2012 Pro Tour Season

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2012 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year Template:Flagicon JPN Yuuya Watanabe [I]
Rookie of the Year Template:Flagicon CAN Alexander Hayne
World Champion n/a
Hall of Fame inductions n/a
PTs 2
Grand Prix 16
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Next season:
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The 2012 Pro Tour season was the seventeenth Pro Tour season. It was a transitional season, as changes were made to the Pro Tour system (including the new World Magic Cup and Players Championship tournaments), and it was retroactively made to overlap with the latter half of the 2011 season. As such, events in 2011, starting with GP Kansas City in June, counted towards the 2012 season's races and end-of-year levels and benefits. However, the 2012 season itself started on 7 January 2012 with Grand Prix Austin, and ended on 13 May 2012 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Avacyn Restored.

2012 season changes

The season introduced a number of changes that were announced during the tail end of 2011. These include the abandonment of the DCI ratings system in favor of Planeswalker points; byes at Grand Prix events would now be awarded to players earning a sufficient number of Planeswalker points, rather than to players with a high DCI rating. For Pro Tour Dark Ascension, players could get invited by earning enough Planeswalker points, but this method of qualification was removed after that event. Pro Tours were now scheduled to be held shortly after each new Expert-level set release, with the event taking the name after that expansion rather than the host city, as had been customary in past seasons. The number of Grand Prix events was greatly increased, though the number of Pro Tour invitations awarded for each of these was substantially decreased; in past seasons, the top 16 players had qualified for an upcoming Pro Tour; in 2012, only 2-4 players per event qualified.

Lastly, the World Championships and the Player of the Year race were replaced by two events: The World Magic Cup and the Magic Players Championship, with the winner of the Players Championship being considered the Player of the Year. This was somewhat altered in later seasons, however; the Player of the Year race returned, and the Players Championship was renamed into the World Championship, with the winner of the event being considered the World Champion. As such, the winner of the 2012 Magic Players Championship, Yuuya Watanabe, is considered the 2012 World Champion.

Grand Prix (January 2012)

GP Austin GP Orlando
 Date: 7–8 January 2012  Date: 14–15 January 2012
 Format: Limited  Format: Standard
 Attendance: 1044  Attendance: 926
 1. Template:Flagicon FRA Raphaël Lévy  1. Template:Flagicon USA Conley Woods
 2. Template:Flagicon USA Patrick Cox  2. Template:Flagicon USA Patrick Chapin
 3. Template:Flagicon USA Craig Edwards  3. Template:Flagicon BRA Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 4. Template:Flagicon USA Eric Downing  4. Template:Flagicon USA Stephen Mann
 5. Template:Flagicon CAN Jason Howden  5. Template:Flagicon USA Gabriel Nieves
 6. Template:Flagicon USA David Ochoa  6. Template:Flagicon USA Ben Friedman
 7. Template:Flagicon USA Austin Bursavich  7. Template:Flagicon USA Javier Adorno
 8. Template:Flagicon USA David Saylor  8. Template:Flagicon USA David Ochoa

Pro Tour Dark Ascension

10–12 February 2012 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 Template:Flagicon USA Brian Kibler $40,000 30 Fifth Pro Tour Top 8, Second Pro Tour win
2 Template:Flagicon BRA Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa $20,000 24 Ninth Pro Tour Top 8
3 Template:Flagicon USA Jon Finkel $12,500 22 Thirteenth Pro Tour Top 8
4 Template:Flagicon JPN Mamoru Nagai $12,500 22
5 Template:Flagicon SWE Denniz Rachid $10,000 20
6 Template:Flagicon USA Matt Costa $10,000 20
7 Template:Flagicon CZE Lukas Blohon $10,000 20
8 Template:Flagicon NLD Jelger Wiegersma $10,000 20 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (February–April 2012)

Pro Tour Avacyn Restored

11–13 May 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 Template:Flagicon CAN Alexander Hayne $40,000 30
2 Template:Flagicon LTU Gaudenis Vidugiris $20,000 24 Second Pro Tour Top 8
3 Template:Flagicon USA Josh Cho $12,500 22 Pro Tour debut
4 Template:Flagicon JPN Ken Yukuhiro $12,500 22
5 Template:Flagicon USA Jon Finkel $10,000 20 Fourteenth Pro Tour Top 8
6 Template:Flagicon SWE Denniz Rachid $10,000 20 Second Pro Tour Top 8
7 Template:Flagicon AUT Thomas Holzinger $10,000 20
8 Template:Flagicon JPN Naoki Shimizu $10,000 20 Second Pro Tour Top 8

Notes

^I Yuuya Watanabe is considered the 2012 Player of the Year, as he won the inaugural Players Championship event, later renamed the World Championship. However, Yuuya would have been the 2012 Player of the Year even under the traditional Player of the Year system.[1]

References

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