Spouse of Columbus HJ on Levin DQ

by News | posted at 2010-08-12 01:26:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, Columbus, Grand Prix Columbus, Drew Levin, Peter Jahn

Pete Jahn, a StarCityGames.com columnist and the husband of Grand Prix-Columbus head judge Ingrid Lind-Jahn, has opened up in his most recent column about the DQ incident involving Drew Levin at that event (read Drew's recounting of the tale here). Jahn, a long time judge himself, was unsurprisingly supportive of the judge's call. More interesting, however, was his frankness regarding the serious nature of gambling (or the perception of it) at Magic events. From the article: 

Several times over my career as a judge, I have heard officials say "Wizards has a zero tolerance policy on gambling," or words to that effect. I have heard that from Wizards employees, TOs, and senior judges. At major events, judges are supposed to take action if they see money (or obvious equivalents) on the table during casual drafts, and to get the TO or Wizards employees if we see anyone playing poker or the like. I have even been asked by senior Wizards folks to tell players to stop using poker chips as counters.

Wizards does not like gambling.

It is yet another well-written and calm-headed response to the incident which has been an unhotbed of conversation relatively speaking. What might have been a touchstone for heated arguing amongst involved parties has played over relatively smoothly with both Craig Wescoe and Drew Levin speaking openly about the situation and expressing no desire to bear one another any type of animosity. Now comes Jahn's perspective, the closest the public is likely to come to an official response from head judge who made the call (who is presumably prohibited by the DCI from commenting publicly in any fashion).

In addition to tackling the subject of the disqualification, Jahn also shared his Hall of Fame ballot.

Read the full article from StarCityGames.com here.

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