2010 World Championship
Guillaume Matignon – 2010 World Championship Blue-Black Control |
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(Official coverage)
The seventeenth World Championship took place from 9–12 December in Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. The tournament consisted of six rounds of Standard on Thursday, two Scars of Mirrodin Booster Drafts of three rounds each on Friday, and six rounds of Extended on Saturday. On Sunday the best eight players gathered for the Top 8. They had to play the same decks, they used in the Standard portion of the tournament. Also, the national teams played two rounds of team constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 2 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format is 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy.
352 players from 60 countries competed in the event. The national teams competition had 57 countries represented.
The 2010 World Champion Guillaume Matignon earned enough pro points with his performance to equal Pro Player of the Year leader Brad Nelson's total. This led to a play-off for the Pro Player of the Year title at Pro Tour Paris 2011, which was ultimately won by Brad Nelson.
- Individual
- Guillaume Matignon
- Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
- Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
- Love Janse
- Eric Froehlich
- Lukas Jaklovsky
- Christopher Wolf
- Jonathan Randle
- Team Competition
- Slovakia – Ivan Floch, Robert Jurkovic, Patrik Surab
- Australia – Adam Witton, Ian Wood, Jeremy Neeman
Pro Player of the Year
- Brad Nelson
- Guillaume Matignon
- Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
- Rookie of the Year
- Andrea Giarola
- Hall of Fame inductees
- Gabriel Nassif
- Brian Kibler
- Bram Snepvangers
- Magic Online World Champion
- Carlos Romão
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