Defensive judging to avoid retaliation. Are you guilty?

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

To be a good judge, you have got to overcome that line of thinking. If the 
uninitiated want to give you zeroes for good maneuvers in retaliation, so be it. 
I know it happens, but you gotta stick to your guns, no matter who is flying
. 

We spend a small fortune in money and effort honing our flying, why would we 
not want the best assessment possible? And why not spend some of that time 
becoming truly proficient in judging? Or are some of us so egocentric with such 
fragile egos that we can't handle the honest critique?  

The assumption is that unfair critique is a task of small minds, and we have 
none of these in Pattern

One more thing: The top guys want the correct critique by a knowledgeable 
judge that applies the rules. Mike, I urge you to go up to Chip, Jason, Sean and 
Don and ask them what use is a steady stream of 10's to them when they didn't 
fly that

MattK

> Subj:Defensive judging to avoid retaliation. Are you guilty?  
> Date:4/14/2004 12:40:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:mups1953 at yahoo.com
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> Ok, this is the worst part of the problem with judging snaps, if you take a 
> stand and decide to be the "snap policeman" then you run the risk of judges 
> retaliation. Say your Bob the relatively new Advanced flyer and your judging 
> Joe superstar FAI guy. He executes a snap that's thought by most to be pretty 
> good because Joe performed it. You know better and think it didn't show a 
> proper break in pitch, so you 0 the maneuver. Dude are you kidding me? Word 
> get's out that you gave Joe superstar a 0 and you have a bullseye on your back 
> that may effect how others are going to judge you. Your stuck in the middle of 
> a tough competition with your arch rival and can't afford the inevitable 
> results. Who wants a reputation as a so called jerky judge especially one that 
> can't fly nearly as well as "Joe"?
>  Don't think for a second that this doesn't happen and happen all the time. 
> Thus you get the guys that take the "SAFE" route and scores 7 and 8's on 
> everything even though you know better. Then there's the guy that's competing 
> against you judging in a defensive manner. Very few guys are willing to step on 
> toes because they are worried about the consequences. 
>  I hate contestant judging because it's vanilla. Back when pattern was King 
> we didn't allow it. When you held a contest you provided judges that didn't 
> fly. In so many ways it was better. Given all that were stuck with it and it 
> ain't changing anytime soon because we lack the numbers that we used to have. 
>  Houston we have a problem!!!!!!!!
>  PS: This is not meant to hurt Joe's feelings, so don't take it too 
> personally please. This is what makes judging snaps too hard for most of us.
>  Oh ya am I guilty? In the past I would admit that it has played in to my 
> thinking process. I wonder how many of you would admit to this fault.
>                                     Have a nice day!! Mike
> 
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