2003–04 Pro Tour Season

2003–04 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Gabriel Nassif
Rookie of the Year	Julien Nuijten
World Champion	Julien Nuijten
Team Champion	Germany
PTs	7
Grand Prix	26
Previous season: 2002–03 Next season: 2005

The 2003–04 Pro Tour season was the ninth Pro Tour season. It started on 23 August 2003 with Grand Prix events in Yokohama and London, and ended on 5 September 2004 with the conclusion of the 2004 World Championships.

Grand Prix (August 2003)

GP Yokohama Date: 23–24 August 2003 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 808

1. Shu Komuro 2. Kazuki Kato 3. Masashiro Kuroda 4. Yuichi Yamagishi 5. Masahiko Morita 6. Shuhei Nakamura 7. Kazuyuki Momose 8. Yusuke Osaka

GP London Date: 23–24 August 2003 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 525

1. Diego Ostrovich 2. Yann Hamon 3. Mario Pascoli 4. Eivind Nitter 5. Antonino De Rosa 6. Jose Barbero 7. Josh Rider 8. Frank Karsten

GP Atlanta Date: 30–31 August 2003 Format: Standard Attendance: 588

1. Marco Blume 2. Matt Linde 3. Joshua Wagener 4. Keith McLaughlin 5. Zvi Mowshowitz 6. Keith Thompson 7. Sean Buckley 8. Tim Bonneville

Pro Tour Boston

12–14 September 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Place	Team name	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	The Brockafellars	Brock Parker	$60,000	24
		William Jensen		24	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
		Matt Linde		24	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2	Original Slackers	Lovre Crnobori	$30,000	18
		Jake Smith		18
		Rickard Österberg		18
3	Zabutan Nemonaut	Mike Turian	$18,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		Gary Wise		12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
		Eugene Harvey		12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4	Phoenix Foundation	Marco Blume	$15,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		Kai Budde		12	Ninth Pro Tour Top 8
		Dirk Baberowski		12	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (September–October 2003)

GP Genova Date: 13–14 September 2003 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 585

1. Reinhard Blech 2. Jan Doise 3. Stefano Fiore 4. André Müller 5. Simone Carboni 6. Alessandro Vegna 7. Marco Benifei 8. Martin Heidemann

GP Sydney Date: 4–5 October 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 274

1. Andrew Grain 2. Andrew Gordon 3. Lenny Collins 4. Itaru Ishida 5. Shun Jiang 6. Jake Hart 7. Daniel Turner 8. Tim He

GP Kansas City Date: 18–19 October 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 500

1. Antonino De Rosa 2. Nate Heiss 3. Ben Stark 4. Brian Kibler 5. Michael Krumb 6. Gerry Thompson 7. Justin Smith 8. Jonathan Cassidy

GP Lyon Date: 25–26 October 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 1016

1. Yann Hamon 2. Bruno Carvalho 3. Daniel Madan 4. Jeroen Remie 5. Kevin Desprez 6. Loïc Degrau 7. Sebastien Bernaud 8. Jelger Wiegersma

Pro Tour New Orleans

31 October–2 November 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Rickard Österberg	$30,000	32	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2	Gabriel Nassif	$20,000	24	Third Pro Tour Top 8
3	Yann Hamon	$15,000	16
4	Masashi Oiso	$13,000	16	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5	Hans Joachim Höh	$9,500	12
6	Eugene Harvey	$8,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7	Tomohiro Yokosuka	$7,500	12
8	Nicolas Labarre	$6,500	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (November–December 2003)

GP Shizuoka Date: 8–9 November 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 652

1. Kazuki Katou 2. Satoshi Harada 3. Koichiro Maki 4. Tomohide Sasagawa 5. Kei Ikeda 6. Ken'Ichi Fujita 7. Ryouma Shiozu 8. Yusuke Sasaki

GP Gothenburg Date: 22–23 November 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 461

1. Jelger Wiegersma 2. Tommi Hovi 3. Daniel Bertelsen 4. Kai Budde 5. Sam Gomersall 6. Daniel Zink 7. David Linder 8. Benjamin Lindqvist

