User:OdinFK/Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2007

The 2006 Pro Tour season was the twelvth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. On 9 February 2007 the season began with Pro Tour Geneva. It ended on 9 December 2007 with the conclusion of the 2007 World Championship in New York. The season consisted of 16 Grand Prixs and 5 Pro Tours, held in Geneva, Yokohama, San Diego, Valencia, and New York. At the end of the season Tomoharu Saitou from Japan was proclaimed Pro Player of the year. At the Worlds in New York the third class of the Hall of Fame was inducted. The inductees were Kai Budde, Zvi Mowshowitz, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Nicolai Herzog, and Randy Buehler.

Pro Tour – Geneva (9–11 February 2007)
Mike Hron defeated Takuya Osawa in the finals to win Pro Tour Geneva.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 387 Format: Booster Draft (Time Spiral-Planar Chaos)

Grand Prixs – Dallas, Singapore, Amsterdam, Kyoto, Massachusetts

 * GP Dallas (24–25 February)
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Raphaël Lévy
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 4) 🇺🇸 John Pelcak
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Mark Herberholz
 * 6) Paul Nguyen
 * 7) Alex Ledbetter
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Jim Davis


 * GP Singapore (3–4 March)
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Raphaël Lévy
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Shingou Kurihara
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Antoine Ruel
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Osamu Fujita
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Olivier Ruel
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Koutarou Ootsuka
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Ryo Ogura
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Tomoharu Saitou


 * GP Amsterdam (10–11 March)
 * 1) 🇸🇰 Richard Hornansky 🇸🇰 Michael Havlik
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Amiel Tenenbaum 🇫🇷 Gabriel Nassif
 * 3) Olaf Koster  Christian Kok
 * 4) Vasilis Fatouros  Georgios Kapalas


 * GP Kyoto (17–18 March)
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Yuuya Watanabe
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Yuusuke Iwasaki
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Motokiyo Azuma
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Tsubasa Tomii
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Naoki Shimizu
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Ren Ishikawa
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Atsushi Wada
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Katsuhiro Ide


 * GP Massachusetts (31 March–1 April)
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Matt Wang 🇺🇸 Steve O'Mahoney-Schwartz
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Eric Ziegler 🇺🇸 Gerard Fabiano
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Ben Lundquist 🇺🇸 Timothy Aten
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Matt Rubin 🇺🇸 Rob DiPalma

Pro Tour – Yokohama (20–22 April 2007)
Guillaume Wafo-Tapa won Pro Tour Yokohama, coming out on top of a high profile top 8. Each of the other contestants has at least twice appeared on the final day of a Pro Tour. For Masashi Oiso it was his sixth Pro Tour final eight.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 330 Format: Time Spiral Block Constructed (Time Spiral, Planar Chaos)

Grand Prixs – Stockholm, Columbus, Strasbourg, Montreal

 * GP Stockholm (5–6 May)
 * 1) 🇷🇺 Nicolay Potovin
 * 2) 🇩🇪 André Müller
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 4) Oliver Oks
 * 5) Bas Postema
 * 6) 🇩🇪 Thomas Refsdal
 * 7) 🇩🇪 Klaus Joens
 * 8) 🇸🇪 Samuel Korsell


 * GP Columbus (19–20 May)
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Steven Sadin
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Bill Stark
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Max Tietze
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Gadiel Szleifer
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Paul Nicolo
 * 7) 🇨🇦 Ryan Trepanier
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Michael Belfatto


 * GP Strasbourg (19–20 May)
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Tomoharu Saitou
 * 2) 🇩🇪 Raul Porojan
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka
 * 4) 🇩🇪 Florian Pils
 * 5) Christoph Huber
 * 6) 🇩🇪 Klaus Joens
 * 7) 🇨🇿 Petr Martinek
 * 8) 🇦🇹 Stefan Heigerer


 * GP Montreal (23–24 June)
 * 1) 🇧🇷 Celso Zampere Jr.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 5) Gabriel Schwartz
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Koutarou Ootsuka
 * 7) Jason Imperiale
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka

Pro Tour – San Diego (29 June–1 July 2007)
San Diego is as yet the only Two-Headed Giant Pro Tour ever held. The Americans Jacob Van Lunen and Chris Lachmann won the finals against Japanese Kentaro Yamamoto and Yuuta Takahashi.

Tournament data
Players: 390 (195 teams) Prize Pool: $240,500 Format: Two-Headed Giant Draft (Time Spiral-Planar Chaos-Future Sight)

Grand Prixs – San Francisco, Florence

 * GP San Francisco (25–26 August)
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Luis Scott-Vargas
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Jonathan Stocks
 * 3) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 4) Brett Blackman
 * 5) 🇺🇸 David Irvine
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Andrew Walden
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Zack Smith
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon


 * GP Florence (8–9 September)
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Masami Kaneko
 * 2) André Coimbra
 * 3) 🇮🇹 Marco Cammilluzzi
 * 4) 🇮🇹 Mido Kagawa
 * 5) 🇦🇹 Armin Birner
 * 6) Manuel Bucher
 * 7) Rasmus Sibast
 * 8) 🇦🇹 Ronald Guetl

Pro Tour – Kobe (20–22 October 2006)
German Jan-Moritz Merkel won Pro Tour Kobe. It was his first appearance at a Pro Tour.

Tournament data
Players: 388 Prize Pool: $240,245 Format: Booster Draft (Time Spiral)

Grand Prixs – Brisbane, Bangkok, Krakow, Kitakyushu, Daytona Beach

 * GP New Jersey (11–12 November)
 * 1) 🇨🇦 Guillaume Cardin
 * 2) 🇨🇦 Richard Hoaen
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Timothy Aten
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Jason Imperiale
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Gerry Thompson
 * 6) 🇺🇸 John Pelcak
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Andrew Stokinger
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka


 * GP Yamagata (18–19 November)
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Takihiro Suzuki
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Takeshi Ozawa
 * 3) Jelger Wiegersma
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Katsushiro Mori
 * 5) 🇨🇦 Richard Hoaen
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Antoine Ruel
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Ryo Ogura
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Yuu Murakami

2007 World Championships – New York (6–9 December 2007)
The tournament began with the Hall of Fame induction of Bob Maher, Jr., Dave Humpherys Raphaël Lévy, Gary Wise, and Rob Dougherty. In an all-Japanese final Makihito Mihara defeated Ryo Ogura. The Dutch team of Kamiel Cornelissen, Julien Nuijten, and Robert van Medevoort won the team finals against Japan.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $255,245 (individual) + $210,000 (national teams) Players: 356 Formats: Standard, Booster Draft (Time Spiral), Extended

National team competition

 * 1)  Japan (Julien Nuijten, Kamiel Cornelissen, Julien Nuijten)
 * 2) 🇯🇵 United States (Hidenori Katayama, Katsushiro Mori, Shuhei Yamamoto)

Pro Player of the year final standings
After the World Championship Tomoharu Saitou was awarded the Pro Player of the year title.