Pro Tour Team Series

The Magic Pro Tour Team Series was a professional event series that started with the 2017–18 Pro Tour season, though there was a soft launch starting at Pro Tour Aether Revolt. Announced on August 2, 2016, the series emphasized the team aspect of Pro Tours. Formerly, teams were unofficial, and players frequently joined and left the major teams that collaborated; the Magic Pro Tour Team Series made teams an official part of the Pro Tour. The Pro Tour Team Series was terminated in 2019, when Magic Esports were introduced with the Magic Pro League and Mythic Championships on MTG Arena. 
==Format==
Teams consisted of six players each, including a designated team captain; these teams were registered prior to the first Pro Tour of the season that counts towards the Team Series. The only requirement for being a member of a team was being qualified for that Pro Tour. Once players were registered on a team, they would belong to that team until the end of that Pro Tour season unless player were substituted, or their team had disbanded. Players could only be a member of one team (including disbanded teams) in a single season.
Players earned points for their team by winning Pro Points at Pro Tours. For the first, second, and third Pro Tour in that season, the top five members' Pro Points were added to the team score. The top 8 teams (top 4 for the 2016–17 season due to it being a soft launch, top 16 for the 2017–18 season due to the special format of Pro Tour 25th Anniversary) after the third Pro Tour received invitations and travel awards to the season's last Pro Tour, where all members of those teams earned Pro Points that were added to the team score.
In the 2018–19 season, teams could replace any member with the approval of involved players, the captain, and WotC. Points earned by the replaced member, as well as those earned by the new member previously in the season, were excluded from team scores. Teams could also disband if the majority of players, including their captain, decided to do so. Disbanding a team was the equivalent of withdrawal from the Team Series for that season, and members of that team were not allowed to join new teams for the remainder of the season.
The top 2 teams after the season's conclusion were invited to compete in a team playoff at the following World Championship, where the winning team was crowned the Team World Champion.
Following each season, the members of the top 8 teams of that season each received invitations and airfare to the first Pro Tour of the following season.
==Prizes==
The prize purse of in excess of $200,000 was distributed as follows between the top four teams after the Pro Season's conclusion:
Place	Payout (per player)
1 	$17,000
2 	$8,500
3–4 	$4,000
Total	$201,000
Additionally, all members of the Top 8 teams received invitations and travel awards to the first Pro Tour of the next season, regardless of whether they remained on the same team.
Note that for the 2016–17 season's Team Series, being the soft launch of the program, the total prize purse was $50,400.
==Seasons==
List of teams and team members in the 2016–17 Team Series	 	
{|class="wikitable" width="100%" 	Team name 	Team members
Almost Finnished 	Anssi Alkio, Lauri Pispa, Tuomas Tuominen, Matti Kuisma, Leo Lahonen, Samuel Tharmaratnam 	
Basic 	Craig Chapman, Sam-Luca Rolph, Pip Griffiths, Jaime Archdekan, Matthew Stein, Pete Ward 	
