Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2005

Grand Prixs – Helsinki, Brisbane, Yokohama, Porto Alegre, Paris, Chicago, Osaka

• Format: Rochester Draft
• Attendance: 455

1. Olivier Ruel
2. Mikko Leiviskä
3. Jean Charles Salvin
4. Ulrik Tarp
5. Anton Jonsson
6. Wenzel Krautmann
7. Pavlos Akritas
8. Erkki Siira

• Format: Rochester Draft
• Attendance: 222

1. Will Copeman
2. Anatoli Lightfoot
3. Masami Ibamoto
4. Andrew Grain
5. Tom Hay
6. Andrew Varga
7. Jarrod Bright
8. Bryce Trevilyan

• Format: Rochester Draft
• Attendance: 707

1. Kazuki Katou
2. Tomohiro Kaji
3. Akira Asahara
4. Koutarou Ootsuka
5. Masahiko Morita
6. Rei Hashimoto
7. Takashi Akiyama
8. Ren Ishikawa

• Format: Rochester Draft
• Attendance: 342

1. Jose Barbero
2. Gabriel Caligaris
3. Mauro Kina
4. Rafael Mendonça
5. Guilherme Fonseca
6. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
7. Renato Wholers
8. Adilson de Oliveira

• Format: Rochester Draft
• Attendance: 1594

1. Wilco Pinkster
2. Bastien Perez
3. Wessel Oomens
4. Raphael Lévy
5. Giuseppe Reale
6. Arnost Zidek
7. Stephan Meyer
8. Jean-Baptiste Gouesse

• Format: Team Limited
• Attendance: 474

• Format: Team Limited
• Attendance: 480

Pro Tour – Nagoya (28–30 January 2005)

