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Hey guys. I would like to get some insite in to what you guys do for your leagues.

Myself... We usually hold Tornaments every 2 weeks and the top 3 winners get prizes, the other pleople get prom cards that are either left over from the Wizards days or that we hunt around for on e-bay. We usually have knockout rounds but everyone getting prizes, It usually cheers up some of the newer kids doing that.

We also run leagues as well, players continuing with the Leaf, Fire, Grass and electric seasons (we got all we could from wizards australia and they sort of unloaded a few of the older promos with us.

Why am I telling you all this.

Well I am looking for new ideas on what to do for the tournaments. I was thinking about doing booster draft but again, we have to deal with little ones (But there are eager players and we did do 1 of these when EX Ru/SA got finally released here) So I want to keep it freash for all players... Even Myself.

So for all of you other gym leaders out there... What do you do?
 
This is my problem too .. how do I keep the long term players playing for the same promo's ... well we do team, draft, no-rares and common only tournys ... I mix and match promos, boosters and pokemon goodies as prizes. I have now started mixing promos on 9 pocket pages as NoPoke did for SE Challenge 4 to try to make them look more interesting.

At the end of the day we do need to see Nintendo support PDQ otherwise I cannot see how I can continue to sustain my league :(
 
The other thing I am doing is that the winner of the tournament gets to challenge me. If they win against me then they get a bonus booster pack. My deck is posted on the forum and even though people say that it doesn't work. It is truely great.

But I will have to try the no rares tournaments same as common only and teams, These are great ideas. But come on guys we are to help each other out. More ideas. Let them roll. :p
 
Official new for Italy, finally!
Nexus games, the company committed for Italy in the Lord of The Rings CCG, announced that they will be responsibles of the adaptation, distribution, and OP for Pokémon-e.
They announced for January 2004 the first localized expansion Ex: Rubino & Zaffiro, but english european releases are still avaiable, as in the whole Europe.
But they said nothing about OP, so I emailed to them asking somehing specific. I hope they'll answer.
 
...

hey.

i usually called myself SauroN around here.
i dont know if im back into the game but im kind of curious what's going on with the game.

well. just wanted to say hello.

- SN
 
A question for all of those that DID or are getting the promotional packs from their distributer/Pokemon USA...

Whats in them. Is it the same as what the US got or is it going to be completely different like Yu-Gi-Oh?
 
ranmasaotomes said:
A question for all of those that DID or are getting the promotional packs from their distributer/Pokemon USA...

Whats in them. Is it the same as what the US got or is it going to be completely different like Yu-Gi-Oh?
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I don't think you'll get Yu-Gi-Oh... :p
 
From my distributer.... My company IS getting the Yu-Gi-OH league when Toys R us Australias League is finished which means we get the different promos.

Thats what I ment.

I was asking if we are getting different promos to the USA.
 
Well yesterday, we had our league and it was 6 peaple attending.
My brother, eskils one of two sisters, and 3 of our friends and then a friend of my brother.

When i see the legaue members and ask them why they don´t come anymore.
They look funny at me, and reply´s it boring.

I do not know if this is the reel thing, or maybee it´s just becouse a new set and a new block is comming and the kids can not afford to get a good deck.
Since the kids usualy have the older cards. So LC was a great set for them.
When LC got in modifyed it came more kids.

What is happening??? Getting 6-8 kids every wednsday is not very good. Since it was 12-?? every time for 6 minths ago.
 
Well TeSp,

I know my lot are getting really grumpy about the same promo's again and again and again... I try my best to offer something different but with 30+ players to keep happy that is hard.

They need something to play for and at the moment the SE Challenges that we organise are the only thing keeping the UK from dying...

Europe is in a Coma and needs more than words to say us... action is required right now and yes it is urgent.
 
I think thats why this thread was started.

We all have leagues or attend leagues that are in desperate need of something to happen. We were hoping that the sets would encourage people. They do somewhat but everyone is a little concerned with the lack of promo cards.

I just hope they get everything in to gear soon.
 
I think all of us here acknowledge that there is either no support for the leagues if infact there are actually any leagues still around. I know that in our personal situation.... There is still a league although an unsupported one. In our league we trade cards and give out promotional cards that we can find on the net. Tournament entry fees pay for these cards and the kids seem to get a kick out of getting something sooner than it officially comes out.
I know at one stage we were transfering EON mails as a bonus for entering the tournaments (Usually hard because both the e-reader and the eon tickets hadn't been released here in Australia) but we managed to get them in for people so that they ... and we can have alot of fun.
I know we enjoy the battles that we get with some of the kids and it is good to see that pokemon league is growing. We just need something to show that the big guys are at least recognising us.
 
ranmasaotomes,

sounds like you are doing all the same things we are doing importing e-readers and eon tickets trading and buying promo's and trying to keep the game alive but it is mainly the work of a few of us that keeps large tourneys going and we are getting tired
 
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Getting tired, i am tired of this all.
I thought we were on speaking terms with our distributor.
Today i looked on their website and suprise there was a link with playingrules, a link to the League Locator.

For the playingrules i almost started crying when i saw them, they placed the rules which came with the BASE starterset.
We told them weeks ago if they want Pokemon back to the players they need a good translation of the rules.
Our help was not needed they had people who could translate the whole thing.
What did they do, NOTHING or even worse transmitting wrong information.
We are ingnored again as little children. And if they are not going to listen to us next week i will file a complain at the head of organized play of Pokemon Worldwide or Europe.

Then the link for Organized Play, it sends you to the American site and there is no way we can apply there as TO or whatever. And they suggest to find a prof. in your town to organize tournaments. fun fun fun.
With only 5 profs left in this country and 3 actual running Gyms/Leagues.

