2022 Regional Championships - Apply Within

by Kris Sonsteby, Director of Organized Play

3rd March 2022

Applications are now open for the 2022 Regional Championship season. Regionals are the first step on the Road to Worlds , and are a great excuse to get together with your STCCG buddies at your home or friendly local game store as soon as you are able / feel comfortable to do so. These are Level 2 (L2) events within our tournament system that offer higher ratings points than local level tournaments, such as WCT leagues and casual gigs. Any player from any region can play in any Regional Championship and any registered tournament director (TD) can run one. The only caveat is these tournaments must be held between the dates of Friday April 1st, 2022 and Sunday September 25, 2022. Deck lists are also mandatory, but deck checks are left to the discretion of the organizers. Players are therefore highly encouraged to link their deck lists to the event after it has been processed, to limit the number of decks the TD has to input after the fact. It should also be noted that TD's are permitted to play in their own Regional Championship events, so long as all participants are in agreement.

We do ask that TD's keep in mind there may be other high-level events happening during Regional season, such as various Masters Championships and National Championships, so we implore them to be cognizant of the greater Organized Play schedule. Please also work with the TD's in your neighboring states / countries during the scheduling process, in an effort to ensure maximum participation across all of the respective Regional Championship events happening both online and in-person during 2022. Lastly, Regionals may be run using any sanctioned tournament format currently supported by The Continuing Committee. For reference, these are outlined as follows:

Game: First Edition, Second Edition or Tribbles

Format: Constructed, Draft or Sealed

First Edition Card Pool: Complete, Block, Limited, Traditional or Virtual

Second Edition Card Pool: Complete, Academy, Excelsior, Hall of Fame, Limited, Traditional or Virtual

First Edition Rules: Official (OTF), Open, or Warp Speed

Second Edition Rules: Standard or Slipstream

Tribbles Rules: Standard or ...With Troubles

All other details regarding these events should follow the parameters outlined in the Organized Play Guide. Please be advised this document is presently undergoing revisions, and it is therefore advised TD's make sure their guide is up to date prior to the start of the tournament.

Each Regional Championship event organizer will be provided with a physical prize kit that includes eight (8) copies of one of the 2022 Regional promos and eight (8) Regional Championship buttons. In addition to these physical prizes, Regional events also offer Byes or Head Starts for 2022 Continental Championship events. Top players in First Edition and Second Edition Regional Championships will get a Round 1 Bye for Day 1 of the various Continental Championshiptournaments. Conversely, top Tribbles finishers will earn a 100,000 Tribbles Head Start at the Continental Championships. Please note that Regional Byes are also no longer Continent-specific, and may therefore be used to play in any of the forthcoming Continental Championships. Thus, you may use a Regional Bye earned in Europe at North American or Australian Continentals and vice-versa. Top players (based on attendance) earn one of these Byes or Head Starts as follows:

# of Players Bye or Head Start Awarded

3-101st Place

11-20 Top 2

21-30Top 3

How to Apply

Regional applications are now open and will close at 11:59 PM (in your region) on the final week of the season on Monday September 19, 2022. Please note that while applications will be accepted throughout the Regional Championship season, applicants are encouraged to apply early to ensure the timely arrival of prize kits. To start the application process, you will need to pay the Regional application fee of $20 (all values are in U.S. dollars) for each Regional that you wish to host. These are paid through the Promenade and will provide the purchaser with a requisition number to be included as part of the application. Additionally, TD's who find the application fee to be burdensome on their players can request a fee waiver. We have a limited number of these waivers available to us, and they will therefore be applied on a first come, first served basis. Once you purchase the Regional application fee, please send the following information to your Organized Play Coordinator. Please send a separate application for each game you wish to host.

Application fee requisition #:

Organizer's Name:

Organizer's Trekcc.org Forum Name:

Organizer's Email Address:

Organizer's Phone:

Organizer's Mailing Address:

(Judge's information required only if different from organizer's information above.)

Judge's Name:

Judge's Trekcc.org Forum Name:

Judge's Email Address:

Judge's Phone:

Venue's Name:

Venue's Street Address:

Venue's Phone:

Venue's Email Address:

Game:

Format:

Card Pool:

Rules:

First Choice Event Date / Time:

Alternate Event Date / Time:

Are you unsure whom your Organized Play Coordinator is? Well, this should help you out:

• Australia: Director of Organized Play, Kristopher Sonsteby (LORE)

• Europe: Julius Melhardt (Clerasil TOB)

• North America: Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot)

• Online: Jon Carter (pfti)

• All Other Countries / Regions should submit applications to Kristopher Sonsteby (LORE)

Finally, once your Regional application has been approved, you will be able to buy the prize kit. The kits for First Edition and Second Edition each cost $10 and a Tribbles prize kit costs $5. The application fee and the kit costs are divided to help lower the customs burden for our event organizers outside of the United States. The total cost of First Edition and Second Edition events is therefore $30; the total cost of a Tribbles event is thus $25.

That's it! The full Regional schedule will be announced next month and we will try to keep a running list of approved applications in the Regional Championships Forum so that people can start planning their trips to various Regionals as they get announced. It is especially important to apply early if you plan to host an event in April, so this information can get out to a wider audience as soon as possible. The sooner you apply, the sooner we can ship you your kits. Best of luck to all at this year's Regional Championships!

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