Down in Australia, the following judges are busy preparing for their first Grand Prix:
Scott Davidson-Bowey
- Name: Scott Davidson-Bowey
- Level: Level 1
- Region: Australia and New Zealand
Jarrod Goodwin
- Name: Jarrod Goodwin
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Melbourne
- Region: Australia and New Zealand
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: Late 2012
- L1 Certification Date: 10/28/2016
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: The Melbourne legacy crew
- Random fact about yourself: I’ve played Dredge and Goblins in every format but Extended and Highlander
- What worries you most about this event?: That I’ll mess up due to my inexperience judging at Comp REL
- Who is your mentor?: Gareth Pye
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?: All of the people in it
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: Winning a game against Tron in Modern, playing Storm, by attacking with 4 Electromancers, because I have no other win-cons left in my deck, and over the course of 4 turns casting both of my Echoing Truths twice each
Lorcan Whitmore
- Name: Lorcan Whitmore
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Ballarat, Victoria
- Region: Australia and New Zealand
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: November 2013
- L1 Certification Date: 4/18/2016
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Being a wizard
- Occupation: Spreadsheet Wrangler
- Random fact about yourself: I recently stopped hiding my baldness with hair
- Why did you become a judge?: To help turn our local Judge into a local judge community
- What excites you most about this event?: Hopefully testing for L2 and learning a stack from a great team of people.
- What worries you most about this event?: Getting my ducks in a row to test for L2. I’m not even sure why they need me to bring ducks.
- Who is your mentor?: Daniel Blackbourne
, currently our only local L2
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: Memory Jar