Additionally a pay-what-you-want ticket fee will be payable on the day, 100% of which will be donated to the chairty Mermaids UK who supporting trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children, young people and their families.

Link to buy tickets

Format

The matchups for this year's tournament are:

• PE V Andromeda (from the finals of Worlds 2014)
• Foodcoats Vs Book of Kate
• CtM Vs Whizzard
• Space Tempo Vs A Damn Good Deck (Adam fans rejoice)

Detailed writeups for all of these decks are soon to come but for now you can see the full lists here:

Link to decklists

The event will be split into multiple pods of up to 8 players, with each pod seperately competing against one another. In each round you will be paired against 1 opponent, assigned a matchup that you have not played before and play both sides of it.

All decks will be provided to you so you don't even need to bring your own decks to this event!

Schedule

9:00am - Registration
10:00am - Rounds 1-2
12:40pm - Lunch Break
13:30pm - Rounds 3-4
16:10pm - Finish

Venue Change!

New Venue

The new venue for UK Nats is Ashton Court Mansion, Long Ashton, BS41 9JN. The building is fully wheelchair accessible and we are being given use of several spaces inside to accommodate fixed seating and the stream. There is wi-fi available, but for the time being we are planning to stick to our policy of restricting access to that in order to prioritise the stream.

However, Ashton Court is a little way out of Bristol City Centre - approximately 15-20 minutes’ drive or 45 minutes by bus from Bristol Temple Meads train station. In addition, the building itself is 10-12 minutes’ walk up a long driveway from the nearby bus stops.

Travel

We are exploring several options for helping attendees traverse the extra distance to the new venue. Firstly, we ask that any attendees who have a car and are able to make trips from Bristol city centre to Ashton Court at the start or end of any of the days please make themselves known to us so that we can arrange carpooling for those without vehicles. There is free parking available at the venue. We will be coordinating this in the below thread, so please post there if you are able to help.

We are aware that this extra travel may create an obstacle for some attendees who have physical access needs or who had not budgeted for it in their planning. If you have particular needs in terms of transport or access, or your financial situation is such that the cost of this extra transport would be a barrier to your participation in the event, please contact us using the details below. We will coordinate transport (likely via taxi) for those who need it for these reasons, using the event budget.

In addition, in order to assist people in making the journey from the edge of the Ashton Court estate to the venue building, we will be running a volunteer shuttle service. If you have a vehicle, will be driving to the venue, and are willing to help shuttle people at the start or end of any of the days, please get in touch.

Food

Ashton Court does not have the facilities to cater for the number of attendees we are expecting, and given the size of the estate it is not close enough to other places where attendees could buy food in a timely fashion. As such, we recommend that all attendees make plans to bring food for themselves for each day that they attend, especially on Saturday which will be a long day.

In addition, we will be sourcing a large quantity of vegan, nut-free snacks which we will make available at cost price in the venue, for payment by cash or card. Please do not assume that this tuck shop will be able to adequately feed you for the whole event.

Prizing

As a partion prize for this event you will recieve a 'Trans Lives Matter' sticker from The Tag Mill (for which a seperate donation has already been made to Mermaids UK)

Additionally the winner of any classique pod will be awarded a lovely Begemot alt-art from Irish Nationals

Additional prizing yet to be announced.

Volunteering

We are looking for lots of volunteers to help with reporting results and pairings, judging games, running and commentating the stream, setting up, running side events and much much more.

All attendees who volunteer during the main event on Saturday will get free entry into all side events and will not need to buy a ticket. If you plan to play on Saturday but volunteer on other days, we are very grateful for your help but you will still need to buy a ticket!

Link to sign-up form

Contact

Discord: @not_yeti
email: ewanmilneu@gmail.com