There were 2,722 entries for Fantasy Pro Tour Nice. The most popular player was Jon Finkel, with 549 selections. The second-most was Ed Fear, who came off his DCI suspension with an attractive Pro Point value of zero. Fear provided a solid return on the investment, coming in ninth.
The winning team was turned in by Thomas Dall Jensen, who picked champion Eivind Nitter for $30,000; quarterfinalist Svend Geertsen for $15,000; Jeff Fung, whose twelfth-place finish earned him $4,500; and Thomas Preyer and his $630-earning 52nd-place finish. Jensen's team was worth $50,130 and also featured Jon Finkel, Mattias Jorstedt, Rickard Österberg, and Elijah Pollock
Jack Stanton earned second place with a team worth $49,000. In addition to Nitter and Ed Fear's $6,000 ninth-place performance, Stanton picked Brian Davis, who finished fourth and took home $13,000. Also on the team were Øyvind Ødegaard, Noah Boeken, Adam Prokopin, Arto Hiltunen, and Seth Burn.
In third place, Thomas Refsdal's team earned $45,750. The first $45,000 came from Nitter and Geertsen, and Carl Thille contributed $750 by coming in 45th. Øyvind Ødegaard, Jon Finkel, Lorre Crnonori, Jim Herold, and Endre Skjetne were also on the team. If there were a prize for Day 1 performance, this team would have won easily, as only 16 teams had Day 1 leader Skjetne.
Fourth place went to Steven Shears, who earned $45,500 in Fantasy Money by starting with Eivind Nitter and added Gary Talim (seventh place, $7,500), Ed Fear (ninth place, $6,000), and Peter Szigeti (23rd place, $2,000). The non-money-winners on the team were Brian Hegstad, Johan Sadeghpour, Steven Shears himself, and Rory Draxler.
Jumping down to the teams that didn't earn prizes, Sean Smith finished in eleventh place with a team of only seven people. After Nitter, Fear, and Patrick Mello (27th place, $1,600), and the no-money performances of Gary Wise, Jim Herold, Ali Arnaud, and Jason Schickli Smith apparently decided he didn't need any more players.
Win de Boer did the best of anyone without champion Eivind Nitter. His nineteenth-place team earned $35,540 the hard way: Finalist Bram Snepvangers ($20,000), third-place finisher Svend Geertsen ($15,000), Jelger Wiegersma (60th, $540), David Humpherys and Joost van der Mandele (both out of the money) and a startling three empty slots.
The highest finish for a team that included Kai Budde (who absorbed all the points available, requiring the rest of the team to be zero-pointers) was a tie at sixtieth place: Jörn Hajek, Sean McKeown, and Tobey Tamber all took Budde's $9,500 and added Ed Fear, Mikko Punakallio(10th place, $5,500) and Zev Gurwitz (24th, $1,900).
Rank | Player | Winnings | Picks |
1 | Eivind Nitter | $30,000 | 047 |
2 | Abraham Snepvangers | $20,000 | 016 |
3 | Svend Geertsen | $15,000 | 064 |
4 | Brian Davis | $13,000 | 022 |
5 | Kai Budde | $9,500 | 250 |
6 | Anton Jonsson | $8,500 | 033 |
7 | Gary Talim | $7,500 | 018 |
8 | Benjamin Niedrig | $6,500 | 012 |
9 | Edward Fear | $6,000 | 458 |
10 | Mikko Punakallio | $5,500 | 055 |
11 | Thomas Gundersen | $5,000 | 017 |
12 | Jeff Fung | $4,500 | 106 |
13 | Jeroen Remie | $4,100 | 015 |
14 | Louis Boileau | $3,800 | 084 |
15 | Bill Stead | $3,500 | 032 |
16 | Matt Linde | $3,250 | 033 |
17 | Nicolai Herzog | $3,000 | 058 |
