Forum:I need tournament info

Alright so its been a few years since i've played, and when i say a few years i'm talkin somewehere around 5, but recently i've become vastly more interested in the game than i ever was before, despite that i used to play numerous deus in the central illinois area. Unfortunately when i got out of the game i gave away all my cards...idiotic, right? Anyway i've been doing some doubletime on collecting here, and learning all the new rules and have absolutely fallen in love with zombie swarm deck and have devised various ways of keeping my undead from being blown away by monster destroying types such as volcanics,or others. (I say volcanic, specifically, due to a devious little friend of mine who plays a volcanic flamvell combo deck.) But i digress, the reason i'm posting is to inquire about what its going to take for me to be included in the real tournaments i know there are players far superior to me but thats why i want to enter these tournaments is to see different stategies and become better. so please any information on how i can be included or get invited to tournaments would be vastly helpful. BTW, i've ben to the yugioh main website and alerady read the preliminary requisites for being included but i'm not understanding exactly what they mean by 250 duels, or having to have 10 duel-pass points. so please explain thank you very much and sorry for rambling.