Elmhurst, Illinois Time: Saturday November 3rd – Sunday November 4th, 2024 Saturday – Modern 10kHJ Preparation Makes Perfect I was 5k HJ of an NRG event in Chicago about 9 months ago, and after that I was the 10k HJ 6 months ago. For both those events, I didn’t circulate a team email (and even […]
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2024-10-16 – Cubecon
Madison, Wisconsin Time: Thursday October 16th – Sunday October 19th, 2024 Main Event Players: 569 Thursday – Coverage First Impressions The first thing any judge who applied to Cubecon encountered, was the odd shift structure: it’s $120/ shift, but shifts are only around 4-5 hours. Now $120/day is not good, but 240/day is actually just […]
2024-10-04 – Regional Championship DC
Washington, DC Time: Friday October 4th – Sunday October 6th, 2024 Main Event: Pioneer Players: 1817 Friday – LCQ Floor Judge A Qualifying Art I think in the current era, no one has yet come up with a super solid way to run LCQs. If you run them as On-Demands that cap at 64 or […]
2024-09-27 – CommandFest Toronto
Toronto, Canada Time: Friday September 27th – Sunday September 29th, 2024 Friday – ReCQ HJ Loopy Rulings While this didn’t happen at the event, it was discussed in the car ride on the way to the event, and I thought it was quite interesting. AP has Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and controls The Gitrog Monster, […]
2024-09-15 – Face to Face Regina
Saturday September 15th, 2024 Main Event: Modern | Players: 38 Role: Deck Checks Electronic Assistance What constitutes OA when deciding whether to draw into top 8 is murky at best. We all agree that if AP and NAP have sat down, discussing and looking at standings to determine whether to draw is fine (insofar as […]
2024-08-16 – MXP Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California Role: PM Scheduled Sides Lead Time: Friday August 16th – Sunday August 18th, 2024 The Tix Conundrum Long gone are the days of the prize tix station, in the current era most events prize out players at the table, by putting their tickets down at the start of the round. I think […]
2024-08-03 – Bastion RCQ
Chilliwack, British Columbia Players: 56 | Format: Modern Time: Saturday August 3rd, 2024 Small Beginnings It’s been a while since I’ve done an RCQ that’s its own standalone event, so I knew there were going to be some unexpected speedbumps. While this was maybe one standard deviation away from an in-store RCQ, it was still […]
2024-07-26 – SCG Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland Role: Scheduled Sides Lead Time: Friday July 26th – Sunday July 28th, 2024 Everyone Has a First Time For Baltimore, it was my first time being sides lead. In the past I’d done a cornucopia of positions for SCG, including team leading on the main event multiple times, being 5K HJ and being […]
2024-06-15 – Face to Face Red Deer
Red Deer, Alberta Time: Saturday June 15th 2024 33 Teams, Modern Horizons Team Sealed Role: Floor Judge Triggering Preservation NAP controls two creatures. AP controls Linvala the Preserver and casts a second one, what happens? Linvala enters the battlefield and her ability checks whether NAP controls more creatures than AP. At this point, they don’t […]
2024-06-07 – SCG Vegas
Vegas, Nevada Time: Friday June 7th – Sunday June 9th, 2024 Friday – Floor Judge – Not Checks Team A Valid Issue When starting an event, MTGMelee will often show you how many players are registered and how many decklists have been submitted. This won’t however, account for players that have input a decklist, but […]