18 | Eric Froehlich | $2,750 | 026 |
19 | William Jensen | $2,550 | 044 |
20 | Arjan van Leeuwen | $2,400 | 034 |
21 | Artem Kozachuk | $2,250 | 016 |
22 | Tommaso Natale | $2,100 | 004 |
23 | Peter Szigeti | $2,000 | 051 |
24 | Zev Gurwitz | $1,900 | 339 |
25 | Gary Rush | $1,800 | 011 |
26 | Michael Pustilnik | $1,700 | 156 |
27 | Patrick Mello | $1,600 | 182 |
28 | Régis Lavoisier | $1,500 | 021 |
29 | Matthew Ranks | $1,400 | 020 |
30 | Katsuhiro Mori | $1,350 | 036 |
31 | Kyle Hadfield | $1,300 | 024 |
32 | Franck Canu | $1,250 | 039 |
33 | Pierre Malherbaud | $1,200 | 075 |
34 | Dirk Baberowski | $1,150 | 094 |
35 | Terry Tsang | $1,100 | 085 |
36 | Gabriel Nassif | $1,050 | 056 |
37 | Wolfgang Eder | $1,000 | 033 |
38 | Erno Ekebom | $950 | 058 |
39 | Jaroslav Sita | $900 | 012 |
40 | Tomas Rosholm | $875 | 038 |
41 | Paolo Lombardi | $850 | 020 |
42 | Yuri Kolomeyko | $825 | 024 |
43 | Alex Shvartsman | $800 | 234 |
44 | Andrew Stokinger | $775 | 046 |
45 | Carl Thille | $750 | 047 |
46 | Andrea Santin | $730 | 031 |
47 | Tom Van de Logt | $710 | 091 |
48 | Adam Fischer | $690 | 052 |
49 | Benjamin Caumes | $675 | 013 |
50 | Jussi Salovaara | $660 | 024 |
51 | Neil Reeves | $645 | 038 |
52 | Thomas Preyer | $630 | 041 |
53 | Peter Guevin | $615 | 041 |
54 | Eric Taylor | $600 | 060 |
55 | David Price | $590 | 120 |
56 | Pasquale Ruggiero | $580 | 029 |
57 | Kung-Chieh (Long) Wang | $570 | 009 |
58 | Eugene Harvey | $560 | 076 |
59 | Joao Duarte | $550 | 011 |
60 | Jelger Wiegersma | $540 | 100 |
61 | Jason Huang | $530 | 029 |
62 | Jan Tomcani | $520 | 025 |
63 | Erik Landriz | $510 | 012 |
64 | Haakon Monsen | $500 | 008 |
65 | Dario Minieri | 016 | |
66 | Aaron Rzepka | 021 | |
67 | David Garcia Copete | 013 | |
68 | Russell Linnemann | 008 | |
69 | Endre H Skjetne | 016 | |
70 | Christian Lührs | 045 | |
71 | Kevin O'Connor | 024 | |
72 | Laurent Bernard | 063 | |
73 | Alan Comer | 055 | |
74 | Jason Schickli | 018 | |
75 | Kamiel Cornelissen | 126 | |
76 | Trevor Blackwell | 067 | |
77 | Leopoldo Martins Moreira Neto | 023 | |
78 | Gary Wise | 291 | |
79 | Benedikt Klauser | 043 | |
80 | Sam Gomersall | 016 | |
81 | Jason Howden | 006 | |
82 | Nicolas Olivieri | 029 | |
83 | Carlos Barrado | 034 | |
84 | Antoine Ruel | 163 | |
85 | Masanori Kaneko | 015 | |
86 | Sylvain Lehoux | 017 | |
87 | Kristian Hellman | 036 | |
88 | Sol Malka | 170 | |
89 | Vladimir Komanicky | 032 | |
90 | Florent Jeudon | 060 | |
91 | Frederic Courtois | 025 | |
92 | Gerard Fabiano | 073 | |
93 | Wessel Oomens | 023 | |
94 | Stewart Shinkins | 012 | |
95 | Mark Herrin | 028 | |
96 | Helder Coelho | 019 | |
97 | Alessandro Pagano | 010 | |
98 | Scott McCord | 025 | |
99 | Alex Borteh | 032 | |
100 | Maurizio Almondo | 053 | |
101 | Florian Oberauer | 009 | |
102 | Antonino De Rosa | 095 | |
103 | Richard Clyne | 014 | |
104 | Ben Rubin | 083 | |
105 | Sylvain Lauriol | 052 | |
106 | Mike Major | 032 | |
107 | Lars Dam | 026 | |
108 | Arndt Meier | 008 | |
109 | Victor van den Broek | 035 | |
110 | Braulio Rivera | 001 | |
111 | Christoph Platt | 020 | |
112 | Chris Benafel | 143 | |
113 | Brian Hegstad | 047 | |
114 | Joost Vollebregt | 026 | |
115 | Stan Van der Velden | 060 | |
116 | Jens Thoren | 167 | |
117 | Jose Martinez | 014 | |
