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| 2013 World Magic Cup |
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| Date |
2–4 August 2013 |
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| Location |
 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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| Attendance |
284 (71 teams) |
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| Format |
Team Sealed and Team Unified Standard |
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| Prize pool |
$250,000 |
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| Winner |
 France |
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Previous World
Magic Cup:
2012 |
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Next World
Magic Cup:
2014 |
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The 2013 World Magic Cup, the second World Magic Cup, was held on 2–4 August 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It featured 71 different national teams, the same as the first WMC. The event was won by the French national team, lead by Hall of Famer Raphaël Lévy; the final match against Hungary was famously won by a topdecked Rakdos's Return from Timothée Simonot.[1]
Format and schedule
The 2013 World Magic Cup featured three formats: Return to Ravnica block Team Sealed, Magic 2014 Team Sealed, and Team Unified Standard. Team Sealed is a variation of Sealed deck where the team shares a pool of twelve Booster packs, which is used to build three 40-card decks. Team Unified Standard differs from regular Standard in that all three team decks must not include more than four copies of any given card (other than basic lands). In both formats, teams played against opposing national teams, with the winning team being the first to win two matches (each match being best-of-three-games).
With the exception of team only having 3 members, all teams must switch one member in between the Sealed and Standard Portion of the event on both Day 1 and Day 2.
Day 1 - Friday, 2 August
- 3 rounds of Magic 2014 Team Sealed
- 4 rounds of Team Unified Standard
Day 1 was seven rounds of Swiss play, with the top 32 teams at the end of the day advancing to Day 2 of competition.
Day 2 - Saturday, 3 August
On Day 2, teams were divided, according to their standing within the event (seeding), into eight groups of four teams each, where each team played every other team in the group once, the format being Return to Ravnica block Team Sealed. The top two teams in each group advanced; if two or more teams were tied, the team(s) with the highest seed advanced. The teams were then divided again, according to their standing within the event, into four groups of four teams each, where each team played every other team in the group once, the format being Team Unified Standard. The top two teams in each group advanced to Day 3 of competition; if two or more teams are tied, the team(s) with the highest seed advanced.
Day 3 - Sunday, 4 August
- Quarterfinals, semifinals and final, featuring Team Unified Standard
The top eight teams then competed in a seeded (based on total number of points from Day 1 and Day 2), single-elimination bracket.
Day 1
The top eight teams after day one:
| Rank
|
Country
|
Points
|
| 1
|
 Ireland
|
19
|
| 2
|
 Singapore
|
18
|
| 3
|
 United States
|
16
|
| 4
|
France
|
16
|
| 5
|
 Austria
|
16
|
| 6
|
 Australia
|
16
|
| 7
|
 Mexico
|
15
|
| 8
|
 Chile
|
15
|
Day 2
First round of pool play
Pool A
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
Ireland |
6 |
1
|
| 2 |
 Estonia |
6 |
16
|
| 3 |
 Croatia |
3 |
17
|
| 4 |
 Malaysia |
3 |
32
|
|
Pool B
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
 South Africa |
5 |
15
|
| 2 |
 New Zealand |
5 |
18
|
| 3 |
 Scotland |
4 |
31
|
| 4 |
Singapore |
1 |
2
|
|
Pool C
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
 Greece |
6 |
19
|
| 2 |
 Israel |
6 |
30
|
| 3 |
United States |
3 |
3
|
| 4 |
 Venezuela |
3 |
14
|
|
Pool D
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
France |
9 |
4
|
| 2 |
 Belgium |
6 |
29
|
| 3 |
 Thailand |
3 |
13
|
| 4 |
 Luxembourg |
0 |
20
|
|
Pool E
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
Austria |
9 |
5
|
| 2 |
 Hungary |
3 |
12
|
| 3 |
 England |
3 |
21
|
| 4 |
 El Salvador |
3 |
28
|
|
Pool F
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
 Brazil |
7 |
22
|
| 2 |
 Iceland |
6 |
11
|
| 3 |
Australia |
3 |
6
|
| 4 |
 Slovenia |
1 |
27
|
|
Pool G
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
 Czech Republic |
9 |
23
|
| 2 |
 Ukraine |
6 |
26
|
| 3 |
 Turkey |
3 |
10
|
| 4 |
Mexico |
0 |
7
|
|
Pool H
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
Chile |
7 |
8
|
| 2 |
 Belarus |
7 |
25
|
| 3 |
 Slovak Republic |
3 |
9
|
| 4 |
 Finland |
0 |
24
|
|
Second round of pool play
Pool A
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
Estonia |
9 |
9
|
| 2 |
Hungary |
6 |
16
|
| 3 |
Ireland |
3 |
1
|
| 4 |
Belarus |
0 |
8
|
|
Pool B
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
France |
6 |
2
|
| 2 |
Iceland |
6 |
7
|
| 3 |
Greece |
6 |
10
|
| 4 |
Israel |
0 |
15
|
|
Pool C
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
Austria |
7 |
3
|
| 2 |
Belgium |
7 |
11
|
| 3 |
Brazil |
3 |
6
|
| 4 |
Ukraine |
0 |
14
|
|
Pool D
| Rank |
Country |
Points |
Seed
|
| 1 |
New Zealand |
7 |
13
|
| 2 |
Czech Republic |
6 |
5
|
| 3 |
Chile |
4 |
4
|
| 4 |
South Africa |
0 |
12
|
|
Day 3
|
|
Quarterfinals
|
|
Semifinals
|
|
Finals
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Austria
|
1
|
|
|
|
8
|
Hungary
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
Hungary
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
Czech Republic
|
1
|
|
|
|
4
|
Czech Republic
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
New Zealand
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
Hungary
|
1
|
|
|
|
2
|
France
|
2
|
|
|
3
|
Estonia
|
0
|
|
|
|
6
|
Iceland
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
Iceland
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
France
|
2
|
|
|
|
2
|
France
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
Belgium
|
0
|
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| Place
|
Country
|
Player
|
Prize
|
Pro Points
|
Place
|
Country
|
Player
|
Prize
|
Pro Points
|
| 1
|
France
|
Raphaël Lévy
|
$12,000
|
8
|
5
|
Austria
|
Thomas Holzinger
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Timothée Simonot
|
$12,000
|
8
|
David Reitbauer
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Yann Guthmann
|
$12,000
|
8
|
Manuel Danninger
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Stephane Soubrier
|
$12,000
|
8
|
Marc Mühlböck
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| 2
|
Hungary
|
Tamás Nagy
|
$6,500
|
7
|
6
|
Estonia
|
Hannes Kerem
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Gabor Kocsis
|
$6,500
|
7
|
Rauno Raidma
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Ervin Hosszú
|
$6,500
|
7
|
Simon Robberts
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Adorjan Korbl
|
$6,500
|
7
|
Mikk Kaasik
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| 3
|
Czech Republic
|
Stanislav Cifka
|
$4,000
|
6
|
7
|
New Zealand
|
Walker MacMurdo
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Leos Kopecky
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Jingwei Zheng
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Kristian Janda
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Digby Carter
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Michal Mendl
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Jason Chung
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| 4
|
Iceland
|
Alvin Orri Gislason
|
$4,000
|
6
|
8
|
Belgium
|
Vincent Lemoine
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Ragnar Sigurdsson
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Emmanuel Delvigne
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Hedinn Haraldsson
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Marijn Lybaert
|
$2,000
|
5
|
| Orri Ómarsson
|
$4,000
|
6
|
Xavier Vantyghem
|
$2,000
|
5
|
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