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[Jeff H. Snider]

I thought it sounded funny, a contest where only judges got prizes.
Oh well.  This vision of a ranking system springs from hope rather
than experience, and nothing is more blind than ignorant hope.

I do think that every flier who has been around more than a couple
months should be required to judge.  With the lower ranks judging
Sportsman and the higher rank judging Masters and FAI, if you want
to judge the good pilots, you need to be a good judge.  I don't see
this system as a way for anyone to escape their responsibility.

Anyway.

If it's easy to explain why we do what we do, it's hard to explain
why we don't do what we don't.  I'll work harder at keeping my mouth
shut, and maybe in a year or two I'll share the sense that we don't
need to complicate our lives with a judge ranking system.

 - Jeff Snider
 - jeff at snider.com
 - Northern VA, NSRCA D2

Bill Glaze writes:
> Jeff:
> In actuality, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek, but it seems to me 
> that, if something like this excited enough interest, it just might be a 
> kind of fun thing.  After all, we're all there because we like to 
> compete; why not compete in judging?  I know how hard I work for my 
> points; others work just as hard.  (Maybe harder<G>)  So, everyone I 
> know takes their judging very seriously.  There may be some goofing off 
> while flying, but very seldom (read: never) have I noticed a pattern 
> judge being inattentive or uncaring as to a competitor flying in front 
> of him.  FWIW
> Bill Glaze
> 
> Jeff H. Snider wrote:
> 
> >Indeed having a ranking system opens up the possibility for someone
> >to take pride in having a visible sign of their good judging skills.
> >Someone saying to themselves "I'm going to move from a 2 to a 5 by
> >the end of the season" seems like a good thing, since it means they
> >will work hard at being a good judge, they will go to a lot of
> >contests, and they will WANT to judge as many rounds as possible.
> >
> >A judging competition sounds good too.  Keeping it simple: a flight
> >by the best pilot present, with everyone else judging him.  Imagine
> >a flight with 25 judges scoring it.  After the flight the top judges
> >can somehow together decide what the "right" scores were for each
> >maneuver (we'd have to set a time limit on their haggling over
> >downgrades), and the winner is the judge who scored the closest to
> >"right" (by the least squares method -- I'll make a simple excel
> >spreadsheet for you).  Maybe make the entry fee for the contest
> >include an extra $2 that goes into a 50/50 with the winning judge
> >getting the pot.  A great warmup for the judges and a great
> >introduction to judging for new pilots.
> >
> > - Jeff Snider
> > - jeff at snider.com
> > - Northern VA, NSRCA D2
> >
> >
> >Bill Glaze writes:
> >  
> >
> >>As I see it, we're opening up a whole new area for competition here.  If 
> >>judges are ranked, and scored, according to their ability, then it 
> >>follows that judges whould like to move up in ranking.  This would show 
> >>their advancing capability.  We may be on to something here.  Perhaps a 
> >>meet with trophies for the judges only?
> >>Bill Glaze
> >>    
> >>
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