{"id":2208,"date":"2018-08-01T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T22:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2018-09-02T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:02:25","slug":"europe-east-highlights-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/08\/01\/europe-east-highlights-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 July 2018"},"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>Exemplar Wave 14 is open until Aug 15th.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2018\/07\/09\/policy-changes-for-m19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M19 Policy Changes<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_ipg_13jul18_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wpn.wizards.com\/sites\/wpn\/files\/attachements\/mtg_mtr_13jul18_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MTR<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/news\/core-set-2019-comprehensive-rules-changes-2018-07-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>L2? <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2018\/07\/29\/changes-to-the-level-2-tester-certification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changes to the Level 2 Tester Certification<\/a> and to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2018\/07\/29\/changes-to-the-team-leader-certification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L2 Team Leader Certification<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/10081\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Europe East Fall Conference<\/a> of 2018 will be taking place Oct 12-14 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/13bYmAGN6qTNMER0w-FYElxTChFYBvbMA3cucAauuBXE\/edit#slide=id.p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel guide<\/a>, or click <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfb3TWrIb6AKX_ByA15146KiYgIeCY6CoMsrVHG0os-2gre0A\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re inteested in presenting.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/10100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israeli conference<\/a> will be held on Sep 1st, and will include English seminars in case non-Hebrew speakers attend.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romanian conference<\/a> on Sep 9th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ANNIVERSARIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/9212357758' >Giannis Papadakis<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=9212357758&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/1074553' >George Kallergis<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=1074553&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/1208189939' >Kre\u0161imir \u0160tefani\u0107<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=1208189939&size=200'><\/span><\/span> and <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/92882799' >Scarface<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=92882799&size=200'><\/span><\/span> &#8211; all celebrated 5 years in the judge programs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exemplar wave 13 features for this month include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/07\/11\/exemplar-wave-13-features-martina-eva-tonkovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martina Eva Tonkovi\u0107<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/07\/26\/exemplar-wave-13-features-zohar-finkel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zohar Finkel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\"><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><\/span> has been featured as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/zohar-finkel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge of the week<\/a>.<span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/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 July 2018<\/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-2208","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\/2208","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=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2213"}],"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=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}