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I came in second place at my tournament. I lucked out because the people running it actually play Pokemon. They said that one could use legendaries, but if you did, then you couldn't use the same Pokemon to battle if you had advanced. I didn't have to worry because I don't use legendaries. Of course, a few people there had Dialgia, Palkia, and one had that Ghost/Dragon one.
They also allowed people to use Pokemon from the older games. I had to use my Charizard in battle, and they didn't have a problem with it.
Like I said, maybe I just lucked out having one of the few stores with people who actually play the games. And also, they probably have different rules at different stores.
Of course, one of my wins came because some guy's cart got corrupted in the middle of battle. He had used Code Breaker to get some of his Pokemon. So he had to forfeit the match to me.
My lost came to some kid who had EV-trained Pokemon. Of that, I was glad, because he wasn't some kid with bad movesets and horrible creatures. But he got the copy of the game and I got the special shirt. :3 And I bought a Wii.