Rockford IL City Championships '07
Took place on Saturday, January 6th
Photo by JOHN F. ELBERS II | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
"About 80 Pokemon players took part in the citywide Pokémon
Championship,
sponsored Saturday by Tomorrow is Yesterday, at North Suburban Woman’s
Club in Loves Park."
Oh my GOSH we had a great time at our City Championships this year!! What a wonderful turnout too! We finished up with a grand total of 84 players!! 50 in the Masters Division, 24 in the Senior Division, and 10 in the Junior Division!
We had players come from as far as the Minneapolis area, LaCrosse area, Green Bay area, Iowa, IL, WI,... all over! This event had the feel of a mini-Regionals for sure! Some of the very best players in all the land were with us, truly an exciting and high level event! We also had a LOT of brand new players to the game! I assigned a total of 13 new POP ID numbers! It was actually a pretty close call because I only had one number left until my next batch arrives, which is scheduled for next week. But all worked out just fine!
The newsmedia was of course there, and we had WTVO Ch 17 do a great piece on our event, including a brief interview with the reigning World Champ, Jason K. Also WREX Ch 13 was there, and the Rockford Register Star once again gave us fantastic coverage, with mention on the top left front page, and full length, full cover article on the front page of the Local & State section. Great pics and a well done article as well. Here's a link to the Online version of it, although admittedly it's not quite as impressive as the paper version, which looks even better! None-the-less, you can check out that article here:
Click here for the Rockford Register Star News Article, printed 1/7/07
Things got started pretty much on time, just a minor table number delay for the Senior and Junior Divisions, but then the festivities began. After the first round we only had about 10 minutes before the time the pizzas were to arrive, so we decided to break for lunch then rather than starting up Round 2 and chance the pizzas getting cold (or distracting the players still playing) when they arrived. In came 25 pizzas on these nice delivery carts, all fresh and hot from Little Caesars. I also brought out trays of my homemade cookies (26 dozen chocolate chip and sugar cookies) and punch. Everyone seemed to enjoy the free lunch. :)
Behind this table you can see we had our TV and VCR playing Pokemon movies
for the kids to watch in between rounds. At this table we also had blank
Pokemon card and Trainer card activity papers with lots of crayons. They
loved watching the movies and coloring!
But right now, the little kids loved the pizza, cookies and punch!
Actually I think everyone did!
Wait, did you say there's more?!
Brandon loves his pizza!
OK! On with Round 2! Prof Keny hands out the Match slips...
The Junior group gets started.
Photo by JOHN F. ELBERS II | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
"Missy Creel, 7, of Loves Park keeps her eyes on her Pokémon
match Saturday."
The Senior group playing
An epic battle in the Masters... Dustin vs Dustin
Relaxing in between rounds...
84 players fit fine with the new table arrangement.
Our Juniors anxiously await the announcement of the Top 2 Players
Top 2, Clark S (above)came in 2nd
Our Junior winner, Michael M
Phot by JOHN F. ELBERS II | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
"Danielle Lesky, 11, of LaCrosse, Wis., faces off with Keenan Wilson,
13, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Saturday at North Suburban Woman's Club in Loves Park."
Our Senior group awaiting the door prize dice roll game...it was fun,
we layed out all the door prizes on the table, then rolled the dice. The
numbers rolled first got to pick what they wanted first...until everyone
got to go home with something.
Top 2 match for the Seniors, Mike L (left) vs James F (right)
James F takes 1st Place for the Senior Div
His 3rd CC medal this season!
After the main event, (during the Top Cuts for the Masters) the Super
Smash Bros Melee Tourney got started.
There were a total of 20 players entered.
(I'll have a video link here shortly for the top match between Billy and
Dusty P-R.)
Meanwhile...
Top 4 Masters Div
Jason vs David (left) and Tom vs Kevin (right)
Then Top 2...
Jason K vs Tom S
Jason K(current World Champion) remains on top of his game and takes 1st.
Casey S gets a Free Pre Pass into our next Prerelease, Power Keepers on
Feb 4th
The Judging Staff for TIY would like to thank all of you for coming.
Keny B, Devin P-R (Head Judge), Camille P-R (PTO), and Eric E
It was a long day (note the clock), over 12 hours after we arrived.
Time to clean up and go home!
Ok, here's the info you really want to know!
The winners were as follows:
*TIY players in Red
(Total 84 players)
Jr Div - 10 players
1st: Michael M - Algonquin IL
2nd Clark S
3rd Ben D
4th Benjamin M
Sr Div - 24 players
1st James F - Rockford IL
2nd Mike L
3rd Nathan P
4th Imran K
Masters Div - 50 players
1st Jason K (current World Champion)
2nd Tom S
3rd David S
4th Kevin B
Side Event winner:
1st - Tracy M -MN
2nd - Justin H
3rd - John D
4th - Casey S
SSBM winner:
1st -Dusty P-R
2nd - Billy O
3rd/4th - Dustin N/Jessica L-N
Hope you all had a great time and we look forward to seeing you all come to our Power Keepers Prerelease on Sun Feb 4th!
If you have any questions, comments, or pictures you'd like to submit to us, feel free to contact me!
(For other MW area City Championships dates and locations, click here)
