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Pokemon TCG Regional Championships October 26, 2013 Ft Wayne, IN

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Date: October 26 & 27th 2013
Registration: 8:30AM-9:30AM

Play begins at: After Registration has Finished

Cost for main tournament:
Juniors and Seniors: Free
Masters: $20.00

Tournament Location:
Grand Wayne Center
120 West Jefferson Boulevard
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802

*This is not the location of last years tournament. This is the same place Indiana States was held

What are the prizes?

Prizes are awarded to the top players in each of three age divisions.

All participants will receive 3 Play! Points, and a Pokémon Regional Championships promo card (while supplies last), just for playing!

How will a winner be determined?

All Age Modified Swiss pairings best 2 out of 3 games Time Limit of 50 minutes + 3 turms
A cut to a Top 8 (attendance permitting) single elimination finals
Single elimination finals will be run as best 2 out of 3 games Time: Limit TBD

Note: Any age group over 227 players will have a second day of swiss for top players...


1st Place
A Pokémon TCG Regional Championships 1st Place award
A first- and second-round bye at the U.S. National Championships*
A combination of 72 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 144 packs (216 total)
120 Championship Points

2nd Place
A Pokémon TCG Regional Championships 2nd Place award
A first- and second-round bye at the U.S. National Championships*
A combination of 72 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 72 packs (144 total)
110 Championship Points (if division attendance is 4 or greater)

3rd & 4th Place
A Pokémon TCG Regional Championships 3rd or 4th Place award
A combination of 36 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 72 packs (108 total)
90 Championship Points (if division attendance is 8 or greater)

5th Place through 8th Place
A combination of 24 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 27 packs (54 total)
70 Championship Points(if division attendance is 32 or greater)

9th Place through 12th Place
A combination of 18 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 18 packs (36 total)
50 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

13th Place through 16th Place
A combination of 18 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 18 packs (36 total)
40 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

17th Place through 32nd Place
A combination of 9 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions Masters Division players receive an additional 15 packs (24 total)
20 Championship Points (if division attendance is 128 or greater)

33rd Place through 64th Place
Masters Division players receive a combination of 9 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
10 Championship Points (if division attendance is 256 or greater)

***PTO has also added the following Prizes***

65th Place through 128th Place
Masters Division players receive a combination of 4 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions

*Byes do not 'stack.' If you have won a bye in another event such as the S/P/T Championship and finish in the Top 2 of a Regional Championships, you will receive a maximum first- and second-round bye at your National Championships.

Side Events

League Challenge

Date: October 27th 2013
Registration: 11:00AM-11:45AM
Play begins at: After Registration has Finished
Cost for main tournament: $5.00

Main Tournament Format

Prizes!!

Everyone that enters will recieve 1 pack of Plasma Blast.

So what can you earn for winning? Top placers in each age group (see above) will receive the following:

1st place:
A Pokémon TCG League Challenge 1st Place Card
A combination of 8 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
15 Championship Points

2nd place:
A Pokémon TCG League Challenge Second Place Card
A combination of 4 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
12 Championship Points (if division attendance is 4 or greater)

3rd & 4th place:
A Pokémon TCG League Challenge 3rd or 4th Place Card
2 booster packs from current Pokémon TCG expansions
10 Championship Points (if division attendance is 8 or greater)

5th & 8th place:
6 Championship Points (if division attendance is 32 or greater)

9th through 12th Place
4 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

13th through 16th Place
2 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

17th through 32nd Place
1 Championship Point (if division attendance is 128 or greater)

More Side events will be announced as we get closer to the event....

Hotel Information

Hotel discount is for the hotel that is attached to the conference center via the 2nd floor.

HILTON FORT WAYNE AT THE GRAND WAYNE CONVENTION CENTER
1020 SOUTH CALHOUN STREET
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, 46802-3005, USA
TEL: 1-260-420-1100

If you call in to get the $99 room rate tell them you want the "Pokemon Regional Tournament" rate

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/F/FWAFHHF-POK-20131025/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG

Hotel Discount good until October 25, 2013
 
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Pretty excited for this one. Looking forward to it!

I do have one question, though: Most other Regionals are allowing those who enter the main events to get free entry into the attached League Challenge. Any chance of that happening here (of course, they wouldn't get the booster pack)?
 
