St. Louis Mock Tournament

Organizer: Avi Grinberg
Judge manager: Samantha Short
Event type: Judge Conference
REL: N/A
Format: Sealed Deck
Event date(s): May 6, 2018
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Venue: Moonbase Market
1921 S. 9th St.
St. Louis, MO 63104
Applications accepted through: March 26, 2018

Event Information

Welcome to the application for another Central Region mini-conference!  This conference will be hosted by Moonbase Market, and will be foil supported.

This conference will be a mock tournament.  More experienced judges will act as players while less experienced judges act as floor judges and even head judge.  This will give less experienced judges the opportunity to practice their Comp REL skills in a fun environment where they can be shadowed and gain helpful feedback.

In addition, there will be some traditional conference presentations focused on Comp REL skills.

For those of you who haven't heard about the 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 2018, we will be giving priority to judges who have not yet been accepted to a 2018 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.

Schedule:
9am - Check-in
9:30am - Opening announcenents
10am - Stephen Zielinski - Event Coordination with the Local Community
11am - Eric Levine - Investigations
12pm - Lunch
Mock Tournament!!!
1pm - Packs
2pm - Round 1
3pm - Round 2
4pm - Round 3
5pm - Break
5:30pm - Feedback
6:30pm - Closing remarks
 
This conference can accept 35 judges.
 
To be accepted, please write a cover letter.  Applications with no cover letter will be accepted at a lower priority.
 
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.

Staff Members

Name Level Region Role
Gray Beadle
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Northeast Floor Judge
Zeke Davis
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Player
Stephen Wise
Level 2 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - South Central Player
Kevin Freeman
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Head Judge
Billy Gilmore
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Player
CoriAnn Theroux
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Plains Head Judge
Steve Whitcher
Level 1 Judge (Judge Foundry) USA - Great Lakes Team Lead
Greg Atherton
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Team Lead
Steven Briggs
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Player
Brandon Darby
Uncertified USA - Plains Team Lead
Yachu Du
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Player
Nathaniel Graham
Uncertified USA - Plains Player
Avi Grinberg
Uncertified USA - Northeast Player
Darren Horve
Uncertified USA - Southwest Player
Eric Levine
Uncertified USA - Pacific Northwest Presenter
Benjamin Lurie
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Presenter
Joel Mcalister
Uncertified USA - Plains Player
Nick Mueller
Uncertified USA - Plains Floor Judge
Stephen Schwartz
Uncertified USA - Plains Standby
Chase Shank
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Floor Judge
Samantha Short
Uncertified USA - Great Lakes Judge Manager
Daniel Winokur
Uncertified USA - Plains Floor Judge