Chicago Mini-Conference

Organizer: Samantha Davis and Jason Lauborough
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): Dec. 17, 2017
Location: Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
Venue: Nerd Rage Gaming
1361 W. Dundee Rd.
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Applications accepted through: Oct. 31, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Nerd Rage 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: TBA
Doors close: TBA
 
Ben Lurie presenting on Community and Mentoring
Steven Briggs presenting on Investigations
Lunch
Will Kreuger presenting on First Comp REL Event
Jason Lauborough presenting on Creating an Actionable Self-Improvement Plan
Max Khan presenting the judge gameshow "So You Think You Can Judge?"
 
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
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Staff
Mark Mason
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Midatlantic Attendee
CoriAnn Theroux
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Greg Atherton
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Nathaniel Becker
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Justin Brickman
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Kriz Cardona
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Jungje Choi
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Norman Cohen
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Tournament Organizer
Rick Courtney
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Standby
Daniel Duan
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Jordan Ewers
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Jacob Gluhovski
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Standby
Daniel Goines
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Paul Green
Uncertified USA - Southwest Attendee
Dean Homan
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Max Kahn
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Will Krueger
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Jason Lauborough
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Benjamin Lurie
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Sam Miller
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Charles Milutinovic
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Howard Novak
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Cris Plyler
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Eric Powell
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Trinidad Ruiz
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Landon Savino
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Chase Shank
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Standby
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
ben stringham
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Bryce Wanamaker
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee