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Topic: How many leagues in Europe?
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Planteon
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posted October 07, 2002 08:09 AM
In another thread SauroN said that the number of leagues has dropped from around 100 to 14 in Sweden - According to WotC's own list it's 28, but the list looks out of date. According to the same WotC info, Germany should have 86 leagues, UK 26, Belgium 14, Netherlands 34, Norway 4, Denmark 17, Finland 10, France 0 (!), Italy 261 (!), Spain 57 etc. Is that correct?
Is there up-to date information anywhere?
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SauroN
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posted October 07, 2002 08:16 AM
I believe my information is correct. Dumbledore called our distributor and they said it was 14.
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posted October 07, 2002 08:19 AM
Thanks SauroN.
The WotC list had a shop that I know have stopped to run a Pokémon TCG league. So, 14 Leagues in Sweden, what is the situation elsewhere?
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posted October 07, 2002 11:01 AM
In germany I only know about 2 leagues which really exist: one in Munich and the other in Stuttgart. I phoned to 10 leagues before worlds and only one actually was available. The other answered things like, we quit and nobody removed us from the leaguelist! I guess that in germany only 10 league are still open ![[Frown]](../tcg/frown.gif) .
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NoPoke
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posted October 07, 2002 12:25 PM
England has the following to my knowledge
Gamers-Guild (Rainham Kent)
Crawley (Crawley West Sussex)
"Clefairy's" (somewhere in Slough)
BBS (Seven Sisters London)
Oasis Gym (Pontefract?)
Mitchem (Mitchem London)
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Hairy Clefairy
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posted October 07, 2002 01:02 PM
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Originally posted by SauroN:
Why arent these inactive leagues removed?
*Clefairy's* LOL what a great name for a night club ![[ROFL]](../tcg/graemlins/roflmao.gif)
hmmm SauroN good question - just who is in touch with the person(s) who can update this information? It would be great to know.
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posted October 07, 2002 01:15 PM
There's 0 leagues in norway, as far I know. And one store in oslo has tourney every sunday ... :/
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Planteon
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posted October 08, 2002 04:07 AM
These numbers are worring...
Sweden have gone from 28 to 14
Germany from 86 to roughly 10
UK from 26 to 6
Norway from 4 to 0(well, say 1 as there is OP in one shop)
This means that in these four countries the number of leagues have dropped from 144 to about 30, or in other words: more than three quarters of the leagues have disapeared.
![[Dropjaw]](../tcg/graemlins/dropjaw.gif)
This is probably the reason why WotC have decided to stop Expedition, the players are so few that they can be ignored, at least in comparison to Nintendo's influence. ![[Mad]](../tcg/mad.gif)
How many of these 31 have recieved enough of Expedition for the set to be properly tested?
For Sweden my guess is that at most five have Expedition cards, but it is as likely that none of them have Expedition cards to play with.
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NoPoke
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posted October 08, 2002 04:19 AM
James Lee sent an email out to the prof list. Possibly to just the european Profs, asking about the availability of expedition in Europe.
I responded that there was no difficulty in getting the cards and at a cost below normal retail. I'm still waiting for my boxes to arrive, but the process is easy.
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Planteon
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posted October 08, 2002 04:27 AM
Yes, It's not THAT hard to import the cards, but I'm not sure that all leagues will have someone that takes the intitiative...
Let's just hope that enough leagues survive to keep the game going on this side of the Atlantic ocean.
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posted October 08, 2002 06:57 AM
Lord Ninetales is trying to get a league going up in scotland. He has a location and some interested people. It might be running already, but I havn't had any news from him lately. I'll ask him for an update. I wonder why all the leagues are disappearing? Maybe because pokemon has lost some of it's popularity? It still makes very little sense because they havn't lost anywhere near 3/4 of it. Pokemon is still selling like hotcakes in the few locations that carry it.
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Hairy Clefairy
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posted October 08, 2002 11:01 AM
Lack of publicity from WotC, lack of posters to advertise league, magazine campaigns listing the location of leagues which is more useful than just a generic website address of wizards.com/pokemon. The WotC league list is very wrong, so when people contact the old leagues and find out that no-one has a clue what they're on about, they just move on.
Quite sad really.
Perhaps someone from WotC-Europe can help us put that right? Ann?
-fK
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Golduck
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posted October 08, 2002 12:21 PM
I only know about 2 leagues which really exist: one in Munich and the other in Stuttgart.
I know about another one which I'm pretty sure still exists: one in Ludwigshafen. ![[Smile]](../tcg/smile.gif)
There's 0 leagues in norway, as far I know. And one store in oslo has tourney every sunday ... :/
Eh? I'm a Gym Leader, didn't you know that? I have a Year 3 kit and we hold League here in Nesodden every Wednesday.
