Be A Good Judge//was:RE: Defensive judging to avoid retaliation.

[Del Rykert]

I agree Matt.. Any idea of any workable way to address those that are the issue? Not sure it's driving many away. At least from what I have read and heard given for leaving.
     del
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rcmaster199 at aol.com 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:00 PM
  Subject: Be A Good Judge//was:RE: Defensive judging to avoid retaliation.


  Contestant judging has flaws, no doubt about that. But I can't agree that returning to the old days where, in local events, people with very little knowledge about pattern and its many intricacies, were judging guys with many many years experience in pattern. That was not my idea of fairness in judging. 

  Not all Contestant judges "get it", but many, maybe even most, do. It is a better system than what we had, at the local level at least. And many of us are continuing to help bring the word out to all. 

  At the 2002 Nats I recall an F3A'er who apparently just did not want to judge us in Masters, so his scores were consistently 20-30% lower than the others. We all knew who he was however, when it was his time to fly F3A, at least on the panels I judged with other fellow Masters pilots, he was judged fairly with no bias towards retaliation that I saw. 

  Yes we do have some, that for whatever reason, will not do their jobs correctly, at local events or nationals alike. But let's not forget the many that accept the responsibility with pride, and do a great job in choosing those that won and those that didn't, without fear of retaliation. My hat off to all who judge fairly. My suggestion and hope for the future is "Be A Good Judge" no matter what. The sport of pattern truly depends on it.

  Matt Kebabjian


    Subj:Re: Defensive judging to avoid retaliation. Are you guilty?  
    Date:5/20/2004 12:19:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time
    From:johnferrell at earthlink.net
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    I have never been so hungry that I needed a customer like that. Anyone who believes ANYTHING that customer has to say is also suspect, they are buying into lying. 

    Everyone of those type of individuals we encourage to remain in the sport costs us at least 10 other potential contestants. 

    The worst thing you can do to your buddy in this game is to hide bad news from him. Eventually he will have to face honest judges and he will be hurt. Although it is not recommended practice, it is good for judges to compare scores on a given flight occasionally. Just to see how well you are tracking. I felt compelled to do this last weekend because I felt my good friend and practice buddy was getting some awfully good scores from me. I trust Bill Mitchell's judging so I asked that the three of us compare the scores at the end of the flight. We were all pleased to see that Bill was just flying good, my friendship had not tainted the results!

    If a guy cannot face the facts (contestant or judge) he needs to find something else to do!

    John Ferrell    
    http://DixieNC.US


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Del Rykert 
      To: discussion at nsrca.org 
      Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:04 AM
      Subject: Re: Defensive judging to avoid retaliation. Are you guilty? 


      Using contestants as judges has many ugly sides. I remember when some prominent fliers would register late for NATS to get out of judging. I remember being told by a prominent flier he 
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