In this Judge Conference learning sessions, Jeff Morrow will discuss ‘Resources available to judges’.

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In this Judge Conference learning sessions, Tody Elliot will discuss ‘How to recover from judging mistakes ‘.

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In this Judge Conference learning sessions, Tody Elliot will discuss ‘How you can help the DCI’.

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In this short interview, Sean interviews his wife Lindsay about her perspective on Magic, judges, and how the game can be more accessible to women. Some of the interview questions were blatantly stolen from the guys over at RedSiteWins in their interviews with their significant others (http://redsitewins.com/2011/08/09/2286/). We’ll look for more opportunities to bring in women who judge Magic as future guests, so stay tuned. Enjoy!

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Thanks, as always, to our gracious hosts at MTGCast.com!

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This episode, our guest is CJ Shrader, L2 from Atlanta. He’s got a judge conference coming up. You should go. Also, now we know what it takes to become a L3 Judge. Riki helps us cover the checklist and explain some of the rationale behind it. A few crazy-weird rules questions later, we find ourselves reading a great response to our last episode sent to us by the amazing Pete Jahn. It’s an awesome show, and we’re glad to have you join us. Send us your questions: judgecast@gmail.com, or find us on Facebook.

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This episode is chock full of guest goodness. Riki returns for his second show in a row, Jose is also here. But wait, there’s more! We’re joined by Michael Jimenez, Californian L2 and fellow Canada-basher, and Andreas Jepsen, the intrepid Danish L3.

Contents include inspiring stories, rules discussions, poorly-read-in-accent listener questions, Magic Celebration, and deep philosophical tournament organizer questions. And banter. Yes, the banter.

Send your questions, comments, and feedback to judgecast@gmail.com and maybe you’ll have your message misread on air next time!

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Riki’s back for this extended-double-huge episode, and he brings the banter. In this mountain of content, we discuss the new changes to the Magic Infraction Procedure Guidelines, tons of great listener questions, Pro Tour Philly anticipation, and all manner of other things Judge. Riki tells us about a couple classic moments in SCG Open history, one of which is documented here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYh7cJAzHR4 and we also reference the Commander decks FAQ (yes, it exists!) here: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/rules/faqs

You can send your questions, comments, and other cheers and jeers to JudgeCast@gmail.com. We promise to get back to you sooner than our next recording session…

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For this episode, Sean and Jose discuss the new judge classes you can find here:http://wiki.dcifamily.org/index.php/Judge_Classes, changes to FNM’s offerings, listener questions, characteristic-defining abilities, and fixing the last episode where Sean cut a part out that he shouldn’t have.

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Kevin Binswanger re-joins our crew for this riveting, timely episode! Your intrepid hosts cover myriad varied subjects this time around, including the May rules changes and updates (http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/141a) and the NPH FAQ just in time for your local prerelease (http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/703). We’ll also discuss at length the changes to definining what a Level 1 judge is, and what’s in store for the Magic Judge program going forwardhttp://community.wizards.com/judge/blog/2011/05/04/level_requirements_and_testing_sphere_report

We’re proud to announce the California-Canada Magic Judge Challenge, where teams of judges from each region are challenging one another in a race to 100 judges and 5 new promotions. If you’re a prospective judge in California, send us a note at JudgeCast@gmail.com and we’ll get you in touch with your local Level 2 judge to start you on the path (Canadians can politely ignore this message).

As always, we finish up with a couple listener questions, and are happy to take yours, just send it to judgecast@gmail.com!

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We’ve been a long time gone…and a lot’s happened during our time away.  Nonetheless, send your rules questions tojudgecast@gmail.com (we’ve been answering them even on hiatus).

In this episode, Sean and Jose cover new developments in the DCI, including a mass of levels-up, premier event changes, and – part of the reason for our hiatus – California’s victory over Spain in getting to 75 certified judges (with 5 more in the last month!).

Sean Head Judged Regionals and Jose led Logistics there, so Jose gets an on-air mini-review of his performance.

We’ll also discuss the New Phyrexia spoiler fiasco and a few of the more rules-intensive cards the set has to offer.

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