WPN sanctioning???

[Digital Devil]

Disclaimer: I don't know if it's the correct place to post this - please feel free to move the thread to its right spot.

I was checking my DCI ratings, and I noticed an event was missing. The tournament announcement classified it as a DCI-rated event, though I asked the TO for clarifications and his answer was like "Uhm, well, we were forced to make the tournament WPN sanctioned bla bla bla". WTF is WPN sanctioning? Will I be able to get the DCI points (roughly 35 or so) I should have obtained? What if I needed those points for the upcoming BoM event? Also, is it legit to switch the type of sanctioning AFTER the tournament has been runned? How can a tournament be WPN-rated if WPN is an easier way for stores to promote events? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for reading my questions.

[Sims]

Disclaimer: I don't know if it's the correct place to post this - please feel free to move the thread to its right spot.

I was checking my DCI ratings, and I noticed an event was missing. The tournament announcement classified it as a DCI-rated event, though I asked the TO for clarifications and his answer was like "Uhm, well, we were forced to make the tournament WPN sanctioned bla bla bla". WTF is WPN sanctioning? Will I be able to get the DCI points (roughly 35 or so) I should have obtained? What if I needed those points for the upcoming BoM event? Also, is it legit to switch the type of sanctioning AFTER the tournament has been runned? How can a tournament be WPN-rated if WPN is an easier way for stores to promote events? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for reading my questions.

WPN as far as I know is only Wizards Play Network or something like that. You have to be in the WPN system to run a sanctioned event. Has this store ever run sanctioned events before? Did the TO change recently?

The only thing I could think of was that they tried to run a sanctioned event and the TO wasn't part of WPN and it didn't process? CDR might be able to shed more light on this, but the situation doesn't make much sense to me outside of the possibility that the TO was not registered in the WPN.

[cdr]

I assume the TO meant they had to make it a WPN Casual event. I haven't really heard of a TO doing this before, but this likely means they either didn't sanction it, or did something they weren't supposed to and it wasn't a legal sanctioned event.

Attendance for Casual events is recorded, but the matches are not and there's no ratings points exchanged.

[Digital Devil]

The store is the same I've been playing at for years: all events prior to this have always been sanctioned, and the TO has remained the same since 2007. Assuming he wasn't registered to the WPN, why did the previous events count as DCI sanctioned, (as well as the last one I won a few weeks ago), but this one in particular did not? Sorry for my emotional bias, but I needed those points to earn a *BYE* for Annecy, and e-mailing the store simply leads me to more "Trololol we already told ya evryfink" replies.

@cdr - I used to run non-sanctioned events in the past, but they have been recorded in "My Events" on the DCI site - this one is not. They're justifying that WPN thing by saying they had to, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get my prizes for the tournament. Can't I, as a customer, do something about that (such as a "Missing Event" type appeal)? The TO suddenly decided to make the event non-rated, though he promised a DCI-rated one. Isn't that a sort of fraud?

[cdr]

@cdr - I used to run non-sanctioned events in the past, but they have been recorded in "My Events" on the DCI site - this one is not. They're justifying that WPN thing by saying they had to, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get my prizes for the tournament. Can't I, as a customer, do something about that (such as a "Missing Event" type appeal)? The TO suddenly decided to make the event non-rated, though he promised a DCI-rated one. Isn't that a sort of fraud?

Only the TO knows what happened, so the TO is the only person who can really explain it to you. I don't know what "made it WPN sanctioned" is really supposed to mean if it doesn't mean casual/unrated. He may have misunderstood how the WPN system worked and thought he had to run a unsanctioned event to get the WPN prizes? Again, I don't know.

You can complain to the DCI, but to be blunt - you'll be ignored. The only person that would maybe listen to a complaint would be the TO himself.

It sucks, but since it sounds like it was either never sanctioned or not legal, you'll never get any points from it.