Here in italy the game was dead until January 2010 when without support and without nothing and nobody, with some firends we gaved new life to the game taking the official forum, organizing monthly dates and now organizing our National... and now nobody contacted us and a regional is planned???

Sorry but this is not respectful for the people who gave this game lots of their time and loves it... we have a national planned the 5 june and hope that the comunity will support that date... the "ludoteca" (that host the italian official forum) could have contacted us to plan the date together... we are working for june date from a month and already created our "Banner", distributing info into other forums etc...

today I'm a little bit disappointed...

Just to underlining that in that FFG has no blame. Was just my disappointment... and now we are contacting the "Ludoteca" to solve this situation...

EDIT: Gualdo's second post showed up --which answered my question-- while I was writing a question in response to the first post.

to the ones that are interested, the "unofficial" Italian Championship (unofficial only legally cause all the comunity "agameofthrones.it will boycot official one) has been announced under "Organized play" thread... hope that someone will be in vacation in Italy during that days :-)

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I personally will be around Los Angeles and San Francisco from 17th june to 3rd july... any tournament??? Am I lucky??? :-)

I'm confused. Did you guys apply for a regional as well? I don't see what's wrong with La Ludoteca hosting a regional.

To be honest in italy "Regional" has no sense cause probably we are only 40 player in all the nation. We faxed our request at the beginning of march to run a tourney defined "Italian National" but we didn't received any reply... So we are running an unofficial one(I tried also in the past days to contact FFG but no reply received)... Ludoteca is naming its tourney National. We contacted them to say that we were already organizing a tourney and they replied to me that for them was a business choice so they don't mind about that.

Keep in mind that we are the official forum in italy and the only ones that tried to keep the game alive. We organized monthly tournament in lots of city without help but only with our money. So we are very proud to our national cause it is a matter of passion and not profession... moreover the forum is hosted by Ludoteca (that in the past organized AGOT events and let the game die 2 years ago) and when we complained that they could make a "visit" on their forum to see how the comunity was going on they repeated that they don't mind about forum, they don't have time, the tournament is a professional choice... If you add to all that that I wrote a message on their board and they cencored me you can understand why all "comunity" agot players (including past national champs) will boycot their event... an event made only for their customers and for "marketing"....

At the end, no problem to have two event of course... We'd like only to have also "officiality" for our event... that's it...

Gualdo said:

Contact cha0s. His group plays mostly in Walnut Creek (about 45min from S.F.), but I'm sure he could set a tourney up during those dates, if you can make it out.

I'd love to throw you a tourney when you're down in L.A., but it'd just be you and I (and that's probably not worth a roudn trip between LA and San Diego).

Thx for the info!!! This will be my first time in USA. I will be there with 5 friends :-) We will land in LA than go east to Grand CAnyon-LasVegas-Sequoia parks-Yosemite-SanFrancisco-LA ... I hope next here to come for Kublacon... unluckly Gencon is not so easy with the flights :-(