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tuesday, july 31st 2001
(last update: 5:00 am)

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, all requests MUST BE POSTMARKED FOR TODAY. If you need more info, take a gander at our information page

• psssst..... wanna know a secret..... rumor has it that the Southern Island Collection was released today at WotC Premier Stores... and include WotC, GameKeeper, and pretty much any 'non-chain' retailer that has the pokemon league. In the collection you get the 18 Southern Island Cards, (including the HIGHLY playable Exeggutor and Mew), 6 post cards, a binder with card sheets, three booster packs (random genesis/discovery).... wow! and it seems as tho the MSRP is.... $19.99. Of course this is all just rumor... but one never knows... perhaps we'll even have scans soon. :D

• You like Clip Backs? well.... here's your chance to get a few dozen new ones for your collection. purity has posted a number of new ones bringing our total clips back for free use up into the neighbourhood of 135 or so... go check them out and get some new backgrounds!

• the last zeo online tournement went so well.... that they're planning a second one. we even have a very EVIL new format for you.... and it even breaks the rules. >:D for full information on the Zeo Online Tournements, check out the official website run by marril2k and pkmnx.

UPDATES
SI... Today?!? O_o • Clip Backs for all! • More online tourney fun!

monday, july 30th 2001
(last update: 5:00 am)

the new game in town...

well the release of the anticipated harry potter tcg is just around the corner, and i know a lot of people are excited about this game. thanks to animeparadise we have a near complete listing of all the cards and rarities in the first expansion due out later this month. go check it out.

wizardry!

the new gym leaders!

well it seems like people want to make VS fakes... but they've totally changed the way that the gym leaders are shown.... presenting a problem... hmmm..

thanks to espeonx of the zeo special projects staff, we have a full archive of the new Johto Gym Leaders for you to use on your cards... and as always, they're in JPG, GIF, or PSD....

don't forget the deadly bulb!

doe-ray-me-fa...

yes... tonight we have good old Pokemon 121.... that 'Mysterious' Pokemon.. St...mysterious pokemon? O_o whats so mysterious about a giant starfish... and if it was so mysterious, how come its a common in base set... ah... the mysteries of pokemon...

anyway, zeo starmie has an interesting attack to say the least... and i'm pretty sure it hasn't been done before, at least i've never seen it. ^_^

decisions, decisions....

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star for me • harry potter list • johto jy...i mean gym

sunday, july 29th 2001
(last update: 6:00 am)

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... 3 days left!!!

• ooookay... so the analyst kinda went awol last night it looks like. eh heh heh... i know that hack was planning upon it, however i guess he ran into some problems. hopfully we'll see it soon tho.

[Update: 6:00AM] hehe.... look at that.... hack updated... ^_^

HIIIIII-YAH!

never understood staryu/starmie... i mean they're these giant starfish with jewels in them? O_o ookay... anyway, here we have a fairly good staryu, as it uses rejuvination that all echinoderms seeminly can do. actually, that reminds me of one of my favorite simpson's quotes..
[fireman] mr. simpson... this is never easy to say... but we're going to have to saw off your arms... [starts up a circular saw]
[homer] they'll grow back... right?

shooting star will make sure you always have a fully powered staryu on your bench, pending heads of course.... and with rainbow core, you only need to be punshed once and you can reap the technicolored benifits continuously. uh... assuming you're lucky with shooting star that is. ^_^

when you wish upon a star...

hmmmm.... staryu... evolves unto starmie.... evolves into.... STARUS! hey... who knows? i bet that before GS came out no one would have beleived golbat of seadra evolved...

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staryu!

saturday, july 28th 2001
(last update: 4:30 am)

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... 4 days left!!!

• Dugtrio has posted a bunch more new decks over in the Atelier. Hmmm.... he hasn't updated for a few days prior to this... now if that because he's too busy with decks... or not busy enough? hmmm.... anyway, regardless of things, always feel free to send in your decks!

• Hack is almost finished up the Discovery analysis... and just in time for Revelation to come out! Tonight he has the ever popular (heh.... yeah right) Fighting Pokémon of Discovery! Find out what you can do with all those Poliwraths you get in every 3 packs...

thats all for now.... we'll see what we can come up with later on. ;)

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cards n decks

friday, july 27th 2001
(last update: 2:30 am)

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• heres omething that a lot of people are itnerested in. We've gotten more info about the Southern Islands binder... due to be released in late august, it will contain 18 unreleased cards, 6 of them are reverse holofoils. now this IS a change from the japanese set, as it was refractor foil as opposed to reverse holo... although i liked the refractor more on the japanese cards, who are we to complain, right? at least we're getting them. :D

it's baaaaaack!

well, it seems like we're not through recovering from the last ECSTS and already the next one is rapidly approaching.

today we learned some more info about the event, as well as learned the dates and locations for most of the qualifiers! woohoo!

so then, we've updated the sts section with this new info. take a look and plan your decks so that you can get to san diego in december!

san diego here we come

seeking seaking

alright, so i have no idea how many people actually got the koi reference on goldeen.. most people figured it was a Neopets reference. anyway, for those of you that were stumped, Koi is a type of goldish from japan found in garden ponds and the like. For more Koiness, check out koi.com where you can actually learn about these fish, as well as watch movies of them.. uh.. swimming. :D

we used a reference from koi.com on seaking as well.... see if you can find it.

mmm... sushi

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seaking • sts section • southern islands

thursday, july 26th 2001
(last update: 5:00 am)

new game in town!

wow... pure really came through with her sources. :D we managed to get a bunch of harry potter stuff before its official release date.

now this game looks really cool from what i've seen of it. it seems relativly simple to learn, but it can also get very complex by adding more kinds of cards. now all we have to do is get pure to teach me how to play, and we'll be off and running!

