Clix for the Cure, in your area?

[longinux]

I really wanted to make my way up to Illinois for the CfC tourney. But I'm pretty broke and had to take the hours at work. I was thinking though, what if next year, we got way more venues in on it. I realize that it would take a lot of ground work, but this is a hypothetical poll to see if anyone, like me, wanted to get in on the action if it were closer.

The poll is based on how far you'd be willing to drive, and how much you'd be willing to spend based on how close the event was. Your options are:

1. Months in advance notice, 5+ hour drive, to pay 20$ for 1 booster, with unique CfC prizes and a lot of other swag.

2. Months in advance notice, 1 hour drive max, 20$ for 1 booster with CfC prize support.

3. Weeks in advance notice, my local venue is supported with CfC prizes, a public accounting of how much each venue raised (for fraud purposes), 20$ entry and a tourney of the judges/venues choosing.

4. Weeks in advance notice, 10$ entry, Modern, with varying locally supported prizes.

5. I wouldn't be willing to support this cause through a fund-raising tourney, whether it was local, or long distance.

6. Weeks in advance notice for a CfC tourney held at the convention I planned on attending with whatever swag and prizes were being given out in similar tourneys that year.

This is all hypothetical. If there were something like Brick figures for this, it'd rock, but this is not something being tossed around by WK, as far as I know. Just an idea I had and wanted to see what others thought.

[kzcmzd]

I would easily make a 1+ hour trip to donate to this great cause. But, I'd have to do a little more planning to go 5+ hours away. Work kinda keeps me from traveling that far on short notice.

John
Pround son of a cancer surviving Mom!

[Impulse-ive]

I would drive up to 3 hours to support this event no matter the buy in or wizkids support.

[Pepsirox08]

The one that just past was fine for me. 2 1/2 hr drive, custom prizes, tons of raffles, but maybe do something different than the $1 PC rolls?

[ctrosejr]

I went to the mid-west (Peoria, IL) Clix for the Cure. I had a great time and really enjoyed it. I had no issue with the structure ($30 entry, 2 booster).

My only recommendation would be that it take place in a western suburb of Chicago, or within 1 hour of Chicago. No reflection on Peoria, but I know of a lot of people in Chicago who would have gone if it had been closer. My suggestion would be Naperville, IL. The more people who attend, the more money that would be raised.

Another suggestion, there should be a couple of really great items up for auction. As shown by the Red Son auction currently going on, I think that more money could be raised that way, instead of just selling raffle tickets.

[SLVRSR4]

Part of the fun of Clix for the Cure is getting to see and play with people that you don't get to ever see/play with. I like the guys that play at my local venue, but it would just take so much fun out of the idea if it just seemed like another Thursday night tourney. Also, two of the guys at my venue were the high rollers that spent $230+ dollars on one game's probability rolls against each other. I don't have that kind of money ot be able to keep up with both of them.

[PONX]

I picked other, I like the local venue thing for $20, yet I feel as a prize is really not needed. However, the venue who produces the most funds should be highlited in the wizkids/necca website.

[malger]

Why not make it an event multiple times each year. Start doing pre-releases and have all of the proceeds go to breast cancer research. That would make many of us happy getting pre-releases back and also, likely, dramatically increase the money raised for breast cancer research.

[sgtppr67]

My only recommendation would be that it take place in a western suburb of Chicago, or within 1 hour of Chicago. No reflection on Peoria, but I know of a lot of people in Chicago who would have gone if it had been closer. My suggestion would be Naperville, IL. The more people who attend, the more money that would be raised.


It was in central IL because that is where it started. Humble beginings i know, but i kinda like that you city folk had to make the drive to our neck of the woods this time.

[Jarosa]

My brother and I drove for over an hour almost 2 hours for the East Coast Clix for the Cure. It was worth it. I spent $60 on both our entries around $25 on PC rolls and $15 on raffle tickets. Won a Kal-El prize from the raffle. My brother begged me to buy him a raffle ticket of his own. Sure enough it hit first. Plus he pulled Bagman which was traded for Red Hulk, got 3 now. And Morlun. I pulled no SRs. We both did well. He actually won his first 2 matches and caused his opponents to spend over $25 each PCing. He only had $7-8 for PC. His team was Bagman, Puma, Hammer Agent, and Black Cat I believe that's the whole team. I used Iron Man, Vector, and JJJameson. JJ KO'd Wolverine, X-23, and X-Ray. Had fun.

