Communicating areas for improvement can be difficult. You want the judge you’ve been observing to improve, and you’ve got some ideas for them. Those ideas need to be communicated. But successful coaching takes more than that. If you want a judge to act on your feedback, they need to agree with what you are saying. […]
Category: Strategy
It’s Never Too Late to Start Again
We all (hopefully) have goals. These goals have a variety of purposes, timelines, and success criteria. We will, invariably, fail at some number of our goals. It’s perfectly fine for this to happen. I started this year with the goal of writing at least one judge review at every multi-judge event I worked this year. […]
My First Review – Joe Wiesenberg
Welcome back to another edition of My First Review. A judge’s first review usually comes from an event they’ve judged, but rarely is the event their first. Why is that? Perhaps there’s just so much going on when you judge that writing reviews falls by the wayside. It could be that, as judges, we have […]
Feedbag #3: Tough Situations
Hello and welcome to the third edition of the Feedbag! Last time, we covered reviewing as an inexperienced judge. This month’s question comes anonymously regarding how to approach providing feedback to a judge who has very obviously not been having a good day: “At a recent large event, I noticed that another judge was making […]
My First Review – Adam Eidelsafy
Welcome back to My First Review! In last month’s introduction to this feature, I told you how the first review I received influenced the first review I wrote and ultimately began my interest in this project. Today, using my actual first review, I’m going to begin our series of features by showing you my first […]
Leveling Up Your Verbal Feedback
As an educator, I constantly notice educational processes at work in the judge program. When we’re not learning how interacts with or what to do when a player doesn’t discard a card to , we’re teaching players about why they receive a Warning for missing their trigger. In the realm of the ideal where judges and […]
The Changeup
I love baseball. This shouldn’t be too surprising if you follow my love of numbers and milestones, as baseball offers an unmatched history full of the greatest milestones in sports. [Image Source] Beyond the numbers, I love the intricacies of the game; among them, the changeup is the most bizarre. With pitchers being coveted for […]
Feedbag #2: Tips for New Judges
Hello and welcome to the second, extremely timely edition of The Feedback Loop’s monthly Feedbag feature! Last time, we covered the topic of self-reviews. This month’s question comes to us from a newer judge: I’m a fairly new L1, so when I work at events, I know I’m the least experienced judge on staff. As […]
Building a Review Dashboard
“I want to get better about writing reviews” is a good goal. “I want to identify what’s keeping me from writing reviews and fix that” is a better one. Moving from a good goal to a better one is partially a state of mind, but willpower can’t solve everything. For that, you need an analytical […]