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The following message will be going up on Decipher.com and DGMA.com
today.  Please read and be familiar with it.  If you have any questions,
you can either post them here or send them directly to me at
dan.bojanowski@decipher.com

Please don't share this publically until it goes up on Decipher.com.

Thanks for your help in improving the tournament system.

Dan Bojanowski
Decipher Organized Play Manager

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Important Changes to the Decipher Tournament System

On Tuesday, June 17 we will launch Decipher¹s all new Tournament Resource
Management System. There are some things we want you to know and plan for
with this new system.  We trust you will find the system easy to use and
enjoy the many new features and upgrades. 

All tournament directors will now be required to keep an active credit
card on file with Decipher.  You will be charged a one-time, $1 US
registration set-up fee.  This nominal charge to your credit card loosely
ensures that all tournament directors are 18 years of age or older and
discourages abuse of the tournament system. We reserve the right to fine
tournament directors for misusing their tournament privileges. If you are
an upstanding tournament director, follow the rules and never enter a
fake tournament, your credit card will never be fined. We believe this
feature alone will drastically improve the accuracy of the worldwide
tournament ratings and present us and our valued tournament directors
with many new options for the future.

Additional improvements: now when a tournament director enters results
for his tournament, he will be asked for the email addresses of the
prizewinners instead of their home addresses. It is not acceptable for
tournament directors to enter their own email address for someone else¹s
prize.  Each prize recipient will receive an email with a redemption code
and instructions on how to redeem his prize. The winner will then be able
to manage his own prize shipment from Decipher. We expect that the speed
and accuracy of Decipher¹s prize support will improve drastically almost
overnight! 

In addition, you are likely to experience many improvements to the
tournament results entry system.  The entire system was revised to make
entering results easier and more intuitive.  The system upgrade also
allows for "live" tournaments allowing Tournament Directors to connect to
the system from any location.  For The Lord of the Rings TCG tournament
directors, you¹ll notice the system now does the work for you and
tiebreakers automatically calculated. 

These changes are all part of Decipher¹s overall plan to improve the
organized play experience for everyone, players and tournament directors
alike. We trust you will enjoy working within the new system. With this
first step now in place, we look forward to going back to work on the
development of future upgrades to Decipher¹s Tournament Resource
Management System.

Thank you,

Dan Bojanowski
Decipher Organized Play Manager


Thanks,
Dan

Dan Bojanowski
Organized Play Coordinator
DGMA/Decipher Inc.
www.decipher.com
757-664-1152 (phone)
757-664-2152 (fax)



I could rant and rave about how stupid this decision is ... but my fellow ambassadors have already said it as well as I can.

So I'll make it short and sweet - the day you implement this policy will be the day I resign as an Ambassador.

Matt Clouser
STCCG Ambassador, Ronara Region
San Angelo, Texas, USA