[SevenBlueSeven]

Here are a few thoughts about Clicks for the Cure; even though I have never had a chance to participate in an event like it.

1 - WK should ALWAYS provide prize support. With possibly unique prizes/pieces for these events.

2 - Both local and convention events. - All convention events help to promote the game and the charity efforts. Local events should be able to be run at least once a year and twice at the most. Preferring 'regional' events over small scale local events but still allow smaller events if they can raise a specific amount of cash for the charity.

Other options:

3 - Buy in. This is either for a sealed event or for a pre-announced format of approved play with any 'special' rules.

4 - $1 probability controls. Others have mentioned this concept before.

5 - in sealed event - unlimited purchase of boosters (boosters usually double cost) but still a limited point value of playable pieces.

6 - Similar to old MechWarrior 'kill-and-keep'. This also means that playable pieces only come from sealed boosters.

[jpointer]

What cure?

[afinley2429]

i could not support it because this year that money went to a missionary my church sponsors in Romania

[jpointer]

I would not support it because the Susan G. Komen Foundation has and will continue to use the money they raise to support ABORTION. They have nothing to do with each other but they give significant amounts of the money they raise for breast cancer to planned parenthood.

See more here
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/051116/index.htm

[dkrmguy]

I would have gone if it was closer.

I marked
Local venues, 20$ house tourney, WK prize support.
but if it was within 1 to 2 Hours travel time My son & I would have gone.

[Superfly]

I would not support it because the Susan G. Komen Foundation has and will continue to use the money they raise to support ABORTION. They have nothing to do with each other but they give significant amounts of the money they raise for breast cancer to planned parenthood.

See more here
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/051116/index.htm

Very interesting. I had no idea. Very disappointing... :(

[JOwenR2]

I voted other I like the idea of something local, and don't mind paying a $20 entry or even driving for a few hours, but my concern is spreading it out too thin may actually reduce the number of participants and ergo reduce the $ earned by the events, now if each venue could boast full prize support I could see it enticing people out but in such a case I'd stagger them a bit so the Prize hunters will be more inclined to go to more than 1 event and then expand that clixer's contribution. I personally can't attend the closest to me (wife is gonna pop out baby #2 any day now) so I just donated a couple customs to lend my support. Sure they aren't as flashy as the Meisner (sorry if I mis spelled) stuff or the official WK support but It's what I could do that was unique.

[hair10]

My only recommendation would be that it take place in a western suburb of Chicago, or within 1 hour of Chicago. No reflection on Peoria, but I know of a lot of people in Chicago who would have gone if it had been closer. My suggestion would be Naperville, IL. The more people who attend, the more money that would be raised.
Let me just say... WAAAGGGHHH! I'm sorry but I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Chi-town people that had to come to po-dunk Peoria considering the fact that we ALWAYS have to travel to any major cons or events. Besides, having it in Naperville doesn't help the people who come from St. Louis, Bloomington, Champaign, the quad-cities, etc.


Another suggestion, there should be a couple of really great items up for auction. As shown by the Red Son auction currently going on, I think that more money could be raised that way, instead of just selling raffle tickets.
We usually do. In fact I had a few things set aside. But we were running out of time and most people were running out of money. There's no way somebody at one of these local events is going to still have an extra $300+ at the end of it to bid on a custom fig like they can on the realms.

[happyoptimistic88]

I really wanted to make my way up to Illinois for the CfC tourney. But I'm pretty broke and had to take the hours at work. I was thinking though, what if next year, we got way more venues in on it. I realize that it would take a lot of ground work, but this is a hypothetical poll to see if anyone, like me, wanted to get in on the action if it were closer.

The poll is based on how far you'd be willing to drive, and how much you'd be willing to spend based on how close the event was. Your options are:

1. Months in advance notice, 5+ hour drive, to pay 20$ for 1 booster, with unique CfC prizes and a lot of other swag.

2. Months in advance notice, 1 hour drive max, 20$ for 1 booster with CfC prize support.

3. Weeks in advance notice, my local venue is supported with CfC prizes, a public accounting of how much each venue raised (for fraud purposes), 20$ entry and a tourney of the judges/venues choosing.

