Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2011

2011 Pro Tour season
Pro Player of the Year United States Owen Turtenwald
Rookie of the Year United States Matthias Hunt
World Champion Japan Jun'ya Iyanaga
Pro Tours 4
Grands Prix 20
Hall of Fame inductions Japan Shuhei Nakamura
Sweden Anton Jonsson
United States Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
Start of season 22 January 2011
End of season 20 November 2011
← 2010 2012 →

The 2011 Pro Tour season was the sixteenth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. It began on 22 January 2011 with Grand Prix Atlanta, and ended on 20 November 2011 with the conclusion of the 2011 World Championship in San Francisco. The season consisted of twenty Grands Prix,[1] and four Pro Tours, located in Paris, Nagoya, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.[2]

Mode

Four Pro Tours and eighteen Grands Prix were held in the 2011 season. Further Pro Points were awarded at national championships. These Pro Points were mainly used to determine the Pro Player club levels of players participating in these events, but also decide which player was awarded the Pro Player of the year title at the end of the season. Based on final standings Pro Points are awarded as follows:[3]

Rank Pro Points awarded at
Pro Tour Grand Prix Nationals Worlds (Team)
1 25 10 10 6
2 20 8 8 5
3–4 16 6 6 4
5–8 12 5 4 3
9–12 8 4 2 2
13–16 8 3 1 1
17–24 7 2
25–32 6 2
33–64 5 1
65–100 4
101–200 3
201+ 2

Grand Prix: Atlanta

GP Atlanta (22–23 January 2011)
  1. United States Jason Ford
  2. United States Ben Stark
  3. United States Jody Keith
  4. United States Christian Valenti
  5. United States Ari Lax
  6. United States John Runyon
  7. United States Charles Gindy
  8. United States Owen Turtenwald

Pro Tour – Paris (10–13 February 2011)

Pro Tour Paris was held at Espace Champerret. The formats were Standard and Scars of Mirrodin-Mirrodin Besieged Booster Draft.[2]

Tournament data

Prize pool: $230,795
Format: Standard, Booster Draft

Top 8

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
         
1 Vincent Lemoine 3
8 Shintaro Ishimura 2
Vincent Lemoine 2
Paul Rietzl 3
5 Patrick Chapin 0
4 Paul Rietzl 3
Paul Rietzl 1
Ben Stark 3
2 Nico Bohny 2
7 Naoki Nakada 3
Naoki Nakada 0
Ben Stark 3
3 Ben Stark 3
6 Tom Martell 2

Final standings

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 United States Ben Stark $40,000 25 3rd Final day
2 United States Paul Rietzl $20,000 20 3rd Final day
3 Belgium Vincent Lemoine $15,000 16
4 Japan Naoki Nakada $13,000 16
5 Switzerland Nico Bohny $11,000 12 2nd Final day
6 United States Patrick Chapin $10,500 12 4th Final day
7 United States Tom Martell $10,000 12
8 Japan Shintaro Ishimura $9,500 12

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank Player Pro Points
1 United States Ben Stark 33
2 United States Paul Rietzl 22
3 Belgium Vincent Lemoine 16
Japan Naoki Nakada
5 United States David Sharfman 13
Germany Christian Hüttenberger
United States Owen Turtenwald

Grands Prix: Paris, Denver, Hamburg, Kobe, Barcelona, Dallas, London, Prague, Providence, and Singapore

Originally scheduled for the weekend of 12–13 March GP Hamburg was cancelled as announced on 13 January.[4] On 14 March 2011, Wizards of the Coast announced that GP Kobe, originally scheduled for 19–20 March, had been postponed, citing safety, power and travel concerns.[5]