Raen said:
Pretty excited for this one. Looking forward to it!

I do have one question, though: Most other Regionals are allowing those who enter the main events to get free entry into the attached League Challenge. Any chance of that happening here (of course, they wouldn't get the booster pack)?
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By most other regionals you mean? Houston is free with no prizes (its free if you don't enter main tournament either way due to it being run on Friday), Arizona is $5, Vancouver isn't running one, and Philly doesn't have one. The only one I see doing this is California, it isn't free its free for masters who have played in the main tournament and choose to use the ticket they get to play in it for free.

League challenge will be $5. Instead of forcing you to play in a side event to get your value out of your $20 we added prizes down to 128th place. Everyone else is going to 64th.

See the thing is, to get your value out of your $20 for that "free" league challenge you would not only have to stay till sunday, not make top 8 in any of the age groups, if your a master not make day 2 swiss (if there are more then 227 players which I expect masters will since we hit 329 last year) and also not want to play in the Video Game Tournament.
 
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farbsman said:
By most other regionals you mean? ...and Philly doesn't have one.
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On the note of the Regional Championship in Philly, there is going to be a League Challenge on Sunday and if you pay to play on Saturday you will be able to play for free in the League Challenge. I am not sure if there are prizes for the League Challenge but it is stated that if you did not play in the Regionals then it is $5 to play, so I imagine there will be prizes.

http://www.philadelphiapokemon.com/vgregionals.html

Also I am happy to see that there will be prize support for more players, rather than More prize support for the top placing players. I wish the other Regional Championships would extend this as well.
 
Hey Derek, I sent you a PM about judging on the P!P forums, if you need another judge let me know. My username on there is A_Caspanello.
 
BPenno said:
Is there a chance of a prerelease tournament being held like in Houston during the weekend?
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There is absolutely no chance of a prerelease happening on Saturday or Sunday. Indiana has 5 PTOs, Ohio has 3, Michigan has 2. It would only hurt the other PTOs by having prereleases at Regionals and also in turn hurt the players. If everyone goes to a prerelease at regionals and doesn't go to the prerelease at there local normal location, then when the PTOs order for XY they wouldn't be able to order as much as normal due to lower attendance at the previous prerelease.
 
King Piplup said:
Is any further elaboration possible on the second day of Swiss for 227+?
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I was hoping to avoid this but it needs to get out there as many more will possibly be needing to stay Saturday then planned. I was hoping to have all the answers I had asked for but I don't yet so gonna try to explain best I can. This is also another reason there won't be prereleases.

Gonna try to Explain best I can. If there are 227+ players in an age group then there is the 2 day format. Using last years masters number, we would run 9 rounds of Swiss on Saturday. Then either the top 32 or the players with 21 points (whichever is greater) will play Sunday. By points I mean this. Win=3 loss=0 tie=1 point. So everyone with a 9-0-0, 8-1-0, 8-0-1, 7-2-0, 7-1-1, 7-0-2, and 6-0-3 (w-l-t) would go to day 2. Day two everyone that made that day would play 5 rounds of Swiss and then we would break to a top 8. This from my understanding is how Magic does the pro tours but not being very informed on Magic I could be wrong.

That should help with those wondering about top cut at nationals. Yes you break to a top 8, but how you get there isn't the same. If you have less then 227 in an age group then it's the traditional Swiss then break to top 8. Juniors last year in ft wayne had 52 players, seniors had 98, masters had 329 so the only age group I expect this to happen to is masters.
 
farbsman said:
I was hoping to avoid this but it needs to get out there as many more will possibly be needing to stay Saturday then planned. I was hoping to have all the answers I had asked for but I don't yet so gonna try to explain best I can. This is also another reason there won't be prereleases.

Gonna try to Explain best I can. If there are 227+ players in an age group then there is the 2 day format. Using last years masters number, we would run 9 rounds of Swiss on Saturday. Then either the top 32 or the players with 21 points (whichever is greater) will play Sunday. By points I mean this. Win=3 loss=0 tie=1 point. So everyone with a 9-0-0, 8-1-0, 8-0-1, 7-2-0, 7-1-1, 7-0-2, and 6-0-3 (w-l-t) would go to day 2. Day two everyone that made that day would play 5 rounds of Swiss and then we would break to a top 8. This from my understanding is how Magic does the pro tours but not being very informed on Magic I could be wrong.

