2006 Pro Tour Season

2006 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Shota Yasooka
Rookie of the Year	Sebastian Thaler
World Champion	Makihito Mihara
Team Champion	Netherlands
Hall of Fame inductions	Bob Maher, Jr. David Humpherys Raphaël Lévy Gary Wise Rob Dougherty
PTs	5
Grand Prix	22
Previous season: 2005 Next season: 2007

The 2006 Pro Tour season was the eleventh Pro Tour season. It started on 18 December 2005 with Grand Prix events in Lille and Charlotte, and ended on 3 December 2006 with the conclusion of the 2006 World Championships.

Grand Prix (December 2005–February 2006)

GP Lille	GP Charlotte	GP Hasselt
Date: 18–19 December 2005	Date: 18–19 December 2005	Date: 28–29 January 2006
Format: Legacy	Format: Extended	Format: Limited
Attendance: 939	Attendance: 456	Attendance: 1070
1. Helmut Summersberger	1. Michael Krumb	1. Sam Gomersall
2. Daniel Krutil	2. Alex Majlaton	2. Julien Goron
3. Nicholas Labarre	3. Kyle Goodman	3. Maurice Palijama
4. Luca Verdiani	4. Dave Shiels	4. Ziga Fritz
5. Martin Brenner	5. Antonino De Rosa	5. Helge Nelson
6. Loïc Le Briand	6. Alan Hubbard	6. Dimitri Reinderman
7. Maximilian Bracht	7. Chris Boozer	7. Quentin Martin
8. Nicolas Francois	8. Tom LaPille	8. Francois Moreau

GP Richmond	GP Dortmund
Date: 4–5 February 2006	Date: 18–19 February 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 558	Attendance: 1029
1. Rich Hoaen	1. David Brucker
2. Jon Sonne	2. Julien Goron
3. Adam Chambers	3. Mathias Wigge
4. John Fiorillo	4. Marco Rothaupt
5. Eugene Harvey	5. Dennis Grudowski
6. Taylor Webb	6. Julien Nuijten
7. Gerry Thompson	7. Olivier Ruel
8. Michael Pinnegar	8. Stefan Rentzsch

Pro Tour Honolulu

3–5 March 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Mark Herberholz	$40,000	25	Third Pro Tour Top 8
2	Craig Jones	$20,000	20
3	Tiago Chan	$15,000	16
4	Olivier Ruel	$14,000	16	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Osyp Lebedowicz	$11,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
6	Maximilian Bracht	$11,000	12
7	Ruud Warmenhoven	$10,500	12
8	Antoine Ruel	$10,000	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (March–April 2006)

GP Manila	GP Cardiff	GP Madison
Date: 18–19 March 2006	Date: 25–26 March 2006	Date: 25–26 March 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Team Unified Standard
Attendance: 368	Attendance: 370	Attendance: 456 (152 teams)
1. James Porter	1. Martin Dingler	1. Brian Ziegler  1. Tim Bulger  1. Takanobu Sato
2. Jiro Francisco	2. Wesimo Al-Bacha
3. Cynic Kim	3. Roel van Heeswijk
4. Bo Sun	4. Julian Jardine	2. Kyle Goodman  2. Mark Ioli  2. Ben Lundquist
5. Jake Hart	5. Quentin Martin
6. Felix Gonzales	6. Bram Snepvangers
7. Takuya Osawa	7. Raphaël Lévy	3. Rich Hoaen  3. Eric Froehlich  3. Bob Maher, Jr.
8. Dominic Ortega	8. Antoine Ruel
		4. John Pelcak  4. Chris McDaniel  4. Jon Sonne

GP Hamamatsu	GP Barcelona
Date: 8–9 April 2006	Date: 8–9 April 2006
Format: Team Unified Standard	Format: Limited
Attendance: 495 (165 teams)	Attendance: 1208
1. Kotatsu Saitou  1. Takahiro Katayama  1. Yuusuke Tanii	1. Helmut Summersberger
	2. Raphaël Lévy
	3. Jelger Wiegersma
2. Akira Asahara  2. Masaya Kitayama  2. Shota Yasooka	4. Johan Sadeghpour
	5. Olivier Ruel
	6. Aniol Alcaraz
3. Takuya Osawa  3. Ryo Ogura  3. Itaru Ishida	7. Jean Charles Salvin
	8. Sebastian Thaler
4. Takashi Ishihara  4. Shuhei Itou  4. Daisuke Saitou

Pro Tour Prague

5–7 May 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Takuya Osawa	$40,000	25
2	Aaron Brackmann	$20,000	20
3	Shuhei Nakamura	$15,000	16	Third Pro Tour Top 8
4	Christian Hüttenberger	$14,000	16
5	Rasmus Sibast	$11,500	12
6	Antonino De Rosa	$11,000	12
7	Joe Crosby	$10,500	12
8	Quentin Martin	$10,000	12

Grand Prix (June 2006)

