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I have been judging for a little over two years. Like many others, I started by judging our Saturday weekly tournaments.  Once a quarter, I would instead help the PTO for the Sneak Preview and/or Regional. Eventually our local crowd grew and now we have both Tues night and Sat afternoon tournaments. I travel to one or two SJCs each year to ...

The usual process is to 1) Click on Create a New Tournament 2) Give the tournament a name 3) Click whether this will be a sanctioned tournament 4) Enter a location 5) Enter the Tournament Organizer's UDE number 6) Enter the Head Judge information 7) Then you get down the section at which you are stuck. Did you complete the preceeding steps ...

You can use this link to check your Yu-Gi-Oh! sanctioned event playing history http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/yugioh/en/wannaduel/yugioh_matchhistory.aspx?ude=109373962

First, the tournament in which you play has to be sanctioned tournament. Second, your tournament organizer (TO) or store owner needs to close and upload the tournament data from Mantis.  Sometimes they can forget to do this or don't necessarily perform the data upload the day the actual tournament occured. Finally, you must wait for the

My suggestion is to run the recommended number of Swiss Rounds. Then the recommended size playoff.  If the store or judges do not have time to do both, perform the recommended rounds of Swiss first.  If not enough time for a Top 8 playoff, try a Top 4; if no time for either you can Top 2 or no playoff.  It is best for the ...

If players drop from the tournament before the playoff is paired, they will not be part of the playoff. With 20+ people in the tournament there should have been 5 rounds and one undefeated 5-0 player.  Anyone ending up with 3-0 record did not complete all rounds of swiss, so they cannot be part of the playoff.

This would actually be helpful. After helping out at an SJC if I can remember 1 or 2 of the judges' names by face, I am doing well.

Well I just got back from helping judge at SJC Tulsa. I can tell you that the Head Judge for that event, our esteemed Forum Moderator, covered these exact topics through e-mail Q&A the week prior to the event with all the judge staff.  Franklin then summarized the results as part of the judge meeting Saturday morning. I plan on adapting ...

I think the problem is not so much on testing access but access to L3/PM3 or L2/PM2 who are local or near-local for on-going mentorship. John Danker wrote: There are currently about 100 L3 certified Yugioh RK3 judges and 17 PM3 certified judges, that signals to me that L3 certification testing is available to those who have made the effort to ...

In the Denver area, there is only 1 chance this year for a SJC, this weekend's Tulsa, OK. It is not 3-5 hrs away, but 10-11 hours of driving time away, aka 700+ miles. This week I changed from playing in the Tulsa SJC to helping judge the event. Coincident with my finally learning to play Lightsworn well (Top 8 in weekend tournament, Top 2 last ...