FI OP appears to be one foot in the grave, evidenced by the fact that no BR's will opt for rankings and no prize support will be accorded. Similarly, MT prereleases are up to individual TO's, but again, apparently no sleeves etc support.
i‘ve seen on the pop website, a BR taking place on the 13th oct and a Pre-release a week before on the 6th; both in manchester. whether they will happen or not is a different matter.....
News from France :
* 8 Battle Roads
* 2 or 3 DP1 prereleases in French (Nov 17-18)
* DP2 in the format on Oct 10
* possible prereleases DP2 in French in January 2008
* all the other events of the season are planned now. Info on www.pokemon-pe.net
* some events can be added to the schedule in the future
Have to be honest guys, I see fairly little hope of any Pre-Releases for MT in the UK! It looks like OP in the UK is all very "up in the air" at the moment!
I agree that officially sponsored pre-release events for MT are highly unlikely. However there is nothing stopping organisers running unsuported events. I'm still trying to figure out how to structure a MT sealed event in Crawley sometime early in November. A price rise is unavoidable but it should still be possible to offer a good deal to the players.
2 days nationals???