St. Louis Mini-Conference

Organizer: Zeke Davis and Casey Hanford
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: No Format
Event date(s): Dec. 3, 2017
Location: St. Charles, Missouri, United States
Venue: Fantasy Shop St. Charles
2125 Zumbehl Rd.
St. Charles, MO 63303
Applications accepted through: Oct. 25, 2017

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Fantasy Shop St. Charles, 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: 1000
Doors close: 1700 to the public
 
1000 doors open
1030 Opening remarks
1100 -1150 Nathaniel Graham presenting on Mentoring and Community Building
1200 - 1250 Avi Grinberg presenting on First Comp REL Event
1300 -1400 Lunch please get me any dietary requirements!
1400 - 1450 Matthew Shepherd presenting on Helping Players with Special Needs
1500 - 1550 Darren Horve presenting on Judge/Player Interactions
 1600 you can draft if you wanna, but other formats will be there i am sure. Please be sure to thank our hosts if you partake in the draft.
 
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
Kevin Freeman
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Kyle Richter
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Attendee
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Stephen Cleveland
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Brandon Darby
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Nathaniel Graham
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Avi Grinberg
Uncertified USA - Northeast Presenter
Casey Hanford
Uncertified USA - Plains Staff
Joseph Harner
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Attendee
Darren Horve
Uncertified USA - Southwest Presenter
Benjamin Lurie
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Nick Mueller
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Zach Rector
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Matthew Shepard
Uncertified USA - Plains Presenter
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Staff
Derian Stennett
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Cameron Sullivan
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee
Denae Sullivan
Uncertified USA - Plains Attendee