News Bulletin April 2023

News Bulletin: April 2023

With Outsiders’ release in the rear view mirror and Pro Tour Baltimore on the horizon, it’s time for another monthly news bulletin!

Rules and Policy Updates

For those of you who missed the announcement, there has been a major update to both the Tournament Rules & Policy document as well as the Penalty Procedure Guide. 

Major highlights of the changes include:

  • Terminology updates for various zones such as the inventory (formerly sideboard) and card-pool (formerly deck, not to be confused with the deck zone during games).
  • Codification of shortcuts, out-of-order play, and reversing of actions.
  • Codification of types of information, as well as the right to a player to access which types of information during a game.
  • Formal rules regarding the usage of markers during play.
  • Formal rules regarding acceptable game layouts.

For a full description of changes, please read the article linked above. It is advised that judges should be proactive in communicating these changes to their local competitive community, as players may be unaware that such changes have been made. 

Judge Conferences

With every Calling in the near future will come a judge conference attached. Players and staff for the Pro Tour & Calling Baltimore, the Calling Singapore, and the Calling Antwerp are all welcome to attend the judge conferences for each of these events as a way to build your judging knowledge and get to know judges from around the world!

Sign-ups for each of these events are listed below:

Not attending any of the events above? Don’t worry! There will be additional online judge conferences ahead of Road to Nationals 2023 season, held in the JudgeHub Discord server. Links to the server are located in this site’s navigation menu, and the seminar schedule will be published in the coming days in the server announcements.

Community Spotlight

With the release of a new set comes a whole plethora of rules interactions! Fortunately, we’re blessed with plenty of content creators who are happy to sit down and explain various rulings around the new cards. Check out some of these channels below!

Blue Pitch

Flick Knives, Uzuri, Public and Private status, Prevention effects and more!

Card Advantage

Outsiders Card Rulings
to Know for Road to Nationals

Dice Commando

Throwing Daggers: Understanding On-Hits & Chain Links

Little Arknight

Answering Judge Questions, Episode 1:
Understanding Priority

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