Grand Prix St. Louis Fact Sheet
WHERE
America's Center
130 Complex
701 Convention
Plaza
St. Louis,
MO 63101
(314)
342-5036
WHEN
May 12-14, 2000
Side events
begin Friday evening.
COST
$90 (per team)
preregistration
$100
(per team) on site
For advance
registration, contact Gray Matter Conventions at (800) 852-2442
(in New York state, call (212) 633-6320). Advance registration
will be available until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10, 2000. For
hotel reservations, call the Omni Majestic Hotel, 1019 Pine St.,
St. Louis, MO at (314) 436-2355. Mention "Magic: the Gathering
Grand Prix", "Gray Matter Conventions", or "Professional
Event Services" for discount.
TOURNAMENT
The main tournament
at Grand Prix–St. Louis is open to 3-person teams consisting
of Magic® players of all ages.
In the
event that a team who wins an invitation to a Pro Tour stop at
a Grand Prix has already qualified for an invitation, the invitation
shall be extended to the next-best finishing team in that Grand
Prix. Previous qualification may be through a Qualifier tournament,
through performances at a professional tournament, or by
being an invited DCI™ team (valid upon the date of the official
rank announcement for the appropriate professional tournament).
The format
for Grand Prix–St. Louis will be Team-limited (3-person teams).
All DCI Team Limited-format rules and Magic Floor Rules
announced on September 1, 1999, along with all subsequent updates
released on or before April 1, 2000, will be enforced.
The structure
for Grand Prix–St. Louis will be modified Swiss-style (50-minute
rounds, number of rounds determined by number of teams), with
the Top 20 teams advancing to the second day of competition for
prizes and invitations. The top 4 previously uninvited teams will
receive invitations.
- Day 1
Format and Structure
6 rounds of
Sealed Deck play. Teams will construct decks before rounds 1 and
4. Each team will receive 2 Mercadian Masques™ tournament
packs and 4 Nemesis™ boosters. From this pool of cards,
teams must construct 3 decks (assigning all cards to a main deck
or sideboard). Players may add any amount of basic lands to their
decks.
- Day 2
Format and Structure
The top 20
teams after day 1 will play 3 rounds of Team Rochester draft (drafting
each round). The top 4 teams after 3 rounds will play a single-elimination
playoff using the Team Rochester draft format. All Rochester drafts
on day 2 will consist of 2 Mercadian Masques boosters and
1 Nemesis booster per player.
Tournament
Byes (Byes are not cumulative throughout the season or year)
Byes will
be given to players in the Grand Prix based on the following criteria:
Second-Round
Byes
- Teams with
60 or more total professional points in the Pro Tour–Los
Angeles 2000 professional standing.
- DCI Teams
with a 3-person Limited Teams rating of 1725 or higher. Byes
do not pass down under any circumstances. Byes are based on
DCI ratings published approximately six weeks prior to the Grand
Prix.
First-Round
Byes
- Players
with 20 or more total professional points in the Pro Tour–Los
Angeles 2000 professional standing.
- DCI players
with a 3-person Limited Teams rating of 1675 or higher. Byes
do not pass down under any circumstances. Byes are based on
DCI ratings published approximately six weeks prior to the Grand
Prix.
Professional
Point Byes
Byes based on Professional Points
at Grand Prix-St. Louis are based upon the Pro Tour-Los Angeles
Pro Standing. To compute the number of byes your team will receive,
add up the Professional Points of all three team members, then
consult the following chart to see how many byes your team will
receive:
60 Points and over.......2-round
bye
20 - 59 Points...............1-round bye
0 - 19 Points................. No byes
(Pro
Tour-Los Angeles Pro Standing)
PAYOUT
Grand Prix–St.
Louis will feature a standard "main tournament" prize
schedule.
Main Tournament
Prize Schedule (all prizes are "per team")
Finish Prize
1 $4,500
2 $3,000
3 $2,000
4 $1,500
5–8
$1,000
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