From D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK Thu Feb 7 01:39:32 2036 From: D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK (David Donachie) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2036 07:39:32 +0100 Subject: [L5RINFO] Spirit Wars - Just Awful part Deux In-Reply-To: <20092578009180@frpg.com> References: <20092578009180@frpg.com> Message-ID: > > Don't feel bad - our local store didn't even offer THAT for >> prizes - just one extra pack per player and the Koku. His >> rationale was "well I had to pay for the boxes and the >> shirts". No $#!+. > >Of course, he only paid 50% of retail for the product, and >essentially got the three shirts for free. And there was *no* koku for >this tournament, so your store was in further violation by giving any >out, since it had to have come from some other tournament and >hoarding koku is against the rules. > >I would appreciate it if you could email me (not this list) the names >of any stores that so grossly violated the agreements that they >signed by not making use of any of their prize materials, or by >making extremely bad use of them. I would prefer that they not run >pre-release tournaments at all than that they do them so badly. On the side of the stores (not this one but in general) we received no cover letter or instructions for our tournament. There was no indication of what was prize material and what was tournament material, no indication of whether there should or should not have been koku and more importantly, no indication at all of what the price was going to be to the store owner, who had no choice but to charge shelf price in case that's what he was charged. I don't know how it is in the US, but here we have never had the invoice for a tournament arrive before the tournament date. David **************************************************************************** The L5R Home Page: http://www.wizards.com/L5R To unsubscribe from this list send mail to listserv at oracle.wizards.com with the line 'SIGNOFF L5RInfo' as the body of the message. Contents (c)1999 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved. From D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK Thu Feb 7 01:42:36 2036 From: D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK (David Donachie) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2036 07:42:36 +0100 Subject: [L5RINFO] Spirit Wars - Just Awful In-Reply-To: <20092874409187@frpg.com> References: <20092874409187@frpg.com> Message-ID: > > Which store did you go to in LA? I paid $20.00 for one at Thunder and >> Lightning and they offered nothing for prizes other than the 3 shirts. It >> blowed hard!!!! > >All stores received (and were asked to use) the standard prize >pack, which consisted of three shirts and a display of boosters. >Any store that did not use it's boosters as prizes should probably >be on your list of "places I don't want to play". Just my opinion of >course, but I'll also be calling to find out why they did not properly >use what they were provided with. Our store (Black Lion Games, Edinburgh) did not receive this prize pack at all. We got exactly enough boosters to have 2 per starter for 24 starters, and 2 t-shirts. If all 24 places had been filled we would have had no prize material at all, and what we did have we had to buy at cost out of the tournament material (because we did have less than 24 players). If we were supposed to get 3 t-shirts and a display of boosters to use as prizes then something was *very* wrong David (who knows that's what we got because he opened the pack) **************************************************************************** The L5R Home Page: http://www.wizards.com/L5R To unsubscribe from this list send mail to listserv at oracle.wizards.com with the line 'SIGNOFF L5RInfo' as the body of the message. Contents (c)1999 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved. From D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK Thu Feb 7 01:46:58 2036 From: D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK (David Donachie) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2036 07:46:58 +0100 Subject: [L5RINFO] PRE-RELEASE TOURNAMENTS In-Reply-To: <20321824409265@frpg.com> References: <20321824409265@frpg.com> Message-ID: > > Regarding tournaments in general, what is a store supposed to receive when >> running one? The last 3 I've been at, the store receieved prize packages >> (except this prerelease, unless the T-shirts were the only prizes), and >> nothing else at all explaining the rules or anything. > >About three weeks before the tournament all of the stores should >have received posters to advertise the tournament. Along with the >posters was the report form, and a letter that explained the basics >of running a sealed deck tournament. The letter very clearly >encouraged stores to give me a call or send me an email if they >had additional questions. We (Black Lion games, Edinburgh) did not get this pack We did, I think, have a poster in advance (by about a week) but there was no cover letter > >The basic prize pack for all pre-release tournaments is three t- >shirts and a display of boosters. The basic prize pack for a >storyline tournament is three t-shirts and 500 points worth of koku >certificates. All stores are supposed to distribute all prizes for the >tournament that they are provided for. We also got no display of boosters and only 2 t-shirts David **************************************************************************** The L5R Home Page: http://www.wizards.com/L5R To unsubscribe from this list send mail to listserv at oracle.wizards.com with the line 'SIGNOFF L5RInfo' as the body of the message. Contents (c)1999 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved. From D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK Thu Feb 7 01:44:30 2036 From: D.Donachie at ED.AC.UK (David Donachie) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2036 07:44:30 +0100 Subject: [L5RINFO] Honolulu Prerelease (new levels of longwindedness) In-Reply-To: <20093074709190@frpg.com> References: <20093074709190@frpg.com> Message-ID: > > Oh yeah, TO mistake #1: Using 3 boosters in a 30/30 tourney. >> >> TO mistake #2: Forcing people to play exactly 30/30. (Note to wotc >> #3: clarify on their release data that "30/30" means at least and >>not exactly.) > >The letter that was sent out said to use one deck and two (2) >boosters. Not 3. I can't help it if people cannot or will not read (if I >could, the world would be a much better place, trust me). The letter >also said that the deck *minimums* were 30/30. It said nothing >about maximums, because it should not need to. Sigh. We had no cover letter at all ... nothing. I don't know if other stores did or not, but they may not have. We got a reporting form, a sheet on applying for tournaments and that was it. If there was supposed to be a cover letter with instructions we did not get it David **************************************************************************** The L5R Home Page: http://www.wizards.com/L5R To unsubscribe from this list send mail to listserv at oracle.wizards.com with the line 'SIGNOFF L5RInfo' as the body of the message. Contents (c)1999 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. 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