After last week’s posts on my experiences with setting up
Organized Play, I received emails from Ian Richards at Peachtree Distribution
and Dan Brandt at Pokemon International, offering help with my difficulties registering
for OP.
Dan let me know that my original application had been
rejected but for some reason, I never received an email notifying me of this
and, also for some reason, the company continued to process the background
check, making me think the application was still in process. Once we got this
cleared up, my Pokemon Tournament Organizer application processed in a couple
of days.
The email from Ian, while too late to help me out, might
prove useful to others having problems setting up Organized Play programs,
which have become increasingly important to the gaming industry ( I recently
saw Organized Play programs promoted for Star Realms and Machi Koro). I found
his offer especially generous since I don’t have a Peachtree account and his
offer extends to any store, whether a PHD account or not:
PHD (Peachstate Hobby Distribution) can always help with all
Organized Play questions, initiative development and creative solutions on how
to develop OP within your store. I would be most happy to assist and with the Pokémon
issue as well, I can guarantee to get this finalized for you very fast. Just
contact me at ianr@phdgames.com
I can help you any and all OP contacts and provide
creative ideas on all aspects of OP, as that’s what I did for Wizards of the
Coast, globally, for over 12 years and now do the same for PHD and Coqui Hobby
throughout North and Latin America. We understand and embrace that this is the
market edge of our channel over mass market and we go to all lengths to assist
stores with sell through via Organized Play. PHD is not focused on sell in.
We’re fully focused on sell through. We want you to move be as successful as
you can and we’ll do everything we can to assist with that.
Do you have to be a PHD account? No, I’ll help no
matter what your current account position. I can guarantee that our Account
Managers would have been able to give you that answer for both Panini and
Bushiroad. You can find examples of that information being put out by me at: http://www.phdgames.com/cosmic-roar-expansion-cardfight-vanguard/
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