118 | Steven Wolfman | 015 | |
119 | Hannu Vallin | 019 | |
120 | Jose Capdevila | 008 | |
121 | Burcak Caner | 017 | |
122 | Raul Mestre | 013 | |
123 | Guillaume Daoust | 017 | |
124 | Joao Martins | 009 | |
125 | Tsuyoshi Ikeda | 009 | |
126 | Takashi Kurisu | 012 | |
127 | Farid Meraghni | 145 | |
128 | Rafael Le Saux | 081 | |
129 | Carlos Gomez Villota | 014 | |
130 | Christophe Haim | 068 | |
131 | Koby Kennison | 018 | |
132 | Jeff Taylor | 015 | |
133 | Julian Haigh | 033 | |
134 | Justin Polin | 013 | |
135 | Gionata Dal Farra | 020 | |
136 | Daniel Zink | 057 | |
137 | Stuart Cresswell | 015 | |
138 | Osyp Lebedowicz | 088 | |
139 | Johan Sadeghpour | 035 | |
140 | Jin Okamoto | 022 | |
141 | Jeff Cunningham | 094 | |
142 | Kei Ikeda | 011 | |
143 | Jim Herold | 034 | |
144 | Luke Chen | 000 | |
145 | Ales Borek | 051 | |
146 | Jeffrey Magid | 017 | |
147 | Antonio Corbino | 017 | |
148 | Wielfried Ranque | 015 | |
149 | Eric Kesselman | 034 | |
150 | Nikolas Nygaard | 043 | |
151 | Julien Colomb | 010 | |
152 | Tarou Kageyama | 024 | |
153 | Przemek Wolowiec | 041 | |
154 | Alexander Witt | 010 | |
155 | Russell Pippin | 023 | |
156 | Matteo Magnani | 019 | |
157 | Rory Draxler | 032 | |
158 | Noah Boeken | 161 | |
159 | Olivier Ruel | 340 | |
160 | Bryan Bambenek | 029 | |
161 | Chua Chang | 009 | |
162 | Matthew Vienneau | 037 | |
163 | Haibing Hu | 026 | |
164 | Nicolas Bornarel | 027 | |
165 | Yuta Ushie | 014 | |
166 | Albertus Hui Chin Law | 018 | |
167 | Alessandro Asquini | 031 | |
168 | Peter Myrvig | 021 | |
169 | Mathias Veron | 007 | |
170 | John Cataldo | 015 | |
171 | Eoin Brosnan | 006 | |
172 | Eric Ziegler | 053 | |
173 | Jos Schreurs | 028 | |
174 | Lorre Crnonori | 014 | |
175 | Gus Villena | 026 | |
176 | Saja Zorc | 065 | |
177 | Alejandro Domínguez Ramos | 018 | |
178 | Helmut Summersberger | 020 | |
179 | Itaru Ishida | 038 | |
180 | Jun Nobushita | 009 | |
181 | Mattias Jorstedt | 048 | |
182 | Andrea Dato | 015 | |
183 | Yael Morel | 013 | |
184 | Gisle Salem | 014 | |
185 | Zvi Mowshowitz | 430 | |
186 | Allard Rémy | 027 | |
187 | Robert McKeon | 019 | |
188 | Scott Johns | 056 | |
189 | Marco Blume | 034 | |
190 | Ben Peli | 019 | |
191 | Satoshi Nakamura | 095 | |
192 | Thomas Felsberg | 009 | |
193 | Amiel Tenenbaum | 019 | |
194 | Stephen Haley | 014 | |
195 | Savio Chiariello | 012 | |
196 | Andrew Wolf | 028 | |
197 | Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz | 170 | |
198 | Stefan Mueller | 043 | |
199 | Gabriel Tsang | 076 | |
200 | Masanori Kobayashi | 013 | |
201 | Darwin Kastle | 069 | |
202 | Chad Ellis | 022 | |
203 | Marcin Goral Horecki | 012 | |
204 | Julien Leloeuff | 011 | |
205 | Svante Landgraf | 023 | |
206 | Mike Thompson | 023 | |
207 | Pierre Chambrion | 042 | |
208 | Magnus Lantto | 031 | |
209 | David Humpherys | 064 | |
210 | Boonchai Jirapongtraklul | 006 | |
211 | Oliver Schneider | 037 | |
212 | Jan Brodzák | 040 | |
213 | Justin Gary | 019 | |
214 | Jon Finkel | 549 | |
215 | Michael Lauter | 009 | |
216 | Pang Ming Wee | 019 | |
217 | Hector Fuentes | 035 | |
218 | Julien Soum | 016 | |
219 | Stefan Kozak | 006 | |
220 | Xiao Wang | 013 | |
221 | Martin Dang | 022 | |
222 | Sergio Gonzalez | 027 | |
223 | Leonardo Uzcategui | 003 | |
224 | Christoph Hölzl | 022 | |
