{"id":1028,"date":"2019-07-29T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2019-07-29T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:13:02","slug":"exemplar-wave-18-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/exemplar-wave-18-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplar Wave 18 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 10px;text-align: center\">\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"judgeimage\" style=\"margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;float: left;padding: 10px;width: 200px;height: 240px;background: #f1f1f1\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/files\/2016\/04\/XP-Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -23px;line-height: 18px;text-align: center;color: #828282;font-size: 12px\">Written by Bryan Prillaman Level 3, Orlando FL, USA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi Everybody!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you haven\u2019t already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/the-next-era-of-magic-judging\/\">read the announcements from Wizards of the Coast<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judgeacademy.com\">Judge Academy<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2019\/07\/29\/future-of-judge-program\/\">the PCs<\/a>,\u00a0 go ahead and do that now. You are going to need that context for this blog post to make sense.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The announcement of the new Judge Academy is going to bring a lot of changes, and some of those changes directly impact the Exemplar Program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first change is that the current open wave, Wave 18, will be the last Exemplar Wave used to distribute Judge Promos. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Promos are not going away, but Judge Academy will manage the distribution of all new promos. I was part of some of the early planning discussions, and I\u2019m encouraged by WotC\u2019s renewed interest in making Promos that judges want to have. However, this\u00a0also means that Wave 18 will not contain any new promos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second change to Exemplar, however, it is still to be determined. No longer being tied to a quarterly distribution schedule opens up possible changes that were previously logistically impractical or detrimental.\u00a0 We want to explore other possible avenues of collecting and publishing peer-to-peer nominations in a more flexible and immediate manner. We\u2019ve collected a lot of feedback over the last several years, and the team will have lots of ideas for improvement and we&#8217;ll be exploring them further in the weeks to come.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Wave 18 is complete, we will delay the start of Wave 19 until we can explore and implement these updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We still are looking towards the future.\u00a0 Over the last 4 years, the Exemplar program has published nearly forty-five thousand examples of positive contributions to and by the members of the Judge Program. Exemplar nominations have impacted so many positively that we will continue to collect and publish them as long as you continue to recognize the accomplishments of your fellow judges.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meanwhile, keep recognizing and encouraging the positive behaviors that make Magic Judges the envy of other OP organizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>As a reminder, Exemplar Wave 18 closes on Tuesday Aug. 13th at 23:59 PST<\/i><\/b> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Bryan Prillaman Level 3, Orlando FL, USA Hi Everybody! If you haven\u2019t already read the announcements from Wizards of the Coast, Judge Academy, or the PCs,\u00a0 go ahead and do that now. You are going to need that context for this blog post to make sense.\u00a0 The announcement of the new Judge Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[9],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}