Judging Controversy

[Brian Young]

Just curious, do other countries use a judge ranking system? Just wondered whether the NSRCA is pioneering this or whether the judge ranking was modeled after some existing system. Sorry if this has been discussed, I cant recall the details of your articles.

 

Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote:

On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:30 PM, BUDDYonRC at aol.com wrote:

> Pardon me Ron I must have missed it in your column. If that is the 
> case then why are we all having this discussion and why is the NSRCA 
> submitting a list to AMA for judge selection recommendations by them 
> for the 2005 WC If this has already been determined. Or is this list 
> for the 2007 WC? Sounds like the latest post's have confused the issue 
> for many of us who are on the outside looking in, can you please 
> expand on the fact's to explain what is going on with this issue since 
> I may need to retract statements that I made in a previous post that 
> were the results of me possibly not understanding the issue.


We can do one of two things: We (NSRCA) can either say that nothing 
can be done and let behind-the-scenes politics decide who will go to 
the 2005 F3A WC as the U.S. judge, or we can let everyone in the world 
know who the NSRCA top-ranked judges are and force the people who want 
to play politics with U.S, judge selection out into the open where 
their actions will be transparent. We chose the latter. The list of 
the five NSRCA top-ranked judges has been sent to AMA's Competition 
Department for transmittal to the 2005 F3A WC organizing committee. In 
addition, several individuals outside the U.S. have been informed of 
our judge ranking process and the results of the ranking.

Ron Van Putte
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