Well the journey started friday morning hen i made it on the plane to chicago to newark. the flight itself was okay but no movie because it was a 1 hour 20 minute flight.

I get into O'hare and to find the shuttle service ws a ZOO!! I had to go to one area and turn down a lng corridor to a door to the elevators to the 1st floor through another door which finally led to the final door into the lobby and through 2 doors i made it outside. I got on the right shuttle but accidentally thought it w as the wrong one so i made it off and waited 10 minute for the other one and when i got to the holiday inn i found out the one i w as on originally as the right one. I had to go back on the shuttle to O'hare and get that one back and when the guy saw me again to make sure he called in my reservation and found out this was all straightened out. i made it to the right hotel pretty early. only a handful of trainers were there at that time. I walked up to find the room where the MT‚S were setting up the CSC site. i didn't get to say hi to anymore but i got to see DMTM DMTM and Sensei setting up. it was a cool scene. I made my way back to find the arcade by the elevators. Small but they had a busted mba jam‚s game that gave away free games all day. it was fun. i dat there an played a game and when i made it back they aid Charwolf is going to the ballroom so i chased him down the hall a nd finally got to catch him so we can sign in. The room itself was nice.

we settled ina nd them made or way back down to play some games in the lounge area. i met and battles Tyranitar 666 from wizpog. i lost to his deck but pulled out a goo fight. then i met another trainer and played gator against him nd won. I after that finally met PokeDok. he was a cool guy when we first talked. I found out his draft and all the rules for it. I figured wow this will be great an just as 8i figured it cant get any better. Pokesensei,DMT and DA steve all come down to greet the crowd., I was happy to finally meet them again. After i went from there i met up with TR Cassidy which i haven't seen since day 2 of the WCSTS. I was happy to see her again. She game me a krispy creme which was so TASTY!!!!! She gave me a TS Ampharos promo made by here. Like i promised i gave her my hand drawn promo called: Jenn,The Krispy Kreme Girl. We talked and were gonna battle but diner struck and time didn't allow it. The MT‚S were there for a little but even them like everyone else they went to dinner.

It wasn't till 7:30 pm at the Q+A which i w as just i made by a hair did i meet purity and gut all my stuff. The Q+A was informative and interesting. Ill say we learned alot for the next day from there. After the Q=A i ran to dok to sign up for the raft,then i ran back to purity to pay her then i ran to the room to bring all my stuff there. When i made it back down i met up with sensei,pur and Charwolf. I found out pur wasn't gonna be in it and Sensei wasn't either. :( I found this was gonna feature DMTM and DMTM in it. I was lucky to get to draft in MTM‚S pod. I found out unless you draft fire evo‚s fire is almost useless im gym by itself. i went 0-4 after suffering a ,massive list to DMTM in round 2 where i had him on the ropes but he his a road past the energy jam and pulled off an impressive victory. It was fun to battle in Dok‚s draft nd a trainer who won the a box was gonna have a neo 4 draft and i got into it like charwolf did. it was best of 3 single elimination. I went in to win 2 rounds but almost lost round 2 by barrier. i came fro behind with dark fortress to take the game. I list my last battle but since there were only 4 trainers left me and charwolf fought for 3rd and 4th. I lost to Charwolf in turn 3 and due to my long fight the organizer gave me a holo kindra as a determination prize. I Like Charwolf went upstairs and rested for the night. We woke up 2 hours later to the next day and new festivities!

We wake and go to breakfast,me being the last one to leave like always. I get downstairs to get my coupon which was never given to em and it entitled me and Charwolf to a fee breakfast. It w as cool since the buffet was a great site and we gotta meet with pokesensei again. Breakfast was good and afterwards i had 30 minuets so i burned it in a another NBA jam‚s games. I found that i w as about 5 minute slate to the professors meeting. luckily DMTM didn't start till 2 minutes after that. The meeting was good,the staffing was over played and DMTM had to shot a few trainers loose due to the amount of professor he had was over what he needed. It w as cool i got to work with registration till 9:00 and then i toured the challenge cleaning up and helping peopletill 10:00 and then the side events started. I wanted to judge a booster draft but neo queen jen got the first one and the only one till the r ochester. I was kinda dissapointed but it as ok. i figured id just the mdified but that failed when MT said the rochester will start at 11:30 am. This led jenn to rush the draft along by ALOT! We had to build decks and draft within 30 minutesand lets just say the 2nd round never happened. i got a pack for the draft so i w as happy.