pure has now UL the pics from the starter kit as well as started to make a set list. go check it out, and see if this game interested you. even if you're not a harry potter fan (which i'm not) it still looks like a cool change of pace from pokemon.

harry potter tcg!

if you don't mind it doesn't matter

hack has taken a look at more discovery cards and has come up with a psychic analyst.

hmmm... better hurry and get discovery one hack.... revelation is just around the corner.... ;)

those wacky letter pokemon

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psychic analysis • harry potter

wednesday, july 25th 2001
(last update: 1:00 pm)

yay!!! i got sources!!!

ok, a couple of you have wanted to know what my sources were coming thru with...well, today i got the stuff, and now i will present it to you!

zeo is a pokemon site, yeah, but since pokemon comes from wotc, we are kind of interested in other wotc projects as well...i've heard a bit of buzz about this upcoming new game, some for it, some against it....well theres nothing like checking it out for oneself, is there? now, these cards are not due out for another couple months, but when opportunity presents itself.....i managed to get my hands on a theme deck and a couple of rares! and don't even think about trying to find out where i got it....i'm not giving this source to ANYONE!

so....yeah, we're pokemon zeo, but still....we are bringing the world what i think may very well be the very first look at....

harry potter tcg!

my first thought on opening the box was wow...these cards look cool! there are three, count em three types of holos!! the art is cool, and just glancing at it the game looks kind of fun....anyways, here are some pics!

theme deck box
2 theme decks inside box
oooh....rares.....
box contents!

i got a two player starter set.....i will scan the individual cards later on and put them up. hey ech...you up for a game later? ;D

hope you guys liked it!

doesn't ANYONE get it?! O_o'

[echidna] doesn't ANYONE get it?!?
[ryle] uh...
[miles] nope
[ryle] um...
[hack] no
[mag2k] give us a hint? ^_^
[ech] arrrrrgh!!!

...okay... pure thought it was funny.... SHE understood it.... are we the only two? O_o yes.. there is a hidden pun in Goldeen, however it appears as tho most people don't understand it.

fancies: $1.99/ea

...what?!? sources?!?

ech is always going on about his 'sources'.....well, i'm about to prove that i can get sources too! i'm working on getting something that might be of interest to some of you all. you know, 'sources' are a funny thing....you just never know where you will find them, but when you do....cool things can happen....;D

anyways, i'm working on getting my hands on these things, and if i do, well, you know zeo will be the first to see them!

[whines] puuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.... whats this about? what are you getting? what sources?! how come i don't know about this? i want sources too.... [pouts] she never tells me anything..... -_-

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sources?! • goldeen

tuesday, july 24th 2001
(last update: 4:30 am)

note bien

• uh... my latin is a bit rusty, so if that is the wrong spelling, don't get too upset. ^_^' anyway, this is just a quick note to let you all know we haven't forgotten about things. just finishing up and we'll have an updte for you by around noon. see you then

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

well, i guess i'd better update....

well, we have kangaskhan...if you play a lot of baby pokemon in your deck then this card might interest you. for a big basic its not that bad....

maternal instincts

let's see......ech worked hard on the vs section last night, and we now are only 7 cards away from having the whole set! thanks to magmar 2000, our friend over at pokeschool for most of these new scans!

vs goodness

decks are updated.....

dugtrio has updated the atelier a few times, if you haven't checked for a few days go take a look at what you've been missing!

deck doctoring

well.....what do i have in store for you?

ech is always going on about his 'sources'.....well, i'm about to prove that i can get sources too! i'm working on getting something that might be of interest to some of you all. you know, 'sources' are a funny thing....you just never know where you will find them, but when you do....cool things can happen....;D

anyways, i'm working on getting my hands on these things, and if i do, well, you know zeo will be the first to see them!

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lots of goodstuffs before noon est

monday, july 23rd 2001
(last update: 6 am)

reminders...

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• The first wave of the Zeo Promotional Deal has been wrapped up... and will be sent out today! Wooohooo! Pure will continually update telling us as things go out. So if you sent in an order up until last sunday, yours should probably be on it's way soon!

• we now have more vs than ever before... er... i guess thats the point of a continually updating list. ^_^' we now have roughly two thirds of all the card scans, and i still haven't put them all up.... @_@ its too late to be playing with photoshop. eh heh heh.... anyway, out of 151 cards we now have just under 100 scans. If you haven't looked at the VS Section for a couple days, you should take a look. the art is awesome, and what some of the attacks fail in, the tms seem to make up.

grass! glorious grass!

as a followup to yesterday's stellar 'grass energy' analyst, hack has come up with one analysing all the grass pokemon of discovery!
[hack] uh... would mtm be mad if i left out weedle/kakuna/beedrill?
[ech] hack... how CAN you do discovery without beedrill?
[hack] ok, how about weedle then?
[ech] you can't leave out weedle!
[hack] alright, alright... the harry bug stays...

weedle included!

oh what a tangled web we weave...

"welcome to my parlor" said the spider to the fly. "please enjoy your visit even though you'll surely die..."

uh.... so what do spiders have to do with tangela? uh... nothing really. but i mean the tangled part really suits tangela... you know... tangled, tangela... eh heh heh... ^_^' IT'S LATE! SUE ME! :P

Thorn in the side works very nicely if you're using grass energy on tangela, which you should... and with snare trap, its a deadly combination....

i need a weed whacker

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Tangela • Analyst • VS Page Updatetd!

sunday, july 22nd 2001
(last update: 5 am)

reminders...

