Exemplar 1 - USA - Northwest - The Exemplar Program

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To Anson Miyamoto, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riki Hayashi, L3	Anson, thank you for taking the lead on another round of Judge Classes in Portland. This round of recognitions had to go out before the classes finished, but I’m sure that we’ll be welcoming many new L1s to the Judge Program thanks to your initiative to get these going. -Riki
To Christian Oliveros, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by John Carter, L3	Christian was planning to attend PAX as a civilian, but a last minute change required extra hands. Christian changed his weekend completely and gave up many of his personal plans to help make PAX as awesome as possible.
To Dan Collins, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Scott Marshall, L5	Dan, you continue to make an effort to help other judges learn & understand, through your posts on the Judge Apps forums. I appreciate what you’re doing, and think it’s Exemplary that you put in the extra effort like this. There’s a lot of judges in the program looking to learn from each other, and judges like you, sharing their knowledge, are a key part of that!
To David Miller, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by John Carter, L3	David has put many hours of effort into bringing the Seattle community together at special judge gatherings. His start at Wizards meant he had to hand off those duties which he did with grace.
To Emily Blasdell, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by John Carter, L3	Emily is heavily engaged in the Seattle community and has lately been taking her time to help a new LGS get their events sanctioned, to run their events, and to train the store staff how to sanction and run events on their own.
To Greg Peloquin, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by John Carter, L3	Greg Peloquin’s work with Elizabeth Peotter has significantly improved the Seattle/Tacoma regional community. One example of Greg and Liz’s drive to a better community is an area event to raise funds for Mariah Boehm’s care resulting in significant help to the family.
To Henry Davis, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by James Do Hung LEE, L3	Your work up on Lake City Way has not gone unnoticed. Even though you ended up at college in Seattle, you are still fulfilling your goal of establishing community. Thank you!
To James Do Hung Lee, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Tasha Hayashi, L3	James, I wanted to recognize you for your impact on judges around the Northwest as you’ve stepped back into an active Grand Prix judging role. After both GP Portland and GP Salt Lake City, I heard from a lot of people that they had excellent conversations with you about judging and policy, and that working with you has really renewed and deepened their own interest in judging. Thank you and keep up the inspiration!
To Jeffrey Higgins, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Federico Donner, L3	Travelling for events and meeting again with friends is exciting but I don’t think there is another judge that transmits it as you. I love attending events with you because I know that I will catch a bit of that excitement and pure emotion. Even your posts on social media show this. Keep it up!
To Jeffrey Higgins, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	For opening your home and accepting a burden and responsibility that go above and beyond. But more importantly for learning some big lessons from that experience.
To Jeremy Behunin, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riki Hayashi, L3	Jeremy, welcome to RCship. You have long been a great advisor to me when I was RC, which is why I am confident that you will do a great job at this. You were already the RC for the Mountain Area, and this is just a confirmation of that. -Riki
To Jon Pust, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	For being an active community leader and providing growth opportunities and encouragement.
To Katie Neal, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	Great work organizing the events calendar for Montana and getting people organized there.
To Kyle Knudson, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by James Do Hung LEE, L3	Despite how busy you were running PAX and GPs Portland and Salt Lake, I saw and heard from multiple judges that you gave pointed and meaningful feedback to judges.
To Kyle Knudson, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by John Carter, L3	Most anyone who has ever worked with Kyle should readily recognize his awesomeness. His ability to handle many simultaneous problems while being efficient and pleasant is legendary. I almost included him in the L3 section because he is one regardless technicalities.
To Lisa Bieker, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riki Hayashi, L3	Lisa, thank you for your efforts to bring attention to the cause of feedback and reviews, both in personally writing reviews and encouraging others to do so. You wrote 3 reviews for the Portland Open, and reminded others to do so as well. Thank you! -Riki
To Meaghan Gallagher, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jared Sylva, L4	Meg, I wanted to congratulate you on your Head Judging the Standard Challenge at GP Portland. I know that the event was intimidating, but I saw great progress from start to finish and you made a big difference in player’s days. I am looking forward to more great things from you! Jared
To Nathan Long, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Daniel Kitachewsky, L4	Nathan, thank you for stepping into my shoes on the Rules list. I’ve been busy and you really helped me out.
