{"id":2307,"date":"2018-11-01T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2019-01-01T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T23:11:07","slug":"europe-east-highlights-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/11\/01\/europe-east-highlights-october-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 October 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><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/10\/01\/introducing-our-new-regional-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuval Tzur is the new Europe \u2013 East Regional Coordinator<\/a> (and consequently, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/10\/16\/announcing-uri-hershkovitz-is-the-new-cc-for-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uri Hershkovitz is the new CC for Israel<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/10\/31\/saudi-arabia-now-part-of-the-europe-east-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Arabia now [O]fficially part of our region<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Everything Ravnica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/feature\/guilds-ravnica-release-notes-2018-09-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ftw\/2018\/10\/12\/guilds-of-ravnica-new-set-digest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Set digest<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2018\/10\/01\/policy-changes-for-guilds-of-ravnica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy Changes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/draftable.com\/compare\/pkquDNyNlyKO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MTR differences<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/draftable.com\/compare\/HbkTWQhtiHxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPG\u00a0differences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfbevents.com\/2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier event schedule for 2019<\/a> <del>GPs<\/del> MagicFests is up.<\/li>\n<li>You can delve in deeper to &#8220;the year of changes&#8221; and read about changes on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/forum\/topic\/46187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staffing for MagicFest<\/a>, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/competitive-gaming\/2019-schedules-pro-tour-qualifying-and-magicfest-2018-10-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualifying for Pro Tours<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2018\/10\/04\/statement-on-pro-tour-qualifying-system-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program Coordinators statement<\/a> regarding these future changes.<\/li>\n<li>Exemplar Wave 15 is open until Nov 20th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexdapapa.george\/posts\/10217169086329315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pictures<\/a> from our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/10081\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Europe East Fall Conference<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ADVANCEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"judge-tooltip\"><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/6115686637' >Evan Ketsetzis<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=6115686637&size=200'><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0has been certified as L1s by\u00a0<span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/9102757862' >Alexander Papageorgiou<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=9102757862&size=200'><\/span><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exemplar wave 14 features for this month include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/10\/05\/exemplar-wave-14-features-christian-gawrilowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Gawrilowicz<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2018\/10\/22\/exemplar-wave-14-features-xenofon-spanoudis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xenofon Spanoudis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this month&#8217;s highlights edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bChanges in regional leadership, Ravnica information, MagicFest in 2019, and conference recap<\/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-2307","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\/2307","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=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2349"}],"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=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}