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.
Eligible events
Events must fulfill the following requirements to award League Points for the European Unity League:
- Played with Magic: The Gathering cards.
- Held in real life (no MTG Arena or Magic Online, ...).
- Open to the public (anyone can participate or qualify).
Both WPN stores and independent organizers (clubs/associations) from all countries (also outside EU) may participate. Events can be held in all formats and structures.
Choose an event type
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 European Magic Cup.
- 1x multiplier
- Limited results per player
*€ 1
per participant. Minimum €25 if the event has a top cut.
Stand out in your region with a higher multiplier
- 3x multiplier
- 4x multiplier
- 4 European Magic Cup invites
- Dual land for 1st place
(e.g. Volcanic Island) - Champion trophy
- 1 ETB Playmat
- 4 RFG Deckbox MAX
- 12 RFG Deckbox
- 'Eldrazi Spawn' participation token
- 5x multiplier
- 1 European Magic Cup invite
- 4 Flooded Strands with altered sleeve
- 1 ETB Playmat
- 4 RFG Deckbox MAX
- 4 RFG Deckbox
- Champion trophy
- 6x multiplier
- 1-8 European Magic Cup invites
- Merch/Trophy purchases optional
The fees you pay are used to finance the goodies of the National finals and the prizes of the European Magic Cup.
You can also participate for free by running all of your events with type Local.
How to award League Points
In the following we explain all the necessary steps to register your events.
First make sure to create an account, confirm your email and login.
Advertise your event
- In the Welcome menu in the top right, you click Create new event.
- Enter at least the Name, Date, Format, and Type of the event.
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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 Qualifier, National and Grand Prix 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
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. If you encounter issues, please contact us.
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.
If the player has many wrong results, please contact us.
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:
Host an EUL Qualifier
Bring the excitement to your local community by hosting a direct qualifier to the European Magic Cup.
You'll receive an exclusive prize kit, including:
- 4 Flooded Strand with altered sleeve
- 1 ETB Playmat
- 4 RFG Deckbox MAX
- 4 RFG Deckbox
- 1 Champion Trophy
Flat fee: €300
No special requirements, just run a normal competitive Magic event!
Only 20 kits are available, so make sure to apply early:
Apply here
Host an EUL Nationals
Between October and December 2025, organizers in each country will host a national finals, where only the best players of the country may participate. Top finishers qualify for the European Magic Cup.
Each national championship will be a normal, local competitive event sponsored by the EUL. We will ship various goodies including a dual land (e.g. Volcanic Island), playmats, and a trophy free of charge.
Hosting Nationals will typically be offered to our most supporting organizers, which host many events and actively promote the league in their region.
Apply here
Frequently asked questions
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.
Any country (not just EU members) are eligible to host a Nationals and award invites to the EMC, provided there's strong interest in the community.
There's no fixed number of organizers required in a country to host a Nationals; one can be enough if the community is very engaged. We aim for a sustainable league system, where the fees organizers pay for EUL Regional events are used to finance the Nationals. For this reason we only sponsor an EUL Nationals in countries where we see a good chance of success.
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.