Kansas City Mini-Conference

Organizer: Lloyd Dodson
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): May 20, 2017
Location: Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Venue: Win More Games
12108 W. 87th Street Pkwy.
Lenexa, KS
Applications accepted through: April 3, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Win More 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!

Doors open: 12pm
Doors close: 9pm
 
Presentation 1 - Customer Service of Judging - Peter Strauch
Presentation 2 - Mentoring and Community Building - Zeke Davis
Presentation 3 - Hidden Areas of the MTR and CR - Billy Gilmore
Presentation 4 - Large Events - Nathaniel Graham
 
The store will be holding a Standard Showdown at 6pm, and is willing to host judge drafts if people are interested.
 
 
This conference can accept 30 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
joseph edens
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - South Central Attendee
Lloyd Dodson
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Staff
Billy Gilmore
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Presenter
Richard Tomblinson
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - South Central Attendee
Cory Ashline
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Laura Croston
Uncertified USA - Plains Standby
Brandon Darby
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Brent Everest
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Homero Flores
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Andrew Glover
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Nathaniel Graham
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Paul Hargrove
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Chris Lopez
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Steven Lundberg
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Derek Moore
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Erik Simonson
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Sean Smith
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Peter Strauch
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Samuel Warren
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Joseph Wyatt
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee