I thought about finding a cute image to go with this opening text, but I don’t want to belittle a serious situation. Bottom line, I failed the trust of a good person, Shahar Shenhar, and nothing I can say or do can offset that. I’ve already apologized to him, in person, at the event, but […]
Tournament Reports! (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)
You may have noticed, lots of Tournament Reports are being written and shared. You see, there’s this requirement, for L2 judges to maintain their level, that includes writing – you guessed it! – a tournament report. At first, I was worried that it’d just be a lot of noise – more reasons to turn off […]
L4+ Summary – more of that +
So, by now, many of you have noticed that we have a new L5! I’m guessing that some of you might be curious how that came to pass… Well, it all started when one of the other L4s sent me a post that basically read “Why the BLEEP isn’t Kevin already L5?!” OK, that might […]
L4+ Summary, Sep-Oct 2013
Yes, it has been a very busy two months – not just for me, but for the L4+ in general. During these last two months, we’ve had about 550 messages and almost six dozen different topics. But enough with the sympathy-seeking, we know we won’t get it (and probably don’t really deserve it – heh!) […]
L4+ Summary, August 2013
…so, where did I leave off in July’s summary? Oh, yeah – we were talking about the change in philosophy re: deck list counting and judge priorities (customer service #1)… that was still a hot topic, as we moved into… August – despite the laziness and vacations associated with summer (apologies to our Southern Hemisphere […]
L4+ Summary, July 2013
Another twenty dozen e-mails, more than two dozen topics … yep, just another month in the life of L4+ judges. Oh, and, we might have run a few GPs, too. And we discussed Kansas City, Miami and Houston… but more on that, later. We also discussed some more things that happened in Vegas. Here’s a […]
L4+ Summary, June 2013
June claims to have 30 conversations and 212 messages (and I’ve deleted a few “me too”s). First, the tidbits (i.e., the stuff I can quickly gloss over while you wait for the juicy parts): Jeff Morrow updated us on the status of L3 testing, and we discussed candidates’ progress; you’ll notice a few new L3s […]
L4+ Summary, May 2013
Just 161 messages for the merry month of May, and only a couple dozen new topics. In fact, this threatens to be the least interesting of my summaries – and I’ve just started this blog! Perhaps blogging about our doings doomed us to the Land of the Ordinary and Mundane? In fact, there really isn’t […]
April L4+ Summary
April was a quiet month, only about half as many messages (176) as in March (375)… but we still touched on 42 different topics. (Note that these numbers do not represent scientific or statistically accurate or whatever official-sounding words I could throw out there… I’ll admit to destroying – rarely regenerating! – some number of […]