Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2011

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:

Grand Prix: Atlanta

 * GP Atlanta (22–23 January 2011)
 * Format: Extended
 * Attendance: 1223
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Jason Ford
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Ben Stark
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Jody Keith
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Christian Valenti
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Ari Lax
 * 6) 🇺🇸 John Runyon
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Charles Gindy
 * 8) 🇺🇸 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.


 * GP Paris (12–13 February)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 2182
 * 1) 🇺🇸 David Sharfman
 * 2) 🇺🇸 William Lowry
 * 3) 🇩🇪 Christian Hüttenberger
 * 4) 🇦🇹 Gerald Leitzinger
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Kai Budde
 * 6) 🇳🇴 Sveinung Bjørnerud
 * 7) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lewis McLeod
 * 8) Dimitris Davios


 * GP Dallas (9–10 April)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 1189
 * 1) 🇺🇸 David Shiels
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Orrin Beasley
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Austin Bursavich
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Alex Bertoncini
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Josh Utter-Leyton
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Michael Jacob
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Korey McDuffie


 * GP Prague (21–22 May)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 1236
 * 1) 🇨🇿 Ondrej Baudys
 * 2) 🇨🇿 Lukas Blohon
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Shuhei Nakamura
 * 4) 🇸🇪 Anders Melin
 * 5) 🇨🇿 Petr Brozek
 * 6) 🇵🇱 Lukasz Cichecki
 * 7) 🇸🇪 Joel Larsson
 * 8) 🇸🇰 Robert Jurkovic


 * GP Denver (19–20 February)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 841
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Gaudenis Vidugiris
 * 2) 🇨🇿 Martin Juza
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 4) 🇧🇷 Eduardo dos Santos Vieira
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Thomas Pannell
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 7) 🇺🇸 James Zornes
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Brian Kibler


 * GP Kobe (23–24 April)
 * Format: Extended
 * Attendance: 710
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Makihito Mihara
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Kenichiro Omori
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Shunsuke Aka
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Shinya Satou
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Shouhei Yamamoto
 * 7) 🇨🇿 Martin Juza
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Kentaro Ino


 * GP Providence (28–29 May)
 * Format: Legacy
 * Attendance: 1179
 * 1) 🇺🇸 James Rynkiewicz
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Bryan Eleyet
 * 3) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Reid Duke
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Wilson Hunter
 * 7) 🇺🇸 John Kubilis
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Alex Majlaton


 * GP Barcelona (26–27 March)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 1201
 * 1) 🇪🇸 Martin Scheinin
 * 2) 🇪🇸 Toni Ramis Pascual
 * 3) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Richard Bland
 * 4) Eduardo Sajgalik
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Jonas Köstler
 * 6) 🇵🇱 Karol Nosowicz
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
 * 8) Simon Bertiou


 * GP London (30 April–1 May)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 709
 * 1) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Daniel Royde
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Louis Deltour
 * 3) 🇸🇪 Martin Lindström
 * 4) 🇮🇹 Gennaro Mango
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Raul Porojan
 * 6) 🇮🇹 Andra La Placa
 * 7) 🇸🇪 Kenny Öberg
 * 8) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nicholas Taylor


 * GP Singapore (4–5 June)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 623
 * 1) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Chikara Nakahima
 * 3) 🇹🇭 Chatchai Seathang
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka
 * 6) 🇸🇬 Weng Heng Soh
 * 7) 🇹🇼 Hao-Shan Huang
 * 8) 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

Grands Prix: Kansas City, Shanghai, and Pittsburgh

 * GP Kansas City (18–19 June)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 879
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Luis Scott-Vargas
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Yuuya Watanabe
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Tim Aten
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Samuel Friedman
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Zach Jesse
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Gregory Jolin
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Matthew Costa
 * 8) 🇧🇷 Willy Edel


 * GP Shanghai (20–21 August)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 633
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Yuuya Watanabe
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Ryouta Endou
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Zhiyang Zhang
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Kentarou Ino
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Kuang Chen
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Kentarou Nonaka
 * 7) 🇨🇦 Daniel Pham
 * 8) 🇨🇳 Bin Xu


 * GP Pittsburgh (27–28 August)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 1435
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Yuuya Watanabe
 * 2) 🇵🇱 Lukasz Musial
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Patrick Chapin
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Max Tietze
 * 5) 🇸🇪 Joel Larsson
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Matthew Nass
 * 7) 🇩🇪 Florian Pils
 * 8) 🇺🇸 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

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

 * GP Montreal (17–18 September)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 1054
 * 1) 🇨🇦 Richard Hoaen
 * 2) 🇨🇦 Alexander Hayne
 * 3) 🇩🇪 Lino Burgold
 * 4) 🇨🇦 Andrew Noworaj
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Reid Duke
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Alex West
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Michael Holden
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Matthew Costa


 * GP Amsterdam (22–23 October)
 * Format: Legacy
 * Attendance: 1878
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Pierre Sommen
 * 2) 🇮🇹 Ciro Bonaventura
 * 3) 🇩🇪 Christof Kovacs
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Elie Pichon
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Fabian Görzgen
 * 6) 🇵🇱 Maciej Pasek
 * 7) Kim Grymer
 * 8) 🇮🇹 Paolo Pavesi


 * GP San Diego (12–13 November)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 1045
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Shahar Shenhar
 * 2) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Richard Bland
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Ricky Sidher
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Lokman Chen
 * 5) 🇸🇪 Elias Watsfeldt
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Aaron Cheng
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Alexander West


 * GP Milan (8–9 October)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 1790
 * 1) 🇮🇹 Marco Ricci
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Raphaël Lévy
 * 3) 🇮🇹 Samuele Estratti
 * 4) 🇮🇹 Davide Vergoni
 * 5) Alexandru Dimitriu
 * 6) 🇮🇹 Marcello Calvetto
 * 7) 🇧🇪 Michael Milis
 * 8) 🇩🇪 Jörg Unfried


 * GP Santiago (22–23 October)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 737
 * 1) 🇧🇷 Igor Silva Pinto
 * 2) 🇨🇱 Carlos Iturra
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Melissa DeTora
 * 5) 🇨🇿 Martin Juza
 * 6) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 7) 🇨🇱 David Kaliski
 * 8) 🇦🇷 Martin Lecce


 * GP Brisbane (15–16 October)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 389
 * 1) 🇦🇺 Jeremy Neeman
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Tim Fondum
 * 3) 🇦🇺 Andreas Pranoto
 * 4) 🇦🇺 Luke Mulcahy
 * 5) 🇹🇼 Hao-Shan Huang
 * 6) 🇦🇺 Jacky Zhang
 * 7) 🇦🇺 Daniel Unwin
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka


 * GP Hiroshima (29–30 October)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 796
 * 1) 🇨🇿 Martin Juza
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Takahiro Shiraki
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Akira Asahara
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Rin Satou
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Kouichi Tashiro
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Hiroshi Onizuka
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Naoki Obayashi
 * 8) 🇯🇵 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

Team competition

 * 1) 🇯🇵 Japan — Ryuuichirou Ishida, Makihito Mihara, Tomoya Fujimoto
 * 2) 🇳🇴 Norway — Sveinung Bjørnerud, Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl