Here are the March 2018 judge anniversaries!
15 years
Michael LauterJose Alejandro Balado Bradarich
Vincent Roscioli
Stefan Conka
Glen White
John Weldin
10 years
Jan Jaap VermeireWilliam Gibson
Brian Diefendorf
Dimah Eroshkin
José Correa
Mircea Pienar
Rene Herrera
Ethan Rider
Maxime Cochin
Paul Ferret
Avri Rahamim
Sean Catanese
5 years
John SongAustin Whitehead
Lyle Dixon
Jayme Castellanos
Simon Cliche-Lamoureux
William Blanks
Alex Underwood
Gene Marinas
Kevin Anctil
Kyle Leary
Donovan Breest
Travis Guffy
Daniel Morais
Benjamin Gomes
Eric Enslen
Ze’eva Chasan
Jeff Doty
Anthony Martinez
Levi Ritchie
Travis Nonenmacher
Matthew Valeo
Jonathan Downs
Anthony Hullings
Joaquim Neumann
Matthias Eckstein
Daren Two Feathers
Ken Briscoe
Sam Abramowitz
Sean Canet
Joe Brooks
David Kanaan
Jasper Johnson-Epstein
Milan Majerčík
Chris Cornwell-Shiel
Juan Carlos Avelar
Andrea Castelli
Tomy Chamberland
Jan Kotrla
Daniel Suydam
Boris Vukovic
Brad Shires
Taylor Shuss
Andrew Hanson
Jorge Garcia
Niki Lin
Martin Pelletier
Kaylee Mullins
Kenta Yamamoto
Dean Wookey
Ryan Parr
Matthew Shepard
Chihun Kim
Wojciech Jankowski
Ottoniel Ortiz
Aaron Speer
Samuel Lurie
Kelsey Dixon
Wojciech Strzyzakowski
Leonardo Oliveira Graichen
Rafael Trigo
Hiroki Asada
Felipe Alves Couto
Victor Alem
Vitor Siqueira
Felipe Soares
Breno Cury-Rad Rodrigues da Silva
Henrique Bejgel
Nicolau Maldonado
Vinícius Verolli de Almeida
Ademar Simão Junior
Rafael Barcelos
Kevin Kwong
Daniel Hernandez
Rodrigo Iñiguez
John Cross
Daniel Kelly
Angela Schabauer
Brian Barkow
Emilio Franceschini
Craig Stambaugh
Panagiotis Papadopoulos
alexandre bonneau
Neil Schmidt
Masashi Fujino
Austin McNamara
Will Hofweber
Pablo Ruiz
Angela Chandler
Floris Rensink
Nathan Cardinell
Raúl Díaz
Mihai Bîrsan
Blair Lavallee
Christoffer Bernhardsen
Gene Joo
Jonan Scheffler
Lisa Bieker
Meaghan Gallagher
Joseph D’Asaro
Michael Oyler
Anthony Miller
Joe Hughto
loris collatuzzo
Brad Hamlin
Pim Havelaar
Vern Wells
Andrea Bazzan
Cody Colt
Guy Franck Ismael Kone
Richard Townley
Jerzy Sikorski
Aras Aziz
Chin Yao Han
Mariusz Salwa
Kainoa Pestana
Marcos Hernandes
Jordan Ewers
Vincent Berladyn
Charles Lai
Michael Brigham
Michael Dio
Damien Barbance
Merced Salinas
Congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!
This month we are featuring 3 judges: Milan Majerčík, Emilien Wild, and Abe Corson. First, we are celebrating Milan’s 5th year as a judge with some words from his RC, SebastianMilan Majerčík is a staple of Czech & Slovak Community. He’s been publicly recognized by fellow judges almost 40 times for his many contributions. Milan has taken part or organised many initiatives, just to name a few: coordination PPTQs in Czechia and Slovakia, assembling travel guide for GP Prague, organisation of local judge meetup in Prague, translation of Player DQ FAQ to Czech, Judge Token project – that’s just amazing, how active he is.
