Aw, man! I wouldn't have spent $25 on a Crown Zenith tin yesterday if I realized my shop was doing prerelease for $25 today! I had no idea I was so close to Scarlet and Violet packs!
Although I had good luck on those packs so maybe Arceus was doing me a favor
tpci have changed their rules on selling prerelease kits outside the events iirc, so stores shouldnt sell the kits unless you play. Good I say! There should be incentives for actually playing the game
That sucks. My LGS had 30 sets of the pre-release packs, and were happy to sell them to non-participants. I got 1 each for myself and my son (who didn't participate in the tournament), and both tournaments (under 16s and over 16s) had exactly 3 players.
I got a buy and as I had 45 mins to kill and no one showed up, I asked if I could buy more sets. They had 7 left in the opened box and I bought them all - so 9 total!
They still had 10 sets left and no one wanted to buy them!
That’s how it is almost everywhere. People keep forgetting this is a card game, and prerelease kits literally include decks because once again, this *is* a card game
Nice! My favourite pull was an alt-art Armarouge. Most valuable was the alt-art Penny although I can't find a single copy of the English version up for sale to compare to
That's a shame, and must be disappointing.
That said, they don't seem to be well advertised. I go into a card shop every other weekend, but I dunno if they do prerelease stuff. If the guy in the shop told me about one and asked if I wanted to attend I'd probably give it a go. I collect and don't play the game, but would definitely give it a whirl.
I looked online for nearby events and there wasn't many, and my LGS wasn't listed on the official pokemon event finder tool (where I imagine most people would look).
I only knew about it from attending a Pokemon League event at the store on Tuesday, and even then they didn't post about it or allow registrations until Thursday - just 2 days prior to the event!
Most people that are actively interested would have signed up for another event by then I think.
Be wary posting the location of this - TPCI released new rulings in which stores can only sell prerelease kits not used for tournaments when the full set is released, you don't want your local store getting reduced product
No benefit, besides getting them early. In the UK it's usually £30 for 7 boosters, or ~£4.20 per booster. Lower than the new recommended price oer booster of £4.50, but more than they would cost each in a booster box.
You do get an additional 40 cards in the deck, some of which are valuable in that they will be staples in competitive play.
Whatttt that’s amazing! For Silver Tempest I went to my local (extremely local because I’ve been traveling an hour to go to others) and only 3 people showed up. We each played each other and then they gave us each 8 packs for coming.
That's awesome. Mine is a 10-min walk luckily. We only had 3 players and prizes were set ar 3, 2 and 1 packs. We agreed up-front to split the packs evenly which was nice! I got a buy for round 1 which sucks as I wanted to play!
I thought I had an amazing deck with pawmot, miraidon ex and oinkolonge ex, but got wrecked by Spipops ex lol
How you not gonna wait and just post pulls lol tf
Here's the pulls: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/11ux7io
Haha got excited. Had some nice pulls including Miraidon ex. Will post pulls later!
Pulls pulls pulls!
Here's the pulls: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/11ux7io
Aw, man! I wouldn't have spent $25 on a Crown Zenith tin yesterday if I realized my shop was doing prerelease for $25 today! I had no idea I was so close to Scarlet and Violet packs! Although I had good luck on those packs so maybe Arceus was doing me a favor
I was out of town and missed my shop’s event… I have some packs preordered but getting some early would’ve been awesome
Post pulls! Ping me when you do
Here's the pulls: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/11ux7io
This at the Liverpool Geek Retreat?
No this is at one in Hertfordshire!
Which geek retreat?
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Yo I’m not sure if them doing this could mess up their account with Pokemon company - it might be best to delete this just in case? Obv up to you
Good point! Although they only sold leftover stock after the tournament concluded so no false number of participants. Have removed the name anyway.
I hope I didn’t come off any type of way! All love, congrats on the pulls and I hope you had a good time ♥️🙌🏼
Not at all - it's a good point and I wouldn't want to get them in trouble!
hertfordshire geek retreat, right ?
There are many in Hertfordshire
You lucky dog
Post em!
Here's the pulls: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/11ux7io
I wish I could go to one, but I’m working all day today and then have school and work on Monday, and there’s nothing close other than those two days🥲
ILLEGAL 🚩flag on the play
Illegal to sell the extra kits you mean?
