Some amazingly n00bish questions from a new Head Judge
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This weekend I am planning on going down to judge a WoW TCG regionals. I got a phone call today bumping me up to Head Judge, but I have a few n00bish questions:
1) I have never actually issued a penalty before! The past regionals I've judged, when I felt a penalty was in order, I informed the Head Judge/TO and they took care of it, but I think it's time I stopped doing that. What is the proper procedure when issuing a penalty?
2) How exactly do you check decks, when the deck list is incorrect? Do you just let the player know their decklist is incorrect, issue them a game loss, then tell them to fix it? Or do you take their deck from them and do a check yourself? (laying out all the cards on a table or something)
2.1) Hypothetical situation: Player A has listed 5 Leeroy Jenkins on his decklist, and 61 cards total, making the deck list incorrect. I check his deck, and find he only has 3 Leeroy Jenkins in the deck, and the final count is 59. How do you handle something like this?
3) Also, how exactly do you do a 'natural card count'? I understand the basics of counting players hands, counting resources, counting graveyards. How do you factor in quests? The easy ones would be quests like 'Your Fortune Awaits You' where you just add 1 card to that player's 'count', but what about poison water, or Big Game Hunter, when you can't prove how many cards in their GY they shuffled in, or if their 'Big Game Hunter' was succesful. What do you do?
4) When doing a draft, what happens if you have a player who only drafts 29 playable cards?
Click here to view the full discussion Then feel free to return to discuss the subject here.1) I have never actually issued a penalty before! The past regionals I've judged, when I felt a penalty was in order, I informed the Head Judge/TO and they took care of it, but I think it's time I stopped doing that. What is the proper procedure when issuing a penalty?
2) How exactly do you check decks, when the deck list is incorrect? Do you just let the player know their decklist is incorrect, issue them a game loss, then tell them to fix it? Or do you take their deck from them and do a check yourself? (laying out all the cards on a table or something)
2.1) Hypothetical situation: Player A has listed 5 Leeroy Jenkins on his decklist, and 61 cards total, making the deck list incorrect. I check his deck, and find he only has 3 Leeroy Jenkins in the deck, and the final count is 59. How do you handle something like this?
3) Also, how exactly do you do a 'natural card count'? I understand the basics of counting players hands, counting resources, counting graveyards. How do you factor in quests? The easy ones would be quests like 'Your Fortune Awaits You' where you just add 1 card to that player's 'count', but what about poison water, or Big Game Hunter, when you can't prove how many cards in their GY they shuffled in, or if their 'Big Game Hunter' was succesful. What do you do?
4) When doing a draft, what happens if you have a player who only drafts 29 playable cards?