Hey all Christian here with another Highlight! This time we will be taking a look at Jeremy Fains recognition to the kind giant Joe Sapp. Jeremy started playing during the Zendikar block, more specifically during Worldwake in 2010. Then in 2014 he decided he wanted to affect and contribute to the community in a way […]
Category: Exemplar Highlights
Exemplar Highlight – Christian Aguilar and David Zimet
This is Angela Chandler coming to you straight from Wave 5 with another Exemplar Highlight. This time, let’s take a look at the man of mystery himself, David Zimet, through the words of Christian Aguilar. Being the Regional Coordinator, David is one of the most familiar judges in our region, yet he is swathed in […]
Exemplar Highlights Josh Stansfield and Angela Chandler
Exemplar Wave 5 is here! That means even more exemplar highlights! Hi, I’m Ralph and I’d like to highlight someone that has been doing a lot of hard work behind the scenes lately. Here is one of her many exemplar recs and it was hard to choose just one! Josh Stansfield is an L3 from […]
Exemplar Highlights – Jeremy Stoermer and Nichole Johnson
Hi, John here, with another highlight for this week, zeroing in on the region’s best and most valuable contributors. This one comes from Jeremyah Stoermer, whose Exemplar nomination looks back at the help one Level 2 judge — Victorville’s Nichole Johnson — provided when he was working his way up, and to the work she […]
Exemplar Highlights – Eliana Rabinowitz and Alex Kelemen
Hello, everyone! It’s Fortunato Acosta, that guy with knots and toes in his name! It’s been over a month since I wrote one of these and I missed it a lot–but I must say the other authors do a phenomenal job doing this, I’d go as far as to say probably all do a much […]
Exemplar Highlights – Eric Lee and Doug Patrick
Welcome to Exemplar Highlights. My name is Sal Cortez and I am a L1 from Atwater CA. Today I will be highlighting Eric Lee’s recognition of Doug Patrick. Eric began to play Magic the Gathering during the Alara block, despite knowing about it for years. After going undefeated at the Dark Ascension pre-release, two of […]
Exemplar Highlights – Steven Zwanger and Travis Lauro
Angela Chandler here to bring you more exemplary goodness. Steven Zwanger has been a part of the judge community for over 19 years! I would also be willing to bet that he is one of the only active judges in the judge community who went from uncertified straight to L2. Steven originally passed his L1 […]
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 […]