Meet The Team
Tommy Roberts
CEO
Tommy founded Organized Play Events in 2020. Since then, he has successfully organized and ran some of Europes biggest TCG and Miniature Game events with even more on the horizon.Tommy previously worked for the industries biggest distribution partner, Asmodee. During this time Tommy worked directly with some of the worlds biggest OP programs to help them grow across Europe.
Tommy has a wealth of knowledge working within organized play, working directly with game publishers to help build OP programs from the ground up. Tommy's experience ranges from events management, OP kit production, OP kit distribution, OP kit assembling, building OP tournament structures and creating judge programs.
Adam perry
Organised play events & Community manager
Adam joined organized play events in 2023. he first started off as a tcg judge for the various trading card game events ran by ope, moving on to work as a head judge and then stepping into the team on a volunteer basis before joining full time in 2024. adam is responsible for managing the staff volunteers for the premier events, as well as helping tommy run the events. Adam was the head judge for both digimon and one piece eu championship finals in 2023, well done adam!
adam has played tcgs since he was a young boy, starting with yu-gi-oh then into pokemon, then into the various bandai card games too. he also has a professional knowledge of staffing, training and coaching, and uses those skills to select highly experienced staff for the events. he also has a wealth of technical knowledge that he uses to ensure the premium experience ope deliver is at the forefront of digital excellence.
Joe Wood
Technical Manager
Joe joined organized play events in 2023, working as a judge on their various TCG events. Over time he ascended the judging ranks to become a head judge and quickly cemented himself as the guy to go to when something needed doing. Due to this, and his previous experiences, he transitioned seamlessly over to organizing and running the technical setup and take down of events. During the events his role changes to a more customer centric one, at which he excels due to a keen focus on friendly customer service, conflict resolution and providing accessibility support.
Joe was appointed Assistant Head Judge for both Digimon and One Piece EU Championships in 2023, Next to Adam. Joe has played, and subsequently worked hard as a judge for, TCGs and Miniature games for 30 years, starting with MTG and Star trek, and almost every other TCG created since. Joe uses his wealth of expertise to support OPE at their events, and make them the best they can be!
We coulD not run any of our events without a dedicated team of staff volunteers who help us to organise and run our events. Please click here to find out a bit more about them, and how you can become one yourself.