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, and four Pro Tours, located in Paris, Nagoya, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
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:
RankPro Points awarded atPro TourGrand PrixNationalsWorlds (Team)125101062208853–4166645–8125439–12842213–16831117–247225–326233–645165–1004101–2003201+2
Grand Prix: Atlanta
GP Atlanta (22–23 January 2011) Format: Extended Attendance: 1223 Jason Ford Ben Stark Jody Keith Christian Valenti Ari Lax John Runyon Charles Gindy 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.
Tournament data Prize pool: $230,795 Format: Standard, Booster Draft
Top 8
Final standings
PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment1 Ben Stark$40,000253rd Final day2 Paul Rietzl$20,000203rd Final day3 Vincent Lemoine$15,000164 Naoki Nakada$13,000165 Nico Bohny$11,000122nd Final day6 Patrick Chapin$10,500124th Final day7 Tom Martell$10,000128 Shintaro Ishimura$9,50012
Pro Player of the year standings
RankPlayerPro Points1 Ben Stark332 Paul Rietzl223 Vincent Lemoine16 Naoki Nakada5 David Sharfman13 Christian Hüttenberger 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. 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.
GP Paris (12–13 February) Format: Limited Attendance: 2182 David Sharfman William Lowry Christian Hüttenberger Gerald Leitzinger Kai Budde Sveinung Bjørnerud Lewis McLeod Dimitris Davios
GP Dallas (9–10 April) Format: Standard Attendance: 1189 David Shiels Orrin Beasley Owen Turtenwald Austin Bursavich Alex Bertoncini Josh Utter-Leyton Michael Jacob Korey McDuffie
GP Prague (21–22 May) Format: Limited Attendance: 1236 Ondrej Baudys Lukas Blohon Shuhei Nakamura Anders Melin Petr Brozek Lukasz Cichecki Joel Larsson Robert Jurkovic
GP Denver (19–20 February) Format: Limited Attendance: 841 Gaudenis Vidugiris Martin Juza Owen Turtenwald Eduardo dos Santos Vieira Thomas Pannell Paul Cheon James Zornes Brian Kibler
GP Kobe (23–24 April) Format: Extended Attendance: 710 Shouta Yasooka Makihito Mihara Kenichiro Omori Shunsuke Aka Shinya Satou Shouhei Yamamoto Martin Juza Kentaro Ino
GP Providence (28–29 May) Format: Legacy Attendance: 1179 James Rynkiewicz Bryan Eleyet Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Reid Duke Owen Turtenwald Wilson Hunter John Kubilis Alex Majlaton
GP Barcelona (26–27 March) Format: Standard Attendance: 1201 Martin Scheinin Toni Ramis Pascual Richard Bland Eduardo Sajgalik Jonas Köstler Karol Nosowicz Guillaume Wafo-Tapa Simon Bertiou
GP London (30 April–1 May) Format: Limited Attendance: 709 Daniel Royde Louis Deltour Martin Lindström Gennaro Mango Raul Porojan Andra La Placa Kenny Öberg Nicholas Taylor
GP Singapore (4–5 June) Format: Standard Attendance: 623 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Chikara Nakahima Chatchai Seathang Owen Turtenwald Shouta Yasooka Weng Heng Soh Hao-Shan Huang 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.
Tournament data Prize pool: $230,795 Format: Block Constructed, Booster Draft
Top 8
Top 8 pairings are determined at random
Final standings
PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment1 David Sharfman$40,000252 Toshiyuki Kadooka$20,000203 Elie Pichon$15,000164 Fabian Thiele$13,000165 Tsuyoshi Fujita$11,000124th final day6 Gaudenis Vidugiris$10,500127 Luis Scott-Vargas$10,000124th final day8 Pat Cox$9,50012
Pro Player of the year standings
RankPlayerPro Points1 Ben Stark412 Owen Turtenwald403 David Sharfman384 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa315 Martin Juza29 Shouta Yasooka29
Grands Prix: Kansas City, Shanghai, and Pittsburgh
GP Kansas City (18–19 June) Format: Limited Attendance: 879 Luis Scott-Vargas Yuuya Watanabe Tim Aten Samuel Friedman Zach Jesse Gregory Jolin Matthew Costa Willy Edel
GP Shanghai (20–21 August) Format: Limited Attendance: 633 Yuuya Watanabe Ryouta Endou Zhiyang Zhang Kentarou Ino Kuang Chen Kentarou Nonaka Daniel Pham Bin Xu
GP Pittsburgh (27–28 August) Format: Standard Attendance: 1435 Yuuya Watanabe Lukasz Musial Patrick Chapin Max Tietze Joel Larsson Matthew Nass Florian Pils 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. 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.
