2005 Pro Tour Season

The 2005 Pro Tour season was the tenth Pro Tour season. It started on 10 September 2004 with Grand Prix Rimini, and ended on 4 December 2005 with the conclusion of the 2005 World Championships. It was the longest ever Pro Tour season, as it was a time of transition for the Pro Tour circuit; starting with this season, Pro Tour seasons would take place across a calendar year instead of the latter half of one year and the first half of the next. The Hall of Fame was also introduced during this season, with the inaugural class being Jon Finkel, Darwin Kastle, Tommi Hovi, Alan Comer, and Olle Råde.
==2005 season changes==
Previous Pro Tour seasons had taken place across two calendar years: the latter half of one year, and the first half of the next. Starting with the 2005 season, Pro Tour seasons would correspond with the calendar year, with the World Championships taking place in November or December as the last event of the season.
Furthermore, the previous system of Pro Standings and End-of-the-Year Payout were phased out during the course of the season. End-of-the-Year Payouts were still in effect for the 2005 season, but more than halved, from $635,000 in 2003–4 to $300,000 in 2005, and completely removed for future seasons. To replace it, the Pro Tour Players Club was introduced. Players were assigned levels based on Pro Points accumulated during the previous and current seasons, and they could advance in levels by earning more Pro Points. The benefits ranged from invitations to all Pro Tour events at Level 3, to free airfare and hotel room and an appearance fee of $2000 for each Pro Tour at Level 6, the highest level.
==Grand Prix (September–October 2004)==
==Pro Tour Colombus==
29–31 October 2004 in Colombus, Ohio, United States.
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Pierre Canali 	$30,000	25 	Pro Tour debut
2 	Shuhei Nakamura	$20,000	20 	
3 	Nicholas West 	$15,000	16 	Pro Tour debut
4 	Olivier Ruel 	$13,000	16 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
5 	Gadiel Szleifer	$9,000 	12 	
6 	Masashi Oiso 	$8,500 	12 	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
7 	Ryuichi Arita 	$8,000 	12 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8 	Geoffrey Siron 	$7,500 	12 	
==Grand Prix (November 2004–January 2005)==
==Pro Tour Nagoya==
28–30 January 2005 in Nagoya, Japan.
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Shu Komuro 	$30,000	25 	
2 	Anton Jonsson 	$20,000	20 	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Terry Soh 	$15,000	16 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Murray Evans 	$13,000	16 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
5 	Masashiro Kuroda	$9,000 	12 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
6 	Frank Karsten 	$8,500 	12 	
7 	Jarno Harkonen 	$8,000 	12 	
8 	Vasilis Fatouros	$7,500 	12 	First Greek in a Pro Tour Top 8
==Grand Prix (February–March 2005)==
==Pro Tour Atlanta==
11–13 March 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
==Grand Prix (March–April 2005)==
==Pro Tour Philadelphia==
6–8 May 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Gadiel Szleifer	$21,725	25 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2 	Kenji Tsumura 	$12,275	20 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Steven Wolfman 	$7,475 	16 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Olivier Ruel 	$6,950 	16 	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5 	Ryan Cimera 	$2,825 	12 	Pro Tour debut
6 	Jeff Novekoff 	$4,750 	12 	Pro Tour debut
7 	Mark Herberholz	$3,175 	12 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8 	André Müller 	$2,075 	12 	
==Grand Prix (May–June 2005)==
==Pro Tour London==
8–10 July 2005 in London, Great Britain.
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Geoffrey Siron 	$30,000	25 	Second Pro Tour Top 8, first Belgian to win a Pro Tour
2 	Tsuyoshi Fujita 	$20,000	20 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Johan Sadeghpour	$15,000	16 	
4 	Antti Malin 	$13,000	16 	
5 	Masashi Oiso 	$9,000 	12 	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
6 	Tomi Walamies 	$8,500 	12 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7 	Arnost Zidek 	$8,000 	12 	
8 	David Larsson 	$7,500 	12 	
==Grand Prix (July–September 2005)==
==Pro Tour Los Angeles==
28–30 October 2005 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Antoine Ruel 	$30,000	25 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
2 	Billy Moreno 	$20,000	20 	
3 	Kenji Tsumura 	$15,000	16 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Chris McDaniel 	$13,000	16 	
5 	Tsuyoshi Fujita 	$9,000 	12 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
6 	Chih-Hsiang Chang	$8,500 	12 	First Taiwanese in a Pro Tour Top 8
7 	Ervin Tormos 	$8,000 	12 	Pro Tour debut
8 	Ryuichi Arita 	$7,500 	12 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
==Grand Prix (November 2005)==
==2005 World Championships==
30 November–4 December 2005 in Yokohama, Japan.
===Final standings===
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Katsuhiro Mori 	$35,000	32 	
2 	Frank Karsten 	$23,000	24 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Tomohiro Kaji 	$15,000	16 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Akira Asahara 	$13,000	16 	
5 	Marcio Carvalho	$9,500 	12 	
6 	Ding Leong 	$8,500 	12 	
7 	Shuhei Nakamura	$7,500 	12 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8 	André Coimbra 	$6,500 	12 	
===Team competition===
==References==
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