After starting his career covering college football and basketball for ESPN.com, Greg Collins found a way to merge his love of sports and games into one job. He's been in charge of Magic event coverage since 2004.

Editor's Note: This article was updated to reflect the addition of the Nationals tournaments that Wizards is providing video coverage for.

It was just over one year ago that Wizards of the Coast announced our exclusive streaming partnership with Twitch. For the first eleven months of 2017, more than 4.5 million people have watched the twitch.tv/magic channel, viewing more than 380 million minutes of content. We've been thrilled with both the amount of content we're able to provide and the exceptional growth in the audience thanks to the partnership, and that excitement has only grown as we unveil our streaming plans for 2018.

One of the major lessons that our 2017 schedule taught us was how important it is to spend a majority of available weekends streaming live content from Pro Tours, Grand Prix, and the like. We've applied that approach to next year as well, featuring live streams from:

Four Pro Tours;

Magic World Championship and Team Series Championship;

World Magic Cup;

35 Grand Prix (including four double-GP weekends);

Magic Online Championship; and

National Championships (to be determined).

That schedule amounts to live video coverage streamed on twitch.tv/magic on at least 38 weekends in 2018, for a total of nearly 1,000 hours of live content. So break out those calendars to mark down these streaming weekends:

Jan. 6–7: Grand Prix Santa Clara

Jan. 20–21: Grand Prix Indianapolis

Jan. 27–28: Grand Prix London

Feb. 3–5: Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan in Bilbao, Spain

Feb. 10–11: Grand Prix Toronto

Feb. 17–18: Grand Prix Lyon

Feb. 24–25: Grand Prix Memphis

March 2–4: Magic Online Championship in Renton, Washington

March 10–11: Grand Prix Madrid

March 17–18: Grand Prix Phoenix

April 6–8: Grand Prix Seattle (double-GP weekend)

April 14–15: Grand Prix Memphis

April 28–29: Grand Prix Bologna

May 5–6: Grand Prix Dallas

May 11–13: Grand Prix Birmingham (double-GP weekend)

May 26–27: Grand Prix Washington, DC

June 1–3: Pro Tour Dominaria in Richmond, Virginia

June 9–10: Grand Prix Copenhagen

June 15–17: Grand Prix Las Vegas (double-GP weekend)

June 23–24: Grand Prix Pittsburgh

June 30–July 1: U.S. Nationals

July 7–8: Grand Prix São Paulo

July 21–22: Grand Prix Sacramento

July 28–29: Grand Prix Minneapolis

Aug. 3–5: Pro Tour 25th Anniversary in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Aug. 11–12: Grand Prix Brussels

Aug. 18–19: Grand Prix Los Angeles

Aug. 25–26: Grand Prix Prague

Aug. 31–Sept. 2: Grand Prix Richmond (double-GP weekend)

Sept. 8–9: Grand Prix Detroit

Sept. 8–9: Japan Nationals (timeshifted coverage)

Sept. 15–16: Grand Prix Stockholm

Weekend of Sept. 23–24: 2018 Magic World Championship and Team Series Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada (exact event dates TBD)

Oct. 6–7: Grand Prix Montreal

Oct. 27–28: Grand Prix Lille

Nov. 3–4: Grand Prix Atlanta

Nov. 9–11: Pro Tour "Spaghetti" in Atlanta

Nov. 17–18: Grand Prix Milwaukee

Dec. 8–9: Grand Prix Liverpool

Dec. 14–16: World Magic Cup in Barcelona, Spain

Over the past year, we experimented with running live video streams at two Grand Prix on the same weekend. For 2018, the streaming schedule will instead focus on just one location on a given weekend. This will increase the frequency with which our Twitch channel is streaming content and allow us to tell the complete story from each event we stream.

That includes four three-day Grand Prix streams from Seattle, Birmingham, Las Vegas, and Richmond. Those three-day streams will feature Day One and Day Two of the first Grand Prix, and then Day Two of the second Grand Prix of each weekend. Grand Prix not listed above will receive text and social media coverage.

Next year also features the debut of a coverage approach at the GP level that combines Wizards' video production team with the video team at ChannelFireball Events, led by new global coverage manager Rich Hagon. We're looking to take the best parts of each crew to deliver a consistent coverage package at all Grand Prix.

I want to thank everyone who has made 2017 a great year for coverage. You've tuned in around the world in record numbers to see some of the most memorable moments in Magic's great history. You've also provided great feedback over social media to help us make coverage better week in and week out. I couldn't be more excited for what we have in store for 2018!