Happy New Years Everyone,

Many of you already know that we are trying to make sure that every Judge that participates in a Grand Prix has a photo, ideally wearing the official Judge shirt, in both the Judge Center and here on Judge Apps. This project spills over to Judge Conferences, Star City Games events, and other events with the help of many. We even get the chance at times to get some photos of Judges actually judging which make for great memories. Additionally we help to coordinate the group staff photo, and the staff list blog.

Photos from this project are available on both the Magic Judges Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/MagicJudges, as well as the Staff List Blog Site, http://blogs.magicjudges.org/stafflists/.

At the time of writing this 90.5% of the 824 Level 2 Judges in the Judge Center have a photo uploaded.

David and I would like to take a moment and thank all of the judges who have helped with this project in 2013.

Indianapolis – Bernd Buldt
Denver – Justin Hovdenes
Atlantic City – Stephan Classen
Singapore – Sashi Balakrishnan
Bilbao – Gilles Henneton
Sydney – James Stewart
London – Thomas Ralph
Charlotte – Zak Whyte
Yokohama – Joe Lau
Rio de Janeiro – Jorge Peñailillo
San Diego – James Elliott
Portland – Bob Narindra
Beijing – Simon Lee
Guadalajara – Edna Murcia
Gothenburg – Eskil Myrenberg
Houston – Alex Jacques
Bangkok – Shing Nien Fong
Kansas City – Stefan Mackiewicz
Rimini – Irina Samonova
Warsaw – Andrzej Cwalina
Oakland – Ralph Colby
Prague – Steffan Baumgart
Detroit – Patrick Cool
Oklahoma – Alex Jacques
Brisbane – Sashi Balakrishnan
Louisville – John Temple
Hong Kong – Sashi Balakrishnan
Santiago – Daniel Ortiz
Valencia – Antonio Jose Rodriquez Jimenez
Washington DC – Eddie Cheung
Kyoto – Khanh Le Thien
Toronto – Rob Johnson
Vienna – Steffan Baumgart

In coordination with the judges taking the photos We would like to thank the Head Judges and Tournament Organizers for being very receptive throughout the project.

A few photographers have gone above and beyond and took the time to get some candids of judges at work. A special thanks to Alessandra Farina, Saverio Adamo, Rob Johnson, Iva Kleiner and Richard Kelterbaum for these special albums.

GP Verona and more
https://www.facebook.com/magiccoverage/photos_albums
GP Rimini
http://on.fb.me/1deCrXM

GP Toronto
http://on.fb.me/1deCt1M

GP Verona
http://on.fb.me/1l5vMWN

GP London
http://on.fb.me/1hkb3yo

GP Utrecht
http://on.fb.me/1bCJYyt

GP Strasbourg
http://on.fb.me/1cLXbJU

GP Warsaw
http://on.fb.me/1cpQhFJ

GP Prague
http://on.fb.me/1bCK88Q

Antwerp
http://on.fb.me/JxogWr

Vienna
http://on.fb.me/1bCK8pE

This year Star City Games also started to help the project by ensuring all of the judges selected to work at any Open Series events have an appropriate photo taken if needed. Special thanks to Steven Zwanger for coordinating this.

We would also be remiss if we didn’t thank Carsten Haese for doing some special coding work for us to be able to upload photos to Judge Apps for others. This was a huge step for us in being able to ensure the photos taken are used.

If you plan to attend a Grand Prix in 2014 and are interested in helping out this project please reach out to me directly at salamin@gmail.com for more information.

On behalf of David de la Iglesia and myself thank you for reading, and thanks again to everyone who helped in 2013.

Rick Salamin