Here are the January 2016 judge anniversaries!
15 years
Nicolas AlcubillaAaron Atwood
Marcin Berlowski
Rafael Dei Svaldi
Namir Elias
Davide Fenu
Christian Gawrilowicz
Steve Hatto
Toru Hayashi
Gabor Hegyi
Andrew Herber
David Hibbs
Teruyuki Hiraishi
Jason Howlett
Hidetoshi Ito
Kazuya Kawashima
Brian Kolins
Lubos Lauer
Sandi Lovrencic
Todd Luken
Anton Lunau
Mark Lyons
Ivan Negrete
Jorge Antonio Penailillo Monckeberg
Rick Ralsten
Marcel Scheibler
David Spears
Rudolf Sukeandra
Shin’ichiro Tachibana
Hisaya Tanaka
Fernando Urralburu
Hannu Vallin
Francisco Vazquez
Johanna Virtanen
Austin Whitehead
Alejo Zagalsky
Teun Zijp
Andres Moro
10 years
Jan Ver EeckeGuillaume Beuzelin
Zohar Finkel
Kevin Jennings
Chadwick McKenzie
5 years
Tomas SukaitisRobert Ebert
John Viera
Ralph Colby
David Hartford
Tyler Herman
Andrea Bacco
Giovanni D’Amelio
Fredrik Fagerberg
Zac Houle
Sun LeMunyon
Carlos Alberto Lorca Tello
Yann Sevette
Congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!
This month is a crazy one! Look at all of those 15 year anniversaries! Here we have two judges featured this month: Zohar Finkel and Rafael Dei Svaldi. First we have Zohar Finkel, a very active judge from Isreal. His RC Giorgos Trichopoulos“Zohar is one of those people that I would describe as a silent force. When I nominated him, I was expecting lots of questions, since my first impression of him is very calm, a bit of an introvert, shy and not a very talkative person. I couldn’t be more wrong. Zohar has already established a reputation among the group. So who is Zohar?
I met him when he was already the area captain of Israel. For the first few years, his energy was dedicated into developing his local community. After getting another L2 in there and multiple other L2 candidates he was hungry for more. Ask and you shall receive 🙂 Nowadays Zohar is responsible for keeping up to date the post regarding all the region’s activities, he has created an in-region anniversary project and he is the driving force behind our pioneering achievement project. Oh that’s only the in region projects; he is also into Judge Booth, Judge Experiences, Judge Resources and Project org chart.
He has a reputation of being punctual, thorough, and always accepting challenges. Just give him objectives and he will come up with a plan, and even if it is “his” plan, he is ready to accept other people opinions and change it. So, that’s Zohar! We are very glad that we have him, and he is the clear proof on how one can shine even when originating from a very isolated part of the world. Happy birthday Zohar <3"
Next, we have Rafael Dei Svaldi from Brazil, who has recently started TO'ing the Brazilian GPs. Brazilian RC Thales Bittencourt"I have written these kinds of stories about Rafael for some time now. Even after all these years I can't say that I have told enough about how Rafael is to me a role model in Magic, and an example in life. In each of these 15 years Rafael had a clear goal in mind: make Brazil a better place for Magic players and judges. Having participated in uncountable national and international events, from FNMs in his local store to many GPs and PTs, Rafael has been showing not only that he cares earnestly about the judge program, but also that he is a great judge. One of best this program were able to offer. Congratulations, Rafael! The judges in Brazil, and all the judge program, are deeply grateful for the 15 years of your life that you have been dedicating to us. Thank you!"
Happy anniversary to all of you! We look forward to many more years of judging from you all.
I’m willing to bet that a fair number of those January anniversaries are even older than 15 years. Some time in the past, many of the older judge certification dates all got updated in the database to reflect 01/01/01. Actual dates are now lost to history! I know my own date is actually 1999-05-29.
So to the rest of you out there… happy N-iversary. 🙂
You are absolutely correct! Hopefully, we’ll be able to correct these in the future (only if each person knows their real certification date, as you do).