2015–16 Pro Tour Season

2015–16 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Owen Turtenwald
Rookie of the Year	Oliver Tiu
World Champion	Seth Manfield
World Magic Cup Champions	Italy
Hall of Fame inductions	Eric Froehlich Shota Yasooka Willy Edel
PTs	4
Grand Prix	49
Previous season: 2014–15 Next season: 2016–17

The 2015–16 Pro Tour season was the twenty-first Pro Tour season. It started on 8 August 2015 with Grand Prix events at Hong Kong and San Diego, and ended on 7 August 2016 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Eldritch Moon.

Grand Prix (August 2015)

GP Hong Kong	GP San Diego	GP London
Date: 8–9 August 2015	Date: 8–9 August 2015	Date: 15–16 August 2015
Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Standard
Attendance: 851	Attendance: 1493	Attendance: 2152
1. Chye Yian Hsiang	1. Michael Majors	1. Fabrizio Anteri
2. Jan Ang	2. Artur Villela	2. Matteo Moure
3. Victoriano Lim	3. Paul Rietzl	3. Erik Skinstad
4. Liu Yuchen	4. Paul Yeem	4. Bill Chronopoulos
5. Wu Songwei	5. Loren Eakins	5. Piotr Wald
6. Cheung Lap Chung	6. Corey Burkhart	6. Marco Cammilluzzi
7. Wing Chun Yam	7. Ben Weitz	7. Martin Jůza
8. Kwok Suen Wang	8. Dan Ward	8. Daniel Fior

GP Detroit	GP Prague	GP Santiago
Date: 15–16 August 2015	Date: 29–30 August 2015	Date: 29–30 August 2015
Format: Team Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Limited
Attendance: 2040 (680 teams)	Attendance: 1464	Attendance: 799
1. Matt Nass  1. Jacob Wilson  1. Sam Pardee	1. Eliott Boussaud	1. Rodrigo Lopez
	2. Peter Vieren	2. Tomoharu Saito
	3. Hannes Kerem	3. Jorge Guerra
2. Ben Stark  2. Luis Scott-Vargas  2. Eric Froehlich	4. Davor Detecnik	4. Martin Quiroga
	5. Mattia Rizzi	5. Esteban Truyol
	6. Oliver Polak-Rottmann	6. Christian Flores
3. Owen Turtenwald  3. William Jensen  3. Reid Duke	7. Steve Hatto	7. Claudio Barrientos Ochoa
	8. Alex Hottman	8. Alberto Sanchez
4. Brock Parker  4. Matt Costa  4. Shahar Shenhar

2015 World Championship

27–30 August 2015 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Rank	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Seth Manfield	$50,000	17
2	Owen Turtenwald	$20,000	11
3	Paul Rietzl	$10,000	9
4	Sam Black	$10,000	9

Grand Prix (September–October 2015)

GP Madrid	GP Oklahoma City	GP Sydney	GP Madison
Date: 12–13 September 2015	Date: 12–13 September 2015	Date: 10–11 October 2015	Date: 10–11 October 2015
Format: Limited	Format: Modern	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1420	Attendance: 1470	Attendance: 996	Attendance: 1820
1. Aleksa Telarov	1. Zac Elsik	1. John Seaton	1. Raphaël Lévy
2. Francesco Giorgio	2. Brian Braun-Duin	2. Alex Ball	2. Magnus Lantto
3. Ashraf Abou Omar	3. Andrew Sullano	3. Kelvin Chew	3. Jon Graham
4. Michael Bonde	4. Joseph Reiter	4. Prads Pathirana	4. Joe Lavrenz
5. Fabrizio Anteri	5. Jasper Johnson-Epstein	5. Hironobu Sugaya	5. Paul Rietzl
6. Wenzel Krautmann	6. Benjamin Miller	6. Zen Takahashi	6. Andrew Maine
7. Sergiy Sushalskyy	7. Paul Rietzl	7. Paul Costentin	7. Sam Pardee
8. Antonio Del Moral Leon	8. Matthew Duggan	8. Chester Swords	8. Jérémy Dezani

