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#1 bludvayne Nov 29, 2008 15:17:01	I attended my first DCI sanctioned M:TG tournament about a month ago on a whim. It was a sealed deck event held at a store that an old classmate of mine had just opened. It was the first event held at this store so I went to support him. I quit playing Magic years ago. I'm far more interested in LFR, which he is hoping to get started in his shop soon. My most immediate question; is there a difference between a DCI and RPGA account? Do I qualify for the RPGA by now having a DCI membership, or do I have to attend an RPGA event before I am a member of the RPGA?
#2 telvin3d Nov 29, 2008 15:48:36	Dci and RPGA membership is the same thing. One number works for them both. The rpga/character stuff won't show up in your account until your number is reported in a rpga game.
#3 ibixat Nov 30, 2008 4:43:03	If you want to "brute force" a character into the database so you can play without reporting errors, once you are logged into your DCI account you can put the following in the address bar https://webapp.wizards.com/mycharacters.aspx this will then let you create characters attached to your RPGA number, I had my home game group do this to get the characters made for reporting and it made reporting our first few games so much easier since the characters were already in the database. They have had no problems logging into their DCI/RPGA number and now seeing the my characters link after the first game was reported and their stats/numbers/rewards are all in line. Be sure to go to http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/rewards/welcome and click on sign up at the bottom of that page as well to sign up for the RPGA rewards if you are going to do LFR.