Sebastian Rittau

Category: Magic the Gathering

  • Public View of Judges

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    I’m very disappointed with recent articles about judges. Terry Soh’s premium article on Star City Games seems to stand out. I have to admit that I haven’t read the article, since I don’t have SCG premium, but the comments about this article are enlightening. Also, Noah Weil’s article from today doesn’t portray judges in a good light, although I have the…

  • Tracking Repeat Penalties

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    Penalties are supposed to be upgraded when a certain offence is repeated during a tournament. In small tournaments with only few judges that works well, since all judges communicate efficiently (in German we would say: “sie tratschen wie Waschweiber”). But the larger the tournament gets the more difficult it gets to learn about previous penalties.…

  • Judge Article Up!

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    Since the Wizards page is back up, I can confirm that my judge article about the Rodgau PTQs “between the years” is really up. Here are some more pictures from that event. Update: One thing that wasn’t presented well in the article was how bad I was feeling during the whole tournament. At the evening before the first…

  • Judge Article Up?

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    flame- told me earlier on #mtgjudge that my judge report is finally up at the DCI page. Unfortunately that page is currently down. So I have to wait a little bit longer …

  • GP Leipzig Judge Photo

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    The judges of GP Leipzig: This picture is from flame-‘s blog. I added the names with the help of flame- and other members of #mtgjudge. Thanks all! Missing on this picture are at least MJH, Thomas Kugler, and Martin Damen.

  • Ratings Update

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    Finally the GP Eindhoven where I top 8’ed is in my rating. And my constructed rating is now up to a whopping 1691. Funny thing is that this is higher than my limited rating (although that is admittedly not too hard) and I see myself more as a limited player. But maybe that will change…

  • Grand Prix Leipzig

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    I came back from Grand Prix Leipzig yesterday evening. A friend had asked me not to judge at this event, so I did her the favor and did play instead. Day 1 competition was split into two separate events, head-judged by Jesper Nielsen and Gis Hoogendjik respectively. The layout of the tournament site was suited very well…

  • German Magic League

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    Today was the first day of play of this year’s German Magic League. My team Istari 2 played host for three other teams. We played at the Magic Center here in Berlin, where the other two teams of my league were also playing. Since one of my teammates, Frank, who was scheduled to play Block cancelled yesterday, I…

  • Frustrations

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    In other news, I’m still not listed as a level 2 judge, the tournament where I made top 4 is still listed as “cancelled”, and finally (and most importantly) the judge article that I submitted at the beginning of january is still not posted. Frustrating …

  • Bushido

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    This is an excerpt from an e-mail message that I sent to Magic rules manager John Carter a while back. It outlines the problems I have with the way the Bushido mechanic currently works. Maybe other people find it interesting as well. […] So, let’s start with the definition of bushido from the comp rules (version…