225 | Justin West | 040 | |
226 | Arto Hiltunen | 048 | |
227 | Romuald Balluais | 012 | |
228 | Johann Roussel | 029 | |
229 | Dmitry Nozhnin | 013 | |
230 | Andrew Mitchell | 010 | |
231 | Merlyn Evans | 014 | |
232 | Alex Melnikow | 013 | |
233 | Brian Kibler | 211 | |
234 | Mario Steger | 015 | |
235 | Iwan Tan | 042 | |
236 | Daniel Clegg | 041 | |
237 | Miguel Ramos | 015 | |
238 | Veerapat Sirilertvorakul | 018 | |
239 | Sandy Thevenon | 018 | |
240 | Reinhard Blech | 027 | |
241 | Benoit Lermat | 009 | |
242 | Yaroslav Kondratiev | 014 | |
243 | Rory Walker | 015 | |
244 | Robert Dougherty | 112 | |
245 | Hans Joachim Höh | 011 | |
246 | Mike Wall | 024 | |
247 | Jimmy Jarman | 006 | |
248 | Daniele Canavesi | 011 | |
249 | James Hustad | 015 | |
250 | Stefan Kolk | 020 | |
251 | Oyvind Odegaard | 031 | |
252 | Frank Hernandez | 045 | |
253 | Gerardo Godinez-Estrada | 014 | |
254 | Tim O'Donnell | 031 | |
255 | Tom De Wael | 040 | |
256 | Patrick Barrow | 054 | |
257 | Menno Dolstra | 032 | |
258 | Ken Krouner | 031 | |
259 | Tony Tsai | 113 | |
260 | Joe Weber | 047 | |
261 | Riccardo Valmori | 026 | |
262 | Michael Turian | 169 | |
263 | Simone Pisano | 016 | |
264 | Jonny Wallin | 026 | |
265 | Christoph Lippert | 120 | |
266 | Nuno Balseiro | 025 | |
267 | Raffaele Lo Moro | 050 | |
268 | Kazuya Hirabayashi | 013 | |
269 | Ulrik Tarp | 018 | |
270 | Alexis Dumay | 020 | |
271 | Sergi Galvez | 010 | |
272 | Dave Lawson | 013 | |
273 | Mauro Rossetti | 026 | |
274 | Rickard Österberg | 053 | |
275 | Yngvi Omar Sighvatsson | 007 | |
276 | James Halter | 007 | |
277 | Colin Tipton | 024 | |
278 | Frederick Ongena | 015 | |
279 | Rodrigo Possamai | 004 | |
280 | Steve Joiner | 008 | |
281 | Steve Horowitz | 021 | |
282 | Eduardo Sella | 028 | |
283 | Markus Joebstl | 003 | |
284 | Rudiger Klings | 021 | |
285 | Hugo Machado | 012 | |
286 | Maxime Reichman | 010 | |
287 | Giulio Barra | 017 | |
288 | Ali Arnaud | 076 | |
289 | Edward Peraza | 010 | |
290 | Otto Richard | 034 | |
291 | Yannick Michallet | 016 | |
292 | Danny Mandel | 013 | |
293 | Ken Ho | 104 | |
294 | Tomi Walamies | 156 | |
295 | Sean Wang | 034 | |
296 | Roy Thearle | 011 | |
297 | Geoffrey Siron | 013 | |
298 | Zdenek Lysák | 021 | |
299 | Walter Egli | 028 | |
300 | Philippe Prosper | 020 | |
301 | Vincenzo Schiano di Scioarro | 022 | |
302 | Raul Gonzalez | 019 | |
303 | Brock Parker | 016 | |
304 | Tim Danziger | 007 | |
305 | John Wood | 000 | |
306 | Jonathan Sonne | 040 | |
307 | Jim Braatz | 008 | |
308 | Stefano Fiore | 043 | |
309 | Francesco Berti | 009 | |
310 | Frank Karsten | 022 | |
311 | Valentin Urziceanu | 002 | |
312 | Raphaël Roditi | 027 | |
313 | Shiou Obata | 008 | |
314 | Frederico Bastos | 033 | |
315 | Raphaël Gennari | 022 | |
316 | Tommi Hovi | 125 | |
317 | Raphael Levy | 086 | |
318 | Emanuele Canavesi | 009 | |
319 | Joost van der Mandele | 044 | |
320 | Antoine Menard | 035 | |
321 | Edward Ross | 022 | |
322 | Oscar Buj | 026 | |
323 | Benoit Defouloy | 031 | |
324 | Brett H. | 008 | |
325 | Josh Liam Patrick-Riley | 010 | |
326 | Johan Kennes | 005 | |
327 | Tomer Holczer | 012 | |
328 | Jan Doise | 061 | |
329 | Steven Shears | 031 | |
330 | Petr Nahodil | 010 | |
331 | David Grant | 019 | |
332 | Justin Bonomo | 022 |