Lately, I have been very unimpressed with these changes that WotC has been making. Forget taking away the dinky little Top-8 pins, how are local stores going to handle PTQs? The stores I go to can house a little more than 40 people, let alone seat.
My biggest question is, if its true that prizes are going to change, how are these stores going to afford them? They said they want to better profit the store by doing this, but who pays for the prizes for PTQs, really?
We can fit up to 80-90 and are located right next to a convention center. We could rent out space if numbers are expected to be bigger than that.
The point is that most stores would not be capable to run them but PTQ's aren't for most stores. They take precaution in making sure the stores that are running tournaments like PTQ's are capable of hosting them.
Hometown Hobbies in Huntington, WV will be holding the only one in West Virginia. April 30th is the date. Seems like they are doing a decent job of spreading these out to where almost everyone can get to one in the U.S.
We can fit up to 80-90 and are located right next to a convention center. We could rent out space if numbers are expected to be bigger than that.
The point is that most stores would not be capable to run them but PTQ's aren't for most stores. They take precaution in making sure the stores that are running tournaments like PTQ's are capable of hosting them.