tournament support?

[dabigpinkguy]

one thing that I did not like about the naruto game was lack of tournament support. In the old dbz, there was a regionals in every state then a worlds every year, and gki if you placed and got invited. they had prizes of a couple thousand for these tournys. when I went to megacon for naruto there didn't even end up being a tournament. i was wondering if anybody knows how much effort they are going to put forth towards holding tournaments. If the tournaments are good more people will want to go, but at the naruto tournament there were like 15 people, the last dbz regionals I attended there were over 300. I just hope they have good tourny's cause thats one of the best parts about playing.

[Evil Jim]

Naruto have very good tournament support. Chunins are suppose to be 1 pre state, but not all states have a place that wants to run one. Jonins are area regionals. Kages are village regionals. To play in the Sannin you have to at least be a Genin.

And I believe the DB ccg will have a similar support.

Also, IMO Bandai's local support is better then Scores.

[soviet prince]

there local support is defintly better then scores

[CaMeRoN]

You seem to be a little misinformed, dabigpinkguy. I'll enlighten you;

- Bandai sends out weekly tournament support for local hobby store tournaments. The winner receives a playmat and a promo.

- Bandai also has chuunin events at specific locations. Prizes for these include boxes of cards and boosters.

- Bandai has jonin events at specific conventions. There are about 10 of these a year. You have to watch and go to the right place in order to compete in one of these.

- If you want to have a big tournament at a convention then you need to apply for it. Tournaments don't magically happen at conventions. There is alwyas someone who is organizing it. If you don't put your foot forward and try to get a tournament then it won't occur.

[soviet prince]

Originally Posted by CaMeRoN

You seem to be a little misinformed, dabigpinkguy. I'll enlighten you;

- Bandai sends out weekly tournament support for local hobby store tournaments. The winner receives a playmat and a promo.

- Bandai also has chuunin events at specific locations. Prizes for these include boxes of cards and boosters.

- Bandai has jonin events at specific conventions. There are about 10 of these a year. You have to watch and go to the right place in order to compete in one of these.

- If you want to have a big tournament at a convention then you need to apply for it. Tournaments don't magically happen at conventions. There is alwyas someone who is organizing it. If you don't put your foot forward and try to get a tournament then it won't occur.

yeah Bandi defintly does not lack in tourney support.

[dabigpinkguy]

thats the thing, the prizes for dbz were better, they included things like, a copy of your deck foil, boxes, uncut sheets, speacial cards only made for people placing in tourny's, such as vic drill which was only given to top 32 players at regionals and no where else. every year they made a world champion card exclusivley for the winner of worlds. on top of that if u placed at a regionals they had a tournament called the grand kai invitational, where you got a speacial your invited card. a few times the prize was creating your own card that got released with the next set. also you would never show up to a tournament and there not be one like megacon for florida this year. they would hold tournaments no matter who showed up. and prizes of $5000 didn't hurt either. I don't think naruto compares to dbz in tourny support. like i said the last regionals i went to had over 300 entrants. that was fun. you might be thinking of when they tried to re-do the game and alot of people stopped playing, but before they ran out of sets they had great support.

[Kintaro]

Originally Posted by dabigpinkguy

thats the thing, the prizes for dbz were better, they included things like, a copy of your deck foil, boxes, uncut sheets, speacial cards only made for people placing in tourny's, such as vic drill which was only given to top 32 players at regionals and no where else. every year they made a world champion card exclusivley for the winner of worlds. on top of that if u placed at a regionals they had a tournament called the grand kai invitational, where you got a speacial your invited card. a few times the prize was creating your own card that got released with the next set. also you would never show up to a tournament and there not be one like megacon for florida this year. they would hold tournaments no matter who showed up. and prizes of $5000 didn't hurt either. I don't think naruto compares to dbz in tourny support. like i said the last regionals i went to had over 300 entrants. that was fun. you might be thinking of when they tried to re-do the game and alot of people stopped playing, but before they ran out of sets they had great support.

Consider this though - Bandai has had quite a few games that, for one reason or another, failed. NAruto is their first real hit, and they are still going through the growing pains. So far, it seems that they have taken what they have learned, and applied the 'fixes' to the DBCCG, so that by the time THIS game is big, we'll have a GREAT tournament scene....

[soviet prince]

Originally Posted by dabigpinkguy

thats the thing, the prizes for dbz were better, they included things like, a copy of your deck foil, boxes, uncut sheets, speacial cards only made for people placing in tourny's, such as vic drill which was only given to top 32 players at regionals and no where else. every year they made a world champion card exclusivley for the winner of worlds. on top of that if u placed at a regionals they had a tournament called the grand kai invitational, where you got a speacial your invited card. a few times the prize was creating your own card that got released with the next set. also you would never show up to a tournament and there not be one like megacon for florida this year. they would hold tournaments no matter who showed up. and prizes of $5000 didn't hurt either. I don't think naruto compares to dbz in tourny support. like i said the last regionals i went to had over 300 entrants. that was fun. you might be thinking of when they tried to re-do the game and alot of people stopped playing, but before they ran out of sets they had great support.

cards exclusive to the winner of big touneys is an example of what not to do.

[dabigpinkguy]

actually it's a great idea because, better prizes means more people will want to come, and with a chance like that to have your own special card and get a chance once a year, makes for bigger turn outs.

[soviet prince]

Originally Posted by dabigpinkguy

actually it's a great idea because, better prizes means more people will want to come, and with a chance like that to have your own special card and get a chance once a year, makes for bigger turn outs.

the only way I will want that to happen is if there alt art.