Country Coordinators – Redefinition

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A large group of people coordinated under a single non-delegating leader will face challenges of leadership accessibility. Country Coordinators are available to their local judges in order to provide this accessibility to the regional leadership. Country Coordinators exist as a channel for regional communication both up and downstream.

What is a Country Coordinator?
Country Coordinator is a leadership role within the region. Country Coordinators connect judge candidates with mentors, help stores with staffing judges, and are local experts who observe the progress of Organized Play in their area, providing assessment of local judges.

What don’t Country Coordinators do?
Country Coordinators don’t have to solve all problems themselves. They help people connect with other people. They aren’t responsible for certifying or mentoring everyone themselves.

Country Coordinators don’t arbitrate disputes between stores, judges, players, or Wizards of the Coast. These issues should be communicated to the Regional Coordinator. If you would rather be anonymous, or the issue is with the Regional Coordinator himself, the Magic Judge Feedback Form is available.

1. Expectations
Within their countries Country Coordinators are expected to actively:

  • Be a communication channel between local communities and the regional leadership.
  • Coordinate and allocate resources for judge training, mentorship, and for L1 certification, documenting data on progress of local communities.
  • Facilitate premier event staffing helping TOs securing judges.
  • Facilitate and support training and testing of new Level 2s.

2. Additional, optional activities
As part of their role Country Coordinators will be invited to:

  • Participate in online regional meetings.
  • Provide feedback on local judges.
  • Provide support in organizing local judge conferences.

3. Benefits
For their efforts the Country Coordinators gain:

  • Bragging rights 🙂
  • Invitation to the leadership conference
  • The satisfaction that you contribute in improving our region.
  • Increased chances to be recognized.
  • Increased opportunities to be staffed for major events.

4. Countries
In order to get an improved management of the region’s resources there is to be a Country Coordinator for each of the following countries or group of countries:

  • Bulgaria and Macedonia (9 judges)
  • Croatia (20 judges)
  • Greece and Cyprus (35 judges)
  • Israel (9 judges)
  • Romania (14 judges)
  • Serbia (14 judges)
  • Slovenia (19 judges)
  • Turkey (11 judges)
  • UAE, Qatar and Kuwait (12 judges)

For the time being Georgi Benev will become the Country Coordinator for Bulgaria and Macedonia. We want to thank Vladimir Trajcevski for his efforts in Macedonia, and also for being supportive and understanding of this change.

5. Membership
We think this is a great opportunity to bring new faces to the Country Coordinators group. We will be publishing this redefinition and open applications for L2s to be Country Coordinators in a few days. In the future we will be reopening Country Coordinator applications approximately every 18 months.

We want to recruit new blood into the local leadership, and allow some of our top L2s to have the chance to step forward. The idea here is for the L3s to focus on developing the philosophies and structure for the region, while highly skilled and active L2s take care of the day to day tasks for local communities. It is because of this that we discourage L3s to apply to be Country Coordinator.