For any Europe - East regional issues, please contact me at rc.europe.east@gmail.com

Most of you probably know me from Conferences, GPs or social media. For those I haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet, my name is Yuval Tzur, and I’m a Level 2 judge from Israel (and contrary to what my name tag and some people say, I’m not really Mexican). I became a judge during Champions of Kamigawa, and I’ve seen the judge program grow and evolve ever since. In my personal life I’m a software engineer (mainly working on an automation framework using Python, but I like most things “computer”). As a kid I lived in Mexico for a few years and I still have family over there, so in addition to Hebrew and English I speak (mostly) fluent Spanish (and that’s where all the Mexican thingy originated).

As a judge I’m involved in several projects, including the JudgeApps development team (also writing for the JudgeApps blog and providing support) and maintaining exam content. I was the Israeli country coordinator from August 2016 until October 2018, when I became the regional coordinator for the Europe - East region. I’m also actively working on advancing to L3. I enjoy judging GPs (all those awesome judges in one place!), but I like conferences even more.