Cardhoarder 	Noah Walker, Andrew Tenjum, Jacob Baugh, Joe Lossett, Robert Graves, Zachary Kiihne 	
ChannelFireball Fire 	Patrick Cox, Josh Utter-Leyton, Martin Jůza, Andrew Baeckstrom, Matt Nass, Corey Burkhart, (Paul Cheon) 	
ChannelFireball Ice 	Eric Froehlich, Joel Larsson, Mike Sigrist, Ben Stark, Ondřej Stráský, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa 	
Conflagreece 	Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Bill Chronopoulos, Dimitris Triantafillou, Petros Tziotis, Makis Matsoukas, Nikolaos Kaponis 	
D3 GO! 	Ben Rubin, Tom Martell, Matt Costa, Jelger Wiegersma, Shahar Shenhar, Brock Parker 	
Dave & Adam's 	Alex Bianchi, Andrew Skorik, Nick D'Ambrose, Joey Manner, Jacky Wang, Alex Bastecki 	
Dex Army 	Willy Edel, Marcio Carvalho, Carlos Romão, Thiago Saporito, Luis Salvatto, Antonio Del Moral Leon 	
Dexthird 	Felipe Valdivia, Patrick Fernandes, Cristian Cespedes, Jose Luis Echeverria Paredes, João Lucas Caparroz, Lucas Esper Berthoud	
Eureka 	Immanuel Gerschenson, Valentin Mackl, Patrick Dickmann, Steve Hatto, Aleksa Telarov, Marc Tobiasch 	
Face to Face Games 	Ivan Floch, Alexander Hayne, Sam Pardee, Steve Rubin, Oliver Tiu, Jacob Wilson 	
Fire Squad 	Thien Nguyen, Nathaniel Smith, David Shiels, Ben Hull, Brandon Ayers, Jonathan Morawski 	
Genesis 	Brad Nelson, Lukas Blohon, Seth Manfield, Martin Dang, Martin Müller, Thomas Hendriks, (Michael Majors) 	
Hareruya 	Tomoharu Saito, Shuhei Nakamura, Yuuta Takahashi, Jérémy Dezani, Oliver Polak-Rottmann, Petr Sochůrek 	
Hotsauce Games 	Raymond Perez, Jr., Gregory Orange, Tyler Hill, Cody Lingelbach, Gabriel Carleton-Barnes, Stephen Neal 	
Last Samurai 	Kenji Tsumura, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Masashi Oiso, Makihito Mihara, Kazuyuki Takimura, Ryoichi Tamada 	
Ligamagic 	Pedro Carvalho, Eduardo dos Santos Vieira, Sebastian Pozzo, Guilherme Merjam, Marcelino Freeman, Marcos Paulo de Jesus Freitas	
Lingering Souls 	Shaheen Soorani, Chris Fennell, Travis Woo, Andreas Ganz, Ashraf Abou Omar, Donald Smith 	
Magic Corsairs Crew 	Eliott Boussaud, Maxime Martin, Julien Stihle, Samuel Vuillot, Pierre Sommen, Martin Hrycej 	
Massdrop: East 	Pascal Maynard, Jarvis Yu, Ricky Chin, Timothy Wu, Eric Severson, Jon Stern 	
Massdrop: West 	Mark Jacobson, Paul Dean, Jiachen Tao, Ari Lax, Scott Lipp, Ben Weitz 	
Max Box Bowl 	Ben Friedman, Alex Majlaton, Eugene Hwang, Rob Pisano, Brandon Fischer, Paul Yeem 	
MTG Bent Card 	Andrea Mengucci, Anthony Lee, Javier Dominguez, Christian Calcano, Michael Bonde, Corey Baumeister 	
MTG Mint Card 	Lee Shi Tian, Jason Chung, Hao-Shan Huang, Kelvin Chew, Eduardo Sajgalik, Sungwook Nam 	
Musashi 	Kentaro Yamamoto, Yuuya Watanabe, Ken Yukuhiro, Yuuki Ichikawa, Teruya Kakumae, Shota Yasooka 	
Mutiny 	David Ochoa, Joshua Cho, Gerry Thompson, Justin Cohen, Matt Severa, Sam Black 	
Norcal 	Jason Smyth, Mike Mei, Huaxing Bai, Harold Chow, Caleb Van Patten, Dan Besterman 	
Opportunity 	Pierre Dagen, Gabriel Nassif, Magnus Lantto, Matteo Moure, Marco Cammilluzzi, Grzegorz Kowalski 	
Puzzle Quest 	Reid Duke, Owen Turtenwald, William Jensen, Jon Finkel, Andrew Cuneo, Paul Rietzl 	
Tapas 	Ryan Cubit, David Mines, James Wilks, Garry Lau, Riccardo Bragato, Matthew Anderson 	
Top Level 	Raphaël Lévy, Patrick Chapin, Dan Lanthier, Brian Braun-Duin, Craig Wescoe, Mike Hron 	
List of teams and team members in the 2017–18 Team Series	 	
