Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2014–15

2014–15 Pro Tour season

World Champion	Shahar Shenhar
Pro Tours	4
Grands Prix	52
Hall of Fame inductions	Makihito Mihara Paul Rietzl Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
Start of season	9 August 2014
End of season	2 August 2015
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 Pro Tour season is the twentieth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. It starts on 9 August 2014 with Grand Prix Portland and Utrecht and will end on 2 August 2015 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Vancouver. The season will consist of 52 Grand Prix and four Pro Tours, located in Honolulu, Washington, D.C., Brussels, and Vancouver.^[1]

Mode

Four Pro Tours and fifty-one Grands Prix are to be held in the 2014–15 season. These are the events that award Pro Points, the points that are used to determine the Player of the Year Standings and Pro Club levels. Players are awarded Pro Levels for earning 20 (Silver level), 35 (Gold), and 46 points (Platinum), however only the five best Grand Prix results are counted towards seasonal point (the newly introduced "Grand Prix" inviation spot in Magic: The Gathering World Championship, however, will count every event in the season). Pro Club Levels come with certain benefits such as qualifications to subsequent Pro Tours, byes at Grand Prix, and airfare to Pro Tours. Based on the final standings of Pro Tours, Grand Prix, Worlds, and the World Magic Cup Pro Points are awarded as follows:^[2]

Rank	Pro Points awarded at
	Pro Tour	Grand Prix (individual)	Grand Prix (teams)	World Magic Cup
1	30	8	6	8
2	26	6	5	7
3–4	22	5	4	6
5–8	18	4	—	5
9–16	—	—	—	4
17–32	—	—	—	3
33+	—	—	—	2

For competitors finishing outside the final elimination stage of Grand Prix and Pro Tours points are awarded depending on their score as follows.

Points	Pro Points awarded at
	Pro Tour	Grand Prix (individual)	Grand Prix (teams)
39+	15	4	4
36–38	15	3	4
35	12	1	4
34	11	1	4
33	10	1	3
32	8	—	2
31	7	—	2
30	6	—	1
28–29	4	—	—
0–27	3	—	—

Finally players that participate in the World Championship earn one Pro Point per win in the Swiss Portion and two Pro Points per win in the single elimination stage.

On 31 October 2014, WoTC revised the pro point structure and retroactively applied the changes to all events in the current season.^[3] On 2 April 2015, WoTC further revised the threshold of Pro Players Club level, lowering the threshold required for Platinum status from 48 to 46.^[4]

On 24 April 2014, ChannelFireball, the organizer of Grand Prix Las Vegas, announced the number of pre-registered players in that Grand Prix had exceeds the 5000 threshold, and the Grand Prix main event would be split into two independent Grand Prix main events sharing same venue^[5][6]. Making the total number of Grand Prix in this season to 52 instead of original 51.

Grand Prix

GP Portland[7] (9–10 August 2014) Format: Team Limited Attendance: 1947 (649 teams) 1. Reid Duke Owen Turtenwald William Jensen 2. Eric Severson Benjamin Weitz Josiah Skallerup 3. Matt Katz Ben Yu Jameson Painter 4 Eric Froehlich Luis Scott-Vargas Paul Cheon

GP Utrecht[8] (9–10 August 2014) Format: Standard Attendance: 1518 Oliver Polak-Rottmann Eliott Boussaud Richard Webels Susanne Bornelöv Ciprian Catană Alex Stok Armel Primot Christoffer Enggaard Larsen

GP Kobe[9] (23–24 August 2014) Format: Modern Attendance: 2299 Teruya Kakumae Yuusei Gotou Shohei Mita Yuuki Akaboshi Ken Sawada Bo Sun Yuuki Ichikawa Takuya Yamada

GP Sydney[10] (23–24 August 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 813 Paul Jackson James Zhang Matthew Griffin Maitland Cameron Chris Sparks Tomoharu Saito Park Jun Young Don van Ravenzwaaij GP Shanghai[11] (4–5 October 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 1287 Yu Yin Xu Su Tamada Ryoichi Han Bing Zhang Meng Qiu Liu Yuchen Oh Joo-hyun Shuhei Nakamura

GP Salt Lake City[12] (6–7 September 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 878 Brandon Nelson Sammy Batarseh Chris Woodall Eric Froehlich Paul Rietzl Jamie Parke Nathan Holiday Shady Badran

GP Orlando[13] (4–5 October 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 2277 Eugene Hwang Melissa DeTora Sol Malka Artur Villela Pierre Mondon Harry Corvese Ian Farnung Frank Lepore

Pro Tour Khans of Tarkir

Honolulu (10–12 October 2014)

• Prize pool: $250,000
• Format: Standard, Booster Draft (Khans of Tarkir-Khans of Tarkir-Khans of Tarkir)
• Attendance: 357

Top 8

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
	1	Shaun McLaren	2
	8	Lee Shi Tian	0
						Shaun McLaren		2
						Mike Sigrist		1
	4	Mike Sigrist	2
	5	Ivan Floch	0
											Shaun McLaren		1
											Ari Lax		3
	3	Thiago Saporito	2
	6	Ondřej Stráský	1
						Thiago Saporito		1
						Ari Lax		2
	2	Ari Lax	2
	7	Yuuya Watanabe	0

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Ari Lax	$40,000	30
2	Shaun McLaren	$20,000	26	2nd final day
3	Thiago Saporito	$12,500	22
4	Mike Sigrist	$12,500	22
5	Ivan Floch	$10,000	18	2nd final day
6	Ondřej Stráský	$10,000	18
7	Yuuya Watanabe	$10,000	18	3rd final day
8	Lee Shi Tian	$10,000	18	3rd final day

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank	Player	Pro Points
1	Ari Lax	34
2	Shaun McLaren	29
3	Thiago Saporito	25
4	Mike Sigrist	22
5	Owen Turtenwald	21

Grand Prix

GP Los Angeles[14] (18–19 October 2014) Format: Standard Attendance: 1766 Daniel Scheid Denis Ulanov Eric Pei Carlo Falcis Ryoichi Tamada Brad Nelson Isaac Sears Christopher Goldsmith

GP Stockholm[15] (25–26 October 2014) Format: Standard Attendance: 1043 Matej Zatlkaj Einar Baldvinsson Thiago Rodrigues Lukas Blohon Giovanni Rosi Matteo Cirigliano Christian Seibold Alexander Pasgaard

GP Nashville[16] (1–2 November 2014) Format: Team Limited Attendance: 1392 (464 teams) 1. Matt Nass Jacob Wilson Jesse Hampton 2. Tom Martell Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Shahar Shenhar 3. David Sharfman Orrin Beasley Pat Cox 4. Sam Black Matt Severa Gaudenis Vidugiris

GP Santiago[17] (1–2 November 2014) Format: Standard Attendance: 660 Eduardo dos Santos Vieira Rodrigo Soto Nicolas de Nicola Daniel Gaete Quezada Willy Edel Pedro Carvalho Fernando Barros David Sologuren GP Ottawa[18] (22–23 November 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 1353 Seth Manfield Neal Oliver Lucas Siow Xavier Allegrucci Shahar Shenhar Sam Black Pascal Maynard Jessica Buchanan

GP Madrid[19] (15–16 November 2014) Format: Modern Attendance: 1900 Immanuel Gerschenson Till Riffert Ricardo van den Bogaard Jose Rodriguez Pozo Marcio Carvalho Kevin Grove Andrew Devine Steffen van de Veen GP Strasbourg[20] (29–30 November 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 1996 Tamás Nagy Pierre Dagen Martin Jůza Kentarou Yamamoto Oleg Plisov Max Pritsch Daan Pruijt Kees Van Montfoort

GP New Jersey[21] (15–16 November 2014) Format: Legacy Attendance: 4003 Brian Braun-Duin Tom Ross Royce Walter Philipp Schonegger Phillip Braverman Daniel Jordan Joseph Santomassino Lam Phan GP San Antonio[22] (29–30 November 2014) Format: Standard Attendance: 1182 Ryan Scullin Orry Swift Jeremy Frye Albert Ake Angel Solache Larry Li Randall Gay Gareth Aye

Magic: The Gathering World Championship

Nice (2–7 December 2014)

