Announcing the 2010 StarCityGames.com Open Series and Invitational!

StarCityGames.com is pleased to announce our 2010 StarCityGames.com Open Series, the largest independent tournament series in Magic’s history! With fifteen stops and over $200,000 in cash prizes up for grabs, players will have more chances to play and win than ever before.

Each StarCityGames.com Open Series weekend is a two-day event featuring a StarCityGames.com Standard Open on Saturday, followed by a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open on Sunday. Each event offers a total prize pool of $5,000 in cash! The 2010 StarCityGames.com Open Series schedule appears to the right. For more information about a specific StarCityGames.com Open Series weekend, please click on that specific event.

In addition to a $5,000 cash prize payout, each StarCityGames.com Open now awards Open Points. We will begin awarding these points at the last event we’re running in 2009; the StarCityGames.com Open Series Weekend in St. Louis on December 12-13, 2009.

The player who accumulates the most Open Points throughout the 2010 season will be named the StarCityGames.com Open Series Player of the Year and receive an Unlimited set of the Power Nine!

This player, and everyone else who accumulates enough points during the 2010 season, may redeem them for an invitation (and in some cases, byes) at an all-new, year-end event, the StarCityGames.com Invitational!

The 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational will take place on December 3-5, 2010 in Richmond, Virginia, where qualified players will compete for $50,000 in cash prizes! See the table to the right for the complete payout.

To receive an invitation to the 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational, players must accumulate a combined total of 10 Open Points playing in StarCityGames.com Standard and/or Legacy Open events throughout the 2010 season.

On December 3, 2010, we will also offer a series of 32-player single-elimination Last Chance Grinders. The winner of each Last Chance Grinder will automatically receive the 10 Open Points necessary to qualify for the StarCityGames.com Invitational. In addition, Open Points will be awarded down to 4th place, giving more players the chance to earn invites if they have enough cumulative points to push them over the 10-point threshold.

10 Open Points: An Invitation to the 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational
20 Open Points: An Invitation to the 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational, Round 1 Bye
30 Open Points: An Invitation to the 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational, Round 1 & 2 Bye

Open Points for the 2010 StarCityGames Open Series will be tracked and accumulated starting with the StarCityGames.com Open Weekend in St. Louis on December 12, 2009, and ending with the final Last Chance Grinder on December 3, 2010. Open Points Acquired in Last Chance Grinders do not count towards the StarCityGames.com Open Series Player of the Year race, but they may still be counted towards the Invitational Bye thresholds. The StarCityGames.com Open Series Player of the Year will be awarded at the Invitational. In the event of a prize split, points cannot be split and will always be assigned to the players based on their final standing.

Each StarCityGames.com Open Series weekend, and the 2010 StarCityGames.com Invitational, will be covered live on the StarCityGames.com website by Bill Stark along with our friends at GGsLive. Anyone who can’t attend our events in person will now be able to follow all the action from the comfort of their own home, starting with the StarCityGames.com Open Weekend in St. Louis on December 12-13, 2009!

We staff only the best and brightest in the DCI Judge program at our events. Click here to read more about the judges who will be heading our 2010 events! If you are interested in judging at any of the StarCityGames.com Open Events, contact [email protected].

For more information about the 2010 StarCityGames.com Open Series & Invitational, check out Bill Stark interview with StarCityGames.com President, Pete Hoefling. You can also find information on individual events by following their links on the calendar above, or by finding them in our Event Forum.