TCG World Championship winners officially announced
by Mike Schramm 
Dec 22nd 2007 at 4:00PM
As we noted previously, Guillaume Matignon, a 26-year-old from France, took home the $100,000 1st place prize. He played a Blood Elf Paladin deck, and went 6-3 on his first day, and an incredible 6-0 on Day Two, beating over 400 entrants to win the championship. Impressive.
Second place was $25,000 (still nothing to laugh at) and went to Eric Prieur, a 30-year-old from Montreal, and Brad Watson (whom we interviewed before the tourney) and Matt Loomis, both of a team called Cheateyface from Chicago, won 3rd and 4th place, $10,000 each. Upper Deck tells us in a press release that there was also a Ladies' Championship (so ladies weren't actually participating the regular championship?), and it was won by Jacqueline Spreadbury, another of Watson and Loomis' team members.
Congratulations to everyone who took home prizes from the event (and it sounds like many, many prizes were given out), and a big grats to these guys. Winning thousands of dollars in a collectible card game tournament-- who knew?
Filed under: Odds and ends, News items, Contests, WoW TCG
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
domusmundi Dec 22nd 2007 4:09PM
Nothing big, magic the gathering players win about 250,000 at world, maybe more. Congrats anyway though.
Nick Kuxhaus Dec 22nd 2007 4:36PM
Yes, but Magic has been around for much longer, and has a much larger following.
Congrats, any way you look at it its a crap load of cash.
T-4 Dec 22nd 2007 8:47PM
Was going to mention what 1 did, but also typically the "Ladies' Championship" is more of a bonus they give to the best placing woman in the tournament. Don't know if it's true in this case, though, but it's common for rookies to have the same thing.
Ian Dec 23rd 2007 1:48AM
i loved Magic back when i was younger. but i dropped TCG's now...maybe i should pick them up again ; )