Magic esports

Magic esports were introduced by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast in 2019.Ferguson Mitchell (December 7, 2018), "Wizards, Hasbro Reveal Magic: The Gathering Esports League, $10M Prize Pool".Esportobserver.com After a failure to launch successfully, the concept was abandoned in 2022.
==Description==
Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of competition using video games. Most commonly, esports takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players and teams. Magic esports was planned to encompass both Magic games — Magic: The Gathering Arena and tabletop Magic. $10 million prize money was planned to be divided among all Magic esports tournaments. 
===History===
Initially, Esports events were called Mythic Championships, and later Split Championship. Esports also introduced the Magic Pro League and the Rivals League. 
However, in May 2021, a return to in-person play post COVID-19 was announced for the 2022–23 Players Tour Season. Although digital play was considered here to stay it was supposed to be only part of the equation going forward. As a result, the 2021–22 Players Tour Season was the last season featuring the MPL and the Rivals League. Players did not compete for another League season, but for a place in the 2022 World Championship instead.
League Weekends and the Gauntlets were not run in 2021–2022 and the concept of Magic esports was abandoned after only three years.
===Website===
The Magic Esports website received a URL update in September 2019 from mtgesports.com to Magic.gg. .gg is actually the domain extension for Guernsy, but video game and esports websites use it, because "gg" is commonly used in multiplayer video games as an abbreviation for the phrase "good game", usually said at the end of a match. In 2022 the Magic esports name was rebranded into Magic Play, maintaining the same URL homepage. It was revamped as a site with official news about the reinstated Pro Tour.
In the week of 8th of August, 2022, two new weekly article series were introduced: the return of The Week That Was under Corbin Hosler, and Metagame Mentor, under Frank Karsten. Both were published on the magic.gg subsite.
==References==
==External links==
* Magic.gg
Category:Wizards of the Coast
Category:Competitive Magic‎