Prof. Douglas Zuver
New Member
This is a letter that I wrote to Pokemon USA awhile back,
I hope that this will help other people if they experience
similar computer problems of their own.
Hello Pokemon USA,
In November 2003, I sanctioned two tournaments to be run as part of the
"Big Pokemon Day" in Florida that I and others worked on.
It was a happy success.
When I went to upload the event, the upload button did not work.
These tournaments were the 19 and 20th tournaments ever to be sanctioned
by Pokemon USA, and were within the first dozen to be reported back to Pokemon USA.
After trying numerous times to get the upload button to work and failing,
I decided to try entering the tournaments by the other electronic method available:
entering each match one at a time into the Pokemon TCG database.
This method was found below the Upload Button area.
Unfortunately, at that time, the program accepting information did not give you
the opportunity to give a player a bye.
You had to enter two players for every single match.
So, I tried to figure out what to do next.
I felt it was important to turn the tournament in.
So, I created a player and named it Mister Bye.
Every time a player needed a bye and the computer refused to take the entry
without an actual player being entered, I paired them with Mister Bye.
This allowed me to turn in these two tournaments.
I have not used "Mister Bye" anywhere since.
I labeled it "Mister Bye" so that it could easily be identified and corrected later.
I also hoped someone would see the "Mister Bye" when it arrived to you and
correct it into a real bye.
I spoke to someone about the matter later, and they suggested I could have attached
the tournament to an email and sent it to Pokemon USA. I had never done that with
WotC, so the idea did not occur to me while I was handling the tournament.
Please correct this problem in your database.
I sincerely apologize for any time and effort this may cost you.
My Pokemon Organized Play number is ___.
Look up my sanctioned tournaments and you will find it easily.
Thank You,
Douglas Zuver
I hope that this will help other people if they experience
similar computer problems of their own.
Hello Pokemon USA,
In November 2003, I sanctioned two tournaments to be run as part of the
"Big Pokemon Day" in Florida that I and others worked on.
It was a happy success.
When I went to upload the event, the upload button did not work.
These tournaments were the 19 and 20th tournaments ever to be sanctioned
by Pokemon USA, and were within the first dozen to be reported back to Pokemon USA.
After trying numerous times to get the upload button to work and failing,
I decided to try entering the tournaments by the other electronic method available:
entering each match one at a time into the Pokemon TCG database.
This method was found below the Upload Button area.
Unfortunately, at that time, the program accepting information did not give you
the opportunity to give a player a bye.
You had to enter two players for every single match.
So, I tried to figure out what to do next.
I felt it was important to turn the tournament in.
So, I created a player and named it Mister Bye.
Every time a player needed a bye and the computer refused to take the entry
without an actual player being entered, I paired them with Mister Bye.
This allowed me to turn in these two tournaments.
I have not used "Mister Bye" anywhere since.
I labeled it "Mister Bye" so that it could easily be identified and corrected later.
I also hoped someone would see the "Mister Bye" when it arrived to you and
correct it into a real bye.
I spoke to someone about the matter later, and they suggested I could have attached
the tournament to an email and sent it to Pokemon USA. I had never done that with
WotC, so the idea did not occur to me while I was handling the tournament.
Please correct this problem in your database.
I sincerely apologize for any time and effort this may cost you.
My Pokemon Organized Play number is ___.
Look up my sanctioned tournaments and you will find it easily.
Thank You,
Douglas Zuver