Pro Tour Battle for Zendikar

16–18 October 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Kazuyuki Takimura	$40,000	30
2	Ryoichi Tamada	$20,000	26
3	Jon Finkel	$12,500	22	Fifteenth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Paul Dean	$12,500	22
5	Owen Turtenwald	$10,000	18	Third Pro Tour Top 8
6	Ricky Chin	$10,000	18	Pro Tour debut
7	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$10,000	18	Tenth Pro Tour Top 8
8	Martin Müller	$10,000	18

Grand Prix (October–November 2015)

GP Beijing	GP Quebec City	GP Lyon	GP Porto Alegre	GP Indianapolis
Date: 24–25 October 2015	Date: 24–25 October 2015	Date: 31 October–1 November 2015	Date: 31 October–1 November 2015	Date: 31 October–1 November 2015
Format: Team Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Modern	Format: Standard
Attendance: 813 (271 teams)	Attendance: 804	Attendance: 1952	Attendance: 789	Attendance: 1103
1. Rich Hoaen  1. Mike Hron  1. Craig Wescoe	1. Dan Lanthier	1. Damien Bouillot	1. Marcos Paulo De Jesus Freitas	1. Brent Clawson
	2. Omar Beldon	2. Christian Seibold	2. Vagner Casatti	2. Raymond Perez, Jr.
	3. Jake Mondello	3. Tomoharu Saito	3. Caio Amaral	3. Scott Kirkwood
2. Yuuya Watanabe  2. Makihito Mihara  2. Yuuki Ichikawa	4. Oliver Polak-Rottmann	4. Vincent Lemoine	4. Alejandro Cesa	4. Daniel Chan
	5. Reid Duke	5. Branco Neirynck	5. Thiago Saporito	5. David Phelps
	6. Edgar Magelhaes	6. Florian Reiter	6. Gabriel Fehr	6. Patrick Chapin
3. Yuchen Liu  3. He Yue  3. Zhang Zhiyang	7. Pascal Maynard	7. Mark Litvak	7. Guilherme Merjam	7. Valentin Mackl
	8. Nicolas Béland	8. Felix Weidemann	8. Diego Marquez	8. Daniel Duan
4. Shintaro Ishimura  4. Yoshihiko Ikawa  4. Kazuyuki Takimura

GP Seattle-Tacoma	GP Brussels	GP Atlanta	GP Kobe	GP Pittsburgh
Date: 7–8 November 2015	Date: 14–15 November 2015	Date: 14–15 November 2015	Date: 21–22 November 2015	Date: 21–22 November 2015
Format: Legacy	Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Modern
Attendance: 2014	Attendance: 1938	Attendance: 2073	Attendance: 2571	Attendance: 2679
1. Jarvis Yu	1. Lukas Blohon	1. Tom Martell	1. Takuma Morofuji	1. Alex Bianchi
2. Christian Calcano	2. Simon Nielsen	2. Owen Turtenwald	2. Joe Soh	2. Aaron Webster
3. Brian DeMars	3. Antonio Castellani	3. Dan Musser	3. Akio Chiba	3. Robert Cucunato
4. Chase Hansen	4. Martin Müller	4. Aryeh Witznitzer	4. Shota Takao	4. Craig Wescoe
5. Andrejs Prost	5. Magnus Lantto	5. Evan Smith	5. Pavel Matousek	5. Corey Burkhart
6. Gary Wong	6. Grzegorz Kowalski	6. Brian Eason	6. Shunsuke Takahira	6. Robert Long
7. Martin Goldman-Kirst	7. Bart Van Etten	7. Sam Black	7. Akihiro Okawa	7. Thien Nguyen
8. Xin Sui	8. Ondřej Stráský	8. Joseph Pressley	8. Shuhei Nakamura	8. Benjamin Nikolich

2015 World Magic Cup

11–13 December 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.