• Prize pool: $150,000
• Format: Vintage Masters Booster Draft, Standard, Khans of Tarkir Booster Draft, Modern
  • Vintage Masters "packs" will be generated by Magic Online exclusively for event's use.
• Attendance: 24

Top 4 playoff

	Semifinals					Finals
	1	Yuuya Watanabe	1
	4	Shahar Shenhar	3
						Shahar Shenhar		3
						Patrick Chapin		0
	2	Patrick Chapin	3
	3	Kentaro Yamamoto	0

Final standings

The following twenty-four players received an invitation to the 2014 World Championship due to their performance in the 2013–14 season. They are ordered according to the final standings of the event.

#	Player	Prize	Pro points	Qualified due to
1	Shahar Shenhar	$50,000	13	2013 World Champion
2	Patrick Chapin	$20,000	12	Pro Tour Journey into Nyx winner
3	Yuuya Watanabe	$10,000	10	Pro Point leader Japan
4	Kentarou Yamamoto	$10,000	9	8th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
5	Shaun McLaren	$5,000	9	Pro Tour Born of the Gods winner
6	Yuuki Ichikawa	$5,000	8	Pro Point runner-up Japan
7	Ivan Floch	$5,000	8	Pro Tour Magic 2015 winner
8	William Jensen	$5,000	8	Most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
9	Sam Black	$3,000	8	6th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
10	Lars Dam	$3,000	7	2013 Magic Online Champion
11	Josh Utter-Leyton	$3,000	7	3rd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
12	Paul Rietzl	$3,000	7	5th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
13	Owen Turtenwald	$3,000	7	Pro Point leader North America
14	Reid Duke	$3,000	7	Pro Point runner-up North America
15	Stanislav Cifka	$3,000	6	2nd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
16	Tom Martell	$3,000	6	4th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
17	Raphaël Lévy	$2,000	6	2013 World Magic Cup winner
18	Jérémy Dezani	$2,000	6	2013–14 Player of the Year
19	Jacob Wilson	$2,000	6	7th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
20	Willy Edel	$2,000	5	Pro Point leader Latin America
21	Nam Sung-Wook	$2,000	5	Pro Point runner-up APAC region
22	Raymond Perez Jr.	$2,000	5	2013–14 Rookie of the Year
23	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$2,000	4	Pro Point runner-up Latin America
24	Lee Shi Tian	$2,000	4	Pro Point leader APAC region

World Magic Cup

Nice (5–7 December 2014)

• Prize pool: $250,000
• Format: Team Constructed, Team Limited
• Attendance: 72 teams

Top 8

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
	1	South Korea	1
	8	Greece	2
						Greece		2
						United States		1
	4	Slovakia	0
	5	United States	2
											Greece		1
											Denmark		2
	3	Serbia	0
	6	Denmark	2
						Denmark		2
						England		1
	2	England	2
	7	Brazil	0

Final standings

Place Country Player Prize Pro Points 1 Denmark Martin Müller $12,000 8 Simon Nielsen Thomas Enevoldsen Lars Birch 2 Greece Marios Angelopoulos $6,500 7 Bill Chronopoulos Panagiotis Savvidis Socrates Rozakeas 3 England Fabrizio Anteri $4,000 6 David Inglis Francesco Giorgio Riccardo Reale 4 United States Owen Turtenwald $4,000 6 Isaac Sears Andrew Baeckstrom Neal Oliver

Place Country Player Prize Pro Points 5 South Korea Nam Sung-wook $2,000 5 Oh Joon-hyun Cho Jeong-woo Kim Sang-eun 6 Serbia Aleksa Telarov $2,000 5 Miodrag Kitanovic Boris Bajgo Milos Stajic 7 Slovakia Ivan Floch $2,000 5 Jan Tomcani Michal Guldan Matej Zatlkaj 8 Brazil Willy Edel $2,000 5 Gabriel Fehr Thiago Saporito Matheus Rosseto

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank	Player	Pro Points
1	Shaun McLaren	40
2	Owen Turtenwald	39
3	Ari Lax	38
	Ivan Floch
5	Shahar Shenhar	36

Grand Prix

GP Baltimore[23] (13–14 December 2014) Format: Limited Attendance: 1235 Gerard Fabiano David Foster Harry Bradford Ben Stark Chris Fennell Craig Wescoe Timothy Wu Josh Utter-Leyton GP Manila[24] (3–4 January 2015) Format: Standard Attendance:1410 Joseph Sclauzero Kuo Tzu-Ching Lee Shi Tian Makihito Mihara Won Dae-hoon Christian Calcano Martin Jůza Taghoy Arnulfo Jr. GP Mexico City[25] (31 January–1 February 2015) Format: Limited Attendance: 641 Pascal Maynard Mario Flores Chapman Sim Andreas Canavati Axel Martinez Juan Carlos Botis Martin Jůza Eduardo dos Santos Viera

GP Milan[26] (13–14 December 2014) Format: Modern Attendance: 1760 Magnus Lantto Niccolo Belini Piotr Glogowski Louis Deltour Miguel Gatica Eduardo Sajgalik Lucantonio Salvidio Dario Parazzoli GP Omaha[27] (10–11 January 2015) Format: Modern Attendance: 1168 Erik Peter Stephen Speck Pascal Maynard Jonathan Paton Zac Roorda Scott Lipp Andrew Elenbogen Stephen Berrios GP San Jose[28] (31 January–1 February 2015) Format: Team Limited Attendance: 1968 (656 teams) 1. Eric Froehlich Luis Scott-Vargas Paul Cheon 2. Matt Sperling David Williams Paul Rietzl 3. Ari Lax Chris Fennell Craig Wescoe 4. Robert Smith Sean Gifford Tyler Blum

GP Denver[29] (3–4 January 2015) Format: Standard Attendance: 1536 Andrew Brown Matt Sperling Sam Pardee Valentin Mackl Edward Nguyen William Jensen Paul Cheon Lukas Parsons GP Shizuoka[30] (10–11 January 2015) Format: Limited Attendance: 2236 Akito Shinoda Bo Sun Chihiro Kawada Yuuki Ichikawa Yuki Matsumoto Satoshi Yamaguchi Junichi Yabuta Shinji Nakano

Pro Tour Fate Reforged

Washington, D.C. (6–8 February 2015)

• Format: Modern, Booster Draft
• Attendance: 407

Top 8

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
	1	Eric Froehlich	1
	8	Jesse Hampton	2
						Jesse Hampton		1
						Justin Cohen		2
	4	Seth Manfield	1
	5	Justin Cohen	2
											Justin Cohen		1
											Antonio Del Moral Leon		3
	3	Jelger Wiegersma	2
	6	Jacob Wilson	1
						Jelger Wiegersma		1
						Antonio Del Moral Leon		2
	2	Antonio Del Moral Leon	2
	7	Lee Shi Tian	1

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Antonio Del Moral Leon	$40,000	30	1st Spanish player to win a Pro Tour
2	Justin Cohen	$20,000	26	Pro Tour debut
3	Jelger Wiegersma	$12,500	22	5th final day
4	Jesse Hampton	$12,500	22	2nd final day
5	Eric Froehlich	$10,000	18	4th final day
6	Seth Manfield	$10,000	18
7	Jacob Wilson	$10,000	18	2nd final day
8	Lee Shi Tian	$10,000	18	4th final day

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank	Player	Pro Points
1	Lee Shi Tian	53
2	Eric Froehlich	50
3	Owen Turtenwald	49
4	Ari Lax	48
5	Shahar Shenhar	45

Grand Prix

GP Seville[31] (14–15 February 2015) Format: Standard Attendance: 799 Immanuel Gerschenson Pierre Sommen Carlos Ballester Garcia Nicholas Merrien Martin Jůza Marcio Carvalho Marcos Cordero Valle Alexandre Habert GP Liverpool[32] (7–8 March 2015) Format: Limited Attendance: 1797 Martin Dang Nikolas Labahn Lukas Blohon Marcio Carvalho Andreas Jonsson Kenneth Ellingsen Daniel Oppliger Timothée Simonot GP Cleveland[33] (14–15 March 2015) Format: Limited Attendance: 1771 Bill Tsang Jake Mondello Gerard Fabiano Andrew Cuneo Eric Blanchet Christian Calcano Yuuya Watanabe Ross Merriam