{|class="wikitable" width="100%" 	Team name 	Team members
Blitz 	Nathan Basser, Raphael Coors, Karl Eyre, Micheal Maurici, Jarron Puszet, Joe Soh 	
Cardhoarder 	Bobby Graves, Jack Kiefer, Devin Koepke, Joe Lossett, Shaheen Soorani, Noah Walker 	
Cardhoarder Brazil 	Willy Edel, Guilherme Merjam, Jonathan Melamed, Bernardo Santos, Marcos Paulo de Jesus Freitas, Eduardo dos Santos Vieira 	
Cardmarket 	Robin Dolar, Jasper Grimmer, Martin Hrycej, Arne Huschenbeth, Leon Van Der Linden, Pascal Vieren 	
Catharsis 	Pierre Dagen, Niels Molle, Niels Noorlander, Oliver Polak-Rottmann, Marc Tobiasch, Peter Vieren 	
ChannelFireball 	Mike Sigrist, Ben Stark, Josh Utter-Leyton, Martin Jůza, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, Luis Scott-Vargas 	
Child's Play 	Gerard Fabiano, Anthony Lee, David Mines, Simon Nielsen, Samuel Tharmaratnam, Zen Takahashi 	
Cloudpost Crew 	Jean-Francois Beti, Tzu-Mainn Chen, Slater Claudel, Benjamin Coursey, Ryan Schumacher, Christian Trudel 	
Connected Company 	Christian Calcano, Jérémy Dezani, Javier Dominguez, Raphaël Lévy, Andrea Mengucci, Tomoharu Saito 	
Dave & Adam's 	Ralph Batesh, Evan Esposito, Ryan Hare, Joey Manner, Jeff Pyka, Adam Ragsdale 	
Eureka 	Patrick Dickmann, Immanuel Gerschenson, Steve Hatto, Valentin Mackl, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Aleksa Telarov 	
Face to Face Games 	Eric Froehlich, Corey Burkhart, David Williams, Rich Hoaen, Gabriel Nassif, Ben Rubin 	
Final Last Samurai 	Tsuyoshi Fujita, Yuuta Hirosawa, Yuki Matsumoto, Makihito Mihara, Ryoichi Tamada, Kenji Tsumura 	
First Strike 	Robert Anderson, Daniel Fournier, Mathew Kelly, Dean McLaren, Doug Potter, Vidianto Wijaya 	
Genesis 	Corey Baumeister, Lukas Blohon, Brian Braun-Duin, Seth Manfield, Martin Müller, Brad Nelson 	
Hareruya Latin 	Lucas Berthoud, Marcio Carvalho, Sebastian Pozzo, Carlos Romão, Luis Salvatto, Thiago Saporito 	
Hotsauce Games 	Tyler Hill, Ben Hull, Adam Jansen, Stephen Neal, Gregory Orange, Andrejs Prost 	
Kusemono 	Kazuaki Fujimura, Riku Kumagai, Toru Inoue, Shuhei Nakamura, Kazuyuki Takimura, Yuuta Takahashi 	
La Perla Nera 	Federico del Basso, Marco Cammilluzzi, Carmine D'Aniello, Carlos Alexandre dos Santos Esteves, Alessandro Lippi, Matteo Moure	
Lingering Souls 	Daniel Cathro, Andreas Ganz, Michael Hinderaker, David Irvine, Anand Khare, Alex Sittner 	
Magic Corsairs Crew 	Alexandre Aurejac, Eliott Boussaud, Alexandre Habert, Guillaume Perbet, Florian Trotte, Samuel Vuillot 	
ManaTraders 	Andrew Baeckstrom, Ricky Chin, Patrick Cox, Alex Majlaton, David Ochoa, Gaudenis Vidugiris 	
Massdrop East 	Thomas Ashton, Mark Jacobson, Ari Lax, Scott Lipp, Timothy Wu, Jarvis Yu 	
Massdrop West 	Pascal Maynard, Shaun McLaren, Rob Pisano, Eric Severson, Jon Stern, Ben Weitz 	
MetaGame Gurus Moon 	Brandon Ayers, Mattia Rizzi, John Rolf, Nathaniel Smith, Jacob Wilson, Shahar Shenhar 	
MetaGame Gurus Sun 	Joshua Cho, Ben Friedman, Ondřej Stráský, Matt Severa, Gerry Thompson, Oliver Tiu 	
MTG Mint Card 	Kelvin Chew, Jason Chung, Hao-Shan Huang, Lee Shi Tian, Eduardo Sajgalik, Wing Chun Yam 	
MTGSheep 	Bolun Zhang, Yuchen Liu, Qi Wentao, Sun Chuan, Yao Zile, Yi Ding 	
Musashi 	Kentaro Yamamoto, Yuuya Watanabe, Ken Yukuhiro, Yuuki Ichikawa, Teruya Kakumae, Shota Yasooka 	
Phoenix: 404 	Torsten Anders, Joshua Bausch, Christian Hauck, Florian Koch, Benjamin Luft, Michael Steinecke 	
