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This is a list of all Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour events. [1] [2] [3] Pro Tours are professional, invite-only tournaments featuring large cash prizes. The World Championships were considered a Pro Tour from 1996 to 2011, but were discontinued in 2012. When the World Championship was reintroduced in 2013 it was changed to a smaller scale non ...
The Pro Tour debuted in 1996 under the name The Black Lotus Pro Tour, featuring events only in the United States. A tournament was held in New York on February 16–18, 1996. [3] The series included three more Pro Tour events, culminating in the final Pro Tour, the World Championship, held in Seattle.
Julien Nuijten won the final 3–1 against Aeo Paquette. At 15 years old, he became the youngest ever Pro Tour winner and took home a total of $52,366 – a new record for winnings in a single collectible card game tournament. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. Team Germany won the team final 2–1 against ...
The first Grand Prix was in 1997. Unlike the invitation-only Pro Tour, GPs were open to all players. The first Grand Prix was held in Amsterdam and it was also the first professional Magic tournament held outside the United States. The total prize pool was $30,000, compared to $250,000 at Pro Tour Paris a few weeks later.
However, on 20th August 2024, Wizards of the Coast announced a new tournament series called Magic Spotlight Series, starting in 2025. They are open events with a $50,000 price pool, also rewarding the top 8 finishers with a Pro Tour invitation, so they can be seen as spiritual successors for the Grand Prix series.
The 1996 Pro Tour season was the first season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. At the end of 1995 Wizards of the Coast had announced the introduction of a tournament series featuring big cash prizes. Originally coined the "Black Lotus Pro Tour" the tournaments were simply called "Pro Tours" and the name was thus changed quickly.
This is a list of all Magic: The Gathering players who have acquired 100 or more pro points over the course of their career. After a player has won 100 pro points, he or she is allowed to vote for the Hall of Fame. Until 2013 that player would also be available to be voted into the Hall of Fame, but beginning with the 2014 voting this threshold ...
The 2016–17 Pro Tour season was the twenty-second season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. It started on 13 August 2016 with Grand Prix Portland and Rimini and ended on 30 July 2017 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Kyoto. The season consisted of 49 Grand Prix and 4 Pro Tours, located in Honolulu, Dublin, Nashville, and Kyoto. [1]