The Bracketeer: Masters Top Cuts in the US, Canada, and Mexico
By Jason "Jade" W.
With many thanks from the communities of SixPrizes, HeyTrainer, Pokegym, TheTopCut, and the passerbys on my Facebook, the brackets for Top 16 Canadian Nationals, Top 32 Mexican Nationals, and – the largest of all -Top 128 United States Nationals have been put up!
(The brackets can be viewed here: http://xtreme.net46.net/tc2011.html )
The top decks shown from US Top 128 brackets:
- Yanmega/Magnezone/Kingdra variants (45)
- Reshiram/Typhlosion (13)
- Magnezone/Emboar (12)
- Donphan/Reshiram/Zekrom (10)
- Yanmega/Vileplume variants (10)
- Yanmega/Donphan variants (10)
- Reshiram/Emboar (7)
- Gengar Prime variants (5)
- Zekrom/Pachirisu/Shaymin (4)
- Donphan/Machamp (2)
- Yanmega/Zoroark (2)
- Other decks (8)
Quite a great number of variety, eh?
Shoutouts to the following rogues for impressive and creative showing:
- Tyranitar/Serperior, played by James A.
- Samurott/Donphan, played by Nikki F.
- Sharpedo/Cinccino, played by Justin W.
- Yanmega/Roserade/Sunflora/Vileplume/Ursaring, played by Carlos and Xander P.
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Ambipom/Weavile, played by Alaric M-B.
For Worlds, if I were you to prepare, make sure you test against the following:
- Yanmega with combinations of either Magnezone/Pachirisu, Kingdra/Jirachi, or both.
- Reshiram/Typhlosion
- Yanmega/Vileplume with various techs such as Mew/Muk/Jumpluff, Sunflora, Roserade, Ursaring, etc.
- Yanmega/Donphan/Zoroark
- Donphan/Reshiram/Zekrom
- Magnezone/Emboar
… as well as those random rogues, combinations and such!
Remember: this is Worlds, and unexpected things could happen! Look back to last year, when the Japanese ran Warp Energies and Professor Oak’s New Theory in their Luxchomps, or even the Team Magma decks back in 2004!
See you in San Diego, if you do make it!
~Mew Jadester (Jason Windham)