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Zohar Bhagat wins Grand Prix Minneapolis

By ManaNation.com ⋅ November 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Out­last­ing 1,187 play­ers at Grand Prix Min­neapo­lis, Zohar Bha­gat took first place after defeat­ing David Ochoa of ChannelFireball.com in the quarter-finals, Brian Kibler a future Hall of Famer in the semi-finals and Matt Sper­ling, an attor­ney and a Pro Tour player, in the finals!

A very inter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal fact of Zohar is that he is out of CMU, Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­sity. For those of you who don’t know, CMU is to Magic what Har­vard is to busi­ness. That col­lege has a fan­tas­tic track record for pro­duc­ing high qual­ity com­pet­i­tive Magic play­ers, play­ers like R&D mem­ber, Mike Turian.

Zohar’s Top 8 Player Pro­file
Home­town (coun­try): Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­va­nia
Occu­pa­tion: Student

Record and deck col­ors in Sealed: 9–0, black-white
Record and deck col­ors in Draft 1: 2–1, monored
Record and deck col­ors in Draft 2: 1–1-1, blue-black

What pre­vi­ous Magic accom­plish­ments do you have? 1 Pro Tour, 2 Grand Prix Day 2s

What arche­type do you hope to draft? Monored

Who did you work with to pre­pare for Grand Prix-Minneapolis?
Draft a lot at CMU with Jason Mar­tel, Andres Miguel, and my good friend Ron Kotwica. Swiss Sealed queues on Magic Online.