Magic The Gathering - Malaysia

Smalltalk: Awfully late, but being swamped with organizing and running the Conflux Pre-release and the Release Party and the holidays and the festivities and my own preparation for the GPTs themselves AND personal life and, and, and...

I better stop with the excuses.

Nevertheless, I have received several requests for the coverage, even though it was pre-Conflux, and over the next few days I will hopefully cover the whole event, followed up the recently concluded GPT that happened also in CCEGAMES on the 15th.

Thanks for sticking around.

The writer can be contacted for feedback at qj.wong@gmail.com or here.

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.

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.

Another GPT Singapore was held on the 18th of January 2009 at CCEGAMES, and after the swiss rounds, the 8 players who survived and will battle it out to determine who will be the one who will go home with 3 round byes are ...

Swiss Rounds Final Standings (The Top 8)

1. Kee ZiZheng - Mono Red Burn
2. Johan Jamal Yacob - B/W Discard
3. Zac Hill - Gifts Faeries
4. Mohamad Nazim - Mono Red Burn
5. Sashi Kumar Balakrishnan (Loco) - Death Cloud
6. Rajesh Ganesan - Swans
7. Matthew Wong - Faeries
8. Ng Wei San - Zoo

Keep reading for more pictures and match-ups.


Kee ZiZheng


Johan Jamal Yacob


Zac Hill


Mohamad Nazim


Sashi Kumar Balakrishnan (Loco)


Rajesh Ganesan


Matthew Wong


Ng Wei San

Matchups

Quarterfinals

Kee ZiZheng vs Ng Wei San

Mohamad Nazim vs Sashi Kumar Balakrishnan (Loco)

Rajesh Ganesan vs Zac Hill

Matthew Wong vs Johan Jamal Yacob