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• The first wave of the Zeo Promotional Deal has been wrapped up... and will be sent out MONDAY! Wooohooo! Pure will continually update telling us as things go out. So if you sent in an order up until last sunday, yours should probably be on it's way soon!

the best card ever!

ok..... we were tired and not really all together and hack asked the simple question..... 'what card is played a lot.' of course me being 90% alseep answered... well... you'll see.

so then tonight we have half an analyst... but it ties into tomorrows... and its quite funny. :D

one of the 6 most played cards...

charge it please!

ah..... there we go!

look at that badass rhydon. definatly worth the wait. ^_^. little else has changed from yesterday, see if you can spot it. :D

uh oh.... you woke him up!

next up... tangela! @_@

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Rhydon • Analyst • VS Page Updatetd!

saturday, july 21st 2001
(last update: 6 pm)

yay! it's time for a midday update!!

well, i went and got my coro coro. i peeeeeeeeeeled my sneasel, happy day, and i quickly got some new vs card scans for you. i think we're at halfway on the set....not sure. anyways, here we go! we'll add these to the vs section later on....

first, some tms!

lance's tm
karen's tm
will's tm
bruno's tm
uhhh...i'm just calling em that for clarity's sake. i don't think those are the real names of course so please don't email me and tell me i'm stupid. ;)

and now some pokemon!

bruno's machamp
koga's crobat
lance's gyarados
will's espeon
will's slowking

and some other cards too....the ana e card promos....

pikachu
larvitar

and...even tho i got a card this month, it looks like i get one next month too!

oooh! what is it??

quick note...

my isp is knida having 'routine problems' (O_o') so uh.... if you don't see a real update tonight, its because i was routinely disconnected... >_<

reminders...

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• Hey! If you're in the Ashland Oregon area this weekend, stop in and say hello to Mechachu and Minimech! They'll be at More Fun Comics this Saturday from 12 until 2pm... and they will be handing out GLOSSY versions of the Zeo Edition Mechachu Doll!

• The first wave of the Zeo Promotional Deal has been wrapped up... and will be sent out MONDAY! Wooohooo! Pure will continually update telling us as things go out. So if you sent in an order up until last sunday, yours should probably be on it's way soon!

a timid rhydon of sorts ^_^'

alright... after the zeo edition was on hiatus for a couple days for MWNY we're back... kinda

this poor rhydon is scared of his own shadow... and doesn't want to emerge from his pokeball just yet... hmmm.... there is a story to this of course. and you may very well get to hear it later. :D i just wnat to get the update up asap before my service flakes out again.

don't worry tho, the full fledged rhydon should be up and charing mad ready to go later on... but for now, look at it in it's cute pokeball.... awww....

as for attacks... awkward tackle is good, and you can pretty much deside how much it does. as for pile up... well don't under estimate it. sure it does 10 damage for [F][F][F][*] ....but then there's the effect....

(rhy)don of a new card. ok... that was lame

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....possibly nothing.... possibly more... ^_^'

friday, july 20th 2001
(last update: 5:00 pm)

[update: 5pm] just a quick midday upday here... added a bunch more VS scans... including a lot of better scans of the cards we had, more trainers, and energy!

reminders...

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• Hey! If you're in the Ashland Oregon area this weekend, stop in and say hello to Mechachu and Minimech! They'll be at Fun Yet Comics this Saturday from 12 until 2pm... and they will be handing out GLOSSY versions of the Zeo Edition Mechachu Doll!

• Lots of cool info surfaced in the WotC chat tonight... The Qualifiers for the WCSTS will start on September 8th and run for all of September and October. Also... Neo: Revelations is due out in August, as is the Southern Islands Collection. Oooh... and in the SI Set you get 18 unreleased cards, 6 are reverse holos... 3 packs of cards... postcards, and the collectable binder. To quote mtm... BOOYAH!

• MasterTrainer Tyais (sniff.... i remember when he was still just a regular guy...) has taken the spotlight for the day in MTM's Akimbo and has posted a recalling of the STS. If you didn't attend.. or even if you did... you gotta check this out.

VS is where it's at!

Pokemon VS was released in Japan yesterday, and we were able to snag some info on it. ^_^

we now have almost a complete card list, as well as scans of roughly half the cards! not bad for a set thats 141 cards strong and only 24 hours old. ^_^

Pokemon VS!

pure is now more than halfway done the macworld expo. she braved the crowds again to get some more cool stuff (forget about the mouse chair... i need one of those stress/magic 8 balls!) and learn more cool techniques. oh yeah... not to mention buy stuff too... ^_^

anyway, the zeo edition is still on hold while she finishes up her macworld experiance, but you can still read all about her adventures over at sugarshock. definatly worth the visit. :D

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VS Mania!

thur-07-19-01
(last update: 4:30 am)

reminders...

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• Hack has taken a break form discovery and is going back to the gym today in The Analyst. Blaine's Arcanine is the focus of today's article

• Hmmm.... one would think that mtm has a lot of time on his hands. :D He's posted another article, this time about Jasmine's Challenge. Hmm... i remember one time i was planning a deck that would do all 8 challenges at once... maybe i still will...

• thanks to affiliate pokeschool for pointing out that pokemoncrystal.com has been updated. they have a ton of cool new stuff there, including the official unown font!

• Finally.... the newest set, Pokemon VS comes out in japan today! If you haven't seen our card list yet, go take a look!

"my life will not be complete until i have a program that will make exploding robots..." -ech during the mw keynote.

well... a bunch of us mac fanatics got up at unsitely hours yesterday to watch the keynote. pure was lucky as she actually gets to go there in person. on aim tho we had a little mw party with hack, magmar2k, samling, and mm2k. we all had probably much more fun than should be allowed at that early hour, but heck... who cares!

pure is back there today and tomorrow to get more free stuff. (i soooo need an inflatable mouse chair) as well as take some more seminars and buy stuff!

if you'd like to see how she made out for day one, go take a look at sugarshock!

