The Realms Open Championship (ROC) has been a great success; providing competitive HeroClix coast to coast (and in between)! As we head into the home stretch, we look towards the 2014 season and expanding the number of Regional Championships and feeders!

So if you're interested in having a ROC event in your area; fire off your signal flares and let your local tournament organizers and/or venues know about the Realms Open Championship!

Details

• A ROC Regional Host will receive a prize package from HCRealms.com that will include a seat at the ROC Championship Event Finals at Dragon*Con (Atlanta, GA), a Four-day Dragon*Con pass (winner), a $250.00 travel voucher (winner), 8x HCRealms.com T-Shirt Vouchers, 100 pairs of HCRealms/RealmWorx dice and/or action tokens, HCRealms.com ROC event banner, HCRealms profile tag (winner), front page advertisement on HCRealms.com, plus more prizes (TBA).
• The Regional Host may charge $25.00 per entry, sell concessions, sell product, and run side events. All money collected belongs to the Host.
• Host may use a format of his/her choosing but it must meet ROC requirements.

Requirements

• Host must be able to run a one or two day event that could exceed 100 participants.
• Host must follow ROC/Wizkids tournament rules. Wizkid rules will be in effect with a ROC addendum.
• Host may sell all Wizkids products on site however NO Wizkids products may be used in sealed events if that product is within 4 weeks from its Wizkids release date. This rule is in place so that sales from ROC events do not affect store sales within the Regional Host's area.
• Prizes must be awarded as directed by ROC.
• Each participant must fill out a tournament team sheet. These sheets along with a list of participants records, top 16 order of finish, disbursement of prizes, pictures of event, and a general report must be sent to ROC within 3 days upon completion of event.
• Host and ROC will work together to schedule the event logistically.
• Host must be able to coordinate local regional Qualifiers (feeders) that will earns seats at host's Regional.

Dragon's Lair Austin's application to host the Southwest Regional will be inbound by the end of the weekend. We have store approval and their full support and backing, plenty of judges, and can easily play 100+ players simultaneously, and hey, it's Austin? Who doesn't love Austin?

We've already hosted tournaments that have had people from Oklahoma, Louisiana, and far south & east Texas attend (as well as Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio).

Did I mention ample parking?

How about one in the New York City Metro Area?

Either Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island (Nassau/Suffolk County), Northern/Central New Jersey...we seem to have a lot of players in the area, and many of us feel very disenfranchised by the convention schedule. There is no main event that brings clix players in the area together.

There's a ton of venues in the area surrounding New York City. Why not do one here?

We need 1 in Kentucky, im going to push for my venues to do it but 100ppl is hard to house. The closest 2 events this year for me was 5 hrs, and 5 1/2 hrs.

You need to get a venue to apply for it. The onus here is on the community to volunteer, not hcrealms to seek them out.

I have a few questions based on the post:

1. Is there a suggested or required format for this Regional Qualifier to feed to a specific format in the Finals at DragonCon that we can match with our event?
2. Outside of the prize for 1st Place (DragonCon entry, 4-Day Pass, travel award) are there requirements for the distribution of the rest of the prizes provided by HCRealms? Does HCRealms want to have say over how additional prizes supplied by the Venue are awarded?
3. Can you provide more detail on the Feeder events, and how they work in relation to the Regionals?

Thanks!

What I would like to see is to have multiple venues in an area, pool their resources and time together, and host feeders events; then go and find space to host the regional (in the truest sense of the word) in a neutral location that can house a ROC Regional.

With this much lead time; there's no reason we can't have multiple regionals in the same geographic area (but probably not the same city).

app filled and sent.

Is this open to Canadian venues?

My application will be sent in by this weekend

Thanks again for your support with our event coming up next week! It should be a good example of the strong clix community in Oregon and the Northwest in general.

I plan on presenting this to our venue but a question: the cost ($1,000) is that what the venue has to pay in order to host the event.

Im just curious so I can let them know all the details.

I'm looking forward to hosting an ROC in Omaha.

While the idea is nice in theory Typhon in reality it's not going to happen. I believe the main reason for that is how ROC is constructed. As a store owner working with many different companies I must say that ROC is not much different than the Championship tournaments offered by TCGPlayer, Starcity Games (Magic) Mayfair (Catan) or even Fantasy Flight. The biggest difference is that it appears that you are asking stores to pay for the entire prize. Whereas if I run a Catan Qualifier it's only going to cost me $200 and the winner still gets a paid trip to GenCon to take part in the championship.
We plan to submit our application tomorrow, but if I'm to shelling out $1000 plus other expenses for a ROC I'm going to want to do as many of my own qualifiers as I can.
Stores like mine that handle large magic and Yugioh events tend to do it on our own. Many large Magic events actually compete against each other for players. So it's unrealistic to expect stores to suddenly be willing to work together to host a ROC. On the flipside it's also unrealistic to believe that approved ROC stores are going to allow other stores to host feeder events. Don't know how much of ROC has been worked out store support wise, but I strongly suggest you reevaluate how stores can support ROCs they are approved for.

Evan J. aka DanversGM

Host may use a format of his/her choosing but it must meet ROC requirements.

All prizes provided by Realms must follow distribution as we set it. Additional prizes not provided by Realms may be distributed as you see fit.

A detailed program and how it works will be provided after Gencon. The basics are that surrounding venues may participate as a ROC Regional feeder where the winner gets a first round buy at the Regional event.