Written by Bryan Prillaman Level 3, Orlando FL, USA Hi Everybody! If you haven’t already read the announcements from Wizards of the Coast, Judge Academy, or the PCs, go ahead and do that now. You are going to need that context for this blog post to make sense. The announcement of the new Judge Academy […]
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Wave 17 is live and Vanguard Preview
Written by Bryan Prillaman Level 3, Orlando FL, USA Hello all, The Spring 2019 Exemplar Wave (Wave #17) is published and available for your perusal. The Wave 17 review is complete and the nominations are posted on Judgeapps! You can see nominations you gave and received here or use the search tool to see all […]
Wave 15 Exemplar Vanguard Token Creation Video
Three weeks ago, we announced that Alistair Crook would be the Vanguard for Wave 15. For this wave, Alistair selected a Goblin as his creature of choice. The token art was created by Ken Meyer Jr. Ken has drawn several Magic Cards including the OG Kird Ape. For this waves tokens we have an unexpected treat. Ken […]
Exemplar Community Survey #1
Written by Daniel Solé Garcia/Bryan Prillaman Hello everybody! Wave 15 closing on Tuesday. (Originally Monday, but there were some inconsistent announcements, so we moved it in line with the latest published date.) In the Exemplar Program, we are constantly looking for new ways to engage the Judge Program. Sometimes its articles on one of the […]
Exemplar Fall 2017 Update
Written by Bryan Prillaman Level 3, United States, Florida Hello all, Welcome to the latest update post for Exemplar. It’s been a while so let’s dive in. In Wave 9, we announced an experiment. Instead of contacting authors for revisions of nominations that were “close”, we instead spent the time writing emails to tell […]
An Exemplar Retrospective
We have completed an arbitrary cycle around the sun, and that seems to be a perfectly arbitrary time to do a retrospective. When I made a post on Facebook asking if there were any topics people wanted to cover, the three most frequently requested topics were: 1) Do I think Exemplar is meeting its goals? 2) How do I respond to criticisms on Exemplar? 3) MOAR METRICS PLZ
Exemplar Wave 2 – Deadline Extension to 23:59 GMT March 2nd
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 […]
We haven’t forgotten you!
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 […]