Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2012–13 explained

Season:2012–13 Pro Tour season
Ppoty: Josh Utter-Leyton
Roty: Felipe Tapia Becerra
Wc: Yuuya Watanabe
Pts:3
Gps:44
Start:19 May 2012
End:19 May 2013
Hof: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
Kenji Tsumura
Masashi Oiso
Patrick Chapin
Prevseason:2012
Nextseason:2013–14

The 2012–13 Pro Tour season was the eighteenth season of the . It started on 19 May 2012 with Grand Prix Malmö, and ended on 19 May 2013 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Dragon's Maze in San Diego. The season consisted of 44 Grand Prix and three Pro Tours, which were held in Seattle, Montreal and San Diego.[1] [2] At the end of the season Josh Utter-Leyton was proclaimed Pro Player of the Year.[3]

Grand Prix: Malmö, Minneapolis, Anaheim, Manila, Yokohama, Vancouver, Atlanta, São Paulo, Ghent, Columbus, Shanghai

GP Malmö (19–20 May 2012)
  1. Matteo Versari
  2. Oscar Almgren
  3. Søren Larsen
  4. Pere Llimos Muntal
  5. Jasper Grimmer
  6. Jon Westberg
  7. Samuele Estratti
  8. David Hylander
GP Manila (16–17 June 2012)
  1. Yuuya Watanabe
  2. Rick Lee
  3. Hironobu Sugaya
  4. Richmond Tan
  5. Jonathan Luces
  6. Martin Juza
  7. Weng Heng Soh
  8. Jacklord Nerez
GP Atlanta (30 June–1 July 2012)
  1. Gaudenis Vidugiris
  2. Michael Majors
  3. Daryl Ayers
  4. Fred Edelkamp
  5. Ben Stark
  6. Sawyer Lucy
  7. Gerardo Fedon
  8. Samuel Black
GP Columbus (21–22 July 2012)
  1. Jacob Maynard
  2. Lucas Siow
  3. Max Tietze
  4. Aaron Estrin
  5. Shahar Shenhar
  6. Chris Piland
  7. Orrin Beasley
  8. Caleb Estrada
GP Minneapolis (19–20 May 2012)
  1. Christian Calcano
  2. Brad Nelson
  3. Rick Stout
  4. Stephen Bishop
  5. Taylor Laehn
  6. Josh Utter-Leyton
  7. Ben Friedman
  8. Jerret Schultz
GP Yokohoma (23–24 June 2012)
  1. Jyun'ichi Miyajima
  2. Kei Umehara
  3. Satoshi Yamaguchi
  4. Toshiyuki Kadooka
  5. Hiroya Miyamoto
  6. Yuki Yotsumoto
  7. Youichi Nagami
  8. Masaki Ushijima
GP São Paulo (21–22 July 2012)
  1. Reinaldo Gomes da Silva Jr.
  2. Rodrigo Gonçalves dos Santos
  3. Thiago Oliveira
  4. José Francisco Dantas Mangueira da Silva
  5. Luiz Henrique Martine de Lima
  6. Guido Quintana
  7. Rafael Mendonca
  8. Daniel Fior
GP Shanghai (28–29 July 2012)
  1. Bo Li
  2. Fengwen Gu
  3. Nan Wu
  4. Rei Satou
  5. Yang Wang
  6. Nicholas Jonathan Wong
  7. Xiang Xue Song
  8. Toshiya Kanegawa
GP Anaheim (26–27 May 2012)
  1. Marc Lalague
  2. Paul Rietzl
  3. Noah Koessel
  4. Eric Froehlich
  5. Michael Hopkins
  6. Brian Kibler
  7. John Sittner
  8. Jason Rosellini
GP Vancouver (23–24 June 2012)
  1. David Stroud
  2. Jeremey Schofield
  3. Steven Riecken
  4. Marcin Sciesinski
  5. Colin Miller
  6. Brian Wong
  7. Sean Peterson
  8. Morgan Chang
GP Ghent (21–22 July 2012)
  1. Timo Schünemann
  2. Lukas Maurer
  3. Emanuele Marcotti
  4. Elias Watsfeldt
  5. Max Sjoblom
  6. Elias Klocker
  7. Andreas Milillo
  8. Tristan Polzl