Here's the full list of ACTIVE Leagues in Norway:
Dreamlands
Kongens gate 23
7012 Trondheim
Notabene Lambertseter
Langbølgen
1151 Oslo
Outland
Jernbanetorget 1
0154 Oslo
Fjellstrand Skole (Eskil Vestre)
1458 Fjellstrand
Clas Fr. Dahle
Sørgårdslia 2
1900 Fetsund
Markus Holmset
Olavesåsen 3
1675 Kråkerøy
Gledeshuset
Øvre Langgata 47
3110 Tønsberg
Tromsø Bruktbokhandel
Kirkegata 6
9008 Tromsø
Kristian Stangvik
c/o Ove Sethre Nilsen
Tiriltunet 5
3268 Larvik
[ October 11, 2002, 03:54 AM: Message edited by: Golduck ]
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Golduck
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posted October 08, 2002 12:29 PM
At the start of Year 2, we were 4 Leagues in Norway. Now, at the start of Year 3: 9! League is going stronger than ever here. I don't like to brag, but I reckon we can thank two ducks for that. ![[Wink]](../tcg/wink.gif)
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Golduck
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posted October 08, 2002 12:46 PM
Go to http://webapp.wizards.com/dcitournament/Default.asp?game=PK
Choose Any Format - Individual play - Country: Norway - Status: All and click search.
As you see, we have pretty good OP in Norway, we've had more than 20 tournaments since May.
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Norway from 4 to 0(well, say 1 as there is OP in one shop)
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Michel
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posted October 08, 2002 01:12 PM
How many leagues in Europe ?
Excellent question !
I would add 'Where are there leagues in Europe ?'
Do WE have to answer to that question ? ![[Confused]](../tcg/confused.gif)
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posted October 09, 2002 01:09 AM
Good to see that Norway have active leagues! But it looks like only two report to DCI and when I do the same search for Sweden I get... NO tournaments since 12/9/2001!
The problem is, accordning to Golduck there are 9 leagues in Norway, SauroN claims there are 14 leagues in Sweden. How can new players find a league? WotC doesn't have the info...
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posted October 09, 2002 03:52 AM
I run a norwegian website (http://eovestre.home.online.no/pokemon)and often get e-mails from people asking where they can find a League. There's no other place to ask, I guess. Wizards should do something about this!
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posted October 10, 2002 05:40 AM
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Gamers-Guild (Rainham Kent)
Crawley (Crawley West Sussex)
"Clefairy's" (somewhere in Slough)
BBS (Seven Sisters London)
Oasis Gym (Pontefract?)
Mitchem (Mitchem London)
Add to that somewhere in the Midlands ..
Doncaster?
Oh and Poole I think .. sorry Torquay and Jersey.
So I think the list is ..
Gamers-Guild (Rainham Kent)
Crawley (Crawley West Sussex)
"Clefairy's" (somewhere in Slough)
BBS (Seven Sisters London)
Oasis Gym (Pontefract?)
Mitchem (Mitchem London)
Torquay
Jersey
and other locations north of London
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posted October 10, 2002 06:44 AM
The Oasis gym I mentioned is the Doncaster/pontefract/North
Though there was a Gym Challenge held in Torquay (at The Pit) I thought that the league had long since expired. Hope I'm wrong.
Could be something on Jersey too, and maybe Peterborough but the problem is that we have no way of knowing!
What hope is there for the potential player on the street to find a venue?
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posted October 13, 2002 09:03 AM
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Originally posted by TwutT:
There's 0 leagues in norway, as far I know. And one store in oslo has tourney every sunday ... :/
Wow wow .. I and golduck have a league. So goldie it shuld be Eskil Vestre and Steven widlic on that list of yours.
The info Golduck posted up is corect.
And the ducks are doing a great job getting peaple to play pokemon. Right Goldie.. TwutT you shuld do something in Bergen.
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Golduck
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posted October 24, 2002 01:47 AM
I didn't write that list, Midgaard (norwegian distributor) did. And actually, my address is correct to have there, because the League kits are sent to my home, and I do all the e-mailing with Midgaard. But of course, when at League, you're just as much GL as I am.
League # Update:
There are actually 13 Leagues in Norway at the moment, not 9.
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I and golduck have a league. So goldie it shuld be Eskil Vestre and Steven widlic on that list of yours.
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NoPoke
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posted October 24, 2002 06:49 AM
WotCUK are trying realy hard to get the number of leagues in the UK to a nice round number!
(grumble grumble grumble)
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posted October 24, 2002 07:39 AM
hmmm I must try to get more people here in sweden to take the danged prof test...we need more profs here =/
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