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Guys, i only have fun about this, cant do anything else with it.
After hearing so many times in 1 hour : I don't know.

Pre-release tournaments are not sanctioned so they can be done.
I only know the distributor has to buy boosters and the special pre-release cards (expensive ones).
He assured me i could have that pre-release and after that i told him about the boosters. (want to have some fun sometimes)
It's hard to be a distributor these days, with all those profs having more info then you have.

As far as I understand league can start next week when the kits are in.
There should be software in there too. Now i only need acces to the TO part of the tcg.com site.
Which off course should be approved by the National OP (and again he didn't know were i was talking about).
OP can be started by running sanctioned tournaments and there is no need (beside the on-line acces) to wait with it.

Don't know were they talked about in Essen, meaby formula 1 cars?
 
I think that until we actually DO get the leagues. we will all have to pool our resources.
It appears to me that none of us are getting anywhere with reguards to ant official tournamets. Like I have stated in other posts. Some of you were lucky enough to get the ones from wizards when you did.
My advice.... Until we have access to all the materials we should all help each other. people complain about getting the same promos. We have the same problem and until something happens. let us trade them amongst ourselves. This might help our delemma.

I know that I have a relese booster draft for the release of Dragon EX which our distributers arn't even giving us a time frame of when we are getting the booster. (Makes my life really easy)

But in saying this we all need to support eachother. Instead of complaining. we all need to pool together. Maybe then something will get done.
 
ranmasaotomes,

we certainly do share resources in Europe and are willing to send you some too... we all have WotC promo's left and are surviving on those but how long can this go on?

It does seem that PUI may have briefed the Distributors not to deal with us? Certainly it seems madness for them to proceed without us...

Why would they run pre-releases without our help ... It can only be that PUI have lead them to believe they don't need it...

Certainly the UK were looking at 100 pre-releases but with our influence they are now looking at 2. But just think there are NO TO's outside the US, NO Premier TO's outside the US and NO leagues outside the US.

The first requirement for OP would be people who know what they are doing and the distributors certainly don't appear to know.
 
After hearing so many times in 1 hour : I don't know.
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Could be worse ... I've already heard different times 'I know better than you', and a couple of days later, the company that leads OP confirmed that I was right ;)

I only know the distributor has to buy boosters and the special pre-release cards (expensive ones).
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For your info, tournaments booster packs (special boosters with special cards) had to be given to the players of the last YGO tournaments in Belgium. These boosters were not distributed to the TO's before the events, and in addition to that, TO's have to pay 3 Euro/tournament pack !
Will TO's have to pay for pre-release cards too ?
IMO, it's something absolutely unacceptable.


But in saying this we all need to support eachother. Instead of complaining. we all need to pool together.
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I've never been against the idea of helping other Profs/TO/LC/players, and I've often done it.
But we must be very careful. Instead of trying to compensate the deficiency of the system, I think we should be as united as possible, and use the ways we have, to push the people to make the system run without deficiency.

It does seem that PUI may have briefed the Distributors not to deal with us? Certainly it seems madness for them to proceed without us...
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I'm sure it's not the case, but it is well possible that some distributors don't want to work with specific individuals. I'm sure too that some distributors still believe they can do it by themselves (especially if they've already put the letters 'OP' for another game on their website) and that these specialists in TCG don't need the help and advice of basic customers ;)
And finally, there are distributors who don't know what OP could be ... how do you want them to know what a Pokemon Professor could be and in which side of the zoological part he could find one ?

The first requirement for OP would be people who know what they are doing and the distributors certainly don't appear to know.
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Please erase the words 'appear to', thanks :p
 
Got some new statements of the year.

I'm in this brand longer than you have!
Believe me i know the market!
And the best one: What's PUI?
 
Rainbowgym said:
Got some new statements of the year.

I'm in this brand longer than you have!
Believe me i know the market!
And the best one: What's PUI?
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I like 'em now are they gonna find their way down to the RTC too?

We have been told in the UK that we will get league kits soon .. next week was muted ??

We are also told that we will get 2 pre-releases ... 15/16 or 22/23 November ... all though still depends on delivery and then maybe we'll start to trust again.
 
I'm in this brand longer than you have!
Believe me i know the market!
And the best one: What's PUI?
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I do agree with the two first sentences. The distributors are probably in the brand for a longer time than us and they probably know (I hope !!!) the market.

That confirms that distributor's job is SELLING.

And the third sentence confirms too that they DON'T KNOW ANYTHING about OP, which is not their job.

