The crown jewel of the MTG year at Black Knight Games is our annual Grand Championship Invitational. Last year was the inaugural event, and all year long players have been earning their spot in this exclusive event.
What is it?: Our Invitational will be a prestigious MTG event that we host at the end of 2019. The 32 participants will each be invited to attend based on their successes gaming at BKG over the past year. The event will be a multi-format event, with the aim of crowning a single BKG Grand Champion, and presenting them with an exciting reward.
Who Gets Invited?: There are a couple of ways that our gamers might get invited:
- If you are crowned ‘Champion‘ in any of the four seasons of 2019, you will be invited.
- If you win one of our the major events, like our upcoming WPNQ, you will be invited. These events will list the opportunity to qualify in their description.
- If you were the Iron-Player at one of the Prerelease Weekends (meaning you won the most matches over the course of the weekend) you will be invited.
- If you are the top-ranked unqualified player in one of our ‘Last Chance Qualifier‘ events you will earn an invite. The three weekly events in the week immediately before the Grand Championship will be LCQs. In the case of a tie, for example multiple undefeated draft pods, the player yet to qualify with the best record in the Winter 2019 season will win the tie.
- Remaining seats, if there are any, will be hand-selected by BKG, based on things like overall attendance, record, and loyalty to the community.
Invitations, other than those from the LCQ, will be extended in advance (likely just before Christmas), and we will also have a waiting list that we will keep in the case of some of our top 32 not being able to make it.
Event Details
When: January 4th, 2020, Starts at 10am
Entry Fee: $30.00 per player
Total Prize Pool & Prize Value: $1,160 in credit, +1 Booster Box, 8 Playmats, Champion Plaque, Draft Packs for eight, & 40 Hero’s Rewards.
Competition Level: REL Competitive, We will have a L2 judge on hand.
Format: 32 Player event, 2 four-round tournaments, followed by a three-round top-8 draft. Each of the 4 round segments will be seeded, and matched as their own separate events.
10:00am: 4 Rounds Swiss of Modern
2:00pm: 4 Rounds Swiss of Standard
6:00pm: Top-8 Booster Draft, elimination.
Byes: If you auto-qualified more than once, not including LCQs, you will be given a single Bye, which can be take either in the Modern or in the Standard leg. No more than 1 Bye may be earned.
Prize Distribution:
All participants get: 1 Hero’s Reward
Top 8 Participants get: Grand Championship Playmat, a second Hero’s Reward, Boosters for the Top 8 Draft.
5th-8th Place: An additional $50.00 BKG Store Credit
3rd-4th Place: An additional $100.00 BKG Store Credit
2nd Place: A standard-legal Booster Box of their choice, & $100.00 BKG Store Credit
BKG Grand Champion 2018: $500.00 BKG Store Credit, Grand Champion Plaque
Already Qualified: The following individuals have already earned an invite
Adrian Murchison (Earned 1 Bye) | 2018 Grand Champion, Winter Modern Champ | Dayle Chapman (Earned 1 Bye) | Ravnica Weekend Champ, Winter Standard Champ) |
Jeff Braid (Earned 1 Bye) | Team Trios Champ, War of the Spark Prerelease Iron-Player | Brad Cook | Winter Draft Champion |
Josh Fitzsimmons | Team Trios Champ | Matt Dugdale | Team Trios Champ |
Matteo Khawaja | Modern Trios Champ | Sheldon Gorman | Modern Trios Champ |
Mitchell Sleeman | Modern Trios Champ | Cody Gamble | Spring Modern Champ |
Mason Bermel | Spring Standard Champ | Tammer Abouhussein | Spring Draft Champ |
Nolan McDonald | Summer Modern Champ | Ross Scott | Summer Standard Champ |
Jesse McMann | Summer Draft Champ | Ashley Kraftcheck | Ravnica Allegiance Prerelease Iron-Player |
Ilia Bondarenko | M20 Prerelease Iron-Player | Jon Boutin | Throne of Eldraine Prerelease Iron-Player |
Aaron Stross | Modern Horizons Prerelease Iron-Player | ? | Autumn Draft Champ |
? | Autumn Modern Champ | ? | Autumn Standard Champ |
? | WPNQ Champion | ? | LCQ Draft |
? | LCQ Modern | ? | LCQ Standard |
6-11 Additional Players | Hand-Selected Invites | | |