Chilliwack, BC February 15, 2025 Lessons from the Past This event was fun but had a few stumbling blocks last year. You can read about them in depth here. This year I wanted to start both the cEDH and main event earlier, as well as cut down the number of events offered. The previous year […]
2025-02-07 – SCG RC Portland
Portland, Oregon Friday February 7th – Sunday February 9th, 2025 Friday – LCQ Floor Judge Qualifying Organization LCQs are always some variety of disorganized, I’m starting to feel like LCQs are an issue that isn’t easily solvable. This time SCG was launching a constructed LCQ every half hour and a sealed LCQ every hour. There […]
2025-02-24 – RC Ottawa
Gatineau, Quebec Time: Friday January 24th – Sunday January 26th, 2025 Friday – Double Qualifier+ HJ Legal Angel During the Innistrad Remastered Sealed Qualifier AP asked me for the oracle text on Archangel Avacyn because, AP thought NAP was playing as if he had Archangel Avacyn in his hand, even though NAP had yet to […]
2025-01-04 – Face to Face Vancouver
Vancouver, BC Time: Saturday January 4th – Sunday January 5th, 2025 Saturday – Team Trios HJ A First (or Second) Time for Everything People that don’t work or live in Canada might not realize what a herculean feat running a Canadian Tour is. Canada has a similar area to the entirety of the US, but […]
2024-12-06 – LDXP Houston
Houston, Texas Time: Friday December 6th – Sunday December 8th, 2024 Friday – Side Events – Floor Judge Planeswalker Mockery AP casts Mockingbird choosing to copy Kaito, Bane of Nightmares, what are the characteristics of Mockingbird? The subtype “bird” becomes part of the copiable values for Mockingbird, and thus is applied in the copy effects […]
2024-11-22 – Eternal Weekend
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Time: Friday November 22nd – Sunday November 24th, 2024 Legacy Main Event Players: 1155 Friday – PM Sides Lead Modern is too… Modern On Thursday the Modern events didn’t launch, and on Friday they were some of the smallest side events. It’s a little weird since Modern is usually the premier format at […]
2024-11-15 – Regional Championship Calgary
Calgary, Alberta Time: Friday November 15th – Sunday November 17th, 2024 Players: 378 | Format: Pioneer Friday – Scorekeeping I haven’t scorekept at a large event since the mid-GP era. Where I had a rather catastrophic error which cascaded into causing some major issues for many other people in the event. it’s been a while […]
2024-11-03 – NRG Chicagoland
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 […]
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 […]