Tournament reports for fun and profit
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A critical reflection and analysis of specific events or situations that you
encounter as a judge to provide a learning tool for other readers.
What are they, anyway?
Sharing your experiences
Start a discussion
Review situations that happened
Education/mentoring
Why write them?
The more you take, the more material you can
work with.
Easier to discard extra notes than trying to recall
what happened!
1. Notes!
What were your biggest takeaways?
Did you learn something particularly useful or interesting that you would like to share?
2. Select a few interesting topics/themes
- Unexpected logistical challenges (such as seating arrangements)
- Investigations that resulted in unexpected outcomes
- Challenges and/or goals and how they were met/overcome
Examples
Go into more detail - enough for the audience to learn and give feedback
Focus on discussion and insight
3. Explore/elaborate on topics
Adrian is playing Splinter Twin in Modern and has a mountain, 2 islands and scalding tarn untapped. At the end of Nicole’s turn, Adrian casts Cryptic Command to bounce a creature and draw a card. After Adrian untaps he realized he could not cast the spell. They call you and you decide to rewind to the point of the error.
Roundtable time
The situation was [as occurred]. I decided to do a rewind, but in retrospect it was a mistake. I did not take into account that replacing a random card from Adrian’s hand means that he can crack the fetchland,
shuffle and draw a fresh card, especially as he was playing a combo deck that required specific cards,
which may damage the game state further than keeping it as is. Next time I am going to do a rewind, I will take possible game states that may occur in mind
when deciding whether to issue a rewind.
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It’s important to have a good introduction and conclusion!
Introduce the audience to what you want to say in the report
Close out with thoughtful analysis
4. Round the report off
Remember - the report is about what happened to YOU
Share YOUR knowledge, what YOU learned, and how YOU did so!
5. Be Personal