Empathizing With the Players.
Empathy with the player is a very important thing when it comes to judging. It is needed for many different types of interactions when taking judge calls - from answering a simple rules question or how to deal with an upset player when giving them a game loss. recently, I played at SCG Indianapolis in the Modern PIQ and had some interesting things come up where empathizing with the player was important or where it could have helped out the situation a little more.