I had tons of fun! Very sad to go home. D: I failed Grinders lol, but that's alright.... I barely lost the 2nd round to a stage 1 deck after getting a round 1 bye, but the person who beat me ended up grinding in so I didn't feel as bad. He was also very nice and apologized for beating me.
People I met:
HeatRotomFTW1997
I don't exactly remember how he knew who I was, but he came and said hi to me in the Grinders room and talked for a while. We ran into each other a few times after that.
Zero
On the day of Grinders as well, he was pointed out to me by Decmaster and jirachinick. I went up and said "Zach! Guess who I am!" He was confused. I pulled out my Psyduck plush, said "Pokebeach.... Starts with an M.... Ends with an eaty... -_-" And he finally figured it out and hugged me hahaha.
piplup234
He was the first person I met from this website. Thursday night when I first arrived and went into the gameroom, me and jirachinick went to sit down and play some people. After Nick adresses me by my name, piplup, who is playing Nick, recognizes it and is happy to meet me. He gave me two reverse Swoop! Teleporters that I needed for my Arceus deck for a dollar and a Weavile, so I was very happy.
~Absol+Gallade~
Had lots of fun with this one. On Saturday I started a trade with her in the open gaming room since I was looking through her cards the day before. At this point I had no idea who she was. While trading, I decided to just pull up a chair because her amazing binder was attracting crowds of traders. After she was talking about her "epic Poliwag binder" I said it was nothing compared to my Psyducks and showed her my own collection. After a while she said "Wait... Are you Meaty on pokebeach?" and I told her yes and she told me who she was. So I offered her a game. l found it amusing that she was using Magneboar, a deck most people gave up on, but I respected it. I lost, but hey, I got a bad start, and my deck has weakness.
I ended up introducing her to jirachinick and Decmaster after they came up to me for something, and we all had a lot of fun the next two days. She was just as eager to meet DNA as I was, so we were plotting on how we would lure him out. Sadly, neither of us ever met him... On Saturday night we managed to acquire Emerging Powers packs from someone and even though I got 9 packs, I only got one Pokemon Catcher, and no full arts. My best pulI was a reverse ability Gothitelle. She pulled a FA Thundurrus in 3 packs, I believe.... We managed to meet up again the next day during the prereleases (I finally got a FA in my very last pack lol, but not one more Catcher...) Me and Decmaster were helping to complete the set, until I found out I had to leave and go home. I was very sad to say goodbye to a new good friend who lives so far away.
JWittz
I was naturally very eager to meet him, and I said hi and got a Hoppip signed. I ended up running into him and talking to him for a bit several times after that. I watched him playtest and decide on a deck the night before Worlds.
People I wanted to meet but never got to:
DNA
DNA... DNA DNA DNA.... Nick told me about what happened (lol I like how you understood the connection between my real name and screen-name right away just by hearing someone look for me) and we were trying to find you the whole time as well. :/ You should have known what both of us looked like, but only Nick would recognize you. :/ I actually ended up meeting and befriending ~Absol+Gallade~, who also wanted to meet you very abdly, but Nick wasn't very helpful with finding you. :/ I'll still have a Psyduck plush ready to throw the next time the opportunity arises! I should also let you know that a ton of my opponents always questioned the rulign whenever I attached a rainbow energy to my Roserade.... It got really annoying, since some of them were older and didn't think that I would know the actual ruling depsite running the card. In fact I have looked it up a good 20 times...
dmaster
I really wanted to meet you as well, but sadly it never happened.... However, after I had been eliminated from Grinders, I remembered how you told me that "bad things" would happen if I didn't grind in. Therefore I decided it may have been for the best if I didn't meet you. :|
WPM
Of course I also wanted to meet our webmaster, but I didn't know what he looked like, and I never saw anyone point him out or anything....
If I met you, and forgot to mention you here, please tell me! I am very tired as I write this so my brain may be malfunctioning....