Pro Quest: London Retailer FAQ

Aug 12, 2022 Organised Play Team

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The path to the next Pro Tour starts in your store, with Pro Quest: London!

Pro Quest: London provides players with a direct qualification into the first Pro Tour of 2025, to be hosted in London, and the chance to win elite prizes in all our supported territories.

What are Pro Quest events?
Pro Quest provides players with a qualification to the first Pro Tour of 2025 and the chance to win exclusive prizes. More than 500 stores have been invited to take part.

What format is Pro Quest: London?
Pro Quest: London events will use either the Classic Constructed format or Rosetta Booster Draft.

Entry Fee?

Classic Constructed
Stores can charge up to USD35 / EUR35 / GBP35 / CAD50 / AUD50 / NZD50 entry or local currency equivalent.*

Limited Events - Booster Draft
Stores can charge up to USD60 / EUR60 / GBP60 / CAD75 / AUD80 / NZD80 or local currency equivalent.*

* If it's normal in the territory for sales tax to be applied to the marketed price at the point of purchase, sales tax may be charged in addition to the prices stated here. For events in Japan please refer to the Japanese FAQ linked below.

Can I add prizes to the prize pool?
Stores are welcome to add additional participation or performance-based prizes to their Pro Quest events.

Season Dates

What are the season dates and when can I sanction the event?
Pro Quest: London will run from Saturday October 5 to Sunday October 27, 2024. Events can be sanctioned now!

Is there any flexibility on the event dates?
Events must be run in this window. If stores cannot run the event during this time the event MUST be cancelled and the Prize Kit MUST be returned to your distributor.

How will I know if my store is selected for Pro Quest: London?
Stores will receive an email invitation to notify that the option for Pro Quest: London will appear in GEM when creating a new event. Stores will be invited to host either a Classic Constructed or Booster Draft event. If you would like to discuss which format you have been selected for please contact op@fabtcg.com.

Event Structure

Is there a minimum number of players to run this event?
Pro Quest events need a minimum of 8 players to run. If an event runs with less than 8 players it will not provide any invites and the store will lose the right to host an event of this level in the future.

Is there a maximum number of players?
Pro Quest events are very popular event series and frequently attract a high number of players. Stores may set an attendance cap for their Pro Quest events in line with their store's capacity and staffing capabilities, however, you may wish to consider an external venue if your store has the capacity for less than 32 players.

If your event does have an attendance cap then we encourage you to have a clearly communicated pre-registration process to reduce the risk of player disappointment.

Classic Constructed Event Structure

Players Swiss Rounds Top Cut
8 3 None
9-16 4 Top 8
17-32 5 Top 8
33-64 6 Top 8
65-128 7 Top 8

How long should I budget for my Pro Quest event?
For Classic Constructed Pro Quest events, we recommend 55-minute rounds. This allows players up to 5 minutes to present their decks and at least 50 minutes to play their match.

Rosetta Booster Draft Event Structure

Players Drafts Swiss Rounds Top Cut
8 1 3 None
9 -16 1 3 Top 8 Draft
17-32 2 6 Top 8 Draft
33 - 64 2 6 Top 8 Draft
65 + 2 6 Top 8 Draft

How long should I budget for a Booster Draft Pro Quest?
For Booster Draft events we recommend you allow 60 minutes for to complete each draft, including 15 minutes for draft deck registration and 15 minutes for draft deck construction.

Booster Draft Swiss rounds should be 35 minutes each.


How will I get stock for the draft?
Stores hosting Booster Draft events will need to order Rosetta stock from their distributors for use in their event. As an example, 4 Rosetta booster cases would provide sufficient product for 60 players drafting twice and a top 8 draft.

See our
running a draft event guide for more information.

Pro Quest Prizes and Distribution

How is the prize kit going to be distributed?
The prize kit will be supplied by your distributor. Distributors will be notified of participating stores once the event sanctioning window has closed.

