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Grand Prix 2010 Schedule Out Soon

By ManaNation.com ⋅ October 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Update (11/5): Wiz­ards has released the 2010 GP sched­ule. We have launched our Pre­mier event sched­ule.

Play­ers are eagerly await­ing the Grand Prix sched­ule for 2010 as it rep­re­sents their biggest chance to attend a pre­mier level event in their area. After speak­ing with Scott Lara­bie, we expect the sched­ule out this week or next week at the lat­est. We also believe that the sched­ule next year will have more Grand Prix events than we’ve ever had before, prob­a­bly around 30 events (2009 had 20 events, 2008 had 21 events and 2007 had 16 events)

Here are some inter­est­ing Grand Prix facts:

• Most attended Grand Prix: GP Paris in 2008 with 1,838 players.
• Least attended Grand Prix: Mel­bourne Aus­tralia holds the two low­est atten­dance records. In 1997–98 sea­son it had 140 play­ers, and in 2004-05 it again had just 140 players.
• Most GP Wins: Kai Budde has 7 Grand Prix victories
• Most GP Top 8s: Olivier Ruel has 26 Top 8s
• City with most GPs: Tied at 6, Sin­ga­pore and Taipei. Both are viable host­ing spots out­side Japan and draw a decent sized crowd from all of across Asia.
• Most Sched­uled GP For­mat: Lim­ited with 136 GP Events.
• Least Sched­uled GP For­mats: Team Stan­dard and Two-Headed Giant Lim­ited with just 2 events each.
• There has never been a Vin­tage Grand Prix.

Cor­rec­tion: We had ini­tially reported that Olivier Ruel’s 5 GP Wins was the most, this is not cor­rect as Kai Budde has 7 victories.