News! (Shoutout to Brynessa and ZestyPhresh for the info!) Hasbro has partnered with GameStop to bring tournaments to over 300 stores nationwide, starting this Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 1PM each location's local time. This is a great opportunity to show up and show them what a great community the WBO has already built! There will be Hasbro Beyblade prizes at each event! Find your closest store here: https://www.gamestop.com//beyblade-championships
If this all goes well, perhaps there will eventually be opportunity for organizers to hold tournaments at the locations that have sufficient space, and potential for even more prizes from Hasbro! I think that most of the stores won't have hosted tournaments before, and they will only be prepared for relatively small groups, but if there is a store near you, go and PROVE IT IN BATTLE! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uDHf_oukgOM
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I had one friend from the northern part of my state (VA) call their local store and he was told that it was 8-13 only. When I called mine (central VA) they said no age restriction. I think it may come down to whoever is working that day.
I’m assuming if they are from wave 1 or 2 they would be for the tournament. Besides that, nothing else will be allowed for the tournament, but everything/anything is allowed in free play
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(Oct. 18, 2024 4:41 AM)Laban Vanot Wrote: I’m assuming if they are from wave 1 or 2 they would be for the tournament. Besides that, nothing else will be allowed for the tournament, but everything/anything is allowed in free play
Just like in JP/SEA where you can't use Hasbro releases (yes this includes things like Hasbro DranSword), you can't use TT releases in Hasbro areas. There are ways to tell if a part of TT or Hasbro distributed. It's really lame and pretty asinine, but thems the official rules for Hasbro and TT tournaments.
There's an image circulating that shows the package sent by Hasbro - and it seems to be exactly the same as the ones sent to retailers in Canada back in August.
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(Oct. 19, 2024 7:33 AM)CodyDragonLane Wrote: Just out of curiosity, Is any of this also something to do with the future Beyblade X World Championship or something like that?
I assume not really, I think it’s more of an introductory event to get people to know about beyblade in the first place. If I recall correctly I heard Hasbro isn’t going to start doing big tournaments until 2025.
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I went to one today. Four people showed up for a single elimination, first to four points tournament in the bucket stadium; first place won a stadium starter set, a Beyblade booster, and a winder launcher. Open play followed the bracket, but the launchers/Beyblades provided were proto launchers and the dual-pack beys. No customization was allowed, and only one blade per competitor
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(Oct. 19, 2024 8:40 PM)SaintBlader Wrote: I went to one today. Four people showed up for a single elimination, first to four points tournament in the bucket stadium; first place won a stadium starter set, a Beyblade booster, and a winder launcher. Open play followed the bracket, but the launchers/Beyblades provided were proto launchers and the dual-pack beys. No customization was allowed, and only one blade per competitor
Cool, was there any age bracket for the tournament or could all ages participate?
(Oct. 19, 2024 8:40 PM)SaintBlader Wrote: I went to one today. Four people showed up for a single elimination, first to four points tournament in the bucket stadium; first place won a stadium starter set, a Beyblade booster, and a winder launcher. Open play followed the bracket, but the launchers/Beyblades provided were proto launchers and the dual-pack beys. No customization was allowed, and only one blade per competitor
Cool, was there any age bracket for the tournament or could all ages participate?
Not at the one I attended, but the youngest participant was 13 or so. The others were all adults.
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Here is the footage from ours in Kirkland, Washington (Totem Lake).
It was overall a pretty good time. I actually ended up winning the event.
The ruling sheet did not notate Xtreme Finish as a win condition at all, so just 2 point Burst/KO and 1 point OS.
Here is the flyer, and front and back of the rules sheet:
Depending on who managed it cared if it was for kids or not only. This store was called ahead and the manager was ok with all ages.
If the age restriction was actually enforced, only one of the players would have been able to participate.
Here is the bracket and certificate. It was first come first serve, and players wrote their own name where they wanted in the bracket.
No prizing was ever notated, so all of the beys were up for grabs to use for the event.
We used the Bucket instead of the Hasbro Xtreme Set Stadium since the rulesheet notated the Bucket moreso as the stadium for play, and there were two for use.
The Kirkland store was sent:
2x Bucket BeyStadium
1x Xtreme Battle Set (Dagger Dran 4-60R, Tusk Mammoth 3-60T)
We helped him open stuff and just got first dibs on the beys to use for the event.
