CQ League Feat. the Classic Invitational

REGISTRATION FOR QT #4 IS AVAILABLE ON GATHERLING.COM. REGISTRATION ENDS MAY 18th:

Classic Quarter and Clan Magic Eternal Presents:

The 2012-2013 Classic Quarter League featuring The Classic Invitational

The first QT will commence on Monday August 13^th. Decklists as well as donations are due by 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time on Saturday August 11^th, no exceptions.

Some of the details have been spoiled already, but I'll just jump right in:

The 2012-2013 Classic Quarter League feat. the Classic Invitational (henceforth referred to as "The League") will be a year long (henceforth referred to as "Season") League that will culminate in a Invitational-style tournament. During the course of the Season, there will be 4 Qualifier Tournaments (QT's) that will coincide with the release of each major set release (the Summer Core Set and the 3 Block sets; Return to Ravinca Block for this upcoming season).

Format of the QT: Each QT will be a Swiss tournament with rounds lasting one (1) week long, similar to the Classic League run by MMogg. There will be 5 rounds of Swiss followed by a cut to the Top 8. If participation goes over 33 players, there will be 6 rounds, etc. The QT will start promptly 2 weeks after the release of the set in the client and run for approximately 2 months. Prizes will be awarded to players in the Top 8 based on their final standings. Pairings during the Swiss rounds will be run through DCI Reporter. At the end of each match, the winner will send the results denoting who won and in how many games to classicquarterleague@gmail.com including a screenshot of the final result.

Format of the Classic Invitational: The Classic Invitational will be an invite-only tournament that will be held on a Saturday after all of the 4 QT's have finished. This will be a single day event of 6 rounds of Swiss, regardless of the number of entrants, followed by a cut to the Top 8. Prizes will be awarded to players in the Top 8 based on their final standings.

How to Qualify for the Invitational: Players will automatically qualify for the Invitational if they finish in the Top 8 in any single QT during the course of the Season. Players can earn up to one (1) bye in the Classic Invitational for a second appearance in the Top 8 of any other QT. Any Top 8 appearances beyond the first 2 will not award additional byes.

How to Register for a QT: Send an email to classicquarterleague@gmail.com with your mtgo username and your deck list (saved as a .txt file from the client).  Naturally, each deck must be Classic legal. Your e-mail address will be made “public” to those that also signed-up for the tournament, so please use some discretion and use a personal account instead of your work account, etc.  Anyone caught trying to register multiple accounts will result in a permanent ban from the League and future Seasons.

Entry Fee: Each QT will be free to play, however, to encourage the maximum number of participants, for each QT we suggest a minimum donation of ~10 tickets or an equivalent value in Classic Playable cards; foils will be gladly accepted. There will be no fee or donation required for the Invitational. Donations will be 100% transparent and visible to everyone, though they will be kept anonymous if desired. When making a donation, please specify if it will be for just the upcoming QT, or to go towards the entire Season. Please find either me (enderfall) or unlockingthevault (my secondary account holding the donations) in client to make your donations.

Prizes: Any donations for a QT will be distributed ~40% to the QT and ~60% to the “kitty” for the Invitational. The Invitational prizes will be accumulated during the course of the QT Season. We are in the process of trying to line up sponsors for the Classic Invitational. If you would like to donate directly to the Invitational, please e-mail classicquarterleague@gmail.com to express your interest. Sponsors from Websites/Bots/etc. will have their logo posted here and will be promoted amongst the various Classic Community contributors. Clan Magic Eternal has already pledged 20 tickets per active member to go directly to the Invitational “kitty”. The idea is that by the end of the 4^th QT, the prizes for the Invitational will rival those of the Player of the Year race that was discontinued in early 2012.

Here are the prizes for QT#1:

1st Place: Invitational Invite + 48 Tickets PLUS Choice of 1 from Lot A and Choice of 1 from Lot B
2nd: Invitational Invite + 36 Tickets PLUS Choice of 1 from leftover Lot A
3rd/4th: Invitational Invite + 18 tickets each PLUS Choice of 1 from leftover in Lot B
5th-8th: Invitational Invite + 5 Tickets PLUS Choice of 1 from Lot C or 2 from Lot D:

Random Door Prize #1 (open to everyone outside of Top 8): 4x Foil Ingot Chewer + 4x Foil Promo Hymn to Tourach + Foil Lord of the Unreal

Random Door Prize #2 (open for Everyone): 2x Gaddock Teeg + Ill-Gotten Gains + Infernal Tutor

(Lot A: Foil Promo Ponder, Foil Promo Brainstorm, Foil MM Brainstorm, Foil Enlightened Tutor, 4x Foil Noble Heirarch) 

(Lot B: Foil Time Vault, Foil Flash, Foil ME4 Sol Ring, Foil Promo Qasali Pridemage, Foil Hermit Druid, Foil ME2 Necropotence, Foil Snapcaster Mage; 1x Foil Promo Mondronen Shaman, Foil Standstill, ME4 Demonic Tutor)

(Lot C: 2x Foil Trygon Predator, 1x Foil KvD Knight of the Reliquary, Foil MM Dark Ritual, Foil UL Tinker, Foil Dream Halls)

(Lot D: Foil FTV Balance, Foil Duplicant + 4x Foil Slash Panther + Foil Lodestone Golem, Foil Llawan, Cephalid Empress, Promo Bloodstained Mire, Promo Kitchen Finks, Foil Promo Savage Lands + Promo Savage Lands, Promo Living Wish)

Here's a shout-out to our sponsors:

The Classic Invitational is scheduled for July 20^th, 2013 and will start at 12:00pm (noon) Eastern Time (UTC-5). The hope is that this is well enough in advance for people to plan accordingly.

Also, the plan is to stream the matches of the Classic Invitational, LIVE, on twitch.tv or another streaming service. We hope that the coverage can be somewhat similar to GGSLive and SCG providing match-up analysis and commentary. More information will follow as we get closer to the event.

For those interested, a few players have indicated that they would be happy to record other people's matches to provide commentary during the QT season. If you would like your match recorded and happen to see the following people online, just message them and ask them to record the match:

• enderfall
• Cronin
  

***In the event that WotC blesses us with full Vintage on MTGO during the course of a Season, the current active QT will play out as scheduled and any future QT's (including the Invitational) will switch to the Vintage format.***

THE FOLLOWING PLAYERS HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE CLASSIC INVITATIONAL:

FISHY FELLOW

CAT WEASEL

ALBERTORODALV

PLANETWALLS + 1 Bye

CHRISKOOL

CALAVERA

THE_CRISP_ONE

XKORPIO

DURANOTH

TOMMYTOPDECKER

THORME + 1 Bye

THEWOOF2 + 1 Bye

MONTOLIO + 1 Bye

BLUEDIAMONDS

LORD SAPPHIRE

BACTGUDZ

THEWILDDOG

PHILIPJFRY

GAINSBANDING

ILSKEN (MAXEEL)

While I won't be able to participate I would like to help out, if you guys would like a 1 on 1 deck tech video of your deck posted up, PM me on here, we'll meet up on skype and I'll review the decklists with you, play the BDM to your deck mastery, ask all sorts of questions and such :) I won't publish any of the videos until the event heh.