MANATRADERS SERIES IS
THE LARGEST
PRIZEPOOL ON MTGO
$15,000 per month
MANATRADERS SERIES IS
THE LONGEST
MTGO LEAGUE
RUNNING ALL YEAR LONG
Different formats each month
ENTRY
Registration
There is no entry fee, ManaTraders Series is free and will always be free! Anyone can join, no affiliation with ManaTraders is required - you just need an MTGO account and your skills.
The Manatraders Series is the largest payout tournament on MTGO, with a $15,000 prize pool each month, from January to November and a final $30,000 December invitational tournament.
Free entry
$15,000 monthly payouts
Open to all
MONTHLY LEAGUE
Qualifier Round
Every month, play in our open Qualifier Round. This round starts the 2nd Monday of each month at 12pm ET
Play this portion at your pace, you will get randomly paired with other players and play on demand. The Qualifier League will be open for play from 12pm to 12am daily.
During this round, players with the top most win percentage will earn their share of the leaderboard prize pool, 20 games played is required for this prize.
To move on to the next round, the Swiss Round you will need:
- play 10 - 19 matches and have a 70% win rate
- or play 20 - 29 matches and have a 65% win rate
- or play 30+ matches and have a 60% win rate
Once any the above conditions are met you are locked into our Swiss Round and cannot be unqualified. This allows you to continue to play for the leaderboard top 20 positions without worry.
Swiss Round - Top 8
Swiss - Last Saturday of each month at 10am ET.
This potion consists of 5-9 rounds depending on the amount of players that qualified.
The top 8 players move to the finals.
Top 8 - Last Sunday of each month at 4pm ET.
Players are pair based on seed and will play 3 rounds, with winners advancing towards the finals and other battling for top 8 points.
Top 8 Points
Top 8 points are awarded to 3rd - 8th place, 3rd gets 7 points, 4th 6 points, etc.. top 4 or more players who accumulate the most points will be invited the ManaTraders Finale Tournament.
FINALE
Final December Invitational
Second weekend of December.
To be one of the 48 players able to participate in this event, you have to earn an invite.
You can do so by:
- Finishing 1st or 2nd in any month’s top 8 (22 players)
- Finishing 1st or 2nd in any month’s qualifier leaderboard (22 players)
- Finishing the series season with the most invite points. (4 players)
If a player qualified multiple times via top 8 finishes or Leaderboard Finishes it will simply open up a spot for a player with the most top 8 points for the year. If there are tie in points for a final spot in the finale, there will be a playoff to decide who gets it.
If more than 4 players are tied with the most invitational points, the tiebreaker will be the number of appearances in the monthly series tournaments. If that is not sufficient there will be a playoff.
TOURNAMENT PAYOUTS
Leaderboard Payout
The leaderboard payout is based on the Qualifier Round only. All leaderboard winners game play is reviewed for game integrity purposes.
| RANK | LEADERBOARD PAYOUT PRIZE POOL | |
|---|---|---|
Non subscribers |
Subscriber bonus |
|
| 1° | $ 100 | $ 1,000 |
| 2° | $ 50 | $ 500 |
| 3° | $ 30 | $ 300 |
| 4° | $ 20 | $ 200 |
| 5°-10° | $ 10 | $ 100 |
| 11°-20° | $ 5 credit* | $ 50 credit* |
Swiss - Top 8 Payout
Prizes are cumulative, meaning that you can win both the Leaderboard & Swiss - Top8.
The tournament is free, however, We offers two bonuses to our subscribers, the subscriber bonus and the Loyalty multiplier (LM).
LM starts on the third month of your subscription and increases 1% each month up to 20%, this will pay you out an additional percentage of your winnings, for example if you won $1,000 and had an LM of 10% (1 year loyalty) you would get an additional $100.
Prizes are cumulative, meaning that you can win both the Leaderboard & Swiss - Top8.
The tournament is free, however, We offers two bonuses to our subscribers, the subscriber bonus and the Loyalty multiplier (LM).
LM starts on the third month of your subscription and increases 1% each month up to 20%, this will pay you out an additional percentage of your winnings, for example if you won $1,000 and had an LM of 10% (1 year loyalty) you would get an additional $100.
| RANK | SWISS - TOP 8 PAYOUT PRIZE POOL | |
|---|---|---|
Non subscribers |
Subscriber Bonus |
|
| 1° | $ 300 | $ 3,000 * LM |
| 2° | $ 200 | $ 2,000 * LM |
| 3° | $ 100 | $ 1,000 * LM |
| 4° | $ 100 | $ 1,000 * LM |
| 5° | $ 60 | $ 600 * LM |
| 6° | $ 60 | $ 600 * LM |
| 7° | $ 50 | $ 500 * LM |
| 8° | $ 50 | $ 500 * LM |
| 9°-16° | $ 10 | $ 100 * LM |
| 17°-64° | $ 25 credit* | $ 25 credit* |
| 65°-128° | $ 10 credit* | $ 10 credit* |
| 129°-256° | $ 5 credit* | $ 5 credit* |
FINALE PAYOUTS
December Invitational Finale
48 players will battle it out in 8 rounds of a multi-format swiss tournament, the top 8 players will move on to day two and play a double elimination bracket based on seed.
Subscriber bonus and Loyalty Multiplier are applicable here as well, so it pays to be a ManaTrader.
48 players will battle it out in 8 rounds of a multi-format swiss tournament, the top 8 players will move on to day two and play a double elimination bracket based on seed.
Subscriber bonus and Loyalty Multiplier are applicable here as well, so it pays to be a ManaTrader.
| RANK | FINALE PAYOUT PRIZE POOL | |
|---|---|---|
Non subscribers |
Subscriber Bonus |
|
| 1° | $ 1000 | $ 10,000 * LM |
| 2° | $ 480 | $ 4,800 * LM |
| 3°-4° | $ 200 | $ 2,000 * LM |
| 5°-8° | $ 80 | $ 800 * LM |
| 9°-16° | $ 40 | $ 400 * LM |
| 17°-32° | $ 20 | $ 200 * LM |
| 33°-48° | $ 10 | $ 100 * LM |
