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Caption
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Day
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Category
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"Jitterbug" Fujita has apparently moved on to ballet
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Saturday |
Players |
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"Last Emperor of Japan", Jin Okamoto
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Saturday |
Players |
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"THE" Ben Seck is accosted by Japan Territory Manager Ron Foster
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Saturday |
Players |
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A bespectacled Kuroda checks things out
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Friday |
Players |
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A classic case of "Your word against mine"
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Friday |
Players |
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A diligent judge tries to extract himself from a scotch tape booby trap
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Saturday |
Staff |
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A downright jolly Wilfried Ranque
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Saturday |
Players |
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A long wait to meet the artists, but that's no match for The Flash!
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Friday |
Site |
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A meeting of the minds: Tournament Manager Jeff Donais, Head Judge Collin Jackson, and Judge Manager James Lee
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Friday |
Staff |
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A trepidatious Doctor P
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Friday |
Players |
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Akira Asahara Butchers up a storm
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Saturday |
Players |
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Alan Comer winds up to swing
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Friday |
Players |
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Alex Shvartsman steps gingerly into The Red Zone
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Friday |
Players |
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All that, and style too!
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Saturday |
Players |
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All-Japan action: Katsuhiro "Speed Freak" Mori v. Masashiro Kuroda
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Friday |
Players |
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An unkempt Long brings the noise
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Friday |
Players |
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Anson Maddocks plays it cool for the camera
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Friday |
Staff |
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Antoine Ruel hides behind a Shambling Swarm
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Friday |
Players |
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APAC Champ Jin Okamoto is having a ball!
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Friday |
Players |
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Artist Kev Walker glad-hands the crowd
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Friday |
Staff |
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Artist Mark Tedin loves the spotlight
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Friday |
Staff |
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Artist Pete Venters is swarmed by fans
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Friday |
Staff |
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Assistant Show Manger Renee Roub compliments Judge Manager James Lee
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Friday |
Staff |
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Attack of the French: Ruel v. Ranque
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Saturday |
Players |
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Bastos's expression clearly reads "Oh no!"
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Saturday |
Players |
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Behold the thrill of competition!
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Friday |
Players |
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Belgium's smilin' Geoffrey Siron
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Saturday |
Players |
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Ben Rubin really wants this one
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Saturday |
Players |
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Ben Rubin tries his best to look helpless
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Friday |
Players |
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Benafel tries his stupefying stare on Law
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Friday |
Players |
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Boeken appears ill at ease
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Friday |
Players |
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Bosom buddies Nicolai Herzog and Jens Thoren, up close and personal
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Friday |
Players |
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Bram Snepvangers is cool AND collected
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Friday |
Players |
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Brian Davis loves beating up on Gary Wise, and it shows
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Saturday |
Players |
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Brian Hegstad gives his best deadpan stare
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Friday |
Players |
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Brian Kibler has perfected the combination shrug-and-frown
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Friday |
Players |
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Brian Kibler suavely goes for the life totals
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Friday |
Players |
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Brian Kibler's always got a smile
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Friday |
Players |
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Brock Parker and Matt Linde yuk it up
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Friday |
Players |
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Canada's own Jeff Cunningham
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Friday |
Players |
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Chikara Hayashi, called by some the "Japanese Brian Kibler"
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Friday |
Players |
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Childlike wonder or drug-induced stupor? You decide.
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Saturday |
Players |
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Chris Benafel asks permission to Edict
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Friday |
Players |
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Chris Benafel has seen better days
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Friday |
Players |
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Christophe Haim tries too keep the butterflies at bay
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Sunday |
Players |
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Cunningham turns cards sideways
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Saturday |
Players |
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Darwin Kastle struggles to find a second facial expression
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Friday |
Players |
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Dave Humpherys and his reality-altering handshake
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Friday |
Players |
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Dave Price is a laser, focused on victory!