To Nathan Wang, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by James Do Hung LEE, L3	In the short time since your certification, you have done so much to lead and create new Magic opportunities. Your work with the Team Panda Charity event was amazing. Too few people got the chance to see all the work you did behind the scenes. Thank you!
To Neil Pendon, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Carlos Ho, L4	Neil, You’re a great example of how an isolated Magic player can make a great difference in a small community. Even though things haven’t always been great in Guam or your personal life, you’ve been available to help grow it. I look forward to seeing you again!
To Neil Pendon, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Christian Gawrilowicz, L3	This recognition is for always wanting to improve himself and the community around him. Despite all issues and difficulties Neil made Level 2 and used this to help his local community grow. … And also another community that is quite far away. Thank you!
To Nicholas Fang, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Emilien WILD, L3	For your awesome blog www.whysogrumpy.com which give many insights on the job of scorekeepers, and suggestions of amelioration for judges on relation to this topic. This is a must read for everybody who want to improve.
To Nicholas Fang, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jared Sylva, L4	Nick, Your work with GPTS is essential to the success of future GPs and there is no one that I trust more to be in the room and come out with something functional. Thank you for being the front line on this. Jared
To Riki Hayashi, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	Exemplary leadership, dedication, persistence, and of course feedback.
To Scott Marshall, L5 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Kenji Suzuki, L3	I’m impressed by your great way to deal with various conversation in forums. In forum, words from L5 is very strong, but your comments always respect our opinion, so that your word are strong but soft. When I comment in my community as some unity leader, your way is really good example.
To Scott Marshall, L5 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riccardo Tessitori, L5	Hello Uncle, your friendly and wise approach makes people around you feel comfortable and willing to perform at their best. I wish many people could learn this quality from you. Thank you!Riccardo
To Scott Marshall, L5 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Ryan Stapleton, L3	For being part of the program and being the guy that made me want to be a certified judge.
To Scott Marshall, L5 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Teun Zijp, L3	For patiently, friendly, sternly, concisely, exhaustively, correctly, humble-y and humour-y enlightening and resolving threads for years now. Thank you Scott, for being the necessary [O] voice that still teaches me how to be diplomatic on a forum read by many.
To Scott Neiwert, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	As you have grown in the program so has Portland. Your desire to ensure everyone feels included in the community is an inspiration to us all. And then to make sure that all gets communicated to the appropriate people, outstanding. I’m hopeful you have the same effect on Boise.
To Scott Neiwert, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riki Hayashi, L3	Scott, on the eve of your departure from Portland, I want to tell you just how much your presence and leadership has meant to this community. You’ve pulled people together, reached out to new judges, and been the moral center of this city. You will be missed. -Riki
To Scott Neiwert, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Tasha Hayashi, L3	Scott, thank you for all of your investment into the Portland judge community, including your efforts across multiple series of judge classes to keep the classes focused and moving forward. In the time you’ve lived in Portland, you’ve had a tremendous impact on so many judges. We’ll all miss you as you move back to Boise, but it’s exciting to know that Idaho is gaining such a phenomenal resource.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Alfonso Bueno, L3	Thank you for your patience and good work on transmiting all the necessary information for this new foils system change.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by David Zimet, L3	Sean, you have one of the tougher jobs in the DCI, and one where it’s difficult to show concrete progress. As regards your work on the USC Major revision and other serious issues – I don’t always agree with your approach, but I respect the hell out of the seriousne
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Fabian Peck, L3	I’d like to recognise your work on exemplar, in particular the Q&A thread alongside the details of how the exemplar pilot. Open, honest prompt answers and the suite of information with nuts and bolts, philosophy and a dedicated place for Q&A was a great example of announcements done right.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Guillaume Beuzelin, L3	Sean is someone who deeply care of people. In all projects he is involved the human relationship is pretty important and he is not involved in this project by chance but because it’s his behavior.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jason Wong, L3	Every time we have a conversation about judging, you inspire me to improve myself. In my opinion, you are the most approachable HLJ in person, and it gives judges a lot of opportunity to learn from you.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Joe Wiesenberg, L3	Sean, I really envy your natural poise and always-calm demeanor. You’re one of the best examples in the program for how to interact with people respectfully and resolve disputes, and I wouldn’t even be writing this recommendation without your work.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Josh Stansfield, L3	Sean, I’ve always looked up to you as a pillar of the community and a role model. Thank you especially for your efforts in making sure Magic tournaments are comfortable and safe places for all attendees. Keep up the good work!
