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- Name:<\/strong> Dan Brown<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Taunton, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> may 1999 on again off again <\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> August 12, 2017<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> My Local playgroup \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> IT Technician<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I really like dinosaurs!<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To help out in the community and answer questions at our local store!<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> It will be my first time experiencing a GP from the “”working”” side and I’ll get to meet a bunch of new people<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Making mistakes, as it is my first GP. Also the dreaded GP plague.<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> How the judge half of a GP functions, and hopefully improve my customer service side of judging.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Amy Jo Tanner, Phil Akers, Steve Ford, Rhys Bainbridge, Ru Fitzpatrick<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Figuring out the best steps to work on towards becoming level 2 or when\/if I want to do them<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Still in progress, I’m afraid.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> I love our local store and how community focused they are, and I guess our local group of players are pretty okay too.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Topdecking Omniscience with unexpected results…Twice!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Bradley de Freitas<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Johannesburg, South Africa<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> May 2012<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> January 29, 2014<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> My favourite card is Serra Ascendant. My favourite thing is the way you can make friends with a group of people just by playing a few games. I have made some amazing friends since I started playing EDH last year. <\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Chartered Accountant<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> I became a judge to help teach in my community and help run events. There are a very small number of L2+ judges in the south african community which provided me with additional motivation to help the community.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> The opportunity to learn many things from judges much more experienced than I am. I have never attended an event this large, so I am sure there is plenty to learn. <\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Im worried that my nerves will get the best of me due to the size of the event. I have never been around that many magic players before and I am worried that it will affect my calls. <\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Findlay Matheson. Without his motivation, I would never have travelled the route to become an L2 judge. <\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> We recently lost one of our most successful LGS’. Its amazing how our community has stuck together in this time while we found a new venue to call home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Phillip Donald<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Phillip Donald<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Winchester, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Joe Hardy<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Joe Hardy<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Hednesford, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> November 2016<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> December 27, 2017<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Creatureless Decks<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> It Professional<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I had a fear of toilets until the age of 16<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To help my LGS as they had no Judges<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> Meeting new people, helping players out<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Never supported at a GP before, I don’t want anything to go wrong<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> how to help others more effectively<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Thomas Sukaitis<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Informational challenges, getting the information you need without having to search for days\/weeks<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> ask the judges ive met over the last 6 months<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> Theyre kind, friendly, and hilarious<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Ixalan draft, cycled my whole deck using sunbirds invocation to dig for a Rivers rebuke that was my only win con. and did it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Morgan Mcgowan<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Morgan Mcgowan<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Leeds, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> Early 2012, around the time of the release of Dark Ascension<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> July 2, 2016<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> My favourite thing about Magic is the community, I have made many friends within the magic community and I have found the community we are in to be full of supportive and helpful people which is great.<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> The Kamigawa sets are my favourite sets in Magic and I try to include at least 1 Kamigawa card in any deck I ever build.<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> I very much enjoy helping others where possible and judging allows me to help others whilst being a part of something I very much enjoy. Judging has had a positive impact on my life since I became a judge back in July 2016 and I have developed some skills that I lacked in and developed as a person which has allowed me to be a better person and overall allowed me to be a better judge.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> I am excited to work with other judges around the world, it will be a valuable experience for me both as a person and as a judge.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> I’m a bit nervous that I will get some things wrong at this event, but I know that I will have support of fellow judges so that helps remove some of the nerves and I know any mistake I make I can improve on aswell.<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> I am hoping to learn how to become a better judge overall, working with various judges from around the world will allow me to see how other judges do tasks or tackle problems, and that insight I will gain from that could be used to help improve my skills as a judge and maybe even as a person.<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Confidence is one of my issues and things I am working on at the moment, I sometimes doubt myself too much when making a ruling or am a bit hesitant at times but it has been improving.<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> I have been working at various events and whether with a fellow judge or not I have tried to answer rulings alone unless I am really uncertain, doing it alone has allowed me to doubt myself less as I am more reliant on myself rather than other people and as a result my confidence has grown but still requires more growth for me to be an even better judge.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> My local community is full of helpful and supportive people and the friends I have made in my local community are ones I will likely be friends with for a long time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Natalia Ruiz Estepa<\/h2>\n
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