
Raaala Pumba

Seat A: Celso Zampere Jr.
Age: 20
Hometown: Sao Caetano Do Sul, Brazil
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 3
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?GP Minneapolis Top 8
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Top 8 Nationals
What was your individual record on Day 1? 4-3 Day 2? 6-1
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
The same as the other Brazilian guys.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Simic Sky Swallower
Seat B:: Willy Edel
Age: 27
Hometown: Rio De Janeiro
Occupation: Credit Analyst
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 4
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s? 0
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: 3 Times Nats Top 8
What was your individual record on Day 1? 4-3 Day 2? 4-3
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
We playtest with the Argentineans and Chileans. We also played lots on the Magic Online beta.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
I got the leftovers and we had to build the Zoo deck since I refused to play Boros (the third deck our playtest group chose).
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Bathe in Light
Seat C:: Paulo Vitor Damo Da Rosa
Age:18
Hometown: Porto Allegre
Occupation: Physics Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 6
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s? 1
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Top 32 Prague and Hawaii
What was your individual record on Day 1? 6-1 Day 2? 6-1
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
I played on Apprentice with friends who were also qualified, and we had a Latin mailing list. Diego Ostrovich built the deck I am playing, I built the BUG, and a friend nicknamed Sandler introduced us to Zoo and Willy modified it.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
I've been playing with BW for a long time, while Celso likes control, so Willy got the leftovers
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Orzhov Pontiff
Kajiharu80

Seat A: Tomohiro Kaji
Age: 22
Hometown: Saitama-ken
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 15
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PT Points
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?3 GP / 3 PT
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: X-0 in Type 2 at 2005 Japanese Nats and at Worlds
What was your individual record on Day 1? 2-5 Day 2? 3-4 I am so lucky!
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
My deck all teammates worked on. The other decks were built by Saito and Yasooka.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Bound/Determined
Seat B:: Shota Yasooka
Age: 21
Hometown: Kanagawa
Occupation: Pro Magic Player
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 6
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? Pro Levels
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?1 GP
What was your individual record on Day 1? 4-3 Day 2? 6-1
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
I built my deck.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
Yasooka and Saito picked the decks they liked and Kaji selected from the rest of the card pool.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Debtors' Knell
Seat C:: Tomoharu Saito
Age: 22
Hometown: Tokyo-to
Occupation: Card Pro
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 13
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PT Levels
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?4 GP, 2 PT
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: I also made 2 Ninja decks
What was your individual record on Day 1? 6-1 Day 2? 6-1
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks? I practiced with a lot of people, but then one week before the event, Yasooka and I playtested together exclusively and designed the decks because Kaji was so busy with school.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Dark Confidant, Giant Solifuge
D-25

Seat A: Chikura Nakajima
Age: 30
Hometown: Kanagawa
Occupation: Semi Pachinko Slot Professional
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 8 or 9
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?1 GP
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Lord of Magic Top 8
What was your individual record on Day 1? 3-4 Day 2? 6-1
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
Teammates
What is the MVP card of your deck? Helldozer
Seat B:: Ryuichi Arita
Age: 29
Hometown: Chiba
Occupation: Game Creator
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 12
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?GP = 0, PT = 4
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Lord of Magic Finalist
What was your individual record on Day 1? 3-4 Day 2? 5-2
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
With Mr. Mitamura. Mr. Hanaoka, a Legendary Japanese player
Seat C:: Kazuya Mitamura
Age: 26
Hometown: Chiba
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 2
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PTQ
Number of PT/GP Top 8s? 0/0
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Lord of Magic Champ
What was your individual record on Day 1? 6-1 Day 2? 4-3
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Angel
Big Timing With Big Oots

Seat A: Chris McDaniel
Age: 19
Hometown: Richmond, VA
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 8
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? Pro Player Club
Number of PT/GP Top 8s? 1GP, 2nd PT
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: 4th PT LA 2005, 4th GP Madison
What was your individual record on Day 1? 4-3 Day 2? 3-2-2
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
A few days on MODO, cramming the night before. The Biggest Oots built our decks.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
Gadiel for control is obvious. Pelcak loves him some burn, so I got the clunky deck.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Pelcak and Gadiel just kept winning. My deck wasn't really great.
Seat B:: Gadiel Szleifer
Age: 17
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 13
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? 11 combined Pro Levels
Number of PT/GP Top 8s? 3 PT, 2 GP
What was your individual record on Day 1? 5-2 Day 2? Embarrassing
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
I played four times the night before against Chris, that was it. We got the decks from Rasmus Sibast, but more importantly, I had a good vibe about this event.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
John was going to be our aggro deck no matter what because he always plays it. Me and Chris were both control.
Seat C:: John Pelcak
Age: 20
Hometown: Eden Prairie, MN
Occupation: Student
Number of times playing on the Pro Tour: 10?
How did you qualify for Pro Tour-Charleston? PT Levels
Number of PT/GP Top 8s?2 Team GPs
Other Previous Magic Accomplishments: Couple GP Top 16s, 2 GP Top 8s. :B
What was your individual record on Day 1? 5-2 Day 2? 4-3
How did you prepare for the event? Who built your decks?
Tested a bit on Magic Online, got help from Gerry Thompson.
How did you decide who should play which decks?
I don't play control.
What is the MVP card of your deck?
Boros Garrison