{"id":661,"date":"2018-08-15T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/?p=661"},"modified":"2018-08-15T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:05:20","slug":"pt-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/2018\/08\/15\/pt-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"PT 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIAO everyone<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago in Japan, last week in Italy, and this week in the United States; three weeks, three continents, this is the life of a Magic judge!<\/p>\n

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Pro Tour MINNEAPOLIS 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Pro Tour Minneapolis 2018<\/a>\u00a0was a special event, as it happened on the weekend of the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of the game<\/p>\n

There have been several initiatives from Wizards of the Coast for this year of celebration, both at the local level and at the international level (I heard that there was a BETA draft<\/a>), and this Pro Tour was one of the pinnacles of the celebration, with astounding prizes!<\/p>\n

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Minneapolis<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Minneapolis<\/a>\u00a0is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, and 45th<\/sup> largest city in the United States<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

\u201cthe name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the city’s first schoolmaster, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.\u201d<\/p>\n

City with an elegant skyline and beautiful parks and lakes, the city gifted the world of music with two talented artists: Bob Dylan and Prince.<\/p>\n

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The tournament<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

One of the areas that are quite different between Grand Prix and Pro Tour events is the feature match area.<\/p>\n

At the Pro Tour, the attention to the show and to broadcasting the most interesting games, to allow spectators at home to enjoy the competition, is at the highest level.<\/p>\n

The backstage area dedicated to studios and equipment is as large as the playing area (restricted access area, no photos, sorry ^__^), spectators at home can watch hours and hours of both game play and dedicated videos and commentary, and the players are surrounded by special lights, silence and a mystic atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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To assist them, judges have a few extra tools, that vary from tokens to labels (to give the clearest information possible to spectators at home) and live screens and connection to Twitch (note: the broadcasting has some seconds of delay, to prevent that unintentional shouting from spectators in the tournament room give information about topdecking to the opponents).<\/p>\n

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Curious moments<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A special masterpiece in the Minneapolis sculpture garden.<\/p>\n

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A special (and very expensive) chess set, in a games store in the Mall of America.<\/p>\n

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One of the gigantic Lego creations (you can see a few people in the photo\u2026 and I didn\u2019t make this robot bigger due to perspective), in the Mall of America.<\/p>\n

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Team Pro Tour = Judge teams<\/p>\n

Here you have my two \u201cteammates\u201d: Matteo Callegari and Luca Romano.<\/p>\n

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Time to go back home<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Another travel has ended, and it\u2019s time to go back home, recharge the batteries, do the laundry, cook some Italian dishes, hug my friends and kiss my family.<\/p>\n

Next adventure will be Grand Prix Brussels<\/a>, right next door, at only two hours by plane!<\/p>\n

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Under the spotlight in Minneapolis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tournament-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/riccardotessitori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}