Battle Convention! (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

[BlitzNinja]

I dont know who is in charge of the table top room and tournaments within but if you want an original easy idea for a Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament then listen to this! every con i go to there is either no YGO tournament or a very lackluster one. i keep hoping that there will be an exciting new take on it and my favorite season of the YGO anime was the "Battle City" season. i love the idea of always having the option to either challenge or be challenged to a duel. you might think this would be very hard to organize but it would actually be very easy and cost next to nothing. all you would need to do is get a bunch of dot stickers. either different colors or all the same. it doesn't matter, all that matters is the dot itself. you would put the dot on your already purchased and presented badge to tell all the other duelists "hey, I'm competing in this tournament. challenge me!". next all you need is basic playing cards. the ones that have an ace, king, queen, etc. on them. each duelist would get one card. this card would be there to be a prize for each duel won. if you have no more cards your out. each duelist would need to get a certain number of cards in order to compete in the finals which would most likely be held on Sunday giving duelists all weekend to collect cards and duel. this tournament would also work out well with anyones schedule seeing as how everyone might not be able to compete in a tournament at a certain time cause they may have other things going on. i would like if whoever is in charge of the table top room/tournaments would put this up for consideration. feel free to message me with any questions or even an answer as to whether or not this can happen. it would be amazing if it could and you would almost definitely be the first con to ever have a YGO tournament like this.

[Mr. Friend]

I like this idea a lot. If there isnt going to be an official tournament we could kind of make a tournament I guess? I like the battle city theme. I think everyone thats coming with a deck or to play yugioh and that likes the idea should bring a jack, queen, king, and ace playing card from home and slide it in with there badges, that way when people see that they will know that you are there to duel, so you can challenge them when you see them walking about.

If there isnt an OFFICIAL tournament and we decide to do one ourselves, we would have to determine some kind of prize system. Regardless, Ill definently stick jack-ace in my badge so everyone knows Ive got my deck on hand.

Also, there are probably people that dont read these threads, so maybe carry extra jack-ace of a different variety of playing card for those people? That way you cant switch out if you lose a card or something =s

EDIT: Or if whoever is in charge of the tabletop area likes the idea and decides to host a yugioh tournament, we could just take 1 deck of 52 cards and give each entrant like 3 cards and then send them on there way, and on sunday report back to the tabletop room and whichever 4 people have the most get to compete. This way people who dont arrive right away on friday or even sometime saturday can still enter the tournament, they will just be at a disadvantage.

[BlitzNinja]

alright heres what im gonna do. im going to leave a stack of dot stickers and a stack of normal playing cards in either the table top room or the front desk. there will be a sign up sheet where you can put your name and then you can grab a sticker and a card and start dueling. on sunday we will meet in the table top room to figure out who has the most cards and the either 4 or 8 with the most will compete in a final match. im going to ask ppl at either the front desk or the table top room to help out with keeping track of ppl taking cards so no one cheats. or i might just leave my number and have ppl contact me directly to get a card and dot. either way this is going to happen to bring your decks and your spirit to duel cause its time to get your game on!

[Mr. Friend]

Good idea! Me and My whole group of like 6-8 people are bringing decks so we will see you there!

[BlitzNinja]

with your friends and mine thatll make about 12 ppl at least. i just hope everyone stays honest and doesnt "lend" cards or anything.

[BlitzNinja]

for anyone who views this that wants in and want your dot and cards asap my name is Nathan and my number is (608) 617-2250. i will be arriving at the hotel around noon so text me anytime after that and we can hook up and i will give you your dot and cards and you can start dueling right away.

[SlitheryDee]

Hi all, I'm the guy that ran the tabletop gaming room at AMKE 2011, and I have to say I was very impressed with your tournament. It was easily the most attended event in the room over the course of the convention, and it had people excited to play it all weekend. If you wish to run this again next year, I have no problem with it whatsoever, and I'll do what I can to contact Konami and see if I can get some sort of official tournament support and product for you guys as prizes.

I'll be honest, aside from the little I played back in the day (i.e. almost a decade ago), I know little to nothing of the game and what it entails these days. If you want to take the onus on yourselves to run a Yu-Gi-Oh! tounament on your own again, be my guest, and I'll see what I can do for prizes again (certainly better than a Phantom Hourglass poster, for sure - maybe even some promo cards or whatever Konami dishes out for official events, I'll see what strings I can pull and see what I can get).

If you'd prefer someone else to handle it, I do know some other people who still play, and I'll talk to them and see what we can arrange in regard to a tournament for you guys.

My goal is to make the tabletop gaming room THE place for you guys to hang out and have fun, and if you're not having as much fun as possible, then I'm failing at my job. So whatever you think you'd have the most fun doing, that's what I want to do. Thanks, you guys, for putting up with my ignorance with what's clearly a massive part of the TCG world these days. Hopefully I can rectify this somewhat in the intervening year, and if I have time during the next con, I'd love to learn more about the game, how it's evolved in the past decade, and how it works now.

Also, thanks, you guys, for making the tabletop gaming room so busy and such a common place to hang out - it felt great, on a personal level, to know that people wanted to come and play games here - even, and especially, of their own accord. Just know I'll do my d*mn best to make it that much better next year.

[BlitzNinja]

it was honestly just me who did the whole thing, the blonde kid with the dots and cards. my fiance helped with flyers but other then that it was my idea along with some input from mr. friend. i too am very pleased with how well it turned out up until the finals on sunday when a whole 3 ppl showed up cause most everyone else had left cause of the snow storm.

i would definitely be interested in running it again next year if you want. it would be great to contact konami and get some official prizes and everything set up. they usually hand out playmats and t-shirts at events and tournaments so that would be nice instead of 4 random shiny cards that my friends and i scavenged up.

either you or i can try contacting them about it when next years con gets a lil closer. please please please keep in contact with me about it when that time comes. i dont want this whole thing to be swept out from underneath me and not get credit for it. my email is mangaboytidus@gmail.com. please let me know when you want to start planning for it for next year and ill do everything i can to help. hopefully we can get in contact with konami and get some good prizes and recognition for an original tournament.

thank you for the congrats also. it turned out way more awesome then i thought it would for what lil planning i did with it.