Tournament Operations, Professional and Competitive (Sphere)
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Sphere Content
Below are a number of sections, each of them linked to different parts of the wiki. Whether you're a new L1 judge going to your first Grand Prix Trial event, or a seasoned L4 head judging your tenth Grand Prix, the below can be a valuable source of information!
Competitive Tournaments at Home
Operating Large Events
General Information
- Teams, what are they for and how do they operate?
- Tournament Best Practices: what to do and what to avoid!
- Judge Tasks: things you can expect to do at a large event; ranging from common and uncommon tasks to mythic ones!
Team Leading at Large Events
- How to manage your team: succesfully getting everyone through a hard day's work
- Running the Logistics Team: common tasks and responsibilities
- Running the Paper Team: because you're a time saver!
- Running the Deck Check Team: it's all about being organized
- Mentorship: don't forget that a good team leader should be a great mentor
The Head Judge Perspective
- Team structure: what options do you have for dividing your staff?
- General Organization: things to pay attention to...
- Investigations: resources for performing an investigation
- Tournament Announcements: how to do a tournament announcement
Public Events at Large Shows
- Working the Floor at Public Events
- Organizing Public Events
- Running 8man Pickup Events
- Last Chance GPT Grinders on Friday before the GP
Policies and best practices
- Judge attire policy.
- Card alteration policy.
- Card stamping best practices.
- Policy on sharing deck content during top8.
Sphere Vision
The sphere of Tournament Operations, Professional and Competitive, ensures that events are run in an efficient and consistent manner around the globe.
The end goal of the work under this sphere is to ensure players at Competitive/Professional events are having a positive experience regarding the event. This not only means that they have fun, it also involves managing other expectations: timeliness of the tournament, general logistics, staff professionalism etc.
The vision for implementing this is twofold: information and empowerment.
Standardizing every event everywhere is not the way to go. Different tournaments in different settings have more to gain from an adapted (but consistent!) logistical approach, than from pure textbook uniformity. People may be more comfortable implementing a system they and their players know than being forced to use an approach that feels artificial in their tournament setting.
However, by spreading the word on existing techniques, explaining how things can work and what options are available, judges will be able to make informed decisions. We do this by informing people about ways to implement the different options and up-and downsides of each approach. Spreading this information to judges and tournament organizers alike is undoubtedly one of the best ways of guaranteeing quality tournaments around the world.
With this information at their fingertips, tournament officials can make educated choices, adapted to the needs of each event. My experience tells me that judges are skilled individuals with a heart for the game. They have good ideas and they know how to execute them. Empowering these judges to make these choices and implement them, will allow them to run the best events that they can.
Current Projects
- Trapped Decklists - Daniel Beaupre
- GP Decklists - Pietro Lombardi
- Decklist Experimentation - Fabian Peck
- GP Travel Guides - Ben McDole
- Wikification - Michael Wiese
Future Projects
Old Projects
- Team Leading Structures - Richard Drijvers
- Nationals Organisation - Johanna Virtanen
An attempt was made to coordinate the head judges for various European Nationals. Obsolete with the introduction of Regional Coordinators.
