{"id":262,"date":"2018-11-13T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:27:03","slug":"grand-prix-milwaukee-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/fold\/2018\/11\/13\/grand-prix-milwaukee-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix Milwaukee 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend in Milwaukee, we have 2 new judges to Welcome to the fold!<\/p>\n<h2>Dan Barnard<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/19001053\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=19001053&size=200 alt=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong> Dan Barnard<\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States of America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> USA &#8211; North<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>James Skoog<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/8030700181\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=8030700181&size=200 alt=\"\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name:<\/strong> James Skoog<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pronouns<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pronoun.is\/he\">He\/him\/his<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Saint Peter, Minnesota, United States of America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> USA &#8211; North <\/li>\n<li><strong>Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> November 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> May 12, 2018<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> the camaraderie, both among players and judges<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupation:<\/strong> Client Directed Services Specialist at MRCI<\/li>\n<li><strong>Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I helped compile the first fully indexed and searchable edition of the Venetus A manuscript, which is the oldest extant complete manuscript of Homer&#8217;s Iliad. See homermultitext.org for more info.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve always been drawn to the idea of being a resource for my communities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> I&#8217;m excited to learn about the logistical side of large events like GPs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never worked at a GP before, so I&#8217;m worried that I may be in over my head.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> I want to learn everything I can; it&#8217;s tough to be more specific than that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve received all sorts of helpful advice from more judges than I can name, but I think the &#8220;big two&#8221; are Sean Carstensen and Ken Bearl.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> I think the biggest challenge I face is a relative scarcity of events that I can feasibly work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve tried to expand my definition of &#8220;feasibility&#8221; when it comes to working events so as to gain as much experience as I can.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> I really appreciate the fact that my local Magic community is relatively small, which helps to make it a more tight-knit community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> I think it has to be making the top 4 of a 24-person PPTQ with 7-Land Belcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend in Milwaukee, we have 2 new judges to Welcome to the fold! 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