Rainbowgym
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Professor Dav said:Yes, this is a problem and we need to be notified of these issues. Remember, there are always two sides to a story, and this board almost always only provides one of those sides.
I find it to be problematic that we have to find out about these issues on a private message forum rather than through our proper channels. I know that there's been a problem in the past with the response from the international email address, but you are always welcome to use one of the other 'official' addresses to contact us with problems like these, and for the most part, that isn't happening very often.
I couldn't find any other adress then the international one to use for this, the option of sending Prof Dave a private message is not on. And i don't like it at all to discuss some things on a public board either.
1 hour ago i have send another email to organizedplay@ and international@ about the prerelease issue.
I assume that this is the issue with the Netherlands distributor who was asking them to pay $110 per booster box to run the event? If so, we are working on this issue and the distributor needs to understand how prerelease events are supposed to be handled.
There are been some changes in their proposal today, but why is there nothing on tcg.com website to announce/check what PTO's can expect for support, how the price brakedown should be.
My biggest question is: should a prerelease in Europe be done under the same conditions as in the USA.
Because if that is true you better read that email i did send 1 hour ago. If i have the same conditions as in the USA i can run a big event, but with the conditions of the distributor i can't.
At this time, it sounds like Lia and the distributor have had issues in the past which are most definitely affecting their current working relationship now. It's our responsibility to figure out what is going on, get both sides of any given story, and MAKE it work one way or another so that there can be worldwide prerelease tournaments and other events.
Yes there were problems in the past i won't denie that. I'm not willing to post those in public. But it doesn't effect the issue of organizing this event. This distributor claims they are in Pokemon OP for more than 2 years. How come anyone involved in OP doesn't know the existing of floorrules, doesn't know that a sealed format is played with more than 1 booster a person.
And, so we're clear, Lia, to my knowledge, didn't bring this issue to our attention, PS games did.
What issue did PS brought to your attention? That they didn't know that for sealed format you use 6 boosters, That they are not allowed to drive up the boosterprice for special events. That they didn't know to support prizes for an Premier event. Don't let PS put sand in your eyes. If i didn't asked those questions and told them that i also forwarded them to OP USA they would never had contacted you. They wouldn't lower the boosterprice. What did PS got for answer about me buying boosters to give away on side-events. Because i have an email from them that i'm not allowed to buy anything beside the 6 boosters for the Main event. They still don't understand there is a great communuty of Pokemonplayers who are willing to help each other by giving information.
We can't address ANY problems domestically or internationally if we aren't directly notified about them.
On which emailadress???? I hope it's not the one who is forwarding everything to the local distributor again. All my questions were forwarded by Skywolf, because he was getting answers while i didn't.
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