Here are the April 2016 judge anniversaries!
10 years
Maxim AntipovBryan Alcorn
Shaun Mack
Brandon Petitpren
5 years
Vicente DavisDrew Herr
Joshua McCurley
William VanDyke
Nigel Garrett
Michael Lum
Pete Picard
Ronny Alvarado
Violet Edgar
Lamberto Franco
James Vogel
william christopher
John Laitinen
David Dean
Michael McCliment
Bob Narindra
Lucas Piccoli
Dustin Gilliland
Milosz Krysinski
Jose Estorga
Alex Jerard Muhich
Jim Horng
Joshua Gang
Emily Blasdell
Walter Deshazo
Aaron Eng
Arrian Ordonez
Cristiam Padilla
Nick Rutkowski
Congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!
This month, we have 2 features! Our first featured judge is Brandon Petitpren. His RC, Jarrod Williams, has this to say about Brandon:
Next we have Michael McCliment, a judge in Gavin Duggan‘s Region:
After a few months off, Level 3 anniversaries are back! This month we celebrate two Level 3 anniversaries. Back in 2011, Kevin Binswanger and Kenji Suzuki
each certified for L3.
“Chiao, You’ve been one of the super leaders in the Japanese Region since many years ago. Especially online, you have a blog that has been updated every single time some important information is sent out from somewhere. You are exactly a vision of what a leader is supposed to be, I aim. I am very surprised you’ve been doing such hard work for so many years!! Please feel free to tell me if you get tired from doing it! I am ready to take it over from you. The most I was surprised, you may remember, is one time we were casually talking about feedback. You suddenly sent me an e-mail about coming to work at the store to write a review and mentor all of our judges and left the store! Thank you very much. All of us appreciate you very much. We all hope your life will be well!!”
We asked David Hibbs“When Kevin moved to Texas in 2008, I didn’t know him. It wasn’t long, however, before he began to make his presence known in the Texas judge community. He became an L1 that year, and before the end of 2009 he was an L2. At a time when there weren’t many judges in Texas that were both willing and qualified to HJ PTQs, Kevin started picking up events that I simply couldn’t reach. I began to think of us as the two bishops on the chess board–each managing various aspects of the field yet never able to link and cross paths. I could see judge numbers increasing, and I could sense the quality of those judges improving as they moved between our events. I could feel his presence and effect, I just couldn’t seem to meet him!
Fast forward a few years, to 2011. As another long-time judge, Jeff Zandi, wrote to me, ‘When Kevin became a level three judge he firmly established a new face on judging in Texas. He immediately imparted a more professional and serious image for us all.’
Since that time, Kevin has grown and developed both the state of Texas and the region as a whole. When I asked others about him, I heard a few common themes. Kevin is a great judge who’s always quick to help when called upon. Kevin always thanks other judges for their hard work. He’s always willing to share his knowledge and experience with others. He knows when to trust another judge’s skills, and when to test those skills.
As area captain Alex Tune noted to me, there are so many judges in this region that could neither have advanced in the program nor continued to operate as part of it without his support and guidance.
Congratulations, Kevin, on 5 years as L3!”
Happy anniversary to all of you! We look forward to many more years of judging from you all.