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Owen Turtenwald is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He has achieved a number of accolades during his career, including the 2010 Vintage World Championship and the 2011 Player of the Year. ==Magic: The Gathering== Owen Turtenwald first came to prominence playing the eternal formats, Vintage and Legacy. In the 2007 season, Owen made his first Top 8 and reached the finals of Grand Prix Columbus, which was contested in the Legacy format. In 2008, Owen would make the Top 8 of the Vintage World Championship. At Gen Con 2010, Owen won the 2010 Vintage World Championship defeating Bob Maher, Jr. in the finals. Despite reaching the finals of Grand Prix Washington DC in the 2010 season, Owen claims he considered quitting, as he did not feel he was receiving enough reward for his effort. However, he was persuaded to keep playing the game by an offer to join Team ChannelFireball. As of 2015, Owen writes articles and makes videos for ChannelFireball.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.channelfireball.com/author/owen-turtenwald// )〕 In the 2011 season, Owen would make seven Grand Prix Top 8s, an at the time unprecedented number for a single season, in a wide variety of formats, including Standard, Extended, Legacy and Limited. However, Owen failed to win any of the Grand Prix events that he made the Top 8 of, a fact that was very disappointing to him. Owen's success would cause him to hold the lead in the 2011 Player of the Year race for the majority of the season and going into the final event of the year, the 2011 World Championship. On the final day of the World Championship, three players were in the position to take the Player of the Year title from Owen. These players were Luis Scott-Vargas, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa and Josh Utter-Leyton, all of whom were also Owen's teammates as part of the ChannelFireball team. Owen noted a sense of conflict in wanting his friends to do well, but also needing them to lose if he was to take the Player of the Year title.〔 Fortunately for Owen, those three players would lose their quarterfinal matchups and Owen would win the 2011 Player of the Year title.〔 In doing so Owen became the first Player of the Year to not have made a Pro Tour Top 8 in the season they won the title. In the 2012-13 Season, Owen started practising and preparing for tournaments with Team StarCityGames (currently known as Team Pantheon), alongside players such as Jon Finkel, Kai Budde and Reid Duke.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.teamstarcitygames.com/the-team/#tn-137 )〕 Shortly thereafter, Owen would make his first Pro Tour Top 8 at Pro Tour ''Gatecrash''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptgtc13/welcome )〕 Owen would lose his quarterfinal match against ChannelFireball member Eric Froehlich, but still finished in 5th place in the event overall. Turtenwald held the record for most Grand Prix Top 8 appearances without a win (11), but in the 2013-14 Season, Owen finally won a major sanctioned event when he won Grand Prix Washington, D.C, his 12th Grand Prix Top 8.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpwas13/welcome )〕 Owen would continue this success, winning the very next Grand Prix in Albuquerque.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpabq13/welcome )〕 In doing so, Owen became only the sixth player to win back-to-back Grand Prix events, the other five players to have achieved this feat being Kenji Tsumura, Kai Budde, Raphaël Lévy, Tomoharu Saito, and Yuuya Watanabe. Owen went on to finish the season with his second Pro Tour top 8 at Pro Tour ''Magic 2015'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/ptm15 )〕 where he lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Ivan Floch. Thanks to his 4th-place finish, Owen earned captainship of the US National team for the 2014 World Magic Cup. He also qualified for the 2014 World Championship as the top ranked North American player. Owen, alongside teammates William Jensen and Reid Duke, won Grand Prix Portland, the very first event of the 2014–15 Season. At Pro Tour ''Khans of Tarkir'' in Honolulu later that year, Owen looked poised to make his third Pro Tour top 8, but he got paired down against Yuuya Watanabe in the last round and lost, finishing 11th in the event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/ptktk/final-standings-2014-10-12 )〕 At the 2014 World Championship, he finished 13th, but at the 2014 World Magic Cup, he captained the US National team to a fourth-place finish, losing to Greece in the semifinals. Owen ended the season on 55 points, good enough for Platinum status in the Pro Player Club, and an invitation to the 2015 World Championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://magic.wizards.com/en/protour/2015WC/players )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Owen Turtenwald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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