Kamiel Cornelissen

Kamiel Cornelissen
Born	December 14, 1980
Residence	Enschede, Netherlands[1]
Nationality	Dutch
Winnings	US$209,292[2]
Pro Tour wins (Top 8)	1 (6)[3]
Grand Prix wins (Top 8)	2 (6)[4]
Lifetime Pro Points	347[5]
Planeswalker Level	47 (Archmage)

Kamiel Cornelissen (born 14 December 1980)^[1] is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Once a Pro Tour mainstay, he is now considered retired, despite playing the odd event. He is one of eight players with six or more Pro Tour top eights, including back to back second place finishes and a win at Pro Tour Seattle 2004 with teammates Jelger Wiegersma and Jeroen Remie. Most recently, he won Grand Prix Brussels 2008. In 2009, he was voted into the Hall of Fame.

Career

Kamiel Cornelissen first appeared on the Pro Tour with an extremely strong finish. At Pro Tour New York 2000, affectionately known as Pro Tour Rebels, he finished 11th and was just a single point off making the top eight in his Pro Tour debut. After missing the World Championship, Cornelissen returned to the Pro Tour when it returned to New York, forming Fearless Hurloonies with his brothers Jesse and Stijn at the team event.

Over the next two Pro Tours, Cornelissen did what would later become known as "pulling a Kamiel", which was to make the finals of two consecutive events, but lose both. At Pro Tour Chicago, he made what is widely regarded as one of the best top eights in history. As of Pro Tour Austin 2009, every player in that top eight except Jasar Elarar has won a Pro Tour. After taking out Jon Finkel and Rob Dougherty, Cornelissen lost the final match to Kai Budde.^[6] At the next event, in Los Angeles, Cornelissen defeated Jon Finkel in the elmination rounds for a second time, before losing the finals to Mike Pustilnik.^[7] To finish out the 2000-01 season, he made the top four of the team Grand Prix in Turin, with Jelger Wiegersma and Tom van de Logt as his teammates.

2001-02 and 2002-03 were, by comparison, much weaker seasons for Cornelissen. His only notable finishes were a win at Grand Prix Heidelberg in 2001, and a runner-up at Grand Prix Amsterdam with Jon Finkel and Eric Froehlich in 2003.

In 2003-04 Cornelissen returned to prominence. When the Pro Tour came to his home country, he made his third Pro Tour top eight. He finished fifth at Pro Tour Amsterdam, losing the quarterfinals to Osamu Fujita.^[8] Six months later, Conrelissen would make the elimination rounds a fourth time. As a member of Von Dutch, he won Pro Tour Seattle, defeating Jin Okomoto, Tsuyoshi Ikeda, and Itaru Ishida in the finals.^[9] At the next Pro Tour event, the World Championship in San Francisco, Cornelissen made his fifth Pro Tour top eight and third that season. A quarterfinal loss to Manuel Bevand would see him finish fifth.^[10]

Over the years that followed, Cornelissen continued to perform well, but not with the same high degree of success. In 2005, he made two more Grand Prix top eights in Eindhoven, and Malmö. In 2006, he attracted some attention again when he won both the Dutch national championship, and the team competition at the World Championship in Paris.^[11] Two years later, he won Grand Prix Brussels.

More than nine years after his previous Pro Tour top 8, and several years after he quit regular Pro Tour play, Cornelissen made his sixth top 8 at Pro Tour Theros, losing in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Jeremy Dezani.^[12]

Accomplishments

Top 8 appearances

Season	Event type	Location	Format	Date	Rank
2000–01	Pro Tour	Chicago	Standard	1–3 December 2000	2
2000–01	Pro Tour	Los Angeles	Rochester Draft	2–4 February 2001	2
2000–01	Grand Prix	Turin	Team Limited	26–27 May 2001	4
2001–02	Invitational	Cape Town	Special	5–7 October 2001	4
2001–02	Grand Prix	Heidelberg	Sealed and Booster Draft	9–10 February 2002	1
2002–03	Grand Prix	Amsterdam	Team Limited	7–8 June 2003	2
2003-04	Pro Tour	Amsterdam	Rochester Draft	16–18 January 2004	5
2003–04	Pro Tour	Seattle	Team Limited	9–11 July 2004	1
2003–04	Worlds	San Francisco	Special	1–5 September 2004	5
2005	Grand Prix	Eindhoven	Extended	26–27 February 2005	5
2005	Grand Prix	Malmö	Sealed and Booster Draft	22–23 July 2005	6
2006	Nationals	Netherlands	Standard and Booster Draft	8–10 September 2006	1
2006	Worlds	Paris	National team	29 November–3 December 2006	1
2008	Grand Prix	Brussels	Sealed and Booster Draft	3–4 May 2008	1
2013–14	Pro Tour	Dublin	Standard and Booster Draft	11–13 October 2013	8

Last updated: 13 October 2013
Source: Wizards.com Wizards.com

Other accomplishment

• Member of the Magic Hall of Fame class of 2009

References

1. Kamiel Cornelissen 2005 Pro Player card (from the Magic: The Gathering Ravnica expansion)
2. "Top 200 All-Time Money Leaders". Wizards of the Coast. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
3. "Lifetime Pro Tour Top 8s". Wizards of the Coast. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
4. "Lifetime Grand Prix Top 8s". Wizards of the Coast. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
5. "Planeswalker Points (requires login)". Wizards of the Coast. 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
6. "2000 Pro Tour Chicago Coverage". The Sideboard. 2000-12-03. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
7. "2001 Pro Tour Los Angeles". The Sideboard. 2001-02-04. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
8. "Live Coverage of 2004 Pro Tour Amsterdam". Wizards of the Coast. 2004-01-18. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
9. "Live Coverage of 2004 Pro Tour Seattle". Wizards of the Coast. 2004-07-11. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
10. "Nuijten, Nassif dominate Worlds". Wizards of the Coast. 2004-09-05. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
11. "Mihara, Dutch Crowned World Champions!". Wizards of the Coast. 2006-12-03. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
12. "Dezani Proclaims Allez les Bleus at Pro Tour!". Wizards of the Coast. 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-19.