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So, I recently spoke with me FLGS, and now I am the Event and Tournament Organizer for the shop. The catch is that I have to front the cash for the OP kits. Does anyone know how much they run?

And as a further side note, does anyone have any advice for a new TO?

They want YOU to pay for the OP kits? that! How are you going to be reimbursed? Collecting money from the players?

Yeah, that's all kinds of shady right there.

As far as being a TO? Advertise on Facebook and the local gaming group, and make sure you read all the FAQ's and keep up with WORF. Your goal should be to know more about the game then your players- you never want a player to know more about the game then you.

Have all your house rules set before the tournament, and include them in your advertisements: "120 points, ship pure, dual faction OK, no more than 50 points per ship, 1 resource of 10 points or less, the following cards are banned: ..."

The store should be able to tell you what the kit costs are. Each OP kit is meant for 8 players, and if it has prize ships, you'll get 3- 2 for the event, 1 for the TO. It'll cost you about $45. If the OP has blind ships, they come in "bricks" of ships with 10 ships in a brick (2 of each blind ship). I believe one brick of ships costs $120? Kind of depends on the distributor. The store will have to tell you how much each brick will cost.

So if you are doing the Q-Continuum, that's 3 OP kit's @$45 each, and the Grand Prize kit was only $25 as it has cards.

If you are doing one of the older OP's with blind ships, you will have to estimate how many players and how many bricks to buy along with the OP kits. One OP event will cost you $45 for the OP kit, and another $120 for at least one blind brick. And then you will have to purchase the Grand Prize kit.

Side note: These prices are all what my FLGS pays from their distributor and yours may be different.

I recently asked the same thing over on BGG and a couple guys that are TOs or own their local stores confirmed that since the Collective regular OP kits have been running $15-25, kits that came with a grand prize ship like Collective and RiF were $45. If the store bought the blind bricks it was an extra $70. However the store does have to buy a certain amount of WK product before Alliance will let them buy a kit. If you store is charging more than that they are probably going to an outside distributor that themselves buys from Alliance. Alliance is the official distributor for WK.

Honestly if they are asking you to pay for the kits up front that $15-45 isn't bad because it could cost you that much to by the ship on eBay. If no one shows up you get to keep the whole thing. You don't have to run the blind bricks you can see how attendance goes before you get into those.

I am fronting the cost of the kits until we get a decent group going at this location. Other stores in the area, including one that I have added to my "never give them money again" list, all run tournaments on regular days. I am going to try and start this one up since we have 3-5 players possibly... And it means I can get my hands on the OP ships even if I don't go win a tournament elsewhere.