THIS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED, SEE EVENT http://apps.magicjudges.org/events/7074/

Greetings,

This is the semi-restricted access Competitive Event Judges and Area Leaders Conference for 2016.

This will be an intensive, small-group driven conference, with discussion and the expectation is for everyone to participate in things.

Any judge can apply - if you are an L1 or L0, our primary requirement is that an L2+ recommends you as an area leader or competitive event judge.

We are capping attendence at 60 attendees, based on the available space and the remaining regional foil packets.  (This may change, but that is the target number right now.)

This conference is foil supported.

What kinds of topics will we be discussing at this conference?

We will have four key topics, each estimated at a 90 minute time block:

Critical Feedback - moderated by Zach Rivers and Jacob Milicic

Head Judging and Team Leading Events - Moderated by Rob McKenzie

Certification, both L1 and L2 - Moderated by Patrick Cool

Miniconferences and local skill building outside of events - Moderated by Ken Bearl

What does the schedule look like?

The current plan (subject to change, the start time will not, everything else is fluid):

10:00am Keynote

10:30am Seminar

12:00pm Seminar

1:30pm Lunch (catered, onsite)

2:30pm Seminar

4:00pm Seminar

5:30pm Judge Social (Cube, Draft, EDH, etc)

What do we need to help make this a success?

As we are going to be breaking into small groups and having intense discussions across the topics, we need group leaders.

Luckily, this is a group OF leaders.  For every topic, we will be breaking down into groups of 5-8 people, and each group on each topic will need a discussion leader that is responsible for keeping things on track.  We will be sending out a survey to determine which things you would rather lead for - the default is that 50-75% of the people will end up leading a small group discussion over the course of the day.  If you are leading, you don't have to provide content, just keep the discussion on track, potentially take a couple of notes, and either be the person that brings forward what the group discussed into the wider discussion or manage the person that does.

The topics will be driven by a master moderator or moderators for that topic, presenting scenarios, questions, and challenging the groups to provide answers or thoughtful discussion pieces on the topics given.

USA-North Swag!

We are accepting orders at the USA-North store at https://squareup.com/store/magic-judges-usa-north until December 1st, items are available to be shipped to be in your hands before Christmas, or picked up at the conference.