Subject: Running your own Yu-Gi-OH Club/Tournament

1 - Get fans
2 - Keep fans
3 - Get all info you feel you need and have it
available for the fans to read and learn from if need
be
4 - talk with fans about how prizes might be awarded
5 - Play fairly and if you are playing rookies, let
them win ocasionally.

Detailed.

1 - Get fans
-------> Do this by writing down the name, location
and phone number of the places that have cards/host
tournaments of their own etc. You know, places where
you go often and know many others go as well. Also
make little business cards on a computer, preferably,
with the address, time, phone number etc on them. Put
your number on it too, just in case they have
questions. Pass them around to everyone and always
have them on hand. Get them to come at specific times
and get them to come regularly. This shouldn't be too
hard to do, I've been doing it. I had an 8 person
competition once which was the biggest one I've ever
been in so far. Right now worken on topping that.

2 - Keep fans
-------> Keep track of their names and numbers so you
can let them know what's going on. When a club is in
session, hand out your doubles for free and don't rip
them off in the trades (too often) tell them what
cards do, what makes a good deck etc. (printing tips
and making copies for them to keep helps, so does
extra rules books) Have them get both starters and a
bunch of boosters. Play them and help them through the
mistakes they make such as how to use trap holes,
attributes, card restrictions, japanese cards, and
spell speed. Always be patient and helpful, the better
you help them, the more competition there will exist,
the more money upper deck will make, and the more
cards that can be made available in english. Once the
big tournies come, competition will be fiercer now
that you've trained fans/friends to play against. Help
your card shop get Upperdeck to get the Duelist King
tourny in your shop if you can.

3 - Getting info
-------> Search everywhere for some great
info/translations you can print up and staple together
and always have it on hand when you go to any
comic/card/game shop so you can help out current/new
rookies. Even some diehards make mistakes or are
curious on new rulings etc. A great resource is a
great backbone for a club/tournament.

4 - Prizes
-------> This is optional, prizes ought to be based on
the mix of people playing, if you are all at an equal
level then you may all pitch in to buy the prize and
the winner takes all or you can just play with fake
star chips, perhaps the winner gets a badge of sorts
with no monitary value (worth only for what it
represents), If you run a cards shop, as far as I can
see, some give away boxes, preorders, pack vouchers,
rare cards, etc. Be creative and be fair, no sence
putting up 50 bucks of a rookie's money and beating
the tar out of him/her in a missmatched card duel.

5 - Playing fairly. 
-------> to keep them fans you need to have respect,
play fair, play often as they desire, teach them and
follow the above guidelines. Let them win so they know
they can do it some if not all the time. Winning only
feels better after losing, winning all the time is
boring, making them tougher competitors makes the
final win all the more worthwhile heck a loss feels
good too.

Enjoy playing this great CCG and look forward to the
Penguin Knight in Magic Ruler. Beware the penguins.

Richard
dasquiggle@yahoo.com

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