GP Paris (12–13 February)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 2182
  1. United States David Sharfman
  2. United States William Lowry
  3. Germany Christian Hüttenberger
  4. Austria Gerald Leitzinger
  5. Germany Kai Budde
  6. Norway Sveinung Bjørnerud
  7. England Lewis McLeod
  8. Greece Dimitris Davios
GP Dallas (9–10 April)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 1189
  1. United States David Shiels
  2. United States Orrin Beasley
  3. United States Owen Turtenwald
  4. United States Austin Bursavich
  5. United States Alex Bertoncini
  6. United States Josh Utter-Leyton
  7. United States Michael Jacob
  8. United States Korey McDuffie
GP Prague (21–22 May)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 1236
  1. Czech Republic Ondrej Baudys
  2. Czech Republic Lukas Blohon
  3. Japan Shuhei Nakamura
  4. Sweden Anders Melin
  5. Czech Republic Petr Brozek
  6. Poland Lukasz Cichecki
  7. Sweden Joel Larsson
  8. Slovakia Robert Jurkovic
GP Denver (19–20 February)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 841
  1. United States Gaudenis Vidugiris
  2. Czech Republic Martin Juza
  3. United States Owen Turtenwald
  4. Brazil Eduardo dos Santos Vieira
  5. United States Thomas Pannell
  6. United States Paul Cheon
  7. United States James Zornes
  8. United States Brian Kibler
GP Kobe (23–24 April)
  • Format: Extended
  • Attendance: 710
  1. Japan Shouta Yasooka
  2. Japan Makihito Mihara
  3. Japan Kenichiro Omori
  4. Japan Shunsuke Aka
  5. Japan Shinya Satou
  6. Japan Shouhei Yamamoto
  7. Czech Republic Martin Juza
  8. Japan Kentaro Ino
GP Providence (28–29 May)
  • Format: Legacy
  • Attendance: 1179
  1. United States James Rynkiewicz
  2. United States Bryan Eleyet
  3. Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
  4. United States Reid Duke
  5. United States Owen Turtenwald
  6. United States Wilson Hunter
  7. United States John Kubilis
  8. United States Alex Majlaton
GP Barcelona (26–27 March)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 1201
  1. Spain Martin Scheinin
  2. Spain Toni Ramis Pascual
  3. England Richard Bland
  4. United Kingdom Eduardo Sajgalik
  5. Germany Jonas Köstler
  6. Poland Karol Nosowicz
  7. France Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
  8. Greece Simon Bertiou
GP London (30 April–1 May)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 709
  1. England Daniel Royde
  2. France Louis Deltour
  3. Sweden Martin Lindström
  4. Italy Gennaro Mango
  5. Germany Raul Porojan
  6. Italy Andra La Placa
  7. Sweden Kenny Öberg
  8. England Nicholas Taylor
GP Singapore (4–5 June)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 623
  1. Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
  2. Japan Chikara Nakahima
  3. Thailand Chatchai Seathang
  4. United States Owen Turtenwald
  5. Japan Shouta Yasooka
  6. Singapore Weng Heng Soh
  7. Taiwan Hao-Shan Huang
  8. Greece Marios Angelopozlos

Pro Tour – Nagoya (10–12 June 2011)

Pro Tour Nagoya was held at the Trade & Industry Center. The formats are Block Constructed and Booster Draft.[2]

Tournament data

Prize pool: $230,795
Format: Block Constructed, Booster Draft

Top 8

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
         
6 Toshiyuki Kadooka 3
3 Luis Scott-Vargas 1
Toshiyuki Kadooka 3
Elie Pichon 0
5 Pat Cox 1
4 Elie Pichon 3
Toshiyuki Kadooka 0
David Sharfman 3
2 Gaudenis Vidugiris 2
8 Fabian Thiele 3
Fabian Thiele 0
David Sharfman 3
7 David Sharfman 3
1 Tsuyoshi Fujita 0

Top 8 pairings are determined at random

Final standings

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 United States David Sharfman $40,000 25
2 Japan Toshiyuki Kadooka $20,000 20
3 France Elie Pichon $15,000 16
4 Germany Fabian Thiele $13,000 16
5 Japan Tsuyoshi Fujita $11,000 12 4th final day
6 United States Gaudenis Vidugiris $10,500 12
7 United States Luis Scott-Vargas $10,000 12 4th final day
8 United States Pat Cox $9,500 12

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank Player Pro Points
1 United States Ben Stark 41
2 United States Owen Turtenwald 40
3 United States David Sharfman 38
4 Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa 31
5 Czech Republic Martin Juza 29
Japan Shouta Yasooka 29

Grands Prix: Kansas City, Shanghai, and Pittsburgh

GP Kansas City (18–19 June)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 879
  1. United States Luis Scott-Vargas
  2. Japan Yuuya Watanabe
  3. United States Tim Aten
  4. United States Samuel Friedman
  5. United States Zach Jesse
  6. United States Gregory Jolin
  7. United States Matthew Costa
  8. Brazil Willy Edel
GP Shanghai (20–21 August)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 633
  1. Japan Yuuya Watanabe
  2. Japan Ryouta Endou
  3. China Zhiyang Zhang
  4. Japan Kentarou Ino
  5. China Kuang Chen
  6. Japan Kentarou Nonaka
  7. Canada Daniel Pham
  8. China Bin Xu
GP Pittsburgh (27–28 August)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 1435
  1. Japan Yuuya Watanabe
  2. Poland Lukasz Musial
  3. United States Patrick Chapin
  4. United States Max Tietze
  5. Sweden Joel Larsson
  6. United States Matthew Nass
  7. Germany Florian Pils
  8. United States Harry Corvese

Pro Tour – Philadelphia (2–4 September 2011)

Pro Tour Philadelphia was held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. The formats were initially announced to be Extended and Booster Draft. Three weeks before the event it was announced that the Extended portion would be replaced by Modern.[2] The winner of the tournament was Samuel Estratti, who became the first Modern Pro Tour Champion and the first Italian player to win a Pro Tour.[6]

Tournament data

Prize pool: $230,795
Players: 417
Format: Modern, Booster Draft
Headjudge: Riccardo Tessitori

Top 8

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
         
6 Alessandro Portaro 1
3 Josh Utter-Leyton 3
Josh Utter-Leyton 3
Samuel Black 2
7 Samuel Black 3
2 Jesse Hampton 1
Josh Utter-Leyton 1
Samuele Estratti 3
5 Samuele Estratti 3
4 Andrejs Prost 1
Samuele Estratti 3
Chikara Nakajima 1
8 Chikara Nakajima 3
1 Max Sjöblom 1

Final standings

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 Italy Samuele Estratti $40,000 25
2 United States Josh Utter-Leyton $20,000 20 2nd Final Day
3 United States Samuel Black $15,000 16
4 Japan Chikara Nakajima $13,000 16 2nd Final Day
5 Finland Max Sjöblom $11,000 12
6 United States Jesse Hampton $10,500 12
7 United States Andrejs Prost $10,000 12
8 Italy Alessandro Portaro $9,500 12

Pro Player of the year standings

Rank Player Pro Points
1 United States Owen Turtenwald 48
2 United States Luis Scott-Vargas 45
3 United States Ben Stark 44
Japan Yuuya Watanabe 44
5 United States David Sharfman 40

Grands Prix: Montreal, Milan, Brisbane, Amsterdam, Santiago, Hiroshima, and San Diego

GP Montreal (17–18 September)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 1054
  1. Canada Richard Hoaen
  2. Canada Alexander Hayne
  3. Germany Lino Burgold
  4. Canada Andrew Noworaj
  5. United States Reid Duke
  6. United States Alex West
  7. United States Michael Holden
  8. United States Matthew Costa
GP Amsterdam (22–23 October)
  • Format: Legacy
  • Attendance: 1878
  1. France Pierre Sommen
  2. Italy Ciro Bonaventura
  3. Germany Christof Kovacs
  4. France Elie Pichon
  5. Germany Fabian Görzgen
  6. Poland Maciej Pasek
  7. Denmark Kim Grymer
  8. Italy Paolo Pavesi
GP San Diego (12–13 November)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 1045
  1. United States Shahar Shenhar
  2. England Richard Bland
  3. United States Ricky Sidher
  4. United States Lokman Chen
  5. Sweden Elias Watsfeldt
  6. United States Owen Turtenwald
  7. United States Aaron Cheng
  8. United States Alexander West
GP Milan (8–9 October)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 1790
  1. Italy Marco Ricci
  2. France Raphaël Lévy
  3. Italy Samuele Estratti
  4. Italy Davide Vergoni
  5. Romania Alexandru Dimitriu
  6. Italy Marcello Calvetto
  7. Belgium Michael Milis
  8. Germany Jörg Unfried
GP Santiago (22–23 October)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 737
  1. Brazil Igor Silva Pinto
  2. Chile Carlos Iturra
  3. United States Owen Turtenwald
  4. United States Melissa DeTora
  5. Czech Republic Martin Juza
  6. Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
  7. Chile David Kaliski
  8. Argentina Martin Lecce
GP Brisbane (15–16 October)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 389
  1. Australia Jeremy Neeman
  2. Australia Tim Fondum
  3. Australia Andreas Pranoto
  4. Australia Luke Mulcahy
  5. Taiwan Hao-Shan Huang
  6. Australia Jacky Zhang
  7. Australia Daniel Unwin
  8. Japan Shouta Yasooka
GP Hiroshima (29–30 October)
  • Format: Standard
  • Attendance: 796
  1. Czech Republic Martin Juza
  2. Japan Takahiro Shiraki
  3. Japan Akira Asahara
  4. Japan Rin Satou
  5. Japan Kouichi Tashiro
  6. Japan Hiroshi Onizuka
  7. Japan Naoki Obayashi
  8. Japan Kouichi Tanaka

