Pro Player of the Year Owen Turtenwald World Champion Jun'ya Iyanaga Grands Prix 20 | Rookie of the Year Matthias Hunt Pro Tours 4 | |
Hall of Fame inductions Shuhei Nakamura
Anton Jonsson
Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz | ||
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.
Contents
- Mode
- Grand Prix Atlanta
- Pro Tour Paris 1013 February 2011
- Tournament data
- Grands Prix Paris Denver Hamburg Kobe Barcelona Dallas London Prague Providence and Singapore
- Pro Tour Nagoya 1012 June 2011
- Top 8
- Pro Tour Philadelphia 24 September 2011
- 2011 World Championships San Francisco 1720 November 2011
- Team competition
- References
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:
Grand Prix: Atlanta
- 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
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.
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
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
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
Team competition
- Japan — Ryuuichirou Ishida, Makihito Mihara, Tomoya Fujimoto
- Norway — Sveinung Bjørnerud, Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl