{"id":1362,"date":"2017-01-11T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:08:14","slug":"europe-east-highlights-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/01\/11\/europe-east-highlights-december-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 December 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 another 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>Examplar <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wave-8-opens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wave 8<\/a> is open for your submissions until the end of the month (January 31st).<\/li>\n<li><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/38173682' >Zohar Finkel<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=38173682&size=200'><\/span><\/span> has written a series of articles, which deal with common threads found at new sets FAQs. You can read all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/12\/17\/release-notes-extravaganza-1-targets-tapping-and-exile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Release Notes Extravaganza<\/a> (Parts <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/12\/27\/release-notes-extravaganza-2-combat-damage-and-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">#2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/12\/31\/release-notes-extravaganza-3-triggers-and-casting-spells\/\" target=\"_blank\">#3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/01\/06\/release-notes-extravaganza-4-copies-and-tokens\/\" target=\"_blank\">#4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/01\/10\/release-notes-extravaganza-5-cherry-picking\/\" target=\"_blank\">#5<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>More on release notes, the ones for <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/feature\/aether-revolt-release-notes-2017-01-06\" target=\"_blank\">Aether Revolt<\/a> are out. Enjoy the Prerelease this weekend.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve missed it &#8211; Big changes in standard, modern, and the frequency of the <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/january-9-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-01-09\" target=\"_blank\">banned and restricted<\/a> list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a reminder, the <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/6769\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe East Winter Conference<\/a> of 2017 will be taking place during the weekend of February 3rd-5th, at Athens, Greece.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ANNIVERSARIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/39165179' >Mitja Bosnic<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=39165179&size=200'><\/span><\/span> is celebrating 5 years in the judge programs. You can read more about it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/anniversaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">anniversaries blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To round up exemplar wave 6 features we&#8217;ve gathered numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2016\/12\/14\/exemplar-wave-6-features-l1s\/\" target=\"_blank\">L1s from our region<\/a> which had been recognized. Congratulations <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/5213594611' >Lily Chen<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=5213594611&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, <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>, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/8300228738' >Deniz Aksoy<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=8300228738&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/4105369086' >Mario Ampov<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=4105369086&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/5300210496' >Jakov Cavka<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=5300210496&size=200'><\/span><\/span> and last but not least <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/5029137058' >Boris Vukovic<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=5029137058&size=200'><\/span><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Stay tuned for our features for exemplar Wave 7!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this month&#8217;s highlights edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:140%\">Europe East Highlights \u2013 December 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-1362","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\/1362","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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1461"}],"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=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}