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- Name:<\/strong> Brandon Abbott<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> The Colony, Texas<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> USA – South <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> 1994-1995 some time (A.Nights, Antiquites, Ice Age)<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> May 1, 2014<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Playing Legacy<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> IT Professional<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I used to fly remote control helicopters<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> Store owner asked me to become his local judge for events<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> I think the work will be hard, but really looking forward to the downtime with fellow judges and playing\/relaxing\/getting to know them.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Not really anything, since I am on the admin team I don’t expect I will be taking many calls. My weakest area is being a floor judge. I worry about getting a call I don’t know how to handle<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> How the different teams at GPs are run, learning everything that goes into running a big event like a GP.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Josh McCurley & Jim Shuman<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> I really want to become better with the IPG and handling tough calls<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> I am trying to work more of the bigger events to get over my trepidation of taking calls<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> Everyone is very nice and helpful<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Playing kitchen table magic with some of the older cards back in college. I still laugh whenever I ask someone if they took “”Mana Burn”” and they have that confused look like I don’t know what I’m talking about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Garth Beavers<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> USA – South<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Roberto Herrador<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Roberto Herrador<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Guatemala, Guatemala<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Hispanic America – North<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Robert Kalvoda<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Robert Kalvoda<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> San Angelo, Texas<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> USA – South <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> February 2014<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> May 20, 2018<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Aetherworks Marvel<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Delivery Driver & Full-Time Collee Student<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been playing Piano since I was 4<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To further my knowledge of the rules as well as interact with others like myself.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> The fact that the main event is sealed.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Possibly giving incorrect rulings.<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> How different roles in an event interact.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Phillip Robinson and Robert Milhon<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Honestly, just myself.<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> I\u2019ve talked with others about how game mechanics and rules apply to different areas of a game.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> The diversity we have in players and decks.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Having lantern control finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Scott Larson<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Scott Larson<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Cypress, Texas<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> USA – South<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Danny Mullinax<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Danny Mullinax<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Loudon, Tennessee<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> USA – Midatlantic <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> May 1999<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> November 2, 2017<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Slinging spells with friends both casual and competitive.<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Mitutoyo Metrology Application Engineer<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> 2004 Georgia State Team Chess Champion<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To help my local community with learning and playing the game (correctly).<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> MY FIRST GP! I’m excited to learn as much as I can to take back to my community and future events.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Standing on concrete for 8+ hours a day…<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> I’m looking to gain confidence in my abilities, specifically regarding policy. Though I’m just judging sides at Regular REL so I’m looking to talk to more judges about scenarios that may come up.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Tim Zimmerman<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> 2HG Sealed with my wife during Gatecrash abusing the Extort mechanic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Wesley Norman<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Maple Ridge, Canada<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Canada <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> 2004<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> October 31, 2016<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Playing all 5 colours<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Retailer<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I go back and play through Final Fantasy Tactics about as frequently as new Magic sets are released and have been for going on 20 years now.<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To help out my local magic community<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> Getting to meet other judges<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> The ever-present threat of mistakes while taking calls on the floor<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> More about judging at Comp.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Tobias Vyseri<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> My memory’s not great, so being able to remember the IPG is difficult. There’s a lot of acronyms and different fixes and exceptions that makes it hard for me to get it to stick<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> I tend to remember parts of the IPG based on common situations, more than what the actual infraction & fixes are.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> New blood constantly entering at about the exact rate the older players end up not having time for the game.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> After the change years ago that Core sets wouldn’t push each other out of standard, a friend remarked at the sheer number of planeswalker cards that would be in the format at once for a short time. So I played a deck that was one-ofs of all of them. One of the players at that Game Day that I beat tilted after losing to what he called “”Planeswalker Aggro”” and it’s kind of become tradition for me to play one-of Planeswalkers in Standard ever since.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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