a list that will get you in free to the concert.

So Long and Thanks for all the fish.

A Look at Two National Championships

Hey all of you at OHKO! Today, I bring you two of my episodes covering everything about the past two weeks in both Canada and the US.

Canadian Nationals Recap:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”390″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHut4q91Ck[/youtube]

This episode covers all of the very interesting results we received from Canada two weekends ago. We have a very nice range of decks making the Top 16 and I go over some of the most interesting ones.
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