Have a special judge you’d like whom you’d like to show your appreciation? Nomination deadline for the Winter 2018 wave is coming up in just six days. Take some time to head over to JudgeApps and write a nomination highlighting all the good your judge colleagues or doing for community. They’ll appreciate it. In other […]
This weekend’s regional events for Feb. 3-4
Hi judges and players! Listed is the region’s first weekly lineup of events for judges and players — such as meetups, PPTQs, conferences and the like — throughout the US-Southwest region. Information provided was available through each store’s Facebook or website. If you would like to provide additional information or correct information for anything listed, […]
This weekend’s regional events for Jan. 27-28
Hi judges and players! Listed is the region’s first weekly lineup of events for judges and players — such as meetups, PPTQs, conferences and the like — throughout the US-Southwest region. Information provided was available through each store’s Facebook or website. If you would like to provide additional information or correct information for anything listed, […]
US-Southwest area leads for 2018 announced
From regional coordinator Angela Chandler: We are proud to announce the first class of leads for the US-Southwest region. Advancement Eric Lee – Arizona Vicente Davis – NorCal Jeremy Stoermer -SoCal Sam Lewis – Nevada PPTQ Devin Jones – Arizona Edward J Drew IV – NorCal Eric Cheung – SoCal Adam White […]
This weekend’s regional events for Jan. 20-21
Hi judges and players! Listed is the region’s first weekly lineup of events for judges and players — such as meetups, PPTQs, conferences and the like — throughout the US-Southwest region. Information provided was available through each store’s Facebook or website. If you would like to provide additional information or correct information for anything listed, […]
Exemplar Highlights – John Hornberg and Megan Holden
Hi, everybody! My name is Jeremy Fain. This is my first Exemplar Highlight, and one I’m super excited to share with you. It comes all the way from Las Vegas-based John Hornberg. In this recognition, John brings to our attention Megan Holden’s excellent performance while being interviewed for the Exemplar Highlights project. “Megan, I want […]
Exemplar Highlights – Angela Chandler and Victor Pinto
Hello again and welcome to our next Exemplar Highlight! This particular recognition comes from one of 2017’s largest events: Grand Prix Lax Vegas! Specifically, this recognizes the work of Victor Pinto in the time period after the event. I’ll let the Grand Prix Vegas Judge Conference organizer Angela Chandler explain: “Victor, After the conference held […]
Exemplar Highlights – Jeph Foster and Robert Harrington
Hello and welcome back to another exciting edition of Exemplar Highlights! I recently returned from Grand Prix Portland, and I was struck by how many judges on that event had never worked a Grand Prix before. They did an AMAZING job! To commemorate this, let’s look at an Exemplar recognition for a first-time Grand Prix […]
Exemplar Highlights Returns! Krystal Rose and James Hockman
Hello everyone and welcome back to Exemplar Highlights! You might be wondering to where exactly we have disappeared over the last few months. As many of you know, there was a Leadership Conference held in September that contained some good discussion and feedback for Exemplar Highlights. In particular, our focus on the author and recipient […]
A visual of the new Southwest Regional Leadership structure
Yesterday I announced that there would be a new structure in the Southwest for Leadership. It involved links for applications and explanations of what it would look like. Sometimes though, a visual guide can really improve our understanding of complicated systems. So let’s take a look: The Leads will all report to two coordinators, one […]