The rochester started soon after and it was a great event. 47 professors entered it. the draft went fro 2 hours then all the cards were sealed in marked envelopes a nd all trainers had 1 hour lunch. The lunch was cool besides me losing my professors shirt :( The 1 hour ended and we were back again. DMTM handed,actually he heived envelopes one by one to trainers. it w s fun everyone was like OHHHH laughing as trainers missed and caught their respected envelopes. one envelope opened ion mi air and everyone was like good thing that didn't spill over. I think the only one ho didn't have their envelopes thrown were purity,and some of the professors ho were seated right by DM<TM. We had 30 minutes to build a deck a nd all the energy were right by the floor. I drafted this powerful fighting deck a n i know many trainers drafted grass. Fire was also hot in this draft. I would of gone undefeated if i didn't have to suffer through grass in 2 rounds straight. if i just drafted the pewter city gym i might of won the first round. After round 4 DMTM said they don't have a clean cut in top 8 and they they need to go to a 5th round. It was certain no one was really happy with this but many were. 23 dropped out after round 4 leaving 24 for the last round. I was there and had to look at myself as a man who had to choose if i should drop from the Rochester or drop from the theme deck challenge. i decided to go though rochester round 5. I beat TR Cassidy which led her undefeated streak to an end. I ended up going 3-2 in the end and ended 13th.

After the rochester finally ends i enter the final draft of the night. I lost round one because i drafted a crap version of a grass deck but i fought hard a nd almost had a pulled out victory. I found the guy i faced won the draft . The night went on and i was walking around seeing that Charwolf and sensei were in the theme deck challenge. The ended up pretty well in it with Sensei getting 3rd and charwolf accepting his opponents draw and spitting first place prizes.

I looked all round till i finally saw pur getting top 8 prizes set up a nd she was the one who told me TR Cassidy let without saying goodbye. Ohh w ell ill see her online i said., O went bac ton the room to clean my BIG mss and get ready to go. I was about to when i found out i don't need to get my stuff till charwolf is about to go in for the night so i cleaned up my mess,get my bags ready a nd put them by the door. i went back to to finally met TR Cassidy because he forgot a bag. i lock her hand tight in a bond and said ill seen ya in origins buts he shocked me by saying „I might be in san diego‰ So as i unlocked the bond i waived and said hope i see ya i san diego.

That made my day fell so much better. I returned to the SC room and found the top 8 started and the theme deck challenge was still gong o so i walked over with my gator deck a nd faced a big staff guy when his gator deck a nd beat him in a hard battle. When that ended dok announced he will have one more draft at 10:00 pm. This was fun because i needed something to break down time. As the SC winded down me an charwolf went down to river rock emporium to get some dinner and sensei invited us over to talk with him and eat. it ended up all 3 of us at one time or another had to leave and come back for something which was interesting. the night went on a dok ws getting

the draft gong. As i was getting my binder from my room i bumped into purity,MTM and ingerius (purity edit: anguris) from zeo. DMTM was headed to bed so i said bye,shook his hand and said thanks for a great day. i know now what my mistakes were and hopefully ill be bale to capitalize on them for next time. I also saw that ingesius and pur were headed up too because they wee booth tired. i shook ingerius‚s hand and said it was great meeting ya nd hope you have a good night an i shook purity‚s hand and said it w as great meeting ya again,thanks for getting all the stuff from pokemon center NY and ill see ya hopefully in san Diego but she said she sent going so aid ok them at origins. She aid yeah maybe and she left. i went back and talked a while with Wolf and Sensei till out of shock pur an ingerius came back around for a final walk by and talked with sensei and Charwolf. After a little while they both went off and by that time Charwolf and sensei got so tired they left for bed. Before he left Charwolf threw me a spare staff shirt that as oddly left by his bag. i thanked him so much. i shook sensei‚s their hands and said thanks for the great time. i said to sensei ill TTYL and to Charwolf i said ill see ya in san Diego. As they left some signs of emotion were fading because the last of my buddies were departing. i let it pas through and i gotinto the draft which was almost turned into a single elimination modified tournm,ant and had a blast. i sacrificed 6 of my booster as an entrance and walked away getting one back as a prize. it was a risk but i paid off when DMTM grabbed 9 pack of challenge and handed them to me. he gave our alot of packs. He was relazing and playing soem games. I ended up that night with 32 unopened packs. The night dragged on a nd it was 1:32 am. the draft was over. Dok left and DMTM was saying so longer cause he was gong to bed. I shook his hand and said so long,thanks and the CSC was AWESOME!! I also said i hope i see ya in san Diego.

i figured id get the shuttle back but it w wasent gonna be there till 2:30 am. i went to pay one last game of NA Jam. i lost the game and went back to catch the shuttle. I got ton the airport an found they don't do sign in's till 2hours prior to departure so i has to wait. I dozed off 4 times,and almost missed my flight 2times but i finally made it. I got on,sat down a nd next thing i know is i was in newark., i must of slept pretty heavy. I made it back to jersey safe and around. It was kinda sad that things went so quickly but i had such a great time that it didn't matter to me.

The friday night draft was fun,meeting everyone again was a blast and the CSC ROCKED!!!! Now i know what deck i need to build ins an diego to rule. Ill see everyone in san diego

This is FireFighter09 signing off.