This weekend I attended Spanish Nationals, and some weeks ago I attended Asturias regional.

I saw Kotei (leyend 5 rings) was played at the same time xwing Nationals and I still surprised how they gave a lot of prizes even just for participating, game maths, counters, lot of cards, dials, etc much more things than in xwing championships.

Is there a reason for this? because participation dropped from 450 players expected to final 180 more or less, and people was saying they were happier playing Kotei rather than xwing National because of prizes.

After 4 years playing xwing I am not able to understand why top32 gets NOTHING, finalist gets NOTHING and players not making to the top just get one single card. Championship participation ticket is getting more and more expensive each year but prizes are still the same and people is very dissapointed.

I know there is a trip payed in Open and Nationals, but official requirement is 64 players participating so I do not see this an explanation for 150-250 participants.

Koteis for L5R are more the equivalent of a X-Wing System Open, which does have fantastic participation prize support.