Chicagoland Mini-Conference

Organizer: Samantha Davis and Casey Primm
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): March 19, 2017
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Venue: MTG Card Market
1051 W. Belmont
Chicago, IL
Applications accepted through: Feb. 6, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Chicagoland mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by MTG Card Market, and will be foil supported.

For those of you who haven't heard about the new 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 2017, we will be giving priority to judges who have not yet been accepted to a 2017 conference.  Since this is the first one, that won't be an issue, but keep it 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!

Doors open: 12:00pm
Doors close: 8:00pm
 
Presentation 1 - Judge/Player Interaction by Blake Smith
Presentation 2 - Card Templating by Karl Weisling
Lunch
Presentation 3 - Mentoring and Community Building by Raoul Mowatt
Presentation 4 - Large Events by Sherwin Ng
Presentation 5 - So You Think You Can Judge? by Max Khan
Panel
 
This conference can accept 40 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.
 
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.
 
If you are interested in presenting at this or another conference, please e-mail Samantha Davis at ChaosPlatypus@gmail.com with details on your presentation topic.
 

Staff Members

Name Level Region Role
Nick Gajary
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Raoul Mowatt
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Joshua Wiltse
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Dathan Brown
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Rick Courtney
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Alan Downward
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Daniel Duan
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
David Flanagan
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Daniel Goines
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Benjamin Gradert
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Paul Green
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Austin Hoth
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Max Kahn
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Will Krueger
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Jason Lauborough
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Charles Milutinovic
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Sherwin Ng
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Paul Reilly
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Chase Shank
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Blake Smith
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Adam Smith
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Bryce Wanamaker
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Standby
Karl Weisling
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter