{"id":18,"date":"2014-11-14T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/?p=18"},"modified":"2014-11-14T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:08:42","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/2014\/11\/14\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Store Events blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Fabian Peck, an L3 from Melbourne, Australia. I work as the Magic events coordinator in a store here running events from 8 player drafts up to prereleases with 800+ entries over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is going to be aimed at people running store level events; judges, store employees, tournament organisers and anyone else who&#8217;s interested. I encourage you to forward this to any local stores who might be interested, if they don&#8217;t have a judge on staff they&#8217;re unlikely to see this and I&#8217;d really like to get this info out to all the TOs operating without much support.<br \/>\nIf someone in their store is keen on this kind of stuff perhaps they&#8217;re interested in getting certified?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to assume a basic level of familiarity with Wizards Event Reporter (WER) and try and cover some things people don&#8217;t know you can do and tricks for using it effectively.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also going to be various tips and ideas for running events in store, both <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/regular\/2014\/03\/03\/what-is-regular-rules-enforcement-level-rel\/\">regular REL<\/a> events like FNM and competitive ones like Grand Prix Trials.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to cover any regular REL policy or judging stuff, there&#8217;s already a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/regular\/\">wonderful blog for that!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few topics lined up include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backups<\/li>\n<li>Preregistration in WER<\/li>\n<li>Scorekeeping multiple events simultaneously<\/li>\n<li>RTools<\/li>\n<li>Two-Headed Giant<\/li>\n<li>Hot Keys<\/li>\n<li>When and why you need higher level judges<\/li>\n<li>Tardiness<\/li>\n<li>Some ideas for various prize structures<\/li>\n<li>Factors that can influence judge compensation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got questions or there&#8217;s anything you&#8217;d particularly like to hear about send an email to runningstoreevents@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All, I&#8217;m Fabian Peck, an L3 from Melbourne, Australia. I work as the Magic events coordinator in a store here running events from 8 player drafts up to prereleases with 800+ entries over the weekend. This blog is going to be aimed at people running store level events; judges, store employees, tournament organisers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/store-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}