Magic The Gathering - Malaysia

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It's GPT Singapore fever in Malaysia as stores ran GPTs week after week to provide the opportunity and the incentive to play at the nearest GP to Malaysia for the 2009 season. With the upcoming PTQ Honolulu season also in the same format, it was a great opportunity for the players to polish their Extended skills.



The Kuan brothers demonstrating how you should be having fun, even if you are battling at a top 8 single-elimination round.

For those who are new to Grand Prix (GP) and Grand Prix Trials (GPT) - Grand Prix are great huge tournaments that offers over USD$25,000 in prize money including USD$3,500 for the winner as well as invites to the feeding Pro Tour for the top 16 players but unlike the Pro Tour which is by invite-only, the GP is a open tournament where anyone in good standing with the DCI (as long as you're not banned or anything like that) may enter and play.

Established players are awarded byes, or free wins for up to 3 rounds in the GP and so does players who prove themselves in Grand Prix Trials, who will get 3 byes each.

And that is exactly what the players have been fighting for early Sunday morning on the 11th of January 2009 at Decards Enterprise at the Summit, USJ.

The top 8 players who made the single elimination rounds are (in no particular order):

Shamsul Bahrin Zainuddin - B/W Discard
Arif b Kamaruddin - Swans
Adrian Kuan - Elves
Alex Kuan - All-In Red
Mohamad Nazim - Affinity
Ong Joe Lin - Elves
Yin Zhen Yao - Zoo
Wong Qin Jin [that's me! :D] - Dredge

Read on for more pictures and match-ups. Finals write-up to be published as soon as possible.

The Top 8 Players


Shamsul Bahrin Zainuddin


Arif b Kamaruddin


Alex Kuan


Adrian Kuan


Mohamad Nazim


Ong Joe Lin


Yin Zhen Yao

And, finally, me - Wong Qin Jin, who I didn't bother taking a picture of.

Heh.

Quarterfinals

Wong Qin Jin (won) vs Shamsul Bahrin Zainuddin

Mohamad Nazim vs Ong Joe Lin (won)

Yin Zhen Yao vs Adrian Kuan (won)

Alex Kuan (won) vs Arif b Kamaruddin

Semifinals

Wong Qin Jin vs Ong Joe Lin (won)

Alex Kuan (won) vs Adrian Kuan (drop)

Finals

Alex Kuan vs Ong Joe Lin