St. Louis Mini-Conference

Organizer: Zeke Davis
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): July 29, 2017
Location: Troy, Illinois, United States
Venue: Realms of Gaming
300 Edwardsville Rd. #6
Troy, IL 62294
Applications accepted through: June 10, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Realms of Gaming, 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: 10am
Doors close: 11pm
 
Deescalation: From Boil to Chill - Mark Katerberg
1st Comp REL Event - Ben Lurie
Mentoring and Commuity Building - Darren Horve
Turn-Based Actions - Nathaniel Graham
Investigations - Steven Briggs
 
More information on presentations and schedule will be coming soon.
 
 
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.
 
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.  I am not actually declining anyone so that those who are not eligible for foils can still read the forum posts and get important conference information.
 
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
Andrew Villarrubia
Level 3 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - South Central Attendee
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Staff
Kevin Freeman
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Steve Whitcher
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Elaine Cao
Uncertified Canada - Eastern Provinces Attendee
Logan Creen
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Ian Doty
Uncertified None Attendee
Nathaniel Graham
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Casey Hanford
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Joseph Harner
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Darren Horve
Uncertified USA - Southwest Presenter
Laura Horve
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Cody Jeter
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Mark Katerberg
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Benjamin Lurie
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Joel Mcalister
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Joe McKinnon
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Shawn Montgomery
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Ray Randolph
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Matt Rasmussen
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Cameron Sullivan
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Denae Sullivan
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Stephen Zielinski
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee