Come join Wizards of the Coast as we kick off our 2002-2003 Pro Tour Season in Boston, MA! This information will help you to prepare now to attend in September. Pro Tour–Boston will be held September 27-29, 2002.

• Invitation List
• How to Qualify
• Tournament Location
• Hotel information
• Format
• Information Packet
• Prize Payout
• Artists
• Ancillary Events
• Player Contact

locationTournament Location

Bayside Exposition Center
200 Mt. Vernon Street
Boston, MA 02125
www.baysideexpo.com

hotelHotel Information

Double Tree Hotel
Boston Bayside
240 Mt. Vernon St.
Boston, MA
Fax: 617-740-2100
Phone: 617-822-3600
www.bostonbaysideclub.doubletree.com

Room Rate
Single/Double occupancy $149USD
Triple occupancy $159USD
Quad occupancy $169USD

The Doubletree Club Hotel Boston-Bayside is in the parking lot of the Bayside EXPO and is the most convenient option for your Pro Tour Boston accommodations. The Club offers limited services including Au Bon Pain Bakery Café, open daily from 6am-11pm and the Club lounge open daily from 4pm until midnight.
All rooms must be registered to a guest staying in the same room age 18 years or older.

In order to receive the best rates you must make your reservations by Monday, August 26, 2002.

formatFormat

Team Sealed/Rochester Draft

prizePrize Payout

Total prize money to be awarded is $200,000 USD.

artistsArtist Appearances

Christopher Moeller

Christopher Moeller has been writing and painting graphic novels from his studio in Pittsburgh since 1991, his most recent work being the hardcover JLA: A League of One for DC Comics. He is currently working on another JLA graphic novel entitled Cold Steel. An avid wargamer, Moeller has provided illustrations for a variety of game publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, OSG, White Wolf, FASA, Wiz Kids and Columbia Games.

Jerry Tirtilli

Jerry has been living in a fantasy world for most his life and at some point in his long freelance art career started taking advantage of it and making a living from it. His first job as an artist was doing courtroom sketch art for WGM television. He later worked in an art studio then left and became a freelancer, working for magazines and newspapers amongst other things. Eventually he illustrated book covers and children's books ("The Pagemaster" was a more well know project) and hooked up with WOTC, illustrating Magic Cards. " I love working on Fantasy art, stepping into that other, magic, world, created by your own imagination (well, influence by others too)!"

Currently, he just finished working with Gary (Far Side) Larson. "I worked with Gary as a painter, collaborating with ideas and rendering his drawings for book covers for a new 2 volume set of books that will come out, hopefully, next year".

Jerry lives in Chicago with Marge and their daughter Elizabeth. He doesn't want to mention the three cats. Too many cats! "Also I was a prize fighter, an inventor and sold shoes for a couple of months....well I did sell shoes for a couple of months anyway-when I was young".

sidesAncillary Event Schedule Featuring the Onslaught Prerelease!

Ancillary events are open to everyone.

Onslaught Prerelease

Flight System:
Except for the "Midnight Madness" event, we will be running many 32-person tournaments. Each of these tournaments is called a "flight." Each flight will be 5 rounds of Swiss. Each player in each flight will receive 1 Onslaught Tournament Pack and 2 Onslaught boosters. Each player will also receive 1 Onslaught Prerelease Premium card (while supplies last).

Registration:
Registration will begin Friday evening at 8:00pm for both Midnight Madness and the Saturday flights. Players who register for a Saturday flight will be assigned a flight and told the approximate start time for that flight. Registration will open at 8:00am on Saturday and Sunday morning and flights will begin at 9:00am. Flights will be run as filled on Saturday and Sunday.

Cost:
First flight - $25.00
Repeat flights - $15.00

Prizes:
Prizes will be based on a player's record after the Swiss rounds are complete. All prizes are Onslaught boosters.

5-0: 18 boosters
4-0-1: 14 boosters
4-1: 9 boosters
3-0-2: 6 boosters
3-1-1: 5 boosters

Pro Tour-Boston

Thursday

Friday
In order for events to begin on time, please arrive fifteen minutes before the scheduled starting time

Saturday: Onslaught™ Prerelease

Sunday
In order for events to begin on time, please arrive fifteen minutes before the scheduled starting time

Note: All events follow the Swiss-style pairings structure unless otherwise indicated.

Overnight Events
Wizards of the Coast, Inc. will offer tournaments twenty-four hours a day at Pro Tour-Boston! The following Magic: the Gathering tournaments will be added as requested (subject to space and judge availability):

Standard: $5
Extended: $5
Odyssey Sealed Deck: $18
English Odyssey Draft: $12
Non-English Odyssey Draft: $15
English Onslaught Draft: $15

(Note: Onslaught drafts will not start until 5:00 P.M. on Saturday)

All overnight events will be DCI sanctioned and follow the single-elimination format. Enjoy the competition all night long!

Start time and format of all tournaments subject to change.

contactPlayer Contact

Andy Heckt
Wizards of the Coast
Player Coordinator
425-254-2941
Email: heckt@wizards.com