This weekend in Krakow, we have 4 new judges to Welcome to the fold!
Sebastian Bereś
- Name: Sebastian Bereś
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Katowice, Poland
- Region: Europe – Central
Ivan Milenin
- Name: Ivan Milenin
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Kraków, Poland
- Region: Europe – Central
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: october 2011
- L1 Certification Date: April 21, 2018
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Fanklub Leniwej Buły
- Occupation: Univercity teacher
- Random fact about yourself: doing phd in material science
- Why did you become a judge?: To maintain event at LGS, to see the game from another angle, to meet fine people
- What excites you most about this event?: Fist ever GP is exciting enough I guess 🙂
- What worries you most about this event?: whether I am good enough in rules knowledge
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?: How do huge events work, how to work in teams
- Who are your mentors?: Zhenia Starodiedov
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?: Some people from the community actually become a close friends of mine
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: Ukrainian Nationals 2018 & Ukrainian judge conference next day
Vasilis Papoutsakis
- Name: Vasilis Papoutsakis
- Pronouns He/him/his
- Level: Level 2
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Region: German-speaking countries
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: 2004 for a year, then again 2013 – 2014
- L1 Certification Date: May 29, 2017
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Merfolk tribe
- Occupation: Web developer
- Random fact about yourself: I can name over 100 different beers
- Why did you become a judge?: Curiosity to learn more about my hobby and wanted to help my local community didn’t have a judge
- What excites you most about this event?: Judging at an event this size
- What worries you most about this event?: Judging at an event this size
- Who are your mentors?: Giorgos Trichopoulos
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Understanding how people think & feel is far more complex than computers.
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: Top 8 my first competitive event (WMCQ ~70ppl)
Oleksandr Shevtsov
- Name: Oleksandr Shevtsov
- Pronouns He/him/his
- Level: Level 2
- Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Region: Russia and Russian-speaking countries
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: 01/06/2013
- L1 Certification Date: November 1, 2015
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Many interesting card synergies
- Occupation: Developer mobile games
- Random fact about yourself: I can get sqrt of any number on paper.
- Why did you become a judge?: I like to resolve hard interactions on a board.
- What excites you most about this event?: My first big event as a judge.
- What worries you most about this event?: Hard communication with players different native languages.
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?: To become a better judge.
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Do not break under the presure of two days event.
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: Keep my mind clear and drink more water)
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?: That is people of our community.
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: First top8 with my own designed deck.