Sebastian Rittau

Author: srittau

  • Berlin Regionals

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    Last Saturday we held the Magic Regionals 2005 here in Berlin. I’ve already blogged about the problems I see in the way this year’s Regionals are run in Germany. So originally it was proposed to run inofficial top 8 as a separate event, but in the end we decided against it for various reasons. The event ran…

  • Magic Regionals in Germany

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    This year the Regionals in Germany are in a format I am not comfortable with. They are played as swiss tournaments with one additional round of play, but no cut to top 8. Instead there is a number of invitations given out based on attendance and these are handed to the leading players after the…

  • Saviors of Kamigawa Prerelease

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    This weekend was the prerelease for Saviors of Kamigawa. As always it took place at the Magic Center, now under new ownership. I judged Saturday. It was a fairly uneventful tournament with 125 players. We were three judges plus scorekeeper, which was just enough. Personally, I would have preferred one more judge on the team. The best…

  • Playing with GStreamer

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    I played around with GStreamer today to do what I wanted to do for a long time: encode the music from a music video DVD I bought as Ogg so that I can play it with my regular music player (Rhythmbox) as well as at home (my computer at home doesn’t have a DVD drive – can…

  • Article about Judging Published

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    Finally my article about judges and judging got published over at Star City Games. Yay! Update: URL corrected …

  • Switching to Subversion?

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    There is talk on gnome-hackers to switch from CVS to Subversion as version control system. Some people instead suggested to switch to another, fundamentally different versioning system like arch or monotone. While I’m very much in favor of switching to Subversion, I am very against switching to a more radically different versioning system at this point for several reasons: A switch to Subversion is…

  • Blog Archive

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    I have moved older articles from my blog into the archive. A link to the archive is at the end of the main blog page.

  • PTQ London

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    Yesterday we had a PTQ for London in Berlin. Two days before the event Huy, the scheduled head judge called me and asked whether I could do the HJ, since he had to leave early. Of course I happily accepted. We had 68 players, which was a low turnout. Kamigawa seems to bore people. Personally…

  • Interview with Andy Heckt

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    Finally I finished my judge article. I will send it in early next week. As a bonus, here is the complete interview with Andy Heckt: First of all: What is your official job title at Wizards? Network Manager – this is because my duties coordinate player need, the judge program, and organizers of premiere events…

  • Blog Hacking

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    Hacked on my blog software today. You can now click on the Magic card names to get information about the particular card from www.magiccards.info. While doing that I improved the XML parser so that the blog XML files are now properly namespaced. This allows easier and better parsing as well as future improvements.