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and a tournament organiser. Each year he hosts an invitational tournament for Dutch players called Bramvitational. Along with Willam "Huey" Jensen and Brad Nelson, Snepvangers is one of only three players to have eliminated

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in the knock-rounds of a Pro Tour. He qualified for every Pro Tour event held in the decade of the 2000s, and participated in all but one of them. He is second only to

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on the list of players with the most Pro Tour appearances. In 2010, Snepvangers was voted into the

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, alongside Gabriel Nassif and

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. The Dutchman passed the 40% threshold necessary to become a Hall of Famer by a single vote. Snepvangers was not originally announced as an inductee, but it was later discovered that

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had not used the proper formula to calculate his voting total.

Achievements

class of 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Snepvangers, Bram 1976 births Living people Dutch Magic: The Gathering players People from Houten Sportspeople from Utrecht (province)