Welcome to the Europe North Fall 2018 judge conference! 

This conference is targeted at judges from the Europe North region. Judges from other regions are welcome to apply and will be accepted if budget allows. 

Registration

Participants must register by September 9th. All certified judges who register by this date will receive a packet of judge foils. 

We recommend that you make your travel arrangements as soon as you have registered! 

Judge testing

Judge testing for levels 1 and 2 will be available at this conference. 

Schedule

Here is a preliminary schedule for the day. Presentations might be moved but the start of the day is locked in at 10:30 AM.

Presenters

We are looking for presenters for this conference. If you would like to present, please fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/aJUQ71dVQ1rFRCII3

Your summary should give us a clear idea of what you plan to talk about. Presenters will be chosen by September 6th. Presenters will receive an extra foil pack for their efforts. 

Sample Presentation Summary - "Competitive Sealed tournaments"

"In this seminar, the idea is to look at the important parts to remember when handling a competitive sealed deck tournament. We'll look at how to plan your event, what can go wrong during registration and deck building, the common problems you encounter and some of the rules that come up most often in the current format. I’ll use about half of the time to explain what I do to plan an event and let the audience plan a few different sizes of events to discuss the differences between them. 

After that, I’ll have everyone discuss some common problems, both with rules- and policy. For example, I’ll bring up how to handle deck problems, the combat rules and where they normally go awry, looking at extra cards vs drawing extra cards and how players are allowed to store their sideboards and extra cards. I’m planning to have a slide each for the problems, explain them and then get discussions going in smaller groups before letting each group explain their conclusions.

I’m going to need either a projector or a printer. If we have a room where people can move around a bit to talk in smaller groups that would be ideal." 

Expectations for presenters

All presenters will be added to a JudgeApps project group. Presenters will be expected to post their works-in-progress to the group, and encouraged to provide feedback to others. Presenters are expected to post the first draft of their presentations approximately a month before the conference, and the almost-final version a week before the conference. The exact deadlines are to be confirmed.

Food and drink 

A light lunch will be provided. We will do our best to accommodate vegetarians/vegans, but those on a particularly strict diet may want to bring their own food. 

How to get there

Please note that the best airport to fly to may be Copenhagen rather than Malmö. You can get to Malmö from Copenhagen airport in about 30 minutes. 

Want to help? 

We are looking for a Content Wrangler for this conference. Your job will be to recruit presenters, communicate with them about deadlines and expectations, and put together a great presentation program for the day. If interested, please contact Johanna by e-mail. 

We also need help with L1 and L2 testing. If you are interested in proctoring judge tests at this conference, please contact Johanna by e-mail. 

Have an idea about how to improve the conference? Are you short on ideas, but willing to help with set-up, clean-up or lunch preparation? Get in touch!