Player guide - Swiss Unity League Season 2025

In the following we explain everything you need to know as a player to participate in Switzerland's premier Magic: the Gathering tournament series, Swiss Unity League.

Abstract

The Swiss Unity League (SUL) is a collaborative tournament series between various Magic: the Gathering event organizers in Switzerland. Only the best players will qualify for the end-of-year 2-day Championship tournament with 2.5k prizes.

Any organizer can register their tournament for the league to make it award League Points. Players need to collect these points in order to qualify for the Championship.

SUL Championship 2025

2.5K prize pool

• 1st: 600 CHF
• 2nd: 400 CHF
• 3rd/4th: 250 CHF
• 5th-8th: 150 CHF
• 9th-12th 100 CHF

Prizes are awarded as store credit, allowing each player to select their preferred participating store to redeem it.

How to qualify

The 2025 season of the SUL will run from the 1st of November 2024 to the 31th of October 2025. During that time, all participating Magic: the Gathering tournaments in and around Switzerland will award League Points.

Players can qualify in the following ways:

• At the end of the season, the top 36 players on the leaderboard (with the most League Points) qualify for the Championship.
• The winner* of each SUL Premier event receives a direct invite for the Championship.
• The Top 4* of each SUL Invitational receive a direct invite for the Championship.

*If a player already has a direct invite from a previous tournament, it will be passed on to the next player in the standings of the tournament.

Location: to be announced

Date: to be announced

Entry: Free, but only qualified players can participate.

REL: Competitive

Decklists: Open decklist for Modern, closed decklist for Draft

Timed draft: According to MTR, with 25 minutes for deck registration and construction.

Schedule

• Day 1:
  • Start: 10:00
  • 1 Round of Modern / Bye
  • 3 Rounds of Draft
  • 4 Rounds of Modern
• Day 2:
  • Start: 10:00
  • 3 Rounds of Draft
  • 2 Rounds of Modern
  • Top8 Modern
  • Finals Modern (Best of 5)

How to participate

Tell your local tournament organizer (TO) about our league and show them the Guide for Organizers page! Your local events will then be registered for the league, so you can start collecting League Points.

League Points

Players can earn League Points at all tournaments participating in the league. Points are awarded in the following three ways:

• Match Points: A player receives League Points equal to the match points they earned during the Swiss rounds of the tournament plus 3 points. (E.g., a record of 3-1-1 in Swiss rounds is 10 match points, which awards 13 League Points).
• Playoffs: If the event has playoffs (top 4/8), then the best-performing players receive extra League Points.

Each type of tournament has a different multiplier and the SUL points earned for match points will be multiplied by this value.

Event types

There are 3 types of events (SUL Local, Regional, and Premier). Your local tournament organizer will assign one of these 3 types to each tournament they organize, which changes the amount of points it awards.

League Points for playoffs

Events with playoffs award additional League Points according to the schema below. For SUL Premier events, running a top 8 is mandatory. For SUL Regional events, the tournament organizer can decide if they wish to run their event with playoffs or not (top 4 or top 8 depends on the number of players).

*Only awarded if the event has a top 8.
**Only awarded to players not reaching the playoffs. The match-win percentage is calculated according to the MTR

Playoffs played at SUL Local events will award 3 points for reaching the playoffs plus 3 per win.

Example: Chandra plays a SUL Premier event (multiplier 6x) at her local gaming store with 51 participants. During the 5 Swiss rounds, she manages to get 4 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw (13 match points). She places 9th in the overall ranking. Therefore, she receives 78 points (6x13) for the match points, 18 points (6x3) just for participating. Additionally, she receives 60 points for reaching a greater match-win percentage than 70% (13/18 = 72%). With this event, she earns a grand total of 156 League Points.

SUL Invitationals

Twice per year the best players of the SUL qualify for the SUL Invitational tournament. The top 4 players of each SUL Invitational will be invited to the SUL Championship.

How to qualify for an Invitational

During the given Qualification Season of the Invitational the following players qualify for the Invitational:

• The top 80 players of the leaderboard.
• The top 2 of each SUL Premier event.
• The top 1 of each SUL Regional event (with top 4/8).

Qualifying season

Each qualifying season for an Invitational spans 5 months. During this period, all events, except prior SUL Invitationals and SUL Championships, grant SUL Points and direct invites for the Invitational.

Byes

The best performing players at the league are awarded byes (free wins in the first rounds) for the Championship at the end of the year. A player can have 1 bye maximum. Players can earn byes in the following ways:

• The winner of each Invitational held during the season will be awarded 1 bye.
• The top 4 players on the leaderboard (with the most League Points) will be awarded 1 bye.
• If there's an additional bye in the first round of the Championship, then it will be awarded to the player ranked 5th on the leaderboard.

Responsibility of players

Players are responsible to verify that their results were uploaded correctly. If you notice that your League Points are incorrect, please contact your local tournament organizer or the SUL admins.

How do we finance this?

In addition to sponsorships, tournament organizers will pay fees for the Regional and Premier events they organize. For detailed information, see Guide for Organizers!