Des Moines Mini-Conference

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Jay's CD and Hobby (West Side), and will be foil supported. Please note that the application and planning window for this event is far shorter than normal! If you are interested in presenting at this conference, please contact Jason Lauborough directly via Judge Email, Slack, or Facebook.

The mini-conference will be held on Sunday, November 4th.

As we've been doing with Central Region conferences this year, we continue to run a number of smaller conferences, all with foil support.  The smaller conference model allows cities without a ton of judges to still have a local conference, expanding the reach of our educational efforts. Because our aim is to allow the most number of unique judges possible to attend a conference in 2018, in the case of large application numbers, we will be giving priority to judges who have not yet been accepted to a 2018 conference. 

Tentative Schedule:

• Doors open: 11am
• Conference begins 12pm
• 30 minute break between presentations 2 and 3

Presentations:

1. Judge Communication - Steve Wise
2. Large Events - Jason Lauborough
3. Layers - Ryan Stein
4. Investigations - Jason Lauborough

This conference can accept 25 judges.

To be accepted, please write a cover letter, letting us know what you might like to get out of attendance.  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.  This is only used for tracking attendees' foil statuses - even if you are marked Standby you are welcome to attend and participate.

Testing for L1 will likely be available, testing for L2 may be arranged with sufficient notice. 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.