St. Louis Mini-Conference

Welcome to the application for the St. Louis Central Region mini-conference 2019!  This conference will be hosted by Miniature Market.  This conference is foil-supported.

The Central USA Region is continuing its successful programs of running a number of smaller conferences throughout the year.  This 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 2019, judges are limited to receiving foils at two events during the year (not counting events at which a judge presents) and attendance priority to a given conference will likewise be given to judges who have attended fewer conferences. 

In addition, to be eligible for foils, a judge must be certified by the application deadline. Uncertified judges are still welcome to apply and to attend. 

Date/Time:

The date of the conference is November 30, 2019

Doors open at 10:00 AM

Conference begins at 10:30 AM

Presentations:

Presentations will include:

Eric levine presenting on Judge Academy

Rocky Wyss presenting on Community Building

Stephen Hagan, presenting on Problem players and how to handle them

Joel Mcallister presenting on Learning to love judgebox.

Conference Details:

This conference can currently accept 20 judges (more may be added later, but it will depend on attendance of other conferences).

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.  We will also perform rolling acceptances, so be sure to apply sooner than later!

Lunch will not be provided by the venue as of current knowledge, but that may change. Please include any dietary concerns you may have in your application if you would like them taken into account for the possibility of a group meal order or provision by the store.

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.