Kevin is currently the Regional Coordinator for United States – South.<\/p>\n
Tell us your favourite judge story.<\/strong> What\u2019s the best part about your local Magic<\/em> community?<\/strong> How did you get involved in Magic<\/em> to begin with?<\/strong> If you could chat with one person, real or fictional, dead or alive, who would it be and why?<\/strong> What is your favourite non-judging moment that happened with other judges?<\/strong> Favourite hobby (other than Magic<\/em>):<\/strong> What would you be doing now if Magic<\/em> no longer existed?<\/strong> Two Truths and a Lie<\/strong> 1. I once appealed to Sheldon Menery, PT Atlanta Head Judge, who had to explain how trample worked to me. [expand title=”The answer to last week’s Two Truths and a Lie…”]Josh is tricking you.\u00a0He claims that all of them are true! We’ll go back to a normal Two Truths and a Lie next time.[\/expand]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings Judges! This week\u2019s Judge of the Week is Kevin Binswanger, L3 from Texas! Kevin\u00a0was nominated by Peter Golightly, L2 from Davis, California. He has this to say: “I am nominating this judge because Kevin Bingswanger is my role model and who I most want to be like as a judge. He is cool under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kevin-Binswanger\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/jotw\/files\/2013\/02\/Kevin-Binswanger.jpg\")
<\/a>Occupation:<\/strong> Software Engineer
\nFavourite card:<\/strong> Astral Slide<\/a>. It was the first competitive deck I ever built, and I\u2019ve tried to play it in multiple formats. I am so close to building a Commander deck too. (I built a Pyromancer Ascension<\/a> deck, so why not?)
\nLeast favourite card:<\/strong> Rhystic Study<\/a>. It slows down every single game of Commander ever because you have to stop and ask about the trigger every single time.
\nFavourite format:<\/strong> Legacy. I want it to be Vintage, but I never get a chance to play Vintage anymore.
\nCommander general:<\/strong> I have a Child of Alara<\/a> deck that is my favorite.
\nFavourite non-Magic Game:<\/strong> I love Werewolf, and I just got into the Spyparty Beta.
\nBest tournament result:<\/strong> I lost my win and in to a favorable matchup at a PTQ.
\nRandom fact about yourself:<\/strong> As far as I can tell, I am the only “Kevin Binswanger” alive today. There is a person who shares the name “David Binswanger” with my brother though.<\/p>\n
\nThe moment that I felt validated as a judge was at a Lorwyn block prerelease even before I certified. I was talking to another judge about the difference between mana cost and converted mana cost, and I said that morphed creatures have a converted mana cost of 0, and no mana cost. Then when challenged, I came up with a case where it mattered. Someone said that us judges were always having crazy discussions about things that don’t matter. That was the first time I felt like a judge.<\/p>\n
\nI like how competitive it is. Sometimes it’s a hassle because they want to try and chase silly little edges, but when I do play, I get to be a competitive player again :).<\/p>\n
\nMy brother received some cards for his birthday when he was a kid. He was older and I always looked up to him so I wanted to do what he did.<\/p>\n
\nWilliam Shakespeare would be the best dinner guest. I wonder if he would be surprised at how highly we admire his works today. But I suppose Isaac Asmiov already covered that subject…<\/p>\n
\nThe night I was promoted to Level 3. I got to celebrate with Damian<\/a>, Cristiana<\/a>, and Scott<\/a> as they advanced, plus it was the achievement of a goal and the validation of the work of several years.<\/p>\n
\nI’m on a club team and play Ultimate Frisbee two or three times a week.<\/p>\n
\nI would have a lot more free time on weekends, that’s for sure. I find the time to do other things I enjoy, so I don’t think my life would be radically different.<\/p>\n
\nTwo of the following statements is true, and one is false. Figure out which!<\/p>\n
\n2. I have judged an event in every state in the continental United States.
\n3. My last name, “Binswanger”, is the name of a town in Germany; it just means people who come from that town.<\/p>\n