Welcome to the Judge Booth Blog.
Many of you have heard of or even participated in a judge booth at a GP or other tournament worldwide. If not, let me introduce the concept of the judge booth. It’s a place where players can meet us, the Magic Judges. Our goals are public relations: showing that judges are more than the guy who answers your rules questions and wants to get your result entry slip.
Education: We can educate players on the rules and policy chances and answer questions they might have about Organized Play and our Magic Judge Program.
Last but definitely not least: We want to grow our community. If you are a player who wants to become a judge at this event or is interested in becoming a judge, we can introduce you to the judge program with the help of a certification team at a GP. You might even become a judge the same day.
Interested in running a booth? Then I recommend reading the wiki article about the booth: http://wiki.internationalmagicjudges.net/index.php?title=Judge_Booth
Still interested? Good, then please contact me to get the final documents you will need or to ask any questions you still might have.
Would you like to submit some questions for the booth? Sure, just do so here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aig7p68d7NwYdDhOSTlZTUVpdlMxVW5QbFVDRjZpZEE#gid=0
There is a sample questions on the first line; please do not delete it. Please follow the “You” and “Your opponent” wording on it. Doing so makes it easier to use the question at the booth 🙂
When submitting a new question, please have in mind the following guidelines:
1) Questions should use simple cards when possible; Standard-legal cards would be good.
2) Questions should both test and educate.
3) Questions should involve core rules. (Basics about layers, targeting, casting spells, combat, and turn structure)
4) Questions should not contain more than 4 cards. Keep the questions simple and not too hard to understand what is going on.
5) Questions should not be yes/no questions. We don’t want players to be able to guess the answer.
Last but not least, if you have any pics from a judge booth you participated, feel free to share it with me. I am looking for a nice picture for this blog 🙂
Happy booth judging! 🙂
Michael Wiese
Judge Booth Manager