GP Kuala Lumpur	GP Turin	GP Toronto
Date: 3–4 June 2006	Date: 3–4 June 2006	Date: 3–4 June 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 316	Attendance: 656	Attendance: 504
1. Kenji Tsumura	1. Nico Bohny	1. Antonino De Rosa
2. Osamu Fujita	2. Antoine Ruel	2. Jon Sonne
3. Quentin Martin	3. Bram Snepvangers	3. Kyle Sanchez
4. Ruud Warmenhoven	4. Klaus Jöns	4. Mark Lovin
5. Terry Soh	5. Marco Lombardi	5. John Fiorillo
6. Shota Yasooka	6. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa	6. Brad Taulbee
7. Cynic Kim	7. Giacomo Mallamaci	7. Jay Jiang
8. Itaru Ishida	8. Pierre Canali	8. Jelger Wiegersma

Pro Tour Charleston

16–18 June 2006 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Place	Team name	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Kajiharu80	Tomohiro Kaji	$75,000	20	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		Shota Yasooka		20
		Tomoharu Saito		20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2	Raaala Pumba	Celso Zampere, Jr.	$36,000	16
		Willy Edel		16
		Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa		16
3	D-25	Chikara Nakajima	$21,000	12
		Ryuichi Arita		12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
		Kazuya Mitamura		12
4	Big Timing With Big Oots	Chris McDaniel	$18,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
		Gadiel Szleifer		12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		John Pelcak		12

Grand Prix (June–October 2006)

GP Toulouse	GP Malmö	GP St. Louis	GP Hiroshima
Date: 24–25 June 2006	Date: 22–23 July 2006	Date: 22–23 July 2006	Date: 19–20 August 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 674	Attendance: 539	Attendance: 466	Attendance: 417
1. Kenji Tsumura	1. Wessel Oomens	1. Shuhei Nakamura	1. Shuhei Nakamura
2. Marijn Lybaert	2. Vasilis Fatouros	2. Zac Hill	2. André Coimbra
3. Shuhei Nakamura	3. Wilco Pinkster	3. Kenji Tsumura	3. Takahiro Suzuki
4. Adrian Olivera	4. Axel Berglund	4. Chris Fennell	4. Basam Tebet
5. Julien Soum	5. Jelger Wiegersma	5. Alex Kim	5. Julien Nuijten
6. Olivier Ruel	6. Kamiel Cornelissen	6. Pierre Mondon	6. Kentarou Nonaka
7. Shota Yasooka	7. André Coimbra	7. Dalton King	7. Ichirou Shimura
8. Thomas Didierjean	8. Asbjørn Fallesen	8. Jeremy Kunkel	8. Yuusuke Wakisaka

GP Phoenix	GP Sydney	GP Athens
Date: 2–3 September 2006	Date: 7–8 October 2006	Date: 14–15 October 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 387	Attendance: 213	Attendance: 469
1. Carlos Romão	1. James Zhang	1. Sebastian Thaler
2. Sean Inoue	2. Anatoli Lightfoot	2. Vincent Lemoine
3. Raphaël Lévy	3. Tomoharu Saito	3. Marcio Carvalho
4. Sam Stein	4. Jeremy Neeman	4. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
5. Geoffrey Siron	5. Steven Aplin	5. David Brucker
6. Gadiel Szleifer	6. Takuya Osawa	6. Antoine Ruel
7. André Coimbra	7. Shota Yasooka	7. Evangelos Papatsarouchas
8. Shu Kumuro	8. Hugh Glanville	8. Aaron Brackmann

Pro Tour Kobe

20–22 October 2006 in Kobe, Japan.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Jan-Moritz Merkel	$40,000	25	Pro Tour debut
2	Willy Edel	$20,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Bastien Perez	$15,000	16
4	Thomas Didierjean	$14,000	16	Pro Tour debut
5	Kenji Tsumura	$11,500	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Bram Snepvangers	$11,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7	Tomoharu Saito	$10,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8	Takahiro Suzuki	$10,000	12

Grand Prix (November 2006)

GP New Jersey	GP Yamagata
Date: 11–12 November 2006	Date: 18–19 November 2006
Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 913	Attendance: 359
1. Guillaume Cardin	1. Takihiro Suzuki
2. Rich Hoaen	2. Takeshi Ozawa
3. Tim Aten	3. Jelger Wiegersma
4. Jason Imperiale	4. Katsuhiro Mori
5. Gerry Thompson	5. Rich Hoaen
6. John Pelcak	6. Antoine Ruel
7. Andrew Stokinger	7. Ryo Ogura
8. Shota Yasooka	8. Yuu Murakami

2006 World Championships

29 November–3 December 2006 in Paris, France.

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Makihito Mihara	$50,000	25
2	Ryo Ogura	$25,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Nick Lovett	$16,000	16	First Welshman in a Pro Tour Top 8, Pro Tour debut
4	Gabriel Nassif	$15,000	16	Seventh Pro Tour Top 8
5	Paulo Carvalho	$11,500	12	Pro Tour debut
6	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$11,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
7	Tiago Chan	$10,500	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8	Katsuhiro Mori	$10,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8

Team competition

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Netherlands	Julien Nuijten	$10,000	6
		Kamiel Cornelissen	$10,000	6
		Robert van Medevoort	$10,000	6
2	Japan	Hidenori Katayama	$5,000	5
		Katsuhiro Mori	$5,000	5
		Shouhei Yamamoto	$5,000	5