{"id":88,"date":"2016-02-27T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-02-27T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:19:12","slug":"judge-mob-at-air-traffic-on-february-24th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/2016\/02\/27\/judge-mob-at-air-traffic-on-february-24th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Mob at Air Traffic on February 24th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Judge Mob? \u00a0Why do it&#8230;and what is it?<\/h2>\n<p>One good question to ask yourself is: &#8220;Why do you judge?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0common answer people give is &#8220;I love hanging out with other judges&#8221;, to that end in early 2015 I started a monthly judge social event called Judge Mob. The idea being that we could easily meet at a store on a weekday when they had nothing going on, much like a flash mob taking over a store. The main rule is have fun, the secondary rule is no presentations &#8211; we just want to play games, not worry about presenting. Since there are judges there normally is one or more EDH games going and I try and mix up the format for the other event like at previous Judge Mobs we have played formats such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2HG draft<\/li>\n<li>Borg Cube where people bring cards that are combined to form the &#8220;cube&#8221; we draft.<\/li>\n<li>Wacky draft formats such as RTR, Theros, Khans of Tarkir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judge Mobs are\u00a0great for networking &#8211; inexperienced judges get to hang out with higher level judges or in this case our Regional Coordinator Rob McKenzie. Or seeing an old friend and longtime judge that doesn&#8217;t get a chance to judge lately or outside their LGS. Like last night Shiny showed up with some friends, he&#8217;s been busy at work\u00a0 so he hasn&#8217;t had a chance to judge events, but could make some time to hang out on the evening. We also make the event open to people who aren&#8217;t judges so you can also meet up with players that are interested in becoming a judge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Judge_Mob\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob-1024x647.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We held the most recent on on February 24th at Air Traffic Games in Maple Grove MN, I chose the store as they are advanced and not a lot of judges had been there. The format of choice was Team Limited Trios as people wanted to practice playing or judging because of Grand Prix Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>We had 4 teams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"_5yl5\">Bad-Ass Bearls<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_5yl5\">Edible Breakfast Products<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_5yl5\">Half the Gatewatch<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Team Shiny<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob2-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Judge_Mob2\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob2-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/files\/2016\/02\/Judge_Mob2-735x1024.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Round 1<\/h2>\n<p>Bad-Ass Bearls defeated Edible Breakfast Products<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Half the Gatewatch<\/span> defeated Team Shiny<\/p>\n<h2>Round 2<\/h2>\n<p>Half the Gatewatch defeated Bad-Ass Bearls<\/p>\n<p>Edible Breakfast Products defeated Team Shiny<\/p>\n<p>Then some people had to leave because they worked early the next morning so the rest of us just talked about various judge stuff for an hour. It&#8217;s what usually happens and why you don&#8217;t have to plan a presentation. Also eventually I figured out that every month gets a little tiring so now it&#8217;s more like every other month or just when it feels right to have an event.<\/p>\n<p>So if you like hanging out with other judges and who doesn&#8217;t, try planning a judge social event. It can be as simple as &#8220;hey I&#8217;m going to be at this store Wednesdays, who wants to play EDH?&#8221; or &#8220;lets have a potluck for the holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Bearl talks about the Judge Mob just run at Air Traffic, and about judge social gatherings in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bearls-of-wisdom","category-judge-gatherings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usanorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}