{"id":1207,"date":"2016-11-11T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2016-12-11T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:38:40","slug":"europe-east-highlights-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/11\/11\/europe-east-highlights-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights &#8211; October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-454\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2016\/02\/europeeasthighlights2-150x150.png\" alt=\"europeeasthighlights2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2016\/02\/europeeasthighlights2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2016\/02\/europeeasthighlights2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Dear East European Judges,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the first edition of monthly highlights in our region, meant to sum up everything interesting and relevant that has happened here over the last month. <br style=\"clear: both; height: 1px; margin: -1px 0pt 0pt; overflow: hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interested in becoming L2? Check out our latest resource, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/l2-candidate-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\">L2 Candidate FAQ<\/a> by <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/4208070180' >Jernej Lipovec<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=4208070180&size=200'><\/span><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Already L2? You can apply as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/announcing-the-level-2-tester-certification\/\" target=\"_blank\">Level 2 Tester<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re L1 and would like a Name Badge (those cool little tags that judges are wearing) then fill out <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdAy5ct64-0vETc0p-eB-3c0aZ4_LTZ29i1G76A4lgAsmGP9w\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">This form<\/a> <em>by November 14th<\/em>. Wotc will not honour all requests, so please offer a good reason for having one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep an eye out for the first GP of the year in our area: Grand Prix Limited Prague (January 27\u201329, 2017). Application window should open soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also keep an eye out for the Europe-East winter conference of 2017. More information about it will be published later this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>L1 <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/9102757865' >Elli Eirini Osmantzikidou<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=9102757865&size=200'><\/span><\/span> tells us about judging her first <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/10\/22\/pptq-report-thessaloniki\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPTQ in Thessaloniki<\/a>, Greece.<\/li>\n<li>L1 <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/19318586' >Uri Hershkovitz<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=19318586&size=200'><\/span><\/span> shares his experiences from judging the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/11\/01\/kaladesh-pre-release-report-freak-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaladesh Pre-Release at &#8220;Freak&#8221;<\/a>, Tel-Aviv, Israel.<\/li>\n<li>L1 <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/5102519152' >Albert Jove Franco<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=5102519152&size=200'><\/span><\/span> was up late, judging a midnight <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/forum\/topic\/30663\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaladesh Pre-Release at &#8220;Battlezone&#8221;<\/a>, Dubai, UAE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking back on exemplar wave 6, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/69254907' >Georgi Benev<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=69254907&size=200'><\/span><\/span> explains how well <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/10\/11\/exemplar-wave-6-the-europe-east-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\">our region did<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Notable exemplar wave 6 features in our region during the past month include: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/10\/18\/exemplar-wave-6-features-elli-eirini-osmantzikidou\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elli Eirini Osmantzikidou<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/10\/26\/exemplar-wave-6-features-milos-perovic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Milos Perovic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/11\/01\/exemplar-wave-6-features-theodoros-millidonis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theodoros Millidonis<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/11\/10\/exemplar-wave-6-features-yakup-cakmak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yakup \u00c7akmak.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:140%\">Europe East Highlights \u2013 October 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe sum of everything interesting and relevant that has happened in our region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}