Topic: Player of the Year 2018

You must all be excited to find out all about the next Player of the Year event! Well, here it is! Please note that there might follow some modifications to the content below, in order to tune the event(s) in a way that works best.

This year you can receive invites for two Qualifier events and of course the real Player of the Year 2018 event in December, which are all multi-format events! To get an invite, you can do three things: Become a Planeswalker of a format; score many points; or play many events. We also suggest you delve into Pauper, because this is one of the seven formats you will be playing when you qualify for to battle for Player of the Year 2018! No worries, we will help you! Let’s break it down and get into more details.

Schedule of 2018
The year is divided in four seasons of three calendar months each. January - March, April - June, July - September and October - December. The first three seasons qualify players for Qualifier events. In the free Qualifier events we offer a nice prize support and the #1 qualifies directly for the Player of the Year event in December. The fourth season qualifies directly for PotY, but this season all points over the year are taken in account.

Planeswalkers
This year, as you might have noticed on the PotY standings overview, we keep track of each players performance in five formats :

  • Standard (includes Budget Standard)

  • Booster Draft

  • Eternal (Modern and Pauper)

  • Chaos Draft

  • Pre-Release

The player highest ranked in a specific format, carries the title of Planeswalker of that format. You can only be one Planeswalker at a time. If you are ranked first in two formats, the (new) second Planeswalker title is passed on to the next ranked non-planeswalker player.

Invites for Qualifiers
At the end of each season we invite 16 players for the Qualifier event. Five of those are the five Planeswalkers, to reward their excellent performance in their respective format. Another six players will be invited based on their overall performance, based on points standings at the end of the season. Here Planeswalkers are not taken in account. The remaining five seats are reserved for Grinders, five players who did not make Planeswalker title or top in the standings, but played many events in the season.

  • 5 Planeswalkers

  • 6 High ranked players

  • 5 Grinders

Byes for Qualifiers
Planeswalkers receive one Bye for the Qualifier event.

Prize support at Qualifiers
At Qualifier events the top two win one Bye for the PotY event and the winner of the Qualifier gets a direct invite for the Player of the Year event in December. For the top 8 contestants of the qualifier event there will be prize support.
Players not making top 8 get to play a Chaos Draft to battle for extra prizes.

  • 1 PotY invite

  • 2 PotY Byes (top 2)

  • TBA prizes for Top 8

  • Chaos Draft with prizes for bottom 8

  • Booster draft for Top 8 (Qualifier 2)

Qualifier Event Schedule
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Invites for the Player of the Year event
Of course we will follow the tradition of inviting the previous Player of the Year to defend the title. And as explained above, three Qualifier winners will be invited.
In the last season of the year we do not reset the standings for Planeswalkers and count all events played during the year. This will bring us five Planeswalkers who receive an invite.
Thats eight seats filled. Four seats are given to the top four players overall standings during the year, not counting already invited players. And the remaining three seats are again for the top four grinders (most events played) that did not manage to get their invite otherwise.

  • 1 Player of the Year 2017 (Zsolo)

  • 3 Qualifier Winners (Penciuc; Nelutu; TBA)

  • 5 Yearly Planeswalkers

  • 4 High ranked players

  • 4 Grinders

Byes for Player of the Year event
In addition to an invite, yearly Planeswalkers receive one Bye for the Player of the Year event. All invited players who have 400 or more seasonal points, receive one Bye. Players who made Top two at a Qualifier event receive one Bye. And one person without Byes, who played the most events in the year, gets one Bye. Byes accumulate, up to a maximum of three Byes per player. Byes can not be passed on to another player.

  • Top 2 finish at a Qualifier

  • 5 Planeswalkers

  • 400+ Yearly points

  • 1 for no byes and most events played (highest ranked as tiebreaker)

Prize support for Player of the Year event
As you may know we are making small reservations at each event during the whole year. This is estimated to net us a total of six displays (or equivalent) for prize support at Qualifiers and the Player of the Year event. Booster drafts played at those events are considered prizes too. Based on our estimations we expect to have at least four displays as prize support for the main event in December. Enough for a booster draft for all 16 participants and still have a spicy pool. Exact numbers will be announced at the beginning of December. But we can reveal that besides a shiny trophy, we plan to have a custom playmat made for the Player of the Year, to show off the status while playing magic!

  • Booster draft for everyone

  • X Showdown boosters

  • X Boosters

  • Playmat + Trophy for the new Player of the Year

  • Other?

PotY Event Schedule
Day 1
Time   -  Rounds  -  Format
10:00 -   1-3       -  Standard
12:30 -    -          -  Lunch Draft
13:30 -   4-6       -  Booster Draft (2 pods)

Day 2
10:00 -   7-9       -  Chaos Draft (2 pods)
13:30 -   -           -  Lunch Draft
14:30 -  10-12     - Modern
17:00 - Top 8      -  Booster Draft
          - Bottom 8 - TBA


Top 8
At all events the below schedule is followed to decide a winner after a cut to the top 8 players. Since we are only 16 players, making top 8 is not the most complicated thing to do. But making #1 after swiss rounds is! So we designed a top 8 graph to give the best four players after swiss rounds a minor advantage in the form one or two byes in the next four elimination rounds.
The top 8 starts with eighth-finals where #5 - #8 fight for a seat in the quarter finals. #1 - #4 play as well, to decide who gets to sit out the quarter finals with a Bye.
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Lunch Draft? With what boosters?
At each of the events we will have a scheduled lunch break. Of course you may all run to McDonalds or our favorite sandwich bar. But we can also bring our own food and share with each other. We would like to suggest everyone to bring some food/snacks of their likings and offer everyone a taste of it. Also drinks! For these special events we make an exception to the house rules and we are allowed to bring our own drinks (to share) to the venue.

Last edited by rado (2018-10-09 08:02:46)