2011 Pro Tour Season

2011 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Owen Turtenwald
Rookie of the Year	Matthias Hunt
World Champion	Jun'ya Iyanaga
Team Champion	Japan
Hall of Fame inductions	Shuhei Nakamura Anton Jonsson Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
PTs	4
Grand Prix	20
Previous season: 2010 Next season: 2012

The 2011 Pro Tour season was the sixteenth Pro Tour season. It started on 22 January 2011 with Grand Prix Atlanta, and ended on 20 November 2011 with the conclusion of the 2011 World Championships.

Grand Prix (January 2011)

GP Atlanta
Date: 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 in Paris, France.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Ben Stark	$40,000	25	Third Pro Tour Top 8
2	Paul Rietzl	$20,000	20	Third Pro Tour Top 8
3	Vincent Lemoine	$15,000	16
4	Naoki Nakada	$13,000	16
5	Nico Bohny	$11,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
6	Patrick Chapin	$10,500	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
7	Tom Martell	$10,000	12
8	Shintaro Ishimura	$9,500	12

Grand Prix (February–June 2011)

GP Paris	GP Denver	GP Barcelona
Date: 12–13 February 2011	Date: 19–20 February 2011	Date: 26–27 March 2011
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 2182	Attendance: 841	Attendance: 1201
1. David Sharfman	1. Gaudenis Vidugiris	1. Martin Scheinin
2. William Lowry	2. Martin Jůza	2. Toni Ramis Pascual
3. Christian Hüttenberger	3. Owen Turtenwald	3. Richard Bland
4. Gerald Leitzinger	4. Eduardo dos Santos Vieira	4. Eduardo Sajgalik
5. Kai Budde	5. Thomas Pannell	5. Jonas Köstler
6. Sveinung Bjørnerud	6. Paul Cheon	6. Karol Nosowicz
7. Lewis McLeod	7. James Zornes	7. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
8. Dimitris Davios	8. Brian Kibler	8. Simon Bertiou

GP Dallas	GP Kobe	GP London
Date: 9–10 April 2011	Date: 23–24 April 2011	Date: 30 April–1 May 2011
Format: Standard	Format: Extended	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1189	Attendance: 710	Attendance: 709
1. David Shiels	1. Shota Yasooka	1. Daniel Royde
2. Orrin Beasley	2. Makihito Mihara	2. Louis Deltour
3. Owen Turtenwald	3. Kenichiro Omori	3. Martin Lindström
4. Austin Bursavich	4. Shunsuke Aka	4. Gennaro Mango
5. Alex Bertoncini	5. Shinya Satou	5. Raul Porojan
6. Josh Utter-Leyton	6. Shouhei Yamamoto	6. Andra La Placa
7. Michael Jacob	7. Martin Jůza	7. Kenny Öberg
8. Korey McDuffie	8. Kentaro Ino	8. Nicholas Taylor

GP Prague	GP Providence	GP Singapore
Date: 21–22 May 2011	Date: 28–29 May 2011	Date: 4–5 June 2011
Format: Limited	Format: Legacy	Format: Standard
Attendance: 1236	Attendance: 1179	Attendance: 623
1. Ondrej Baudys	1. James Rynkiewicz	1. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
2. Lukas Blohon	2. Bryan Eleyet	2. Chikara Nakajima
3. Shuhei Nakamura	3. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	3. Chatchai Seathang
4. Anders Melin	4. Reid Duke	4. Owen Turtenwald
5. Petr Brozek	5. Owen Turtenwald	5. Shota Yasooka
6. Lukasz Cichecki	6. Wilson Hunter	6. Weng Heng Soh
7. Joel Larsson	7. John Kubilis	7. Hao-Shan Huang
8. Robert Jurkovic	8. Alex Majlaton	8. Marios Angelopozlos

Pro Tour Nagoya

10–12 June 2011 in Nagoya, Japan.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	David Sharfman	$40,000	25
2	Toshiyuki Kadooka	$20,000	20
3	Elie Pichon	$15,000	16
4	Fabian Thiele	$13,000	16
5	Tsuyoshi Fujita	$11,000	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Gaudenis Vidugiris	$10,500	12
7	Luis Scott-Vargas	$10,000	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
8	Patrick Cox	$9,500	12

