Organizer guide - Unity League

Organizers are free to choose a multiplier based on expected attendance, competitiveness and prizes, as long as they follow the hard rules below. We reserve the right to adjust event multipliers to ensure consistency within the ranking system.

All events can also be run with multiplier to participate for free.

Recommendations

Event	Recommended multiplier
Prerelease & casual play
Friday Night Magic, weeklies, fortnightly events
Store Championship, monthlies & side events
Regional Championship Qualifier, competitive & big prize events	/

Hard rules

• At each store location, at most one prerelease per set may be upgraded to or . All others must be .
• Weekly and fortnightly events must be or , not .
• Each organizer may run at most one event per season. Contact us to apply to run further Premier 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.

Finals invitations are offered in leaderboard order. Players must have a registered Unity League account to be eligible. If a player declines the invitation or is not registered, it passes down to the next eligible player on the leaderboard.

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.

These are the maximum preliminary (Swiss) rounds and top cuts we allow:

Events with fewer than 4 players are not allowed and cannot be reported.

Preliminary rounds may use Swiss, round-robin, group-stage, or another format, as long as the total does not exceed the maximum above. We generally expect the top cut to use single elimination; exceptional formats such as double elimination may be allowed in specific cases.

Events that use a Limited: Draft format in the playoffs may use a different top cut.

We use several methods to keep the league fair:

• Players use the same identifier on 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.

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.