Judge Anniversaries<\/span><\/h2>\nNot one but TWO Judges in our Region celebrated 5 year Judge-iversaries this August. Congratulations to Audrey Kisilewicz<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and Lora Carpenter<\/a>
<\/span><\/span> for their continued commitment to this amazing program!<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Judge Anniversaries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Judge of the Week<\/span><\/h2>\nAnd speaking of continued commitment, one of our Great Lakes Judges was featured by the <\/span>Judge of the Week<\/span><\/i> project this past month! Meg Baum<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Hero of Bladehold, continues to shine as a bright star!<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Judge of the Week – Meg Baum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Banned and Restricted Update<\/span><\/h2>\nDid you hear? You know that one card? Yes, <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> card. Your favorite card. It was banned in your favorite format and every copy ordered destroyed!<\/span><\/p>\nNah, just kidding. No update to the banned and restricted list this time around. The next update announcement will be October 1, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Banned and Restricted List Update<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Pro Tour Update<\/span><\/h2>\nThis announcement is the first in a series of updates to Organized Play to be rolled out over the coming months. This first announcement covers mostly housekeeping items including the establishment of an advisory panel consisting of 3 pro players, Pro Club levels will persist for 2 cycles rather than 1, and a few minor updates to the team series invite rules. More notably is that the first PT of 2019 will be in the Great Lakes Region, hosted in Cleveland, OH! The full announcement can be found below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Pro Tour Update Announcement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
L2 Practice Exam Proctoring<\/span><\/h2>\nLevel 2 Judges can now proctor L2P exams in JudgeApps for L2 candidates! If you are thinking to yourself, \u201cWait, couldn\u2019t L1\u2019s already generate a L2P exam?\u201d you would be correct. This new feature allows a L2 to generate the exam for the candidate, which grants access to the exam itself to the L2. The proctoring L2 can use this exam and the candidate\u2019s answers to provide specific and meaningful feedback based on that specific candidate\u2019s knowledge gaps. This is a really helpful learning tool. I highly recommend its use.<\/span><\/p>\nNew Judges<\/span><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/files\/2018\/06\/welcome-215x300.png\")
<\/a>The Great Lakes Region is very happy to welcome an astonishing SEVEN new Judges to the program this month! Please join me in extending a hearty welcome to Kyle Palmer<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Hunter Megyesi<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Keith Whobrey<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Alecia Staples<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Zachary Barnett<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, Matthew Cowles<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>, and Ryan Sears<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>!<\/p>\nClosing Remarks<\/span><\/h2>\nWhile no major changes rolled out this past month, it might be easy to simply gloss over this information. But no matter how small the updates may be, it is always important to for us all to keep our knowledge up-to-date and our skills sharp. It is this continual commitment to excellence that continues to make this program great, healthy, and growing!<\/span><\/p>\nPass turn.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August saw an exceptional number of new Judges added to the region!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/greatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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- Judge Anniversaries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Judge of the Week<\/span><\/h2>\n
And speaking of continued commitment, one of our Great Lakes Judges was featured by the <\/span>Judge of the Week<\/span><\/i> project this past month! Meg Baum<\/a>
- \n
- Judge of the Week – Meg Baum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Banned and Restricted Update<\/span><\/h2>\n
Did you hear? You know that one card? Yes, <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> card. Your favorite card. It was banned in your favorite format and every copy ordered destroyed!<\/span><\/p>\n
Nah, just kidding. No update to the banned and restricted list this time around. The next update announcement will be October 1, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n
- \n
- Banned and Restricted List Update<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Pro Tour Update<\/span><\/h2>\n
This announcement is the first in a series of updates to Organized Play to be rolled out over the coming months. This first announcement covers mostly housekeeping items including the establishment of an advisory panel consisting of 3 pro players, Pro Club levels will persist for 2 cycles rather than 1, and a few minor updates to the team series invite rules. More notably is that the first PT of 2019 will be in the Great Lakes Region, hosted in Cleveland, OH! The full announcement can be found below.<\/span><\/p>\n
- \n
- Pro Tour Update Announcement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
L2 Practice Exam Proctoring<\/span><\/h2>\n
Level 2 Judges can now proctor L2P exams in JudgeApps for L2 candidates! If you are thinking to yourself, \u201cWait, couldn\u2019t L1\u2019s already generate a L2P exam?\u201d you would be correct. This new feature allows a L2 to generate the exam for the candidate, which grants access to the exam itself to the L2. The proctoring L2 can use this exam and the candidate\u2019s answers to provide specific and meaningful feedback based on that specific candidate\u2019s knowledge gaps. This is a really helpful learning tool. I highly recommend its use.<\/span><\/p>\n
New Judges<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a>The Great Lakes Region is very happy to welcome an astonishing SEVEN new Judges to the program this month! Please join me in extending a hearty welcome to Kyle Palmer<\/a>Closing Remarks<\/span><\/h2>\n
While no major changes rolled out this past month, it might be easy to simply gloss over this information. But no matter how small the updates may be, it is always important to for us all to keep our knowledge up-to-date and our skills sharp. It is this continual commitment to excellence that continues to make this program great, healthy, and growing!<\/span><\/p>\n
Pass turn.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Pro Tour Update Announcement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Banned and Restricted List Update<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Judge of the Week – Meg Baum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n