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Her most well-known contribution to ''Magic: the Gathering'' is as a designer of the deck that came to be known as '''Five Color Green''', which she played to victory in the 1997 Florida Regional Championships. Five Color Green made up just 7% of the field during the US Regional Championships that year, but 62% of those who played it qualified for US Nationals.<ref>Analysis by '''[[Frank Kusumoto]]''' of The Dojo, originally posted on | Her most well-known contribution to ''Magic: the Gathering'' is as a designer of the deck that came to be known as '''Five Color Green''', which she played to victory in the 1997 Florida Regional Championships. Five Color Green made up just 7% of the field during the US Regional Championships that year, but 62% of those who played it qualified for US Nationals.<ref>Analysis by '''[[Frank Kusumoto]]''' of The Dojo, originally posted on | ||
''rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy'': https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy/8WKnVWq3n_c</ref> | ''rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy'': https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy/8WKnVWq3n_c</ref> | ||
==== Webmaster of classicdojo.org ==== | |||
In 2020, two posts on Reddit revealed that Cathy has been the secret webmaster of [https://classicdojo.org/ classicdojo.org], a nearly complete archive of the original 1997-1998 Magic Dojo, since 2002.<ref>"classicdojo.org missing, my apologies": https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/gvd80d/classicdojoorg_missing_my_apologies/</ref> <ref>"classicdojo.org returns": https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/gwjh58/classicdojoorg_returns/</ref> In these two posts, she also revealed that the site had been created using a backup given to her by [[Frank Kusumoto]] and that she was now in a physics PhD program. | |||
==== Personal Life ==== | |||
A search for 'Catherine Nicoloff' on ResearchGate turns up a profile with over a dozen peer-reviewed physics publications since 2015.<ref>Catherine Nicoloff, Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Nicoloff</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 04:48, 30 July 2021
Cathy (Catherine) Nicoloff is a former professional Magic player, deck designer, writer for sites such as The Dojo and StarCityGames, as well as the creator and webmaster of Meridian Magic, one of the earliest portal/content aggregator sites for the game.
Her most well-known contribution to Magic: the Gathering is as a designer of the deck that came to be known as Five Color Green, which she played to victory in the 1997 Florida Regional Championships. Five Color Green made up just 7% of the field during the US Regional Championships that year, but 62% of those who played it qualified for US Nationals.[1]
Webmaster of classicdojo.org
In 2020, two posts on Reddit revealed that Cathy has been the secret webmaster of classicdojo.org, a nearly complete archive of the original 1997-1998 Magic Dojo, since 2002.[2] [3] In these two posts, she also revealed that the site had been created using a backup given to her by Frank Kusumoto and that she was now in a physics PhD program.
Personal Life
A search for 'Catherine Nicoloff' on ResearchGate turns up a profile with over a dozen peer-reviewed physics publications since 2015.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Analysis by Frank Kusumoto of The Dojo, originally posted on rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy/8WKnVWq3n_c
- ↑ "classicdojo.org missing, my apologies": https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/gvd80d/classicdojoorg_missing_my_apologies/
- ↑ "classicdojo.org returns": https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/gwjh58/classicdojoorg_returns/
- ↑ Catherine Nicoloff, Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Nicoloff