🗂️ Organize and update project files, documentation, and plugin configurations for the Pokémon Professor project

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Theme
Capitalize on excitement and collect community sentiment to help shape
Pokemon Club
- ATL first discussed
- Program put to a halt bc of pandemic
- revamped the program
- program officially launched 20 days ago
- broad access for young fans to experience pokemon
- Launch and run at scale
- schools, libraries, comm centers, afterschool
- Access
- when there is a club kids dont need to bring anything
- free
- clubs dont need to be near leagues
- develop cognitive academic and social skills get through play
- Value prop of Pokemon Club
- External studies done by Columbia Uni 2011
- ![[Pokemon Club Value Prop.jpeg]]
- Experience:
- younger players
- minimal competition, maximum learning
- place to play without needing cards or anything to bring to it
- Pokemon supplies clubs so they have all the tools
- No purchasing cards
- No purchases
- No scalpers
- People running the clubs are not professors and may not know Pokemon really
- Included in kit
- 6 battle academies
- 27 demo decks
- 2 raid battles kits
- None of the above is taken home its used in the club
- Givaways (stickers, some promo cards, etc)
- refresh of materials every 6 months
- Setting up for success
- Curated resources
- Pokemon club resource toolbox
- 30+ links and docs
- Poke Club kit unboxing demo for kit owners
- Only ALA member employees can be club coordinators
- Can have helpers
- Pokemon Prof
- Community help
- No background checks (ALA is already doing them)
- Orgs that Pokemon Club partners with will be conducting these checks
-
- Questions
- How do you ensure consistency across club members
- How do we plan on tackling Community Centers as they are fairly decentralized
- Usually managed by parks and rec (National Parks and Recreation Association NPARA)
- Clubs are labour intensive. Incentives for volunteers?
- Not there yet
- ![[Pokemon Clubs - Bringing the worlds together through pokemon.jpeg]]
Partnering with Play! Stores
- determine how to engage the hobby retail channel to support pokemon clubs
- pressure free pathways
- pursue lighthouse examples
- learn from stores
- identify how to connect
- How would you want to support a local pokemon club?
- ![[Pokemon Club - How to enroll in the program.jpeg]]

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Andrew Wolfe?
- Worked in gam industry since 2008
- Worked TPCi since 2020
- Former MTG Pro Tour competitor
- Likes travel board games, pinball, nature
- Fav pokemon: Psyduck
Goal:
- Build a vibrant engaged pokemon community with more players having more fun in more ways and more often
Achieve through engagement
with incentives
Incentivize through programs
![[Program Development - How do we incentivize.jpeg]]
**League Play**
- Offer a weekly player engagement and intro to Organized Play with welcoming environments for all
- Onboards retailers into OP programs and experiences applying Tools, Policy and Reporting
- 2025 YTD OP League Overview
- 5k+ Active Leagues Globally
- Average 150,000 Unique Player Attendance Monthly
- Avg 24 unique players per League Location
-
**League Kits**
- Support new and existing stores with appealing program materials for player acquisition, engagement and retention
- Items in kit designed to promote and support running League Play! sessions at Play! Pokemon Stores
- Refreshed materials and activities themed around current brand
- Provided free of charge to allow stores to support and grow their community
- New format for 2026
- Quarterly
**Prize Packs and Promos**
- Incentivize players to attend events
- Encourage consistent attendance with league scheduling and reporting to grow both Total Attendance and Allocation
- Stores get quarterly Prize Pack allocation based on reported attendance
- Helps players collect cards applicable in the standard format
- Additional promo cards developed to support brand celebrations (Pokemon Day, Pokeween) and other tournament programs
**Play Lab Discovery**
- Deliver experiences, content, and materials aimed at player acquisitionand teaching pokemon games
**Pre-Release and Early Release**
- Incentivize Retail participation in OP by offering advanced sales only available to hobby.
- Provide player acquisition and play pathing with more structured format leveraging new expansion excitement
- B&B include 40 precon deck with 1 of 4 unique promos
- Starting with ME there are 4 different decks.
- 40 cards
- 1 promo
- Ditto sealed draft available as alternative limited format
- Sales opps before product is available at other retail channels
- Level 2 product - designed to be more difficult but not very much
**Tournaments**
- Support the competitive community with accessoble play opportunities for those seeking to 'up their game'.
- Provide stores with events for enfranchised player base
- League challenge once a month
- League Cups once a quarter
- Friendlies
- mid year celebrations
**Special Events & Celebrations**
- Create Brand Moment activations driving attendance with unique engagement opportunities and special incentives
- Pokemon Day celebrations featuring exclusive Promo cards
- Worlds Celebration
**Worlds Celebration Tournaments**
- Sanction one worlds celebration tournament the week of worlds in Aug
- Promo card Prize support
- 50 2025 Worlds Celebration Promo Pikachu
- 3 Foil Stamped 'WINNER' Promo
- Updating for 2026 Worlds Celebration with enhanced prizing!
**Pokeween**
- Stores eligible via Opt-in solicitation
- Event scheduled as League Play! session in October
- Stores receive the following prize support materials
**Pokemon Day 2026**
- Stores gain eligibility by reporting league activity each fo the 6 months consecutively (July-Dec 2025)
- Celebration event scheduled Feb 27th
- Generous supply of exclusive promo, marketing and TCG items to be provided
![[Program Development - Feedback Survey.jpeg]]

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Ryan Chen - St Business Systems Analyst
Pete De Shaw - Sr Product Owner
Onboarding
Terminology Changes
| Old | New |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------- |
| League Owner | Play! Pokemon Store Owner |
| League Leader | League Assistant |
| League Application | Play! Pokemon Store Application |
| Play! Times | (Open) Play! Sessions |
What has changed?
- Professor Application
- Play! Pokemon Store Application
No more Pcomm exam
Deprecated?
- Most thing in organizer tools dashboard
- League Application
-
League Management
- Play! Pokemon Store Management
- Application turnaround is much faster
- Change of address
- Edit store contact details
League tools ecosystem
- Retailer Portal
- Calls to action
- Prerelease sign up
- Analytics
- League Management
- Change of address, owner and alt venues
- Play! Tools
- Create schedule report
- Staff Management
- Invite League assistants
League leaders can now be league assistants
If you do not have a Organizer cert you cannot create sanctioned events even if the league owner gives them the highest available access
**Prof U & Certifications**
*Exams and Certifications*
- Single Sign On
- Prof 101 = base requirement
- 1 course for each language
- 1 year expiration - renewal can start 3 months prior
Staff Role Criteria
- Play! Tools tournament staff will require the corresponding Prof U Certificate
- In Play! Tools roles and product are dependent on these
![[Play! Pokemon Recent and Upcoming Program Changes - Role Criteria.jpeg]]
ProfCOM & Ranks
![[Play! Pokemon Recent and Upcoming Program Changes - ProfCOM Ranks.jpeg]]
Whats coming
- Retailer access to ProfCOM Professor Directory
- Staffing History
- Revamped Professor Points History
- Dynamic Professor Points by Event
- Different event types give different rewards
- Professor Points for Play! Sessions
- Staffing @ Play! Sessions
***PLEASE USE SAME SSO SESSION ACROSS ALL SITES***
This would allow us to get points for logging people for sessions and not just CP events or prereleases
**Web Event Locator**
- Be honest and open
- Look for the positive
- Think ahead
- Rate thoughtfully

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Loc Dao - Technical Program Manager
PP: Arceus
Aimee Tolentino - Technical Program Manager
PP: Leafeon
July 28 and Aug 26 League Modernization
July 28 Event Locator
July 28 and Aug4
Play! Tools
SIngle sessions or recurring
Mobile
![[Play! Tools - Hands On Activity.jpeg]]

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Philip Hom
PP: Yveltal
Nov 2013 Joined TPC
Joined OP 2022
Immersion Marketing
2014 - Document how EU Nationals
2016 - Helped build broadcasting platforms for TCG as stream producer
EMEA overview

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Michael Woitalla
How do I grow VG at a local level
VGC Locals
Not Swiss only format
- VG Locals may have a top cut based on attendance
- Lower CP payouts than regionals and international championships
- VG Cups and Challenges are the smallest events in the VG Championship Series season and provide a great way for players to try competitive pokemon
![[VG At Your Local Store - Date & Time.jpeg]]
![[VG At Your Local Store - Location.jpeg]]
![[VG At Your Local Store - Alt venues.jpeg]]
Players!
- Open to all
- Prioritized registration
- disallow entry
Staff
- Organizer
- Judges
Need to understand
- Managing people
- technology
- procedural things
![[VG At Your Local Store - Time is Money.jpeg]]