Northwest Fall Judge Conference 2017

Organizer: Marc DeArmond
Judge manager: Marc DeArmond
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): Nov. 16, 2017
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Venue: Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Portland, OR
97232
Applications accepted through: Oct. 1, 2017

Event Information

Overview

Cascade Games has graciously offered some of the convention space for this years NorthWest Fall Judge Conference. Please join us on Thursday, November 16th and stick around to enjoy GP Portland.

 

All Certified Judges are welcome to register for this conference by applying to this JudgeApps event. The deadline for registration is October 1st. Certified judges who have registered by this date and attend a seminar during each time slot will receive a package of foils. If you are not a certified judge or you wish to join us after the deadline has passed, you are welcome to attend the conference but will not receive any foils.

 

 

Schedule

12:30pm to 6pm

We will be opening with a keynote address and running a number of concurrent sessions throughout the day. Each session will be about 45 minutes and there will be topics useful to all levels of judges each hour.

 

Cover Letter

I take writing cover letters very seriously as it has a large impact on your ability to work events. Please do yourself a favor and take the time to write a serious cover letter.

 

Testing

Testing will be available at the conference and throughout the weekend and we are happy to test you. Please note that L0s testing at this conference are not eligible to receive foils even if you pass your test but we would still love to have see you. Please contact Brandon Welch via email if you are interested in testing.

 

Presenting

We will primarily be staffing presenters by reaching out to people for the specific topics we are interested in seeing presentations on. If you feel you have a topic of specific value to present, please contact Marc DeArmond via email.

 

Dinner

After the conference we will be gathering for dinner. (Location TBD). Please join us for this time of comradery and probably some Magic.




Staff Members

Name Level Region Role
Stephan Classen
Level 5 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Joe Klopchic
Level 5 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Steven Zwanger
Level 5 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Midatlantic Presenter
Daniel Lee
Level 4 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific West Presenter
Scott Marshall
Level 4 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Southwest Presenter
Brandon Welch
Level 4 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Staff
Ryan Wood
Level 4 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Samuel Duralde
Level 3 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Andrew Goulart
Level 3 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Matt Marheine
Level 3 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Southwest Attendee
Steven Boston
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Maria Alex Chernov
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific West Attendee
Vicente Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific West Attendee
Davis Gibson
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific West Attendee
Richard Neal
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Christian Aguilar
Level 1 Judge (International Judge Program) USA - Northeast Attendee
EJ Drew
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific West Attendee
Frank Stanley
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Jeremy Albert
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Michael Arrowsmith
Uncertified USA - Northeast Presenter
Trevor Baker
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Derek Barbee
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Christopher Bordwell
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
gabriel bostic
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Eric Dustin Brown
Uncertified USA - Midatlantic Attendee
Frank Chafe
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Tavis Chan
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Angela Chandler
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Adena Chernosky
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Misha Chernov
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Tom Davis
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Marc DeArmond
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Staff
Jeremy Fain
Uncertified USA - Northeast Attendee
Oren Firestein
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Xander Forral
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Steve Guillerm
Uncertified USA - Northeast Attendee
Arthur Halavais
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Kent Hays
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Aaron Henner
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Jeff S Higgins
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Steven Hill
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Christopher Leclercq
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Jaden Ledkins
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Erin Leonard
Uncertified USA - Southwest Presenter
Alexander Marks
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Megan McGuire
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Cassidy Melczak
Uncertified USA - Midatlantic Attendee
Anson Miyamoto
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Justin Miyashiro
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Trygg Monson
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Scott Neiwert
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Jacob Nickel
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
James Niesen
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Patrick O'Boyle
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Sean O'Connor
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Jonathan Page
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Aaron Paio
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Talia Parkinson
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Christina Paz
Uncertified Canada - Eastern Provinces Attendee
Jeremy Perez
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Jeff Phillips
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Matthew Riecks
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Robert Riley
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Brad Rutherford
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Nick Rutkowski
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Joseph Sapp
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Presenter
David Scott
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Ryan Shetler
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Bryan Spellman
Uncertified USA - Southwest Presenter
Jason Stewart
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Ben Yan Hao Tai
Uncertified USA - Pacific West Attendee
Craig Teppert
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Robert VanNostrand
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Ron Wiediger
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Tom Williams
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Christopher Wohlwend
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Attendee
Kevin Yu
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee