Organisational Structure
From Judge Wiki
An organization such as the Judge Program is operated by inspired individuals who contribute their time to the community and program they value. A number of leaders emerge who oversee larger areas of the program and whom others will want to contact regarding assisting in these areas or asking question regarding this area.
Communication Infrastructure
Responsible: Riccardo Tessitori
Manages processes and encourages projects aimed at increasing access to information for judges.
Examination Content
Responsible: Brian Schenck
Leads creation of, manages, maintains, and updates examination content for all levels of written testing. Ensures quality control of and validates examination content.
Investigations
Responsible: Eric Shukan
Leads DCI Investigations Committee. Reviews and adjudicates all disqualification investigations. Creates and maintains suspension guidelines.
Judge Conferences
Responsible: Damián Hiller, Gijsbert Hoogendijk
Oversees the coordinators of Judge Conferences all over the world, assisting Regional Coordinators on preparations for the best possible experience for attendees, and ensures knowledge transfer through the seminar library and conferences historical data. Sets the expectations for what defines a Conference; the requirements to organize one and the support given.
Knowledge Management/Documentation
Responsible: Christian Gawrilowicz
Analyzes and documents the current knowledge of the judge program. Identifies knowledge growth areas and assists other spheres in these areas.
Level 3 Judges
Responsible: Christopher Richter
Works as the advocate and coordinator for the level 3 judges. Acts as the liaison between the L3s and higher level judges.
Mentorship
Responsible: Frank Wareman
Develops relationships and content for Judge mentorship, to include promotion preparedness. Oversees scheduling of mentorship opportunities for large scale events. Manages Judge Review program.
Philosophy
Responsible: Kevin Desprez
The Philosophy Sphere aims at expanding throughout a series of articles the reasoning that led to make rules and rulings what they currently are, and why they came to change, if applicable.
Policy
Responsible: Toby Elliott
Creates and implements rules and policies for tournament operations.
Recognition
Responsible: Carlos Ho
Leads development and institution of program-level non-promotion recognition platforms. Manages distribution of recognition awards, to include those at large scale events.
Recruitment/Outreach
Responsible: Jason Lemahieu
Leads development of and implements programs and tools for judge acquisition in accordance with WotC corporate philosophy. Manages communications from within judge program to external sources. Manages content for and scheduling of Outreach efforts for large-scale events.
Regional Coordinators
Responsible: Cristiana Dionisio
Liaison between the L4 group and the RC group, provides coordination of the global efforts of the RC group's goals and tasks, provides leadership and insight on the challenges for the RCs and means to overcome issues they face.
Rules Education
Responsible: Scott Marshall
Creates and maintains standards for rules education. Leads creation of educational materials for judges and judge candidates. Coordinates with other Spheres implementation of content.
Scorekeeping
Responsible: Nicholas Fang
Creates and maintains scorekeeping philosophies and standards. Develops scorekeeper education content and coordinates its institution.
Technology Solutions
Responsible: t.b.d
Leads advocacy for and provides oversight of technological tools for use within the program. Serves as primary liaison for DCI Family Website.
Testing and Promotion
Responsible: Jeff Morrow
Creates and maintains standards and processes for all levels of promotion testing. Leads and schedules coordination of testing of individuals for L3.
Tournament Operations, Professional and Competitive
Responsible: Jurgen Baert
Leads creation of processes by which Professional and Competitive Tournaments are run. Creates, maintains, and coordinates use of continuity and best practices documentation.
Tournament Operations, Regular
Responsible: James Mackay
Leads creation of processes by which Regular Tournaments are run. Creates, maintains, and coordinates use of continuity and best practices documentation.
Web Content
Responsible: t.b.d
Manages web-based Program feature content, to include articles, reports, news, and announcements. Solicits content, and provides for its edit and update. Coordinates relationships between local- and program-level websites and mailing lists.
Earlier Organisational Units
Until Spring 2011 there were "Pillars" that grouped spheres into the areas "Leadership", "Infrastructure", "Internal Communication" and "External Communication". Each of these Pillars had a Level 5 judge as a leader and their responsibility was to support/lead the work of the sphere leaders.
Internal Communication ("How We Talk to Each Other")
Responsible: Riccardo Tessitori
Fosters sense of community within the program. Advocates for Judge communities and individuals. Provides ongoing Judge education and training.
External Communication ("How We Talk to the World")
Responsible: David Vogin
Presents and promotes the Judge Program and its members to players, organizers, and stores through a worldwide network of judges and Regional Coordinators. Extends the knowledge and resources of the Judge Program to other groups. Reinforces philosophy of a single Magic community.
Judging Professional Events
Responsible: Sheldon Menery
How we judge Professional Events and who these judges are. Define judge behavior and advocate/promote/foster judge attendance at competitive and professional events.
Infrastructure ("How We Do It")
Responsible: Toby Elliott
Creates and implements rules and policies for tournament operations.
Policy Documentation (Sphere)
Responsible: Nick Sephton
Guides creation and maintenance of Magic Tournament Rules. Functions as liaison between Organized Play and the Judge Program on tournament rules issues. This is now a project within the Policy Sphere.
Event Staffing (Sphere)
Responsible: Seamus Campbell
Guides Pro Tour staffing process. Correlates and maintains sponsorship application data for use in future sponsorship decisions. Creates and maintains professional event sponsorship process documentation and tools. In coordination with national offices or PTOs and regional leaders, guides Grand Prix staffing process. Creates and maintains sponsorship best practices and lessons learned documentation. Obsolete with the introduction of Regional Coordinators.
Seminars (Sphere)
Leads creation, maintenance, and implementation of Judge Seminars. Leads scheduling of Seminars for large scale events, to include content and presenters. Maintains Seminar Library. This is now a project within the Knowledge Management/Documentation Sphere.
