There are a total of four Regionals events for this game in Canada. Four, for a country of almost 10 million square kilometers (that's roughly the same as the USA, if you don't know kilometers). While we certainly have less population, it's the size of the country that determines how far you're going to have to travel to make it to one of these events.

And if that weren't enough of the problem, would you like to see where these events are scheduled?

If you're wondering why you can only see three, it's because two of them are so close they overlap. You have to zoom in this far before you can see them both:

Honestly this is ridiculous. FFG needs to take some **** responsibility for the locations of these events. I contacted their organized play department and was told they weren't planning on doing anything, because they left it all up to the distributor.

Leaving it up to the distributor doesn't benefit the players in any way. I'm lucky enough to only be five hours away from these. I don't know what other players are supposed to do.

The store owner or TO, has to be given permission to run an official Regional s match. I was talking to the store owner in St catherines, where he had a Store Championship and will have Regional s (in June). He was saying how all the toronto clubs didnt get regionals or store championship stuff because they didn't register. So im assuming your local gaming store either wasn't eligible or just didn't register to begin with.

I dont know if this is correct but it seems to make sense to me.

Nope, not true. My local store (which is in Toronto, a pretty big meta) applied but was told by the distributor that if they were going to hold a Netrunner regional, they wouldn't be allowed to run any others. This is because the distributer wanted to give one regional event kit each to as many different stores as possible. This is why you don't see events spread out in a reasonable manner.

Of course, this ended up benefitting some random stores that don't necessarily have the players to justify an event, at the cost of players who have no way of travelling thousands of miles to play.

Canada is done by Lion Rampant. Call them.

You live in Toronto. You have two within easy distance.

Last year closest to me was Montreal. That's 26 hours of driving. I'm glad Halifax got it this year.

Also your insinuation that other stores that got them don't deserve them is pretty crappy. I get you are mad and frustrated but no need to be like that.

You'll note that I said in the first post that I'm lucky I'm only five hours away. Is it your opinion that your being 26 hours away last year was a good thing?

Are you also of the opinion that there are so many players in the Ottawa / Gatineau area that two regionals are justified? That would imply there being more than 128 different players within about fifteen minutes of each other. This is a good example of what I was saying about stores not having the players to justify a regionals. Netrunner's got two regionals in Toronto and I think that's almost as ridiculous. Do you think that's a good deal for the rest of the country?

And what good would calling the distributor do? They have absolutely no motivation to benefit the players by organizing the events better. The scheduling needed to be done by FFG and they dropped the ball by letting distributors figure it out.

I just don't understand why you don't think this is a problem.

Netrunners two regionals sucks as it screwed Maritimes out of one. They are minutes apart where they are. Lame.

Star Wars I think is a much better distribution and is pretty much what I assumed.

Ontario, Quebec, Maritimes, Prairies and BC is what I expected for each game. Obviously that is not the case for each of them

The distributor is who scheduled them and who you should contact. They handle the OP in Canada.

FYI, the two Toronto regionals are about the same driving distance from each other as the Gatineau/Ottawa regionals.

And yeah, the Maritimes should have gotten the fifth A:N event instead of two in Toronto. But at least there's a fifth event for Netrunner. All of Western and most of Central Canada pretty much has to go to Alberta if they want to play Star Wars.