Bloomington Mini-Conference

Organizer: Andy Moore
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): April 8, 2017
Location: Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Venue: Red Raccoon Games
309 N. Main Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
Applications accepted through: March 2, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Red Raccoon Games, 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.  Keep 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!

10:00am Doors Open
10:30am Opening Announcements
11:00am Community Education by Peter Brabant
12:00pm Large Events by Karl Weisling
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Judging as Customer Service by Zeke Davis
3:00pm Investigations by Steven Briggs
4:00pm Panel
5:00pm Closing Announcements
6:00pm Doors Close

This conference can accept 20 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
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Raoul Mowatt
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Joshua Wiltse
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Rhyannon Ashford
Uncertified USA - Southeast Attendee
Peter Brabant
Member (Judge Foundry) USA - Southeast Presenter
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Brad Brown
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Rick Courtney
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Grant Gordon
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Avi Grinberg
Uncertified USA - Northeast Attendee
John Ryan Hamilton
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Mark Katerberg
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Andy Moore
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Chase Shank
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Karl Weisling
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter