{"id":1596,"date":"2017-04-01T00:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-04-01T23:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:35:35","slug":"europe-east-highlights-march-2oi7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/01\/europe-east-highlights-march-2oi7\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 March 2OI7 (April fools)"},"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>From now on Highlights will be published on the 1st of every month.<\/li>\n<li>Judge Center <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/introducing-the-new-judge-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">bites the dust<\/a>. Submit all your investigations through Judge Apps.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/organized-play\/future-grand-prix-2018-and-beyond-2017-03-09\" target=\"_blank\">changes in GPs<\/a> next year, our region will be having a Grand Prix in 2018, courtesy of &#8220;ChannelFireball Events&#8221;! Acting as Head Judge will be <span lang=\"EN-US\"><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/49197774' >Giorgos Trichopoulos<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=49197774&size=200'><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Exact date, location and format TBD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/6769\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe East Summer Conference<\/a> of 2017 will be taking place during the weekend of June 30th, in Varna, Bulgaria. Be sure to apply to it before May 29th. UPDATE: New Judge foil support will include Spark Ghast, Elderbeast &amp; Elven blade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ADVANCEMENTS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to his increasing responsibilities as head of the Social Media Sphere, <span lang=\"EN-US\"> <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/88191508' >DLI<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=88191508&size=200'><\/span><\/span><\/span> will be leaving us to back to Spain, where he can better co-lead (with head of the Technology Sphere) the implementation of an upcoming proffesional social media network for judges, which will be called <em>Judg&#8217;in<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Some new L1s have been certified by some L2s.<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Because of the use of the term &#8220;Country coordinator&#8221; and not the official &#8220;Area Captain&#8221;, WOTC got angry and demoted all <del>Country coordinators<\/del> Area Captains to Level 1.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We debute exemplar wave 8 features with the one and only, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1USXA3h\" target=\"_blank\">Chiy onosake<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this April&#8217;s highlights edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:140%\">Europe East Highlights \u2013 March 2017<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1658"}],"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=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}