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just schtuff. :P

macworld expo!
(last update: 1:00 am)

news bytes

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• Dugtrio said he'd update the Atelier today with new deck fixes. Check it our to see if your deck is reviewed! also don't forget that Dugtrio is constantly looking for new decks to review. Send him yours

• Ooooooh... also hack said that he is looking at some more Discovery Pokemon over in The Analyst today. Hack's been busy reviewing allthe new cards... hmm.... he might run out soon. ^_^

• Aaaw.... MTM took some time out of his insanely busy schedual to write up a review of one of the more powerful but probably overlooked cards in Neo Discovery. Eevee can very easily evolve to any of the eeveelutions, and with promo eevees.... well, i won't spoil it. ^_^

• Speaking of Eeveelutions, pure has a half dozen pictures up in Gallery Zeo for you to use freely, just list her as illustrator, of course. There are hyper cute versions of eevee, espeon, umbreon, flareon, jolteon, and umbreon for you to use to your heart's content. Why not make a fake with them and post it over in The Forums.

• Hey! If you're in the Ashland Oregon area this weekend, stop in and say hello to Mechachu and Minimech! They'll be at Fun Yet Comics this Saturday from 12 until 2pm... and they will be handing out GLOSSY versions of the Zeo Edition Mechachu Doll!

so then.... what's with the date? O_o

today my friends is the first day of the semiannual macworld expo which is in ny. now pure, vash, magmar2k from pokeschool and myself are all huge mac buffs, so we've been looking forward to this.... especially since pure and vash get to go to it in person! (you have no idea how envious i am... man... if only i had been able to stay another couple weeks...)

anyway, that's where pure is off to for the next couple days. she had to get to bed early last night because she needed to be up at 5am. >_< so while pure is off basking in macworld glory, m2k and i will be sitting on aim watching the webcast. eh... could be worse... [thinks] i could be forced to sit through that lame windozeME presentation again.... now THAT was painful. ...bill nye.. why did you turn on us.... why....!!! anyway, if you're interested in macs, and you happen to be up at 9am est, check out the webcast and se if you can see pure. :D (Note: requires quicktime 4 or later)

so then, pure will be off for the next couple days attending cool seminars and presentations that will help out the site! ^_^ also watch on sugarshock for a macworld update!

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just schtuff. :P

tuesday, july 17th 2001
(last update: 6:00 am)

quick reminders

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

• Dugtrio updated the Atelier today with a bunch more deck fixes. Marke sure to Check out the Atelier, and don't forget to Send Dug Decks

• July's News has been Archived, so if you missed something, check it out in the Main Archives

• WotC has posted a list of winners for the Neo: Discovery contest held back in May! Hurry... go see if you won!

ooooh.... the zeo VS section is really starting to gain shape... Thanks to shark for finding a bunch of cool scans over the past couple days, and also a great big thanks to zeo forumer RockyR, for supplying us with almost a full numbered Pokemon Vs Card List!

Nearly all the cards are there, except for a few gaps here and there... but there are mot listed than not! ^_^ We've also put up a number of scans there, as well as VS Promo cards!

How many Jynxes can you have in one set?

uh oh.... it's Rhyhorn...

okay... it was sort a of long running joke... whenever anyone would ask if we were doing all 251 pokemon i would answer 'yes.. all except rhyhorn.' don't ask WHY i said rhyhorn... could be because it was the firt thing that popped into my mind at the time... [shrugs] i don't dislike it... i don't like it... it's just Rhyhorn.

so then... heeeeeeere's rhyhorn! and it's a solid beast too. Snarl can keep rhyhorn in the game pretty much indefinatly... and Linear Assult is very good cost/damage ratio IF you can manage to get heads. Of course if you snarled the turn before, who cares about heads. ^_^

just a lonely rhyhorn in the desert

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rhyhorn • massive vs stuffs • more deck ateliers • didja win?

monday, july 16th 2001
(last update: 5:00 am)

hey! it's another midday update!!! thanks to sharkdog, we have yet more scans of the tyranitar deck cards! check it out!

faulkner's fearow
clair's mantine
will's girafarig
whitney's furret

and also, dug has updated the atelier....go take a look at his latest deck fixes!

dig those decks!

its monday again... and sadly that means that vash has to turn off access to the blanks at 7am this morning.... hopefully you were able to get something you needed.

while we continue to work on a fix, bill the deck fixer has set up PkmnZeoFileServe, an AIM name where you can get the blanks you need!

thanks to everyone who has helped us with these and we hope to have everything solved asap.

darkness looms....

well.... as i write this hack has promised us a new analyst featuring more neo discovery tips...

today he focuses on everyones favorite (or hated) Darkness pokemon. Houndour, Tyranitar, Umbreon... they're all there... and to get the goods on how to use them, and beat them, check out the analyst!

descent into darkness

well.... we tried to come up witha song reference for weezing here, however everyone seemed to draw a blank. :/

anywho here we have poor old weezing, who doesn't seem too happy... of course if i had a thing growing out of the back of my head i wouldn't be too thrilled either.

poor thing had to evolve...

another small forum note...

well yesterday pure alluded to the fact that we had some more forum surprises... now i don't know if this was one of them buuuuut....

thanks to contributions from Bill the Deck Fixer and some anonymous source, zeo was able to upgrade their service to get rid of the popup ads for 6 months!

thanks so much to both of them... just shows how much a community we are. keep it up guys! ^_^

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weezing • analyst • no more popups!

sunday, july 15th 2001
(last update: 5:00 am)

hi! another midday update for you...thanks to sharkdog we have a couple more scans from the tyranitar vs deck....check em out! we'll be updating the vs section with these later, but go ahead and take a look at em now!

bugsy's yanma
karen's rapidash
jasmine's raichu
janine's beedrill
pryce's cloyster
morty's hypno
bruno's hitmonchan
holo daaark energyyyyy
card back!

thanks shark! we'll be back with more a bit later....see you then!

