{"id":1645,"date":"2019-02-04T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2019-02-04T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:03:07","slug":"welcome-to-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/welcome-to-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey friends, welcome to February! As usual, here&#8217;s a little about what to expect this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/recognitions\/\">Exemplar<\/a> closes\u00a0Feb. 20, 2019, 2:59 AM EST. Get your nominations in! If you&#8217;d like to nominate someone and you don&#8217;t have a slot, let me know!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The PCs announced a new sphere, the Outreach Sphere, in their <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/coordinators\/2019\/01\/30\/status-of-the-program-january-2019\/\">Status of the Program<\/a> blog post. L2 and L3 judges are invited to apply for the Outreach Sphere <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf4rpAnw_9ttRzQV86TzzqVaKdUESfvIa4g3C4u-a6Y5M8E1A\/viewform\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/8102096198' >Joe Steet<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=8102096198&size=200'><\/span><\/span> has started a new project called <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/projects\/814\/\">Trial\/\/Error<\/a> that\u00a0is attempting to crowd source scenarios where the &#8220;right&#8221; answer as per policy, feels &#8220;wrong&#8221; as per your gut. You can help by submitting scenarios <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/YReez9XKD9cP3q5y1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The next <a href=\"https:\/\/discordapp.com\/invite\/kb8fPwV\">Discord<\/a> hangout\u00a0is Tuesday, February 12th from 8-10 pm. It\u2019s been mostly social but I\u2019m also always there to answer questions, feel free to drop in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If you&#8217;re interested in hosting an educational or social discussion on Discord, let me know! I&#8217;ll post about it here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In region events with applications open right now (updated as more are added):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/11102\/\">SCG Regionals: New Jersey<\/a> &#8211; March 9th, apps close February 9th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/10771\/\">SCG Philadelphia<\/a> &#8211; March 16-17, apps close February 11th.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/11083\/\">PAX East<\/a> &#8211; March 28-31, apps close February 15th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/10775\/\">SCG Syracuse<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; May 18-19, apps close April 15th.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/11187\/\">MF Providence<\/a> &#8211; May 24-26, apps close March 1st.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, if there&#8217;s anything on your mind, feel free to contact me:<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:MissLinscott@gmail.com\">Email<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1405966822\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/6IBn1Ee7ZGa9pKgp1\">Slack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey friends, welcome to February! As usual, here&#8217;s a little about what to expect this month. News &#8211; Exemplar closes\u00a0Feb. 20, 2019, 2:59 AM EST. Get your nominations in! If you&#8217;d like to nominate someone and you don&#8217;t have a slot, let me know! &#8211; The PCs announced a new sphere, the Outreach Sphere, in [&hellip;]<\/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-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/northeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}