Good evening! You may have noticed the relative silence from the Exemplar Highlights crew over the last few weeks. There have been a few changes and adjustments in the works that we are now ready to announce! The first and biggest change is that Daniel Lee (that’s me!) is now the Project Manager for Southwest […]
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Exemplar Highlight John Mills and Christopher O’Neill
Hello everyone, Brandon Agenbroad here. Today I would like to highlight John Mills’ recognition of Christopher O’Neill. John has been playing and working at Crazy Squirrel Games store for the past seven years. While working with TJ Morrison to set up the stores Magic inventory, John found out TJ would soon be moving. John realized with […]
Exemplar Highlights – Ray Bechtel and Matthew Johnson
Vicente here. Today our Exemplar Highlight takes us to one of our northernmost L2s in the Southwest region, Ray Bechtel. Ray’s journey into the world of Magic the Gathering began with the release of Onslaught. Having just graduated from High School, with money to burn, Ray purchased a Tournament pack, where he opened Weathered […]
Exemplar Highlights – Adena Chernosky and Brandon Salaz
John Hornberg here, sometimes, short and sweet speaks volumes about one’s actions. Such is the case will a piece of feedback and when it’s delivered. This was the case when Level 3 judge Adena Chernosky recognized an uncommon act of dedication by San Diego-based Level 2 judge Brandon Salaz at Grand Prix Vancouver. Adena pointed […]
Exemplar Wave 5
Hi all, David here with some thoughts on Exemplar as we approach the deadline for the current wave. Exemplar, to me, is a way to express something that I always felt lacked a mechanism in the program prior to its creation. Often, I saw a judge do something for a player or for others where I […]
Exemplar Highlights-featuring SeaCat and Christian Aguilar
Hello, everyone! I got a lot of positive feedback for the last piece I worked so it seems they decided to keep me around a while longer. Better not disappoint, I suppose. Regardless, we’re here with another awesome Exemplar Review from a really awesome judge: Sean Catanese! Added note, Sean writes too! I’ve actually read […]
Exemplar Highlights-featuring Jeremy Stoermer and Joe Kavanagh
Today in Exemplar Highlights……….. 2 amazing judges….1 heartfelt recognition. Jeremy started playing Magic when it was still in it’s infancy in 1994. As an avid gamer, it was only natural for Jeremy to be drawn to Magic when a friend’s dad showed him a Magic deck. Being a lover of fantasy games, the art was […]
Exemplar Highlights-featuring Christian Aguilar and John O’Donnell
Hello, my name is Fortunato (pronounced Four-Two-Knot-Toe) Acosta! For those of you who don’t know me, which is probably most, if not all, people reading this, I’m a fairly new L1 from Merced, California. I was approached to be part of a project that would find and promote some of the most awesome Exemplar reviews […]
The Southwest Region Blog!
Hi folks, Welcome to the Magic Judges’ Southwest Region Blog! The area captains and project leads will have the ability to post to this blog, and announcement and project updates and content will be posted here. Please follow us using your favorite RSS reader, and look forward to exciting updates, and also other kinds of […]