Lincoln Mini-Conference

Organizer: Joel Teply
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): Nov. 4, 2017
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Venue: Hobby Town Lincoln
4107 Pioneer Woods Dr., Suite 108
Lincoln, NE 68506
Applications accepted through: Oct. 2, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Hobby Town Lincoln, 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: 8pm
 
10am - Sign in and mingle
10:30am - Opening Announcements
11am - Community and Mentoring presented by Joel Teply
12pm - Judge/Player Interactions presented by Sean McClenathan
1pm - Lunch
2pm - First Comp REL Event presented by Ryan Stein
3pm - Layers presented by Joe Kull
4pm - Closing Announcements
 
 
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.
 
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
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Staff
Jordan Powell
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Tom Gibbs
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Marc Hall
Uncertified USA - Plains Standby
Joe Kull
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Erik Luebke
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Benjamin Lurie
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Sean McClenathan
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Steven Rhodman
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Ryan Stien
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Joel Teply
Uncertified USA - Plains Staff
Matthew Thoene
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Matt Wagenheim
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Tim Zook
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee