{"id":825,"date":"2016-01-06T01:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T01:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/?p=825"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:44:39","slug":"owning-your-mistakes-scg-open-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/reports\/2016\/01\/06\/owning-your-mistakes-scg-open-somerset\/","title":{"rendered":"Owning Your Mistakes – SCG Open Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christopher<\/a>

Christopher Cahill, Level 2, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States<\/p><\/div>\n

This tournament report will cover the SCG Legacy Open at Somerset, NJ on November 28. I was a member of the Clock\/EOR team on Saturday with Joe Hughto<\/a><\/span><\/span> leading and Rob McKenzie<\/a><\/span><\/span> as our head judge. I will provide a brief discussion of the tournament and my role in it on Saturday, followed by a lengthy story of one particular call that I think can be useful as a teaching tool for myself and others.<\/p>\n

We had 5 teams for Saturday, all code-named for movies involving cops: Deck Checks (\u201cRush Hour\u201d), Clock\/End-Of-Round (\u201cTime Cop\u201d), Watch Magic\/Sides (\u201cHot Fuzz\u201d), Paper (\u201cPolice Academy\u201d), and Coverage (\u201cTurner and Hooch\u201d). As I mentioned above, I was on the Clock\/EOR team which means that our main responsibilities were to start and reset the round clock and manage the end of round procedure. Since our main duties only pop up at the beginning and end of the rounds, the rest of the round, we were responsible for floor coverage.<\/p>\n

Throughout the day, responsibility for the clipboard for EOR was shared between most of the members of our team. Even with 27 judges on staff, we decided it was not feasible to break entire teams at once, so we instead had one-two members per team on break for rounds 3, 4 and 5. The main reason to not break entire teams is that without a dedicated SOS\/Breaks team, we did not want to lose any one team\u2019s function for an entire round. By scheduling breaks such that a couple members of each team are off each round, all of the major functions of each team can continue with the remaining members.<\/p>\n

Legacy events seem to go one of two ways with regards to judge calls. Either there are very few, since many players are very familiar with their decks and the potential interactions, or there are many calls, as players have trouble navigating all the complexities that Legacy can bring. This event fell in the latter category. Even with all of the many judges on the floor, I was taking multiple calls per round. Most were oracle text, or simple interaction questions. A couple examples:<\/p>\n