You can also find Milan participating in forum discussions on Judge Apps, making suggestions, asking questions and providing food for thought. While doing so, he serves as a moral compass, speaking up and acting when he sees something going wrong, or raising uncomfortable topics when he feels that’s necessary.
Milan, I’d like to thank you for all this, and kindly ask for more. Keep up the great work!
For this month, we have a pair of Level 3 anniversaries to recognize. Emilien Wild and Abe Corson celebrate their 5th anniversary as Level 3!First, Regional Coordinator Richard Drijvers gathered some thoughts about Emilien:
“Emilien Wild has achieved many things during his time in the Magic Judge program. Like Jona Bemindt says;
Emilien has always been my prime example of the greatest advantage the Judge Program brings us: the enormous potential for self-improvement. In my many years knowing him, first as a player, and later as a judge, I have seen him taking great strides towards growing, not only within the program, but also outside of it. Seeing him reach his burgundy shirt as the newest height in that road is something we as a community can only applaud.
Most of my experience with Emilien at events has been at GP Side Events, where he has been a solid rock for years now, having been at the start of many of the best practices we use today. It always fills me with a certain ease of mind when I can schedule him at a Side Events Lead position, knowing that he’ll manage to handle whatever we have to throw at him, and that in return we’ll get valuable feedback to improve.
To many more years to come!
I, personally, don’t actually remember when I first met Emilien Wild. Luckily, Niels Viaene does;
I met Emilien first when he was my roommate at the Outpost Open in Brussels. Well, “meeting” is to be taken with a grain of salt. I don’t think Emilien talked to me that weekend, and I saw more of his hat than his face. As time went by I saw Emilien bloom and develop into a L3 judge I respect greatly for his capability to analyze and create processes and his amazing way of communicating any topic in an clear and understandable way.
People that only know Emilien as he is today have plenty of reasons to look up to him, those of us fortunate enough to see the process can all learn from him.
I do know, however, that without Emilien, I would not have been able to do my tasks as a Regional Coordinator as good as I have. He was my first source for information on anything that was going on in the French speaking part of Belgium. Up until we created Area Captains about 2 years ago. I actually believe we were able to have someone as Area Captain in Walloon, because Emilien was able to recruit, train and mentor someone towards this goal, because he sought greater things for himself. I was very happy to see that he found a way to achieve this, both in making new judges and in obtaining the GP HJ certification himself.
I’m certain Emilien will continue to grow, and that he will continue to amaze us all with his insights, philosophy and innovations.”
Next we share some thoughts from Abe’s Regional Coordinator, Nicholas Sabin“This month marks the fifth anniversary of Abe Corson’s certification as a Level Three judge. Many of you know Abe as a Grand Prix Head Judge, or from his work on the SCG Tour. If you do, you’ll agree with me when I praise him for his precise, nuanced, and sophisticated understanding of both rules and policy. If you know Abe as a player, you’ll note his deep love of Vintage Magic — he’s a frequent and obvious choice to head judge Vintage Championships each year. What many people don’t know about Abe, and what I’ve gotten to see as his Regional Coordinator and as someone who calls Abe a friend, is his thorough investment in others. Abe writes some of the best reviews a judge can hope to receive. They are deep dives into a judge’s work, and are balanced in their praise and their feedback. As an L2, Abe was instrumental in the growth of the Northern Virginia and Washington DC judge communities, and I know many of that area’s finest judges would identify him as a mentor and a supporter. Abe’s work as a judge makes obvious his love of the game, and he exemplifies the characteristics I encourage in the Mid-Atlantic communities: work ethic, efficiency, and investment in others. This region would not be the same if not for Abe’s involvement, and I’m proud to call him a peer and a friend.
Congratulations on your fifth anniversary at L3, Abe. I look forward to many more anniversaries to come. Best wishes to you for your decade of service as a L3 judge!”
Best wishes to both Emilien and Abe!
Happy anniversary to all of you! We look forward to many more years of judging from you all.