Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame consists of an online museum and the Pro Tour Hall of Fame Exhibit, which makes appearances at events such as World Championships and the first Pro Tour of the season. The Hall honors Magic: The Gathering's "significant and influential competitors". The Hall opened in 2005.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a player must have at least 150 lifetime Pro Points (prior to 2014, only 100 Pro Points were needed), must have participated in their first Pro Tour event (including Worlds prior to 2011) at least 10 seasons before the current voting year, and must not be currently suspended by the DCI. Starting in 2017, an added rule prescribes that a player must have at least two Pro Tour final-day finishes.

Removal from ballot

Players who have been eligible for the Hall of Fame, but received less than 10% of the votes in three years, are removed from the ballot. Prior to 2018, this was restricted to three consecutive years. Players who have been removed from the ballot can be reinstated by earning four or more Pro Points within one calendar year.

Selection process

Each year, eligible players are selected for the Hall of Fame through voting by a Selection Committee consisting primarily of certain Wizards of the Coast employees, reporters and commentators of the Pro Tour, high-level judges, previously inducted Hall of Famers, and professional players with at least 150 Pro Points.

For the first three years, the top five players on the ballot with the most votes were elected. This was changed in 2008; only players who received at least 40% of the votes would be inducted – or, if no one on the ballot reached 40%, the top vote getter. In theory, this means that as few as one player could get inducted, but also that the number of inductees could be in excess of five. In 2017, the threshold was raised to 60%.

Each year, at the first Pro Tour of the new season, an induction ceremony is held to award Hall of Fame rings to that year's Hall of Fame elects, officially enshrining them into the Hall. Prior to 2012, this ceremony was at the Magic World Championships.

Benefits

Being elected to the Hall of Fame has several benefits in addition to the recognition:

• Three byes at all individual format Grand Prix events
• Invitation to all Pro Tours and Nationals
• One bye at Nationals
• Complimentary sleep-in special at all Grand Prix events (where available)
• 35 QPs given each month in Magic Online Championship Series
• A $1500 appearance fee for participating in the Pro Tour where the Hall of Fame introduction ceremony is held (i.e. the first Pro Tour of the season). Should the player is also a Platinum-level pro, both appearance fee rewards applies.
  • Prior to the 2016–17 season, this appearance fee was also awarded upon attendance at all other Pro Tours, as well as the World Magic Cup.

The Hall of Fame appearance fee is in addition to what, if anything, they receive for their Pro Players Club level. For byes and Magic Online QPs, however, only the higher reward applies.

Inductees

Class of 2005	Votes
Template:Flagicon Jon Finkel Template:Flagicon Darwin Kastle Template:Flagicon Alan Comer Template:Flagicon Tommi Hovi Template:Flagicon Olle Råde	97.1% 62.3% 52.2% 46.4% 34.8%

Class of 2006	Votes
Template:Flagicon Bob Maher, Jr. Template:Flagicon Dave Humpherys Template:Flagicon Raphaël Lévy Template:Flagicon Gary Wise Template:Flagicon Rob Dougherty	60.0% 56.8% 42.6% 39.0% 38.2%

Class of 2007	Votes
Template:Flagicon Kai Budde Template:Flagicon Zvi Mowshowitz Template:Flagicon Tsuyoshi Fujita Template:Flagicon Nicolai Herzog Template:Flagicon Randy Buehler	90.4% 62.3% 49.7% 41.5% 35.6%

Class of 2008	Votes
Template:Flagicon Dirk Baberowski Template:Flagicon Mike Turian Template:Flagicon Jelger Wiegersma Template:Flagicon Olivier Ruel Template:Flagicon Ben Rubin	52.4% 50.1% 48.2% 46.0% 45.6%

Class of 2009	Votes
Template:Flagicon Antoine Ruel Template:Flagicon Kamiel Cornelissen Template:Flagicon Frank Karsten	63.4% 62.5% 44.8%

Class of 2010	Votes
Template:Flagicon Gabriel Nassif Template:Flagicon Brian Kibler Template:Flagicon Bram Snepvangers	89.3% 49.4% 40.0%

Class of 2011	Votes
Template:Flagicon Shuhei Nakamura Template:Flagicon Anton Jonsson Template:Flagicon Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz	89.3% 69.8% 50.6%

Class of 2012	Votes
Template:Flagicon Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Template:Flagicon Kenji Tsumura Template:Flagicon Masashi Oiso Template:Flagicon Patrick Chapin	85.7% 81.8% 76.2% 44.9%

Class of 2013	Votes
Template:Flagicon Luis Scott-Vargas Template:Flagicon William Jensen Template:Flagicon Ben Stark	95.6% 60.0% 59.0%

Class of 2014	Votes
Template:Flagicon Makihito Mihara Template:Flagicon Paul Rietzl Template:Flagicon Guillaume Wafo-Tapa	86.8% 72.6% 60.9%

Class of 2015	Votes
Template:Flagicon Eric Froehlich Template:Flagicon Shota Yasooka Template:Flagicon Willy Edel	66.4% 62.5% 47.6%

Class of 2016	Votes
Template:Flagicon Yuuya Watanabe Template:Flagicon Owen Turtenwald	90.3% 70.9%

Class of 2017	Votes
Template:Flagicon Josh Utter-Leyton Template:Flagicon Martin Jůza	86.3% 66.4%

Class of 2018	Votes
Template:Flagicon Seth Manfield Template:Flagicon Lee Shi Tian	65.2% 64.2%

Controversy

Although Mike Long was eligible since the first year of the Hall of Fame (2005), he was not inducted. Though he has the necessary statistical credentials and garnered some votes (21.7% in 2005 at the most), he was not voted in. Mark Rosewater is among those who have voted and argued for his induction. However, his alleged cheating and his shady reputation repeatedly prevented his induction. He fell off the ballot following the 2012 voting, when he received 5.2% of the votes.

Notes

^I In 2010, Tomoharu Saito was voted into the Hall of Fame, receiving 47.7% of the votes. However, at Grand Prix Florence, two weeks before the induction ceremony, Saito was disqualified and subsequently suspended from the game for 18 months. The Hall of Fame rules state that suspended players cannot be voted for, but Saito had already been voted in. However, Wizards of the Coast announced that due to the suspension, Saito would not be a part of the 2010 Hall of Fame. Saito was eligible for Hall of Fame again in 2012, and has received 11.2%, 18.3%, 14.7%, and 13.9% of the votes from 2012 to 2015, respectively.

^II In the originally announced voting results for 2010, Bram Snepvangers barely missed getting voted into the Hall of Fame, receiving 39.95% of the votes. Following the announcement, however, it was discovered an error in the calculations, and that Snepvanger's correct result was 40.03%, barely enough to be inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside Gabriel Nassif and Brian Kibler.

External links

• Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame
• Hall of Fame Eligibility By Year