Jonathan Andrés Barría Arjel

Hello everyone! Today, we feature ANOTHER amazing judge from Latin America – Jonathan Arjel from Chile! (Incidentally, can someone teach me the appropriate number of names to use when I’m given four names like this? For example, “Western” names only use two, while Chinese names use all three. How many should I use here?) Anyway, […]

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Simon Lee

Greetings from Fancy Philippines! As I write this, I am preparing for Grand Prix Manila. So it’s only fitting that today’s Judge of the Week is another judge attending Grand Prix Manila … Simon Lee! Also known as Ximen, (“West Gate” in Chinese) Simon is a Level 2 judge from Hong Kong. He became a […]

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Jeremy Behunin

Good day! It’s the best part of the week – Friday! (Also, Judge of the Week :)) Today’s featured judge comes from the good ol’ US of A – it’s Jeremy Behunin! A level 2 judge from Utah, USA, Jeremy found that he couldn`t afford to play as much Magic as he wanted, but he […]

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Francois Grobler

Hello everyone! Were you concerned that this week’s Judge of the Week hadn’t been announced yet? Have no fear, it was just a small technical problem. JOTW will be here forever and ever and ever! This week’s Judge of the Week is Francois Grobler, a Level 1 from South Africa. He started playing Magic in […]

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René Ahumada

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another edition of Judge of the Week! Today’s featured judge is René Ahumada, from Bogota, Colombia. René became a judge in August 2004. 6 years later, he passed his Level 2 exam. Why did he become a judge? “When the local organizers in Colombia (my brother and his then-girlfriend and […]

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