How to organize a tournament???

[Omega]

So i was thinking of organizing a big legacy tournament in Montreal (we dont have a lot of big tournament).

For the moment, i was thinking a 40 dual tournaments. First one gets to get the set he wants, followed by second, etc. I do not know if it will be sanctionned or not.

I was just wondering if any persons from the outside (Ontario, or other provinces or maybe from the States) would be interested in making the travel to play. For the moment, it is only speculations. No date. It will certainly be during a weekend.

Also, what is the correct entrance fee to ask? Ideally, i want to cover all expenses (i will be one giving away 40 duals from my collection). I was thinking to give more in prize, if we get a lot of player. Or maybe, keep the extra in a bank to organize later a bigger event.

Any suggestion is also welcome, since i never organized anything like this. About judging. Let's say i cant find a judge that will do it for free. What happens? I know the rules, (not perfectly). Some of my friends know them too (but not perfectly). We played for years, but we dont know exact terms.
Most of my local tournaments, we work with a "common sense" system. If there's a problem, we ask the older player what they think the rules are. That worked fine.

Robert

[Mr Wiggl3s]

Just wondering dude, how old are you? And you can start with the basic's.

Who
What
Why
When
Where
How

Who is you
What... :rolleyes:
Why you need to figure this out, money or prizes or people or what
When probably the last thing your going to figure out
Where there's going to be a few people, how many people? 10, 12, 40?
How is wide open, how are you going to get it going, how are you going to get judges (they're needed for one of this magnitude)

Just the way i was thinking

[DeathwingZERO]

1) Find a store willing to host the tournament. For free or a small fee would be perfect.

2) Find out if anybody working at said store is capable of being the tournament organizer, and at least a Level 1 judge. That's pretty much all you'd need. For a large sized tournament, try finding a Level 2. There's actually ways to find this on DCI's page.

3) Make sure to say the prizes are guaranteed. You want people to know even if only 20 show up, they've got a guaranteed chance at what they came for.

4) Figure out the average number of players the surrounding area (within lets say an hour or two drive) would bring to something of this size. Adjust the price from there. I'd say a good number would be $25, most people would be willing to shell that out.

5) Make sure to set up a date that's not conflicting with any Wizards sponsored tournaments, or with anything large in the area (say another Vintage or Legacy tournament people nearby would want to go to).

Other than that, it's pretty simple to get the rest of it.

[Omega]

Who : me!
What : Legacy tournament, 40 dual prize
Why : Because we don't have a lot of good prize tournament, because no one did it before. For the challenge, but because everyone keep asking me why there are no tournaments.
When : It is not decided yet.
Where : I need to get an idea of how many first


well thank you for your replies :)

Robert

[Elfrago]

6) Start with something smaller. 40 duals for the first event is an huge prize, an huge investment and a huge risk, so try to organize a smaller event to estabilish a local player base and to make a little experience.

[rleader]

I'm really wary of people that start off too big.

I live in a small town and our comic/magic/warhammer shop doesn't have playing space for games (it's amazing that a town with two traffic lights even has a place to buy Warhammer). I've been talking to the owner about starting up some sealed/draft tournaments (kid friendly) at a place down the street that has room. I'd mostly be there in a judging capacity and to make sure everyone has a good time.

Someone beat me to the punch however. They rented the other venue and everything. The format they picked was thus:




2-headed giant rules
Ice Age (Banned)
No Mana Burn
Buy in at $50 per team


I explained to the owner how this was the worst idea in history. The two guys in charge of the tourney probably created the rules (no ice age? no mana burn?) with specific decks in mind for themselves. They had been trying to get him (the store owner) to recruit KIDS to play in it, but come on, the kids around here have crappy lorwyn elemental decks and you're inviting them to play your skullclamp legal format? While at the same time disqualifying people with appropriate cards (like myself) as we're adults and might not have local people to partner up with?

So there were three posibilities:

1. There's this huge local eternal magic scene in town and I'm somehow unaware of it
2. Two dumbasses are going to not have anyone show up and will end up footing the venue space out of their own pocket
3. Two dumbasses will have kids show up, will steal their money, and magic will be dead in my town forever

Number 2 ended up happening (#2 usually does happen...), only the guys got away with not paying for the venue.