The Conspiracy tourney at Worlds included a story deck comprised solely of Conspiracies. The games were a bit wacky with not all the players being intimately familiar with their effects and sometimes big swings when the effects were enacted! I for one really enjoyed the format and as I recall a good number of the participants did as well. Our local group has participated in a conspiracy themed league with great success. We even created our own Conspiracy card that was auto in play as one of the three stories at the start of the match.

It has been a lot more complicated for our local players than "... you're either going to Worlds or else you're not even considering going to Worlds". First of all, having Cthulhu Worlds on Thursday made it necessary for local players to have two additional days off compared to last year. This is not an easy thing to accomplish towards the end of the calendar year not to mention the holiday season coming up. Three players who attended last year will not make it this year just for that reason alone. Two of our new local players who were on the fence because of the way things were handled at GenCon are likely to now skip Worlds due to a lack of addressing effects triggered from the discard in the new faq and they both have free passes due to winning various regionals. You've mentioned Geography and overlapping events which also limits the value of attending. Obviously I don't expect FFG to move their headquarters. I only really expect them to learn from their mistakes and not repeat them. 

This should probably have been posted in 'Organized Play' instead of 'General Discussion'. Perhaps it could be moved? Sounds like a very nice event though! 

After watching the GenCon Recap videos who would know that the Call of Cthulhu LCG even exists!? Is the game even in their catalog? I understand that AGOT, Netrunner and Star Wars are their hot items but at our local store we're getting a lot of cross-pollination and you'd think that would be something they'd want to promote? Come on, how much effort does it take to insert a brief shot of the N. American Championship and it's eventual winner and just mention it's name? Are they having trouble pronouncing it? Maybe someone should tell them that they are sounds that the human pallet cannot produce and to just give it their best shot? You can do it FFG, Cth.... Cthuu... Cthulll... Cthulhu!! See, that wasn't so bad!    

Damon's answer-
 
A character of the active player must be at the story at the time of story resolution, for that particular story. If the character is removed at any point before that particular story starts to resolve there is no story to resolve. If that character is removed at any point after  that particular story has begun to resolve it continues.
   

Rule Question:
My question is, when is the check made to determine if the active player has a character committed to a story to decide if the story will resolve?

We played it, if the active player's characters are removed from story #1 before any struggles have resolved at any story then story #1 will not resolve but if that character is instead removed after a struggle has resolved at any story then story #1 will resolve. Is this correct? Will a story only resolve fully if the active player has a character committed to it and has chosen to begin resolving it's icon struggles?


Thanks for your time and attention! : )
   

Damon's answer-
 
A character of the active player must be at the story at the time of story resolution, for that particular story. If the character is removed at any point before that particular story starts to resolve there is no story to resolve. If that character is removed at any point after  that particular story has begun to resolve it continues.
   

Rule Question:
My question is, when is the check made to determine if the active player has a character committed to a story to decide if the story will resolve?

We played it, if the active player's characters are removed from story #1 before any struggles have resolved at any story then story #1 will not resolve but if that character is instead removed after a struggle has resolved at any story then story #1 will resolve. Is this correct? Will a story only resolve fully if the active player has a character committed to it and has chosen to begin resolving it's icon struggles?


Thanks for your time and attention! : )