Magic: The Gathering World Championship - 2011 World Championship

2011 World Championship

Jun'ya Iyanaga – 2011 World Championship
Wolf Run Ramp
Main Deck: Sideboard:

1 Birds of Paradise
4 Inferno Titan
4 Primeval Titan
4 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Thrun, the Last Troll

2 Devil's Play
4 Galvanic Blast
2 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Rampant Growth
1 Shock
3 Slagstorm
4 Sphere of the Suns

4 Copperline Gorge
5 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
3 Kessig Wolf Run
6 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag

2 Ancient Grudge
4 Autumn's Veil
1 Beast Within
1 Slagstorm
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Tree of Redemption
1 Viridian Corrupter

(Official coverage)

The eighteenth Magic World Championship was held from 17–20 November in the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, USA, the same site that already hosted the 2004 World Championship. The tournament consisted of six rounds of Standard on Thursday, two Innistrad Booster Drafts of three rounds each on Friday, and six rounds of Modern on Saturday. This was be the first World Championship to feature the new Modern format. On Sunday, the Top 8 players played against each other in elimination rounds, using the Standard decks they played on Thursday. 375 players from 60 countries competed in the event.

The Swiss rounds were dominated by American player Conley Woods, who would go 16–2 with his only losses being tactical concessions to other ChannelFireball teammates. Ultimately, four ChannelFireball teammates would make it into the Top 8: Conley Woods, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, Luis Scott-Vargas and Josh Utter-Leyton. For Paulo this was his fourth World Championship Top 8, making him the first player to achieve this, and his eighth Pro Tour Top 8 overall. Also, for the first time players playing in the Magic Online World Championships managed to make the Top 8 of the Pro Tour, with Jun’ya Iyanaga (SEVERUS on MTGO) and David Caplan (goobafish on MTGO) making it to Sunday. The quarterfinals saw three of the four ChannelFireball teammates eliminated, with only Conley Woods making it to the semifinals after narrowly defeating Craig Wescoe 3-2. The semifinals would be clean sweeps with Jun'ya Iyanaga and Richard Bland defeating Conley Woods and David Caplan 3-0 respectively. The finals would see Jun'ya Iyanaga defeat Richard Bland in another 3-0 clean sweep to become the 2011 World Champion. Jun'ya Iyanaga's prize money for winning the World Championship and placing seventh in the Magic Online World Championship was $51,000, making him the second highest earner in the history of the World Championships behind 2004 World Champion Julien Nuijten.

In the team event, Japan played against Norway for the World Team Title. The Japanese team of Ryuichiro Ishida, Tomoya Fujimoto,and former World Champion Makihito Mihara were victorious.

In the Magic Online World Championship finals, Reid Duke (reidderrabbit on MTGO) played against Florian Pils (flying man on MTGO) in the Modern format. Reid Duke won the match 2–1 to become the Magic Online World Champion, the first American and the first Magic Online Player of the Year to win the title.

Individual
  1. Jun'ya Iyanaga
  2. Richard Bland
  3. Conley Woods
  4. David Caplan
  5. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
  6. Luis Scott-Vargas
  7. Josh Utter-Leyton
  8. Craig Wescoe
Team Competition
  1. Japan – Ryuichiro Ishida, Tomoya Fujimoto, Makihito Mihara
  2. Norway – Sveinung Bjørnerud, Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl
Pro Player of the Year
  1. Owen Turtenwald
  2. Luis Scott-Vargas
  3. Martin Juza
Rookie of the Year
  1. Matthias Hunt
Hall of Fame inductees
  • Shuhei Nakamura
  • Anton Jonsson
  • Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
Magic Online World Champion
  • Reid Duke

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