What a fun Prerelease!

Image of the Prerelease flyer

 

Awesome time everyone!
Had a total between the two events of 80 players...

75 unique and 5 repeats.... 36 in the first one, then 33 in the 2nd one plus 11 in the Theme Deck Challenge (so 44 in the afternoon) Quite a full house I'd say!

 

CLICK HERE FOR THE PICTURES FROM THE EVENTS!

 

The first event didn't quite have enough players in the Jrs to have the tourney separated, so it was all together, 36 players.

1st - Tommy M (sr)
2nd - Nathan Y (Ma- a TIYer)
3rd - Andrew G (sr -also a TIYer)

The afternoon one had 33 in the main event:

Jrs (6)
1st - Bradley P
2nd - Colby P
3rd - Michael C

Srs(10)
1st - Cole W
2nd - JW H
3rd - Zach P

MA (17)
1st - Rachael W
2nd - Kevin B (TIYer)
3rd - Justin H (TIYer)

Also in the afternoon, we had the Theme Deck Challenge, with 11 players.
1st - Brennan R (Sr)
2nd - Kevin B (Jr TIYer)
3rd - Ken W (Jr)

Was quite a fun time I think! All went well, everyone seemed pretty happy. :)

 

Gotta say, 2 different highlights to the day...

1. when I'd read off the raffle ticket numbers... 485.....5 (some go Arrrgggg)...4 (half of them go 'Darn!') .... 3 (everyone else goes "oh MAN! I was SO close!", cept for one kid who'd scream "I WON!!!") lol was funny every time.

2. At the end, when one family of young guys came with their dad, first big event here... dad had the camera through the event, and at the end asked to take a pic with me. Sure! Then I thought they played DS, so asked them if they'd ever been to Pokemon.Marriland.Com, to which they said "Oh yes! I LOVE that site! We go there all the time!" I pointed to Dev who was watching us and said "Well, did you know that Devin here IS Marriland?"
The look on their faces was priceless! Their jaws dropped, they couldn't believe they'd been in a tournament all afternoon with the real Marriland! More pictures, followed by autographed cards... it was so cute!


Great kids! Fun time! Lots of happy peeps! ^_^ Thank you all for coming!

 

Watch for our details on our upcoming

IL State Pokemon Championships in Rockford!