{"id":2571,"date":"2019-08-01T02:56:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2019-08-29T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:36:13","slug":"europe-east-highlights-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2019\/08\/01\/europe-east-highlights-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe East Highlights \u2013 July 2019"},"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>Remember back when I told you 2019 will be &#8220;the year of changes&#8221;? Well, after changes to organized play, new\u00a0Judge Uniform Guidelines and an update to the Magic Judge Code (to name a few) here comes Judge Academy and is all like &#8220;Hold my beer&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s break this down:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/the-next-era-of-magic-judging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Era of Magic Judging<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2019\/07\/29\/future-of-judge-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future of the Judge Program<\/a>, The Judge Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/judgeacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judgeacademy.com\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAQ<\/a>\u00a0(if you only read one thing, this is the most informative article), and specifically for our region &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2019\/07\/29\/the-road-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Road Ahead<\/a>.<br \/>\nFurther reading can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/magicTCG\/comments\/cjihdd\/ama_with_judge_academy_answering_questions_730_at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMA with Judge Academy<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn addition to all of the above, on August 9th there will be a Program Coordinator AMA where you can post your concerns and questions.<\/li>\n<li><em>As a personal note from me &#8211; We have a rather long grace period before this change comes into effect. Some will praise it, some will be entirely against it, most will fall somewhere in the middle. Since this will eventually require you to spend hundreds of dollars in fees, I strongly suggest you do your own research and decide if this is worthwhile to you rather than blindly go by what several others are saying.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Exemplar Wave 18 closes on Tuesday August 13th. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/exemplar-wave-18-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This will be the last wave for some time<\/a>, and your last chance to recognize exemplary fellow judges.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/telliott\/2019\/07\/08\/policy-changes-for-core-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy Changes for Core 2020<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/articles\/archive\/competitive-gaming\/july-magic-tournament-rules-release-notes-2019-07-08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July tournament rules release notes<\/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\/7318755684' >Gur Rotem<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=7318755684&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\/2107083607' >David Shor<span class=\"judge-tooltip\"><\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=2107083607&size=200'><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Europe \u2013 East fall conference of 2019 will take place\u00a0August 31st at\u00a0Belgrade, Serbia.\u00a0You can apply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/11713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0until August 3rd.\u00a0It will probably be our last activity as a formal region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEATURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exemplar wave 17 feature for this month is <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2019\/07\/10\/exemplar-wave-17-features-uri-hershkovitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uri Hershkovitz<\/a>.<\/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 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Future of the Magic Judge Program, and us.<br \/>\nThe 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-2571","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\/2571","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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2625"}],"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=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}