Magic Invitational 2002 Player’s Ballot

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Magic Invitational 2002 Player’s Ballot

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Mark Rosewater

The Seventh Annual Magic Invitational will be held October 18-20, 2002 in Seattle, WA on Magic Online. The criteria for the sixteen invitees are as follows:

Last Year's Magic Invitational Champion
Kai Budde (Germany)
2002 World Champion
Carlos Romao (Brazil)
Highest Ranked DCI Member (Composite Rating)
Brian Kibler (United States)
Highest Ranked Player, Pro Points
Jens Thoren (Sweden)
2nd Highest Ranked Player, Pro Points
Alex Shvartsman (United States)
3rd Highest Ranked Player, Pro Points
Olivier Ruel (France)
4th Highest Ranked Player, Pro Points
David Humpherys (United States)
5th Highest Ranked Player, Pro Points
Gabriel Nassif (France)
Top Ranked North American, Pro Points
Brian Davis (United States)
Top Ranked Latin American, Pro Points
Diego Ostovich (Argentina)
Top Ranked European, Pro Points
Eivind Nitter (Norway)
Top Ranked APAC, Pro Points
Itaru Ishida (Japan)
Highest Ranked Player, Fan Ballot
2nd Highest Ranked Player, Fan Ballot
3rd Highest Ranked Player, Fan Ballot
4th Highest Ranked Player, Fan Ballot

As you can see, the final four slots will be awarded to the four highest (uninvited) players from the Player's Ballot. Here's how it will work. Each DCI member may submit one ballot with up to sixteen votes. The ballot consists of last year's invitees and every player from the 2001-2002 season with a minimum of 12 pro points (the minimum equivalent of attending every Pro Tour for the 2001-2002 season). Note that several qualified players are ineligible for the ballot. (These players may still qualify through other means.) Explanations for ineligibility can be found below.

The deadline for voting is 12:00 pm PDT on Thursday, August 29, 2002. The sixteen invitees will be announced on-line once the final list is compiled.

WARNING: Be aware that falsely using another player's DCI number is a serious offense and may result in suspension.

2001 Invitational Invitees
	Name		Pro Points

*	1) Kai Budde	Germany	117
	2) Dan Clegg	United States	30
	3) Scott Richards	New Zealand	11
**	4) Kamiel Cornelissen	Netherlands	38
	5) Mike Pustilnik	United States	35
	6) Chris Pikula	United States	11
	7) Gary Wise	England	30
	8) Chris Benafel	United States	30
**	9) Tsuyoshi Fujita	Japan	31
	10) Jon Finkel	United States	15
**	11) Scott Johns	United States	13
*	12) Brian Kibler	United States	40
	13) David Price	United States	21
	14) Tom van de Logt	Netherlands	31
**	15) Antoine Ruel	France	37
**	16) Olivier Ruel	France	58

