Organizer tutorial - European Unity League
European Unity League is an independent ranking system for Magic: The Gathering across Europe.
Players collect League Points to qualify for national championships, and ultimately the European Magic Cup.
In the following we explain all steps how organizers can report event results and award additional points to their players.
Promote events
Each Magic event has a point multiplier, 1x by default. Organizers may request higher multipliers to give events more visibility, award more points, and offer invites to the 
Championship.
- Players get 1x points
- Players get 2x points
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Finals winner qualifies for
- Players get 4x points
- Announce 7 days in advance
- Players get 6x points
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Event winner qualifies for
Fees help operate the Unity League system and support the Championship in your country.
You may also participate for free by running all events with type 
.
Organizer 
Turn your weekly events into a seasonal competition.
3. Top 8 Playoff
After 15 - 52 events, host a finals for the top 8. Winner earns a
qualification.
Requirements
- To award a qualification for the Championship, a needs 150+ total participations, defined as the sum of participants across all events.
events take place, each with 10 participants. That's a total of 120 participations, so you can get the qualification for 30€.
Championship
In each country, one organizer hosts the Championship. It serves as the seasonal highlight of the European Unity League and as a strong incentive for players to participate regularly in local events.
- Dates: Oct - Dec 2026
Financing
League fees paid in your country contribute to the organization of the Championship. The more paid events organized in your country, the more players qualify and the more prizes can be awarded.
How to report events
In the following we explain how organizers can manually report their events and results to European Unity League.
Reporting results is optional. European Unity League may also independently record results from publicly available standings for ranking purposes.
First make sure to create an account, confirm your email and login.
1. Advertise your event
- In the Welcome menu in the top right, you click Create new event.
- Enter at least the Name, Date, and Format of the event, and select the requested Multiplier. (European Unity League may review or adjust multipliers to ensure consistency within the ranking system.)
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On the bottom, select:
- Create event for one-time events
- Schedule event as series for weekly or monthly events
- To host
events, please contact us.
Now your events will be listed in our Event calendar. To see all of your events, go to My events in the Welcome menu.
Event calendar
2.1 Upload results
After your event has finished, you have 30 days to upload the results.
- In the Welcome menu, go to Upload results.
- Select the tournament app* and the event you want to upload results for.
- Follow the instructions to export the results from the app and upload them on our site.
- For most apps the top cut/playoffs is reported automatically. To do it manually click Edit playoff results. *Alternatively you can upload the results as an Excel/CSV file or select Manual to enter them by hand.
It may take up to 24h for the points to show up on the leaderboard.
2.2 Correct results
Players might contact you if their points are wrong or their name is misspelled. To fix it:
- Go to My events and find the affected event.
- Scroll down to the result of the player and click on Edit.
- Enter the correct name or change the number of matches won, lost and drawn.
3. Inform Players
When uploading results to Unity League, you are sharing player names with us, which are considered personal data. You must ensure you comply with local data protection laws, when sharing this data with us.
Please show a short privacy notice on your event page or during registration to inform players that their name and result will be published on our website.
For more information, see our terms of use and privacy policy.
Suggested Privacy Notice
Add this to your event page or signup form:
Frequently asked questions
Organizers may request the multiplier they wish to use for their event based on expected attendance, competitiveness and prizes. Requests may be reviewed or adjusted to ensure consistency within the ranking system.
All events can also be run with multiplier to participate for free.
We provide the following guidelines:
| Event | Recommended multiplier |
|---|---|
| Prerelease & casual play | (occasionally also  ) |
| Friday Night Magic, weeklies & leagues | |
| Store Championship, monthlies & side events | |
| Regional Championship Qualifier, competitive & big prize events | (occasionally also ) |
| Main events & special store events | |
For a Top 8 finals event, we recommend the following structure:
- Single elimination playoff with 3 rounds.
- Each match is best of 3.
- Players are paired randomly right before the event starts.
- Untimed rounds.
- The higher ranked player on the league leaderboard chooses who plays first.
Organizers may also choose a different structure for their finals.
No. Stores, clubs, associations, and independent organizers can all participate.
Events need to be public, played with Magic: The Gathering cards, and held in real life.
We send a combined invoice by email every few months. Organizers pay it by bank transfer or PayPal.
Unpaid invoices may also be shown as a reminder when you log in.
We recommend a separate organizer profile for each entity that regularly runs events, such as a local game store.
This keeps each store's events, leagues, and billing separate.
If you occasionally run events at different venues, those events can usually stay under the same organizer profile.
Participating events can be run in any Magic format, including formats that are not officially supported.
If your format is not listed on our website, please let us know and we will add it.
Eligible events are public, real-life tournaments played with physical Magic: The Gathering cards.
Players must be able to participate directly or qualify through a public process.
To award points, events must meet these requirements:
- The event must be publicly advertised.
- The event must be held in real life, not online.
- At least 4 players must participate and play at least one round.
- The full standings should be reported.
You can always run events as events if you only want the default multiplier.
If you are unsure whether an event is eligible, please contact us.
We use several methods to keep the league fair:
- Players use the same identifier on European Unity League that they use in tournaments, so communities can verify who attends events.
- Our fraud detection checks events and results for suspicious patterns.
- We review suspicious cases manually and may ban players or organizations that try to manipulate the league.
European Unity League is operated by Mana Grid GmbH and led by passionate founders Jari Rentsch and Dae-Jin Rhee. It started as a community project in Switzerland and grew from the idea that local events are more exciting when every result can be part of something bigger.
The league only works because organizers, players, and local communities keep showing up.