2021–22 Rivals League

The 2021–22 Rivals League is the Rivals League played in the 2021–22 Players Tour Season. It is the third and final season to feature a Rivals League. 
==Final season==
In May 2021, Magic Esports announced a return to in-person play post COVID-19 for the 2022–23 Players Tour Season. Although digital play was considered to be a remaining feature it is supposed to be only part of the equation going forward. As a result, the 2021–22 Players Tour Season is the last season featuring the MPL and the Rivals League. Players are competing for another League season. Instead, they are competing for a place in the 2022 World Championship.
The existing Split Championship structure remained in place, but Wizards of the Coast increased the prize pool and updated the prize structure compared to the Strixhaven Championship. Set Championships feature prize pools of $450,000 per event, over three events. On the other hand, League Weekends and the Gauntlets are not run in 2021–2022. This actually means that the players will be paid what they are due, but that the required playing is vastly reduced.
World Championship Qualifying Points (WCQPs) are earned directly from performance in Championship events. Each match point earned in Championship event is a WCQP, with four (4) additional points awarded to the two Top 8 players that lose out in the playoff and finish outside of the Top 6 in each Championship.
Players that earn invitation through a Top 6 finish in a Championship do not create passdown invitations by finishing in the Top 6 in multiple events, and do not factor into at-large invitations based on WQCPs. Any player with multiple qualifications for the World Championship creates an at-large invitation—and if no player secures multiple qualifications, then there will be no at-large invitations.
==Roster==
The 2021-2022 Magic Rivals League was announced to consist of 48 players: 
* MPL players ranked 17th through 24th — the bottom 8 — from final standings for the 2020–2021 season.
* Rivals League players ranked 33rd through 36th — 4 players below the Rivals Gauntlet cutoff and above Challenger relegation cutoff — from final standings for the 2020–2021 season.
* The remaining 16 players at the end of the MPL Gauntlet.
* The remaining 20 players at the end of the Rivals Gauntlet.
As Chris Kvartek had to decline because he had accepted a job at Wizards of the Coast, the thirteenth-place player of the Challenger Gauntlet, Tomáš Pokorný was next in line. The same occurred for William Jensen and fourteenth-place Piotr Wiktorzak.
Nat.	Name 	Qualification 	INN WCPs	NEO WCPs	SNC WCPs	Total	Result 	Rank
 	Carlos Romão 	MPL 2020-21, 17th place 	27 	9 	3 	39 	 	40
 	Andrea Mengucci 	MPL 2020-21, 18th place 	21 	6 	9 	36 	 	43
 	Autumn Burchett 	MPL 2020-21, 19th place 	27 	6 	27 	60 	 	24
 	Shahar Shenhar 	MPL 2020-21, 20th place 	33 	9 	9 	51 	 	35
 	Brian Braun-Duin 	MPL 2020-21, 21st place 	21 	9 	6 	36 	 	44
 	Piotr Głogowski 	MPL 2020-21, 22nd place 	30 	27 	24 	81 	 	12
 	Chris Kvartek 	MPL 2020-21, 23rd place 	- 	- 	- 	- 	Declined as new member of WotC 	-
 	Raphaël Lévy 	MPL 2020-21, 24th place 	21 	27 	9 	57 	 	28
 	Simon Görtzen 	Rivals League 2020-21, 33rd place	33 	27 	27 	87 	Qualified for Worlds at the Innistrad Championship. 	6
 	Frederico Bastos 	Rivals League 2020-21, 34th place	0 	9 	27 	36 	 	42
 	Eli Loveman 	Rivals League 2020-21, 35th place	24 	27 	24 	75 	 	18
 	Brent Vos 	Rivals League 2020-21, 36th place	9 	40 	6 	55 	 	32
 	Martin Jůza 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	9 	6 	42 	 	36
 	Reid Duke 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	30 	30 	30 	90 	Qualified for Worlds based on League standing. 	4
 	Márcio Carvalho 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	30 	27 	27 	84 	 	10
 	Bernardo Santos 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	18 	6 	9 	33 	 	45
 	Alexander Hayne 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	6 	9 	42 	 	37
 	Ma Noah 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	21 	30 	27 	78 	 	14
 	Brad Nelson 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	24 	6 	54 	 	34
 	William Jensen 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	- 	- 	27 	Withdrew as new member of WotC after the Innistrad Championship.	47
 	Luis Scott-Vargas 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	30 	21 	30 	81 	 	11
 	Luis Salvatto 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	9 	27 	21 	57 	 	29
 	Grzegorz Kowalski 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	27 	27 	81 	 	13
 	Corey Burkhart 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	6 	9 	15 	30 	 	46
 	Austin Bursavich 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	27 	30 	84 	 	9
 	Thoralf Severin 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	6 	9 	39 	 	41
 	Mike Sigrist 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	0 	24 	40 	64 	Qualified for Worlds at the New Capenna Championship 	21
 	Zachary Kiihne 	MPL Gauntlet 2020-21 	36 	24 	40 	100 	Qualified for Worlds at the Innistrad Championship 	2
 	Logan Nettles 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	33 	30 	24 	87 	Qualified for Worlds based on League standing. 	5
 	Joao Moreira 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	21 	27 	75 	 	17
 	Andrew Cuneo 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	9 	9 	24 	42 	 	38
 	Ken Yukuhiro 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	18 	18 	63 	 	23
 	Sam Rolph 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	33 	9 	33 	75 	 	15
 	Jakub Tóth 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	30 	24 	30 	84 	Qualified for Worlds based on League standing. 	8
 	Ivan Floch 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	21 	24 	9 	57 	 	30
 	Christian Hauck 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	43 	6 	9 	58 	 	26
 	Matthieu Avignon 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	21 	27 	72 	 	19
 	Miguel da Cruz Simões	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	30 	0 	57 	 	27
 	Kenta Harane 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	30 	21 	75 	 	16
 	Shota Yasooka 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	33 	33 	37 	103 	Qualified for Worlds based on League standing. 	1
 	Shintaro Ishimura 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	30 	30 	6 	66 	 	20
 	Théo Moutier 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	9 	24 	15 	57 	 	31
 	Sebastian Pozzo 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	24 	9 	60 	 	25
 	Kenji Egashira 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	9 	0 	9 	18 	 	49
 	Matti Kuisma 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	27 	33 	84 	Qualified for Worlds based on League standing. 	7
 	David Inglis 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	33 	36 	93 	Qualified for Worlds at the New Capenna Championship 	3
 	Ian Birrell 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	24 	9 	30 	63 	 	22
 	Louis-Samuel Deltour 	Rivals Gauntlet 2020-21 	27 	27 	0 	54 	 	33
 	Tomáš Pokorný 	13th Place, Challenger Gauntlet 	9 	9 	24 	42 	 	39
 	Piotr Wiktorzak 	14th Place, Challenger Gauntlet 	9 	9 	9 	27 	Replaced William Jensen after the Innistrad Championship 	48
====Notes====
: Removed from the official overall leaderboard because of their qualification for Worlds.
==See also==
* 2021–22 Magic Pro League
==References==
Category:MPLCategory:2021Category:2022