Star City Games® Invitational Qualifiers bring the excitement of the SCG Tour® to your local community while increasing in-store traffic and sales. Players compete for a share of $1,000 in prizes, SCG Points, exclusive playmats, invitations to the next Star City Games® Invitational, and more — all in your store!
The Invitational Qualifier Advantage
Easy to Run
Invitational Qualifiers are simple and standardized. As an organizer, you will receive a kit containing all of the promotional materials necessary to run your event. Invitational Qualifiers also follow a standard and heavily advertised cash payout to top performers. This creates a familiar atmosphere for each Invitational Qualifier that allows players to know what to expect, while empowering you as an organizer to offer any additional prizes that you may want to include!
Your Event & Store will be Heavily Advertised
Invitational Qualifiers are heavily advertised in our weekly email newsletter, to thousands of viewers via our SCG Tour broadcasts, on-site at nearby SCG Tour locations, on every Star City Games webpage, in our online Event Finder, and via an official Facebook event page that we create for you. You simply need to promote your Invitational Qualifier via your own social media platforms and advertise the event within your store!
Build Your Playerbase, Build Your Brand
When you host an Invitational Qualifier, you will likely see many regular and out-of-town players show up at your store to participate. This is an ideal opportunity to buy, sell and trade sizeable quantities of Magic: The Gathering singles, sell lots of booster packs, supplies, snacks and drinks, and create new long-term customers!
When you tweet about your Invitational Qualifier, be sure to use the hashtag #SCGIQ and @starcitygames. We will retweet from our official account, and put your event details in front of tens of thousands of Magic: The Gathering fans!
Karetenspiel at light speed! #scgiq #mtg #kartenspiel #fancymagic pic.twitter.com/VQEBEG2SsJ
— The Stadium BC (@TheStadiumBC) August 12, 2018
THE PRIZES PLAYERS WANT
Exclusive Playmats
Invitational Qualifier playmats now feature exclusive artwork! Organizers hosting Invitational Qualifiers will receive kits containing these exclusive playmats for the months below.
Riders of the Apocalypse Series: Rotten to the Core Playmat
Artwork by Robson Michel
January – June 2020
Feature IQ Tokens
Each Invitational Qualifier kit contains 50 Star City Games Invitational Winner tokens and 50 exclusive Invitational Qualifiers tokens. Use these tokens as door prizes, registration rewards, prizes for top performers, or however you wish!
Chris Barone – Invitational Winner Token
IQ Exclusive Food Token
Ultimate Guard® Deck Boxes
Reward your Invitational Qualifier Top 8 players with Ultimate Guard deck boxes!
Out-of-Print Playmats
Each Invitational Qualifier kit contains 2 Official Magic: The Gathering art playmats as well as 4 Out-of-Print SCG Playmats.
A Path to the Star City Games® Players’ Championship
Each Invitational Qualifier automatically qualifies its two finalists for the next $100,000 Invitational at SCG CON®, and helps Top 8 players get closer to the 15 SCG Points needed for a seasonal points qualification. In 2020, SCG Points are even more valuable to players as players seek to secure a seat at the year-end Star City Games Players’ Championship giving players yet another reason to participate in your events!
Get More with Plus
Upgrade to Invitational Qualifier Plus and get your store’s logo printed on each of your exclusive playmats*! Each Invitational Qualifier Plus kit includes 50 out-of-print tokens, 4 out-of-print dice bags, 4 additional Out-of-Print SCG playmats, 2 additional Official Magic: The Gathering art playmats, plus all of the contents of a regular Invitational Qualifier kit!
Invitational Qualifier and Invitational Qualifier Plus Kits
Invitational Qualifications
Ultimate Guard Deck Box
Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Playmat
Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Tokens
Invitational Winner Tokens
Official Magic: The Gathering Art Playmats
Out-of-Print SCG Playmats
Your logo on all Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Playmats *
Official Magic: The Gathering Art Playmats
Out-of-Print SCG Playmats
Retired SCG Tokens
Retired SCG Dicebags
- Invitational Qualifier
- $350
USD - Event Fee Includes:
- 2 Invitational Qualifications
- 8 Ultimate Guard Deck Boxes
- 8 Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Playmats
- 50 Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Tokens
- 50 Invitational Winner Tokens
- 2 Official Magic: The Gathering Art Playmats
- 4 Out-of-Print SCG Playmats
- FREE SHIPPING
- 4 Out-of-Print SCG Dicebags
- FREE SHIPPING
- Invitational Qualifier Plus
- $400
USD - Event Fee Includes:
- 2 Invitational Qualifications
- 8 Ultimate Guard Deck Boxes
- 8 Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Playmats (Your Logo Included*)
- 50 Exclusive Invitational Qualifier Tokens
- 50 Invitational Winner Tokens
- 4 Official Magic: The Gathering Art Playmats
- 8 Out-of-Print SCG Playmats
- 50 Out-of-Print SCG Tokens
- 4 Out-of-Print SCG Dicebags
- FREE SHIPPING
*If you schedule, and pay for, an Invitational Qualifier Plus event within five (5) days of the scheduling window opening, you can have your store logo added to your Invitational Qualifier playmats at no extra charge!
All Invitational Qualifiers have a minimum prize pool of $1,000 which is the organizer’s responsibility to award to the top-performing players.
| Finish | Prize | Playmat & Deck Box | SCG Points | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | $400 | Yes | 3 | Yes |
| Finalist | $200 | Yes | 3 | Yes |
| Top 4 | $100 | Yes | 2 | — |
| Top 8 | $50 | Yes | 1 | — |
