wow aces and i thought hot sex would be a good way. good job man. as for you miss American Maid. hmmm mmmmhmmm mmm. ;)
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I would say create practice session where you teach people the game. It's usually the best way to get the ball rolling. Make some decks and hit the areas where people play cards.

You and me baby aint nuthin but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Vs. channel, rep me again now!

You and me baby aint nuthin but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Vs. channel! repeat again!

That should be...

You and me baby aint nuthin but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Vs. Table!

Aces, I can't believe people in your area were so lame. How sad... but you are awsome if vs had more people like you promoting it, it would be 10 times bigger than it is. I too give away commons and un-commons but have never taken it as far as you. Thats cool!:)
Skinless: After looking at your profile, if you really are a construction worker with the body that typically goes with it hot sex might work but you would really have to watch the phrasing with the girls.. maybe offer it as a bonus free with everygame of vs, or something!;) Men typically don't care how it's phrased hot sex is hot sex so if you go that way its all good!:laugh:

thanks guys just trying to get VS going in this area I just wish UDE would e-mail me some info about something I sent in .

Well I am in construction, and I dont think I have that bad a body. ;)

This is a serious problem for me unfortunately. I live in Perth, WA, and there is literally no one to play with. I have 2 friends who play with me as much as they can, but we can't seem to get more players. Our tournament organiser tries aswell but most of the people arround here play YGO, and we always ask them to play Vs. and they say they'll think about it but never do. We've never had a constructed tournament in our life, and only play at the sealeds once every 3 months wich are grossly underpopulated. :(

This doesn't really affect attendance in my venue, but rather at work... I was able to get 3 people to play, and we now have a regular 'casual' tourney of sorts where we'd pitch in for a few boosters, have a constructed round robin tournament and then draft the boosters according to our rankings (so higher placed people get their preferred rare cards :D)

I give away free starters (as a loss leader) to encourage players in the area ( I run a comic and gaming store). For a while (before I owned the store) I had a website up and running advertising the tournaments throughout the uk. Then UDE pulled the plug on Europe and Vs and things got a little harder.
The community has dwindled to a die hard core.
I still keep plugging the game though, just because I genuinely believe it to be the best CCG on the market at present!

Before Katrina hit, I played at this shop called the Dragon's Quest on Jeff davis in New Orleans. The owners their were locals and were very nice to say the least. To get VS going in that area, I bought 4 starter boxes with my own money. Now you have to remember, this was not a house that sold comics. They were origin boxes: 2 Batmans and 2 X-men. My plan was to piggy-back and draft a ride on the Yugioh crowd that played there. I asked the owner to let me organize a tournament one Sat/Sun and to my surprise they did. I picked the Sunday of the week before one of their yugioh tournaments and to my disdain only 3 people played. Oh, and don't think that they came for my tournament. Uh un. They came because they were play testing for Yugi and some new pirate game (I think they had rat clans that had no honor or something) that uses resouces and clans and such. Anyway, inbetween games, I kept trying to snatch away the losers to my side of the force by offering the starter packs as a consolation. The three who had lost and tried VS that night actually knew about me and my tournament. I was always in there on thursday trying to demo the game. I would give a common card that everyone knew about so that when that person took it home he/she would have something besides yugi or whatever to think about. The guys told me that they had heard that more people wanted to or would have played in my tournament but that they did'nt have decks to use.( I really don't know if that was true or if they were just feeling sorry me as it probably looked like I was about to cry) Anyway, one of the guys who insisted that I call him Batman won the hold thing. Needless to say he took home the Batman starter. Overall, it was a good experience for me and for the players who participated. The owner was so cool and please with my efforts that he gave me my first VS shirt.
Things that I began to glean from that experience
1. Owners, if want your game to flourish, give the green light to the guy/gal who is willing to make it all happen. It will be worth your wild...
2. Everday is not a PCQ! If your best players are idiots who can't seem to EVER play a casual game without shooting down VS or refuse to play pet decks. Maybe the Sun will implode or something - I don't know... but, maybe you should play a little more or reign a little more in YOUR own store. They are ruining your business and probably running away alot of new players.
3. I would love for Hobby League shops to take the initiative and not wait for one's customer base to grow. Start some competition between your house and another house. If DC and Marvel can allow they're prized characters to be utilized for card game purposes as opposed to just seeing them in comic books then let that be your sign. Inter-state RIVALRIES are the next level in TCG's.
Hey, that's it for me. Let me let someone else talk...