World Magic Cup

Indianapolis (16–19 August 2012)

Final standings

PlaceCountryPlayerPrizePro Points
1 Chinese TaipeiKuo Tzu-Ching$10,0008
Tung-Yi Cheng
Yu Min Yang
Paul Renie
2 Puerto RicoJorge Iramain$5,0007
Gabriel Nieves
Cesar Soto
Jonathan Paez
3 PolandTomek Pedrakowski$2,5006
Mateusz Kopec
Adam Bubacz
Jan Pruchniewicz
4 HungaryTamás Glied$2,5006
Gabor Kocsis
Tamas Nagy
Máté Schrick
PlaceCountryPlayerPrizePro Points
5 CroatiaGrgur Petric Maretic $1,5005
Toni Portolan
Stjepan Sučić
Goran Elez
6 ScotlandStephen Murray$1,5005
Bradley Barclay
Andrew Morrison
Chris Davie
7 PhilippinesAndrew Cantillana $1,5005
Gerald Camangon
Zax Ozaki
Jeremy Bryan Domocmat
8 SlovakiaRobert Jurkovic$1,5005
Ivan Floch
Filip Valis
Patrik Surab

Grand Prix: Boston

GP Boston (25–26 August 2012)
  1. Brian Demars
  2. Robert Victory
  3. Cedric Phillips
  4. Alex Lloyd
  5. Kevin Michael
  6. Jason Ford
  7. Thomas Holzinger
  8. Shouta Yasooka

2012 Magic Players Championship

Seattle (29–31 August 2012)

Final standings

The following sixteen players received an invitation to the 2012 Players Championship due to their performance in the 2012 season. They are ordered according to the final standings of the event.

PlayerPrizePro pointsQualified due to
1 Yuuya Watanabe$40,00011Pro Point leader Japan
2 Shouta Yasooka$20,000133rd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
3 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa$10,0007Pro Point leader South America
4 Jon Finkel$10,0007Most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
5 Shuhei Nakamura$5,00075th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
6 Brian Kibler$5,0006Pro Tour Dark Ascension winner
7 Samuele Estratti$5,0006Pro Tour Philadelphia winner
8 Alexander Hayne$5,0006Pro Tour Avacyn Restored winner
9 Martin Juza$1,0006Pro Point leader Europe
10 Owen Turtenwald$1,00062011 Player of the year
11 Jun'ya Iyanaga$1,00062011 World Champion
12 Luis Scott-Vargas$1,00052nd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
13 Josh Utter-Leyton$1,0005Pro Point leader North America
14 David Ochoa$1,00054th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified
15 Kuo Tzu-Ching$1,0004Pro Point leader APAC region
16 Reid Duke$1,00022011 Magic Online Champion

Grand Prix: San Jose (Costa Rica), Moscow, San Jose (USA)

GP San Jose, Costa Rica (15–16 September 2012)
  1. Shuhei Nakamura
  2. David Sharfman
  3. Ben Stark
  4. Willy Edel
  5. Josh Utter-Leyton
  6. David Ochoa
  7. A.J. Sacher
  8. Pascal Maynard
GP Moscow (15–16 September 2012)
  1. Luca Casadei
  2. Wenzel Krautmann
  3. Petr Kuznetsov
  4. Roman Masaladzhiu
  5. Anatoly Chuhwichev
  6. Hannes Kerem
  7. Konstantin Yarosh
  8. Dmitriy Tolkatchov
GP San Jose, USA (13–14 October 2012)

1.

Matthew Sperling

David Williams

Paul Rietzl

2.

Maksym Gryn

Lucas Siow

Jamie Naylor

3.

Conley Woods

Eric Froehlich

Owen Turtenwald

4.

Ivan Floch

Lukas Jaklovsky

Stanislav Cifka

Pro Tour Return to Ravnica

Seattle (19–21 October 2012)

Pro Tour Return to Ravnica was the first major Modern event with Return to Ravnica in the format. It was also the first major tournament in which was legal in Modern after being unbanned in the Modern format shortly before.

