Charity Gift 2015 - A Charity Netrunner ID Auction Tournament

Welcome to the events page for the (hopefully) inaugural Charity Gift tournament, a Christmas Charity ID Auction tournament for Android Netrunner. 

This tournament is intended as a relaxed, casual event after the stresses of Store Champs, Regionals, Nationals around Europe and Worlds, and an opportunity for us to make a donation to a charity here in Sheffield which provides over the Holiday period for a huge number of seriously ill children.

**What's the Cause**

100% of the total entry fee raised by the ID Auction will be donated directly to the Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity (details herehttp://www.tchc.org.uk/) and is a fully registered charity event with the hospital.

**The ID Auction**

To enter this tournament, rather than paying a fee and turning up with your decks on the day, things are going to be running a little differently. 

Using the online silent auction site 32auctions.com, I'll be listing a series of ID pairings, runner and corp, over the month leading up to the tournament. To enter the tournament, you simply have to win one of these auctions, but you must play those IDs that you won on the day as your corp and runner factions.


The tournament will have only 32 maximum players (which is a constraint of the venue), which means all 29 Corp IDs (with 3 repeats) and all 24 Runner IDs (with 8 repeats) through to Data & Destiny will be represented in these pairings. Once an auction has been won, either a JustGiving donation, or a cash donation on the day for the amount of the winning bid will be your entry fee.

In the event that Data & Destiny isn't out by the date of the tournament (It has to be, right?), players who win the D&D IDs will be allowed to proxy any cards from that expansion at the tournament.

**Tournament Format**

The tournament will be 5 rounds of Swiss with prizes determined by ranking after the 5th round.

We will also be observing the Opening Moves Amnesty, meaning that players will be allowed to proxy Jackson Howards for their decks should they not already own them.

**I've never been to a tournament before...**

The intent is to make this tournament accessible to everyone, from hardened veterans to people with a single core set. If you've never been to an event before, don't be intimidated, please come and play, and there will be special additional prizes for those who aren't the Regional/National champions of the world.

**What's on offer?**

It wouldn't be a tournament without prizes, and for this one, I have tried to get a number of things that would appeal to the Netrunner community.

Currently, just for winning any auction, you will receive a pair of fan-made (or sometimes, me-made) alt-art cards for your faction, examples of which are in the photos below.

In addition to this, the following prizes will be on offer:-

A Golden** Celebrity Gift Trophy for the winner, hand crafted by me
An Art-print of the "Celebrity Gift" card art* 
Custom "Celebrity Gift 2015" Playmats for the top 3*
A Store Championship 2015 "Kit" Playmat for the player who finishes highest who has not already won a Netrunner mat at an event (be honest) [Donated by me]
A Store Championship 2015 "Kit" Deckbox for the highest finishing new player (you know if you are a new player or not) [Donated by me]
A Store Champtionship 2014 "Wotan" Winners Trophy (I still need to figure out who to award this to) [Donated by Cj Mitchell]

*These things are all in-progress at the moment but something might happen to mean these prizes don't materialise. Rest assured I am working hard to get them sorted out.
** Spraypainted Golden

**Exciting bonus stuff**

While planning for this event, I have been reaching out to the voices in the Netrunner community for some assistance, and I am very excited to announce that the good people at RunLastClick, The Winning Agenda, and Team Covenant have all agreed to nominate ID pairings which represent themselves; the winners of those Auctions will receive two copies of their alt-art IDs, one to play with, and one signed by the people from those fine Netrunner institutions.

Even more excitingly, Jesse and Nels from Terminal 7 have also agreed to choose a pairing, and the winners of the Terminal 7 auction will have Alt-Art IDs with art drawn by Jesse himself!

There may also be further exciting news on the horizon...

**I can't make it, but I would like to contribute in some way. Or I can make it, but I want to contribute in some way anyway.**

If you would like to help in any way, by donating additional prize support to the event, or if there is something else you think you can assist me with, please send me a message here on Facebook or catch me on Twitter at @NotTopGearRH.

**Acknowledgements**

I'd like to thank:-

RunLastClick www.runlastclick.blogspot.co.uk
The Winning Agenda www.thewinningagenda.com
Team Covenant www.teamcovenant.com
Terminal 7 www.idlethumbs.net/terminal7

and 

The Brew House, Sheffield, for hosting.