Pro Tour Barcelona 2012

Name : Avacyn Restored
City : Barcelona, Spain
Date : May 11-13
Format : Block Constructed, Booster Draft
Qualifier Season Format : Modern




Player Information

Pro Tour Avacyn Restored is a three-day invitation-only Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed and Avacyn Restored Booster Draft format event with an Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed Top 8.

Venue Information
Fira de Barcelona - Montjuic
Carrera de la Botànica, 62
08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Map
Tournament Hall Hours

The tournament hall is closed to the public. Each Pro Tour participant is allowed one guest. Security wristbands will be distributed at the entrance to the hall on Thursday during registration and Friday morning. For Pro Tour participants and their guests, the hall will be open at these times:

Thursday: 3 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Single-card vendors Card Haus and Gaming Etc. will be on-site starting Thursday. To ensure specific card availability, we encourage players to contact these vendors in advance of the Pro Tour.

Format

The Magic: The Gathering Tournament Rules and Infraction & Penalty Guide are in effect for this event unless specifically overruled by information in this Format Document.

Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed and Avacyn Restored Booster Draft
3 Avacyn Restored boosters will be used for drafting
Deck lists are required
Check Magic Tournament Rules for Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed and Booster Draft format rules.

Pro Tour Registration

Time: 3 p.m. - 8 p.m., Thursday, May 10

Location: Fira de Barcelona - Montjuic

Players must have a signed waiver and consent form to compete at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored. Forms can be downloaded at www.wizards.com/protour and will be available onsite.

Minors must have a parent or guardian’s signature on these forms. Minors will not be able to register or play unless we receive a waiver signed by a parent or guardian. No exceptions!

Bring these forms with you to registration. We will make forms available for competitors at registration, if necessary.

To register, all participants must present one of the following forms of identification:

a driver’s license, or
a passport, or
a copy of a birth certificate and photo IDs (school IDs are acceptable).

We encourage players to attend mandatory registration on Thursday. However we understand that delays might cause players to miss this and we have a registration on Friday morning between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Players at late registration do not always receive the same gifts as those at mandatory registration.

Players not registered by 8:30 a.m. on May 11, 2012 may be denied entry to the Pro Tour.

If you anticipate any difficulty registering during the official registration hours, please contact Scott Larabee at scott.larabee@wizards.com.


Tournament Length

Day 1 will consist of 5 rounds of Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed followed by 3 rounds of Booster Draft
Day 2 will consist of 3 rounds of Booster Draft followed by 5 rounds of Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed
16 Swiss Rounds total, 55 minutes per round
When time is called, the active player will finish the turn and five additional turns will be taken
Stalling and slow play rules will be strictly enforced during the tournament.

Advancement

All players may participate in all 8 Swiss rounds of Friday's competition.
Players with 12 or more match points after round 8 will advance to Saturday's competition.
The top 8 players after round 16 will advance to Sunday’s Top 8 single-elimination finals.

Top 8

Top 8 will be Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed format
Top 8 matches will be best 3 of 5
Where necessary, the standings after the Swiss rounds will still be used to determine final order in the standings.
While there are no time limits in the Top 8, players are expected to play at a reasonable pace and finish their matches within 90 minutes.
For the first game of each match in the Top 8, the player that finished higher in the Swiss rounds chooses either to play first or to play second. For subsequent games in each Top 8 match, the usual Play/Draw rule applies (loser of the previous game decides whether to play first in the next game.)

Notes

Planeswalker Points Multiplier 12x (Lifetime Total only), REL: Professional
Players are required to use the same Innistrad-Avacyn Restored Block Constructed deck for Day 1, Day 2, and the Top 8
Players are responsible for knowing all DCI rules and high-level tournament rules.
Players must bring pen, paper, card sleeves and appropriate counters.

Schedule

Thursday
3 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Player registration

Friday
8:55 a.m.: Seating for player meeting posted.
9 a.m.: Mandatory Player meeting begins. Decklists are collected from player tables by judges.
9:15 a.m.: Day 1 play begins.

Saturday
8:55 a.m.: Day 2 pairings posted.
9 a.m.: Day 2 play begins.

Sunday
10:30 a.m.: Finals players check in at the Top 8 area.
11 a.m.: Single-elimination matches begin.


Source.

pokemonben asked: Are you going to be at PAX East for the Avacyn panel?