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Saturday |
Players |
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Dave Price is as surprised as you are that he's 6-1
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Friday |
Players |
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Diligent Judges tear through decklists in search of errors
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Friday |
Staff |
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Dirk Baberowski is threatening to burst into tears
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Friday |
Players |
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Do you know this Dandy?
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Friday |
Players |
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Dougherty springs into action!
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Saturday |
Players |
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EDT simply cannot get comfortable
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Friday |
Players |
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Eric 'Danger' Taylor tangles with Darwin Kastle
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Friday |
Players |
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Eric Froehlich radiates confidence
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Saturday |
Players |
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Eric Froehlich. Brutish.
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Friday |
Players |
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Eric Ziegler tries a Spock impression
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Saturday |
Players |
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Famed Japanese deckbuilder Akira Asahara, creator of GP Sendai's "Zombie-Go"
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Friday |
Players |
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Fighting for pride, Tsuyoshi Ikeda and Tsuyoshi Fujita work side by side
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Saturday |
Players |
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French players clown around
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Friday |
Players |
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Fujita tries to make it 8-0, with the help of his lucky scarf
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Saturday |
Players |
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Fukata tries to match Kastle's severity
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Saturday |
Players |
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Gabriel Nassif goes skyward in triumph!
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Saturday |
Players |
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Gary matches wits with Thoren in Round 5
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Friday |
Players |
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Gary Wise is wearing some form of man-dress
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Saturday |
Players |
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Gary Wise tries his best not to be creepy
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Friday |
Players |
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Gary Wise tries to calm down an overjoyed Ruel brother
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Friday |
Players |
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Gary Wise, amateur pirate
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Saturday |
Players |
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Grand Prix - Fukuoka Champ Alex Shvartsman
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Friday |
Players |
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Gunslingers try their best to lose with style
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Friday |
Players |
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Gunslingers work hard to please the fans
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Sunday |
Players |
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Happy-go-lucky Mikey P. You can practically hear the giggling.
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Friday |
Players |
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Hayashi v. Hirabayashi in a third-round conflict
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Friday |
Players |
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Head Judge Collin Jackson is one sad panda
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Saturday |
Staff |
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Head Judge Collin Jackson shakes hands with Semifinalist Jens Thoren
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Sunday |
Players |
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High Muckety-mucks Skaff Elias, Chris Galvin, Diana Johns and Messieurs Satou and Yamaguchi
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Saturday |
Staff |
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High-fives for a hard-fought match: Ruel and Olivieri
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Sunday |
Players |
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Ho does his best to appear humble
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Sunday |
Players |
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Hot hot hot side event action
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Saturday |
Players |
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Huey and Linde: Nature's Best Friends
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Saturday |
Players |
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Ishida gets a quick lesson in Madness as Kibler looks on
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Friday |
Players |
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Itaru Ishida and his mighty puffy jacket
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Saturday |
Players |
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Itaru Ishida in mid-thought
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Friday |
Players |
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Itaru Ishida is running short of options
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Friday |
Players |
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Itaru Ishida likes everything just so
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Friday |
Players |
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It's lonely at the top
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Sunday |
Players |
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Japanese Commentators Masashiro Kuroda and Koichiro Maki
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Sunday |
Staff |
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Japanese limited specialist Masahiko Morita is shocked
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Friday |
Players |
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Japanese pros check out some side events
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Saturday |
Players |
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Japan's Best let it all hang out
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Saturday |
Players |
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Jay Elarar is a rock!
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Friday |
Players |
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Jeff Donais sends a coded message to the law!
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Friday |
Staff |
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Jeff Fung shows off his tech Elephant Tokens
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Friday |
Players |
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Jens Thoren is taken aback! Really!
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Sunday |
Players |
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Jens Thoren pumps the Shade
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Saturday |
Players |
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Jens Thoren refuses to play up to the crowd
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Friday |
Players |
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Jens Thoren resolves Haunting Echoes, but refuses to smile
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Friday |
Players |
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Jens Thoren, and he's actually SMILING!
