JudgeCast #360 – Your First Large Event

About this episode

The episode discusses attending your first large gaming event and addresses common questions for new judges.

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." Join Bryan, Charles, and Marcos as we talk about attending your first big event. Maybe its a MagicCon, or an SCGCon, or a Regional Championship, or maybe, your first large event isn't even Magic related. Judges new to these events have a lot of questions, and the JudgeCast crew take a stab at pre-answering many of them, or letting you know where to find the answers. While our background is in Magic Tournaments, many of these questions/answers are common across all game IPs, and as other games are entering the tournament space, we are having more and more folks staffing these events for the first time.

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan, Charles, Marcos

Topics covered

• large events
• Magic tournaments
• game IPs
• first-time judges
• event staffing

Keywords

• large event
• MagicCon
• SCGCon
• Regional Championship
• tournament
• judges
• gaming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MagicCon, SCGCon, Regional Championship, Magic

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