St. Louis Mini-Conference

Organizer: Zeke Davis
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): Aug. 26, 2018
Location: St. Charles, Missouri, United States
Venue: Fantasy Shop
2125 Zumbehl Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63303
Applications accepted through: Aug. 12, 2018

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Fantasy Shop, and will be foil supported.

For those of you who haven't heard about the way Central Region conferences will be working this year, let me fill you in.  Instead of running a few large conferences for our region, we will be running a lot of little conferences, all with foil support.  Since the smaller conference model allows cities without a ton of judges to still have a local conference, we're hoping that more judges will be able to come out and learn with us.  Because our aim is to allow the most number of unique judges possible to attend a conference in 2018, we will be giving priority to judges who have not yet been accepted to a 2018 conference.  Keep in mind, should you be planning to attend a conference closer to your city at a later date, by getting foils at this conference, you will be less likely to get them at that closer conference later.  But, if you just want to come to a bunch of conferences to hang out with great judges and learn from interesting and informative presentations, and you couldn't care less about the foil support, feel free to come to as many as you'd like

 
11am -Sign in
11:30am - Opening Announcements
12pm - Community and Mentorship by Joel Mcalister
1pm - MTR Shortcuts by Zeke Davis
2pm - Lunch
3pm - Judge/Player Interaction by Nat Graham
4pm - Diversity and Inclusiveness in the Judge Program by Elaine Cao
 
 
This conference can accept 35 judges.
 
To be accepted, please write a cover letter.  Applications with no cover letter will be accepted at a lower priority.  Priority will be given to L1s and unseasoned L2s over more experienced judges.
 
Everyone who applies to the conference will be put as either "attendee" or "standby".  "Standby" means that, for one reason or another, you are not eligible for foils.  I am not actually declining anyone so that those who are not eligible for foils can still read the forum posts and get important conference information.
 
Testing for L1 and L2 will likely be available.  If you would like to test, make sure to mention it in your application, and be prepared to show us proof of your readiness when we follow up.  If you do not inform us beforehand, we are unlikely to test you at the conference.

Staff Members

Name Level Region Role
Gray Beadle
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Northeast Attendee
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Kevin Freeman
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Alex Lapp
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Kyle Richter
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Justin Allen
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Michael Arrowsmith
Uncertified USA - Northeast Staff
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Elaine Cao
Uncertified Canada - Eastern Provinces Presenter
Stephen Cleveland
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Nathaniel Graham
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Joseph Harner
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Mark Katerberg
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Corey Krause
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Steven Lundberg
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Joel Mcalister
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Nick Mueller
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Mason Schink
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Bree Yard
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee