Grand Prix Bologna 2018

| Io Hughto

In Bologna this weekend, we have a whopping TEN new judges to Welcome to the Fold!

Diego Barbagelata

  • Name: Diego Barbagelata
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: Genoa, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta

filippo cremaschi

  • Name: filippo cremaschi
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: bologna, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta

Luca Magni

  • Name: Luca Magni
  • Level: Level 2
  • Location: Usmate Velate, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta
  • Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: March 2013
  • L1 Certification Date: May 5, 2013
  • Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Big events
  • Occupation: Student
  • Random fact about yourself: I partecipated in an Italian TV game show
  • Why did you become a judge?: To help my LGS
  • What excites you most about this event?: I’m eager to discover the organizational structure behind a GP
  • What worries you most about this event?: To appear unconfident in front of players
  • What are you hoping to learn at this event?: How to coordinate teamwork in the best way
  • Who are your mentors?: Luca Chiassoni
  • What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Having exchange of views with other judges is really important to get better, but unfortunately in most tournaments I’m on my own, so I sometimes have a hard time understanding where I can improve
  • How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: Whenever I judge with someone else I ask them to tell me what I could’ve done better
  • What is the best part about your local Magic community?: We help each other a lot
  • What is your favorite Magic memory?: Reaching Top4 in the first PTQ I’ve ever played

Matteo Manchi

  • Name: Matteo Manchi
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: Roma, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta
  • Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: April 2015
  • L1 Certification Date: October 8, 2016
  • Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Players and judges environment
  • Occupation: entrepreneur / software engineer
  • Random fact about yourself: I started to use computer at 4
  • Why did you become a judge?: I wanted to be a reference for players about rules and policy, inspired by Level 2 of my zone: Fabio Pierucci.
  • What excites you most about this event?: I’m exited to work with a big team
  • What worries you most about this event?: I worry about stress management during the shift.
  • What are you hoping to learn at this event?: I have still a lot of things to learn and this event will be a jump into knowledge
  • Who are your mentors?: Fabio Pierucci, Andrea Vella
  • What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Anxiety for wrong ruling
  • How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: RTFC. I started getting one minute more to analyze the context in more relaxed way and I explain to players all the rulings involved, so I repeat to my self as validation.
  • What is the best part about your local Magic community?: Oh.. every*body*: collegues and players
  • What is your favorite Magic memory?: With Burn, I won a top8 modern PPTQ against Ad Nauseam (started 0-1), Ad Nauseam (started 0-1), Viscera combo (with Thunderous Wrath as end)

Emanuele Navisse

  • Name: Emanuele Navisse
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: Pomezia, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta

Darius Pearce

  • Name: Darius Pearce
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: St Helier, Jersey
  • Region: United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa
  • Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: 2001
  • L1 Certification Date: February 10, 2018
  • Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Being outplayed
  • Occupation: Company Director
  • Why did you become a judge?: So our islands could have more premier events
  • What excites you most about this event?: The chance to eat authentic spaghetti bolognese
  • What worries you most about this event?: Lack of experience
  • What are you hoping to learn at this event?: The basics
  • What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Patience and understanding
  • How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: Practise makes perfect
  • What is the best part about your local Magic community?: Camaraderie
  • What is your favorite Magic memory?: GP London 2003

Gianluca Pizzuti

  • Name: Gianluca Pizzuti
  • Level: Level 2
  • Location: Campli (TE), Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta
  • Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: October 2004
  • L1 Certification Date: April 11, 2015
  • Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Foil Bottle Gnomes
  • Why did you become a judge?: I became judge to help my local organizers
  • What excites you most about this event?: It’s the best chance to get to know my other fellow judges
  • Who are your mentors?: Saverio Adamo and Fabrizio Curato
  • What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: I have to get better with my teamwork, because i became accostumed to working alone

Luca Sanfilippo

  • Name: Luca Sanfilippo
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: Torino, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta

Nicodemo Sasso

  • Name: Nicodemo Sasso
  • Level: Level 1
  • Location: Milano, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta

Marco Storelli

  • Name: Marco Storelli
  • Level: Level 2
  • Location: Trieste, Italy
  • Region: Italy and Malta