We (mostly WBO Seattle people who already frequent events) were going to use only the store provided Beys as listed on the sheet-
but some new players asked if they could use their own Hasbro stuff and the employee running things didn't mind.
So we just used only Hasbro Wave 1&2 parts, allowing us to use our own Hasbro gear and Winder Launchers.
We ended up judging and running everything so he could actually do his job since he was the only one in the store, haha.
After the winners were decided, our employee didn't mind us taking home anything since they couldn't be inventoried for sale after being opened.
As the winner I just grabbed a Knife Shinobi, a Tusk Mammoth. My wife grabbed a bucket too.
Other players just took one or two parts, like a blade, or the bucket used in tournament.
Overall it was a nice time and we got the employee and another participant into our WBO community!
As for the *COMPETITVE GAMEPLAY*-
I actually oddly found the bucket far better to play in than the Hasbro Xtreme Stadium.
(I am not fond of the way it launches beys into the Xtreme Zone after leaving the rail loop)
We had some really funny stalls and pocket jump upsets. Overall was not nearly as bad of a stadium to do an event in as I thought.
The Out of Bounds was a bit annoying (which we counted as redo btw); but bringing in my cardboard box helped a bit. The bucket definitely needs some sort of shroud because it was too much liability for these beys to fly out constantly (we had to make a cardboard trash box barrier in front of a glass display case).
Thoughts and feedback for Hasbro/GameStop:
There needs to be way more thought and a bit of prep to give out stuff as an advertising event like this!
Our employee was only told one day prior and had no clue what he was going to do without our help.
The age restriction is a bit silly and there should have been at least an all ages and a children's block.
If we are going to use a stadium from what was sent, use the one with a proper shroud instead of sending two budget options that put the stores in a liability state for damages to occur.
Prizing needed to be notated better, and the set with the only proper Attack Bit should not have been potentially locked away as a prize.
Allow outside product to be used and give a simple and easy shown list of the parts so employees can identify what is and isn't allowed.
Give an actual space to the employees to set up. We had a short table to squat only because players brought things.
This is a physical toy that can bounce out and hit people. It needs some sort of protection around it, even if its a paper cone like the old PLA and MFB stadiums had in Japan.
Better advertising for sure. Quite frankly as it stands, 6/10 people who came to our event were in our community already on the WBO.
It didn't advertise to us; it gave us free/duplicate product. Passerby in the store wanted to play/had vague interest but 8 person bracket killed any potential bites.
If you are going to send $133.92 worth of product to a random store to give away, you should be focused on making new players, not giving existing fans stuff they likely already have. This is all stuff from May-June.
Events like this would work if Hasbro had bigger advertising for a new system or something; like shipping UX Starters instead to promote a specific KIND of Beyblade that is cool, new, and exciting. This is what Takara Tomy does.
The blanket term of "Beyblade Championship" for this event felt hollow and pointless.
It continues to perpetuate the hobby as a little fun thing to do every so often or think about occasionally.
You are trying to sell this as a sport and a thing to keep people on the chain, buying new stuff to keep up and keep playing.
Treat it like that, and you will actually see success instead of occupying a small shelf space in retailers alongside the dying Bakugan packs and Mr. Beast Lab toys...
Beyblade is one of the few good toys for kids on the market, and it is actually affordable and fun for all ages.
It is an evergreen product that is being squandered completely right now.
All of the makings of the product is there; but the distribution, advertising, and most importantly CARE- it just isn't there from Hasbro yet.
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Here is the footage from ours in Kirkland, Washington (Totem Lake).
It was overall a pretty good time. I actually ended up winning the event.
The ruling sheet did not notate Xtreme Finish as a win condition at all, so just 2 point Burst/KO and 1 point OS.
Here is the flyer, and front and back of the rules sheet:
Depending on who managed it cared if it was for kids or not only. This store was called ahead and the manager was ok with all ages.
If the age restriction was actually enforced, only one of the players would have been able to participate. :supaburn:
Here is the bracket and certificate. It was first come first serve, and players wrote their own name where they wanted in the bracket.
No prizing was ever notated, so all of the beys were up for grabs to use for the event.
