How to organize events - European Unity League
European Unity League is an independent Magic: The Gathering tournament series with national championships across Europe.
Players collect League Points at any event to qualify for Nationals, and ultimately the European Cup.
In the following we explain all steps to organize events and report results.
Promote events
To each of your Magic events you'll assign an event type. The higher the type, the more points and qualifications for the 
Championship are awarded.
- Players get 1x points
Weekly league with finals
- 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
Prices excl. VAT. We will be registered for VAT soon. No VAT will be charged for businesses with a valid EU VAT ID.
Your contributions help finance the Championship in your country.
You may also participate for free by running all events with type 
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League launch discount
50% off
Contributions for and 
events hosted until March 31st, 2026 are discounted by 50%.
Boost your local
2. Custom leaderboard
Only those events count for your leaderboard according to your rules.
3. Top 8 Playoff
Invite the top 8 players to a finals event. Winner qualifies for
Requirements
- For each you need to announce at least 15 events (one per week) . If an event needs to be cancelled, there's no penalty.
- To award a qualification, a needs 150+ total participations, defined as the sum of participants across all events.
- If the ends with fewer than 150 total participations, you may obtain the qualification for a contribution of 1€ per missing participation.
events take place, each with 10 participants. That's a total of 120 participations, so you can get the qualification for 30€.
Championship
A finals will be hosted in each country. It serves as a reward to motivate players to participate in your local events.
Any organizer of the country can apply to host the Championship. We will select an organizer based on experience, engagement in the league, cost-effectiveness, and having a central location. Applications will be accepted starting from May 2026.
- Dates: Oct - Dec 2026
Financing
The contributions across your country will cover the expenses for the National Championship. Surpluses will go towards Unity League development and maintenance.
How to report events
In the following we explain all the necessary steps to report your events.
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, 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 Premier 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
Ultimately the organizer decides which type to assign. All events can also be to participate for free.
We provide the following guidelines/recommendations:
| Event | Recommended type |
|---|---|
| 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 & yearly highlights | |
Organizers collect Unity League fees through their event entry fees. We send a combined invoice for all events every few months, which is paid by the organizer via bank transfer.
Result fraud
Please not that the following scenarios are not allowed:
- Players paying (bribing) organizers directly to upgrade an event
- Not reporting the full standings, to avoid paying the full fees (as some players might not care about points).
- Creating fake events to farm points
We reserve the right to permanently ban players or organizers violating these rules.
- The event must be publicly advertised and anyone must be able to participate (or qualify for the event).
- The event must be played with Magic: The Gathering cards.
- The event must be held in real life (no online events).
Participating events can be run in any Magic format, including formats not officially supported by Wizards of the Coast.
If your format is not listed on our website, please let us know and we will add it.
We are using a combination of different methods to prevent cheating:
- Players are required to use their real name. This allows fellow participants to verify the correct players attend.
- For Regular events, only the player's best 40 results count.
- We have a fraud detection system that checks events and results for suspicious patterns.
We reserve the right to lifetime ban any player or organization on our platform that we suspect of cheating.
In Switzerland the Unity League is already an established series with a huge community supporting the project. Key figures Jari Rentsch, Antoine Albertelli, and Dae-Jin Rhee are taking the next step in running a EU-wide series and founding a company.