Chicago Mini-Conference

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

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!

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.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

• 10AM Doors Open
• 11AM Conference Begins
• 1PM Lunch (approx)
• 2PM Conference Resumes
• 4PM Closing Remarks

PRESENTATIONS:

• Mentorship and Community Development - Blake Smith
• Judge-Player Interactions - Michael Arrowsmith
• Tournament Shortcuts - Nick Gajary
• TBD - Ben Lurie

 LOCATION:

Good Games Chicago
1145 W. Webster Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614

The venue is within an easy walk (less than half a mile) of both the Fullerton (Red and Brown lines) and Armitage (Brown line only) CTA L stations. There is street parking available on some streets near the venue, but this can sometimes be limited depending on events going on in the park across the street.