Final standings

PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment
1 Stanislav Cifka$40,00030
2 Yuuya Watanabe$20,000242nd final day
3 David Ochoa$12,50022
4 Lee Shi Tian$12,500221st Hong Konger in a Top 8
5 Kelvin Chew$10,00020
6 Eduardo Sajgalik$10,00020
7 Willy Edel$10,000204th final day
8 Pedro Carvalho$10,00020

Grand Prix: Philadelphia, Lyon, Auckland, Chicago, Bochum, Charleston, Taipei, San Antonio, Lisbon, Toronto, Nagoya, Indianapolis, Denver, Atlantic City, Singapore, Bilbao, Sydney, London

GP Philadelphia (27–28 October 2012)
  1. Shuhei Nakamura
  2. Lukas Jaklovsky
  3. Martin Juza
  4. Greg Smith
  5. Jake Gans
  6. Harry Corvese
  7. Luis Scott-Vargas
  8. Yuuya Watanabe
GP Chicago (10–11 November 2012)
  1. Jacob Wilson
  2. Josh Utter-Leyton
  3. Alex Majlaton
  4. Edgar Flores
  5. Shane McDermott
  6. Ryan Hovis
  7. David Gleicher
  8. Michael Simon
GP Taipei (24–25 November 2012)
  1. Makihito Mihara
  2. Akimasa Yamamoto
  3. Weng Heng Soh
  4. Motoki Abe
  5. Derek Tsang
  6. Yuuya Watanabe
  7. Toshiaki Murata
  8. Lee Shi Tian
GP Toronto (8–9 December 2012)
  1. Willy Edel
  2. Sam Pardee
  3. Alon Chitiz
  4. Alex Majlaton
  5. James Vance
  6. Collin Morton
  7. Jon Stern
  8. Dan Jordan
GP Denver (5–6 January 2013)
  1. Vidianto Wijaya
  2. Pat Cox
  3. Ryan Pesch
  4. Joshua Ravitz
  5. Matt Nass
  6. Daniel Signorini
  7. Andrew Ohlschwager
  8. Donnie Peck
GP Bilbao (19–20 January 2013)
  1. Mitchell Manders
  2. Lukas Jaklovsky
  3. Louis Deltour
  4. Vasco Bonifacio
  5. Lorenzo Calzolari
  6. Martin Scheinin
  7. Mathieu Deloly
  8. Francisco Camacho
GP Lyon (3–4 November 2012)
  1. Jérémy Dezani
  2. Emanuel Sutor
  3. Mathieu Hautot
  4. Davide Colla
  5. Peter Dun
    1. Olivier Ruel Clement Sarton
  6. Jonas Köstler
GP Bochum (17–18 November 2012)
  1. Martin Juza
  2. Fabian Dickmann
  3. Tomas Vanek
  4. Kamil Napierski
  5. Enrico Van Eijsden
  6. Pierre Dagen
  7. Lukas Tajak
  8. Sascha Stein
GP San Antonio (24–25 November 2012)
  1. Tyler Lytle
  2. Matthew Pratser
  3. Conley Woods
  4. Reid Duke
  5. Harry Corvese
  6. Ben Rasmussen
  7. Joel De Santos Jasso
  8. Matthew Thurber
GP Nagoya (8–9 December 2012)
  1. Yuuji Okita
  2. Rahman Aryabhima
  3. Mamoru Nagai
  4. Ryuji Murae
  5. Kyouhei Kawaguchi
  6. Kenji Tsumura
  7. Kazumasa Satou
  8. Kazuaki Shinohara
GP Atlantic City (12–13 January 2013)
  1. Jon Stern
  2. Josh Utter-Leyton
  3. Brad Nelson
  4. Ari Lax
  5. Matt Costa
  6. Ryan Leverone
  7. Lloyd Kurth
  8. Seneca Hobler
GP Sydney (19–20 January 2013)
  1. Allen Zhang
  2. Justin Cheung
  3. Tomoharu Saito
  4. Zen Takahashi
  5. Daniel Unwin
  6. Martin Juza
  7. Stanislav Cifka
  8. Adam Witton
GP Auckland (3–4 November 2012)
  1. Walker MacMurdo
  2. Adam Witton
  3. Yoshitoki Sakai
  4. Dylan Brown
  5. Justin Cheung
  6. John Denz
  7. Robert Liu
  8. Anthony Purdom
GP Charleston (17–18 November 2012)
  1. Jon Bolding
  2. Brian Eason
  3. Matt Keene
  4. Peter Kelly
  5. Reid Duke
  6. Pat Cox
  7. Gerry Thompson
  8. Morgan Chang
GP Lisbon (1–2 December 2012)
  1. Ivan Floch
  2. Elias Watsfeldt
  3. Sveinung Bjørnerud
  4. Johan Verhulst
  5. Lasse Nørgaard
  6. David Calås
  7. Helder Coelho
  8. Pedro Carvalho
GP Indianapolis (22–23 December 2012)
  1. Ben Stark
  2. Chris Fennell
  3. Luis Scott-Vargas
  4. Brian Demars
  5. Matthias Hunt
  6. Adam Yurchick
  7. Tom Martell
  8. Tyler Lytle
GP Singapore (12–13 January 2013)
  1. Ken Yukuhiro
  2. Chapman Sim
  3. Andrew Cantillana
  4. Lin Rui Zi
  5. Jun'ya Nakamura
  6. Toshiya Kanegawa
  7. Gao Zhen Xing
  8. Huang Hao-Shan
GP London (9–10 February 2013)
  1. Timothée Simonot
  2. Bartłomiej Tomiczek
  3. Manuel Hauck
  4. David Reitbauer
  5. Andreas Nordahl
  6. Per Carlsson
  7. Fabrizio Anteri
  8. Jamie Ross