GP Memphis[34] (21–22 February 2015) Format: Standard Attendance: 1075 Jack Fogle Ben Stark Brad Nelson Steve Rubin Patrick Crowe Chris Fennel Alex Majlaton Eric Rath GP Miami[35] (7–8 March 2015) Format: Standard Attendance: 1380 Daniel Cecchetti Corey Baumeister Chad Kastel Ralph Betesh Ryan Grodzinski Brian Lee Andy Boswell Zan Syed

GP Vancouver[36] (21–22 February 2015) Format: Modern Attendance: 1116 Dan Lanthier Robbie Schmidt Florian Koch Alexander Hayne Tom Martell Stephen Speck Jesse Moulton Daniel Ward GP Auckland[37] (14–15 March 2015) Format: Limited Attendance: 383 Teruya Kakumae Maitland Cameron Fabian Dickmann John Brugman Dylan Goldsmith Jacques van Eeden Yifan Wei Jason Chung

Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir

Brussels (10–12 April 2015)

• Format: Standard, Booster Draft

Top 8

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
	1	Ondřej Stráský	2
	8	Andrew Ohlschwager	0
						Ondřej Stráský		1
						Shouta Yasooka		2
	4	Jason Chung	1
	5	Shouta Yasooka	2
											Shouta Yasooka		1
											Martin Dang		3
	3	Martin Dang	2
	6	Marco Cammilluzzi	0
						Martin Dang		2
						Adrian Sullivan		0
	2	Adrian Sullivan	2
	7	Thomas Hendriks	1

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Martin Dang	$40,000	30	1st Dane to win a Pro Tour
2	Shouta Yasooka	$20,000	26	2nd final day
3	Ondřej Stráský	$12,500	22	2nd final day
4	Adrian Sullivan	$12,500	22
5	Jason Chung	$10,000	18	1st New Zealander in a Top 8
6	Marco Cammilluzzi	$10,000	18
7	Thomas Hendriks	$10,000	18
8	Andrew Ohlschwager	$10,000	18

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank	Player	Pro Points
1	Eric Froehlich	60
2	Sam Black	57
3	Lee Shi Tian	56
4	Ari Lax	54
5	Owen Turtenwald	53

Grand Prix

GP Krakow[38] (18–19 April 2015) Format: Standard Attendance: 1149 Alexander Hayne Robin Dolar Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Bartłomiej Lewandowski Martin Müller Alex Hottmann Leo Schulhof Samuel Pardee GP Toronto (2–3 May 2015) Format: Standard GP Florence (16–17 May 2015) Format: Team Limited GP Las Vegas (30–31 May 2015) Format: Limited GP Charlotte (13–14 June 2015) Format: Modern GP Singapore (27–28 June 2015) Format Modern GP Lille (4–5 July 2015) Format: Legacy

GP Kyoto[39] (18–19 April 2015) Format: Legacy Attendance: 2027 Yuuta Takahashi Kazuya Murakami Kenta Harane Kai Thiele Yukihiro Satake Yousuke Morinaga Shouta Yasooka Kei Umehara GP Atlantic City (9–10 May 2015) Format: Limited GP Shanghai (16–17 May 2015) Format: Standard GP Utrecht (30–31 May 2015) Format: Limited GP Providence (20–21 June 2015) Format: Standard GP Buenos Aires (27–28 June 2015) Format: Standard GP Dallas (25–26 July 2015) Format: Limited

GP São Paulo (2–3 May 2015) Format: Standard GP Paris (9–10 May 2015) Format: Standard GP Minneapolis (23–24 May 2015) Format: Standard GP Chiba (30–31 May 2015) Format: Limited GP Copenhagen (20–21 June 2015) Format: Modern GP Montreal (4–5 July 2015) Format: Limited

Pro Tour Magic Origins

Vancouver (31 July–2 August 2015)

• Format: Standard, Booster Draft

References

Pro Tour seasons of Magic: The Gathering List of Pro Tours 1996 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15