A local player who has been doing really well in tournaments posed a question I can't find an answer to so I was hoping all of you could help.

This player has already won a store championship. He is planning on playing in the one I'm TO for this weekend.

In tournaments for other games I have run if someone already had won a tournament, then won a another one the slot for Regionals was given to the second place (and so on until you got to someone who didn't have a slot).

The question is, how does FFG do it? If he wins does the Regionals bye go to 2nd place or just disappears?

The insert includes a section on this. Each individual can only win ONE (1) bye. It goes to the next highest placing individual who has not won a regional bye.

Good, thank you. I hadn't had a chance to go through the kit yet. Should have gotten the booklet from the store when I was there today.

How can a store verify if a person has won a bye already that season? Also, if you can only win one bye, they should really allow it to be used at multiple regionals if an individual chooses to attended multiple ones.

By doing that you'd be creating a much larger amount of first round bye available for use at Regionals.

Honestly, he should just be willing to pass it down the line. If I had won a bye, I'd let the next guy have it instead of being that **** who keeps people from going.

Follow the "don't be a d-bag" rule that all games (should) have.

Honestly, he should just be willing to pass it down the line. If I had won a bye, I'd let the next guy have it instead of being that **** who keeps people from going.

Follow the "don't be a d-bag" rule that all games (should) have.

One, there is no other option other then for the Bye to move to second place. Under the current event rules if the winning player already has earned a Bye then it moves to 2nd Place so on and so forth.

Two, if those weren't the current rules, as they weren't last year, in what way is a player keeping a Bye that the have legitimatly won a "D-bag" move. A player is allowed to attend multiple Regionals so why should they not also be able to earn and use multiple byes, if those were the rules? In fact under the previous Byes were considered non-transferable so short of conceding the final match there was no option to pass the Bye down. And even that concession could be considered as collusion which is and was against the event rules.

Third, why would not having a Bye prevent a player from attending the next level of event? Nothing FFG does is an invitational.

Honestly, he should just be willing to pass it down the line. If I had won a bye, I'd let the next guy have it instead of being that **** who keeps people from going.

Follow the "don't be a d-bag" rule that all games (should) have.

How does that keep people from going? I have lost final rounds before and still went to regionals and had no issues.