2017 World Magic Cup Invitation List

Each national team invited to the 2017 World Magic Cup will consist of the following players:

• The top ranked player at the conclusion of the 2016-2017 Professional Points Season from that country that is not already invited based on the above criteria. If two or more players are tied, ties will be broken as follows:
  • The tied player with the greatest number of Pro Tour Top 8* finishes during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
  • The tied player with the greatest number of Grand Prix Top 8 finishes during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
  • The tied player with the greatest number of match points from his or her best Pro Tour* finish during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
  • The tied player with the greatest number of match points in his or her best individual-format Grand Prix finish during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
  • The tied player with the highest point total at the conclusion of the 2016 Seasonal Yearly Award Season.

• The finalists* of the 2017 Nationals run in that country.

*In the event a finalist in the 2017 Nationals run in a country is also the team captain for that country, the invitation will pass down to the person who placed third at that country’s Nationals.

Note: The Magic: The Gathering World Championship and the World Magic Cup are not Pro Tour events.

All invitations are subject to the requirements limitations set forth in the Magic Premier Event Invitation Policy.

Please note: Teams are not yet final.

Team captains with an asterisk next to their name finished in 1st or 2nd at their country's Nationals. In the event of this, the other finalist from that country is listed under the National Champion column, and the 3rd place finisher is in the Nationals finalist column.

World Magic Cup Team Members

Country	Team Captain	National Champion	Nationals Finalist
Australia	David Mines	Matthew Sherlock	Ryan Cubit
Belgium	Peter Vieren	Kristof Van Holsbeeck	Geoffrey Siron
Bolivia	David Sologuren	Mauricio Barrera	Mauricio Flores Pauletti
Bulgaria	Hristiyan Ivanov	Nikola Rashkov	Angel Pastarmadzhiev
China	Liu Yuchen	Lu Chao	Gao Tan
Czech Republic	Martin Jůza	Tomas Langer	Tomas Jirkal
Denmark	Martin Müller	Bjarke Larsen	Andreas Bendix Nielsen
Ecuador	Daniel López	Juan Fernando Maldonado	Francisco Miranda
El Salvador	Josue Loucel	Javier Morales	Rodrigo Portillo
Finland	Matti Kuisma	Mikko Airaksinen	Ari Hämäläinen
France	Pierre Dagen	Alain Bardini	Yann Teoh
Germany	Marc Tobiasch	Philipp Krieger	Moritz Templin
Hungary	Gabor Kocsis	Támas Nagy	Ferenc Nagy
Japan	Yuuya Watanabe	Kenta Harane	Shota Yasooka
Lithuania	Gaudenis Vidugiris	Gabrielius Kaklauskas	Domantas Zavadzkis
Northern Ireland	Dean Convery	Desmond James Carson	Simon Carmichael
Paraguay	Oscar Mathias Bachmann	Andoni Astigarraga	Arturo Bobadilla Gómez
Portugal	Márcio Carvalho	Ricardo Beja	João Morais
Scotland	Bradley Barclay	Stephen Murray	Duncan Tang
Slovenia	Robin Dolar	Gregor Casar	Anze Jeromel
Sweden	Joel Larsson	Mathias Thorgren	Joakim Heining
Thailand	Sakditat Kwanchaitunya	Chitipat Tantiyanon	Thirawat Chaovarindr
Ukraine	Oleksii Riabokon	Iuyii Babych	Peter Hritsenchuk
Argentina	Luis Salvatto*	Pedro de Diego	Ariel Nagy
Austria	Oliver Polak-Rottmann	Elias Klocker	Adrian Johann Schrenk
Belarus	Pavel Miadzvedski	Anton Volotovich	Alexander Buslavsky
Brazil	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	Carlos Romao	Lucas Esper Berthoud
Canada	Eduardo Sajgalik	Kale Thompson	Lucas Siow
Chile	Patricio Roman	Alfonso Concha	Miguel Veloso
Chinese Taipei	Huang Hao-Shan	Chun Bo Ruad	Jhang Jheng Yu
Colombia	Camilo Niño	Santiago Hernandez	Camilo Urrego
Costa Rica	Marino Donato	Enrique Mauricio Culligan Aguero	Glen Calvo Camacho
Croatia	Vjeran Horvat	Vladimir Ivanovic	Toni Portolan
Cyprus	Daniel Antoniou	Nicolas Papadopoulos	Tatsiana Suponeva
Dominican Republic	Caupolican Lopez Yapor	Jose Alvarez	Diego Velazquez
England	Niels Molle	Autumn Burchett	Ross Broxup
Estonia	Karl Sarap	Raul Kask	Pierre Vendelboe
Greece	Makis Matsoukas	Lefteris Kotsialis	Ioannis Kountouris
Guatemala	Fernando Jose Juarez Oliva	Jose Andrés	Kevin Perez
Hong Kong	Yam Wing Chun	Andy Chan	Hok Chun Anson Wong
Iceland	Ragnar Sigurdsson	Sigtryggur Óskar Hrafnkelsson	Heimir Palmason
Indonesia	Aziz Riphat	Ebnu Suryadhi	Billy Nugraha
Ireland	Michele Gravina	David Murphy	David Wolfe
Israel	Shahar Shenhar	Yuval Shai	Philip Korsunsky
Italy	Andrea Mengucci	Adriano Moscato	Mattia Rizzi
Latvia	Andrejs Prost	Igor Ralovec	Viktors Kazanskis
Luxembourg	Steve Hatto	Tamas Repa	Denis Skornik
Macedonia	Miro Popov	Dimche Melovski	Vladimir Trajcevski
Malaysia	Joe Soh	Wee Pang Ming	Adwin Lim
Malta	Ayrton Micallef*	Anton Morgenstern	Brendon Spiteri
Mexico	Marcelino Freeman	Emmanuel Ramirez Sanchez	Jose Daniel Garcia Rosas
Netherlands	Thomas Hendriks	Kevin Grove	Daan Pruijt
New Zealand	Jason Chung	Yida Guo	Nathan Samu
Norway	Andreas Isaksson	Simen Skrede Reigstad	Thomas Madland
Panamá	Manuel Succari	Saul Alvarado	Jaime Soriano Salazar
Peru	Francisco Sifuentes	Diego Hurtado Sanchez	Marco Sakugawua
Philippines	Mike Hron	Philip Rama	Jan Ang
Poland	Grzegorz Kowalski	Radek Kaczmarczyk	Piotr Glogowski
Puerto Rico	Adrian Marquez	Danilo Prieto	Jean Baez
Romania	Valentin Roman	Lucian Benca	Rares-Glad Colomei
Russian Federation	Alexey Shashov	Evgeny Schetka	Leonid Grigorenko
Serbia	Aleksa Telarov	Milos Perovic	Goran Begovic
Singapore	Kelvin Chew	Lim Zhong Yi	David Lim
Slovakia	Ivan Floch	Peter Snoha	Ondrej Kedrovic
South Africa	Keraan Chetty	Kaloyan Petkov	Tariq Solomon
South Korea	Nam Sung Wook	Cho Jeong Woo	Jung Ga Ram
Spain	Javier Dominguez	Daniel Martinez Querol	Pedro Lechado
Switzerland	Andreas Ganz	Simon Leigh	Marko Milivojevic
Turkey	Yusuf Kemal Vefa	Caner Aktas	Can Tanyol
United States	Reid Duke	Oliver Tomajko	Gerry Thompson
Uruguay	Leandro Cabrera	Christian Alico	Mauricio López
Venezuela	Humberto Patarca	Daniel Fior	Felipe Cuenod
Wales	Philip Griffiths	Sam Rolph	Aaron Boyhan