It would be easy to believe that investigating is the exclusive prerogative of the Head Judge. That’s not an uncommon way of thinking. It’s not unreasonable either. However, such a belief can be detrimental to the quality of an investigation. Let’s state it bluntly: Without Floor Judges, there would be no Investigations.
Author: KevinD
GP Milan HJ Report
Rulings of Note Outside Assistance ? The situation During Extra turn#1, AP takes his sideboarding notes and starts looking at them. Opponent calls a judge, who (correctly) rules a Match Loss (by himself since he is L3 and we empower all L3+s at GPs to issue GL/ML). It is appealed. Here’s the discussion: Me: […]
From counting cards to reconstructing game states
It’s not uncommon that there are doubts about whether a player drew an extra card or not. A good example of this is Guillaume Wafo-Tapa, alleged to have drawn an extra card during PT Journey into Nyx (which turned, after a thorough scrutiny of the video, to be false accusation). This is not an easy […]
GP New Jersey 2014
Watch the Game, see the cheats A guilty pause If you’ve read my GP LA report, you may have a feeling of déjà-vu During GP NJ, a judge was watching a game and witnessed the following: AP casts a creature. NAP says “counter this” while pulling a card out of his hand. At […]