ugh...i'm dead...this is the second night running i've been up til five am....and i still didn't get the thing done i wanted to work on. oh well!! anyways, a lot of you are happy to see that we have our blanks back up! they are on a temp server right now, while we get their new home all ready for them.

now...vash put them up on his machine as a favor to me. i was talking to him on the phone, feeling really down about the state zeo was in, people constantly asking when the blanks would be up, etc...and he offered to put them up on his machine. i said 'oh thank you!' and ech started sending him the files...vash got it set up, sent me the link, and we linked em up. they serve up fast, everything looked great.

at any rate....some of you might not be able to access them. vash told me later that to keep his machine from choking up he blocked access to static ip/servers....anything that sucked down a lot of bandwidth. it's a temp solution we're trying to make the best of. apparently there's been some unhappiness about people not being able to access the blanks, but in a few days we should have a better solution, and then everyone can get the blanks they need. thanks for bearing with us thru all this.

blankety blank blank!

thanks again vash, for setting those up for me. i know you have a busy schedule and that was somewhat of a hassle. 99% of the people who visit the site are happy with you for doing that for us. give vash a hand!

ever feel like life is just stressing you out, crushing you down, making you just plain miserable? well, take a lesson from koffing...no matter what gets thrown at it, it still has that happy smile....i think maybe thats why i've always liked koffing....

give us a smile!

hmmm....that's a catchy tune...i know! it's time for the first ever zeo forum SING A LONG!!! come on....it'll be fun!!

i know there was something else....oh yes!!

members of our forums will be happy to know that anguris neo has been suitably punished for the good work he's doing there....we have made him the third admin of zeo forums. give ang a hand! if anyone can handle it, he can.

we have a few more surprises in store for you forum wise....stay tuned!!

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koffing• blanks up for now• new admin!!

saturday, july 14th 2001
(last update: 4:30 am)

ooooh... early update today... at least compared to recently... ^_^'

anyway the big news for today, is the resurgence of our blanks! thats right... thats to vash, we were able to get them up on a TEMP server... so if you need blanks, nows the time to get them... who knows how long we can keep the temp server for.

as for a perminant fix.... we're closer than ever now.... ^_^

blankety blank blank

LIKI!!!!

lets see here.... what to say about likitung....

steel energy is liki's friend to some extent..... just as long as you dno't want to do damage. ^_^

it's first attack will let you select anyone to poison... very useful when those damn slowkings are plaguing the bench. the second attack will keep liki in there for a loooooooong time... just throw on a recycle energy and you're set for ever!

gives a likin' and keeps on likin'...er wait...

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likitung • blankapalooza!

friday the thirteenth...
(last update: 6:30 am)

ok...well, a quick midday update for you....

our hardworking mole has updated the atelier again....with another update planned for later today. wow, he just keeps on going! head on over and take a look at what he's got going on.....

deck doc!

anyways....nothing suceeds like success! poor dug is drowning in decks....while he gets caught up, why don't you send them along to his associate-- EV614@aol.com instead.....give the poor mole a chance to catch up! ;)

seems like only yesterday.....

some of you who are newer to the site might be surprised to learn that zeo opened on friday the thirteenth of october last year. wow, a lot sure has happened since then...we made it to the top ten in pokemon village, covered two sts's, had a sucessful online tournament, scooped info on a couple of card sets, nearly completed the 250+ zeo edition, broke a quarter million hits, bounced back from a lot of site attacks, and met a lot of really cool people. happy nine month anniversary, zeo!!

quick reminders

• the blanks and a lot of fake cards are down due to last months sabotage... we're just ironing out the details tho, and these sections should be fully operational very very soon. we're relaly sorry it's taken so long... :/

• a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

man..... no wonder i'm tired... i have to get up in like an hour! @_@. so then lets see what we can come up with before we keel over and die....

we have a bunch of cool new blanks for you that we're finishing up... yes... ecard/vs blanks... ^_^ here's a little sample to tide you over...

now YOU can make a kakureon too!

like 'em? hope so... they weren't easy to make. ^_^' why not go and make a fake card and post them over in the forums.

how much maro could a marowak wak if a...

[whimpers] it seems funny now, but i have a feeling i'm going to regret it later...

anyway, going in line with yesterday's cubone, we have a marowak that will increase your damage if you use it as a basic! ...how you ask? Zeo edition cubone of course. ^_^

the marowak graveyard?

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marowak • vs blanks coming...

thursday, july 12th 2001
(last update: 6:00 am)

just a reminder for anyone that is interested in getting the Zeo 2001 ECSTS promotional item, take a look at our information page for all the dirt on how to get this cool items! hurry... you only have until the end of the month!

alright, its rapidly approaching 6am so lets see if we can remember all the stuff i have to update with.... if now we can put it up later.... @_@ so tired...

we have two new promo cards first off.... an eCard that some of you may have seen before... and a new VS promo that many of you may NOT have seen before... ^_^

first up we have that happy little (i use the term loosely) whale guy... Hoeruko! this was originally posted over at Wizpog by Trainer Mark, but was brought to our attention by firethrower884 from the zeo chatroom. Thanks to both of you!

the second japanese promo of the day is definatly a cool one indeed.... Mars and i were kinda up trying to translate it... and we determined that 5am is NOT a good time to do so. @_@'

anyway, thanks to pure, sensei and i will also be getting this cool card as we were able to get a couple extra issues of CoroCoro through her. Thanks pure! i don't know how i could live without a rocket sneasel. ^_^

GO FOR THE EYES!!! THE EYES!

"see you in san diego!" -mtm @ ecsts closing ceremonies

well... if you still haven't gotten over STS fever... or if you live on the west coast and haven't HAD sts fever yet, then now is your time.

wotc has been updating their pokemon site recently, and have gotten rid of references to the ecsts and in its place are scraps of info about the next west coast sts!

it seems to be officially in san diego... and the dates are..... December 1st and 2nd! Bit later than last novembers sts... but thats good... gives pure and i more time to figure out how to get there. :D

although information is scarce, it appears as tho the wcsts qt will start around september and go through november.... man, i can only wait to see what wacky cool new format wizards has up their sleeve. ^_^

expect an overhaul of the sts section soon....

2 new zeo edition cards!

exeggutor and cubone.... thats what we have for you today. a tree thing and a lonely infant. <sniff>

exeggutor is not too bad... not the best, but not the worst... if you can sucessfully incubate your bench tho, you're sitting pretty being able to do 50 damage with [P][P]

oh i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts...

poor 'lil guy... :(

he looks so sad, and alone.... scared little cubone... lost his mother... <sniff> the picture of this is just awesome... pure was able to capture his emptiness very well...

attackwise he's useful for getting the bench built up, being able to get a marowak out on turn one is always nice... as is the ability to do up to 40 damage or paralysis with a single fighting energy.

<sniff> poor thing...

okay.... i know i forgot something....

right now tho, i just can't remember the specifics of it in order to post it, and rather than posting it blind, i'll wait until i'm more awake... (read: ask pure the details again. ^_^'_ so until later.... have a good day.

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new promos! • new sts! • new zeo edition!

wednesday, july 11th 2001
(last update: 4:30 am)

VS Mania!

ooooooh..... VSy.......

way back when neo4 came out, i got some cheap boosters on auction... since then mikako and i have emailed eachother back and forth a bit, and look at what we have for you!

we've updated the PokemonVS page with a bunch of scans from the Bisashu deck that went on sale at the premier of the 4th movie in japan this past weekend. so here we have the deck list, scans of all the cards, damage counters, etc...

the magneto/deadly bulb debacle
take a look at the rest of our VS coverage...

ooooooh..... in addition to these hot vs pics, we also have a NEW funclub promo.... in the past things like fun club eevee and fun club porygon (arguably the BEST porygon ever....) have gone for upwards of two hundred dollars... and if memory serves me correctly.... there was also a new years celebi promo.

anyway, here is one that looks like a 4th of july one of sorts... it has cool ho-oh fireworks or something... and you thought that macy's spelling out its name was big. :P

visions in the sky

speaking of the 4th movie....

we have a full spoiler of the 4th movie, celebi the timeless encounter. It was sent to us by Xeno Lugia... and its very thorough. if you're just dieing to find out what happens to the little green gnome thing, here's your answer!

also... contrary to popular belief, this is NOT the last pokemon movie! at the end of celebi, there was a trailer for pokemon 5! pokemon is stronger than ever in japan... lets hope it keeps up here.

cheaper than a theater and no gum on the seats

thats all for now..... but we should be back later with that wacky 6 headed tree... EXEGGUTOR.... or however you spell it... ^_^'

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pokemon vs • celebi spoiler • fun club fireworks!

tuesday, july 10th 2001
(last update: 2:00 pm)

zsts coverage

well the first zeo super trainer showdown happened yesterday, and we had a really good turnout for the first event.

if you missed it, or even if you were part of it, dugtrio has updated the atelier with some stuff from the zsts. go check it out so that you can be prepared for the next zsts... whenever it may be... <insert ominous music here>

wish i had some weedkiller...

Hack's Back!

looks like hack is back from his little vacation, and he's back with more analyst goodies!

today he looks at three of the most over played cards from neo discovery, and also how to beat the suckers...

if your game is suffering due to those pesky unowns then hurry and read the analyst!

it's no longer unown to me...

eggcellant....

oh come on.... you didn't expect me NOT to make that terrible joke did you? anyway, not only do we have the card... we also have whats going on in the minds of those half dozen omelette destined eggs...

the attacks can be great... if you're damn lucky or if you are good at flipping... but at 60hp its an all around <please excuse this everyone.... i have to> EGGSEPTIONAL card.

scrambled eggs?

now the pic just totally cracked me up when i saw it... and then pure told me what each of the eggs were thinking making me double over!

what evil lurks in the hearts of eggs

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exeggcute • analyst!

monday, july 9th 2001
(last update: 4 am)

hey... did you guys check the late afternoon update yesterday? pure added a bunch of cool stuff including more VS scans, a VS Fake card, and Voltorb! if you didn't check it out, go do so now.... i'll wait....

...waiting....

still waiting.... [turns on the home shopping channel to watch the pokemon show] "and for just $59.98 you get FOUR packs of Jungle and FOUR packs of Fossil.... both of which are OUT OF PRINT! You can't get these ANYWHERE!!!"

O_o ....yeah,,, i'm serious. The Canadian home shopping channel got the rights to do a big pokemon show tonight and they had some 'interesting' deals, like the one above. another one of note was "A WHOLE BOX of BASE SET TWO for JUST $150!!!! Wow!!! and it WILL have a CHARIZARD in there worth THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!! man... i feel sooooooo sorry for anyone that bought from there.... <sigh>

zsts!!!!

anyway today is also the day of the ZSTS.... or Zeo Super Trainer Showdown, an event created by MasterMarril and PKMNX... bascially what it is, is an online tournament (either in Aim chat or via Apprentice) that uses the Rocket On! format... even if you missed pre-registration, you can still play... just show up in the Zeo Chatroom (link in the sidebar there) at 10:30 EST to register.

