Thanks for all the support this year, without your help our growth would be much weaker. Anyway, I thought I would post here first amongt the local players before I went to a different forum. My question is this, do we have a target date for MN States or Nationals? Are they going to be the same weekend or seperate? I didn't see anything about Nationals on the forums, just the Euro Worlds, and MPC this year. Is it our responsibility to hold and promote this thing? Would be nice to see the PC doing some of the prep work. At any rate if it is our responsibility, I think we should get it out there as soon as possible so people outside of state can plan accordingly.
I have no doubt MN States will have its usual draw, high 20s lower 30s.
If Nationals is a 2 day tournament I guess my thought would be hold MN States on an earlier weekend.
Actually the main reason I'm interested is I'm considering holding the first ever Rosemount Invitational tournament. I haven't set this in stone, but the overall goals of the tournament would be to gain public awareness, give new players the chance to experience a diverse playing field, and increase card collections of new players. Remembering these 3 goals is essential as you read the format of the tournament.
I would accomplish this by getting the local paper (Rosemount Town Pages) to cover the event. Take pictures, interview players and publish an article. This is NOT a school paper. This is a legitamate publication that covers stories here in Rosemount. They dedicate a whole section to the schools and what we're doing here in the education field. I'm very confident I could get a reporter to cover our tournament. Secondly, if I can time this right, maybe with Nationals, I can get players from outside of MN to come to this giving the new players a chance to see how large our community really is. And lastly, I'm considering buying 2 boxes of Refelctions III. If it's up to me I would like to give all of these cards to the Rosemount Players still in middle or high school (Sorry Mitch, Jake, and Thomas).
Now to accomplish this it would mean there would be a high cost to the tournament with little prize support. I'm thinking something like..
1) Trophy (winner of the event) $40
2) V-Card (for the winner) $50
3) Reflections III x2 (to be given away to student players) $600
Even if I charge $5 per student and $20 per adult I'm still going to come up short. Which I'm fine with but how many players are willing to pay $20 for a tournament knowing they'll most likely walk away with nothing? Do you guys think if I run this as a charity event people will come and play? Lastly if I time this with Nationals, I'm hoping to get some interest outside of the Bespin Region.
I just thought I would run it past you guys first.
Thanks,
Walseth
P.S. They already did a full page article on us back in March. Here's the link to read it, I'm the 8th one down the page, but I don't think you can read the FULL article unless you subscribe..

http://www.rosemounttownpages.com/event ... 20schools/