Players with at least 12 Pro Points
	Name	Country	Pro Points

	Brian Davis	United States	48
	Eric Froehlich	United States	46
	Ken Ho	United States	46
	Jelger Wiegersma	Netherlands	46
	Robert Dougherty	United States	45
	Anton Jonsson	Sweden	45
	Dirk Baberowski	Germany	43
	Tomi Walamies	Finland	43
	Farid Meraghni	France	42
	Abraham Snepvangers	Netherlands	41
	Marco Blume	Germany	39
	Patrick Mello	Germany	39
	Zvi Mowshowitz	United States	39
	Amiel Tenenbaum	France	38
	Eugene Harvey	United States	37
	Raphael Levy	France	37
	Nicolas Olivieri	France	37
	Ben Rubin	United States	37
	Franck Canu	France	36
	Brian Hegstad	United States	36
	William Jensen	United States	36
	Justin Gary	United States	33
	Pierre Malherbaud	France	32
	Mark Ziegner	Germany	32
	Darwin Kastle	United States	31
	Jeff Cunningham	Canada	30
	Katsuhiro Mori	Japan	30
	Christoph Lippert	Germany	29
	Michael Turian	United States	29
	Noah Boeken	Netherlands	28
	Gary Rush	United States	28
	Antonino De Rosa	United States	27
	Jeff Fung	Canada	27
	Nicolai Herzog	Norway	27
	Jin Okamoto	Japan	27
	Andrew Wolf	United States	27
	Osyp Lebedowicz	United States	26
	Masahiko Morita	Japan	26
	Oyvind Odegaard	Norway	26
	Neil Reeves	United States	26
	Svend Geertsen	Denmark	25
	Tsuyoshi Ikeda	Japan	25
	Matt Linde	United States	25
	Sol Malka	United States	25
	Brock Parker	United States	25
	Alex Borteh	United States	24
	Andrew Johnson	United States	24
	Scott McCord	United States	24
	Peter Szigeti	United States	24
	Terry Tsang	Canada	24
***	Alan Comer	United States	23
	Christophe Haim	France	23
	Albertus Hui Chin Law	Singapore	23
	Eric Taylor	United States	23
	Frederico Bastos	Portugal	22
	Ryan Fuller	Canada	22
	Ken Krouner	United States	22
	Steven O’Mahoney-Schwartz	United States	22
	Wielfried Ranque	France	22
	Jeroen Remie	Netherlands	22
	Arjan van Leeuwen	Netherlands	22
	Alexander Witt	Netherlands	22
	Gerard Fabiano	United States	21
	Raphaël Gennari	Switzerland	21
	Kazuya Hirabayashi	Japan	21
	Danny Mandel	United States	21
	Johan Sadeghpour	Sweden	21
	Jonathan Sonne	United States	21
	Roger Sorino	United States	21
	Andrew Cuneo	United States	20
	Peter Guevin	United States	20
	Eric Ziegler	United States	20
	Frank Karsten	Netherlands	19
	Benedikt Klauser	Austria	19
	Shuuhei Nakamura	Japan	19
	Stewart Shinkins	Ireland	19
	Louis Boileau	Canada	18
	Mattias Kettil	Sweden	18
	John Larkin	Ireland	18
	Sylvain Lauriol	France	18
	Bob Maher, Jr.	United States	18
	Antoine Menard	England	18
	Felix Schneiders	Germany	18
	Andrew Stokinger	United States	18
	Helmut Summersberger	Austria	18
	Rick Chong	United States	17
	Tomas Rosholm	Sweden	17
	Andrea Santin	Italy	17
	Matias Gabrenja	Argentina	16
	Donald Gallitz	United States	16
	Thomas Guevin	United States	16
	Takayuki Nagaoka	Japan	16
	Justin Polin	United States	16
	Rodrigo Andres Sanchez Albert	Chile	16
	Brett Shears	United States	16
	Gabriel Tsang	Canada	16
	Stan Van der Velden	Netherlands	16
	Carlos Barrado	Spain	15
	Benjamin Caumes	France	15
	Frederic Courtois	France	15
	Philip Freneau	United States	15
	Mattias Jorstedt	Sweden	15
	Eric Kesselman	United States	15
	Dario Minieri	Italy	15
	Endre H Skjetne	Norway	15
	Gary Talim	United States	15
	Joost Vollebregt	Netherlands	15
	Trevor Blackwell	United States	14
	Gabriel Caligaris	Argentina	14
	Sim Han How	Malaysia	14
	Florent Jeudon	France	14
	Tuomas Kotiranta	Finland	14
	Peter Leiher	United States	14
	Jeffrey Magid	United States	14
	Rickard Österberg	Sweden	14
	Matthew Ranks	United States	14
	Kyle Rose	United States	14
	Oliver Schneider	England	14
	Matthew Vienneau	Canada	14
	Craig Wescoe	United States	14
	Giulio Barra	Italy	13
	Reinhard Blech	Germany	13
	Tiago Chan	Portugal	13
	Patrick Chapin	United States	13
	Joseph Crosby	United States	13
	Gerardo Godinez-Estrada	Mexico	13
	Ding Yuen Leong	Singapore	13
	John Ormerod	England	13
	Matthew Rubin	United States	13
	Ben Seck	Australia	13
	Steven Shears	United States	13
	Doug Tice	United States	13
	Jan Tomcani	Slovak Republic	13
	Victor van den Broek	Netherlands	13
	Ming Huang Royce Chai	Singapore	12
	Gionata Dal Farra	Italy	12
	Chad Ellis	United States	12
***	Aaron Forsythe	United States	12
	Takao Higaki	Japan	12
	Tommi Hovi	Finland	12
	David Kuykendall	United States	12
	Peter Laier	Denmark	12
	Mike Long	United States	12
	Benjamin Niedrig	Switzerland	12
	Daniel O’Mahoney-Schwartz	United States	12
	Geoffrey Siron	Belgium	12
	Pang Ming Wee	Malaysia	12
	Nikolaj Wolkoff	Denmark	12

Name
DCI #
EMail
The voting period is now over.

* Already Invited
** Didn't turn in tournament report
*** Now a Wizards of the Coast employee

Mark Rosewater is Head Magic Designer. What this fancy title means is that he's in charge of Magic design. This gets him a lot of mail (which he actually reads). When not alternatively destroying and saving Magic, he likes to spend time with his family, do stereotypically geeky things (play games, read comics, watch a lot of science fiction, etc.) and write about himself in third person.