Always love watching the episodes that aren't all about the gameplay stuff, I find it more fun to learn about the stuff that makes our games work with Will and how he does everything from the judging side of things. Good stuff!
I’d love to hear more of Will Post in the future. I would love to hear more about the objective versus subjective rulings and it’d be nice to hear more of other Judging like “what would you do in this situation”. Also, I really wanted to hear Rapid Strike questions from Will regardless of being a player or not. We want the Rapid Fire questions!
Great interview and very informative. Just getting into the hobby as a player thanks to TCG Pocket and been absorbing as much as I can, and stuff like this looking at the inner workings of the highest tourneys is really awesome!
Great episode! Not sure if Will will be in the comments, but I may as well ask...two questions: Do you think judge compensation is where it should be at? Is that playing a roll in experienced judge turn over that you mentioned? And what would be the appropriate penalty/procedure in a situation where one of the prize cards was accidentally flipped over during game set up?
I asked Will and he just got back to me with a detailed response: I think judge compensation is greatly improved over what it has been in prior years and it's clear the company has listened to concerns over judge compensation. I think some aspects of judge comp and recruitment for tournaments need tweaking, but it's certainly not in the dire place it was a couple years ago. I think it had some role in judge turnover, but I think it's important to note that life changes (moving on from hobbies, growing families, changing job roles, etc) are probably a bigger overall factor. Generally, if a card is flipped over/revealed accidentally, we do our best to return it to where it's supposed to be and assess a warning. We don't want to penalize players for something like that when it happens by accident. I think you could find flaws in that system (a drawn extra card vs an accidentally revealed card carry two different penalties), but I think the flaws are going to exist in a system where we evaluate penalties based on damage to the game state, intent, and management of the game state, rather than a 1:1 measurement of "If this happened, then this is always the penalty" so it's an inconsistency I'm willing to accept for the moment.
I appreciate the judges, obviously we need them to be able to have big tournaments. But I do think there is a lot of bias amongst a big part of the judges. Idk if it's because there's a friend group that judge and encourage their friends to become judges but there is a big enough group of judges that can't or won't separate their emotion or personal beliefs from rulings. Rulings should be objective, by the book and that is just not what I see. That is my main complaint with judging
Always love watching the episodes that aren't all about the gameplay stuff, I find it more fun to learn about the stuff that makes our games work with Will and how he does everything from the judging side of things. Good stuff!
Appreciate it Kash! 💜
Ayyy a judge special! Will is such a legend and an inspiration
I’d love to hear more of Will Post in the future. I would love to hear more about the objective versus subjective rulings and it’d be nice to hear more of other Judging like “what would you do in this situation”. Also, I really wanted to hear Rapid Strike questions from Will regardless of being a player or not. We want the Rapid Fire questions!
We had some things we talked about before we never got to, we'll definitely plan on repeating sometime in the future!
Great interview and very informative. Just getting into the hobby as a player thanks to TCG Pocket and been absorbing as much as I can, and stuff like this looking at the inner workings of the highest tourneys is really awesome!
Glad it was helpful! And welcome to the IRL game, hope you enjoy it as much as I do
I met will before. He’s a great judge
Will was my HJ in Charlotte 2023....we had our hands full in the Juniors division.
@ it was always those divisions that had their hands full
I’ve only been a judge since October 2024 and only for events of less than 15 people, so I’m very interested to learn more about this!
Hopefully it's helpful!
This is awesome, love this channel
Appreciate it 💜
I’ve been a judge since 2022. This is a great video
Glad it got your approval!
Appreciate the podcast and I like the content!
Glad you enjoy it! Makes it worth the time it takes
This is so jokes, we just finished recording our epi yesterday with a judge as well and I'm just seeing this now #STEALFROMLAKEOFRAGE - Aneil
You're always biting our style
Tables after 500 are the most fun. 😂 You’ll see decks out of this world.
Great episode! Not sure if Will will be in the comments, but I may as well ask...two questions:
Do you think judge compensation is where it should be at? Is that playing a roll in experienced judge turn over that you mentioned?
And what would be the appropriate penalty/procedure in a situation where one of the prize cards was accidentally flipped over during game set up?
I asked Will and he just got back to me with a detailed response:
I think judge compensation is greatly improved over what it has been in prior years and it's clear the company has listened to concerns over judge compensation. I think some aspects of judge comp and recruitment for tournaments need tweaking, but it's certainly not in the dire place it was a couple years ago. I think it had some role in judge turnover, but I think it's important to note that life changes (moving on from hobbies, growing families, changing job roles, etc) are probably a bigger overall factor.
Generally, if a card is flipped over/revealed accidentally, we do our best to return it to where it's supposed to be and assess a warning. We don't want to penalize players for something like that when it happens by accident. I think you could find flaws in that system (a drawn extra card vs an accidentally revealed card carry two different penalties), but I think the flaws are going to exist in a system where we evaluate penalties based on damage to the game state, intent, and management of the game state, rather than a 1:1 measurement of "If this happened, then this is always the penalty" so it's an inconsistency I'm willing to accept for the moment.
@@MellowMagikarp Thanks for the follow up Kevin!
What year was the 'North/South sleeve rule' implemented?
Not a clue unfortunately
I am pokedad and tell my son always appeal to get better understanding.
Great advice haha
I appreciate the judges, obviously we need them to be able to have big tournaments. But I do think there is a lot of bias amongst a big part of the judges. Idk if it's because there's a friend group that judge and encourage their friends to become judges but there is a big enough group of judges that can't or won't separate their emotion or personal beliefs from rulings. Rulings should be objective, by the book and that is just not what I see. That is my main complaint with judging
You always have the right to appeal to the Head Judge, or submit a support ticket.