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My weirdest judge call at an event was: "Judge, someone has stolen my discard pile"...

Prize Loss for first offense in not according to Penalty Guidelines even if judged as major: Cities are a Tier 1 tournament where the recommended starting penalty is Warning for Major GPE. Next, I would disagree with assessing this as Major and the right term was already named in OP...

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1. I mostly agree with Fincastle here. There are so many cards which set the hand size to a certain amount that it is often pretty easy to determine the hand size prior to the error. However, if I can fix the game state to the exact correct one, I would never go above a Warning for first offense...

After the first installment of the new, expanded-only tournament series with parallel VG tournament organized by the German and Austrian distributor Amigo-Spiele, there is more to come. The next stop will be in December in Bremen. Will Mega Gengar EX rise to the top of the Expanded format? Can...

The first Arena-Cup is in the books and 134 players from the TCG side and 83 players from the VGC side from 11 different countries were in attendance. Coverage, meta-game breakdowns and more can be found on event.amigo-spiele.de. Video footage of the feature matches should be go up on the...

Amigo-Spiele, the distributor of Pokemon TCG in Germany and Austria announced their plans for the new Arena Cup series (special local series) for 2014/15. What is known so far: * Instead of being within one month or two like before, Arena Cups will be spread over the season * They will give...

1. For me, this would be enough to start an investigation on "Cheating". I would certainly examine all the other dice of that player (especially if there would be a die with 4 even and 2 odd numbers, this would raise a red flag) and certainly ask for a detailed rundown of events and then go from...

Over here in Germany, we lose massively players from the Casual department because the tournaments last for too long. Especially, practically all Juniors with competetively playing parents completey lose interest because when their parents play the 2 to 3 extra rounds, they now have to wait...

So, up to round 5 we have two infractions of Drawing extra prize cards and one infraction of drawing extra cards. This is not what I would consider being clean play especially when we are talking about a player with a vast experience in tournaments. On a general note (that means this it not...

I have the best experience with Dragonshields. If you take a little bit care, a 100-sleeves pack can be used for a very long time. Ultra Pro are generally blegh. They come in 50-packs, and if you buy the same color, you might not have the same color. And KMC are even worse. I bought once a 2x40...

I can tell you this: The people are completely panicking overhere, and preregistrations for the Arena Cups are skyrocketing at the moment.

Yeah, if you have a problem shuffling due to some kind of physical limitation, event staff will do everything possible to assist you. Some years ago we had a German Nationals a six-year-old kid who broke her hand some days before the tournament but wanted to play. We got her a shuffling person...

Oh, i care. This means, for a deck size of 60 cards, we have 8.8605?

Yeah, I was watching this too and I was applauding in front of my computer, when Ben Potter said that bolded part because it is so spot on.

What we see here is a perfectly executed "mana weave". This will be a good training video for my judges.

Roflcopter alert! Let me explain it to you: Suppose you are a honest player, but you are declumping. Because you are honest, you go afterwards and shuffle thoroughly and sufficiently. After you have done this the odds of "bad" card distributions are the same as they were before declumping...

Unfortunately, there are two threads on this topic, so I will choose this one. After watching this video, I have to say that this is a clear case of "insufficiently randomizing your deck". I mean, in the end, Zach is presenting a completely unrandomized deck. He looks in the cards, resorts...

To add to ajhawk: I think that more games would be ended in time, if players would finally adhere to the rules of timely play. it is no secret that taking more time to think will enhance the quality of your decisions. So, anyone not adhering to the rules of timely play gives himself an unfair...

So then what would be the sense of all this? As long as the tournament rules do not state this as a necessity, in the end, distributors will - as usual - be allowed to do what they deem to be appropriate. As we have seen above, playing best-of-three 40 minutes is okay, although it is clearly a...