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Sunday |
Players |
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Jill Costigan drops elbows at table 39 in the third round
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Friday |
Players |
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Jon Finkel smiles politely
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Friday |
Players |
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Jonny Magic calls it a day with style
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Friday |
Players |
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Just like everyone else this weekend, Ruel has to read Tarnished Citadel
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Sunday |
Players |
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Justice comes quick in the guise of Professor X
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Friday |
Players |
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Justin Gary Freak-Out Party!
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Friday |
Players |
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Justin Gary tries to play innocent about his three-Shade draw
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Friday |
Players |
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Kai Budde glowers as only he can
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Friday |
Players |
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Kastle is a powder keg just waiting to go off
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Saturday |
Players |
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Kastle takes "surly" to new heights
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Friday |
Players |
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Kazuya Hirabashi hopes this one will stick
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Friday |
Players |
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Ken Ho allows himself a sneer
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Sunday |
Players |
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Ken Ho takes his sweet time
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Sunday |
Players |
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Ken Ho watches Olivier Ruel like a hawk
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Sunday |
Players |
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Ken Ho's success is awarded with a Cup larger than his head
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Sunday |
Players |
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Kibler displays his mysterious side
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Friday |
Players |
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Kibler lets out his inner hippie
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Saturday |
Players |
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Kibler's Eruption halts Finkel's fustigation
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Friday |
Players |
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Local talents and Fujita-apprentices Takao Higaki and Go Anan square off
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Saturday |
Players |
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Master of Disaster: Ken Ho
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Sunday |
Players |
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Matt Vienneau looking no less shifty than usual
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Friday |
Players |
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Mattias Kettil is one of only three players running white, and is pleased as punch
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Friday |
Players |
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Melodie Smith is far more excited than reasonable
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Saturday |
Staff |
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Melody Smith, friend to children
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Saturday |
Players |
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Mike "Guaranteed Winner" Turian
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Friday |
Players |
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Mike Turian makes Psychatog, and hopes.
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Saturday |
Players |
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Mild-mannered Jens Thoren uses Diabolic Tutor to get Mind Twist
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Friday |
Players |
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More proof that size does not equal strength
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Saturday |
Players |
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Mori shows a strong board
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Friday |
Players |
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Mori uses his speed powers to resleeve his deck
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Friday |
Players |
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Next door, the deals go down
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Friday |
Site |
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Nicholas Labarre is frightening to children and adults alike!
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Friday |
Players |
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Nicolas Labarre and Antoine Ruel cheer on their countrymen
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Sunday |
Players |
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Noah Boeken struggles to keep his concentration
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Friday |
Players |
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No-one will tell Matt Vienneau something's wrong
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Saturday |
Players |
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Okamoto flashes his 'yard
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Friday |
Players |
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Okamoto has all the mana in the world, and nothing to do with it
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Saturday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel ... thinks!
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Friday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel believes he has a cunning plan
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Friday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel botches his transformation, and can't escape
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Saturday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel demonstrates the french version of TINGS!
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Sunday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel desperately needs a swamp, and hopes funny faces will convince it to show up
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Sunday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel is ready to give this one away
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Friday |
Players |
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Olivier Ruel is running out of steam
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Saturday |
Players |
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Olivieri hammers with Shambling Swarm and Braids
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Sunday |
Players |
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Osyp Lebedowicz and his snazzy personalized shirt
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Sunday |
Players |
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Overhead view of Vienneau v. Baberowski
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Friday |
Players |
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Players trade both sob and success stories with equal vigor
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Friday |
Players |
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Post-human Cyberpunk Dave Humpherys
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Saturday |
Players |
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Price's Edict does his shirt proud
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Friday |
Players |
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Prim and proper Rob Dougherty
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Friday |
Players |
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Pseudo-pinhead Peter Szigeti
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Friday |
Players |
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Quarterfinal Action: Dougherty v. Haim
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Sunday |
Players |
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Quarterfinal Action: Lebedowicz v. Thoren
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Sunday |
Players |
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Questing Phelddagrif? Will that be 2D or 3D?