Place	Country	Player	Prize per Player	Pro Points per Player
1	Italy	Marco Cammilluzzi	$12,000	8
		William Pizzi
		Francesco Bifero
		Andrea Mengucci
2	Thailand	Veerapat Sirilertvorakul	$6,500	7
		Aekarash Sorakup
		Suttipong Popitukgul
		Chom Pasidparchya
3	France	Pierre Dagen	$4,000	6
		Hichem Tedjditi
		Fathi Ben Aribi
		Arnaud Soumet
4	Austria	Valentin Mackl	$4,000	6
		Nikolaus Eigner
		Christoph Aukenthaler
		Sebastian Fiala-Ibitz
5	Denmark	Martin Dang	$2,000	5
		Christoffer Larsen
		Daniel Lind
		Martin Müller
6	Guatemala	Christopher Virula	$2,000	5
		Fernando José Juárez Oliva
		José Andrés Martínez Figueloa
		Wilfredo Bojorquez Castillo
7	Scotland	Stephen Murray	$2,000	5
		Ray Doyle
		Grant Hislop
		Martin Clement
8	Japan	Yuuya Watanabe	$2,000	5
		Kenji Tsumura
		Ryoichi Tamada
		Soyo You

Grand Prix (January 2016)

GP Oakland	GP Nagoya	GP Mexico City	GP Vancouver
Date: 8–9 January 2016	Date: 30–31 January 2016	Date: 30–31 January 2016	Date: 30–31 January 2016
Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1928	Attendance: 2656	Attendance: 787	Attendance: 1929
1. Reid Duke	1. Tomonori Hirami	1. Fabrizio Anteri	1. Adam Jansen
2. Ben Rubin	2. Ryota Takeuchi	2. Tomoharu Saito	2. Jérémy Dezani
3. Woodrow Engle	3. Ikuya Asai	3. Rodrigo Goncalves Dos Santos	3. Nick Slind
4. Cody Lingelbach	4. Kazuaki Fujimura	4. Cristian Velasco	4. Gabriel Carleton-Barnes
5. Josh McClain	5. Satoshi Haji	5. Martin Dang	5. Allen Sun
6. Justin Nguyen	6. Sean Li	6. Leonardo Ivan Ruiz Rivera	6. Aeo Paquette
7. Brett Sinclair	7. Shawn McNeace	7. Robert Wallerstein	7. Chris Hewitt
8. Nathaniel Smith	8. Park Jun Young	8. Marcio Carvalho	8. Eric Severson

Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch

5–7 February 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Jiachen Tao	$40,000	30
2	Ivan Floch	$20,000	26	Third Pro Tour Top 8
3	Luis Scott-Vargas	$12,500	22	Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Patrick Dickmann	$12,500	22	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5	Shuhei Nakamura	$10,000	18	Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Andrew Brown	$10,000	18
7	Pascal Maynard	$10,000	18
8	Frank Lepore	$10,000	18	Pro Tour debut

Grand Prix (February–April 2016)

GP Houston	GP Melbourne	GP Bologna	GP Detroit	GP Washington, D.C.
Date: 27–28 February 2016	Date: 5–6 March 2016	Date: 5–6 March 2016	Date: 5–6 March 2016	Date: 12–13 March 2016
Format: Standard	Format: Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 1851	Attendance: 1101	Attendance: 2181	Attendance: 2553	Attendance: 3366 (1122 teams)
1. Owen Turtenwald	1. David Mines	1. Kayure Patel	1. Ralph Betesh	1. Matt Severa  1. Justin Cohen  1. Mike Hron
2. Andrew Cuneo	2. Maitland Cameron	2. Alberto Mattioli	2. Evan Buchholz
3. Mark Jacobson	3. Yuuki Ichikawa	3. Giuseppe Reale	3. Eric English
4. Brock Mosley	4. Louis Thomson-Gregg	4. Ruben Perez	4. Hao-Shan Huang	2. Ian Spaulding  2. Rich Hoaen  2. Tom Martell
5. Cody Lingelbach	5. Chris Cousens	5. Fabrizio Anteri	5. Gerry Thompson
6. Brock Parker	6. Kentaro Yamamoto	6. Jaroslav Boucek	6. Eduardo Sajgalik
7. Chapman Sim	7. Lee Shi Tian	7. Mattia Rizzi	7. James Zornes	3. Owen Turtenwald  3. William Jensen  3. Reid Duke
8. Amir Radmard	8. Jason Chung	8. Alessandro Lippi	8. Ronnie Ritner
				4. Matt Nass  4. Jacob Wilson  4. Sam Pardee

