{"id":1626,"date":"2017-05-01T00:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2017-06-19T04:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T01:55:17","slug":"europe-east-highlights-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/05\/01\/europe-east-highlights-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 April 2017"},"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 Wave 9 is only open for 3 more days.<\/li>\n<li>The Amonkhet set brings with it\u00a0the obligatory <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2017\/04\/24\/policy-changes-for-amonkhet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy changes<\/a>, notably on dealing with <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/amonkhet-split-card-rules-changes-2017-04-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split cards<\/a>, and for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2017\/04\/27\/how-to-think-about-the-new-combat-shortcut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">combat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/april-24-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-04-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New bans<\/a> (and an even <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/addendum-april-24-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-04-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newer ban<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/organized-play\/ixalan-worlds-pro-tour-nationals-and-rptqs-2017-04-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big updates<\/a> on the next set &amp; upcoming premier events, including Nationals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/6769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ADVANCEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/68333407' >Omri Singer<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=68333407&size=200'><\/span><\/span><\/span> has been certified as L1s by <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/89137901' >Yuval Tzur<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=89137901&size=200'><\/span><\/span> in Israel.<\/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\/3082873296' >George Theologitis<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=3082873296&size=200'><\/span><\/span> celebrates an impressive 15 years in the judge programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This month&#8217;s exemplar wave 8 features include <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/05\/exemplar-wave-8-features-saagar-laxman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saagar Laxman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/13\/exemplar-wave-8-features-mihai-birsan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mihai B\u00eersan<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/19\/exemplar-wave-8-features-yuval-tzur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuval Tzur<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\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> writes all about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/11\/exemplar-metrics-europe-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exemplar Metrics<\/a> of our region.<\/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 April 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":[106],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1626","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\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1727"}],"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=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}