{"id":67299,"date":"2018-12-07T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332407"},"modified":"2018-12-07T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:15:00","slug":"hasbro-wizards-of-the-coast-invest-in-magic-the-gathering-esports-with-10m-prize-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/hasbro-wizards-of-the-coast-invest-in-magic-the-gathering-esports-with-10m-prize-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasbro &amp; Wizards of the Coast invest in Magic: The Gathering esports with $10M prize pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have unveiled <a href=\"http:\/\/mtgesports.com\">Magic Esports<\/a>, a new 2019 competitive program (with a $10 million prize pool) which introduces\u00a0a restructured\u00a0tournament format\u00a0for online games\u00a0<em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em> and <em>Magic: The Gathering Arena.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Announced earlier tonight during the Game Awards, the 2019 Magic Esports season is designed to appeal to fans of both the digital and tabletop versions of Magic, consisting\u00a0of four digital and six tabletop tournaments called Mythic Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The first\u00a0invitational Mythic Championship will kick off\u00a0at PAX East 2019 in Boston\u00a0for <em>Magic: The Gathering Arena<\/em>, with a $1 million prize pool<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Magic Esports also heralds the launch of the Magic Pro League, which encompasses\u00a0the current top 32 ranked <em>Magic<\/em> players. Magic Pro League members are automatically qualified for every Mythic Championship, and in addition to competing\u00a0for a piece of the prize pool, they will receive a yearly salary and additional benefits aimed at allowing them to play Magic as a career.<\/p>\n<p>Players outside of the Magic Pro League will also have the ability to qualify for Mythic Championships, with more details on how to to be revealed in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have unveiled Magic Esports, a new 2019 competitive program (with a $10 million prize pool) which introduces\u00a0a restructured\u00a0tournament format\u00a0for online games\u00a0Magic: The Gathering and Magic: The Gathering Arena. Announced earlier tonight during the Game Awards, the 2019 Magic Esports season is designed to appeal to fans of both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}