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Samantha Hepworth
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Samantha Hepworth is a magic player, a judge and a mental health professional. She spends most of her spare time around magic tournaments and magic players which makes for an odd synergy between her work life and professional life. A magic player since Ice Age, she is still troubled by the compelling need to keep one land hands and to play red green at every opportunity, although she has graduated to monoblack and white weenie in recent times.

An avid multiplayer player and judge, Sam writes from both an observational and participating perspective on issues arising in the magic playing community and the game as a whole, her column will ideas on formats of social play, player and judge issues, general interest, interviews and event reports.

The Man with the Chessboard
20-06-2004
We are fortunate to see it here in the Magic community every day, though I wonder how many have realised that the game while fun for us all can also be responsible in helping us form relationships with people we may never have thought to due to barriers in culture, age, gender and language.

Cancon - A tale of two villas and a belated pictorial
17-03-2004
The morning of the extended tournament the boys, mainly Scott, were running between the two villas in a rush to finish their decks. Those that were running debated with the rest about how badly they were going to go down. In the end, the extended tournament went without major event. I was on my feet for countless hours like the other judges and in the end - red deck wins, well, won! Adam Witton put in a solid performance and seemed genuinely stunned by the end of the day that he actually won the event. It was midnight upon getting back to the villa and all to early when the alarm roused us for the most fun day of the Cancon Calendar. Prerelease Day.

Sam's GP Diary: Entry 1 - Pre-GP
18-09-2003
I am a notorious planner. Not with all things, but when it comes to my leisure time and anything involving my passion for travelling, the thinking time that goes into it is immense. I booked my flight for the GP somewhere around early July (too early? - I'll let my under $200 return Qantas one way airfare stand as testament that it wasn't.)

Past Feature Articles

The Magic of Multi-Player
by Samantha Hepworth 23-08-03

Sam's 8th Edition Related Weekend Magic Road Trips
by Samantha Hepworth 01-08-03

On the outside - looking in
29-10-2004
I am sure many of you, who are forced to make your way through life by having to either work or study, will find themselves in the same position I do when I say that I find myself looking through the MTGParadise window on the magic community, from my work, travel and personal life imposed magic playing exile.

Finding your Magic Zen
11-05-2004
This article is written for those who have ever been at the crossroads of "do I give up the game, or don't I?" And for everyone else who will invariably get there at one stage in their life or another. Its also for those who find the fun has partially gone out of their Magicing.

Sam's GP Diary Entries 2 and 3 - Tales of Mediocrity, Triumph, Failure, Fortunes and True Love
15-10-2003
I've entitled this tales of mediocrity, triumph, failure, fortunes and true love because for me, this GP was one. They are always a good time, but this one, just managed to trump them all for an emotional and sleep deprived roller coaster of events. I would never have it any other way.

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