Axion Now Mega Weekend, November 2019

Axion Now is excited to invite you to apply for their upcoming Mega Weekend, hosted at the Radisson Blu Stansted Airport, on Saturday 16th - Sunday 17th November.

This will be a large and very competitive event that offers valuable judging experience and development opportunities through being part of a larger judge team. As usual, we are looking for judges willing to go the extra mile to offer players an amazing experience. 

Applications for this event will be open until Sunday 6th October. Make sure you read the information below carefully before applying. 

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE ONLY ACCEPTED THROUGH THE GOOGLE FORM FOUND ON THIS LINK: https://forms.gle/JLXDx9DUkaX6Toos5

Below you can find all of the essential information you will need before applying to this event. Please read carefully, and do not hesitate to get in touch - we welcome any questions about the event or the application process.

SCHEDULE

The Mega Weekend will feature three large main events, as well as side events:

Saturday 7th: Mega Modern

Sunday 8th: Legacy Masters & Team Sealed

SHIFT TIMINGS

Saturday:

We will be operating an early and late shift of judges to cover the whole day. Timings for these shifts are as follows:

Early Shift: 8:30 until likely at some point during the quarters6 (expected around 20:30)

Late Shift: 11:30 until the end of the event (expected around 23:00)

Head Judges and Scorekeeper: 8:00 until the end of the event

Sunday 

Floor judges: 9:00 until the completion of the completion of both swiss and any required support with clearing the venue and the quarter finals of the top 8s (expected around 20:30) (NB: Team Sealed is straight swiss)

Head Judges and Scorekeeper: 8:30 until the end of the event

If you find that your transport options would require you to arrive or leave a little earlier or later than these times, please make this clear in your application - we can work around most reasonable requirements.

COMPENSATION, TRAVEL SPONSORSHIP & ROLES

Compensation:

Payment will be in cash via online payment. 

Judges: £85 (per day)

Mega Event Head Judges and Scorekeeper: £160 (per day)

Standby Judges:

Standby judges will receive the regular shift compensation rate if activated. Standbys not activated will have the choice of either free main event entry or side events of equivalent value. 

Travel Sponsorship:

We will also be offering the opportunity to apply for travel sponsorship, to allow us to bring in more of the brilliant judges from further afield. You can apply for travel sponsorship of any amount. 

If you would like to apply for travel sponsorship, please indicate in your application both the amount you would like to apply for and a minimum amount of travel sponsorship you would need to consider applying to this event. Don’t worry if these are the same - we just want to make sure we can use our travel sponsorship budget to its best effect.

Roles:

All judges will be needed for tasks ranging from taking judge calls, contributing to the event and venue logistics and making sure players are having a great day. We also have a number of special positions which you can apply for. These require previous experience:

• Main Event Head Judges (L2+ required)
• Scorekeeper (Large event scorekeeping experience required)
• Team Leads (experienced Comp REL judges)
• Side Event Head Judges (Comp REL experience required)

You are welcome to apply for as many roles as you are interested in. If you are applying for a special role, make sure to let us know why you would be great for the job in your application.

Judge selection will be published at the latest on 13th October to give you plenty of time to plan your travel.

Judges are expected to promote the event to their local communities.