Wolfe At World’s, Part 2

When we adjourned after Saturday’s round-robin tournament, Wolfe had qualified for the Elite Eight to be held today, Sunday. Exhausted, he and his family retired to their hotel room, ordered some room service and did the absolute best thing they could do: To get a great night’s sleep.

The tournament today was a single elimination tourney, like the NCAA tournament. In his first match (composed of best-of-three games), he faced last year’s World Champion, Ray Rizzo.

Ray has been undefeated for two years and was a formidable opponent.

In the first game, there was a lot of jockeying for position, but Ray eventually prevailed. In the second game, Wolfe, who had been studying Ray’s strategy, found an effective line of play, and Wolfe won the second game.

As the third and deciding game unfolded, Wolfe’s strategy again started to dominate, and he was “ahead on points” when Ray play two “long shot” moves in a row, the first with a 10% chance of success and the second one with even less likelihood of success. But Lady Luck was in Ray’s corner, and he scored heavily both times. Wolfe’s fate was sealed, and it was just a matter of time til Ray won.

So, Wolfe was out in the quarter finals.

Ray went on to beat everyone else in the tournament. Only Wolfe and one other boy took Ray to the third game, so Wolfe is rightfully proud of being named SIXTH IN THE WORLD in Pokemon videogame competition.

Congrats to Wolfe and to his wonderful family.