UK Magic Officials currently offers two certifications: Regular REL Judging and Competitive REL Judging.
To become a certified UKMO Judge, please head over to https://apps.magicjudges.org/ukmo/
In the future we will be expanding our certifications system more broadly to allow tournament officials and those who hire us to see greater granularity about the skills of the people they might want to hire for their events.
If you are a someone who organises Magic: the Gathering events, or who employs someone to do this, and you would like to have your say when it comes to how we design our certifications, please do get in touch and let us know about you and your events.
Please e-mail us:
contact@magicofficials.uk
Our Regular REL and Competitive REL Judging certifications gives event organisers confidence that when they hire a Judge with this certification that they are hiring someone who is able to run an event at that Rules Enforcement Level on their own. The requirements for this certification have been defined on this basis. These certifications do not speak to an individual’s ability to lead and manage teams, for which we intend to develop certifications in future.
To arrange an examination, please contact us.
UKMO Regular REL Judging Certification
The UKMO Regular REL Judging Certification is given to an individual who has demonstrated a working knowledge of the basic game rules and how to resolve gameplay errors at Regular REL in-line with the Judging at Regular REL policy document. Additionally, this individual has demonstrated their ability to deliver good customer service to players at their events whilst maintaining good standards of professionalism. Beyond simply knowledge of specific rules interactions and the ability to recite them, UKMO members holding this certification understand the rules and can explain them to players in a friendly, professional manner. They have the understanding of when and how to find answers to questions they do not already know, whether by navigating the rules documents or by speaking to the wider community.
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In order to be certified as a UKMO Regular REL Judge, you will need to:
- Have judged at two WPN sanctioned events within the last 6 months.
- Obtain a recommendation from a TO (not yourself) for whom you have judged (this can be a simple confirmation that a TO would be happy to work with you and can be reported by the reviewing judge).
- Obtain a review from either a TO (not yourself) or another judge who has held a Judge Apps-recognised certification continuously for at least 1 year covering:
- Your knowledge of store-level Regular REL tournament logistics (familiarity with EventLink/Companion is desirable but not required).
- Your understanding of basic rules (turn structure, combat, casting spells, the stack).
- Your ability to handle a rules call with good customer service and professionalism.
- Your knowledge of how to look up rules and policy, and where to get help.
- Your ability to handle serious problems.
- Pass an in-person proctored, semi-closed book exam (access to the official MTR, CR and JAR documents is permitted; access to Oracle/Gatherer is NOT permitted), consisting of 20 rules questions and 5 policy questions, with a 70% pass mark (with a minimum of 60% on each section) and a 90 minute time limit.
This exam is only able to be administered once a candidate has completed each other pre-requisite.
The UK Magic Officials Executive Committee will provide final sign-off of your certification once you have completed the above, providing that your reviews are satisfactory.
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UKMO Competitive REL Judging Certification
The UKMO Competitive REL Judging Certification is given to an individual who has demonstrated a developed knowledge of the game rules. Included in this is a demonstrated ability to apply the Magic: the Gathering Infractions Procedures Guide to resolve gameplay errors as well as other tournament policy violations in-line with written guidelines. Additionally, this individual has demonstrated their ability to deliver good customer service to players at their events whilst maintaining good standards of professionalism. Beyond simply knowledge of specific rules interactions and the ability to recite them, UKMO members holding this certification understand the rules and can explain them to players in a friendly, professional manner. They have the understanding of when and how to find answers to questions they do not already know, whether by navigating the rules documents or by speaking to the wider community.
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In order to be certified as a UKMO Competitive REL Judge, you will need to:
- Have judged at two WPN sanctioned events within the last 6 months at Competitive REL.
- Obtain a recommendation from a TO (not yourself) for whom you have judged (this can be a simple confirmation that a TO would be happy to work with you and can be reported by the reviewing judge).
- Obtain a review from either a TO (not yourself) or another judge who has held a Judge Apps-recognised certification continuously for at least 1 year covering:
- Your knowledge of store-level Competitive REL tournament operations (familiarity with EventLink/Companion is desirable but not required).
- Your understanding of advanced rules (e.g. timing and priority, interaction of continuous effects, legality of casting spells, interaction of replacement effects).
- Your ability to handle a rules call at Competitive REL with good customer service and professionalism.
- Your knowledge of how to look up rules and policy, and where to get help.
- Your ability to handle serious problems.
- Your general standards of professionalism.
- Pass an in-person proctored, semi-closed book exam (access to the official MTR, CR and IPG documents is permitted; access to Oracle/Gatherer is NOT permitted), consisting of 20 rules questions and 10 policy questions, with a 70% pass mark on each section and a 90 minute time limit.
This exam is only able to be administered once a candidate has completed each other pre-requisite.
The UK Magic Officials Executive Committee will provide final sign-off of your certification once you have completed the above, providing that your reviews are satisfactory.
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