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<blockquote data-quote="EvilBeeker" data-source="post: 8339103" data-attributes="member: 11606"><p>Unless authors kept a copy, tournaments were kept on the TSR mainframe or on 3” floppy disks. My guess is they are gone. From what I heard no one took the time to preserve them.</p><p></p><p>In addition, the legal standing on some tournaments is sketchy. Anything written prior to the RPGA paying $30 per round the authors can lay claim, while the creative rights on the contract-paid events may have already expired (there was a time limit). Re-publishing anything today would likely have to follow the “rules” as they currently stand, but I’m pretty sure Wizards cannot claim full rights to this material to just release it online. The RPGA contracts as written back then never accounted for anything like the selling venues we have today. I don’t think Wizards would want to save anything they didn’t own outright, let alone amateur tournaments written 25 years ago formatted in WordPerfect 5.1. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p><p></p><p>My guess is Baron is just looking for a copy of his long lost work, and would have a better chance finding it in one of the Living archives out there. Or, if you know where the event may have been run you might be able to track down some of the RPGA staff from those shows who may have saved a copy.</p><p></p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😎" title="Smiling face with sunglasses :sunglasses:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" data-shortname=":sunglasses:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvilBeeker, post: 8339103, member: 11606"] Unless authors kept a copy, tournaments were kept on the TSR mainframe or on 3” floppy disks. My guess is they are gone. From what I heard no one took the time to preserve them. In addition, the legal standing on some tournaments is sketchy. Anything written prior to the RPGA paying $30 per round the authors can lay claim, while the creative rights on the contract-paid events may have already expired (there was a time limit). Re-publishing anything today would likely have to follow the “rules” as they currently stand, but I’m pretty sure Wizards cannot claim full rights to this material to just release it online. The RPGA contracts as written back then never accounted for anything like the selling venues we have today. I don’t think Wizards would want to save anything they didn’t own outright, let alone amateur tournaments written 25 years ago formatted in WordPerfect 5.1. 😉 My guess is Baron is just looking for a copy of his long lost work, and would have a better chance finding it in one of the Living archives out there. Or, if you know where the event may have been run you might be able to track down some of the RPGA staff from those shows who may have saved a copy. 😎 [/QUOTE]
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