But what made me most mad (now smoke is coming out of my ears)
They want to do 15 Dragon prerelease events in our country.
15 locations - so thats our 3 gyms and 12 locations which never heard of Floorrules, actual playingrules and even had no league the last 2 years.
How on earth can you run a prerelease event without having experienced players or at least someone who know the rules.
We mailed them and told them to make that only 1 or 2 locations, because we don't have that many players left in this country and if stores want to have such an event they should start first with league.
I hope to get an answer on that next week, but only the idee of 12 locations who are announcing an event without any knowlegde of the pokemongame makes me sick. They will just sell the cards to the public take my word on that.
There must be rules for running a prereales event and i hope an american organizer will send them to me, unless the European rules are different (i don't know i don't get them from the distributor).

Meaby you all find this a stupid complain, but 3 profs overhere worked very hard to let pokemon life and we want a good base for league and OP and not something which goes out like a candle again after a few months because of the lack of conduct, providing wrong rules/information.
 
Rainbowgym,

it is almost the same here but our distributors are in Essen to try and work out a deal on leagues but still we have no information :(

We are trying to plan 2 pre-releases but until we know there will really be OP that is hard.

PUI continue to ignore the fact that if a distributor runs OP badly or not at all then there will be little or no support for OP in that country :(

By placing the burden on the distributors they strip us of any involvement whilst pushing all the cost and effort onto the distributor when they (the distributor) may see little reward for that effort.

Add to that unrealistic expectations and poor communication with Professors and you can almost write off International OP now. However we have yet to give Jarrod a chance to settle in but certainly if things do not change soon we will all have to start making alternate arrangements if we wish to continue any involvement with the game.

Certainly I cannot see worlds in August next year being anything other than a USA/Canada event unless PUI sort out the mess it is making of International OP.... Certainly I cannot foresee any distributors paying for winners in 3 age groups to go to the US..

I hate to say it but it looks like NOA/PUI maywell be worse for International OP than WotC were !! All the signs so far are that PUI are looking after US OP and that is it ... The rest is down to our distributors .... OH DEAR.....
 
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I don't know if i'm allowed to post this, but i don't know what to think anymore thats why i'm posting it here. Read. laugh and cry with me.

According to our national distributor, we can start league next week, materials should be in by then.
(Distr) We are going to have a prerelease Dragon-EX and up to 15 locations.We want max 300 players involved
(Me). I told you last week that 2 or 3 locations is enough to start with.
I asked him did you really ordered 2000 boosters it became very quit.
When he found his voice again he asked what do you mean, i don't need that many.
(Me) 300 players need 6 boosters each so that's 1800 and 1 full box for the winner in each location means about another 520 more.

than there was a long silence (and in the mean time i almost wetted my pants on laughing).

Q. Do you really mean each player needs 6 boosters, why?
Me. O you don''t know how sealed format works, you better should look at your website, oh i forgot no info there.
Q. I think i better can take less locations for such event and let the other do something different.
Me. Didn't PUI asked you to contact Prof and TO's to at least listen to their opinion about what to do? You can't call that a prerelease, didn't you got any details concerning prerelease tournaments and how to organize one. What prizes are involved and which playingrules to obey.
Also is there no need to be Premier TO to organize Prerelease events?
Q. No why,whats that, if they don't send information about that to me, i'm not going to look on their website to find info. Send me an email with all those questions than i will forward it to OP international (do you see my fall out of my chair laughing)
Me, I don't have questions you have and did you get info on how to run leagues or was there a CDrom in the leaguekit to use for tournaments.
Q. I don't know was very busy, didn't look at the materials.

This is only a fragment of what passed on that conversation, also spoke with one of his employees about playingrules. i was angry because they placed the base playingrules on their website. He told me that people could start the game with learning the rules from the rulebook out of the BASE starters and than learn some new rules. I tried to explain that the rules changed to much and you better learn correct (actual) rules.
He wanted an example, so i told him we have now more energytypes iso 7.
Also that you can have 4 copies of each card in your deck and not 3 or less as their info said ( we tried to let that change years ago but they didn't listen).
He asked were on internet can i find these rules ( and he meant in our language).
(laughing about him) I think you have to translate yourself the whole rulebook, because that's the job of the distributor head OP of a country.
Enough of this.


They have been 2 days in Barcelona and all they got was a piece of paper with headlines?
Don't know how to react anymore, it's sad that head OP in a country gives such answers. Nintendo didn't invented something new. Sealed has excist longer than the last months only now we need 6 boosters instead of 5. So the only one to blame is the party which carried OP before and will do now (dispete their lack of knowledge) and not PUI in this matter. They should know what sealed is.
I will wait till next weekand see if there are really leaguekits arriving, but me staying involved in OP, i have to think about that again.
 
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Rainbowgym: we've got that european distributors are totally insane. And PUI with them.
How they can run prereleases if POP is supposed to start December, 1st? How they think to run a Sealed Deck event if they don't even know how much boosters are required? Is not PUI that gives the boosters for the prerelease? Why they don't give at least some instructions on how to run these events?

It's an odd issue.
But it demonstrate how much PUI and local distributors cares about OP.
Personally, I miss Wizards' staff.
 
You don't ask a guy who sells cars to organize a Formula 1 season :p

Still no answer to my questions about the 'third party'. Any info about it ?

Ben, I propose a new topic called 'The best answers from the European distributors' ;)

Nobody from Denmark, Spain or Germany on this forum ? :confused:
You're also outside the USA, or maybe already outside the game ???
 
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