Hello everyone!

Starting with Wave 3 we will be featuring some highlights of the Exemplar nominations received by judges in our region.

Stay tuned to this blog or to the Europe-East Magic Judges Facebook group to read more features, today we present…

Yakup Çakmak

Yakup is an L2 from Izmir and is currently the Country Coordinator for Turkey. He started playing in 2004 while still in high school and began organizing tournaments when Izmir’s small community was about to disassemble after his graduation. A short time later he decided to certify as a judge, and since then he’s been a driving force for Magic-related activity throughout Turkey.

Yakup received 3 nominations on Wave 3, let’s have a look at them.

Balkan Cilingir had this to say about Yakup:
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“Yakup, thank you for stepping up and taking responsibility for organizing the first Judge conference in Turkey.

Thanks to your organization skills we had a smooth conference. You handled all the details and also have quickly solved any emerging problems like our ride back to Istanbul canceling the deal but you were able to find another bus to take us without any delays to the previously made plans.

“Thank you again for the nice memories and I hope to see you organize many more conferences in Turkey.”[/cets_callout_box]

Giorgos Trichopoulos had this to say about Yakup:

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants. Thank you Yakup for taking care of Turkey, and being part of our skype meetings :)”[/cets_callout_box]

Zohar Finkel had this to say about Yakup:

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“Yakup, while far from perfect, your organizing of our 2015 summer conference introduced new elements such as a bus ride from the air-ports and conference T-shirts.

Those little things improve the overall experience of those events and even set higher standards for judge conferences worldwide. This kind of creativity is most welcome in the judge program.”[/cets_callout_box]

Congratulations Yakup, an impressive achievement!