This weekend in Lille, we have four new judges to Welcome to the Fold!
Paul Heidenreich
- Name: Paul Heidenreich
- Level: Level 2
- Location: Magdeburg, Germany
- Region: German-speaking countries
Marceau Depasse
- Name: Marceau Depasse
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Namur, Belgium
- Region: BeNeLux
Raffaelle Digne
- Name: Raffaelle Digne
- Pronouns She/her/hers
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Alfortville, France
- Region: France
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: Around “”new phyrexia””
- L1 Certification Date: April 20, 2018
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Mesa Pegasus
- Occupation: HR assistant
- Random fact about yourself: I finished last behind the dropped players at a commander tournament
- Why did you become a judge?: Because my friends kept asking me rules questions
- What excites you most about this event?: The huge number of players
- What worries you most about this event?: To give a wrong ruling
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?: Improve my self confidence
- Who are your mentors?: Raphael Delbarre & Pierrick Visentin
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: I must trust myself and speak english
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: Judging more and more
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?: I know everyone
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: Finishing top 8 in a PPTQ by accident
Clélia O’Connell
- Name: Clélia O’Connell
- Pronouns She/her/hers
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Montpellier, France
- Region: France
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: July 2016
- L1 Certification Date: October 23, 2017
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Modern
- Occupation: Student
- Random fact about yourself: I have a horse named Windsea and he’s everything to me.
- Why did you become a judge?: I was playing a tournament and Emilien told me about the judge program. 16 yo me immediately thought “”OMG I WANNA DO THAT””. So I did. I have no regrets. I love being a judge. But I wish I had more time for Magic as a whole. (Studies are time consuming, so with that and my horse, there isn’t a lot of time left. I still do my best because I am truly passionate about judging!!)
- What excites you most about this event?: It will be my first GP and it is something I looked forward to a lot ever since I started playing Magic.
- What worries you most about this event?: I am worried I will not be good enough as a floor judge. Worried I might not know the format well enough. Worried I might be a dead weigh for the team. But I know it’s all irrational and I shouldn’t worry about it. 🙂
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?: I want to learn how GPs work, how all the teams coordinate, etc. I want to learn more about everything.
- Who are your mentors?: Tomas Ornowski, Julien Laronde, Quentin Boussardon.
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Having better hard-skills.
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: I am currently working on them. Sharpening my document knowledge. It takes time.
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?: People are friendly and they’re quite healthy players. Not a lot of salty persons. Some, of course, but just a few ones. Most of the guys are kind and fun to be around.
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: A KCI mirror with my boyfriend. >:D It was so much fun. Building my Oona Queen of the Fae multiplayer commander was another great memory. 🙂