Here are the anniversaries for September 2013!
15 years
Jaap BrouwerSimon Cooper
Matthew Fisher
Geof Fletcher
Sylvain Lauriol
Iain MacDonald
Arnaud Perrouin
Neil Rigby
Philip Rogers
David Sisson
Graham Theobalds
10 years
Lik Hang YuJeremy Levieux
Danilo Raineri
Andrew Thompson
5 years
David de la IglesiaAnders Schack-Nielsen
Claudia Goertzen
Patrick Ericsson
Juan Pablo Volpintesta
Kyle Donovan
Eskil Myrenberg
Mamoru Miura
Dominik Olak
Julio Vazquez
Francois Grossi
Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work!
Our featured judges this month are Andrew Thompson from Michigan, United States, and Arnaud Perrouin from France.
Regional Coordinator Steven Briggs had this to say about Andrew:
“While we can often focus in the Judge program on level advancement, Andrew Thompson has exemplified over his last ten years in the program the outstanding value of what a consistent L2 can do to help develop the Judge Program. Andy was one of the first judges I made contact with as I started judging, and he brought to the table a fun personality with a genuine enthusiasm for organized play, the judge program, and the game. I am happy to say that this, if anything, has grown in the last four years that I have known him. Andy has been a strong mentor in an area of Michigan that is not graced with lots of PTQ’s and large tournaments. What it does have though are lots of casual players, and Andy has mentored many terrific judges in his time with the program that are great at not only providing accurate rulings, but are also strong at encouraging and developing local play areas and more judges with that genuine heart for the game and for helping others.
Andy has been an amazing friend, a terrific competitive judge at larger events, and a rock for feedback and development of Michigan judging. Congratulations Andy on an amazing decade in the program!”
This is what Regional Coordinator Alexis Rassel said about Arnaud:
“Wow ! 15 years !
Arnaud Perrouin is the oldest certified lvl2 French Magic judge still in activity. If you’ve ever been to a French National Championship or a PTQ in the West of the country, it’s impossible that you never met Arnaud. We can say that Magic is a family business for Arnaud. His wife is a T.O. and their two sons like to play. Their youngest daughter doesn’t play… yet! During many years, Arnaud and his wife were almost the only judge and T.O. in their area. Today, the West of France is one of the most active regions in France with many judges and tournaments.
Congratulations Arnaud !”