Seems like there are new rules for "going for the gold" this year at the St. Augustine Regional. I was talking to Kathy today at Harbour Lights and I asked her when the tickets for the Regional St Augustine Gold Piece were going to be sent to the dealers. She said that the dealers were not going to get the tickets like the last couple of years. In the past for each lighthouse you bought from any HL dealer you received a ticket that could be used at the Regional for a chance to win the Regional Gold Lighthouse. If you bought 3 lighthouses you got three ticket, 5 lighthouse and you got five tickets, etc. You could buy your lighthouses from your own dealer and still have a chance to win at any Regional. At a Regional there were five Gold Regional Pieces to be won. Three pieces were allocated to people present and 2 pieces were allocated to people not present. Also, if you bought an in-store event piece or any other piece from the St Augustine Lighthouse you were also eligible for a chance at the in-store Gold Piece for each piece that you bought from the St Augustine Lighthouse.
That is the way it was. This year there will only be three Gold Regional Pieces and YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN. The ONLY WAY to get a ticket is if you buy your lighthouses from ST. AUGUSTINE LIGHTHOUSE ONLY. That means if you buy 2 lighthouses from St. Augustine you will receive 2 tickets to win the Gold. You may not use your purchases from your regular dealer as in the past. They are not sure if there will be an in-store event piece ready by the regional so there may not be a chance to win that gold in-store piece. The above information on winning the Gold Regional Piece came from the St Augustine Lighthouse because Kathy did not know the rules and regulations of this years Regional at St. Augustine.
There also is only going to be one Regional this year and that will be at St. Augustine. Kathy did say that at the end of this year everybody that bought a lighthouse will get a ticket from the dealer they bought the lighthouse from and there will be one big drawing held at Harbour Lights Office for five(I believe) Gold Regional Pieces. We will send our tickets into Harbour Lights for that drawing.
If anybody else has different information then please feel free to add, subtract or amend what I have found out. St Augustine Lighthouse is going to contact Harbour Lights and find out about the in-store event piece and also the in-store Gold piece being available for the Regional. I will let you know about that.
