2007 Pro Tour Season

2007 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Tomoharu Saito
Rookie of the Year	Yuuya Watanabe
World Champion	Uri Peleg
Team Champion	Switzerland
Hall of Fame inductions	Kai Budde Zvi Mowshowitz Tsuyoshi Fujita Nicolai Herzog Randy Buehler
PTs	5
Grand Prix	16
Previous season: 2006 Next season: 2008

The 2007 Pro Tour season was the twelfth Pro Tour season. It started on 9 February 2007 with Pro Tour Geneva, and ended on 9 December 2007 with the conclusion of the 2007 World Championships.

Pro Tour Geneva

9–11 February 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Mike Hron	$40,000	25
2	Takuya Osawa	$20,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Kenji Tsumura	$15,000	16	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Shingou Kurihara	$13,000	16
5	Marijn Lybaert	$11,000	12
6	Jim Herold	$10,500	12
7	Willy Edel	$10,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8	Ervin Tormos	$9,500	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (February–April 2007)

GP Dallas	GP Singapore	GP Amsterdam
Date: 24–25 February 2007	Date: 3–4 March 2007	Date: 10–11 March 2007
Format: Extended	Format: Extended	Format: Two-headed Giant Limited
Attendance: 748	Attendance: 331	Attendance: 1336 (668 teams)
1. Raphaël Lévy	1. Raphaël Lévy	1. Richard Hornansky  1. Michael Havlik
2. Paul Cheon	2. Shingou Kurihara
3. Kenji Tsumura	3. Antoine Ruel	2. Amiel Tenenbaum  2. Gabriel Nassif
4. John Pelcak	4. Osamu Fujita
5. Mark Herberholz	5. Olivier Ruel	3. Olaf Koster  3. Christian Kok
6. Paul Nguyen	6. Koutarou Ootsuka
7. Alex Ledbetter	7. Ryo Ogura	4. Vassilis Fatouros  4. Georgios Kapalos
8. Jim Davis	8. Tomoharu Saito

GP Kyoto	GP Massachusetts
Date: 17–18 March 2007	Date: 31 March–1 April 2007
Format: Standard	Format: Two-Headed Giant Limited
Attendance: 859	Attendance: 690 (345 teams)
1. Yuuya Watanabe	1. Matt Wang  1. Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
2. Yuusuke Iwasaki
3. Motokiyo Azuma	2. Gerard Fabiano  2. Eric Ziegler
4. Tsubasa Tomii
5. Naoki Shimizu	3. Ben Lundquist  3. Tim Aten
6. Ren Ishikawa
7. Atsushi Wada	4. Matt Rubin  4. Rob DiPalma
8. Katsuhiro Ide

Pro Tour Yokohama

20–22 April 2007 in Yokohama, Japan.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Guillaume Wafo-Tapa	$40,000	25
2	Kazuya Mitamura	$20,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Mark Herberholz	$15,000	16	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Tomoharu Saito	$13,000	16	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Paulo Carvalho	$11,000	12	Second Pro Tour Top 8
6	Raphaël Lévy	$10,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7	Masashi Oiso	$10,000	12	Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
8	Sebastian Thaler	$9,500	12

Grand Prix (May–June 2007)

GP Stockholm	GP Strasbourg	GP Colombus	GP Montreal
Date: 5–6 May 2007	Date: 19–20 May 2007	Date: 19–20 May 2007	Date: 23–24 June 2007
Format: Limited	Format: Block Constructed	Format: Legacy	Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 713	Attendance: 1155	Attendance: 883	Attendance: 739
1. Nicolay Potovin	1. Tomoharu Saito	1. Steve Sadin	1. Celso Zampere Jr.
2. André Müller	2. Raul Porojan	2. Owen Turtenwald	2. Paul Cheon
3. Kenji Tsumura	3. Shota Yasooka	3. Bill Stark	3. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
4. Oliver Oks	4. Florian Pils	4. Max Tietze	4. Kenji Tsumura
5. Bas Postema	5. Christoph Huber	5. Gadiel Szleifer	5. Gabriel Schwarz
6. Thomas Refsdal	6. Klaus Jöns	6. Paul Nicolo	6. Koutarou Ootsuka
7. Klaus Jöns	7. Petr Martinek	7. Ryan Trepanier	7. Jason Imperiale
8. Samuel Korsell	8. Stefan Heigerer	8. Michael Belfatto	8. Shota Yasooka

