Dark Ascension Prerelease

Overview
Plans, progress, and general information about the Dark Ascension Prerelease tournaments.

Dates & Times

Completely deep-clean store

 * Dust all shelves
 * Clean bathroom, including removing unnecessary objects from the bathroom on Friday to make extra room during the event
 * Vacuum every random corner using the wand
 * Clean and rainex windows
 * Clean all tabletops, checking playmats for spills/stains
 * Clean fridge & microwave
 * Organize under window displays such that nothing is sticking out or pushing the draping out at all
 * Replace Pre-Release poster on bathroom door with Release Party poster on Friday
 * Find places to put all the sleeves & deck boxes so it looks better!
 * BUY A MOP SO WE CAN MOP THE BATHROOM FLOOR!!!!!
 * Expense approved. Go ahead and get it and reimb from the till.
 * Alaura will pick this up on my way in today (Friday)
 * Clean the glass case

Refill and reprice all binders

 * Dan, Elijah, and Rob

=== Create 50 prerelease player packets for each event (Friday morning/early afternoon) ===
 * Thursday at 5 pm start setting out the 50 of each deck box, one deck box type per table
 * Each event gets a different color of Event Deck deck box
 * Fri Midnight: NPH Red w/ Black lid trim
 * Sat 11 am: M12 Purple
 * Sat 5 pm: INS Red w/ Dark lid (2-Headed Giant!)
 * Sat 11 pm: NPH Red w/ White lid trim
 * Sun 11 am: M12 Blue (2-Headed Giant!)
 * Sun 5 pm: INS Red w/ White lid
 * Each deck box contains
 * 3 Boosters Dark Ascension
 * 3 Boosters Innistrad
 * 1 Sleeved Prerelease Promo card
 * 1 Upcoming event flyer
 * 1 Random IronDie (ones that we have extras of)
 * 1 random box per event will contain a Rare die
 * 3 random boxes over the entire weekend will contain a Gold die (1 per day)
 * 1 Achievement card (this will need to be stuck side-first into the closed lid of the box)
 * 2 of each monster of the stickers are randomly inserted into 8 boxes per event

Purchase product and supplies

 * Costco order for chairs, tables, soda & snacks (Wednesday)
 * Lots of sleeves and other cards supplies (Thursday morning)
 * Refill pack feeders and take stock of what is there, ordering what is needed (Wednesday)
 * Clean, de-sticker, and empty the YGO/Pokemon pack feeder.
 * F ill YGO/Pokemon pack feeder with Coldsnap, Unglued, Unhinged, Chronicles, Fallen Empires
 * Can we put Scars, Besieged (regular), New Phy, M12, Innistrad, and Dark Ascension in that feeder instead? I like the idea of having the standard things separated from the others. I think it will make things easier.

Create and print new event schedule for the next 2 months

 * Sanction all events
 * Add events to prereg section of website
 * ​Add events to Google Calendar
 * Create & print flyers

Create a sale on IronDie for the event

 * Make signs
 * --Alaura is volunteering for this part of it!

Write list of announcements to make at the start of each event (Jordan)

 * Weekend Schedule
 * Open Dueling
 * Monsters
 * Achievement card ("Before doing anything else, put your name on the achievement card!")

Create signs explaining the different events

 * --Alaura can do these
 * URGENT! Create a sign to display in-store to tell players about the free IronDie to each player (Tuesday or Wednesday)
 * Info from FB post
 * Pics are at Dropbox\IronDie\Photo Shoot Transfer Folder\
 * "Command the Night" - How the monsters in the mix affect things
 * Info from http://www.wizards.com/WPN/News/Article.aspx?x=2012_01_23_DKAPrerelease3
 * Add in extra prizes that depend on this:
 * Players of the monster with the most players, and least players
 * Humans who beat the most monsters
 * Other creative ways of using this for prizes
 * Write on result slips who is a monster and the type that they are
 * Open Dueling (Intro Packs) & Achievement cards
 * Open Dueling players can play against prerelease decks and this should be included in the announcements
 * http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/events.aspx?x=mtgcom/events/prerelease-facts - Go down to Open Dueling for information
 * Players in both the main event AND in Open Dueling fill out Achievement Cards casually for accomplishing things in games
 * Players in the main event can check off achievements in games against Open Dueling players
 * Players can play in both the tournament AND in Open Dueling, using the same achievement card
 * Two-Headed Giant
 * http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/events.aspx?x=mtgcom/events/prerelease-facts - Go to "What Happens There?"

*Prize structure for main events & casual portions
 * This also needs to have the Two-Headed Giant FAQ which is saved in DropBox/Magic/Two-Headed Giant FAQ.pdf (that FAQ is 7 pages long)
 * Template document is saved in DropBox/Magic /4-Round Sealed Deck Prize Breakdown.docx
 * Use DropBox/Magic/Prize Calculator.xlsx with 43 players, 3 packs per player, to determine prizes
 * This includes a summary of the prizes for Command the Night, Achievement Cards, & Open Dueling.
 * Dark Ascension League
 * Use existing League template created by Christie
 * Sign for result slip drop box & Promo trades
 * Create template and save it in DropBox/Magic
 * Include a bit about being able to trade in the prerelease promo for two different promos from the following list, as we will not have quite enough promos for all the players:
 * Circle of Flame
 * Jace's Ingenuity
 * Tormented Soul
 * Teetering Peaks
 * Auramancer
 * Garruk's Horde
 * Bloodcrazed Neonate
 * Curse of the Bloody Tome
 * Print already-created signs for land stations
 * Probably saved in on register computer

Move fixtures on Friday to make room for more tables

 * Remove miniature grid that is screwed to side of RPG bookcase
 * Move fridge & microwave to front for event for storing soda & cooking snacks
 * Move table from office to purple store
 * Move 3 shelving units into office, side-to-side as far back as possible, blocking access to far back but leaving access to singles boxes
 * Move best-selling games from shelving units and put them in window display, side-facing

Repair areas that are in need of it

 * Hot glue gun the power strip covering next to the counter
 * Do this no later than Wednesday night
 * Place lots of heavy irondie packages on top of it to weigh it down while it sets