{"id":208,"date":"2018-07-19T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-07-19T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:26:30","slug":"grand-prix-sacramento-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/2018\/07\/19\/grand-prix-sacramento-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix Sacramento 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend in sunny California, we have three new judges to Welcome to the Fold!<\/p>\n<h2>Tyler Clark<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/6300380050\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=6300380050&size=200 alt=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong> Tyler Clark<\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Orangevale, California, United States of America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> USA &#8211; Southwest <\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> September 12, 2011<\/li>\n<li><strong>L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> June 9, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> My group of friends that have traveled together to GPs. (Team Muffin Top)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Civil Engineer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I love to track my car. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> I thought it would be a fun experience. I have a lot experience in retail and dealing with people. I want to people to have fun playing magic and have good experiences. Starting off in magic can be daunting and I want to make sure new players know that they are welcome to the game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> It&#8217;s in my hometown of Sacramento and it will be my first grand prix.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> My knowledge needs more work. I&#8217;m worried I may give someone the wrong answer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> The basis of how a grand prix works from the judge side.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Edward Drew, Adam White, Travis Lauro, Vincente Davis, Phil Painter<\/li>\n<li><strong>What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> One of my first challenges was judging friends at a local PPTQ. It was my first event as a judge. I needed to up my professionalism and I haven&#8217;t had anything like that since.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Getting my mindset into being a judge and realizing I&#8217;m working and trying to make the game fun and enjoyable for everyone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> The players are usually some of the most helpful people. It&#8217;s not perfect, but there are many stores that anyone can walk in and feel welcomed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Winning my pro tour invite for PT Origins at the RPTQ at Channel Fireball.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Brock Ullom<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/1300295832\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=1300295832&size=200 alt=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong> Brock Ullom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Billings, Montana, United States of America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> USA &#8211; Northwest <\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> Casually while on deployment in Afghanistan from 6\/11-6\/12. Competitively since the start of 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> April 1, 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Regardless of your play style preference there is a competitive deck that you can play.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Student; getting my BS-Finance this December (Hopefully!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I love training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> It started with just wanting cool foils. It evolved to learning the game and helping newer players. While I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible to make a career out of being a Magic judge making financial benefit (store credit, cash, etc.) is also great.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never been to California so that&#8217;s kind of cool. I&#8217;ve judges a few SCG events and I&#8217;d like to see the differences between that and GP&#8217;s. Additionally, just being able to meet other judges and make contacts in the judge community is always a plus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve always struggled on my soft skills. Rules and infractions are easy because they&#8217;re in black and white. Explaining why things are or delivering the news in a tactful way have been struggles for me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> 99.9% of the competitive players are trusting and trustworthy. We have players that have multiple legacy decks and they&#8217;re willing to loan them out at events, and considering that these decks run $1000+ dollars it&#8217;s quite amazing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Last year I created the Montana Championship Series. Essentially copy and paste what StarCity does and have it on a much smaller scale. It allowed the players in Montana to have more competitive tournaments to play in and allowed our judges to get more experience judging competitive REL events. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Jesus Zapien<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/3107326052\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=3107326052&size=200 alt=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong> Jesus Zapien<\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Turlock, California, United States of America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> USA &#8211; Southwest <\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> 2009<\/li>\n<li><strong>L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> January 14, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> The constant struggle of one-upping my EDH group. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Warehouse Employee<\/li>\n<li><strong>Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I love doing karaoke!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> Honestly? For the love of the game. I wanted an opportunity to hang out with other players and see a more technical aspect to this game I love so much. <\/li>\n<li><strong>What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> Learning how ops works. The work that goes into setting things up has always fascinated me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> That I&#8217;ll make some horrible mistake and accidentally the whole event. <\/li>\n<li><strong>What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> The behind-the-scenes aspect of a GP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Vicente Davis, as well as whichever judge is nearby that happens to have more experience than I do. <\/li>\n<li><strong>What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Finding events to do within a reasonable distance. <\/li>\n<li><strong>How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Signing up for more GPs and accepting that I&#8217;ll need to travel. <\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> Everyone in my community is already friends, so we do more together besides magic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Receiving my first Exemplar nomination! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend in sunny California, we have three new judges to Welcome to the Fold! Tyler Clark Name: Tyler Clark Level: Level 1 Location: Orangevale, California, United States of America Region: USA &#8211; Southwest Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic: September 12, 2011 L1 Certification Date: June 9, 2017 Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}