While I always appreciate the feedback and take everything to heart, I'm puzzled by this.  What is wrong with us making money?  As a business and as someone who works very hard, why is it wrong for me to make money?  When you work, do you do it for free or do you care to make money?  Should game stores exist as non profit entities?

Lets clarify this a bit.  Are you saying tournament services in general does not deserve profit or are you saying Eudemonia, in the services it provides, does not deserve profit?

There were several reasons why I decided to go with $30.  Profit is always a consideration and as a business, I'm not afraid to admit this.  However, the main reason I charged $30 is that I view both Legacy and Vintage events as premium events.  With premium events, we charge a higher price and give a bigger payout.  It sets the tone for the event.  This is the biggest reason I decided on $30.

It is one thing to suggest that we lower the entry fee.  However, please dont suggest that I am screwing the Vintage community.  I do want to provide a valuable service, but it has to make business sense.

As for the point about 5-8th not getting their entry fee.  This was an oversight and it will not happen again.

As for parking, we have parking information on our website if you need it:

http://www.eudogames.com/contact

There was a mistake on our website.  It stated 10 proxies, but 15 proxies will be allowed.  The website has been updated to reflect this.  I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

BC:  We transitioned to a new system for tracking store credit.  There is a good chance your store credit can still be pulled up in the old system.  Shoot me an email:  info at eudemonia net.  If I cant find it, we'll work something out.  I apologize for the inconvenience.  If there was something you wanted to buy, keep in mind that we ship free over $25 now, so you do not have to be in the store to use your credit.

Stephen and Mike have contacted me about setting things up.  We'll work out some dates and hopefully get a better date for this event.

We added a dedicated link for eternal events at:

http://www.eudogames.com/magic/eternal

As we add more events, you can find them at this link.

Failed on the date pretty hard.  I fixed it in the original post.

I am happy to announce Eudemonia's Holiday Eternal Tournament series.

Entry Fee:  $30.
Time:  Registration at 11am, play at noon.
Format:  Swiss, cut to top 8.
Prizes:  Store credit based on attendance.  We currently have a large supply of vintage and legacy cards, including moxes, dual lands, etc.

Saturday 11/24 - Legacy, 10 proxies.
Saturday 12/22 - Legacy, 10 proxies.
Sunday 12/23 - Vintage, 15 proxies.

http://www.eudogames.com/magic/eternal

I will update this thread when we have more details.  I hope to see many of you there.

Dean
Eudemonia

The good news is that we're getting the dates hammered out for the recall and lotus tournament.  The recall tournament will be in October after the Scars of Mirrodin release.  We'll have a date posted soon and I'll make a forum thread announcing the date.  Again, thanks for everyone's patience.

Also, we do not like running our events a week before or after Superstars.  From our experience, having some time between the event increases attendance.  More people = more prizes and it seems to me that it is better for everyone.

I apologize for cancelling the event.  There was a miscommunication between our event coordinator and I about the dates.  After realizing the confusion, we discussed the situation and decided to cancel.  In hindsight, it was a terrible mistake and in the future, we will go ahead with the event.  Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.  We will let the community know soon what date the event will be.

The event has been postponed.  I apologize for any inconveniences.  We'll update when the last two weekends will be.

I want to address the great feedback people are giving about our events.  Our prize structure is no big secret so I'll explain it to everyone with the goal of more transparency and understanding for our events.

For all of our magic events, we take the entry fee, minus $2.00 for administrative costs (event staff pay) and give out the rest in store credit.  For the Time Walk P9 event, we had 22 players.  This worked out to $506 in the prize pool.  Our Time Walk price came in at around $480.  The price was compared to http://findmagiccards.com/Cards/UN/Time_Walk.html for a sanity check.  This left $26 in the prize pool.  However we wanted to give the rest of the top 4 something, so we gave back the entry fee (Free entry for the next P9!).  This is more than what we took in but we thought it was necessary to help build the community.

We want to do everything we can to support the P9 community because we know the Magic community will continue to support us.  Our goal is to break even on these events whether we have 8 players or 40 players.  I hope more players will show up to the next event so we can give out larger prizes.

