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The Star City Games Open series has been enormously successful in the United States. SCG events continue to grow and expand, and these days players have the option to go to one nearly every weekend if there isn't a Grand Prix in the area.
It's become a huge part of the competitive ecosystem here, and it seems Europe may not be far behind.
MagicCardMarket is akin to TCGPlayer in Europe, and the organization announced today plans to begin its own tournament circuit in Europe. This is a really cool development and great news for those not-quite-pros in Europe.
You can read the full announcement, complete with tournament details, here.
Making prize money in vouchers which can not be cashed out but instead can only be used as a credit in their store is such a dissapointment =/
Vouchers may help with the complicated tax situation -besides, if the winner reads this site, he or she should be able to take a few profitable positions 🙂
Or an enterprising individual could offer cash for vouchers- like MtGO tix are sold.
Think the prize structure is because Europe is not yet federated. Even though the EU zone has a lot of directives (laws) in common, there are still a lot of differences, especially when it comes to the economy/taxes (as seen with how Greece made mess of theirs)