February 2019 Anniversaries

Here are the February 2019 judge anniversaries for which we have historical data!

15 years

from Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
from Osaka-shi, Japan
from Texas, United States of America

10 years

from Nanaimo, Canada
from Buenos Aires, Argentina
from Victoria, Canada
from Victoria, Canada
from Almaty, Kazakhstan
from Amsterdam, Netherlands

5 years

from Lynnfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
from Bruxelles, Belgium
from Loveland, Ohio, United States of America
from Viladecans, Spain
from Porto, Portugal
from Maple Ridge, Canada
from East Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
from Nafplio, Greece
from Muenster, Germany
from Tokyo, Japan
from Osaka-shi, Japan
from Cartagena, Spain
from baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
from Oakland, California, United States of America
from Shanghai, China
from Raymore, Missouri, United States of America
from Leiden, Netherlands
from columbus, Ohio, United States of America
from Santiago, Chile
from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States of America
from Arnhem, Netherlands
from Wintersville, Ohio, United States of America
from Moscow, Russia
from Redding, California, United States of America
from Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America
from Aurachtal, Germany
from Catonsville, Maryland, United States of America
from Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
from Barcelos, Portugal
from Buenos Aires, Argentina
from Temecula, California, United States of America
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
from Ferrara, Italy
from Singapore, Singapore
from Kearns, Utah, United States of America
from Pray , Italy
from Puebla, Mexico
from Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
from Cambridge, United Kingdom
from Clamart, France
from A Coruña, Spain
from Merída, Mexico
from Distrito Federal, Mexico
from México, Mexico
from México DF, Mexico
from Zapopan, Mexico
from St. Catharines, Canada
from Montecatini Terme, Italy
from Ahrenviöl, Germany
from Aracaju – SE, Brazil
from Roma, Italy
from Skövde, Sweden
from Pakenham, Australia
from Darmstadt, Germany
from Distrito Federal, Mexico
from Duck, West Virginia, United States of America
from Kiev, Ukraine
from Tangerang, Indonesia

Congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!

Creator of cuteness

This month we are featuring 1 judge: Tobias Vyseri! Tobias is celebrating their 5 year anniversary with their RC, :

Tobi reminds me of everything I loved about what the judge program was in the past, and at the same time embodies what I hope the program will become.

There is a certain amount of off-the-floor hustle that fueled the early days of the judge program. Earlier days were characterized by diligent review-writing, building online databases and systems from scratch, tournament reports, and a real passion for bringing “non-judge” life experiences to the judge program.

Tobi writes tournament reports for nearly every event she judges. This commitment to knowledge-sharing and self-reflection is, frankly, pretty astounding. She is a prolific and talented artist – a gift which she uses to bring joy to her judge friends. You can see her series of custom tokens, her beautiful Alphonse Mucha-inspired planeswalker art, or her commissioned pieces for the Canadian community.

In addition to her productive off-the-floor output, Tobi is a killer on the tournament floor. She has a keen intuition for solving logistical puzzles and is very at home in the chaotic flow of large side events. She judges with compassion – she cares very deeply about the well-being of her fellow judges and players. This intersection of hard and soft skills has been correctly identified at MFs as an indicator of leadership potential. Her efforts make a clear impact – she is consistently in the top one or two judges each exemplar wave.

To me Tobi is an aspirational figure for new judges – tirelessly self-reflective, hard-working, deeply caring about people, and not stingy about giving back to the program through her non-judge talents. She would have been at home in the “cult of self-improvement days” of judging eras past, and is also at home in the modern “judge as grinder” era with bonus points for compassion and self-reflection.

And the final kicker is she always looks like she’s having the time of her life. 22 GPs in 2018 and it doesn’t appear to have slowed her yet!

Congratulations on 5 years Tobi!

Happy anniversary to all of you! We look forward to many more years of judging from you all.

As a side note, I apologize for the lateness of this post. Stay tuned next month for a double issue (both March and April) so that we can catch back up. 🙂

Late edit: We missed a level 3 anniversary in this post, so check out the March and April 2019 post for Savvas Themistocleous and Joe Wiesenberg’s L3 anniversaries!

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