Pro Tour Gatecrash

Montreal (15–17 February 2013)

Final standings

PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment
1 Tom Martell$40,000302nd final day
2 Joel Larsson$20,00024
3 Ben Stark$12,500224th final day
4 Eric Froehlich$12,500223rd final day
5 Owen Turtenwald$10,00020
6 Melissa DeTora$10,000201st woman in a Top 8
7 Gerry Thompson$10,00020
8 Stephen Mann$10,00020

Grand Prix: Quebec City, Charlotte, Yokohama, Verona, Rio de Janeiro, San Diego, Utrecht, Pittsburgh, Strasbourg, Portland, Beijing

GP Quebec City (23–24 February 2013)
  1. Nico Christiansen
  2. Kuo Tzu-Ching
  3. Felipe Tapia Becerra
  4. Reid Duke
  5. Thomas Holzinger
  6. Wilson Wong
  7. Maxime Cantin
  8. Wenzel Krautmann
GP Verona (9–10 March 2013)
  1. Mike Krasnitski
  2. Andreas Nilsson
  3. Jérémy Dezani
  4. Samuele Estratti
  5. Toni Ramis Pascual
  6. Piotr Wald
  7. Shahar Shenhar
  8. Max Schultze
GP Utrecht (16–17 March 2013)

1.

Fredrik Carlsson

Jonathan Bergström

Tomas Westling

2.

Joel Larsson

Elias Watsfeldt

Mikael Magnusson

3.

René Kraft

Tobias Radloff

Martin Zimmermann

4.

