Tomorrow Is Yesterday's Pokemon Website

Welcome to Tomorrow Is Yesterday's
Pokemon Website!

For the latest news on the Pokemon Events at Rockford's Premiere Pokemon Store, TIY.

Click here to go to our Legends Awakened Prerelease results page (with pictures)!

Click here to jump down to our TIY's Team Tourney info!

Click here for info on our upcoming Autumn Battle Road Tournament

Updated and Created by Camille Peltier-Robson
Premiere Tournament Organizer and League Leader
for Pokemon USA, Inc and Tomorrow Is Yesterday, Inc.

If you'd like more information on How to Play the Pokemon Card Game,
you can learn all about it here at the Pokemon TCG Website !
Always feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

And if you'd like to get some free Pokemon Cards, check it out!

Tomorrow is Yesterday has the Pokemon League every Saturday from 3:30 until 5:30 pm
Each season runs approximately 6 weeks and is now free to anyone who would like to join.

The Pokémon TCG League is a great way for players of all ages to get together and hone their skills (and decks) in a casual setting. League members are rewarded for playing games, win or lose. The more you play, the more you earn! The 2007-2008 league cycle is based on the Sinnoh region, found in the Diamond & Pearl TCG set. The league cycle is broken down into eight seasons, each of which lasts about six weeks and represents one of the eight gyms found throughout Sinnoh.

During the span of the Sinnoh League, players will earn organized play exclusive promo cards, badges and mini-posters.

Coal Badge***Forest Badge** Cobble Badge** Fen Badge** Relic Badge** Mine Badge** Icicle Badge** Beacon Badge

The League time is less structured than the Tournament time, and is recommended for those who are newer to the game or those who more interested in trading cards, deckbuilding and earning badges in a more casual format.

We're currently finishing up in the Sunyshore City Season,
until the new Year of the Pokemon League starts again on Sept 15th, 2008 with the Grass Season.

Missy says Come join us at TIY for the Pokemon League! We have a lot of fun!

Tomorrow Is Yesterday runs Sanctioned Modified Pokemon Tournaments every Saturday at 12:30.
(Registration opens at noon)
Our Weekly Tournaments are free to enter, and we give prizes as well as a few door prizes.

The core of Pokémon Organized Play is our sanctioned tournaments, where players can compete on a regular basis to build your rating & ranking! The Tournaments is more for competitive play, where players compete against other players, and depending on how many players we have, will play in three, four or five 30 minute rounds of play against a different opponent each round. Tournament players should be those who already know how to play the Pokemon Card Game, and have their own 60-card Modified decks. If they do not yet have a Sanctioned Pokemon Organized Play ID card, we will gladly provide one for them. Currently at TIY we have been having between 22 and 30 players each week.

The sets legal in the New Modified Format will be updated as of September 1, 2008. The New Modified format will be
Diamond & Pearl -on. Players may not use cards from Pokémon sets prior to Diamond & Pearl (click here to see what will be rotated out),with the exception of basic Energy cards and cards that were reprinted in Modified legal sets.
Please make sure you're ready with a legal deck and review the legal sets for the Modified Format here.
(the new link from Pokemon Organized Play's website will be posted shortly)

Check back here for more information on the New Modified Format

Of course if you have any questions at all as to if your deck is Tourney ready or not, please feel free to stop in a few minutes early and have us check over your deck for you. Starter decks are always available at the store, as well as card sleeves, dice, damage counters, booster packs, and many other accessories to make your gaming experience fun!

Tomorrow Is Yesterday hosts many Premiere Events throughout the year, such as Prereleases and City Championships. If we anticipate larger numbers than our in-store Gameroom can hold (usually 32 in the room with additional available seating for 16 more if needed), then we often hold those events up the street at the North Suburban Women's Club.

Our Premiere Events are always a lot of fun and if ever you have the chance to make it to one, be sure to do so! You'll always have a good time at a TIY Premiere Event, and I always bake cookies for those who come join us! We will keep you posted here of our most current events.

Our judging staff for various events includes Devin Peltier-Robson, Keny Bailey, and sometimes Eric Ennocenti, Matt Ennocenti, Troy Lesky, Ryan Alperstein, &/or Adam Vernola.

TIY's Current Premiere Event Info

(or for complete details of our Archived Past Premiere Events,
including pictures from our Prereleases, and other event results: click here for the list of past events )

TIY'S Team Tourney!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to remind you that we've decided to have some fun tourneys for the next 3 weeks (8/16, 8/23, 8/30) before the Official new format change Sept 1st...

We've had a lot of people request a Team Tournament, so we thought now would be the perfect time to have a little fun with it! This will be a fun tourney, but not sanctioned.

I'll post the rules of the Team Tourney we'll be using so that everyone's clear.
But in the meantime, here's a few notes for you:

You may pair up with anyone you want ahead of time.

If you don't have a partner, you can pair up with anyone else
who also needs a partner once you're there.

You'll need to pick a name for your Team, nothing too long or too rediculous.

We will be playing the Team Tourneys for the next 3 weeks,
so you can use your decks over and over, refine them if you like,
OR make a completely different one each week

You MAY use your new Legends Awakened cards, since the event is not sanctioned.

We're thinking it will be Holon Phantoms through Legends Awakened for the format, although we could vote to change that for the next week's tourney.

Remember, just for fun, it will be TIY's Team Tourneys Aug 16th, 23rd & 30th!

Click here for our Team Tourney Rules Document
complete with specific card rulings

We'll bring these with us so that we have them for the next several Saturdays.

