July 2018 Anniversary

Here are the July 2018 judge anniversaries!

15 years

from Manchester, United States
from Aberdeenshire, Scotland
from Leon, Spain

10 years

from Vancouver, Canada
from Zaragoza, Spain
from Weesp, Netherlands
from Bethhlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
from Marlton, New Jersey, United States
from Tacoma, Washington, United States
from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
from Spokane valley, Washington, United States
from Espoo, Finland
from Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), Spain
from Bremerton, Washington, United States
from Minsk, Belarus
from Hachiouji-shi, Japan
from Palmerston North, New Zealand
from Roanoke, Virginia, United States
from Durham, North Carolina, United States

5 years

from Merced, California, United States
from Scituate, Massachusetts, United States
from Griffin, Georgia, United States
from Augusta, Maine, United States
from Barcelona, Spain
from Barcelona, Spain
from West Jordan, United States
from Westbrook, Maine, United States
from Saint Petersburg, Russia
from miami, Florida, United States
from Lexington, Kentucky, United States
from louisville, Kentucky, United States
from Tampa, Florida, United States
from Louisville, United States
from Nothglenn, Colorado, United States
from Durham, North Carolina, United States
from Louisville, Kentucky, United States
from Louisville, United States
from Louisville, Kentucky, United States
from Heraklion, Greece
from Alvesta, Sweden
from Jacksonville, United States
from New Albany, United States
from Jacksonville, United States
from NULL, NULL, Florida, United States
from Shanghai, China
from West Newton, Massachusetts, United States
from Seattle, Washington, United States
from Leiden, Netherlands
from Shanghai, China
from Johannesburg, South Africa
from Neuquen, Argentina
from valencia, Spain
from Heraklion, Greece
from Sendai-shi, Japan
from Moscow, Russia
from Oslo, Norway
from Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States
from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States
from Bloomington, Illinois, United States
from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
from San Fernando (Cádiz), Spain
from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
from Deltona, Florida, United States
from Port Alberni, Canada
from Washington, District of Columbia, United States
from North Port, Florida, United States
from Zagreb, Croatia
from Vaxjo, Sweden
from Sarasota, Florida, United States
from FL, Florida, United States
from Montréal, Canada
from London, United Kingdom
from Baytown, Texas, United States
from Seattle, Washington, United States
from Bangkok, Thailand
from Wavre, Belgium
from East Moline, Illinois, United States
from Leawood, United States
from Parkville, Maryland, United States
from Overland Park, Kansas, United States
from Titusville, Florida, United States
from Hong Kong, Hong Kong
from Gaaden, Austria
from HK, Hong Kong
from Delft, Netherlands
from Nanterre, France
from Bolivar, Missouri, United States
from Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
from Leon, Mexico
from Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
from Shizuoka, Japan
from Waterloo, Canada
from warsaw, Poland
from stearns, Kentucky, United States
from Brisbane, Australia
from Skopje, Macedonia
from Dallas, Texas, United States
from Beijing, China
from Redding, California, United States
from Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
from Bellingham, Washington, United States
from Amarillo, Texas, United States
from Cuenca, Spain
from Rinkerode, Germany
from Boston, Massachusetts, United States
from Baltimore, Maryland, United States
from Lindenhurst, New York, United States
from Westbury, New York, United States
from Lenexa, Kansas, United States
from Bandung, Indonesia
from Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
from The Colony, Texas, United States
from Bandung, Indonesia
from White Plains, New York, United States
from Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
from Anniston, Alabama, United States
from Queretaro, Mexico
from San Leandro, California, United States
from Dallas, Texas, United States
from Huntsville, Alabama, United States
from Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
from garfield, New Jersey, United States
from Washington, District of Columbia, United States
from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
from San Francisco, CA, California, United States

Congratulations, and thank you for all your hard work!

Supporting from the ground up

This month we are featuring 4 judges: Keith Boyle, Salvatore La Terra, Rob McKenzie, and Scott Marshall. First, we’ll celebrate Keith’s 5 years in the judge program with his RC, :

Keith is unique in that he’s a store owner and tournament organizer who also happens to love judging. I’m sure his original motivation for L1 was to help ensure his store events would always have a judge available – but then, a funny thing happened. He did a few events and discovered he was good at it, and really enjoyed it. Since then, he’s judged at GPs, and pursued (and achieved!) L2 (with more than just a little bit of urging from other locals, myself included).

