I'm pulling on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk all about the first trial of the GDS3. So in long form,

the great designer search, three, has started already, but you guys, time you've heard of this.

It's well in motion.

But I'm going to walk through, do a couple podcasts on all the different trials.

So in order to be a finalist in the great designer search, the idea of the great designer search, super quickly,

I've done a lot of podcasts on this.

Many years ago, I was told that I could have a design intern. I didn't know how to find one. And then I came up the idea of like a reality show to find one so that I could find

somebody out there that are good design skills. GDS won. Alexis Jansen won it. Ken Nagel came

in second. Graham Hopkins came in third. Mark Globes came in fourth. All of them ended up

getting hired by Wizards. Then we did a second GDS, one by Ethan Fleischer, second Sean Main, third was

Scott Van Essen. All three came to work for Wizards. Also, there are a few other people

that, between those two that actually ended up working for Wizards. But anyway, it's been very successful.

And so we got the Greenlight to do the third great designer search.

So we have to narrow down the field because a lot of people would like to have a job in R&D,

but we only actually have room for eight people in the final competition.

So what we have to do is there's three trials that people have to take to end up as one of, one of the eight finalists.

So trial number one we're talking about today. It's an essay test.

Basically what happens is there's 10 essay questions. You have to answer each question with 250 to 350 words, so an average of 300 words.

So on average, you are writing 3,000 words. The reason the essay test is so important is a couple

things. One, it gets an insight into how you think. That's important. We want to know about how you

think about the process, how you think about design. Two, and the reason we do it first is it's a lot of work.

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