GP Paris	GP Beijing	GP Barcelona	GP Albuquerque
Date: 19–20 March 2016	Date: 16–17 April 2016	Date: 16–17 April 2016	Date: 16–17 April 2016
Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1510	Attendance: 1053	Attendance: 2084	Attendance: 1266
1. Petr Sochurek	1. Hironobu Sugaya	1. Fabrizio Anteri	1. Allen Wu
2. Ben Stark	2. Xu Su	2. Mehdi Saadi	2. William Craddock
3. Ryoichi Tamada	3. Kazuaki Fujimura	3. William Jensen	3. Jacob Thiessen
4. Martin Jůza	4. Gao Zhen Xing	4. Viktors Kazanskis	4. Seth Manfield
5. Arne Huschenbeth	5. Makihito Mihara	5. Brian Braun-Duin	5. Michael Simon
6. Guiseppe Reale	6. Kentaro Yamamoto	6. Shaun McLaren	6. Jiachen Tao
7. Fabian Friedrich	7. Toru Inoue	7. Reid Duke	7. Christian Keeth
8. Paolo Magnani	8. Mak Wai Hou	8. Ferran Vila	8. Rick Chong

Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad

22–24 April 2016 in Madrid, Spain.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Steve Rubin	$40,000	30
2	Andrea Mengucci	$20,000	26	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	Seth Manfield	$12,500	22	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4	Shota Yasooka	$12,500	22	Third Pro Tour Top 8
5	Jon Finkel	$10,000	18	Sixteenth Pro Tour Top 8
6	Brad Nelson	$10,000	18	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7	Luis Scott-Vargas	$10,000	18	Seventh Pro Tour Top 8
8	Luis Salvatto	$10,000	18

Grand Prix (April–July 2016)

GP Toronto	GP Tokyo	GP New York	GP Charlotte
Date: 30 April–1 May 2016	Date: 7–8 May 2016	Date: 7–8 May 2016	Date: 21–22 May 2016
Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Modern
Attendance: 1727	Attendance: 3335	Attendance: 2004	Attendance: 2400
1. Robert Lombardi	1. Riku Kumagai	1. Seth Manfield	1. Andreas Ganz
2. Jon Stern	2. Kazushige Suzuki	2. Louis Deltour	2. Jon Bolding
3. Oliver Tiu	3. Takuma Morofuji	3. Scott Lipp	3. Robert Graves
4. Doug Potter	4. Carlos Ballester	4. Michael Majors	4. Mike Sigrist
5. Josh Buitenhuis	5. Kazuki Yada	5. Mike Sigrist	5. Jack Wang
6. Brett Tetley	6. Takaya Saito	6. Daniel Ward	6. Adonnys Medrano
7. Bradley Robinson	7. Eng Chu Heng	7. Brandon Ayers	7. Sam Black
8. Michael Sheng	8. Kensuke Kato	8. Ralph Betesh	8. Eli Kassis

