For 2007, Wizards of the Coast® has redesigned our successful Junior Super SeriesTM program to better meet the desires and aspirations of our younger players. This redesigned program will be called the Magic: the Gathering® Scholarship Series.
The format remains the same: Standard Constructed, the most popular Magic format. We still award $1,000 USD in college scholarships at each Scholarship Series event we run. We still invite winners to the Scholarship Series Championship, which awards $100,000 USD in scholarship prizes. We still give out great product prizes and run the events at stores throughout the United States and Canada. But instead of the age cap being 15 as it was under the JSS program, it has been raised to 18. Now all college-bound Magic players ages 18 and under can participate to win scholarships to college.
There are other cool new prizes as well: pens, deluxe school portfolios and satchels so you can go to class in style. The Scholarship Series will set you up for your school needs now, and help you prepare for your higher education in the future.
The 2007 Scholarship Series Winter Season starts in January, 2007. Each event offers college scholarships to both first and second place, plus a foil promotional card for all participants (while supplies last).
The 2007 Scholarship Series Spring Season starts March 11. First- and second-place finishers win scholarships, plus each participant will receive one new foil promotional card (while supplies last).
The No-Qual policy will reset for the Spring Season, so players can win scholarship money in both seasons.
The Scholarship Series is open to Amateur players age 18 and under, who have not won a scholarship by finishing first or second in a Series in the current season.
A detailed fact sheet and locations of events will be posted later in November.
In addition, for all of the people over in the UK, the information on the 2006-2007 JSS circuit has been posted over on www.Magicthegathering.com. You can read about it here.
I am glad they have changed it, but I turn 19 in november! They should give everybody who COULD have participated if this was the way it always was 3 years to still compete, no matter what the age. I could still use that scholarship!
Worst timing ever. I don't start magic until I'm almost 16, not competitive really for at least a year. So I miss out on JSS, then the month after I turn 19, they start the new JSS program with 18 and under...wtf.
Where is it at in the US. are there individual places like regionals and states, or is it in just one place? it so, where because i'd like to participate?
sw00t. now i get more years (this would've been my last) and i also get to beat people older than me. the only problem i see is that a decent amount of people i play with are over 16 so i have to see them more than once a week. SrDude if you read this that means Kelley Prestridge every weekend of the season. Bad beats.
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Why don't the people here who are 19 stop complaining? Think of the littluns who are now having to compete in a circuit made solely for them with people who are twice their age!! but being 15, I like this...gets me 3 years more eligibility!
sw00t. now i get more years (this would've been my last) and i also get to beat people older than me. the only problem i see is that a decent amount of people i play with are over 16 so i have to see them more than once a week. SrDude if you read this that means Kelley Prestridge every weekend of the season. Bad beats.
Damnit. Like, why? just why? I mean I could understand raising the age to 16, but 18? This is ridiculous and terrible news. I don't really think 60-70 man JSS's will be fun. Oh well, at least there's more challenge in it now.
I despise this so much I can barely put it into words. As a 16 year old, I can honestly say that I would take no pride in beating a bunch of 10-11 year old kids. I also know for sure that if I were 10-11 and wanted to play in a JSS, it would be quite a damper if everyone there 16-17 year olds that take the game way too seriously and crush you every time. At that age, it's time to move on and play against people with your own intelligence, not beat up a bunch of prepubescent kids that just want to have fun. Sure it looks good to us since we're all in the age group "benefitting" from this, but it really hurts the younger group of players that might be the future of the game. I just see no reason for them to make this change at all, and it sickens me that douchebag 15-17 year olds are going to take the opportunity to smash a bunch of 10 year olds, and probably rip them off in trades also, since that's the kind of crap they probably do.
Why don't the people here who are 19 stop complaining? Think of the littluns who are now having to compete in a circuit made solely for them with people who are twice their age!! but being 15, I like this...gets me 3 years more eligibility!
Also think of us old people who were disqualified from JSS before they even thought about starting it.
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In addition, for all of the people over in the UK, the information on the 2006-2007 JSS circuit has been posted over on www.Magicthegathering.com. You can read about it here.
This makes me very happy indeed, as I enjoy free scholarship money. Thank you, WotC, for doing this so soon.
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Wait. That just sounds bad...
Seriously though, I'll be 18 for both seasons, and you can bet I'll be competing. See you in Maryland, chumps!
I thought my JSS days were over.
Damnit. Like, why? just why? I mean I could understand raising the age to 16, but 18? This is ridiculous and terrible news. I don't really think 60-70 man JSS's will be fun. Oh well, at least there's more challenge in it now.
Also think of us old people who were disqualified from JSS before they even thought about starting it.
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