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Saturday |
Players |
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Raphael Levy hopes everything will work out
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Friday |
Players |
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Rob Dougherty cocks an eyebrow
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Sunday |
Players |
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Rob Dougherty keeps a careful eye on the action
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Saturday |
Players |
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Rob Dougherty loves playing the Magic cards
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Friday |
Players |
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Rosewater, Buehler and Kibler rule the airwaves
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Sunday |
Staff |
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Round 11 Action: Bram Snepvangers v. Jin Okamoto
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 11 Feature Match: Mitchell v. Price
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 11 Feature Match: Wise v. Turian. Potato Nation infighting!
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 12 Feature Match: Asahara v. Nassif
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 12 Feature Match: Thoren v. Ziegler
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 14 Feature Match: Ho v. Siron
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 14 Feature Match: Wise v. Rubin
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 2 Feature Match: Comer v. Ruel, uncharacteristically grim
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 2 Feature Match: Darwin Kastle v. Amiel Tenebaum
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 2 Feature Match: Noah Boeken v. Mike Long, Clash of the Misers
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 2 Feature Match: Teammates Justin Gary and Zvi Mowshowitz
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 3 Feature Match: Bastos v. Fujita
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 3 Feature Match: Labarre v. Snepvangers
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 3 Feature Match: Rubin v. Elarar
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 3 Feature Match: Thoren v. Ruel
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 4 Action: Asahar v. Fujita
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 4 Feature Match: Hager v. Ishida
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 4 Feature Match: Kibler v. Jensen
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 4 Feature Match: Pustilnik v. Fung
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 5 Feature Match: Ben Rubin v. Katsuhiro Mori. Rubin suspects something.
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 5 Feature Match: Shvartsman v. OMS
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 6 Feature Match: Eugene Harvey v. Andrea Santin
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 6 Feature Match: Ishida v. Mowshowitz
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 6 Feature Match: Peter Szigeti v. Mike Pustilnik
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 6 Feature Match: Ruel v. Dougherty. Neither is paying much attention at this point
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 7 Feature Match: Kastle v. Dougherty
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 7 Feature Match: Thoren v. Ruel
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Friday |
Players |
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Round 8 Action: Darwin Kastle v. Takamasa Fukata
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 8 Feature Match: Davis v. Wise
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 8 Feature Match: Jens Thoren v. Tsuyoshi Fujita
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 9 Action: Nagaoka v. King of Beatdown
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 9 Feature Match: Brian Kibler v. Helmut Summersberger, as Alex Shvartsman tells the tale
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Saturday |
Players |
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Round 9 Feature Match: Froehlich v. Ruel
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Saturday |
Players |
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Ruel counts up the kill
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Sunday |
Players |
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Ruel extends the hand to Ken Ho in defeat
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Sunday |
Players |
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Santin has already given up on the inside
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Friday |
Players |
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Semifinal Action: Ken Ho v. Jens Thoren
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Sunday |
Players |
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Semifinalist Rob Dougherty accepts his plaque for third place
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Sunday |
Players |
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Sideboard reporter Josh Bennett's rage boils over and he becomes ... The Incredible Hulk!
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Saturday |
Staff |
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Singapore's Albertus Law serves with Aquamoeba, of all things
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Friday |
Players |
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Slightly less-than-diligent Judges
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Saturday |
Staff |
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Snepvangers sports last year's shirt
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Saturday |
Players |
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Some players are already getting ready for side events
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Friday |
Players |
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South Africa's first Pro Tour Feature Match: Andrew Mitchell, and he's menacing
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Saturday |
Players |
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Spectators spectivate
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Friday |
Players |
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Steve O'Mahoney-Shwartz is slowly sliding off his chair. Ben Rubin is captivated.
