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William Jensen
William "Huey" Jensen (born July 26, 1982) is an American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player. He won Pro Tour Boston 2003, and has finished in the top 8 of four additional Pro Tours. He also has 24 Grand Prix top eights, including six wins. Jensen is one of the few players to have beaten Kai Budde in the elimination rounds of a Pro Tour. In 2013 he was voted into the Hall of Fame. He is the current record holder of most Grand Prix top eight finishes within a single season, with eight in 2013–14. He is also the 2017 ''Magic'' World Champion. ''Magic: The Gathering'' career William Jensen started playing ''Magic'' in 1995 at age 13, and his first Pro Tour was Pro Tour Rome 1998. One year later, at Pro Tour London 1999, he got his major breakthrough by making the top 8, ultimately finishing 6th, losing to eventual champion Kyle Rose. Only one month later, at Grand Prix San Diego, Jensen experienced his first Grand Prix success by not only making the top 8, but winning the event. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Fischer
Dana Fischer is an American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player. She is tied for the youngest to make the second day of a Grand Prix (Magic: The Gathering), Grand Prix tournament (at age eight) and is the youngest to win cash at a Grand Prix (at age nine). Background and family life Dana Fischer was born in July 2010, and lives with her mother, father, and older sister in Carmel Valley, San Diego. Her father started teaching both daughters ''Magic'' when they were very young, before they could read the card text. They learned to play by memorizing the cards. This was similar to how players learn to play with cards in a foreign language. After they learned to read, the process went faster. Also available as Her sister lost interest in ''Magic'' over the next few years, while Dana continued to play. Other activities Dana likes include soccer, singing, hula hooping, and gymnastics; her sister teaches her dance moves and life skills like tying her shoes. Competitive ''Magic'' eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gathering Pro Tour Season 2003–04
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American Magic: The Gathering Players
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The Gathering Pro Tour Season 2015–16
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuuya Watanabe
Yuuya Watanabe (渡辺雄也) is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player and former World Champion. With five Pro Tour top eights and 27 Grand Prix top eights (including seven wins), Watanabe is best known for his Rookie of the Year title in 2007, and his Player of the Year titles in 2009 and 2012. He is one of only three players to become Player of the Year more than once. He was elected to the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame in 2016, along with Owen Turtenwald, but removed in May 2019 after a cheating scandal involving marked card sleeves. Career Watanabe's professional Magic career began in 2007 at Grand Prix Kyoto. He emerged as the champion from a top eight of relatively unknown players, something former Player of the Year Kenji Tsumura had predicted on day one of the tournament. This qualified him for his first Pro Tour, Yokohama, held about a month later. Despite not making another top eight that season at either the Pro Tour or Grand Prix level, strong finishes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gathering
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Owen Turtenwald
Owen Turtenwald (born ) is a former American professional ''Magic: The Gathering'' player. He won a number of awards during his career, notably the 2010 Vintage World Championship and 2011 and 2015-16 Player of the Year. In 2016, he was inducted into the ''Magic: The Gathering'' Hall of Fame. He was briefly a member of the Magic Pro League in 2019 before being removed following sexual harassment accusations from women in the Magic community. He has not participated in any Wizards of the Coast sanctioned ''Magic: The Gathering'' tournaments since the incident. ''Magic: The Gathering'' career Owen Turtenwald first came to prominence as a player of ''Magics eternal formats, Legacy and Vintage. In the 2007 season, Turtenwald made his first Top 8 at GP Columbus, finishing in second place with a Legacy Goblins deck and qualifying for PT Valencia (where he finished in 18th place with an Extended version of the Goblins deck). In 2008, Turtenwald made the Top 8 of the Vintage World Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reid Duke
Reid Duke is an American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player from Sugar Loaf, New York. He won the '' Magic: The Gathering Online'' Championship in 2011. His best finishes include three Pro Tour Top 8s, at Pro Tour ''Journey Into Nyx'', Pro Tour ''Eldritch Moon'', and Pro Tour ''Rivals of Ixalan'', a runner-up finish at the 2013 World Championships, and wins at Grand Prix Nashville 2012, Grand Prix Miami 2013, Grand Prix Portland 2014, Grand Prix Oakland 2016, Grand Prix Louisville 2017, Grand Prix Cleveland and Pro Tour Phyrexia. ''Magic: The Gathering'' career Commonly referred to as "The gentleman of the Magic world", Reid Duke started playing in 1995, at age five, with his brother Ian Duke, who is now a member of the ''Magic: The Gathering'' R&D team at Wizards of the Coast. For a time, he was primarily a '' Magic: The Gathering Online'' player, but made the transition to in-person competitive play. He qualified for Pro Tour Amsterdam 2010 via rating, and won a ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gathering Pro Tour Season 2014–15
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Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelger Wiegersma
Jelger Wiegersma (born 4 December 1981) is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Though no longer a professional player, he still regularly attends Pro Tours. He won Pro Tour Seattle 2004 as a member of team ''Von Dutch'' with teammates Jeroen Remie and Kamiel Cornelissen. He also won two Grand Prix, in 2003 and 2008. In 2008, he was elected to the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame. Career Jelger Wiegersma first played on the Pro Tour in the 1998–99 season at Pro Tour New York. Despite a strong finish at Pro Tour Chicago, missing the top eight only on tiebreakers, Wiegersma was unable to establish himself on the Pro Tour in the season following his debut. In the season after that Wiegersma got his first taste of success. He played all but one of the Pro Tours that year, and made the top four of Grand Prix Turin with teammates Kamiel Cornelissen and Tom van de Logt. In 2001–02 Wiegersma managed to make the top eight of a Pro Tour for the first time. At Pro Tour New O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Nassif
Gabriel Nassif (born 8 November 1983)Gabriel Nassif 2007 Pro Player card (from the Magic: The Gathering Lorwyn expansion) is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years. In 2010, Nassif was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame. Magic: The Gathering Gabriel Nassif first caught public attention at Magic Block Constructed Grand Prix London, 2001 where he reached the finals with his aggressive White/Blue/Red deck, and lost to German "Juggernaut" Kai Budde. This was only the first of many successes Nassif would have in Constructed. At that time he was already wearing his trademark yellow hat that eventually led to his nickname "Yellow Hat". Only one week later Nassif made Top 4 at Pro Tour: New York 2001 with teammates Nicolas Olivieri and Amiel Tenenbaum, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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