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Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2011

2011 Pro Tour season
Pro Player of the Year United States Owen Turtenwald
Rookie of the Year United States Matthias Hunt
World Champion Japan Jun'ya Iyanaga
Pro Tours 4
Grands Prix 20
Hall of Fame inductions Japan Shuhei Nakamura
Sweden Anton Jonsson
United States Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
Start of season 22 January 2011
End of season 20 November 2011

The 2011 Pro Tour season was the sixteenth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. It began on 22 January 2011 with Grand Prix Atlanta, and ended on 20 November 2011 with the conclusion of the 2011 World Championship in San Francisco. The season consisted of twenty Grands Prix, and four Pro Tours, located in Paris, Nagoya, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

Four Pro Tours and eighteen Grands Prix were held in the 2011 season. Further Pro Points were awarded at national championships. These Pro Points were mainly used to determine the Pro Player club levels of players participating in these events, but also decide which player was awarded the Pro Player of the year title at the end of the season. Based on final standings Pro Points are awarded as follows:

Pro Tour Paris was held at Espace Champerret. The formats were Standard and Scars of Mirrodin-Mirrodin Besieged Booster Draft.

Prize pool: $230,795
Format: Standard, Booster Draft

Originally scheduled for the weekend of 12–13 March GP Hamburg was cancelled as announced on 13 January. On 14 March 2011, Wizards of the Coast announced that GP Kobe, originally scheduled for 19–20 March, had been postponed, citing safety, power and travel concerns.


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