One of the things I find exceptional about Keith – even though he could, as an L2, simply “monopolize” his own events, he doesn’t – quite the opposite, in fact. Keith is heavily invested in growing new judges, including donating space in his store for judge conferences, as well as bringing in newer judges and letting them run events under his gentle guidance.

A leader’s leader

This month, we have another trio of Level 3 anniversaries. First, we recognize Salvatore La Terra for 5 years as Level 3. Italian RC, , shared these thoughts:

“Salvatore has always been our ‘rules guru’ even when he wasn’t L3. In the last 5 years though he has become more and more the reference for L1s, L2s and players for every rule and policy doubts. He takes care of giving the official answers on our local social media groups and to present the difficult rule situations on the other Italian L3s searching for consistency.

Salvatore is active and available every day for rules consultation, he helped me with the 2017 L1 and L2 renewal creating tests and making sure everybody took them on time.

In coordination with the other Italian l3, he has been leading the project ‘L3 candidates’ which helped the Italian Community to have currently 9 active L3s. I’m extremely happy and proud to have him next to me leading the Italian and Maltese Judge Community.”

Almost Canada

Next, we’ll hear from US – Central Regional Coordinator, . He had these thoughts to share about Rob McKenzie for his 5-year L3 anniversary:

“When I first started my work as a Regional Coordinator, one of my first Grand Prix events in the role took me to what is affectionately now known as GP: Hoth. Apart from seeing just how cold Lincoln, Nebraska can be in February, a very important introduction and a one-on-one conversation took place at that event, one that would change my life for the better.

I met Rob McKenzie, the man who would be the Riker to my Picard in the Midwest, eventually elevate to his own role as Regional Coordinator alongside me, become one of my closest friends and read at my wedding this past September. In hindsight, that Grand Prix was a very important event.

Over several years, we became close friends and partners in crime in the Judge Program. Rob had been a strong judge and a leader of sorts in his area for years, but when he was promoted to Level 3, Rob really began to broaden his horizons in terms of the scope of his work and the positive impact he could bring to the organization. I believe that a combination of working with Steve Port and Legion Events for a period of time along with working alongside me in helping manage the mega-Midwest region helped Rob sharpen his skills, explore new ideas, and realize that there are ways he uniquely can contribute to helping us do what we do better globally as a program.

An immediate symbol that comes to mind are the Exemplar tokens – a special, very Magic-like way of delivering positive feedback to individuals. That product started just within his region, growing in popularity and desirability over time, to the point where judges in many other regions also wanted to have that done for them. He researched and championed the cause, refining it over time, yet always making it open for feedback and available to anyone who wanted to play with it as well. That small, regional-centric gesture has grown into a global project and icon of excellence in performance – the manifestation of a driven leader with an idea that broadly supports what we do.

Much like the person who started the project to begin with.”

Uncle Scott

Finally, had this to say about Scott Marshall to celebrate his 15 years as a L3 judge:

“15 years as L3+ is an incredible accomplishment. In my relatively short judge career, I’ve been lucky to work alongside Scott the entire time. Scott was my first GP HJ (GP Calgary 2014!) and was one of the primary motivators for me to not only continue judging, but to level up all the way to level 3. I’ve seen Scott provide this individualized level of support to countless judges and his dedication to the growth of the program has never wavered.

Scott has head judged over 20 GPs and a couple PTs, yet he remains easily accessible to other judges and remains to be one of the best communicators in the program. In fact, Scott is consistently seen hanging out with judges of various backgrounds and levels. Seeing him make the effort to get to know all parts of the judge program proves to me that he cares about our community. This is even further realized through Scott’s temporary-and-then-permanent role as RC. He quickly stepped into the role and easily adopted all of the responsibilities. One of the most notable contributions as RC that goes publicly unrecognized is how often Scott nominates and writes features for the Judge Anniversaries project. Every month, Scott recognizes judges behind the scenes and is always willing to put pen on paper to write about his region.

Scott and I have gone out for a drink quite a few times during our judge careers; I hope the tradition continues for many years to come. 🙂 Congrats on 15 years as L3 and thanks for being such a prominent part of our community!”

Best wishes to all three of these fine judges for their years of service as Level 3 judges!

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

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