This is a concept btw; not an official approved plan lol

Feel free to make suggestions, and I'll adjust accordingly. I'm thinking of using a schedule-type option so we stay on track if we put this into action. My intention is to slowly draw attention to it and get people excited about it without hyping it up too much/too early.

June 27 (on a Friday): Begin outreach to clubs with the goal of getting at least 10 clubs "sponsoring" the event. I've made a list (just social clubs that big names in CVC are in):

Paladins of Chess (done announcing)
Deflect to Victory
Author's Flock
Bubbles of Chess
United Chess Nations if we're feeling lucky
iCHESS
The Ge-Winner
The Premier Chess Club
The High Elo Society
Chess Champ
And more (make suggestions as needed)

Note: I'd highly recommend doing the 3 giveaway clubs right before we transfer ownership; that way we have the most members reached assuming the new owner isn't so successful, and prime placement announcement-wise if the club continues to grow

Additionally, I'd recommend a few other things to raise our chances of success:

Split up the club list amongst ourselves so we have less clubs to respond to
Potentially spread out the reaching-out over a week/weekend so the responses don't all come at once
Make sure it doesn't seem like we're advertising CVC
100% make a message template and announcement template to save us hours of time

July 26 (Sunday): Finalize the sponsor list (basically lock down which clubs are sponsoring, and if we haven't already, DM a quick thank you to the staff). Also, this should be the firm deadline for us having a host/code to run the game because a full week to get to grips with the game is super helpful.

July 28 (Monday): If we didn't reach 1k, close registration on this date so we can pull together a list and remove closed accounts.

August 1 (Friday): Game start! 🔥

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