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Olivier Ruel
Olivier Ruel (born 24 July 1981Olivier Ruel 2006 Pro Player card (from the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral expansion) in Aubervilliers, France) is one of the most successful professional ''Magic: The Gathering'' players. He holds the record for most Grand Prix Top 8’s, and is one of twenty players with five or more Pro Tour top 8’s. After Pro Tour San Juan 2010, Olivier surpassed Kai Budde as the leader in lifetime Pro Points. However, Budde regained that title later that season. Career Born in Aubervilliers, France, Olivier and his brother Antoine started playing Magic in 1994. Olivier won the first Pro Tour Qualifier he attended and thereby qualified for Pro Tour Rome 1999. After a mid-table result there he teamed up with his brother and Florent Jeudon for Pro Tour Washington D.C., going under the name of "Phenome J". They finished eleventh at the Pro Tour and quickly followed that up with a victory at Grand Prix Cannes, now going as "Black Ops". These achievements were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubervilliers
Aubervilliers () is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Albertivillariens'' or ''Albertivillariennes''. Geography Localisation Aubervilliers is one of three communes in the ''Plaine Saint-Denis'', north-east of the centre of Paris. The Canal Saint-Denis traverses the commune on the western side from north to south. Transport and communications Aubervilliers is a commune close to Paris and has numerous means of transport including: the A86 autoroute from L'Ile-Saint-Denis in the west to Drancy in the east with Exit 9 on the northern border of the commune, Route nationale N301 from Stains in the north and joining the Paris ring road in the south, the D20 from Gennevilliers in the west, the D27 from Bobigny in the east, and the D115 from Pantin in the south-east. The Paris ring road is just outside the southern border of the commune and there are two acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sideboard
''The Sideboard'' was a magazine published by Wizards of the Coast that covered ''Magic: The Gathering'' tournaments A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses: # One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ... and expert play. After six years of publication, it ceased its print activities and much of the content from ''The Sideboard'' (along with the content from its website) was folded into magicthegathering.com. Originally titled ''The Duelist Sideboard'', the first issue was a full-color, 32-page issue published in July 1996. The cover story was a preview of the upcoming Magic World Championships. The next six issues were also full-color, and ran through July 1997. ''The Duelist Sideboard'' became a tabloid-size newspaper with its next issue (September 1997) and featured Jakub Slemr, who had just won the 1997 Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Magic: The Gathering Players
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The Gathering National Champions
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The Gathering Hall Of Fame
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee, after Nashville. Memphis is the fifth-most populous city in the Southeast, the nation's 28th-largest overall, as well as the largest city bordering the Mississippi River. The Memphis metropolitan area includes West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi and the Missouri Bootheel. One of the more historic and culturally significant cities of the Southern United States, Memphis has a wide variety of landscapes and distinct neighborhoods. The first European explorer to visit the area of present-day Memphis was Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1541. The high Chickasaw Bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gathering World Championship
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Wizards Of The Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and List of science fiction themes, science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidiary of Hasbro, which acquired the company in 1999. During a February 2021 reorganization at Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast became the lead part of the new "Wizards & Digital" division. Originally a role-playing game publisher, the company originated and popularized the collectible card game genre with ''Magic: The Gathering'' in the mid-1990s. It also acquired the popular ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game by buying TSR (company), TSR and increased its success by publishing the licensed ''Pokémon Trading Card Game''. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Renton, Washington, Renton, Washington (state), Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. Wizards of the Coast publishes role-pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Finkel
Jon Finkel (born May 18, 1978)Jon Finkel 2006 Pro Player card (from the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral expansion) is an American ''Magic: The Gathering'' and poker player. Finkel is one of the most decorated players in the history of professional ''Magic: The Gathering'' play and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time. During his career he has won three Grand Prix events and made the Top 8 of a record 16 Pro Tour events, winning three of those. In the year 2000, he became the Magic: The Gathering World Champion, as well as playing for the United States National Team, which won the team portion of the competition. Career Finkel was born in Brockport, New York, but moved with his family to Woking, UK, in the summer of 1992 and learned about ''Magic: The Gathering'' shortly thereafter at a local game shop named Fun and Games. After he returned to the New York area in 1995 Finkel quickly made friends with the "OMS brothers", Steven and Daniel O'Mahoney-Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
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Brian Selden
Brian Selden (born 1980 in San Diego, California, San Diego, California) was the winner of the 1998 ''Magic: The Gathering'' Magic: The Gathering World Championship#1998 World championship, World Championship. His strategy in the tournament was to use two cards, called ''Survival of the Fittest'' and ''Recurring Nightmare'' repeatedly. The former card puts creatures into the Magic: The Gathering#Gameplay, graveyard, while the latter allows the user to return them to the battlefield without using any Magic: The Gathering rules#Mana costs and colors, mana. This results in a constant cycle of Resurrection, resurrected creatures. Selden used this tactic to bring back utility creatures or either ''Verdant Force'' or ''Spirit of the Night'', both very expensive, powerful, and usually game-ending cards. Selden received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2005. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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