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Cleared stage one of the Great Designer Search. They probably don't have too much time to read the essays for content, just that you know English, can talk about the game, and can follow directions. The multiple choice test is the tricky one. Last time this came around, Billy Moreno was in the running and got the same score as me on the test (i.e., not high enough). WotC shared the test and answers in an article on the mothership, and I remember dissecting out answers in a post-mortem discussion (we got different ones wrong). Billy is retired from Facebook now, and he might be retired from Magic as well. At least, I haven't seen him in the standings lately. But that doesn't always mean anything. Sometimes I'll be looking at GP standings, and there's some random guy I used to play with at Neutral Ground. My old friend Aris Dutka texted me out of the blue when I was 8-1 after Day One of a GP, where I eventually finished up $300 and my very own pro point. We hadn't spoken in a couple of years, and I doubt he plays much anymore, but he was still keeping tabs. Nobody fully quits.