Take a look at the Official ZSTS Homepage

ooooh..... and if you hurry check out Dug's Atelier. he updated yesterday with ELEVEN DECKS.... some of them fixes for the ZSTS.... maybe you can get some ideas beforehand and then play...

need....more....ideas....

how shocking!

sometimes i'd be willing to sacrifice one of my pokemon if it meant getting rid of a fully powered opponent.... and as for the attack... if you can keep damage off electrode, you can keep damage on the opponent's bench. ^_^

bzzzzzzz

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home shopping!

sunday, july 8th 2001
(last update: 6 pm)

hey! an update!

real quick cause i got to run.....but, here is voltorb.....

voltorb!

and not only do we have voltorb, we have some pics of the contents of that rockets tyranitar vs. pack.

oooh, tyranitar and holo dark energy!!
here's the whole set.....
and a nice playmat too!

and one more thing.....

we were in the warner bros store, when ech was here....he mentioned he liked gossamer, that hairy monster, and wished they were selling a plush of it. well...i have a gossamer plush that i bought years ago cause he's sort of my favorite too. ech was really unhappy about going back, so i gave him my gossamer plush....<sniff> anyways ech made me this card.

what's fuzzy, and a dark type?

alright

unfortunatly right now we don't have the greatest of updates for you. Just as we were finishing up Voltorb, pure's dsl went out and she wasn't able to get it back on.... thus we won't have voltorb until later tomorrow....

so lets see...

here's a treat for all you canadians out there tho. if you turn into the home shopping network tonight, you're in for two special pokemon themed shows...this time actually licenced by wotc! apparently they will have tcg items for sale raning all the way back to 1st edition base set! ...however i really don't think you want to buy them, because last time i remember watching one of these they said charizard was worth $4,000 and they were selling it for the 'ultra-low price' of just $149! @_@ anyway, if you're bored later tonight, check it out... maybe they'll have some good deals! never know!

be back later all.... have a good lazy sunday. ^_^

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home shopping!

saturday july seventh two thousand one
(last update: 3:30 am....)

well...

i made it back to canada in one piece. even my luggage! unfortunatly i did have a 2 and a half hour layover in minniapolis then on the way into canada we flew right through a thunderstorm. ^_^ man... you haven't seen a thunderstorm until you've seen one from the middle of it. definatly made the trip home more exciting... however i did notice i was like the only one on the plane that had my little windowshade up. go figure.

got back to calgary, and had some running around to do here. desided to go outside without my jacket (ala NY) and got many many strange looks from people. guess they figure that 55 is jacket weather... man... i had better learn to wear a jacket again or else i'll freeze come winter. (read: september)

dug needs decks!

poor dug needs your help!

he's running out of atilier material... seems like the pre-sts boom is over and he's finished all his work. quick! send him more decks before we fire him!

check the decks

crush crush crush

getting back on track with the zeo edition we have good old kingler. Just like Raticate, it seems like Kingler is nothing more than a bigger badder Krabby... but a cool one. Finally a pretty good Kingler card. ...and it even has an obscure quote from 90's television! how can you go wrong with that?!

now with turbo crushing action!

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more decks • kingler

...july 6th... friday
(last update: 5:30 pm....)

well, its about time....

for those of you who are river crab fans (heeey.....they're trying to pull a fast one!!! ash caught that krabby near the ocean!!!) uh, were was i? oh yes. here is krabby. he is a happy little crab, isn't he? i like krabby, it's cute.

no one's crabby here.....

well, ech is out trying to get a replacement modem. so, who knows when we will be seeing him....this is the good thing about having two webmasters i guess. usually at least one of us can handle things for a while. anyways, hopefully soon we will have everything back to normal. see you all again later!

just don't seem to want to pack it in and go to bed...:/

anyways, i put ech on a plane back to calgary today. i gave him a bag of 3d doritos to share with mystery thing. mt, get over there quick! he eats those really fast!

it's weird to sit here and update all alone. ech called to say his flight was delayed in minneapolis, then to say he landed in calgary, then to say he'd arrived home. he couldnt get online tho, his cable modem was wonky. but, he said to tell you all he got home and he should see you tomorrow.

thanks to everyone in the chat room, for keeping me company tonight, and vash for taking me out to get a coke from mcdonalds at eleven thirty at night. :D

addendum to last nights update....the text part of the card was provided most graciously by mystery thing. thanks, mt, for helping us out there. he did the attacks and put everything but the picture together there. ech forgot to mention it last night.

so, what do we have for you update wise? let's see here.....well, i did draw and color krabby, but i don't have him on a card. i'll do that tomorrow afternoon....got to catch up again in the zeo edition. once i got thrown off my nightly draw and paint schedule it was really hard to get back into it. for the next set, i am not doing art every night :D. anyways it is a happy little krabby and i'm sure you will all like it.

what else...oh, i have a cool pic of the pokegear toy, in its packaging, that i will show you...tomorrow...after i get it html'ed and all and done up nice. and a few other things i didnt get around to doing when ech was here...some e card stuff and things like that. so, drop by tomorrow afternoon....late afternoon....i'm not getting out of bed before 12 you can be assured of that!

i guess that is it, for the nothingness of an update that at least has had the date changed....see you all later today with some actual content. :)

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sts souvenir set • hypno • the day...

...july 5th... :(
(last update: whenever dsl co-operates)

<sigh>

i knew this day would come... for the past three weeks, this day has been looming over me, just waiting. <sigh> its the day i leave once again, headed back for canada. :(

the past three weeks here in new york have been great. purity is a great host. vash has been a wonderful tour guide too. and sensei.... well... sensei is sensei. :P

anyway, i guess i'll have to pack up my stuff and head back for canada, and hopefully this time it won't be as long inbetween visits.

even tho i've said this to you in person... thank you purity. thanks for putting up with me for three weeks. :) you've probably been better to me than i deserve. :D you are a great friend, and i am eternally greatful to have you.

-ech

oh... you want REAL content...

as much as i know you love hearing about my time in new york, i know that you all also want some content. so then, here is the zeo edition card... it kinda got put on the back shelf as we did other stuff... but the zeo edition will be back up and running soon... just as soon as we recouperate from this all.

i've got a spell on you

and also, we have some info for you all...

the card blanks should be back up in a few days! we're just putting on the finishing touches now!