Grand Prix (June–August 2011)

GP Kansas City	GP Shanghai	GP Pittsburgh
Date: 18–19 June 2011	Date: 20–21 August 2011	Date: 27–28 August 2011
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 879	Attendance: 633	Attendance: 1435
1. Luis Scott-Vargas	1. Yuuya Watanabe	1. Yuuya Watanabe
2. Yuuya Watanabe	2. Ryouta Endou	2. Lukasz Musial
3. Tim Aten	3. Zhiyang Zhang	3. Patrick Chapin
4. Samuel Friedman	4. Kentarou Ino	4. Max Tietze
5. Zachary Jesse	5. Kuang Chen	5. Joel Larsson
6. Gregory Jolin	6. Kentarou Nonaka	6. Matt Nass
7. Matt Costa	7. Daniel Pham	7. Florian Pils
8. Willy Edel	8. Bin Xu	8. Harry Corvese

Pro Tour Philadelphia

2–4 September 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Samuele Estratti	$40,000	25	First Italian to win a Pro Tour
2	Josh Utter-Leyton	$20,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Sam Black	$15,000	16
4	Chikara Nakajima	$13,000	16	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5	Max Sjöblom	$11,000	12
6	Jesse Hampton	$10,500	12
7	Andrejs Prost	$10,000	12
8	Alessandro Portaro	$9,500	12

Grand Prix (September–November 2011)

GP Montreal	GP Milan	GP Brisbane	GP Amsterdam
Date: 17–18 September 2011	Date: 8–9 October 2011	Date: 15–16 October 2011	Date: 22–23 October 2011
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Legacy
Attendance: 1054	Attendance: 1790	Attendance: 389	Attendance: 1878
1. Rich Hoaen	1. Marco Ricci	1. Jeremy Neeman	1. Pierre Sommen
2. Alexander Hayne	2. Raphaël Lévy	2. Tim Fondum	2. Ciro Bonaventura
3. Lino Burgold	3. Samuele Estratti	3. Andreas Pranoto	3. Christof Kovacs
4. Andrew Noworaj	4. Davide Vergoni	4. Luke Mulcahy	4. Elie Pichon
5. Reid Duke	5. Alexandru Dimitriu	5. Hao-Shan Huang	5. Fabian Görzgen
6. Alexander West	6. Marcello Calvetto	6. Jacky Zhang	6. Maciej Pasek
7. Michael Holden	7. Michael Milis	7. Daniel Unwin	7. Kim Grymer
8. Reid Duke	8. Jörg Unfried	8. Shota Yasooka	8. Paolo Pavesi

GP Santiago	GP Hiroshima	GP San Diego
Date: 22–23 October 2011	Date: 29–30 October 2011	Date: 12–13 November 2011
Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Limited
Attendance: 737	Attendance: 796	Attendance: 1045
1. Igor Silva Pinto	1. Martin Jůza	1. Shahar Shenhar
2. Carlos Iturra	2. Takahiro Shiraki	2. Richard Bland
3. Owen Turtenwald	3. Akira Asahara	3. Ricky Sidher
4. Melissa DeTora	4. Rin Satou	4. Lokman Chen
5. Martin Jůza	5. Kouichi Tashiro	5. Elias Watsfeldt
6. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	6. Hiroshi Onizuka	6. Owen Turtenwald
7. David Kaliski	7. Naoki Obayashi	7. Aaron Cheng
8. Martin Lecce	8. Kouichi Tanaka	8. Alexander West

2011 World Championships

17–20 November 2011 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Jun'ya Iyanaga	$45,000	25
2	Richard Bland	$24,000	20
3	Conley Woods	$15,000	16	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4	David Caplan	$14,000	16
5	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$11,000	12	Eighth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Luis Scott-Vargas	$10,500	12	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
7	Josh Utter-Leyton	$10,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8	Craig Wescoe	$9,500	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8

Team competition

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Japan	Ryuuichirou Ishida	$4,000	6
		Tomoya Fujimoto	$4,000	6
		Makihito Mihara	$4,000	6
2	Norway	Andreas Nordahl	$2,500	5
		Sveinung Bjørnerud	$2,500	5
		Kristoffer Jonassen	$2,500	5