Unfortunately no as I’m not going to PAX East. I usually only travel twice per year (having a family of five keeps me from traveling more). My two trips this year are going to be PT Avacyn Restored in Barcelona (as I couldn’t miss out in getting involved with this new all-day coverage)

MaRo au Pro Tour !
Vu que le Pro Tour n'est plus public, il va me falloir me qualifier. :fanboy:

Beginning with Pro Tour Avacyn Restored, Wizards of the Coast is awarding Sponsor's Exemption invitations and airfare to players who showed excellence in play and positive community activity during the qualifying season but did not earn an invitation through other means. This consideration includes quantity and quality of finishes at Grand Prix events, Pro Tour Qualifiers, and Pro Tour Dark Ascension. Sponsor's Exemption invitations for Pro Tour Avacyn Restored have been awarded to Caleb Durward (USA), Pascal Maynard (Canada), Eric Meng (USA), Ben Friedman (USA), and Till Riffert (Germany). At the conclusion of future qualifying seasons, Wizards of the Coast will examine the list of uninvited players and award Sponsor's Exemption invitations at its sole discretion.

Pro Tour Avacyn Restored Invitation List Finalized

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Ah ouai d'accord, Wizards pistonne des joueurs maintenant...

Y a même pas Swap ni Polype

Pour le coup pour Caleb Durbrol, je suis plutôt d'accord. Les autres, j'en sais rien et je les connais pas.

Par contre, que 80% de leur invite aille à des joueurs nord-américains, ça me semble très louche... Pour moi ça veut juste dire qu'il ne regarde que leur nombril ou presque...

D'AaFo sur son Twitter :

Without Elo or PWP invites to capture repeat near-misses, we are probably going to hand-invite a small number each time.

The qualification to get a Sponsor's Exemption can be summarized as "Have a season that impresses the decision-makers."

here's no answer to that question. If it was a checklist, we would have published a checklist.

There is intentionally no line. The line we're operating under (for now) is "five people."

It is post good enough results that the decision-makers notice you.

You're right, we could, but at the end of the day it is a subjective decision.

Yes, MTGO PTQs are part of the results we're looking at.

We're reviewing people on a seasonal basis.

The data is essentially public.

Donc avec 50% des GPs (et des occaz' de vraiment faire une série de résultats impressionnants), ce seront bien souvent bcp de nord-américains...

Avec plus de 50% de joueurs mondiaux aux USA, ce sera de toute façon des américains dans la majorité des cas.

SCG lance un petit warm up sur Twitter et sur leur site

StarCityGames.com ‏ @starcitygames
(Evan) Did you hear we have two awesome teams for #PTAVR? Meet #SCGBlue and #SCGBlack! http://bit.ly/IUC210

Team SCG Black : Jon Finkel, Kai Budde, Patrick Chapin, Gabriel Nassif, Sam Black, Paul Rietzl, Reid Duke, Tom Martell, etc...
Team SCG Blue : Todd Anderson, Michael Jacob, Brad Nelson, Gerry Thompson, Charles Gindy, Matt Costa, etc...

Patrick Chapin ‏ @thepchapin
Hard to believe, but 1st time Finkel & Kai have ever tested together (both always wanted to) & they are both testing for realz... #scgblack

Patrick Chapin ‏ @thepchapin
No joke, seeing Kai & Finkel jamming 10 game set after set is inspiring. They both act like they have got something to prove...

Et la petite joke made in ChannelFireball :

Owen Turtenwald ‏ @OwenTweetenwald
How many members of team #SCGBlue does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Owen Turtenwald ‏ @OwenTweetenwald
18. One to screw in the lightbulb and 17 to convince Tom Martell to ship the list he gets from Finkel.

Le coverage en direct devrait commencer d'ici quelques minutes sur http://fr.twitch.tv/magicprotour , http://www.ggslive.com/ et http://webcastplayer.wizards.com/ .

S'il y en a qui veulent en discuter pendant qu'on le mate, je propose de nous rejoindre sur #ProTour@Rizon. Si vous n'avez pas de client Irc d'installé, il suffit d'aller sur http://cbe002.chat.mibbit.com/ et de rentrer les données suivantes :

Coverage commencé, je conseille http://webcastplayer.wizards.com/ pour le regarder.

Chapin joue un deck contrôle WUR avec Gisela comme finisseur.

Et perd contre Ali Aintrainzi qui a nommé Terminus avec Nevermore.