[Editor's Note January 10, 2020]

This year, our team promised you stability and we didn't deliver on that with yesterday's announcement. We are reverting that announcement: Grand Prix will not contribute to Rivals/MPL qualification for the 2020 Partial Season.

Our goal was to address the feedback from players that they wanted more opportunities for their results in tabletop, including Grand Prix performance, to matter. We recognize that having Players Points awarded at Grand Prix count toward Rivals/MPL qualification causes other issues, most notably regional disparity of opportunity. Additionally, the timing of our announcement did not allow players to make informed decisions.

We commit to having a dialogue with you over the next few months to address this issue for the full 2020-21 season.

With the Players Tour Series 2 qualification kicking off, and Grand Prix Austin as the beginning to earn Player Points, we wanted to clarify our policy for earning Player Points from Grand Prix events when calculating seasonal ranking:

If a player competing in a Grand Prix event would like any Player Points earned to be exempted and to not be used for calculating season ranking, they must notify us prior to the beginning of Round 1 of Constructed format Grand Prix, or prior to the beginning of deck construction for Limited format Grand Prix, via email to esports@wizards.com. This will permit that player to earn Player Points from a future Grand Prix event within the same Players Tour series cycle instead.