Tournament data

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Pro Player of the year standings Rank Player Pro Points 1 Grand Prixs – Boston, Eindhoven, Seattle ;GP Boston Format: Extended Attendance: 699 Masashi Oiso Lucas Glavin Keith McLaughlin Benjamin Dempsey Osyp Lebedowicz Masahiko Morita Anthony Impellizzierei Daniel O'Mahoney-Schwartz ;GP Eindhoven Format: Extended Attendance: 1012 Sebastien Roux Rogier Maaten Xuan-Phi Nguyen Tobias Radloff Kamiel Cornelissen Michael Leicht Petr Nahodil Bas Postema ;GP Seattle Format: Extended Attendance: 390 Ernie Marchesano Taylor Putnam Shuhei Nakamura Max McCall Grant Struck John Ripley Tsuyoshi Fujita Ryan Cimera Pro Tour – Atlanta (11–13 March 2005) The Canadian French cooperation team "Nova" won Pro Tour Atlanta, defeating the American team "We Add" in the final. "Nova" consisted of Gabriel Tsang, David Rood, and Gabriel Nassif. For Nassif it was the first Pro Tour victory after five previous final day appearances including three second places. Atlanta was the last Pro Tour using the three-person team Limited format, although it was still used for the team competition at the World Championship that year and the next. Tournament data Players: 357 Prize Pool: $200,100 Format: Team Kamigawa Block Sealed ' – first day, Team Kamigawa Block Rochester Draft ' – final two days Head Judge: Sheldon Menery Final standings Place Team Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Nova Pro Player of the year standings Rank Player Pro Points 1 Grand Prixs – Singapore, Leipzig, Lisbon, Detroit ;GP Singapore Format: Extended Attendance: 373 Itaru Ishida Shih Chien Chang Ichirou Shimura Yeung Sun Kit Dennis Yuliadinata Shu Komuro Oliver Oks Gabriel Kang ;GP Leipzig Format: Sealed and Booster Draft Attendance: 899 Rustam Bakirov Rosario Maij Max Bracht Niki Jedlicka Philip Fetzer Sune Ellegard Bernardo Da Costa Cabral Mateusz Dabkowski ;GP Lisbon Format: Sealed and Booster Draft Attendance: 1169 Marcio Carvalho Luis Sousa Mikael Polgary David Blazquez Joao Martins Pierre-Jerome Meurisse Marco Manuel Anton Jonsson ;GP Detroit Format: Sealed and Booster Draft Attendance: 491 Jordan Berkowitz Richard Hoaen Michael Krumb Jeroen Remie Osyp Lebedowicz William Postlethwait Sam Gomersall Patrick Sullivan Pro Tour – Philadelphia (6–8 May 2005) Pro Tour Philadelphia featured a tournament system different from those of other Pro Tours. While Swiss system was still used all players with three or more losses and/or draws were automatically dropped from the tournament. Prizes were given out not in relation to the final standings, but for the individual matches won, where matches in later rounds of the tournament were worth more than those in the earlier rounds. It was also announced in the week prior to Pro Tour Philadelphia, that the end of the year payout based on Pro Points would be dropped after the season in favor of the Pro Club. Under the new system a player would receive special benefits based on the total number of Pro Points he had acquired in a season. 16-year-old Gadiel Szleifer defeated 18-year-old Kenji Tsumura in the final to win the tournament. Szleifer played a control deck built around. Former Pro Player of the year Kai Budde received a lot of attention for being undefeated after day one, but was eliminated after he picked up three losses in the first three rounds of day two. Tournament data Players: 311 Prize Pool: $194,898 Format: Kamigawa Block Constructed Head Judge: Mike Guptil Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Pro Player of the year standings Rank Player Pro Points 1 Grand Prixs – Matsuyama, Bologna ;GP Matsuyama Format: Sealed and Booster Draft Attendance: 420 Akira Asahara Masashi Oiso Kentarou Nonaka Takayuki Toochika Osamu Fujita Shuhei Nakamura Tomoharu Saitou Jun'ya Takahashi ;GP Bologna Format: Sealed and Booster Draft Attendance: 654 Olivier Ruel David Brucker Giulio Barra Leonard Barbou Tomas Klimes Quentin Martin Bruno Panara Marco Castellano Pro Tour – London (8–10 July 2005) Geoffrey Siron from Belgium won Pro Tour London, defeating Tsuyoshi Fujita in the finals. In the Top 8 Siron did not lose a single game. Tournament data Players: 314 Prize Pool: $200,130 Format: Booster Draft Head Judge: Jaap Brouwer Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Pro Player of the year standings Rank Player Pro Points 1 Grand Prixs – Minneapolis, Niigata, Taipei, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Nottingham ;GP Minneapolis Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 404 Alex Lieberman Mark Herberholz Dustin Marquis Adam Yurchick Celso Zampere Andrew Stokinger Gerry Thompson Sean Inlow ;GP Niigata Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 476 Katsuhiro Mori Tomohiro Aridome Akira Asahara Masashi Oiso Takuya Oosawa Kenji Tsumura Ryouma Shiozu Suhan Yun ;GP Taipei Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 261 Osamu Fujita Masahiko Morita Jun'ichirou Bandou Shu Komuro Tai Chi Huang Aik Seng Khoo Masashi Oiso Masahiro Kuroda ;GP Salt Lake City Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 250 Antonino De Rosa Karl Briem Kenji Tsumura Mark Ioli Frank Karsten Gadiel Szleifer Gabe Walls Rogier Maaten ;GP Mexico City Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 305 Julien Nuijten Edgar Leiva Frank Karsten Maximiliano Liprandi William Postlethwait Gerard Fabiano Daniel Fior Rasmus Sibast ;GP Nottingham Format: Limited Attendance: 560 Nikola Vavra Roel van Heeswijk Nikolaus Eigner Philip Reich Jean Charles Salvin Ricard Tuduri Jure Trunk Alfred Benages Pro Tour – Los Angeles (28–30 October 2005) Antoine Ruel defeated Billy Moreno in the finals to become champion of Pro Tour Los Angeles. He played a blue-black control deck, built around Psychatog. Tournament data Players: 340 Prize Pool: $200,130 Format: Extended Head Judge: Gijsbert Hoogendijk Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Pro Player of the year standings Rank Player Pro Points 1 Grand Prixs – Melbourne, Copenhagen, Kitakyuushuu, Philadelphia, Bilbao, Beijing ;GP Melbourne Format: Extended Attendance: 140 James Zhang Paul Chalder Tim He David Zhao Andrew Vance Hugh Glanville Ben Fleming Sam Atkinson ;GP Copenhagen Format: Extended Attendance: 340 Julien Nuijten Kim Valori Alexandre Rathcke Wessel Oomens Olivier Ruel Pasi Virtanen Bodo Rösner Nikolaos Lahanas ;GP Kitakyuushuu Format: Extended Attendance: 272 Tomohiro Kaji Ryo Ogura Makihito Mihara Masashi Oiso Masahiko Morita Jin Okamoto Itaru Ishida Akira Asahara ;GP Philadelphia Format: Legacy Attendance: 495 Jonathan Sonne Chris Pikula Pasquale Ruggiero Tom Smart Paul Serignese Pat McGregor Ben Goodman Lam Phan ;GP Bilbao Format: Extended Attendance: 938 Olivier Ruel Marcio Carvalho Geoffrey Siron Jacob Arias Garcia Rogier Maaten Jonathan Rispal Gonzalo Domingo Sergi Herrero ;GP Beijing Format: Extended Attendance: 159 Dong Zhong Masashi Oiso Olivier Ruel Katsuhiro Mori Li Gong Wei Tomoharu Saitou Ming Da Tsai Kenji Tsumura 2005 World Championships – Yokohama (30 November – 4 December 2005) The tournament began with the first Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Jon Finkel, Darwin Kastle, Tommi Hovi, Alan Comer and Olle Råde were honored for their accomplishments and their determination to the game. In the final of the 2005 World Championship Katsuhiro Mori defeated Frank Karsten, thus completing an all-Japanese Worlds in Yokohama. The Top 4 also included Japanese players Akira Asahara and Tomohiro Kaji, shortly before Japan had won the team competition, and even the Pro Player of the year went to Japanese Kenji Tsumura. Tournament data Prize pool: $208,130 + $195,000 Players: 287 Formats: Standard, Booster Draft , Extended Head Judge: Collin Jackson, Sheldon Menery Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 National team competition Japan United States Pro Player of the year final standings After the World Championship Kenji Tsumura was awarded the Pro Player of the year title as the first Japanese player. Rank Player Pro Points Prize 1