soslowpoke said:
And just to clear things up...
Chrisbo, 'Mom, Dayton_GymLeader, Dayton_Pokemom, and myself = Master Professors = Head Judges
I'm not sure how many of the people who actually "wrangled this event" were Master Professors themselves...
I guess you could say we 'ran(/will run)' everything. A TO that's actually 'fluent' in Pokemon is just a sweeter icing on the cake.
After reading everything posted I felt I should post also. As asked by soslowpoke and stated by Scythking, I am a Master Professor that was given one of the 17 R&S Tournament to be held in Salt Lake City area, or as also stated one of three west of the Mississippi. I feel very lucky and am thankful to be given one to run. I am not a Premier WOTC Magic TO, just a Pokemon player that loves the game, has TO many Pokemon tournaments in my area, and tries my best to bring as many major tournaments to the area for other players to enjoy. Which I’m sure that is what we all want to do, hence the frustration with not hearing back from Nintendo that some of you have.
As Dayton_GymLeader stated some TOs will be new Premier TOs brought in and "raised" by Nintendo, so it does happen, and I am one of them.
My back ground which I did put on my Premier TO app, was that I have been playing the game for 4 yrs, was a Gym Leader for a WOTC Game Keeper store for over 2 years, have been a TO for over 2 years, was the head judge at the past WOTC Challenge events, one of which I ran the whole thing and all the TO had to do was put the information in the computer and send it to the DCI. I have put on many local events, including both of the SBZ in the area, and have three great Master Professors that are a great help to me when running tournaments in the area. Now some of you have stated similar back grounds as mine, so you might ask why him and not one given to me, and to tell you the truth I don’t know, but I am thankful I have one for my players in the area.
To be honest I was not Nintendo's first choice. As someone stated at the first of this post that Premier Magic TO was given a tournament when he didn’t even apply for it. The Premier Magic TO in my area was contacted by Nintendo asking for a proposal one running one. I had faxed in my Premier TO app the first day it was posted Nintendo was taking apps, and he didn't even submit anything. I was contacted by the Premier Magic TO and he told me about it. Since the SBZ he has passed all Pokemon tournaments onto me, and did the same with this one on passing the information to me. The next day I got a email from Nintendo which what I needed to know, submitted my proposal for the R&S tournament, and was given a call later that day that my proposal was accepted.
Now some of you have stated that you have not even been contacted by Nintendo to even be given the chance to submit a proposal for any of the tournaments and what I have to say is just wait. There will be more Premier tournaments in the future, and I know they will need TOs for those tournaments. I’m sure Nintendo is also going to want TOs help running the ladder league tournaments and such. If you have yet to hear from them, my idea to you is fill out the application again and send it into Nintendo. Let them know that you want to run the tournament. The best thing you can do it show them you are interested in running them. If there are other Master Professors or other people with TO experience have them fill out apps also, it will help show Nintendo that there is a desire to have tournament in your area. :thumb: