No Organized Play
Until At Least Third Quarter—At least not from the major companies. There
are a few companies that are currently offering some form of organized play but
the major ones, WOTC, Konami, and The
Pokemon Company, have indicated they still plan to hold off authorizing
in-store Organized Play for the foreseeable future. None of them want to deal
with the negative publicity that would accompany an outbreak of COVID-19 at any
sanctioned event, whether in-store or at a professional level event. Once a vaccine gets widely distributed, the
likelihood of the virus spreading at large events drops drastically. Best guess
from what I have read is that we will see most of North America, Asia
and Europe vaccinated and the virus under control by early summer so, although
we may see in-store play start up by then, due to the logistics of running a
large event, the companies may plan them
but I would not expect to see any launch before September and maybe not until
2022.
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