Mythic Championship V
| Mythic Championship V | ||||
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| Date | October 18-20, 2019 | |||
| Location |
 Long Beach, California, United States | |||
| Attendance | 68 | |||
| Format | Traditional Standard Best-of-Three Constructed | |||
| Prize pool | $750,000 | |||
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Mythic Championship V was the second Mythic Championship to be played on MTG Arena in 2019. It takes place on October 18-20, 2019 at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California, United States.[1]
Contestants
The tournament was made up of 32 members of the MPL and 36 Challengers. Magic MPL Core Split Division winners Seth Manfield, Carlos Romão, Ben Stark and Lee Shi Tian earned automatic advancement to Day Two.
Challengers
As the second Arena Championship, the invites followed a similar trend to the previous, but with a slight variation. Rather than the previous Pro Tour winners, the four highest placing Challengers were selected - winner Matias Leveratto, Top 4 player Kai Budde, finally Gregory Orange and Raphael Levy. Following some community concern, the top 16 of the MCQW were effectively expanded to top 18, encompassing the last two players with identical primary tiebreakers. Included in the qualifiers were long time players Oliver Tiu, Ondřej Stráský, Pro Tour Champion Stanislav Cifka, Constructed Master Sebastian Pozzo, and Mythic Championship London Top 8 competitor Chris Kvartek. Big community names invited include Gabriel Nassif, Caleb Durwood, Kenji Egashira, Gaby Spartz, Yuuki Ichikawa and David Williams; and various smaller names round out the other fourteen invitations.
Format
The format across all three days is Traditional Standard Best-of-Three Constructed.
Day One
Players battled it out in Modified Swiss in up to eight rounds. Players who earned six wins automatically advanced to Day Two. Players who lost four matches were eliminated.
The players to qualify on Friday were: TBA
Day Two
The Top 12 from Day One join the four Magic Pro League divisional champions from the Core Split in a seven-round Swiss event. All players who reach five match wins move on to Day 3. Additional players will round out the Top 8 for Day 3 based on their tiebreakers in Day 2.
Day Three
Eight players compete in a true double-elimination tournament. In the grand finals, the winners in the Upper Bracket and Lower Bracket will face off. The player in the Lower Bracket must win two matches to win the tournament.