2011 World Championships – San Francisco (17–20 November 2011)

The 18th Magic World Championships was held in the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, USA.[2]

Tournament data

Prize pool: $245,245 (individual) + ? (teams)
Players: 375 from 60 countries[7]
Formats: Standard, Booster Draft, Modern
Team Formats: Standard, Modern, Legacy
Head Judge: Sheldon Menery

Top 8

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
         
1 Conley Woods 3
8 Craig Wescoe 2
Conley Woods 0
Jun'ya Iyanaga 3
5 Jun'ya Iyanaga 3
4 Josh Utter-Leyton 1
Jun'ya Iyanaga 3
Richard Bland 0
2 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa 1
7 David Caplan 3
David Caplan 0
Richard Bland 3
3 Luis Scott-Vargas 2
6 Richard Bland 3

Final standings

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 Japan Jun'ya Iyanaga $45,000 25
2 England Richard Bland $24,000 20
3 United States Conley Woods $15,000 16 2nd final day
4 Canada David Caplan $14,000 16
5 Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa $11,000 12 8th final day
6 United States Luis Scott-Vargas $10,500 12 5th final day
7 United States Josh Utter-Leyton $10,000 12 3rd final day
8 United States Craig Wescoe $9,500 12 2nd final day

Team competition

  1. Japan Japan — Ryuuichirou Ishida, Makihito Mihara, Tomoya Fujimoto
  2. Norway Norway — Sveinung Bjørnerud, Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl

Pro Player of the Year final standings

Rank Player Pro Points
1 United States Owen Turtenwald 64
2 United States Luis Scott-Vargas 61
3 Czech Republic Martin Juza 56
United States Ben Stark
5 Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa 53
Japan Shuhei Nakamura
7 United States Josh Utter-Leyton 52
Japan Yuuya Watanabe
Japan Shouta Yasooka

Performance by country

Country T8 Q Q/T8 GT Best Player (PPts)
United States United States 16 521 33 39 Owen Turtenwald (64)
Japan Japan 6 140 23 9 Shuhei Nakamura (53)
Italy Italy 2 60 30 2 Samuele Estratti (38)
Germany Germany 1 88 88 4 Fabian Thiele (30)
France France 1 91 91 2 Raphael Levy (40)
Belgium Belgium 1 32 32 1 Vincent Lemoine (40)
Brazil Brazil 1 27 27 1 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (53)

References

  1. ↑ "2011 Grand Prix Schedule Announced". Wizards of the Coast. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Magic Weekend Coming in 2011". Wizards of the Coast. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Magic: The Gathering Pro Points Structure". Wizards of the Coast. 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
  4. ↑ "2011 Grand Prix Schedule Update". Wizards of the Coast. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "Grand Prix Kobe Postponed". Wizards of the Coast. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  6. ↑ David-Marshall, Brian (9 December 2011). "Pro Tour Cup Holders". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  7. ↑ "2011 Magic: The Gathering World Championships Country Breakdown". Wizards of the Coast. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
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