How to run Cali Commander at your store

The application form is open to anyone. You do not need an account first. It asks for the store's name and address, a contact name, a public email for players, a separate email to sign in with, a phone number, and a few lines about your store. Only the website is optional.

The team reviews each application. When it is approved, your store gets its own account, its own page and a store dashboard. Your store page works straight away. The store directory lists a store once the team marks it certified.

Every store starts on the free plan. A plan sets how many events the store can run each month.

Billing, cancelling and refunds are on the pricing page. The site is free for players.

Create each event from your store dashboard. You choose:

• The format: Swiss, Swiss with a top cut, single elimination or double elimination.
• Best of one or best of three.
• The tier, which sets what the event is worth on the season leaderboard. A weekly event is a regular store night, and a major pays more and invites its winner to the championship.
• How many seats, and how players are seeded: by season points or at random.

Players register online with one of their decks. The site checks the deck against the Cali Commander ban list and deck rules first, and refuses a deck that is not legal. When every seat is taken, players join a waiting list in the order they signed up.

• Check players in, one at a time or all at once.
• Lock registration. That freezes each player's decklist as their submission for judging.
• Start the tournament, pair each round and record the results. A walk-in player can be added with one of their public decks.
• Cut to the top players if the event has a top cut, then complete the event.

The judge console holds one event's disputed results, its penalties and the decklists players submitted. You can download the standings or the matches as a spreadsheet.

When you complete an event, each player earns season points for turning up, for each match won or drawn, and for where they finished. Your store page shows your past events with their winners, and a leaderboard of your store's top eight players this season.

Your store runs its own events and sets its own entry and prizes. Cali Commander takes no payments for events.

Apply to host events. Questions first? See the contact page. To see a store page in action, browse the certified stores.