Tag: judge

  • Public View of Judges

    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

    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!

    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?

    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

    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.

  • Frustrations

    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 …