Matteo Versari

Alessandro Lippi

Samuele Estratti

GP Charlotte (23–24 February 2013)
  1. Frank Skarren
  2. Gerard Fabiano
  3. Patrick Sullivan
  4. Aaron Lewis
  5. Richard Nguyen
  6. Ben Isgur
  7. Ben Stark
  8. Antonino Baldasari
GP Rio de Janeiro (9–10 March 2013)
  1. José Francisco Dantas Mangueira da Silva
  2. Arthur Villela
  3. Andrés Monsalve
  4. Walter Coquemala Filho
  5. Wellington Cordeiro
  6. Martín Quiroga
  7. Jorge Henrique Siqueira
  8. Matías Arvigo
GP Pittsburgh (23–24 March 2013)
  1. Brock Parker
  2. Alec Nezin
  3. Gabby Izsak
  4. Eric Froehlich
  5. Matthew Falcioni
  6. Adam Carrasco
  7. Michael Derczo
  8. Chase Kovac
GP Beijing (11–12 May 2013)
  1. Quan Zhou
  2. Nonthakorn Kositaporn
  3. Toshiya Kanegawa
  4. Wei Quan Wong
  5. Daniel Godfrey
  6. Shuo Li
  7. Nandi Zhang
  8. Bo Li
GP Yokohama (2–3 March 2013)
  1. Masaya Kitayama
  2. Tian Yu Zhao
  3. Samuel Black
  4. Makihito Mihara
  5. Yasutaka Hibino
  6. Shintarou Ishimura
  7. Tomomi Shiraishi
  8. Tomoya Motomura
GP San Diego (16–17 March 2013)
  1. Nathan Holiday
  2. Sammy Tuckeman
  3. Eric Froehlich
  4. David Sharfman
  5. Bryan De La Torre
  6. Brian Kibler
  7. Ken Yukuhiro
  8. Matt Ferrando
GP Strasbourg (13–14 April 2013)
  1. Thomas Enevoldsen
  2. Jacob Wilson
  3. Alexander Hayne
  4. Michael Bonde
  5. Alexey Romanchuk
  6. Hove Thießen
  7. Christopher Brunner
  8. Fabian Görzgen
GP Portland (11–12 May 2013)
  1. Sam Pardee
  2. Joe Demestrio
  3. Zvi Mowshowitz
  4. Dan MacDonald
  5. Mattia Rizzi
  6. Orie Guo
  7. Matt Nass
  8. Paul Rietzl

Pro Tour Dragon's Maze

San Diego (17–19 May 2013)

Final standings

PlacePlayerPrizePro PointsComment
1 Craig Wescoe$40,000303rd final day
2 Dustin Ochoa $20,00024
3$12,500224th final day
4 Josh Utter-Leyton$12,500224th final day
5 Rob Castellon$10,00020Pro Tour debut
6 Andrew Shrout $10,00020Pro Tour debut
7 Matej Zatlkaj$10,000202nd final day
8 Andrejs Prost$10,000202nd final day

Invitees to the 2013 World Championship

The following sixteen players received an invitation to the 2013 World Championship due to their performance in the 2012–13 season.

PlayerQualification seat
Josh Utter-Leyton2012–13 Player of the Year
Yuuya Watanabe2012 Players’ Championship winner
Dimitriy Butakov2012 Magic Online champion
Stanislav CifkaPro Tour Return to Ravnica champion
Tom MartellPro Tour Gatecrash champion
Craig WescoePro Tour Dragon's Maze champion
Willy EdelPro Points leader, Latin America
Lee Shi TianPro Points leader, Asia-Pacific
Eric FroehlichAt-large seat #1
Ben StarkAt-large seat #2
Shuhei NakamuraAt-large seat #3
Brian KiblerAt-large seat #4
Shahar ShenharAt-large seat #5
Martin JůzaAt-large seat #6
David OchoaAt-large seat #7
Reid DukeAt-large seat #8

Pro Player of the Year final standings

After Pro Tour Dragon's Maze Josh Utter-Leyton was awarded the Pro Player of the year title.

RankPlayerPro Points
1 Josh Utter-Leyton77
2 Tom Martell67
align=center rowspan=23 Eric Froehlich65
Yuuya Watanabe65
5 Ben Stark61

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Spring/Summer Schedule Features Barcelona Pro Tour, Thirteen Grand Prix. 7 December 2011. 10 December 2012. Wizards of the Coast. https://web.archive.org/web/20120107160314/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/172a. dead. January 7, 2012.
  2. Web site: Autumn Schedule Features Seattle Pro Tour, Fourteen Grand Prix. 10 February 2012. 10 December 2012. Wizards of the Coast. https://web.archive.org/web/20120214035824/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/other/021012a. dead. February 14, 2012.
  3. Web site: Player of the Year Standings: 2012-13. 23 May 2013. 1 June 2013. Wizards of the Coast. https://web.archive.org/web/20120602075137/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Events.aspx?x=protour/standings/ppc201314. dead. June 2, 2012.
  4. Web site: Completing the Premier Play Picture for 2013. 10 December 2012. 10 December 2012. Wizards of the Coast. Helene Bergeot. https://web.archive.org/web/20121213011254/http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/225b. dead. December 13, 2012.

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