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Friday |
Players |
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Steve OMS forces a smile for the camera
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Friday |
Players |
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Summersburger's smirk tells you this card's a good one
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Saturday |
Players |
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Superman Ben Rubin loves the camera
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Friday |
Players |
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Sylvain Lauriol is a thinking man's Magic player
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Sunday |
Players |
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Szigeti wonders how things could have gone so far wrong
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Friday |
Players |
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Table Judge Adrian Teh sorts out a Quarterfinal disagreement in Ho v. Lauriol
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Sunday |
Players |
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Takakyuki Nagaoka's complacence is founded in strength
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Saturday |
Players |
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Tenenbaum likes his Mesmeric Fiend. Perhaps too much.
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Friday |
Players |
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Terry Tsang shills mercilessly
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Friday |
Players |
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The always-intense Lucas Hager
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Friday |
Players |
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The crack Sideboard Japan staff, hard at work
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Saturday |
Staff |
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The crowd reacts to surprise misplays
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Saturday |
Players |
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The great unwashed masses check standings
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Saturday |
Players |
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The Japanese are still in the best of moods!
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Sunday |
Players |
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The Japanese Megapowers ... Explode! Fujita v. Okamoto
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Friday |
Players |
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The legendary Maddocks brings an old-school feel to the event
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Friday |
Staff |
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The mono-black mirror: APAC Champ Jin Okamoto v. Deadguy Dave Price
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Friday |
Players |
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The Patented Dave Price Stare: 2002 Edition
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Saturday |
Players |
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The Quarterfinals come too early for spectators
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Sunday |
Players |
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The rotation of the Earth takes its toll on Itaru Ishida
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Saturday |
Players |
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The smoking room, completely undoctored
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Friday |
Site |
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The Top 4 pose for your enjoyment
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Sunday |
Players |
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The Top 8 show confidence and faux-confidence
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Sunday |
Players |
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Thoren makes winning look dull
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Saturday |
Players |
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Top 8 dreams steal over Ken Ho's face
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Saturday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Christoph Haim
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Jens Thoren
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Ken Ho
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Nicolas Olivieri
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Olivier Ruel
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Osyp Lebedowicz
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Rob Dougherty
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Sunday |
Players |
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Top 8 Portrait: Sylvain Lauriol
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Sunday |
Players |
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Trevor Blackwell mugs for the camera
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Friday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi "Mr. Rolly" Fujita is full of disdain
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Friday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi Fujita guns to make it 7-0
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Friday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi Fujita is in for a world of hurt
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Saturday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi Ikeda goes for "laid back"
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Saturday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi Ikeda live and in technicolor
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Friday |
Players |
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Tsuyoshi Ikeda's Skeletal Scrying for seven clutters the board
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Saturday |
Players |
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Twice the Tsuyoshi!
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Saturday |
Players |
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Unbridled Chaos
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Saturday |
Players |
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Well-wishers throng the newly crowned Champ
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Sunday |
Players |
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When you get Gary Wise, you get what you pay for
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Saturday |
Players |
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When you stare at Darwin Kastle, Darwin Kastle stares back into you
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Friday |
Players |
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William Jensen hires Psychatog to do his dirty work
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Friday |
Players |
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WotC bigwigs Chris Galvin and Skaff Elias weather the storm of Mike Long
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Friday |
Staff |
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Wunderkind Brian Davis
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Friday |
Players |
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YMG takes lunch, no doubt up to something shady in the bargain
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Saturday |
Players |
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You just can't miss Smilin' Zvi Mowshowitz
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Friday |
Players |
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Your diligent Judges
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Friday |
Staff |
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Zombie Harvey manages to quell the thirst for brains long enough to play Aether Burst
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Friday |
Players |
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Zvi Mowshowitz falling over, perhaps in a drunken stupor
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Friday |
Players |