Sanctioned Tournaments

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	Sanctioned Tournaments

The Sanctioned Tournaments room has both scheduled tournaments and ongoing eight-player events. This and the Premier Events room are the only places with events that affect your Magic Online ratings. The main difference is tournaments in the Premier Events room are planned further in advance than ones in the Sanctioned Play room, and sometimes require competing in qualifying events.

See Tournaments for information about joining a tournament.

8-Player Rooms
The Draft 8-player, Constructed 8-player, and Sealed Deck 8-player rooms provide ongoing tournaments that don't take a lot of time to finish. These tournaments are sanctioned. All tournaments are eight-player, single-elimination events.

In each 8-player room there's a queue for each available format. For example, in the Constructed 8-Player room you'll find Standard, Odyssey Block Constructed, and Invasion Block Constructed. In spreadsheet view, the list shows the available formats. To join, select a format and click Join in the bottom right corner. In graphic view, point your mouse at a Click to Join table to see what format it is. Click a table to join that queue.

A queue is like a line of players waiting to get into a tournament. Every few minutes, the game checks to see if there are at least twelve players in a queue. If there are, as many new eight-player tournaments are created as possible. The game also checks to see if there are at least eight players in a queue that have been waiting for more than a few minutes. If so, a new tournament starts with those players in it.

Players in a queue that aren't selected when a new tournament starts will automatically get into the next tournament begun from that queue.

Tournament Rooms
The three tournament rooms are where scheduled sanctioned tournaments are held. Click the room for the type of event you're interested in to see when different events are scheduled to begin.

See Tournaments for more information.