[MR] A&S issue

[Amerie Helton]

I think this is a great way to judge. I love talking to the  
participant when judging. I also think the St. Catherine's method was  
excellent (that's the one where you get three judges attention for an  
hour. I might have called it the wrong thing) The KASF pentathlon is  
also done face to face, and I really liked that as a participant.

Dervila

On Dec 3, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Jim Springle wrote:


> Though I rarely comment on things I read on the MR I feel somewhat  
> compelled to say something on this one...
>
> I had gone to an A&S competition at an event where the judges were  
> given beads/tokens of some sort. It was a themed event as I recall,  
> and documentation was "optional". In front of each entrant's piece  
> there was a small bowl. The judges were told *yes told* to put  
> their beads into the bowls of who they thought was the best entry  
> in the competition. No forms were layed out to for the judges to  
> make comments. The one with the most tokens won the competition. Of  
> course the person in charge had to watch over the competition like  
> a hawk to prevent one person taking a token from one bowl and  
> placing it into another bowl, but that should be minimal effort.
>
> The comments were saved until *after* the competition was over and  
> done *face-en-face* (face to face) if there were any. Would this  
> kind of practice reduce or eliminate the hurt feelings if this kind  
> of judging system were widely used?
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Tankred Bras-de-Fer
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