Archived IL State Championships 07

Here are the Results for the IL State Championships
held in Rockford IL Sat, March 3rd!
Where: Forest Hills Lodge of Loves Park Hwys 173 & 251, Rockford (Loves Park) IL 61111

Hosted by yours truly, Camille "PokeMama" and our favorite gaming store, Tomorrow Is Yesterday.
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(click the logo above for information from Pokemon Organized Play about the State Championships events)

We had a Wonderful turnout, despite a raging blizzard on Friday for several of those who were coming. We ended up with a total of 111 players...23Juniors (wow! That was such a surprise!), 23 Seniors, and 65 Masters. Just a point of interest, Last year's IL States had 79 players and Regionals had 99... and our States had 111 this year, dealing with some unfortuante weather.I'll post more complete details about the event a little later, but for now, here's ...

The Rockford Register Star came and did a great write up. We had an almost full page article on the first page of the Local section. Here's a link to the Rockford Register Star's online article, although it doesnt' show all the pictures in it that the actual paper had. Here are rest of the pictures from that article:

Abby Feehan, 9, (left) waits for her opponent (Clark S) to finish his turn.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Becky Noteboom holds her Pokémon cards while she competes in the senior division.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Jessica Lucas-Nihei plays against Cory Goff.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Karol Nowak, 11, watches as his opponent takes a turn during the first round of competition in the Illinois State Pokémon Championships held Saturday in Loves Park. Nowak, who won his first matchup, wore a Lucario hat for the championship. Lucario is a character from the Pokémon game.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Competitors play in the Illinois State Pokémon Championships.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Competitors play in the first round of the Illinois State Pokémon Championships.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Competitors play in the Illinois State Pokémon Championships.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

Tracy Metro comtemplates her next move while competing in the masters division.
Photo by AMY J. VAN HORN | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

And the winners were:

Jr Div (23 players)
1st Drew F
2nd Benjamin M
3rd Angela W
4th Jeremiah W

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Drew

Benjamin

Angela

Jeremiah

Sr Div (23 players)
1st Quinn D
2nd James F
3rd Jeff V
4th Christopher W

Quinn

James

Christopher

Masters Div (65 Players)
1st Richard L
2nd Jimmy B
3rd Tom S
4th Dave C II

Richard L

Jimmy Ballard sports his spiffy World's Champion 2nd Place Jacket
and 2nd place IL States Trophy (darn, our pic of him facing forward didn't turn out)

Dave (4th) and Tom (3rd)

Here are some Pictures of the Big Event!

Getting decks and decklists ready

Getting everything ready to begin!

65 players in the Masters Div

Pooooooooooka!!!

Troy Lesky keeps an eye on the Junior Div

Matt E watches over the Senior Div

Then, just to spice things up a bit, 3 of our TIYers asked me to do a little Rap they wrote to announce that pairings were up... naturally Devin was right there with his camera to make a video. Here's the rather embarrassing link to YouTube:
PokeMama doing the Round 3 Rap
I can't believe I'm actually including this here! >.<

Quite a roomful!

Nice Bling!

Natalie's sign for the day...

Top 4 - Jimmy vs Dave

Jimmy Ballard

Richard Lucas

Tom Stahnke

Top 4 - Richard vs Tom

Determining 3rd and 4th place

Dave C II

Tom S

And then there were 2... The Final match

Richard L finishes 1st

Jimmy B takes 2nd

We hope you all had a great time in Rockford!

My Staff of Judges...
(From Left to Right) Matt Ennocenti, Eric Ennocenti, myself -Camille Peltier-Robson,
my Head Judge and son -Devin Peltier-Robson, Keny Bailey, Troy Lesky and Ryan Alperstein