Revelation 	Martin Dang, Paul Dean, Thomas Hendriks, Christoffer Enggaard Larsen, Joel Larsson, Petr Sochůrek 	
Snapcardster 	Michael Bonde, Bill Chronopoulos, Ryan Cubit, Vitor Grassato, Grzegorz Kowalski, Makis Matsoukas 	
Sourcery 	Luke Feeney, Ethan Gaieski, Zack Kanner, Evan Petre, Ray Tautic, Oliver Tomajko 	
The Comic Book Store 	Michael Cochran, William Craddock, Jonathan Morawski, Jacob Nagro, Collin Rountree, Jonathan Sukenik 	
Tower Games 	Jackson Hicks, Samuel Ihlenfeldt, Alex Johnson, Matt Sikkink Johnson, Scott Markeson, Dan Wesier 	
Ultimate Guard 	Reid Duke, Owen Turtenwald, William Jensen, Jon Finkel, Andrew Cuneo, Paul Rietzl 	
Ultra PRO 	Sam Black, Ivan Floch, Alexander Hayne, Matt Nass, Sam Pardee, Steve Rubin 	
List of teams and team members in the 2018–19 Team Series	 	
{|class="wikitable" width="100%" 	Team name 	Team members
Axion Now 	Jelco Bodewes, Autumn Burchett, George Channing, Joao Choca, Francesco Giorgio, Jamin Kauf 	
Baguette 	Julien Berteaux, Davy Loeb, Guillaume Matignon, Antoine Ruel, Florian Trotte, Guillaume Wafo-Tapa 	
Belgic Magic 	Christophe Gregoir, Branco Neirynck, Leon Van Der Linden, Thomas Van Der Paelt, Peter Vieren, Pascal Vieren 	
Bolt the Bird 	Oscar Christensen, Matti Kuisma, Leo Lahonen, Roope Metsa, Kasper Nielsen, Karl Sarap 	
Cardboard Live 	Andrew Elenbogen, Marcus Luong, Maxwell Mick, Rob Pisano, Vidianto Wijaya, Bradley Yoo 	
Cardhoarder Mentoring 	Drew Helbig, Douglas Romani, Hamish Seymour, Daniel Troha, Daniel Vega, Nick Waugh 	
ChannelFireball 	Mike Sigrist, Ben Stark, Josh Utter-Leyton, Martin Jůza, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, Luis Scott-Vargas 	
Eureka 	Immanuel Gerschenson, Piotr Głogowski, Radek Kaczmarczyk, Elias Klocker, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Aleksa Telarov 	
FacetoFaceGames.com 	Peter Ingram, Eli Kassis, Edgar Magalhaes, Morgan McLaughlin, Gabriel Nassif, Shaheen Soorani 	
Final Last Samurai 	Atsuki Kihara, Yuki Matsumoto, Makihito Mihara, Takuma Morofuji, Kazutaka Naide, Ryoichi Tamada 	
GeekGear 	Dani Anderson, Gary Campbell, Kyle Cooper, Lauge De-place, Alexander Gordon-Brown, Luke Southworth 	
GOAT 	Matt Brown, Joe Demestrio, Ethan Gaieski, Kevin Jones, Makis Matsoukas, Sam Rolph 	
Good Luck High Five 	Dirk Baberowski, Kai Budde, Patrick Cox, Gerard Fabiano, Craig Wescoe, Jelger Wiegersma 	
Greater Good 	Sam Black, Eric Froehlich, Quinn Kiefer, Steve Rubin, Ben Yu, David Williams 	
Grey Ogre Games 	Thirawat Chaovarindr, Tay Jun Hao, Ernest Lim, Christian Wijaya, Wing Chun Yam, Lim Zhong Yi 	
Hareruya Axe 	Christian Calcano, Jason Chung, Raphaël Lévy, Tomoharu Saito, Petr Sochůrek, Kenji Tsumura 	
Hareruya Latin 	Lucas Berthoud, Marcio Carvalho, Sebastian Pozzo, Carlos Romão, Luis Salvatto, Thiago Saporito 	
Hareruya North America 	Brandon Ayers, Ben Hull, Jacob Nagro, Gregory Orange, John Rolf, Allen Wu 	
Hareruya Sword 	Kelvin Chew, Jérémy Dezani, Javier Dominguez, Grzegorz Kowalski, Andrea Mengucci, Lee Shi Tian 	
KMC-Genesis 	Corey Baumeister, Brian Braun-Duin, Seth Manfield, Brad Nelson, Logan Nettles, Shahar Shenhar 	
Kusemono 	Rei Sato, Ryuji Murae, Toru Inoue, Shuhei Nakamura, Kazuyuki Takimura, Yuuta Takahashi 	
Legion 	Ben Friedman, Gerry Thompson, Oliver Tiu, Oliver Tomajko, Noah Walker, Jacob Wilson 	
Magicsur 	Julio Bernabe, Jose Luis Echeverria Paredes, Marcelino Freeman, Guilherme Merjam, Luis Navas, Ignacio Parot 	
Massdrop 	Mark Jacobson, Jack Kiefer, Pascal Maynard, Jon Stern, Ben Weitz, Timothy Wu 	