It seems to me that our store credit is more valuable to the gamer player base compared to the regional magic player base.  Our local gamers are here on a daily or weekly basis and buy plenty of drinks, snacks, singles, boosters, computer time, events and other games.  I just realized the regional magic players are here once a month and generally want to buy magic cards.  With that in mind, I will commit to having a larger and more extensive singles inventory.

If you have more questions, feel free to post it here or email me at dkao@eudemonia.net.  We want to help build and support the P9 community in California so let us know how we can do that.

We want to thank Superstars and the messengers involved for rescheduling their event.  The community will benefit for having a stronger showing at both events instead of being split at two separate events.

At the moment, we do not have a Mox Sapphire to give away.  In its place, we will be offering $500 store credit to first place.  Eudemonia has other power available and many other singles to purchase with the store credit.  As always, other prizes will be paid out based on attendance.  If we do get a Mox Sapphire in time for the event (we are actively looking for one), that will be offered as the prize.

I hope to see everyone at the event this Sunday.

This is a reminder that the Mox Emerald event will be this Sunday.  Both the Emerald and Ruby event has been placed on our calendar.  I hope to see everyone there!

The P9 is coming up in a couple of weeks!  Make sure to mark your calendar!

We have decided to postpone the event for 9/20.  The calendar has been updated to relfect the confirmed dates.  I apologize if this causes any inconvenience.

http://community.eudemonia.net/content/p9-mox-pearl-2009

Congratulations to Cory Redmond in taking home a Mox Pearl.  Top 8 has been posted and the decklists are being inputed at this moment.  Hope to see everyone back at the next event.

Just a reminder that Eudemonia's P9 kick off event will be in two weeks.  Come out and try to take home a Mox Pearl!!

Eudemonia is back with our annual Power Nine series!  We decided to run the event from August-May this season.  For the veterans, you'll notice that we are not announcing the complete event ahead of time.  This is to minimize rescheduling of events further down the road.  We will commit to giving everyone ample notice and to plan with the best of our knowledge.  The winner of the each event will receive a free bye in the final Black Lotus event.  Without further ado..

Eudemonia 2009-20010 Vintage Events
http://community.eudemonia.net/p9/

Mox Pearl - Aug 30th, 2009 - Confirmed
Mox Emerald - Oct 11th, 2009 - Confirmed
Mox Ruby - Nov 1st, 2009 - Confirmed
Mox Jet - Dec 6th, 2009 - Tentative

Winter Break

Mox Sapphire - TBA
Time Walk - TBA
Library of Alexandria - TBA
Ancestral Recall - TBA
Timetwister - TBA
Black Lotus - TBA

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2008 Winners

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Details
[Format] Each tournament will be run as a series of swiss rounds, concluding with a cut to top eight. Besides for allowing proxies, all DCI rules for Type 1 Constructed tournaments apply. Blank decksheets will be provided and decklists are required for each event. For your convenience, you can download a blank decklist form here and fill it out at home.

[Time] For each tournament, registration begins at 11 AM and play begins at Noon.

[Location] Tournaments will be held at the Eudemonia store: 2154 University Ave, Berkeley, CA. Downtown Berkeley BART is two blocks away.

[Entry Fee] The entry fee is $25 for each tournament except the last. The entry fee is $30 for the final Black Lotus tournament, except for those that win free entry from placing in previous tournaments. The entry fee also includes two free hours of computer time at Eudemonia good for the day of the event.

[Prizes] First place receives the prize advertised for that event as well as a bye to the Black Lotus event.  Additional prizes will also be awarded based on the number of attendees.

[Proxying] The tournament format will be Type 1 with up to 10 proxies allowed. Any deck containing proxies must be sleeved with opaque plastic sleeves. Proxies must easily be recognizable as the card they represent from the face, and must be made such that they are not easily recognizable from the back or when shuffling the deck. Contact the store if you have further questions about the proxy policy.

[Cancellation] With the exception of the final Black Lotus tournament, if fewer than twelve players register for a tournament, it may be cancelled.

In case you didnt see the top 8 deck list:

http://www.eudemonia.net/forums/ultimatebb.php/topic/33/88.html

As a very important reminder, the Time Walk event has been moved to July 6th.  Also, the Lotus event has been pushed back to August 30th, 31st.  Hope to see you then.

Sorry for the delay but we will have the decklist up soon.  I'll make another post on this thread when we do.