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sts souvenir set • hypno • the day...

wednesday july 4th
happy fourth of july!
(last update: 2:30am)

don't burn yourselves with illegal fireworks, if you live in the us.....anyways, we have FINALLY got the coro coro for july up. and before you all start moaning about how long it took me, i would like you to know i spent 25 hours and 16 minutes working on it. so there. there is a lot of info this time! a lot of the stuff that has been popping up on forums and other sites this week was in it...we knew about it way back before the sts....couldnt really do anything about it tho. ah well. anyways, go take a look! you know you want to....

coro coro! at last!!

so....where's hypno?

:/ still uncolored on my desktop.....i really really reallly wanted to get coro coro done. i'll do my best to get him done tomorrow....that's the problem with missing a day or so on the set. you lose the momentum. :( i know i'm really behind with the coloring and so forth....anyways hope the coro coro section was worth it.

more sts reports!!!

today we have one from jeremy borchardt, winner of the 15+ championship on saturday! thanks, jeremy, for sending that in!

more sts goodness!

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more sts writeup...coro coro AT LAST...sts souvenir set....

tuesday july 3rd
(last update: 2:30am)

we had another fun-filled ny day today... have to make them last as i'm scheduled to leave on thursday...

this morning we said goodbye to sensei and sent him on his way. it was great having him hang out with us... although he kept me awake until all hours of the morning talking. ;)

we met up with vash in the city and had some lunch (he couldn't beleive i had still never been to an authentic ny deli) and we also did a bit of business.... might hear more on that later...

so then, we got back, had a nice lobster dinner... ^_^ and pure has been working on corocoro. she's about 1/3 of the way finished it, so it should be up real soon.

also.... later today we will announce how you can get your own Zeo STS Promo package, that includes a zeo sts promo! check back for that!

for now we have an sts report from Dvplume11, IPGeek's (of tc fame) little brother. we got to meet and talk to dkplume during the weekend, and we were really pleased that he finished so well on sunday. both were great guys. congrats on our silver medal dv!

"woo! thats my bro!!!" -IPGeek

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more sts... for now

monday july 2nd
(last update: 3:00am)

let's see...

not much time left in ny here.... pretty soon i'll be back home in canada. :/ we've had a lot of fun, but alas, we haven't done much in the way of site stuff... especially in the past couple days with sensei here. we've had a ton of fun tho.

today we checked out the TrU Discovery Days. we got there right at the end, and talked with the gym leader a bit. Sensei gave him some W Stamped Arboks and in return we got 4 hitmontops, 4 cool porygons, and about 100 mews. ...like we need more mews. ^_^'

anyway, we played a couple games of cards, then went out to battle the torrid rains... lovely lovely rains. i kept warning them that it could turn into snow at any moment, but they just laughed at me. Somehow i don't think they beleive me that it can snow all year 'round in calgary. :D well... i think they beleive that, but they don't beleive that it can snow in NY in July.... just in case, i'm taking my leather jacket with me to the city tomorrow.

when we got home, we had a huge booster opening party opening a box of 1st ed fossil and 3 boxes of 1st ed base set....

....

....in chinese. ok, ok.... its not THE 1st ed base set, but still.... when its given to you, and its first edition.... (well, even if it's not) it's still damn cool!

we all managed to snag the three starters too! hows that for sweet?

i have a1st ed base 'zard!!!

two more sts writeups for you tonight. we have the fixed one from pkmnx, as well as one from ppm! go take a look.

pkmnx @ the sts
ppm @ the sts

oh yeah! and i almost forgot....

poinko sent us a cool sts themed picture that we turned into a desktop. hope you enjoy it!

-ech

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more sts • vs trainer blank• ech, pure, vash and sensei take manhattan

sunday the1st
(last update: 3:00am)

ok, its gonna be another semi lame update. we spent the day larking around, not working on the site.....anyways, i took sensei and ech to league today. we were the whole league!! we got there and even tho the store is scheduled for pokemon, all the tables were full of dungeons and dragons, mlb and magic players.....:( anyways, the staff dragged a new table out for us but there werent any chairs, so we had to STAND to play. we played a few games, and then like last time more players magically appeared to play. sensei impressed people with his big ol box of promos left over from the sts. oh, and we got recognized by a woman who was at the sts last week. she remembered my hair. it was a fun afternoon, but i think league is gonna suck next week. i bet i'll be the only one there....if you live in the westchester ny area, for goodness sakes come to the gamekeeper in the westchester mall on saturdays at 2pm!
so, after all that we went and met up with vash again and then we all collected ourselves and headed back to manhattan. we walked around chinatown a bit, i looked for tcg2 but couldnt find it. i got some cases for my gba games tho. everyone was drinking out of coconuts down there but i couldn't figure out where they were getting them from! oh it was brutal today, temperature wise. hot, muggy, ugh.
anyways, then we headed up to the times square area. everyting was all lit up and looking cool. we went to the warner brothers store, and vash got a giant stuffed bugs bunny, and then we went to eat. by then we were pretty tired....so it was back to the car, with a side stop to show 'sensei grand central station, and back home.

and what does all this have to do with zeo? i'll tell you! we were too busy running around enjoying ourselves to work on the site! :D

anyways, i think we might have some articles or something from dug, unless we put em all up yesterday, but here is the vs trainer blank for you all to use and make cool stuff with! thank ech for making it.....

vs trainer!!

ok, one more thing....here is an sts writeup from poinko. go read what he thought about his sts experience!
[ech note] actually we also planned to have pkmnx's report but unfortunatly we don't it was either damaged or corrupted or missing or something.... just it just won't work. :/

more sts!! it just keeps coming...

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more sts • vs trainer