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Can AI replace tcgevents?

The software here is a searchable list with a map and some filters, which an agent can produce before your coffee cools. The product is not the list, it is the fact that events are in it: store owners posting schedules, organizers keeping dates current, players trusting it enough to check it weekly. Scrape it and you own a snapshot that starts rotting the moment a shop moves its Friday night draft. Official publisher locators exist, but they are partial, rate limited, and hostile to bulk use, and the small local scene stuff never appears there at all. Build the personal tracker if you play in two cities, but do not pretend it replaces the directory.

Verdict: Nah · Keep paying, or use a free alternativeBuild time: one sitting
Nah

01What it costs

Price variesOrganiser commission (Vermittlungsprovision), commission per ticket sold

Checked Aug 18, 2026 · source: tcgevents.net.

02Could AI build it for you?

The core job: A local event tracker where you paste or manually add tournaments, then browse them by game, date and distance with calendar and ICS export.

What a working version needs:

  • Somewhere to actually get event data: official store locators, store Discords, Facebook pages, or your own typing
  • Optional geocoding API key in .env if you want distance filtering
  • Ongoing willingness to maintain your own listings, which is the entire catch

The map, the filters and the calendar export are an afternoon; the events in them are not. The moat is every local store that already posts its schedule there and every player who already checks.

03What you'd give up

  • Coverage: every store you did not personally enter is invisible
  • Freshness: cancellations, venue changes and date shifts arrive nowhere
  • Organizer side: shops have no reason to tell your laptop about their new league night
  • Discovery for travel: the whole point of a directory is events in cities you do not know
  • Whatever normalization the real site does across games, formats and regional naming chaos

Because the alternative is checking six store Facebook pages, two Discords and a publisher locator that has not been updated since the last set rotation. Anyone paying here is paying for someone else to do the tedious aggregation and keep it current, or, if they are a store, paying to be seen by players who already have the habit of checking. Neither of those is a software problem. A self hosted clone gives you the interface and none of the reason to open it.

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