TIY's Autumn Battle Road 2008

Sat Sept 20th
At Tomorrow Is Yesterday's gameroom
5600 N. 2nd St. Rockford IL 61111

Store opens at 9am
Registration ends 9:30am and we'll start shortly thereafter

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We only room for most likely a maximum of 42 players (perhaps more). In discussing this unfortunate situation, since I know we have a LOT of players that come from all around the area for our events, we've come to the conclusion that the only way to do it to be the most fair will be to have our Battle Road on a first come, first serve basis. I hate to limit the number of players, but that's just how it has to be for now.

I'll also link all the area Battle Road information below, to help you find another that's close to your location, if you feel it's too risky to get in, to make a long distance trip to our event.

Again, so sorry to all of you who might not be able to join us this time, but we'll look forward to seeing you at our Prerelease for sure, since we have more room for that event, given they let us have a morning one and an afternoon one. Unfortunately, since there is a Top Cut, we are not able to do that for the Battle Road events.

So again, so it's clear,
I don't really recommend traveling a great distance to come to ours
unless you're ok with getting there early ...
our Rockford Battle Road will have to be
"First come, first serve"
for the first 42 players only.

The store opens at 9am, so if you really want to try to get in, be there early.
We'll love to see you!
As the store opens, we'll give out numbers to the people in line.
(to the first 6 per age group to start with, to make sure the tourney will be age separated)
After you get your number, you can enter the game room and fill out your decklist, playtest with others, trade cards, color in Pokemon Drawings, whatever you like until we get started at 9:30, which will be the last call for turning in decklists and getting entered in the tourney. (If you turn in your decklist after 9:30, you'll still be able to enter, but you'll be entered in Round 2 with a loss for round 1).

For those of our players who will be in the tournament, here is some information for you.

Most likely will be Age Separated Swiss (everyone will play within their own age group in all the rounds, the number of rounds being determined by number of players in each age group)

Age groups:
Junior Division (born in 1997 or later)
Senior Division (born in 1993, 1994, 1995, or 1996)
Masters Division (born in 1992 or earlier)
Also after the Swiss Rounds, in each of the 3 age groups we will have a Top Cut,
with either a cut to Top 2 or Top 4, depending on the number of players in that age group.

The top 2 finishers in each of the three age divisions will receive the following prizes:

1 st Place
8 Majestic Dawn Booster Packs
A Victory Medal—Gold promo card

2 nd Place
4 Majestic Dawn Booster Packs

3rd & 4th Place
Guaranteed Door Prize

We'll also have some other random door prizes and most likely a Side Event afterwards.

I'll post more information shortly.

In Loving Memory of Rich...

We at TIY wish to remember our good friend and Poke-Dad, Rich Williams.. He passed away suddenly on Nov 17th at only 37 years old. He had been a regular player at TIY in the Tourney and League for many years and many of you have played either him in the Masters or his son Jeremiah in the Junior Division. He was loved by all of us at Tomorrow Is Yesterday and will be missed by all of his friends in the Pokemon community. He traveled to many of the area events, including Nationals, and always helped bring many of the kids to the various events if they needed a ride. He was always there to help loan you a card you needed for your deck or trade for that last needed card in a set. He was kind, funny, generous, and all around one of the greatest guys we have ever known. He was full of the 'Spirit of the Game' and we will all remember him forever with love in our hearts...

As we would say in Hawaii, where my sons Devin and Dusty were born,
"Me ke aloha pau`ole."
"With never ending Love"

Memorials to Jeremiah Williams' college fund can be made in care of:
Raymond James Financial
Jeremiah Williams' College Fund, Attn: Dan Norman
120 W. State St.
Rockford, IL 61101, .

If you're looking for a Great Pokemon Information website with forums...

we highly recommend this one! Pokemon.Marriland.com (PMC for short) is one of the fastest growing Pokemon websites on the web! PMC has a Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Pokedex complete with pictures and moves as well as a Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Walkthrough and a growing number of D&P videos made by Marriland.

PMC also has a complete Ruby and Sapphire Walkthrough and Pokedex, complete Pokemon Trading Card Game Spoilers and Card Scans, a very Active Forums, Pokemon Wallpapers, and over 400 Pokemon Buddy Icons.

With all of this information, PMC is definitely the place you'll want to be for everything Pokemon!

The webmaster there is TIY's very own Devin Peltier-Robson and he's been working on this site and fine tuning it for several years now. Go take a look!

About Pokémon Organized Play

Pokémon Organized Play (POP) is an international organization that promotes good sportsmanship and enjoyment of the Pokémon Trading Card Game through competitive and casual play. Leagues and Prerelease events support a casual and fun gaming environment while preparing players for the challenges of our more competitive tournament series. That series of City Championships, State Championships, Regional Championships, National Championships, and Gym Challenges are meant to provide players opportunities to earn great prizes and hone their Pokémon TCG playing skills en route to the pinnacle event of the year, The Pokémon TCG World Championships.

If you'd like to know more about Pokémon Organized Play, go ahead and check out the official website for more info.

Pokémon Organized Play is supported by Pokémon USA, Inc, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company.

About the PokéGym & Team Compendium

Team Compendium serves one major purpose: to create and make easily available a place where any Pokémon player, judge, league leader, or tournament organizer can access and obtain answers to rulings on any question regarding the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG). As long as the Pokémon TCG is supported by The Pokémon Company (no matter who they have distributing it), Team Compendium will be present to get the latest rulings!

The Pokegym is also the place to go for all of the latest in Pokemon news... their forums contain information on upcoming events, the buzz on the latest card gossip, strategies, trading, and of course official rulings for all your TCG questions.

You'll find me as PokeMama there in the PokeGym Forums! Feel free to say hi to me!