posted November 06, 2002 12:53 AM            

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We are HOPING by early next year, to be in sync with the USA in regards to the Pokemon Battlezone program.

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..and Lee tells me we are definitely getting BattleZone in January 2003..

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Badges and promos will be dispatched THIS WEEK within the next few days..

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I am trying to improve the communication problems between WotC/Hasbro UK and the players

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posted November 06, 2002 01:45 PM            

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Q1: Mr. Singleton, there are many players/professors that want to assist WotC UK with Pokemon in that country, what more can they do, in order to accomplish this?

Answer: The Players and Professors who run leagues are doing a wonderful job with promoting Pokemon so far, and I am trying to improve the communication problems between WotC/Hasbro UK and the players. Right now, the best things that Professors/Players can do to support the game, is to keep running leagues.

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Gosh, how does he expect us to do this after so long, and still even now, without promos, stamp books, cards, posters, promotion of our national tournaments and information on card and chain stores that are stocking Pokémon:Expedition locally and nationally?

As if by MAGIC?

(no pun intended)

Marsh - excellent job, we are indebted to you man.

-fK

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posted November 08, 2002 02:16 PM            

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Originally posted by Super Amphy:
Busy? At what, exactly?

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Something contagious is spreading around WotC-UK in Stockley Park. It's making people scratch a heck of a lot.



-fK

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posted November 09, 2002 04:37 AM            

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Dear Pokémon League Organiser,

I am sure you are all aware that there has been a distinct lack of new Pokémon materials available from Wizards for quite some time. On behalf of the company I would like to start by apologising for this and let you know that monthly kits will now be regularly sent to you as from the New Year.

Due to both budget and staff cuts within the UK Office it has been decided not to pursue Year 3 Pokémon materials in this market place. Instead we will be aligning with the US schedule. This means that we will be introducing Pokémon League Year 4: Battlezone into the UK at the same time that it appears in the US market place.

We will also be giving out Year 3 promo cards to league organisers to use as prize cards every week. This is to ensure that the UK players will not miss out as a result of the program realignment. These cards will be provided at the rate of 2 cards a week due to the limited amount that we have managed to acquire within the UK. (The prize cards will change every month until the supply has run out)

To tide everyone over until the new Battlezone kits arrive I have sent out the following kits to help you support the Pokémon players in your area. There will be a new kit sent out in December to help you in the final month. Inside this kit you will find the following:

Participation Prize 1

40 Plains Badges
50 Fog Badges
40 Mineral Badges
40 Zephyr Badges
50 Storm Badges
50 Glacier Badges
100 Rising Badges

Participation Prize 2

50 Flying Pikachu
50 Cleffa
50 Dark Persion
50 Dark Gyardos

Weekly Prizes

2 Lily Pad Mew (Promo 47)
2 Scyther
2 Fighting Energy (Foil)
2 Lightning Energy (Foil)

The participation prizes are for everyone that turns up at your league. They should be able to receive a different promo card each week. The weekly prizes are for the best two players each week.

Thank you for your time understanding and your patience in this matter

Lee Singleton
DCI Manager UK & Ireland

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It came this morning

There are no Lilly Pad Mews in it

That's probably the most useful of the promo's given ...

Still it came Marsh, CANCEL the NUKES

There is hope after all.. now will we have to do this all again next month and will we have to do this to get BattleZone?

[ November 09, 2002, 04:43 AM: Message edited by: ukpokemonpro ]

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posted November 09, 2002 11:17 AM            

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I'm telling you...you're all to quick with the big artillery...just wait and you'll get it...and you did.

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posted November 11, 2002 10:20 AM            

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Originally posted by ukpokemonpro:
Okay here is the latest from the UK.
Today at around 13-00hrs Lee rang me! This is a real first and a breakthrough, Lee rang me.
Now he asked if we got the Promo's he had sent out and he asked about what was missing and has agreed to send us a list of the Year 3 Promo's he has so that we can at least deal with any shortfalls.

It seems that Lee is really trying to change our relations with him and bless my trusting soul.. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope you all will too.

He has read all the posts on this board and has been moved to both act and contact us.

I feel this is a real opportunity for us to build a better relationship with Lee and WotC UK.

It still means that Lee has to deliver and keep delivering. But he has made a gesture of faith and trust and I ask that we return it.

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Last Sunday I hosted yet another session of league. Our league is quite bewildered by the fact that we seem to be ignored but we had two players who'd returned to play from an extended absence and who said they'd come next week - a father and his young son.

I used my own prizes, two rectangular-cut Neo Discovery holofoil cards, for a Team Multiplay tournament we ran. I didn't bother filling in any forms, I just ran the thing and put my own prizes up.

Players are asking me if I'll be bringing in my own boosters of Pokémon Expedition to sell on at league like I did for Legendary Collection. I can't explain to them that I myself cannot get ahold of the boxes at all in Slough - I undercut myself and sell them for zero profit to allow the kids to get ahold of them when they want them. Last time I sold packs of Legendary for a £1, they were so many people who wanted the cards I'd run out and was using up packs that I'd earned from GenConUK.

We haven't got any promos. The last promos we got were the same you received in the summer, and that was when I picked them up myself.

I've had emails, phone calls, everything else ignored by Lee Singleton. Near enough a total lack of consideration.

I have also now started to write TCG articles for a magazine that sells internationally. GenConUK was reported on, plus the latest sets of the TCG game.

Still no reply. Nothing. No promos, no league support, nothing.

So i'm afraid it's still a struggle with Slough's Pokémon League. For two years running we've sent the UK's players to the World Championships (Irwin was playing in Slough's league at the time).

This is life at the customer end of Pokémon TCG in the UK - no support, no sympathy, no promises fulfilled.



Business as per usual I think until we see parity across the UK with league support.

-fK

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posted November 13, 2002 11:16 AM            

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Originally posted by ukpokemonpro:
Well so far this week I have had two telephone conversations with Lee and he genuinely seems like he wants to change things.

He is stretched and weary at the moment and our response to his overtures of peace is important. I spoke to him about Freddy's kit and asked him if he had sent it to the correct address and Lee tells me he asked for it to be sent there.

Now given that we all seem to have got packages (except Freddy) with each others and our own address on them.. I had Mitchem League on it, Ian had My Address... perhaps a mix up at the warehouse has meant Freddy's package has gone missing??

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THEY ARRIVED THIS MORNING!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your help and support. Marsh, 'pro, Martin, Ian. Thanks a lot from all at our league

-fK

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UK Challenge Finals 2001 & 2002 Judge
Sweden & Germany STSQ winner 2001
Features writer for Pokémon World magazine - go buy!

Click to visit the website of the UK's National Pokémon Team, Team UK