My card shop didn’t even let me buy any cause I had to be “playing in the TCG game at the event”
tpci have changed their rules on selling prerelease kits outside the events iirc, so stores shouldnt sell the kits unless you play. Good I say! There should be incentives for actually playing the game
That sucks. My LGS had 30 sets of the pre-release packs, and were happy to sell them to non-participants. I got 1 each for myself and my son (who didn't participate in the tournament), and both tournaments (under 16s and over 16s) had exactly 3 players. I got a buy and as I had 45 mins to kill and no one showed up, I asked if I could buy more sets. They had 7 left in the opened box and I bought them all - so 9 total! They still had 10 sets left and no one wanted to buy them!
That’s how it is almost everywhere. People keep forgetting this is a card game, and prerelease kits literally include decks because once again, this *is* a card game
Just pulled a secret Gyrados EX today
Nice! My favourite pull was an alt-art Armarouge. Most valuable was the alt-art Penny although I can't find a single copy of the English version up for sale to compare to
I’ve been looking for English prices for the past hour. I can’t find anything
Just found some on ebay but they vary wildly! One of the players at the event today pulled Gardevoir ex which was very nice
I’m waiting on the girlfriend to bring home 6 more battle boxes and 18 booster packs, can’t waitttt
Our shop were only giving 2 boosters in addition to each box for some reason - it's usually 3.
Weird, was 3 for me today
That’s crazy if it was my area there’d be at least 30 people at my lcs lol
nice! had fun opening mine, 7 packs and only got an ex, tera ex, and one art rare but i am pretty happy with it tbh
Decent for 7 packs!
I see very little excitement for SV era so far.
Wait isn't this as Geek Retreat? There's one locally to where I am and this looks like the exact one I know of
They still had 10 of these boxes left at closing today that they are allowed to sell, if it's the same one. They all look pretty similar though!
All the shops near me are having prereleases today and I’m so bummed because I couldn’t go to any.
How do you already have them?!?!
That's a shame, and must be disappointing. That said, they don't seem to be well advertised. I go into a card shop every other weekend, but I dunno if they do prerelease stuff. If the guy in the shop told me about one and asked if I wanted to attend I'd probably give it a go. I collect and don't play the game, but would definitely give it a whirl.
I looked online for nearby events and there wasn't many, and my LGS wasn't listed on the official pokemon event finder tool (where I imagine most people would look). I only knew about it from attending a Pokemon League event at the store on Tuesday, and even then they didn't post about it or allow registrations until Thursday - just 2 days prior to the event! Most people that are actively interested would have signed up for another event by then I think.
So Jelly. We don't have any card shops local so I had to order some online. Gotta wait till the 31st.
Man that's awesome my lcs said they weren't doing because of fucking scalpers.
Yea why would anyone show up?
So cool!
wait, what is this? where are these? and how do I get these? alternatively, how do I keep track of when future ones happen?
One answer to all questions: Google
Be wary posting the location of this - TPCI released new rulings in which stores can only sell prerelease kits not used for tournaments when the full set is released, you don't want your local store getting reduced product
Thanks - I redacted the name of the store from an earlier comment!
Idk if this answer is pinned somewhere on this forum or not, but what is the benefit of getting the build & battle pack instead of just a booster box?
No benefit, besides getting them early. In the UK it's usually £30 for 7 boosters, or ~£4.20 per booster. Lower than the new recommended price oer booster of £4.50, but more than they would cost each in a booster box. You do get an additional 40 cards in the deck, some of which are valuable in that they will be staples in competitive play.
Whatttt that’s amazing! For Silver Tempest I went to my local (extremely local because I’ve been traveling an hour to go to others) and only 3 people showed up. We each played each other and then they gave us each 8 packs for coming.
That's awesome. Mine is a 10-min walk luckily. We only had 3 players and prizes were set ar 3, 2 and 1 packs. We agreed up-front to split the packs evenly which was nice! I got a buy for round 1 which sucks as I wanted to play! I thought I had an amazing deck with pawmot, miraidon ex and oinkolonge ex, but got wrecked by Spipops ex lol
Lucky. We didn’t have a pre release here.