Hello everyone! A couple of months ago we announced a cool promo card available only for judges: Rules Lawyer! Many of you have already gotten yours and some others are still on the way. As we streamlined a bit how distribution of these will work, we encountered some regions which may have issues following the proposed plan […]
TX North Central Winter Miniconference 2018 – Report
Location: Brownwood, Texas Date: February 3, 2018 Attendance: 20 confirmed attendees, 1 walk-in Presentations: 5 Judge Tests Passed: 4 L1s certified Organizers: Brandon Cox, Joseph Dunlap Photography: Michael Arrowsmith, John White, Jonathan Dean Brandon and I received our L1 certification at the USA-South Autumn Conference 2017 in Ardmore, Oklahoma, becoming the only certified judges […]
Call to Prague!
Greetings, L2+ judges! A few times per year, we have a unique opportunity. Whether our common point is a city, a country, or a region, we all gather around a single campfire and share our stories. Stories of successes and failures, stories that inspire hope and awe, stories that teach and make us laugh. The […]
Storytelling 3: The Journey
Welcome to the third and final instalment of the article series on Storytelling. In Part 1 and Part 2 we delved into the Hero and Mentor present in our stories. If you remember, the hero is your audience and every great story has a hero who is central to the plot as well as a […]
Updates to Conferences Support – November 2017
Updates to Conferences Support - November 2017! New cards and changes to Organizer and Presenter support.
Pick-Up-and-Go Conference Models
Have you ever gone shopping and made a note on your phone on the way to the supermarket, writing down what you need? Did you also arrive home and realize you still forgot something? This happened to me so many times that I changed my approach. I now keep a list of everything I could […]
Some news on the Card Counting Challenge
Hello everyone! This announcement is a follow up to the introduction to the Card Counting Challenge. Those workshops have already been presented in several occasions all over the world. In this article, we’ll provide links to the existing scenarios and open the possibility to join the Card Counting Challenge project! If you have already participated in […]
JTQs – Documentation updated!
After the original announcement (which you can find here), we have included the Judge Tournament Qualifiers to our conferences documentation to include the broad changes that JTQs impost to general conferences. Make sure you check out the updated guidelines here! But that’s not all: given that JTQs have their own set of rules and requirements, […]
NH/ME/VT Summer Conference 2017 Report
Location: Deerfield, NH Date: 7/16/2017 Photography: Location NH’s first judge conference was held, as organizer described it, “literally in the middle of the woods,” at the scenic Longview School in Deerfield, NH. We were able to use a large gathering hall as our main room, and several classrooms as other seminar rooms. While we were […]
Updates to Conference Support – August 2017
Hello everyone! Continuing with our efforts to keep judge conferences support fresh and continously rotating along with keeping you all up to date with what’s being awarded at these events, we’ve got a new update for all of you! Starting with the next couple of conferences, we’ll say our farewells to Zur and Defense of the […]