What are the prizes?
The prizes for this event are as follows:

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Prize Distribution
1x Random Drop Gold Cold Foil Card (Common or Rare or Majestic) Stores can NOT open the Random Drop Gold Cold Foil.
1st place winner to be awarded sealed black envelope at the conclusion of top 8. Winner may choose to open it or keep sealed. The envelope contains a random PCG 9 or better Common, Rare, or Majestic Gold Cold Foil Prize Card.
8x Rainbow Foil Hero Promo Cards To be given out randomly to the top 8 players at the conclusion of swiss rounds. The distribution of the individual promo cards may vary between kits.
2x Blanch Playmats To be awarded to the 1st and 2nd placed players.
16x ???? Rainbow Foil Promo Cards To be used as participation prizes
16x ???? Rainbow Foil Promo Cards To be used as participation prizes
1x Pro Tour: London Invitation There is no physical Pro Tour invitation. Completing your event in GEM will provide LSS with the winner's details and therefore qualify that player for the first Pro Tour of 2025.
The Pro Tour invite is awarded to the winner of each event (or the losing finalist if the winner has already qualified via another in-store Pro Quest event).
1x Judge Pack, 1x Brutus, Summa Rudis Playmat Handed out to the Head Judge and Floor Judge once the event has concluded.

Judge Support

The following is provided to reward your Head Judge:

  • 1x Judge Pack

The following is provided to up to one Floor Judge, if any, otherwise to the Head Judge:

  • 1x Brutus, Summa Rudis Playmat

The judge support must be provided to your judge team only. It is not allowed to be used as door or spot prizes for the players or given to non-judge staff members. Judge support is not allowed to be used as compensation.

LSS provides this judge support to reward judges for their skills and dedication shown towards the game and is not allowed to be used to replace any compensation they would otherwise receive for working a Pro Quest event.

Rules Enforcement, Judges, and Decklists

Are decklists required?
Yes! Decklists are mandatory for these events, you can find the Deck Registration Sheets here.

Booster Draft events will require card pool registration. Please refer to our Booster Draft Guide on Judge Hub for further details.

What level of rules enforcement is Pro Quest run at?
This event is run at a Competitive rules enforcement level.

Will I need a judge for this event?
Pro Quest events MUST have a Level 1 or higher judge as Head Judge. The judge program has qualified over 1500+ Level 1+ judges up to date.

How do find a judge for my event?
If you are not already in touch with a judge in your community, you have the following options available after signing up on JudgeHub.

You can search for judges near you via the search function or via the map function, and a direct message function is available to message them. Additionally, the judge community is organised in regions.

Each region has a Judge Community Representative who is a contact point for the Judges in each region and can also be contacted by organizers to find local judges for their events.

One more option is to make an event on JudgeHub to have judges apply, a guide to this and more functions can be found here.

You may reach out to a potential judge before selecting your event date, to make scheduling easier.

Digital Assets and Marketing

Where do I find digital assets for social media?
Digital assets for social media and printable posters can be found HERE:

Other Questions

Can I run this event at a location that is not my store?
Pro Quest events can be run at alternate locations. However, location information needs to be entered in the event description in GEM when you create the event.

Can store staff play in these events?
The TO and judges for the event cannot play. Store staff that are not involved in the administration of the event are allowed.
Additionally, the TO is not allowed to be a judge in the event.

I’ve been selected to run a Rosetta Booster Draft event. How will I get stock for the draft?
Stores will need to order stock from their distributor or have stock already on hand for the event.

Coverage

Events such as Pro Quest also give you the opportunity to share your store and local community with our team and the wider Flesh and Blood community. We invite all stores hosting Pro Quest events to fill out the Pro Quest: London Coverage Form to provide us with coverage information for your event. This is in addition to the hero data and results which are collected via GEM and the Hero Assignment feature.

We're primarily looking for:

Winner and Finalist decklists (Classic Constructed), a photo of the Winner, a general event photo, metagame breakdown, stories of players, matches, or the day.

Please note we cannot feature every store that provides coverage information, but we greatly appreciate any information stores can provide for our coverage pieces. We look forward to hearing your stories! If you have any questions about the form or want to submit additional information, please email the team at coverage@fabtcg.com.

I still need help! Who can I reach out to?

Email the team at op@fabtcg.com, and an account manager will be in contact with you.