[view] Kai Budde has an extra mantelpiece made for his trophies. Or maybe he plans on hooking up with Patrick Mello?
[view] Like brothers
[view] Kai Budde and Patrick Mello are the finalists of Grand Prix Lisbon. It took them three hours to fight it out...
[view] Christophe Weyers calling out the finalists
[view] The judges test, a lonely battle
[view] Mello in the finals
[view] Budde in the finals
[view] Sideboarding with open hands in the finals
[view] Caught again!
[view] No surprise to get so much attention for little Marcio against big Budde and Mello's "cold efficiency" versus Ruel's "artistic flair"
[view] The semi-finals attracted an even bigger crowd
[view] Hidden corner of the convent
[view] Bird's eye view of the quarterfinals
[view] Side events are still up and running when the quarterfinals are being played
[view] It's still early, the hall is packed with people following the quarterfinals
[view] Stefano Fiore in the quarterfinals
[view] Marcio Carvalho in the quarterfinals
[view] Kai Budde in the quarterfinals
[view] Tom van de Logt in the quarterfinals
[view] Jelger Wiegersma in the quarterfinals
[view] Olivier Ruel and his Singing Hamster: "Everybody was kung-fu fighting"
[view] Patrick Mello in the quarterfinals
[view] Alex Shvartsman in the quarterfinals
[view] Paolo Parente at work
[view] Patrick Mello
[view] Marcio Carvalho
[view] Stefano Fiore
[view] Alex Shvartsman
[view] Jelger Wiegersma
[view] Olivier Ruel
[view] Kai Budde
[view] Tom van de Logt
[view] Another shot of the best eight
[view] The best eight players of Grand Prix Lisbon
[view] Casual top 8 get-together
[view] The judges team
[view] The French get over their inferiority complex
[view] Between the 'bears' Pete Norris, Winter Orb, Winnie the Pooh and Werebear, four out of five experts chose Pete - only one vote for Werebear
[view] Sideboard staff Nele Van der borght caught in the same way she catches others
[view] Joao Rodrigues and Rogerio Alecrim from Devir Portugal turned this Grand Prix into the success it was
[view] I guess Tom van de Logt knows what Pete Norris is writing about him
[view] Daniele Canavesi could be the second Italian in the Top 8, next to Stefano Fiore who is already in for sure
[view] Portugal's final hope, stern-looking Tiago Chan
[view] Budde is not sure of making Top 8 yet
[view] The Sideboard hires new talent, the Italian artist Paolo Parente
[view] Frederico Bastos again
[view] Shying away from the camera, Jelger Wiegersma
[view] Marco Blume
[view] Helder Coelho in a thorough investigation of the field
[view] Russian Eugeny Okin turned up at several Grand Prix events this year
[view] "Get on with it" Helmut Summersberger
[view] What can you say about Patrick Mello? "Very German, very straight and he has a cool haircut, yeah, that's Mello."
[view] Johan Sadeghpour came all the way from Sweden to give Patrick Mello a beating
[view] Giusti Norberto keeps his brains warm
[view] The greens
[view] Tom van de Logt and Tiago Chan in round eleven
[view] Road Runner Rui
[view] Now who would believe this serious looking player is the world's best player? Tom van de Logt
[view] Bastos is on a hot streak this weekend
[view] Dirk Baberowski
[view] Alfredo Saez, Juan Tavira and Xavier Gracia do it in Spanish on the Devir website
[view] Renato Diaz and Davide Ferreira of the PortalMTG website cover the event in Portuguese
[view] Mikey P and a hat
[view] Frederico Bastos against Olivier Ruel in round ten
[view] Olivier "Winnie the Pooh" Ruel, serious for once
[view] Paulo Cardona prefers slow but correct play
[view] Ben's buddy Pete Norris is covering the Ronaldson-Cardona match
[view] Ben Ronaldson with the sweater that is almost as famous as Kai's
[view] The feature match area in the centre of the hall
[view] Alex Shvartsman has 21 points and will remain unbeaten after the first round of day two
[view] Tiago Chan is the only other player to start this day unbeaten
[view] Frederico Bastos made Top 8 at Pro Tour Tokyo and San Diego, no need to say the Portuguese are proud of him
[view] Marco Blume does not look good in the morning
[view] Carlos Sanchez Brito is the Spanish player who ended in the 100th place and earned himself the fabulous prize of one hundred boosters
[view] We thought these kids weren't aggressive
[view] Magic players going mad over a 100-booster surprise
[view] Christina "Pooh-pi-doo" Gil is routing for the Spanish
[view] A Portuguese love story
[view] A worried look from Jorge Da Costa, despite his table-100 present
[view] Roberto Polo is probably not the only one to almost fall asleep
[view] Olivier Ruel's own personalized feature match tag
[view] Olivier Ruel can't believe his luck, beating The Invincible Kai Budde
[view] Kuniyoshi Ishii is Portuguese despite what you might derive from his name
[view] MegaBear Baberowski
[view] Jose Vilela and Pedro Lemos "doing the table 100"
[view] Grandpa Mariani picking a tasteful card
[view] Stefano Loppi foresees the end of the match
[view] The preferences of a Portuguese Sideboard reporter
[view] Pedro Fernandes in the spotlights at the round six feature match table
[view] Carlos Santiago's trip from Spain was worth it
[view] What are the odds? In the same round Shvartsman and Pustilnik are paired against one another, Pete Norris faces off fellow Englishman and buddy Ben Ronaldson
[view] Mulliganing down to five and still a smile. You have to be Alex Shvartsman to be able to do that
[view] Another lucky 'table 100' player, Alexandre Azevedo
[view] Hugo Rodrigues, you'd be surprised with this boy
[view] Jelger Wiegersma's reknown for Extended didn't help him in round four
[view] Mega Marco and his murderous stare
[view] One of the noisiest (and youngest) players in Portugal, Marcio Carvalho
[view] Tiago Chan has a string of Pro Tour qualifications and a girlfriend called Andreia
[view] Portuguese Vitor Franco wins another match, under the scrupulous looks of Mikey P
[view] Juan Tavira is clearly hurting his brain
[view] Paulo Geraldo and Fernando Pereira were here in the second round
[view] Portuguese Cristovao Honorato is hoping for better luck in round three
[view] Local hero Helder Coelho won the previous Grand Prix Lisbon and is having another shot at it
[view] Life counters for everyone at this Grand Prix
[view] A little extra for the players at table 100 of each round
[view] From the north of Portugal, Hugo Silva
[view] Juan Carlos Diaz from Spain
[view] One of many Spanish in Lisbon, Dioni Santidrian does not see a way out
[view] Dinis Maia is the Portuguese National Champion and did well in his first round too
[view] Event Manager Christophe Weyers justed announced the 100 boosters for 100th place and the automatic feature match for table 100, the crowd goes mad
[view] Head Judge Rune Horvik, scorekeeper Peter Coenen and all-round assistant Ann Van Dam
[view] "My name is spelled with a zzzz"
[view] Impressive
[view] Seems a quite corner, but the buzz downstairs is almost tangible
[view] Listing your deck requires the right state of mind
[view] Not enough chairs
[view] Final doubts
[view] There's 670 of them
[view] Busy bees at registration
[view] A long queue of players still waiting to get in
[view] Antoine Ruel and Gabriel Nassif give away their colors the night before the tournament
[view] In the neighborhood: Lisbon is a city of old stories
[view] The site is a twelfth century convent
[view] Cesar Sanchez has the gift of turning up in unexpected corners. The site is almost ready
