Judging Controversy

[Ron Van Putte]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 10:40 PM, Brian Young wrote:

> 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.

I don't know what system all countries use to select their judges, but 
based on what I have observed, very few, if any, countries use a 
ranking system except us.  I observed which judges attended F3A World 
Championships over several WC cycles and noted that virtually all 
countries except the U.S. had the same judge year after year.  It would 
be unlikely that a ranking system would have the same judge on top 
every cycle.  When the new NSRCA judge ranking system became known by 
foreigners, several asked Tony Stillman for information about it.  Tony 
can talk to this if he choses and there is interest on the NSRCA 
discussion list.

Ron Van Putte
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