Do you live in Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, or Connecticut? This event is for you!

We received feedback that the New England VG Invitational was tough for people outside of Massachusetts to qualify given the shortage of badge opportunities in your area, so we’re doing a one-time online event to simulate an event we’d have in Massachusetts. This event is specifically for people who want another opportunity to earn one of the NEI badges (to be clear, as this is a fully grassroots online event we can’t award Championship Points - this is just for the badge!).

Entry will be $5 - we want to keep it low both because we can’t do other prizing for this event and because we want it to be affordable and accessible to as many people as possible. If you are one of the people pre-registered before the player cap the day before the event, I’ll email you a link to the private discord server where we’ll host the event.

The schedule will look like this:

• 11:00 am people will be online ready for the initial check-in meeting
• people will pay virtually at this time (venmo)
• shortly after everyone has paid (probably 11:15-11:30) we’ll start round 1!
• it’ll be Swiss plus top cut, just like a normal League Challenge. The format will use current regulation rules (for example, if by this day we are in Regulation M-D, please prepare a team based on that)

The placements that make top cut will have a NEI Cheese League badge mailed to them!

(Also, for those who have not done a Cheese League event before, the name probably sounds strange - we’re named after my dog, Cheese the Beagle! He’ll have his own channel in the tournament server for those who like dogs)