4. Weeks in advance notice, 10$ entry, Modern, with varying locally supported prizes.

5. I wouldn't be willing to support this cause through a fund-raising tourney, whether it was local, or long distance.

6. Weeks in advance notice for a CfC tourney held at the convention I planned on attending with whatever swag and prizes were being given out in similar tourneys that year.

This is all hypothetical. If there were something like Brick figures for this, it'd rock, but this is not something being tossed around by WK, as far as I know. Just an idea I had and wanted to see what others thought.

I vote: Local venues, 20$ house tourney, WK prize support.

I would easily make a 1+ hour trip to donate to this great cause. But, I'd have to do a little more planning to go 5+ hours away. Work kinda keeps me from traveling that far on short notice.

John
Pround son of a cancer surviving Mom!

That is great to hear your mother survived cancer, GOD BLESS! :)

[couzinit99]

I vote a combination of the first two. I like the drive. its fun.

[hair10]

Also, before this thing gets out of hand let me make a couple of things clear...

This is in NO WAY affiliated with WizKids. I really apprecaite the support that they've shown in the past and continue to show, but if there were to be one of these in every state (for example) I know that they couldn't support it like they have. It would simply be financially impossible for them.

I do plan on growing this each year but it'll take some time. This year was a test run to see how it would go and see what needed to be worked out for future years. This is all done on a volunteer basis and I don't want it to become a problem/burden for any one person. I had help on this one and I'll continue to need help in the future. But that means I need people I can trust.

Which leads right into the next point. We're doing some good here. Heck, a lot of good if you look at this year. But all it takes is one joker to screw up the entire thing. The good name we've garnered over 6 years and all the work we've done and money we've raised could be washed away by some idiot who took the money and ran or screwed it up in an hundred other ways. I'm not going to let that happen.

Once a year is enough for this event. Yeah, they're fun and all but their also time consuming and a tad expensive for the people involved. Those of us that ran it took time away from other things we're normally doing to get it done (family, work, etc). The venues donated time, money, product, people, etc but they don't get a whole lot out of it. I have no idea how much of his time and money Ben put into the custom figs but I'm sure it was considerable. It wouldn't be fair to him to ask for more, more, more. Don't get me wrong, we're all happy to do it but it can't be the only thing we're doing.

Also, I hate to be "that guy" but if it doesn't come through myself or DS-00-0,FSD then it isn't getting done. And since DS has pretty much dropped out of the HC scene, that means coming through me. I'm not going to have every Johnny Heroclixer trying to run an event called "Clix for the Cure" whenever he feels like it. Go back to the point above about having someone I trust for the reasons why.

[admiralorko]

I voted: Local venues, 20$ house tourney, WK prize support.

I live in San Francisco, and while the cause is near and dear to my heart (My mother in-law is a two time breast cancer survivor), I simply can't afford an out of state trip to attend any event.

I really admire the work you're doing hair10, and I wish you all the luck in the future.

I also admire Wizkids for being willing to give so much in the way of prizes to this cause, but truly, I would go for the regular old venue prize packages (I'm new to the scene, but my preferred venue gives LEs and custom dice).

The goal is to raise money for a worthy cause, while having fun, not to win some uber prizes (although those are awesome too!). Other prizes can be donated from Wizkids if they wish, or by people wanting to help the cause.

I don't need a booster to play unless that's required by the event/venue hosting. We all already have figures.

My (completely and totally unsolicited, for which I apologize, and hope you don't take this the wrong way) advice would be to continue to grow the community you are building. Create a space where people can come to learn about it, and a place where interested parties (Like venue owners) can come to work with you, and learn more about what you do. Have you tried talking to the Susan G. Komen Foundation directly as well? They may have some ideas about what you can do to continue to grow your efforts for them without stretching yourself too far.

And for god's sake, if you haven't already, turn this thing into an NPO. Let it become it's own entity, and find some like minded individuals you can trust to help guide its future and continue to grow it. It's very hard, but once you get the NPO off the ground, you'll become more than just a fundraiser, you become a corporation which exists to benefit others.

Good Luck!