Recognizing Excellence
Written by Kim Warren Level 4, United Kingdom Hey guys. Just a quick post to update you on the status of the mailings associated with Exemplar Wave 2. Thank you to everyone who provided us with their address information in a timely fashion; I’ve sent that entire list onto Wizards of the Coast this morning. […]
Written by Kim Warren Level 4, United Kingdom The dust has started settling after the Modern Masters 2015 weekend, and judges are starting to have the time to focus on other things. With such a large proportion of the world’s judges having been involved in this weekend in one way or another, there will have been […]
Hello everyone. I just thought that I would pop in to reassure you that we are working on how we are going to handle the wave two foil mailings, as well as reviewing the data of program use so far over the first couple of waves to decide what changes we are planning to make […]
Things have taken a bit longer than we expected as we ironed out bugs in the review systems and got all the code in place for the public review viewing (and once again, I cannot thank the inestimable enough for all the time and effort he has put into getting everything set up in this […]
Exemplar Wave 2 is now closed. In total, 2077 recognitions have been submitted in this wave (meaning that about 60% of all available slots were used), so thank you to everyone who took the time to write a message for judges who they had seen demonstrating inspiring or exemplary behaviour. The next stage in this […]
Apparently , quite a number of judges had problems with submitting their Exemplar recommendations as they had assumed that the window closed at midnight CST and so missed it closing at midnight GMT. As many other things on judge apps operate on CST (event applications in particular), we’ve decided to reopen the window for two […]
As you may now have realised through the miracle of social media, the mailings associated with the first Exemplar wave have started to be received by recognised judges in the US. All of the mailings were sent at the same time and as such they will take a little longer to get to other parts […]
I’m pleased to announce that all of the technical issues that delayed the first wave of Exemplar have now been resolved, and that foils will soon be on their way to judges recognised within that wave. Which means that everything is in place to get things started to wave 2! Wave 1 was advertised as […]
Hey everyone. Due to some technical issues linked to the recent Wizards database changes, there’s been some delay in terms of getting the Exemplar wave 1 mail out sorted. I’ve been hearing that some judges have been voicing concerns that the delay on this front indicates that the program has been abandoned, so I just […]