Tournament data Prize pool: $230,795 Players: 417 Format: Modern, Booster Draft Headjudge: Riccardo Tessitori
Top 8
Final standings
PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment1 Samuele Estratti$40,000252 Josh Utter-Leyton$20,000202nd Final Day3 Samuel Black$15,000164 Chikara Nakajima$13,000162nd Final Day5 Max Sjöblom$11,000126 Jesse Hampton$10,500127 Andrejs Prost$10,000128 Alessandro Portaro$9,50012
Pro Player of the year standings
RankPlayerPro Points1 Owen Turtenwald482 Luis Scott-Vargas453 Ben Stark44 Yuuya Watanabe445 David Sharfman40
Grands Prix: Montreal, Milan, Brisbane, Amsterdam, Santiago, Hiroshima, and San Diego
GP Montreal (17–18 September) Format: Limited Attendance: 1054 Richard Hoaen Alexander Hayne Lino Burgold Andrew Noworaj Reid Duke Alex West Michael Holden Matthew Costa
GP Amsterdam (22–23 October) Format: Legacy Attendance: 1878 Pierre Sommen Ciro Bonaventura Christof Kovacs Elie Pichon Fabian Görzgen Maciej Pasek Kim Grymer Paolo Pavesi
GP San Diego (12–13 November) Format: Limited Attendance: 1045 Shahar Shenhar Richard Bland Ricky Sidher Lokman Chen Elias Watsfeldt Owen Turtenwald Aaron Cheng Alexander West
GP Milan (8–9 October) Format: Limited Attendance: 1790 Marco Ricci Raphaël Lévy Samuele Estratti Davide Vergoni Alexandru Dimitriu Marcello Calvetto Michael Milis Jörg Unfried
GP Santiago (22–23 October) Format: Limited Attendance: 737 Igor Silva Pinto Carlos Iturra Owen Turtenwald Melissa DeTora Martin Juza Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa David Kaliski Martin Lecce
GP Brisbane (15–16 October) Format: Standard Attendance: 389 Jeremy Neeman Tim Fondum Andreas Pranoto Luke Mulcahy Hao-Shan Huang Jacky Zhang Daniel Unwin Shouta Yasooka
GP Hiroshima (29–30 October) Format: Standard Attendance: 796 Martin Juza Takahiro Shiraki Akira Asahara Rin Satou Kouichi Tashiro Hiroshi Onizuka Naoki Obayashi 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, United States.
Tournament data
Prize pool: $245,245 (individual) + ? (teams) Players: 375 from 60 countries Formats: Standard, Booster Draft, Modern Team Formats: Standard, Modern, Legacy Head Judge: Sheldon Menery
Top 8
Final standings
PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment1 Jun'ya Iyanaga$45,000252 Richard Bland$24,000203 Conley Woods$15,000162nd final day4 David Caplan$14,000165 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa$11,000128th final day6 Luis Scott-Vargas$10,500125th final day7 Josh Utter-Leyton$10,000123rd final day8 Craig Wescoe$9,500122nd final day
Team competition Japan — Ryuuichirou Ishida, Makihito Mihara, Tomoya Fujimoto Norway — Sveinung Bjørnerud, Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl
Pro Player of the Year final standings
RankPlayerPro Points1 Owen Turtenwald642 Luis Scott-Vargas613 Martin Juza56 Ben Stark5 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa53 Shuhei Nakamura7 Josh Utter-Leyton52 Yuuya Watanabe Shouta Yasooka
Performance by country
CountryT8QQ/T8GTBest Player (PPts) United States1639Owen Turtenwald (64) Japan69Shuhei Nakamura (53) Italy22Samuele Estratti (38) Germany14Fabian Thiele (30) France12Raphaël Lévy (40) Belgium11Vincent Lemoine (40) Brazil11Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (53)
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