We used the Bucket instead of the Hasbro Xtreme Set Stadium since the rulesheet notated the Bucket moreso as the stadium for play, and there were two for use.
The Kirkland store was sent:
2x Bucket BeyStadium
1x Xtreme Battle Set (Dagger Dran 4-60R, Tusk Mammoth 3-60T)
We helped him open stuff and just got first dibs on the beys to use for the event.
We (mostly WBO Seattle people who already frequent events) were going to use only the store provided Beys as listed on the sheet-
but some new players asked if they could use their own Hasbro stuff and the employee running things didn't mind.
So we just used only Hasbro Wave 1&2 parts, allowing us to use our own Hasbro gear and Winder Launchers.
We ended up judging and running everything so he could actually do his job since he was the only one in the store, haha.
After the winners were decided, our employee didn't mind us taking home anything since they couldn't be inventoried for sale after being opened.
As the winner I just grabbed a Knife Shinobi, a Tusk Mammoth. My wife grabbed a bucket too.
Other players just took one or two parts, like a blade, or the bucket used in tournament.
Overall it was a nice time and we got the employee and another participant into our WBO community!
As for the *COMPETITVE GAMEPLAY*-
I actually oddly found the bucket far better to play in than the Hasbro Xtreme Stadium.
(I am not fond of the way it launches beys into the Xtreme Zone after leaving the rail loop)
We had some really funny stalls and pocket jump upsets. Overall was not nearly as bad of a stadium to do an event in as I thought.
The Out of Bounds was a bit annoying (which we counted as redo btw); but bringing in my cardboard box helped a bit. The bucket definitely needs some sort of shroud because it was too much liability for these beys to fly out constantly (we had to make a cardboard trash box barrier in front of a glass display case).
Thoughts and feedback for Hasbro/GameStop:
There needs to be way more thought and a bit of prep to give out stuff as an advertising event like this!
Our employee was only told one day prior and had no clue what he was going to do without our help.
The age restriction is a bit silly and there should have been at least an all ages and a children's block.
If we are going to use a stadium from what was sent, use the one with a proper shroud instead of sending two budget options that put the stores in a liability state for damages to occur.
Prizing needed to be notated better, and the set with the only proper Attack Bit should not have been potentially locked away as a prize.
Allow outside product to be used and give a simple and easy shown list of the parts so employees can identify what is and isn't allowed.
Give an actual space to the employees to set up. We had a short table to squat only because players brought things.
This is a physical toy that can bounce out and hit people. It needs some sort of protection around it, even if its a paper cone like the old PLA and MFB stadiums had in Japan.
Better advertising for sure. Quite frankly as it stands, 6/10 people who came to our event were in our community already on the WBO.
It didn't advertise to us; it gave us free/duplicate product. Passerby in the store wanted to play/had vague interest but 8 person bracket killed any potential bites.
If you are going to send $133.92 worth of product to a random store to give away, you should be focused on making new players, not giving existing fans stuff they likely already have. This is all stuff from May-June.
Events like this would work if Hasbro had bigger advertising for a new system or something; like shipping UX Starters instead to promote a specific KIND of Beyblade that is cool, new, and exciting. This is what Takara Tomy does.
The blanket term of "Beyblade Championship" for this event felt hollow and pointless.
It continues to perpetuate the hobby as a little fun thing to do every so often or think about occasionally.
You are trying to sell this as a sport and a thing to keep people on the chain, buying new stuff to keep up and keep playing.
Treat it like that, and you will actually see success instead of occupying a small shelf space in retailers alongside the dying Bakugan packs and Mr. Beast Lab toys...
Beyblade is one of the few good toys for kids on the market, and it is actually affordable and fun for all ages.
It is an evergreen product that is being squandered completely right now.
All of the makings of the product is there; but the distribution, advertising, and most importantly CARE- it just isn't there from Hasbro yet.
I agree that the term "beyblade championship" for this PR event felt pointless tbh, even at my event where I was the only one who had experience with beyblade and everyone else was a beginner including the 4 employees who participated with us. They were lucky I went because I explained how to judge everything, even using our own WBO rules as an example, which we did use instead of hasbros own ruling instead since we were using the Xtreme Battle Set stadium to begin with.
Here's my footage of the event (and yes orientation got messed up after it finished streaming):
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