{"id":82,"date":"2015-12-14T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=82"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:57:29","slug":"qatar-united-arab-emirates-and-kuwait-now-part-of-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2015\/12\/14\/qatar-united-arab-emirates-and-kuwait-now-part-of-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait now part of the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/uae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/uae-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"uae\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/uae-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/uae-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/uae.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It is not a secret that Magic is flourishing on\u00a0our little planet. This not only affects the developed countries, but also the developing ones. Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait show an impressive tournament\u00a0development, hosting big PTQs and 60 player PPTQs.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the judge community \u00a0also followed through. Our region contributed to it since we sent an ambassador, who\u00a0certified 3 Level 1s and created\u00a0bonds of mentorship and friendship; thank you <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/0' >David Gutesa<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=0&size=200'><\/span><\/span>. Furthermore, the area was blessed to have one of the more active L3 moving there, <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/88191508' >David de la Iglesia<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=88191508&size=200'><\/span><\/span> (DLI) who\u00a0took it upon himself \u00a0to create an excellent judge crew. Now the area has\u00a0eight Level 1s, three Level 2s and one Level 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/Qatar-West-Bay-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/Qatar-West-Bay-view-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Qatar-West-Bay-view\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/Qatar-West-Bay-view-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/Qatar-West-Bay-view-1024x593.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> With all those stats it was apparent that this part of the world could not stay without the protection of a region and a regional coordinator much longer. There were a lot of back and forth, bras de fer if you like and underground politics, but at the end we won! Our region is already multicultural and it has proven that is inclusive, so it is a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/kuwait-tower-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"kuwait-tower\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/kuwait-tower-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2015\/12\/kuwait-tower-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Thus\u00a0I would like to welcome\u00a0Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait as the 14th, 15th and 16th country respectively. They all already added in the judge apps and in the next couple of days we will update wiki, mothership and facebook group to include them as well.<\/p>\n<p>Should you need to know more about our newest countries I suggest DLI&#8217;s excellent post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/dli\/2015\/12\/14\/middle-east-countries-now-part-of-the-europe-east-region\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait as the 14th, 15th and 16th countries of the Europe-East region!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[60,58,59],"language":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-kuwait","tag-qatar","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}