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Kevin Desprez, L5	Sean, Seeing you interacting with displeased-to-irritated players in Atlanta and Boston, I’ve been amazed by your social skills at defusing situations. There are so many things I’m now doing my best to use that I feel I grew as a judge and as a person thanks to you. Thanks a lot! Kevin.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Kim Warren, L4	You have been a calm voice educating people about so many of the recent program changes. Thank you for your efforts to help our community step forwards. Kim.
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Lems, L5	Sean: Thank you so much for stepping up during the rollout of the Exemplar Program. You assembled the pieces quickly and really helped it all come together. – Lems
To Sean Catanese, L4 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Shawn Doherty, L3	Sean, your work to handle the interpersonal matters of the judge program has been exceptional. I appreciate your help when I was dealing with my most difficult issue as Regional Coordinator. The discussions with you helped provide clarity and piece of mind.
To Stephan Classen, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Aaron Hamer, L3	You work harder to build communities than anyone I know.
To Stephan Classen, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	Thanks for leading the community charge in the islands and planning opportunities for the future.
To Stephan Classen, L2 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Joe Wiesenberg, L3	Stephan, Ever since the first event we worked together I’ve known I can always rely on you to have my back on the floor and keep things moving even when they get tough. Add that to your nearly single-handed community-building in Hawaii and I am happy to be able to recognize you.
To Tasha Hayashi, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Kevin Binswanger, L3	You’re probably the best testing coordinator I’ve ever seen. I feel like every time you judge an event in my region, the judges get better. Not just because you run good events but because you go out of your way to give feedback and evaluate judges, raising people up to your level.
To Tasha Hayashi, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Kim Warren, L4	Trying to make people be nicer to each other can be a thankless task. Watching you speak up to explain things is helping me have the courage to speak up in turn. Kim.
To Tasha Hayashi, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Oliver Tremel, L3	Hi Tasha, after years I’m still impressed about the feedback you could provide me during GP Bochum. You gave me great guidance and some ideas and thougths which I’m now able to pass to other fellow judges. Thank you so much! Oliver
To Tasha Hayashi, L3 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Scott Marshall, L5	Tasha, you’re not only a Champion of Safe Environments, but you’re Exemplary as a role model in how to show Respect, Integrity, and simply “Be Nice To Each Other”.
To Will Hofweber, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Jeremy Behunin, L3	Your enthusiasm and mentoring will build a great community. Love the ideas for training opportunities during judge gatherings. Keep up the good work!
To Will Hofweber, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by Riki Hayashi, L3	Will, you have been instrumental in finding and training new judges in Eugene, an area of Oregon that has lacked a strong judging presence until now. I know you’ll be testing for L2 in the near future, but you are already acting the part of a leader. -Riki
To Zach Robinson, L1 from USA – Northwest Recognized by James Do Hung LEE, L3	Thank you for continuing to bring maturity and generosity to the Program. I’ve seen you offer your time and resources to help judges do their jobs with less stress and less cost. You also always offer great insight and encouragement. Thanks!