MTG Manager 	Dmitriy Butakov, Antonio Del Moral León, Louis Deltour, Gonçalo Pinto, Bernardo Santos, Francisco Sifuentes 	
MTGSheep 	Yeh Chih-Cheng, Yuchen Liu, Zhu Yuxuan, Bolun Zhang, Zhang Zhiyang, Zhou Zirui 	
Musashi 	Kentaro Yamamoto, Yuuya Watanabe, Ken Yukuhiro, Yuuki Ichikawa, Teruya Kakumae, Shota Yasooka 	
Myst 	Hao-Shan Huang, Mak Wai Hou, Martin Hrycej, Jan Ksandr, Dominik Prosek, Zhi Yimin 	
Nerd Rage Gaming 	Joshua Collier, Lewk Faley, William Hahn, Matthew Haney, Jake Lamb, Scott Matthews 	
Omega Card Games 	Maxime Auger, Slater Claudel, Lucien Longlais, Jeff Pyka, Charles Rinehart, Richard Tan 	
Phoenix: New Dawn 	Joshua Bausch, Jasper Grimmer, Christian Hauck, Marius Heuser, Arne Huschenbeth, Thoralf Severin 	
Snapcardster X MtGMintcard 	Michael Bonde, Martin Dang, Thomas Enevoldsen, Christoffer Larsen, Martin Müller, Simon Nielsen 	
Spanish Masters 	Alvaro Fernandez Torres, Sergio Ferrer Rozalen, Antonio Martos Donaire, Cristian Ortiz Ros, Adrian Ramiro, Francisco Sanchez	
Team RIW 	Zach Allen, Corey Burkhart, Tyler Hill, Ari Lax, Max McVety, Stuart Parnes 	
The Comic Book Store 	Hunter Cochran, Wyatt Darby, Alexander Hayne, Mattia Rizzi, Ondřej Stráský, and Jonathan Sukenik 	
Tower Games 	Sam Beaulieu, Samuel Ihlenfeldt, Gregory Michel, Matt Sikkink Johnson, Matt Stankey, Daniel Weiser 	
Ultimate Guard Pro Team 	Reid Duke, Owen Turtenwald, William Jensen, Jon Finkel, Andrew Cuneo, Paul Rietzl 	
Ultra PRO 	Thomas Hendriks, Ivan Floch, Andrew Baeckstrom, Matt Nass, Sam Pardee, Matt Severa 	
Waaagh Taverne Paris 	Eliott Boussaud, Pierre Dagen, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, Remi Fortier, Théau Mery, Julien Stihle 	
==Winners==
Season 	Team 	Players
2016–17	Musashi 	Kentaro Yamamoto
2016–17	Musashi 	Yuuya Watanabe
2016–17	Musashi 	Ken Yukuhiro
2016–17	Musashi 	Yuuki Ichikawa
2016–17	Musashi 	Teruya Kakumae
2016–17	Musashi 	Shōta Yasooka
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	Reid Duke
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	Owen Turtenwald
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	William Jensen
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	Jon Finkel
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	Andrew Cuneo
2017–18	Ultimate Guard	Paul Rietzl
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Kelvin Chew
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Jérémy Dezani
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Javier Dominguez
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Grzegorz Kowalski
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Andrea Mengucci
2018–19	Hareruya Sword	Lee Shi Tian
==Notes==
: ChannelFireball Fire replaced Paul Cheon, who was later employed by WotC (thus losing right to play in Premier Events), with Andrew Baeckstrom after Pro Tour Amonkhet. However, all points earned by Cheon up to that PT would still count.
: Genesis replaced Michael Majors, who was later employed by WotC (thus losing right to play in Premier Events), with Thomas Hendriks after Pro Tour Amonkhet. However, all points earned by Majors up to that PT would still count.
: Travis Woo was originally the sixth member of MetaGame Gurus Moon, but following a controversy, Team MGG announced on Twitter that they had separated ways. Shahar Shenhar was later announced as his replacement.
==References==
Team Series