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In 2018, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic wrote a combined 991 reviews! A 42% increase over the previous year, and 13% of the 7567 reviews submitted in the Judge Program for the year.<\/p>\n
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And the winner is\u2026 The Northeast!<\/p>\n
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In 2018, the Northeast wrote 28.3% more reviews than the Mid-Atlantic (311 vs. 223). It was a really close contest, though. With the NE having a larger population, this worked out to being the difference between averaging .61 reviews per judge in the NE versus .6 reviews per judge in the M-A!<\/p>\n
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You may be saying \u201cThese numbers don\u2019t add up, that isn\u2019t the 991 in the previous paragraph! What gives?\u201d It turns out that there was a significant outlier in the data this year, and his name is Joe Steet<\/a> <\/p>\n And while things were very close (without Joe!) Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator Eric Dustin Brown<\/a> <\/p>\n Feedback is an important gift that we can always be giving each other. We haven\u2019t issued any special challenges this year (yet), but that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t keep helping each other out. Let\u2019s see if we can keep up the pace in 2019, and if you\u2019d like a shiny new pen to do it, come find Me<\/a> You may remember that last year, the Mid-Atlantic issued a challenge to the Northeast: Who would write the most reviews?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/span>. The numbers for the contest between the NE and M-A compared above don\u2019t take into account the whopping 457 reviews Joe wrote in 2018. Joe puts massive effort into his dedication to providing his peers with feedback, and it shows.
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<\/p>\n<\/span><\/span> has provided the spoils of the war – some beautiful new red pens with the NE Judge logo, perfect for review writing going into 2019.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span> at MagicFest New Jersey.<\/p>\n
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