Pro Tour San Diego

29 June–1 July 2007 in San Diego, California, United States.

Place	Players	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Chris Lachmann	$50,000	20	Pro Tour debut
	Jacob Van Lunen		20	Pro Tour debut
2	Yuuta Takahashi	$30,000	16
	Kentaro Yamamoto		16
3	John Fiorillo	$22,000	12
	Eugene Harvey		12	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Masami Kaneko	$20,000	12
	Genki Taru		12

Grand Prix (August–September 2007)

GP San Francisco	GP Florence
Date: 25–26 August 2007	Date: 8–9 September 2007
Format: Block Constructed	Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 672	Attendance: 1082
1. Luis Scott-Vargas	1. Masami Kaneko
2. Jonathan Stocks	2. André Coimbra
3. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	3. Marco Cammilluzzi
4. Brett Blackmann	4. Mido Kagawa
5. David Irvine	5. Armin Birner
6. Andrew Walden	6. Manuel Bucher
7. Zack Smith	7. Rasmus Sibast
8. Paul Cheon	8. Ronald Guetl

Pro Tour Valencia

12–14 October 2007 in Valencia, Spain.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Remi Fortier	$40,000	25
2	André Müller	$20,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Giulio Barra	$15,000	16
4	Shuhei Nakamura	$13,000	16	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Takayuki Koike	$11,000	12	Pro Tour debut
6	Tine Rus	$10,500	12	First Slovenian in a Pro Tour Top 8, Pro Tour debut
7	Sam Stein	$10,000	16
8	Makihito Mihara	$9,500	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (October–November 2007)

GP Brisbane	GP Bangkok	GP Kraków
Date: 20–21 October 2007	Date: 27–28 October 2007	Date: 3–4 November 2007
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 233	Attendance: 314	Attendance: 849
1. Anatoli Lightfoot	1. Masahiko Morita	1. Paul Cheon
2. Shawn Rayson	2. Shingou Kurihara	2. Amiel Tenenbaum
3. André Coimbra	3. Yong Han Choo	3. Armin Birner
4. Hassan Kamel	4. Kok Seng Ong	4. Olivier Ruel
5. David Zhao	5. Jun'ya Iyanaga	5. Robert Jacko
6. Norman McPherson	6. Koutarou Ootsuka	6. David Besso
7. Andrew Eckermann	7. Steven Tan	7. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
8. Chris Ninnes	8. Takuya Osawa	8. Matej Zatlkaj

GP Kitakyushu	GP Daytona Beach
Date: 10–11 November 2007	Date: 17–18 November 2007
Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 354	Attendance: 636
1. Jun'ya Iyanaga	1. Seth Manfield
2. Shota Yasooka	2. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
3. Akira Asahara	3. Tillman Bragg
4. Olivier Ruel	4. Tanon Grace
5. Kazuya Hirabayashi	5. Gabe Walls
6. Jun Young Park	6. Steven Wolansky
7. Kenji Tsumura	7. Kyle Miller
8. Chih-Chun Tsai	8. Alex Lieberman

2007 World Championships

6–9 December 2007 in New York, USA.

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Uri Peleg	$40,000	25	First Israeli to win a Pro Tour
2	Patrick Chapin	$22,000	20	Third Pro Tour Top 8
3	Gabriel Nassif	$15,000	16	Eighth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Koutarou Ootsuka	$14,000	16
5	Christoph Huber	$11,000	12
6	Yoshitaka Nakano	$10,000	12
7	Katsuhiro Mori	$9,000	12	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8	Roel van Heeswijk	$8,000	12

Team competition

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Switzerland	Nico Bohny	$3,000	6
		Manuel Bucher	$3,000	6
		Raphael Genari	$3,000	6
		Christoph Huber	$3,000	6
2	Austria	Thomas Preyer	$1,750	5
		Stefan Stradner	$1,750	5
		David Reitbauer	$1,750	5
		Helmut Summersberger	$1,750	5