Alright Scouts. Right now we need you the most. I have been talking with alot of you on aim, by e-mail, and on the forums about this new series of tournaments for UFS. For all of you who are willing to help make NewFS the top card game ever, here is our plan to make our first year of tournaments great!

If you are a scout, or if you are a fan of UFS and want to help push it to the top, here is what you can do to help:
If we can get one prize from each of our scouts or volunteers, a fighting video game, a sealed box of cards, a consel, Promo cards,Prints, Play Mats, Shirts, or anything else that you are willing to give. We can pool our prizes together for our players in order to offer them the best prize support they have ever received. I will be supplying a Plane Ticket to GenCon for the winner based on event entry fees. To keep this on neutral grounds, e-mail me if you are interested in helping at [email protected] (Jason). I will talk to Steve about setting up an address with FFG for our scouts to ship their prizes to. They will then be evenly distributed to each of the 4 tournaments as extra prize support. If you have any good ideas at all to donate to our players please either post here or send me a message.

We are also working on getting sponsorship from local mega stores such as Game Stop, Walmart, Block Buster, Best Buy, Hastings, Toys R Us etc. to see if they are willing to advertise for free at our events, in exchange for prizes. Scouts, if you have the time and want to help, please contact your local stores and businesses and see if they are willing to sponsor a video game related event.

Original Message:

After going to GenCon and experiencing people quiting UFS (a great card game) to play Naruto/DBZ (terrible card games) soly because of better prize support, I have decided to do something about it, as long as FFG agrees with my intentions. We ran a pretty successful Regional here in Lubbock Texas this summer and dished out over $3,000 to make sure people had a good time. I am very passionate about keeping this game going and even making it stronger and more popular then it has ever been. So I want to get feed back from you players. What do you think of me volunteering my time and money to host a UFS pro qualifying tournament cuircut?

It will go a little something like this:

We will start by having 4 tournaments every year beginning after Worlds and continueing until the next Worlds. These tournaments will hopefully be in 4 equaly accessible cities so that everyone can make a tournament. I plan on changing the cities every year, unless we find one that is perfect for everyone. (I still think we should do regional tournaments as well).

Now Prize support- I don't know what FFG can supply for this, hopefully they will be onboard since I am pretty much advertizing UFS at no or minimal cost to them. Otherwise here is what I want to offer you players:

First Place at any of the qualifiers- A Plane ticket to the next GenCon and if FFG agrees a buy in round 1 of singles. If UK or Canada has any scouts that are willing to run a big event like this, I will work with you to incorperate it as part of the same cuircut.

In addition I will work on getting PS3's, Lap Tops, Promo Cards, Art Prints, Shirts, Rings, and anything else I can manage for you guys. Boxes of cards are also a must. Let me know if there is anything (reasonable) that you might want me to supply.

For top 8 I will try to get similar awesome prizes (if we get good enough show outs, we might even be able to award top 16!).

Now to make this happen, and to get UFS at a real competetive level, I am going to need help from all of the scouts out there, as well as you players. If you could post here approximately how many players you have in your area and which area you are from, we should be able to get our first 4 cities pin pointed. Also we need dates that conflict as little as possible with everyones schedules to host these events. Scouts, what I need you to do is, if we have an event in your area, please volunteer your time at the event to help get things going. Also If you live neer a college, I highly recomend that you do at least some of your monthly events on the campus in a heavy foot trafic area. Do demo games there and give out cards, characters, demo decks and what ever else you can think of. I will be hosting Free tournaments at Texas Tech once or twice a month and all of those 4 shuriken cards I don't really need any more are going to be used to get new players into the game.

This is my plan, please post your thoughts and comments so we can make this happen. I brought this up to James and Steve at GenCon but they were busy of course with many other things, so hopefully now, they can take the time and look at what I am trying to do. I do not think we will be able to do an event until 2010 just because it will take alot of organizing, but you never know.

Also, please contact me if you have any other ideas at [email protected] or call me at 806-252-3404. I'm Jason with Jasco Games.

JAsco buddy awesome job so far, and good luck with it. I'm just wondering though, has FFG even bothered to talk to you about this?

James Hata said he will talk to Steve about it tomorrow (Aug. 26th). I will certainly let you all know what he said as soon as we know.

Sent you a email and would love to have my store host one of these fine events. Sent the info in the email.

Thanks deck don't matter! I'll check it right away.

Events held in Montreal have failed two times to gather the required amount of people. We won't be campaigning for such an event unless the store owner beats me up over it (he totally could).

I personally am bringing broke back due to Nocando's inspiration, but if anything I'm with you in spirit. If we can have these tournaments in the "off-season" (because I still think post-Gen Con is off season with exception of the UK nats), more's the better.

Also, you know what'd be great? A yearly calendar for events. An online one, perhaps, but still. It'd be a visual support, and allow us to look at when tournaments are being held.

I also liked that idea, That's why I wanted to get the locations figured out and get the dates set up so we can let everyone know as far in advance as possible.

I'm just wondering but are there any plans for UK events of this nature? There were about 70 people at UK Nats last year and there are still quite a number of players spread out over here, also we would probably have people travelling from Europe to play, so there woul be a reasonably large turn out.

Just asking

jasco games said:

Something that's easily updatable would be best, too, that way we can even add regionals, store championships, etc. to the mix.

The plan is to do one event int the UK each year and if we later decide we need another one, we can add that as we see fit.

thank you thank you

runnerb3an said:

Actually there were 126 people at UK Nats last year, or thereabouts. Second biggest UFS event to date and more than last year's Worlds.

Sorry, always bugs me when people get that wrong.

ChaosChild said:

I'm sorry I knew it was much higher than I said but I had no idea how much more as the lowest person in my play group came around there so I forgot how many were there

For Pro Tour events, The $20 or $25 entry fee will include all events, and I plan on hosting not only a main event (standard singles) but many other events on the two days:

Legacy

Block 3/4

Highlander

Booster drafts

We may have time for more events, but we will see. Also, and scouts who are also store owners, If you ordered the pre-release for Tekken 6 you would have received lots of legacy booster boxes and starters. If you have nothing better to do with this product, please send it back in as prize support (or as booster draft material) I will be donating ours for this reason.