Soon-to-be a decade ago, I used to be a player. A competitive player. I’d only judge PTQs if I was qualified for the corresponding PT. This background means I love watching games. I get thrilled watching tense games. I still remember that quarter-finals between Eduardo Sajgalik and Shi Tian Lee at PT RtR: So many […]
Category: Tournament procedures
Preventing Serious Problems™
First, if you’re wondering why the penalty for Improperly Determining a winner (IDaW) and Bribery is a Disqualification, you should read this article first. Done? Good, you can proceed reading! Unlike Cheating, knowledge of the rule is not required to identify IDaW and Bribery. This means that sometimes, a player who did not know […]
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 […]
Tournament Procedures — Filling a Result Slip
I’m just back from GP Valencia where I’ve acted as Main Event Scorekeeper. 1076 players did not prove hard to deal with, results entry-wise, and that gave me some time to get interested in how judges fill a result slip.