Hi everyone! It’s my pleasure to announce the return of Knowledge Pool!.
Thanks to Khailyn Schaefer , Ryan Sears, and Joe Klopchic for helping write questions and get the project up and rolling.

 

 

What is Knowledge Pool?

 

Knowledge pool is a forum of weekly policy focused questions that everyone can use to improve and test their knowledge while helping others learn.  Comment on the thread and discuss the answers with your fellow judges to help everyone learn and grow so we can deliver better tournaments to the players.

 

Questions are ranked by difficulty in the following categories:

 

Bronze - Introductory L2 policy.  These answers will be straightforward but should be challenging and informative for someone training for the L2 and still interesting for existing Level L2s.

Silver - These will be more challenging scenarios dealing with more nuanced areas of policy.  Expect some back and forth discussion in the threads to arrive at the correct answers. They should require some careful examination by L2s+ but answerable by anyone with a careful reading of policy.

Gold - These are very difficult policy questions often with more than one correct answer.

Note: We assume there is no cheating in Knowledge Pool Scenarios. 

 

 

When How?

Every week we will make a forum post with a question to the Knowledge Pool Forum. Subscribe to notifications on JudgeApps to get a link in your email when a new thread is posted.  After 1 week we will lock the thread and post the answer for the week when opening the new thread.

Bronze threads will generally be locked and answers will be submitted via google form so as to not immediately ruin it for future readers.

We ask that L3’s and above wait 48 hours before commenting on silver threads.

Edited Matt Muckle (July 28, 2025 10:18:32 AM)