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While most Canadians will refuse to acknowledge that this tournament ever happened, objectivity insists I acknowledge.
Gary puts his money on a Canadian to win.
Jon Stern – The hardest working man in Canadian Magic, Stern has shrugged off all other commitments to focus on his game, with payback coming through clearly with his performance in Yokohama.
1996 Held in the country’s center in Winnipeg, the 1996 Nationals produced Canada’s first great team, with Gary Krakower defeating Vancouver’s Terry Lau in the Finals.
It’s Tuesday afternoon, Pistol Pete Radonjic and The Wolf (as Steve Wolfman shall be referred to in these pages here to for) are busy testing their butts off behind me as well they should, as we’ll all be on our way to Canadian Championships in less than 24 hours.
Here then is a brief look at the tournament’s history and a few of the names you should be following in the coverage:
1995
The first Canadian Nationals coincided with the first-ever Prerelease, held for Ice Age in Toronto.
In Limited, blue-white and red-black are both feeling really strong to me, the former because of the synergy Scourge provides and the reduction of Sparksmith quantities to one pack’s worth, the latter because the lack of ‘Smiths means people are drafting decks in the blue-white-green realms for the first time in eight months, but really, with Nationals using Rochester draft, I’ll likely just draft what everyone else doesn’t.
Gab Tsang - Is Tsang the best player in Canadian history? He’s not at his peak any more, but he’s been so good for so long that it’s definitely debatable.
tournaments, sideboard, magic
2002
After being stung by the National Team’s poor showing in 1999, it wasn’t too shocking that Jurgen Hahn became the first Canadian National Champion to not attend Worlds.
With Canadian Nats happening on this side of the Atlantic and responsible for the first (and only, until last year) team to unseat the Americans at World Championships, it often warrants web coverage and a closer look than most other National Championships, especially when you consider its temporal proximity to U.
Wise Words: Canadian Nationals
The team had a disappointing World Championships, coming 7th, but this team, split evenly between Vancouver and Toronto, set the tone for the Canadian competitive scene for the rest of the decade.
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