GP Munich Date: 6–7 December 2003 Format: Limited Attendance: 1051

1. Yann Hamon 2. Reinhard Blech 3. Georgios Kapalas 4. Stefan Schwaiger 5. Tobias Kroll 6. Hannes Scholz 7. Steven Gouin 8. Dirk Hein

GP Anaheim Date: 13–14 December 2003 Format: Extended Attendance: 272

1. Ben Rubin 2. Nathan Saunders 3. Nick Meves 4. Peter Szigeti 5. Ben Stark 6. Paul Rietzl 7. Blake Quelle 8. Gerard Fabiano

Pro Tour Amsterdam

16–18 January 2004 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Nicolai Herzog	$30,000	32	Third Pro Tour Top 8
2	Osamu Fujita	$20,000	24
3	Anton Jonsson	$15,000	16	Third Pro Tour Top 8
4	Olivier Ruel	$13,000	16	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5	Kamiel Cornelissen	$9,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
6	Aeo Paquette	$8,500	12	Pro Tour debut
7	Farid Meraghni	$8,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8	Mike Turian	$7,500	12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (January–February 2004)

GP Okayama Date: 24–25 January 2004 Format: Extended Attendance: 401

1. Kazuya Shiki 2. Itaru Ishida 3. Akira Asahara 4. SangRyeol Lee 5. Shinsuke Hayashi 6. Asuka Doi 7. Chikara Nakajima 8. Kazuya Hirabayashi

GP Oakland Date: 7–8 February 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 445

1. Ken Ho 2. Dave Humpherys 3. Mike Turian 4. Ian Spaulding 5. Mitchell Tamblyn 6. Ben Rubin 7. Paul Rietzl 8. Gabe Walls

GP Madrid Date: 21–22 February 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 1353

1. Kai Budde 2. Bernardo Da Costa Cabral 3. Dirk Hein 4. Raphaël Lévy 5. Thomas Gundersen 6. Aniol Alcaraz 7. Jaime Marrero 8. Tommi Lindgren

Pro Tour Kobe

27–29 February 2004 in Kobe, Japan.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Masashiro Kuroda	$30,000	32	First Japanese to win a Pro Tour
2	Gabriel Nassif	$20,000	24	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
3	Alexandre Peset	$15,000	16	Pro Tour debut
4	Jelger Wiegersma	$13,000	16	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5	Luigi Sbrozzi	$9,000	12	Pro Tour debut
6	Raffaele Lo Moro	$8,500	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
7	Ben Stark	$8,000	12
8	Stefano Fiori	$7,500	12

Grand Prix (March–April 2004)

GP Hong Kong Date: 6–7 March 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 250

1. Chuen Hwa Tan 2. Olivier Ruel 3. Masashi Oiso 4. Gabe Walls 5. Takuya Osawa 6. Steven Tan 7. Terry Soh 8. Chi-Chung Hwang

GP Sendai Date: 20–21 March 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 531

1. Ichiro Shimura 2. Masahiko Morita 3. Yusuke Sasaki 4. Antoine Ruel 5. Jin Okamoto 6. Toshihisa Yamanaka 7. Hiroto Yasutomi 8. Ippei Sogabe

GP Birmingham Date: 27–28 March 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 578

1. Stefan Jedlicka 2. René Kraft 3. Frank Karsten 4. David Grant 5. Mattias Jorstedt 6. Jose Barbero 7. Kamman Janpiam 8. Niki Jedlicka

GP Columbus Date: 27–28 March 2004 Format: Limited Attendance: 852

1. Mike Turian 2. Craig Krempels 3. Aaron Lipcynski 4. Cedric Phillips 5. Kate Stavola 6. Matt Larson 7. Brandon Rickard 8. Brock Parker

GP Bochum Date: 17–18 April 2004 Format: Team Limited Attendance: 639 (213 teams)

1. Stijn Cornelissen 1. Tom van de Logt 1. Jesse Cornelissen 2. Nicolai Herzog 2. Anton Jonsson 2. Tuomo Nieminen 3. David Brucker 3. Reinhard Blech 3. Dirk Hein 4. Sylvain Lehoux 4. Alexandre Peset 4. Loïc Degrou

GP Washington, D.C. Date: 17–18 April 2004 Format: Team Limited Attendance: 573 (191 teams)

