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5 months ago ::
Jan 06, 2013 - 7:46PM
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I've been organizing Magic at our local shop for just voer a year now and brought them from knowing nothing about sanctioned Magic to level Advanced. Our Return to Ravnica PR brought us over the top with 38 people attending. But now our local shop has announced they will be closing down. Has all my hard work gone for nothing? Our community is small and the town has about 10,000 people so this is the only shop for us to play at.
How could I continue the FNMs, Game Days, PRs on my own?
This might be a question over many people's head but maybe some WotC employees could fill me in.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 06, 2013 - 8:18PM
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I don't know about if you could keep the "advanced" level designator, however, if you have a community center or a bookstore that you could use then you could organize tournaments there. It's been a long time since I organized a tournament last but there is usually someone you contact to set up a "new location" and you have to fill out the questionaire.
Don't be too smart to have fun
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5 months ago ::
Jan 06, 2013 - 10:20PM
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Ask the shop who their WPN contact is and then contact that person yourself and see what your options are. If they are unable or unwilling to provide the contact info, contact Customer Service and they should be able to put you through to the correct contact. Also, @HeleneBergeot or @ScottLarabee on twitter may be able to help you.
I know a few years ago there was a change that limited core-level events (like pre-releases) to retailers that sell Magic, so there may still be issues with keeping all your events. Ancedote: this was a problem for the pre-releases I attended at the time, as they were organized by a local university's Magic club. After some jostling and a lot of uncertainty, they managed to keep their WPN level and still host events (I think they got the university bookstore to carry some Magic boosters and be the "front" for the events). I don't know what the current situation is as far as this goes with WPN and retailer restrictions.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 07, 2013 - 10:34AM
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Ask the shop who their WPN contact is and then contact that person yourself and see what your options are. If they are unable or unwilling to provide the contact info, contact Customer Service and they should be able to put you through to the correct contact. Also, @HeleneBergeot or @ScottLarabee on twitter may be able to help you.
I know a few years ago there was a change that limited core-level events (like pre-releases) to retailers that sell Magic, so there may still be issues with keeping all your events. Ancedote: this was a problem for the pre-releases I attended at the time, as they were organized by a local university's Magic club. After some jostling and a lot of uncertainty, they managed to keep their WPN level and still host events (I think they got the university bookstore to carry some Magic boosters and be the "front" for the events). I don't know what the current situation is as far as this goes with WPN and retailer restrictions.
Find a few people addicted to pre-ordering cases of new sets, hook them up with the retailer discount, use them as your front, everyone wins? Wait, what?
Luckily, we have stop-having-fun guys to remind us that having anything more than 60 cards in your deck is tantamount to being a rapist and anyone considering it should be strung up by their ****  .
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