MGE runs six stages: Training, Barbarians, Gathering, Power (construction/research), Kill, and a Final Sprint. It awards choose-your-commander legendary sculptures by rank (1st place ≈ 180 sculptures).
On old servers packed with maxed T5 spenders, an F2P without T5 should often skip the MGE kill race entirely and instead pour speedups into reaching T5 — the long-term payoff is larger. Skip the very first MGE and hoard for overlapping More-Than-Gems + Wheel-of-Fortune windows.