1. Chris Fennell 1. Bill Stead 1. Charles Gindy 2. Adam Horvath 2. Osyp Lebedowicz 2. Patrick Sullivan 3. Darwin Kastle 3. Rob Dougherty 3. Alex Shvartsman 4. Jon Finkel 4. Brian Kibler 4. Eric Froehlich

Pro Tour San Diego

14–16 May 2004 in San Diego, California, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Nicolai Herzog	$30,000	32	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8, second Pro Tour win
2	Antoine Ruel	$20,000	24	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Mike Turian	$15,000	16	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Anton Jonsson	$13,000	16	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Mark Herberholz	$9,000	12
6	Ben Stark	$8,500	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
7	Angel Perez del Pozo	$8,000	12	Pro Tour debut
8	Masashi Oiso	$7,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (May–June 2004)

GP Brussels Date: 29–30 May 2004 Format: Standard Attendance: 734

1. Tobias Henke 2. Kai Budde 3. Julien Nuijten 4. Vasilis Fatouros 5. Johannes Mitsios 6. Xuan-Phi Nguyen 7. Maxime Fays 8. Stefano Fiore

GP Zürich Date: 26–27 June 2004 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 640

1. Manuel Bucher 2. Matteo Cirigliano 3. Sebastien Roux 4. Frank Karsten 5. Leonard Barbou 6. Bertrand Fagnoni 7. Timo Groth 8. Charles Delvaux

Pro Tour Seattle

9–11 July 2004 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Place	Team name	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Von Dutch	Jeroen Remie	$60,000	24	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		Jelger Wiegersma		24	Third Pro Tour Top 8
		Kamiel Cornelissen		24	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
2	www.shop-fireball.com2	Itaru Ishida	$30,000	18
		Tsuyoshi Ikeda		18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
		Jin Okamoto		18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	S.A.I.	Ichirou Shimura	$18,000	12
		Masami Ibamoto		12
		Ryuichi Arita		12
4	Pocket Rockets	Paul Russell	$15,000	12	Pro Tour debut
		Joseph Derro		12	Pro Tour debut
		Matthew Wood		12	Pro Tour debut

Grand Prix (July–August 2004)

GP Kuala Lumpur Date: 24–25 July 2004 Format: Standard Attendance: 262

1. Masahiko Morita 2. Kwan Ching Yuen 3. Zhen Xing Gao 4. Tsuyoshi Fujita 5. Sim Han How 6. Cheng Wee Pek 7. Bernard Chan 8. Khang Jong Kuan

GP Orlando Date: 24–25 July 2004 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 502

1. Osyp Lebedowicz 2. Michael Kuhmann 3. Adam Chernoff 4. Taylor Parnell 5. William Jensen 6. Antonino De Rosa 7. Jeff Garza 8. Harry Durnan

GP New Jersey Date: 14–15 August 2004 Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 958

1. Jeff Garza 2. Brian Kibler 3. Eugene Harvey 4. Jeroen Remie 5. Jan Holland 6. Adam Horvath 7. Alexandre Peset 8. Ty Dobbertin

GP Nagoya Date: 28–29 August 2004 Format: Standard Attendance: 941

1. Tatsunori Kishi 2. Keisuke Hashimoto 3. Masami Ibamoto 4. Shun Iizuka 5. Toru Takeshita 6. Yuhi Kubota 7. Masaki Yokoi 8. Tomoharu Saito

2004 World Championships

1–5 September 2004 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Julien Nuijten	$35,000	32	Pro Tour debut
2	Aeo Paquette	$23,000	24	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Ryo Ogura	$15,000	16
4	Manuel Bevand	$13,000	16
5	Kamiel Cornelissen	$9,500	12	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Terry Soh	$8,500	12
7	Gabriel Nassif	$7,500	12	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
8	Murray Evans	$6,500	12

Team competition

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Germany	Sebastian Zink	$10,000	6
		Torben Twiefel	$10,000	6
		Roland Bode	$10,000	6
2	Belgium	Dilson Ramos Da Fonseca	$5,000	5
		Vincent Lemoine	$5,000	5
		Geoffrey Siron	$5,000	5