That should help with those wondering about top cut at nationals. Yes you break to a top 8, but how you get there isn't the same. If you have less then 227 in an age group then it's the traditional Swiss then break to top 8. Juniors last year in ft wayne had 52 players, seniors had 98, masters had 329 so the only age group I expect this to happen to is masters.
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Are the records reset for Day 2? They aren't in M:TG. I'd be surprised if there are ever even close to 32 players with 21 points after 9 rounds given 50 minutes swiss. TPCi is greatly underestimating the number of draws that will occur in swiss. We'll see, though.
 
farbsman said:
By most other regionals you mean? Houston is free with no prizes (its free if you don't enter main tournament either way due to it being run on Friday), Arizona is $5, Vancouver isn't running one, and Philly doesn't have one. The only one I see doing this is California, it isn't free its free for masters who have played in the main tournament and choose to use the ticket they get to play in it for free.

League challenge will be $5. Instead of forcing you to play in a side event to get your value out of your $20 we added prizes down to 128th place. Everyone else is going to 64th.

See the thing is, to get your value out of your $20 for that "free" league challenge you would not only have to stay till sunday, not make top 8 in any of the age groups, if your a master not make day 2 swiss (if there are more then 227 players which I expect masters will since we hit 329 last year) and also not want to play in the Video Game Tournament.
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Correction to the above quote. There will be prizes (booster packs) for the Houston League Challenge. For those not playing in the main event, there is a $5.00 entry fee for the League Challenge. The Sunday side tournament is also $5 for those not playing in the main event, and will also have prizes (booster packs). So, it's $5 for the League Challenge, and $5 for the Sunday side event, but BOTH tournaments are included in the $20 entry fee for the main event.
 
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Pikabruce said:
Sorry, but I'm still confused as to when the League Challenge is, particularly since it's not yet listed on pokemon.com

The first message in this thread currently says the LC is on Oct. 27 (Sunday), with registration at 11:00AM.

But on http://pokemonbuzz.com (which you refer people to from the Houston Pokemon facebook page) it says the LC is on Oct. 25 (Friday), with registration at 6:00PM.

Could you please clarify? Thanks
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You and me both! There is very little information other than cps about this event. Every time I ask, which is as soon as today, I get told Pokémon will clarify soon. Its a month away! I am asking because leagues all over the place want to know what they need to do to get prepared for this! Do they need a TO? Do they need a professor? Do they report the results to pokemon.com? Do they need a Pokémon program on the computer for these tournaments? League challenges are very important to people. Without them, I don't see many people reaching 500 cps or even trying. Please Pokémon we need this information soon! Leagues need to make accommodations if TO's and Professor's are needed... For example, I am hearing from some people down in south Louisiana that there is a chance Leagues don't even need a TO, just the League Organizer... And how long would it take for Pokémon to grant TO status to several people in a very short time period if they announce that you need one?
 
Just added....

Saturday October 27th we will offer an alternative side event for masters who would like to drop from the main tournament....

After the 5th round of the Masters age group is over, Masters anyone who has dropped from the main tournament can play in this tournament to allow them another chance at prizes.

Cost: Your wrist band from the main tournament (you recieve these when you register)

Format: Swiss 30 minute +3 no top cut

Prizes:

1st place:
18 Plasma Blast booster packs
pack of sleeves

2nd place:
10 Plasma Blast booster packs
pack of sleeves

3rd/4th place:
4 Plasma Blast booster packs

These tournaments are only available to Masters players that have played in the main Regional Championships. Each tournament will have no more then 64 players in each one. Players will be entered into the tournaments randomly. You must drop from the main tournament before the 6th round begins in order to play in these tournaments.
 
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I have been informed by the Hilton that they are out of rooms for Saturday night, they do still have some on Friday night for the discounted rate. The next closest hotel is the courtyard by Marriot across the street (there is a walkway above the road you can take to the conference center). Sorry this close to the tournament I am unable to get any discount.
 
We had the following numbers.

Masters 357

Seniors 85

Juniors 58

For a total 500 Players.

We also had 141 for the League Challenge.
 
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