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Below's a link to an official announcement by Rob:
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=17895.msg284286#msg284286

Rob may revise the rules as he wishes based on further valid suggestions, and so always stay in touch.

THE RULES FOR PRE-CACTUS-APPROVED SANCTIONED (IMPROMPTU) TOURNEYS:

1. Only Local tournaments are eligible for the Pre-Cactus-Approved tourney program.
2. Pre-Cactus-Approved tourneys are limited to 1 per month per group.
3. All paperwork/payments for previous Pre-Cactus-Approved tourneys must be resolved before the next one is allowed.
4. A maximun number of Pre-Cactus-Approved tournaments is 6 per season/per playgroup.
5. Pre-Cactus-Approved tournaments done between May 1st and Nationals are not cosidered sanctioned and official, thus no retroactive promo or prize support.
6. All Pre-Cactus-Approved tourney paperwork must be turned in by May 15th at the latest or else they are not eligible for promos, prize support and RNRS points.
7. Hosts must print their own forms (winner list, sign in sheet, tournament application) and mail these back with check or money order.  No faxes, e-mails or credit cards.
8. Hosts must have already hosted at least 2 sanctioned Locals and 1 sanctioned District to be eligible for the Pre-Cactus-Approved tourney program.

May I add, therefore, that hosts can advance any promos, winner cards, and prizes (i.e. booster packs and/or Redemption cash) as they are available.  Cactus will, after Pre-Cactus-Approved tourney are approved, mail hosts their retroactive promos and prize support.

GODBLESS ALL!

I'm all for this if it could work out for Rob.  There are a lot of times that I could host a tournament if I didn't have to send in notice many weeks in advance.  Being at a school, I have students often that would love to play.  But working around their schedules for everything else makes it quite tricky to plan far enough out.

I definitely think that the big summer tourneys (State, Regional, and Nationals) should have to be announced far in advance.  However, I'm not sure that it is as important for local and district level events.

I think this is an amazing idea.  I totally support it.

I think if this was established, it should be minimum of either two weeks or 10 days. One week seems a bit too short, because if something happens and you don't get the promos, that would look bad.

I don't really get this.  I thought that the host had to provide their own prize/promo support at first, and then wait for Cactus to restock them afterward.  If this is the case, then the players would all get their cards already, and the host would be the only one at risk.  This ensure that they kept their tournament up to a standard that they are confident that Cactus would support.

I think this could be an option for maybe the first tourney a host in a certain area could do, but after the first time, you should follow the six week rule.

This makes less sense to me.  I see this as being really helpful to hosts, why make it limited to a one-time thing?

Eric "don't know what to put here" Largent

This makes the least sense of all.  How can the guy who I can always depend on for something witty and creative in his signature come up blank.  Who are you and what did you do with the real Eric Largent.

Prof "not an impostor" Underwood

I think Roy should move to Florida.

A thinktank is a thread to get ideas on an idea.  Literally, a think tank.  Think lots of thought fish in an forum aquarium.

Ya this has some real benefits to it.  Granted I don't think hosts should make a habit of this every week, but it would be nice to know that if 10 members of my play group all said they were wanting to play a tourney the next week that I could put one together and still get it sanctioned.  I do agree that Regionals and states must be atleast 6 weeks in advance.  I wouldn't even mind saying Districts need 2 weeks of notice for advertisement sake, with prizes coming after the tourney so things don't have to be expressed shipped.  Locals are "layed back" enough where I think this could be helpful in getting hosts to run more tourneys.  Plus if I know I had 15 players at a tourney then Cactus only has to send me that amount of promos and prizes.  The biggest upside to this is I can fax results in meaning Cactus doesn't have to spend a penny on return costs for paper work and extra promos.  This could cut some costs to cactus as well as encourage hosts to run more events.

The biggest upside to this is I can fax results in meaning Cactus doesn't have to spend a penny on return costs for paper work and extra promos.  This could cut some costs to cactus as well as encourage hosts to run more events.

Well said, Josh!

Fax would be the next best thing to an original-filled-in form.  Cactus could post the results in a jiffy.  Cactus can still require snail mail for the original results sheet for filing.  I guess both procedures can work well.

I'm inspired by this exchange of ideas from my Redemption® family.

Godbless!

I'm sure if you have Captured Ark as a promo people would still come .

I would think as a host this would be a great idea. Has anyone brought it up to Rob yet? There are many times that I have found out last minute that we could get a group together, and there are other times where advertised tournaments have yielded 3 or 4 people...

Of course, CA would be a strong promo choice, I agree. 

I was referring to YMT's post. People would be willing to pay any entry fee to get a Captured Ark. Sorry for being unclear .

Although it'd be awesome if Cactus let you do the district switch. Thats a really smart idea; a win-win for everyone.

Wow, I read this thread and dismissed it at first, but then I thought about it.... what a great idea! I think this is an awesome idea... with the way that things go around here at times, this would have saved us a lot of headaches and allowed us to host a lot more tourneys. I think this idea rocks.

~Marti

I really like the idea, but I don't know what that means for Rob.

Maybe you can have a "retroactive" tournament for an extra fee, or if you waive RNRS points. 

Or maybe you print your own winner sheet and sign-in sheet from the Cactus page, and mail that at your own expense, and he mails you the exact number of promos and prize packs.  This option seems best to me.