GP Los Angeles	GP Manchester	GP Minneapolis	GP San Jose, Costa Rica
Date: 21–22 May 2016	Date: 28–29 May 2016	Date: 28–29 May 2016	Date: 4–5 June 2016
Format: Modern	Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Standard
Attendance: 2239	Attendance: 1697	Attendance: 1530	Attendance: 498
1. Simon Slutsky	1. Raphaël Lévy	1. Alex Johnson	1. Seth Manfield
2. Ethan Brown	2. Julien Henry	2. Shota Takao	2. Brandon Fischer
3. Javier Dominguez	3. Oscar Christensen	3. Andrew Elenbogen	3. Oliver Tiu
4. Pascal Maynard	4. Jonas Friberg	4. Matt Severa	4. Erick Manuel Lopez Basulto
5. Joe Lossett	5. Lauri Vuorela	5. Max McVety	5. Brian Braun-Duin
6. Corey Burkhart	6. Matthew Hunt	6. Owen Turtenwald	6. Michael Derczo
7. Alex To	7. Christoffer Enggaard Larsen	7. Reed Hartman	7. Saul Alvarado
8. Erik Carson	8. Adam Bajerowicz	8. Yuuya Watanabe	8. Javier Dominguez

GP Prague	GP Columbus	GP Taipei	GP Pittsburgh
Date: 11–12 June 2016	Date: 11–12 June 2016	Date: 25–26 June 2016	Date: 25–26 June 2016
Format: Legacy	Format: Legacy	Format: Standard	Format: Standard
Attendance: 1477	Attendance: 1824	Attendance: 793	Attendance: 1379
1. Rodrigo Togores	1. Clay Spicklemire	1. Yuuki Ichikawa	1. Evan Petre
2. Nicolas Tholance	2. Joe Lossett	2. Huang Yung Min	2. Pascal Maynard
3. Thomas Enevoldsen	3. Noah Walker	3. Lee Shi Tian	3. Steve Rubin
4. Alexander Hayne	4. Christopher Walton	4. Yuuta Takahashi	4. William Cruse
5. Niels Molle	5. Wilson Hunter	5. Chien-Hung Lien	5. Adam Ragsdale
6. Lukas Blohon	6. Raymond Cornely	6. Mingrerk Setsompop	6. Eric Flickinger
7. Gianluca Gazzola	7. Jarvis Yu	7. Shawn McNeace	7. Matt Tumavitch
8. Arnaud Baglin	8. Aaron Kasprzak	8. Yuchen Liu	8. Aleksa Telarov

GP São Paulo	GP Sydney	GP Stockholm	GP Montreal
Date: 2–3 July 2016	Date: 30–31 July 2016	Date: 30–31 July 2016	Date: 30–31 July 2016
Format: Team Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1095 (365 teams)	Attendance: 1076	Attendance: 1244	Attendance: 1300
1. Francisco Barciella  1. Carlos Romão  1. Eloi Pattaro	1. Scott Lipp	1. Elmer Van Eeghen	1. Hunter Cochran
	2. Jan Ksandr	2. Matteo Moure	2. Hugo Demers
	3. Ben Stark	3. Andreas Reling	3. Felix Tse
2. Jonathan Melamed  2. Mateus Martins  2. Paulo Martinello	4. Seth Manfield	4. Erik Wahlberg	4. Morgan McLaughlin
	5. Zen Takahashi	5. Bjørnar Prytz	5. Robert Lombardi
	6. Santiago De Pauli	6. Yannick Studer	6. Philippe Gareau
3. Pascal Maynard  3. Brian Braun-Duin  3. Shaheen Soorani	7. Thierry Ramboa	7. Max Pritsch	7. Michael Ferneyhough
	8. Ben Seck	8. Federico Del Basso	8. Jamie Madill
4. Renato Pinto  4. Leonardo Labruna  4. Diego Coelho

Pro Tour Eldritch Moon

5–7 August 2016 in Sydney, Australia.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Lukas Blohon	$40,000	30	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2	Owen Turtenwald	$20,000	26	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
3	Sam Pardee	$12,500	22
4	Luis Scott-Vargas	$12,500	22	Eighth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Yuuta Takahashi	$10,000	18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
6	Ken Yukuhiro	$10,000	18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
7	Reid Duke	$10,000	18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8	Andrew Brown	$10,000	18	Second Pro Tour Top 8

Notes

^I Due to an issue with the round 15 standings, the player who advanced to the top 8 in eighth place, Ferran Vila, should have finished ninth; instead, Sweden's Jonas Friberg should have been playing in the top 8.