Unfortunately, if I don't think we're concerned in market questions, we're interested in OP.


You, happy people from Holland and UK who are talking about league kits and prereleases ;)
Absolutely nothing about POP is on the Belgian distributor's website and Professors have not been contacted.

Sorry Tego, we all let the game die in Belgium, we don't contact the distributor by ourselves and almost all the Pokemon Profs are now running YGO events. ;)

Sometimes I imagine the poor Professor who's not reading these posts, and believe me, all of the Profs are not as crazy as we are !
Which info can he find on the web, only place where he could find something as distributors don't contact him ?

NOTHING in most of the countries except the fact that POP outside the USA will start soon.
 
I hope that UK prerelease will be on November, 15/16 ... I'll be in london and I want one of these cool prerelease cards ;)

Italian distributor, as always, don't answer to the email I asked about italian prerelease... So my only chance to see one is in London... ç_ç
 
Marcello .. lets hope we can accomodate :)

Just got a call this am from a distributor telling me who to contact for Op in the UK... So things progress.

FINALLY something appears to be happening ....
 
There Was A Time When I Played, But I Couldn't Find Other People In My Area That Liked To Play. So I Got Looking For A League. I Found Nothing. Even Pokemon Was At It's Strongest, I Never Manged To Get To Play With Anyone Other Than My Best Friend.

I Started To Just Collect The Cards, As I Still Liked The Cards. Around Neo I Stopped Compleatly, There Was No Piont Anymore. I Was Just Spending More Money, And Getting The Same Old Cards.

A Coupple Of Months Ago I Found My Old Collection Under My Bed, And Decided To Get Online And See What Was Happening In The World Of Pokemon. That's When I Found The 'Gym.

I've Gone Back To Collecting The Cards, And Even Thought About Getting A New Precon. Deck. But Then I Thought What's The Piont? I Had No New Cards, Don't Know The New Rules, Don't Have Enough Money To Start Again, And Most Importantly I Still Had No One To Play Against, Or Anywhere To Play.

I'd Love To Start Playing Again, But Untill There's A League Where It Will Take Less Than 2 Hours To Get There (It Would Take 2 - 4 Hours For Me To Get To The South East Challange, Depending Where It's Held) I'm Not Going To Bother.

Don't Get Angry About There Not Being Any OP, We're All In The Same Boat. Only I've Had About 2 Years Of Not Playing, Not A Few Months.
 
Well sjmp where are you in the UK perhaps we can hook you up with a Gym or Local players ... even if you cannot make a local gym there are the SE challenges and now pre-releases that are worth travelling for.

Lets hope we see you soon at a League or Tourney and don't worry we can help you get up to speed with new sets, help with deck building and trade or sell cards to complete your collections.

The UK is not dead yet and we want to continue to grow through 2004.
 
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I'm In West Yorkshire.

Thanks, If There's Hope Of Actually Being Able To Play I Might Just Start To Get The New Cards.
 
ukpokemonpro said:
Marcello .. lets hope we can accomodate :)

Just got a call this am from a distributor telling me who to contact for Op in the UK... So things progress.

FINALLY something appears to be happening ....
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Wow! Something in UK is moving......
So, from Italy we send our ambassador Marcello!!! :)))))
 
sjmp said:
I'm In West Yorkshire.

Thanks, If There's Hope Of Actually Being Able To Play I Might Just Start To Get The New Cards.
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That is very good to see. The UK Professors are actually doing such a good job with their completely fan-made tournaments that they attract players into the game again. Now if that isn't something to give props for, I don't know what could be.

But sjmp: why do I get the impression that your whole post is one very long title of a movie? ;)
 
Irwinmalek: thanks for your invitation ;) I'll be there from 13 to 16 of November I think... tell me date and hours of the League and I'll try to reach you :)

BTW anyone wants to trade something for an Eon ticket? I need that ^^;;;
And if you need Dark Persian, some foil Elm, some italian Legendary Birds promo (Pokémon2000) I'll be happy to bring something with me :)
 
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Sorry for double posting, but I need to put that in a separate post.

I just received an email from International OP, I asked again about Italy, referring about prereleases and League kits still avaiable for Nederlands and UK.
They answered again to me that official start is December 1st, but if some distributors are ready, materials are provided and OP can start now.
Italy is not ready though. They are still working with Nexus for make it all up and running for December, I think.
And it seems that they want to have that situation cleared shortly.

/me cross fingers about UK prereleases ;)
 
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