When: Sat May 5th, 2011
Where: Rantoul Public Library
106 W. Flessner, Rantoul, IL 61866

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Time: Registration opens at 9:00,
and we'll hand out the packs about 9:30am

Cost: $25 (over $35 value!) *see details below!
*NOTE:
The first 35 players will be Guaranteed to receive
a cool Promo Item and a Prerelease Promo Card

Supplies are limited, so
Contact Nicole or Camille to reserve your seat and Preregister now!

*************Dark Explorers Prerelease************
- Main Event -
Cost: $25 for 6 boosters to build the deck you'll play in the tournament, plus a special Promo Card and a cool Promo item, while supplies last! And I can tell you that you'll love them!
So you get more than $35 worth of products for only a $25 entrance fee!

Main event -Each player will receive 6 booster packs of the new set (to keep) and may start opening their packs when we tell everyone to go. Players will each build their own 40 card deck to play (using only those cards from the 6 packs, no trading cards with others until after the Tourney) and will also decide how many energies they will want to include in their decks (basic energies are provided at the event). Everyone will then have 30 minutes to build their decks, using only the cards from the packs they received. That totally levels the playing field... because from the best player around to the newest youngster there, everyone has an equal chance at this tourney because you never know what cards you'll get in your packs! That's what makes it so fun!

And don't worry, it's not really that hard to build your own deck... generally there aren't a whole lot of trainers in a set, so you'll usually want to include as many of them that will be helpful as you can. You want to make sure you have as many basic Pokemon as you can, and include any evolutions that you might have been lucky enough to get as well. Try to keep your deck to 2 or 3 types, like Fire and Electric or whichever, because that will be helpful to you in drawing the particular energies you need for your Pokemon's attacks. Of course Colorless type Pokemon can fit nicely into any type of deck since they can use any type of energy you happen to have. Since your deck needs to be 40 cards in total, a relatively simple rule of thumb would be 20 energies and 20 in any combination of basics, their evolutions (if you got any), and trainers. Then, just decide how many of which type of energies you'll need to get by looking over the energy requirements for your Pokemon's attacks. And that's pretty much all there is to it!

Remember, it's a tournament for fun, so don't stress over building 'the perfect deck'... just have fun with it!

Once the decks are built, the tourney will begin. For this event you play for 4 prizes with 20 minute rounds, and we usually play for 3 rounds.

Prizes: ALL participants who finish will receive 2 more Dark Explorers prize packs at the end of the tourney (making a total of 8 packs, PLUS the surprise Promo Item and the Promo card - WOW!)

- Theme Deck Challenge -

Cost: $25 for a Theme Deck (complete with themed coin, damage counters and instructional playmat) to keep and use to compete against others in the Theme Deck Challenge, plus a special Promo Card and the cool promo item for everyone, while supplies last!

This special tourney will be separate from the main event and follows a much more casual format. Great for younger players, parents, or those who may not be as familiar with deck building on their own, but would still like to participate. If you don't know how to play, we can teach you! Each player will choose one of 2 different Dark Explorers Theme Decks to use to battle others who also choose the Theme Deck Challenge, and the nice thing about playing the Theme Deck Challenge is that each Theme Deck also comes with an instructional playmat, a special coin, and your own damage counters, all very useful tools for the newer players.

And all participants in this Theme Deck Challenge will ALSO receive 4 more Dark Explorers prize packs for participating in the tourney, in addition to the decks they played.
(making a total of: the Deck, 4 booster packs, plus the cool promo item and Promo card).
So you get more than $35 worth of products for the $25 entrance fee!

(If there aren't many players might be interested in doing this instead of the Main Event, we could have this as a Side Event after the Main Event. We'll see what the players want when we're there!)

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Door Prizes - Of course , we'll have LOTS of random pack giveaways throughout the day! I also have some really cool door prizes to give out... besides packs, posters and such, I'll give out a free Pass to our next Prerelease worth $25. You can be sure we'll have a good time!

PokeMama's Pokemon hat giveaway - Of course I'll be making some hats of the new Pokemon to give away! So be sure to come! You might get lucky and win one!