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- Name:<\/strong> Bruno Benatti<\/li>\n
- Pronouns<\/strong> He\/him\/his<\/a><\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 1<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Goiania, Brazil<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Brazil <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> April – 2004<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> August 4, 2018<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Fascinated abouit the Izzet League!<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Musician<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I don’t know how to buy fresh fruits.<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> The purpose is to improve my community with my best.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> thats my first big competitive event, it’ll be awesome!<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> My lack of experience in my functtion in the event.<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> All that’s possible about the community, the Judge program and aboiut my limits being surpassed.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Andre Tepedino, Leonardo da Luz, Rafael Abdala<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> The chalenge is absorb several doubts about some rules of the game and the way I seek to be useful for the program.<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Yes, and this has become my main project the last two months.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> We are friendly and deeply connected with each other, what makes us a great place to improve your game skills and hacth new players.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Grand Prix S\u00e3o Paulo, 2018, Day 2, Top 4 Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica Qualifier.. What a Sealed… What a Draft… What a day!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Lu Cordeiro<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Lu Cordeiro<\/li>\n
- Pronouns<\/strong> They\/them\/theirs<\/a><\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Vit\u00f3ria, Brazil<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Brazil <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> 2006<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> November 4, 2017<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> I love Blue, but Liliana and Jaya Ballard are my queens. <3<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Maths Professor<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I really like vegan food, althought I’m not a vegetarian anymore.<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To help friends with rules – I’m a nerd and really like rules.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> The opportunity to learn and to work with some people I admire.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Getting nervous and missing or forgetting important things.<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> Online deckchecks, working in teams and general large tournament logistics.<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> I try to learn from everyone, but I always count on Ricardo Leite and Cau\u00ea Hattori to discuss best practices and philosophy behind the rules.<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Keeping up with what my local community needs and expects of me – what involves much more diplomacy than rules knowledge.<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Learning from other people’s experiences, listening to players and TOs and mostly trying to accept some problems don’t have a clear answer or an easy solution.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> We are very welcoming – from the most casual to the most competitive players.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> The time I was in a foreign country, with no decks, couldn’t speak the local language very well and still had a great time playing Magic. It always reminds me of how big and strong our Community is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Maxx de la Fuente<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Maxx de la Fuente<\/li>\n
- Pronouns<\/strong> He\/him\/his<\/a><\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> La Rioja, Argentina<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Hispanic America – South <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> July 2013<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> October 21, 2016<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> As for the game, the possibilities and the ever-changing meta. As for the Judge Program, the huge diversity of people that I can immediately identify with by just sharing a couple of sentences.<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Eng>Spa translator, university professor<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I seem to be incapable of physically manifesting a fever (with very few exceptions in my life).<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> To prevent rather fishy situations involving experienced players taking advantage of rookies.<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> The huge diversity of peoples and cultures and the almost endless possibilities of interactions with all the formats in play. I have never been in an event of such magnitude.<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> The above mentioned magnitude worries me a bit, it’s not easy to prepare for the unpredictable. <\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> Mostly, I want to learn good practises from judges and players more experienced than I am, I want to bring some of those to my small community too!<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> Federico Verdini, Juan del Compare, Julio Sosa (among many others who helped along the way)<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> I can tend to be a bit grumpy with some situations and I needed to learn to keep my head cool and deal with situations bothering me after the tournament. Also, I find it hard coping with organization problems when they do not depend on me (problems with the venue, schedules and similar)<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Talking to people who can see the problems from outside is a great help, and I try to be on top of things that have historically gone wrong whenever I can too. I still have a long way to go, nonetheless.<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> Since it’s a very small community, we are prone to sharing and caring a bit more than normal: new players are like little brothers to some of us.<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> Judging at the Nationals 2018 with my friends and girlfriend (who also happens to be a judge), I found the breaks especially enlightening, sharing deck-check techniques and other life-hacks.\n
The first Judge Conference I attended to in 2017 was also a high point for me. Given that I live in a small community far from most of the action, the conference was critical in making me realize I wanted to improve and be more like these people I was meeting for the first time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Santiago Grangetto<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Santiago Grangetto<\/li>\n
- Pronouns<\/strong> He\/him\/his<\/a><\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Cordoba, Argentina<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Hispanic America – South <\/li>\n
- Approximate date\/month\/year you started playing Magic:<\/strong> Around mid 2013, going to a theros pre release as my first sanctioned event<\/li>\n
- L1 Certification Date:<\/strong> September 18, 2015<\/li>\n
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic:<\/strong> Playing cube with my friends<\/li>\n
- Occupation:<\/strong> Student<\/li>\n
- Random fact about yourself:<\/strong> I’m a sea of knowledge, but only one inch deep<\/li>\n
- Why did you become a judge?:<\/strong> Because I thought that knowing more rules was a perk to compete, and being a judge would validate that i know more rules than the average<\/li>\n
- What excites you most about this event?:<\/strong> I see this opportunity as the first step to really grow in the program and learn all the skills that i’d like to get from others judges<\/li>\n
- What worries you most about this event?:<\/strong> Probably the usual, like making dumb mistakes or not being able to follow the team<\/li>\n
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?:<\/strong> Mostly how to work in a big event<\/li>\n
- Who are your mentors?:<\/strong> I got certified by Jos\u00e9 Nazareno who has been following my progress since then, also I has the opportunity to participate in a couple of big events, where Julio Sosa was the HJ and Federico Verdini my TL, where I learnt a lot<\/li>\n
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?:<\/strong> Im trying to participate as judge as much i can but here in my city there are only a few competitive events in the year and lately i’m struggling to get free time in general<\/li>\n
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?:<\/strong> Trying to participate in better events in near cities or even going to this Magic fest<\/li>\n
- What is the best part about your local Magic community?:<\/strong> We arent a lot of people so we know each other and we have people playing almost any format<\/li>\n
- What is your favorite Magic memory?:<\/strong> When I won an old 64 man draft in mtgo after a lot of testing with friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Anna Luiza Harumi Hiwatashi Gallicchio<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Anna Luiza Harumi Hiwatashi Gallicchio<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 0<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Location Hidden<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Kim Kanegusuke<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Kim Kanegusuke<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo, Brazil<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Felipe Kertes<\/h2>\n
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- Name:<\/strong> Felipe Kertes<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 0<\/li>\n
- Location:<\/strong> Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/li>\n
- Region:<\/strong> Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Paulo Macedo<\/h2>\n
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- Level:<\/strong> Level 2<\/li>\n
- Level:<\/strong> Level 0<\/li>\n
- Pronouns<\/strong> He\/him\/his<\/a><\/li>\n
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