Friday: Scheduled Events Manager A quick introduction to the position Managing positions are usually sought after. They’re way trickier as most judges feel they are. It’d be easy to think that the job is simply about making sure all tournaments start on time, but that is only the pre-requisite. As a TO, I […]
Category: Tournament Reports
GP Shizuoka HJ Report
Rulings of note Underpaying a spell AP controls 7 lands. He casts a morph, then a Sultai Scavenger, tapping 2 Swamps and exiling 3 cards only (while the spell costs 5B). As he passes the turn with two lands untapped, allowing him to activate Dazzling Ramparts, the opponent involves us. After […]
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: […]
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 […]