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===U.S. National Championship===
Until 1999, U.S. entrants had to win a state/district/territory competition to represent that state/district/territory at the once every four-year national championship. The 1999 U.S. National Tournament had 50 contestants—49 State Champions (Oklahoma was not represented) and the reigning national champion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 20, 1999 |title=Monopoly masters wheel and deal in national championship |url=https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/1999/oct/20/monopoly-masters-wheel-and-deal-in-national-champi/}}</ref>

Qualifying for the National Championship has been online since 2003. For the 2003 Championship, qualification was limited to the first fifty people who correctly completed an online quiz. Out of concerns that such methods of qualifying might not always ensure a competition of the best players, the 2009 Championship qualifying was expanded to include an online multiple-choice quiz (a score of 80% or better was required to advance); followed by an online five-question essay test; followed by a two-game online tournament at Pogo.com. The process was to have produced a field of 23 plus one: Matt McNally, the 2003 national champion, who received a bye and was not required to qualify. However, at the end of the online tournament, there was an eleven-way tie for the last six spots. The decision was made to invite all of those who had tied for said spots. In fact, two of those who had tied and would have otherwise been eliminated, Dale Crabtree of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Brandon Baker, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, played in the final game and finished third and fourth respectively.<ref name="Tostado, Kevin 2010">Tostado, Kevin. ''Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story''. Tostie Productions, 2010, film.</ref>

The 2009 ''Monopoly'' U.S. National Championship was held on April 14–15 in Washington, D.C. In his first tournament ever, Richard Marinaccio, an attorney from Sloan, New York (a suburb of Buffalo), prevailed over a field that included two previous champions to be crowned the 2009 U.S. National Champion. In addition to the title, Marinaccio took home $20,580—the amount of money in the bank of the board game—and competed in the 2009 World Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 21–22, where he finished in third place.<ref name="Tostado, Kevin 2010" />

In 2015, Hasbro used a competition that was held solely online to determine who would be the U.S. representative to compete at the 2015 ''Monopoly'' World Championship. Interested players took a twenty-question quiz on ''Monopoly'' strategy and rules and submitted a hundred-word essay on how to win a ''Monopoly'' tournament. Hasbro then selected Brian Valentine of Washington, D.C., to be the U.S. representative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home – 2015 U.S. Monopoly Game Quiz |url=http://www.monopolychamps.com/index.php |website=monopolychamps.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=USA Representative Chosen! – 2015 U.S. Monopoly Game Quiz |url=http://www.monopolychamps.com/winners.php |website=monopolychamps.com}}</ref>