Seriously. I've been running events for 10 years. I've asked the head judge at every single Competitive REL event that I've ran, "Hey, do you want to table spot the feature matches?" The answer is always no. It's not a judge's job to make sure the players are playing correctly. It's their job to correct the game state as best as they can, after the players have discovered an error. If the judge actually witnesses a game rule violation, they have to issue a penalty. If they're watching a feature match, issuing penalties left and right, and then resulting in forced game losses - how is that entertainment? Not to mention, most players would decline playing on camera at that point. It would also assume that the judge knows all of the cards the players are playing with. The judge at my last DreamHack RCQ didn't even know what prototype was, and had to freshen up on the release notes when there was a judge call on it. Story time: At a PPTQ, round 5, the last round before the cut to top 8, and the last match to finish playing. Not a feature match. Everyone is crowded around their table, including the judge. Player B passes the turn to player A. Player A has a lethal attack. Player A untaps, draws a card, activates Jace, Vryn's Prodigy to draw and discard. Declares lethal attackers. Judge stops Player A for not transforming Jace, Vryn's Prodigy. It's the third warning for that during this tournament, so the penalty is upgraded to a game loss and Player A misses the cut to top 8. Because the judge was watching. The table spotters at SCG / GP / etc events aren't judges. Their job is simply to hand the players tokens. I can guarantee that anyone pointing out all these mistakes in the videos is 1) making the same mistakes but doesn't know it, 2) isn't actually a good player because good players acknowledge they make mistakes, 3) never has content posted to their own UA-cam channel. (If you don't play on camera, you never know you're making mistakes.) I appreciate the comment! Anyways, rant over. lol
@Liberty MTG you're all good man I enjoyed hearing about an actual example. All the complaints on this video are pretty invalid since they were brought up in the actual video itself if they would actually watched the damn thing. Either way tho, love the pioneer content it actually got me back into magic after selling my collection to pay for some of my old lady's cancer treatments.
@@slitrose2426 I knew you meant well. Most people seem to pause the video the second they notice a mistake and leave a comment. You're right - if they wait 10 seconds it's probably noticed. I hope your lady's doing well! Sorry to hear about that.
@Liberty MTG She's a fighter! She's stage 4, but her treatments have her cancer stunted from growing for now so we take that as a win! She's the person who got me addicted to magic in the first place lol
@@thanhavictus It really isnt, the one rule is "read the fucking card" and neither player is doing it at all. Just watch the way they handle their cards and make decisions, they both spent hundreds on decks with hardly any knowledge.
@@danieltromley3274 That's kind of a stupid analysis considering it's super easy to just spend money on anything and not no. Money doesn't mean investment. You've probably spent hundreds on a game console plus games on something you like, and ended up sucking when you first did something to
Thanks for posting this. I’m trying to get into Pioneer and your video really helps me what kind of cards are being played out there!
So many judges jumping into the comments on every video. Hey Matt maybe you should have them volunteer and hover over every game 🙄
Seriously. I've been running events for 10 years. I've asked the head judge at every single Competitive REL event that I've ran, "Hey, do you want to table spot the feature matches?" The answer is always no.
It's not a judge's job to make sure the players are playing correctly. It's their job to correct the game state as best as they can, after the players have discovered an error.
If the judge actually witnesses a game rule violation, they have to issue a penalty. If they're watching a feature match, issuing penalties left and right, and then resulting in forced game losses - how is that entertainment? Not to mention, most players would decline playing on camera at that point.
It would also assume that the judge knows all of the cards the players are playing with. The judge at my last DreamHack RCQ didn't even know what prototype was, and had to freshen up on the release notes when there was a judge call on it.
Story time: At a PPTQ, round 5, the last round before the cut to top 8, and the last match to finish playing. Not a feature match. Everyone is crowded around their table, including the judge. Player B passes the turn to player A. Player A has a lethal attack. Player A untaps, draws a card, activates Jace, Vryn's Prodigy to draw and discard. Declares lethal attackers. Judge stops Player A for not transforming Jace, Vryn's Prodigy. It's the third warning for that during this tournament, so the penalty is upgraded to a game loss and Player A misses the cut to top 8. Because the judge was watching.
The table spotters at SCG / GP / etc events aren't judges. Their job is simply to hand the players tokens.
I can guarantee that anyone pointing out all these mistakes in the videos is 1) making the same mistakes but doesn't know it, 2) isn't actually a good player because good players acknowledge they make mistakes, 3) never has content posted to their own UA-cam channel. (If you don't play on camera, you never know you're making mistakes.)
I appreciate the comment! Anyways, rant over. lol
@Liberty MTG you're all good man I enjoyed hearing about an actual example. All the complaints on this video are pretty invalid since they were brought up in the actual video itself if they would actually watched the damn thing. Either way tho, love the pioneer content it actually got me back into magic after selling my collection to pay for some of my old lady's cancer treatments.
@@slitrose2426 I knew you meant well. Most people seem to pause the video the second they notice a mistake and leave a comment. You're right - if they wait 10 seconds it's probably noticed. I hope your lady's doing well! Sorry to hear about that.
@Liberty MTG She's a fighter! She's stage 4, but her treatments have her cancer stunted from growing for now so we take that as a win! She's the person who got me addicted to magic in the first place lol
the rakdos player forgot to go up to 5 life on his last draw step. So many misplays
The rakdos player made so many misplays. Is he new to the deck?
Probably. Give people benefit of the doubt. Magic is a hard game, it takes time.
@@thanhavictus It really isnt, the one rule is "read the fucking card" and neither player is doing it at all. Just watch the way they handle their cards and make decisions, they both spent hundreds on decks with hardly any knowledge.
@@danieltromley3274 That's kind of a stupid analysis considering it's super easy to just spend money on anything and not no. Money doesn't mean investment. You've probably spent hundreds on a game console plus games on something you like, and ended up sucking when you first did something to