2002 World Championships

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2002 World Championships
Date August 13–18, 2002
Location AUS flag Sydney, New South Wales
Format Booster Draft
Standard
Winner BRA flag Carlos Romão
DEU flag Germany (team)
World Championships
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The 2002 World Championship was held from August 13 to August 18 2002 at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia; 24-year old Carlos "Jaba" Romão from São Paulo, Brazil came out as world champion, garnering a prize of US$35,000 with the help of his blue/black "Psychatog" deck. Other finalists included Mark Ziegner from Germany (2nd place), Diego Ostrovich from Argentina (3rd place), and Dave Humpherys from the USA (4th place), as well as Malaysian national champion Sim Han How (5th place), John Larkin from Ireland (6th place), Tuomas Kotiranta from Finland (7th place) and Ken Krouner from the USA (8th place).

Winning deck

Carlos Romão - 2002 World Championship

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