Judging Controversy - Part 3

[tony at radiosouthrc.com]

Frank:

Just to clear everything up, I had a long discussion with AMA President Dave
Brown about this issue on Friday.

The actual selection of the judge is done by the Contest management of the
World Championships.  The judge list that is submitted to FAI is the
responsibility of the AMA President.  Back during my first term as NSRCA
President, I spoke with Dave Brown about allowing NSRCA to help AMA come up
with a list to submit to FAI.  We did use Derek's information from several
contests, but found that we needed to go a little further.

When Eric Henderson was elected President, he asked me to continue taking
care of the FAI/World Championships issues, including judging nominations to
AMA.

Several lists were submitted to AMA, and they were passed on to the FAI.  In
2003, the judges were selected by the contest management prior to a newer
list being submitted to FAI, hence Mike Dunphy was still the top listed
judge, and was selected.

Bob Skinner of the FAI is very interested in the USA sending a judge several
times, in order to gain some "seniority" at the event.  He feels that the
USA judges are always excellent, and can help him to "guide" others with
must less experience at a WC.  You see, many of the judges at a WC have very
limited experience.  Due to our large amount of contests, a judge resume
from the USA is always very good.

Dave has agreed to use the listing that NSRCA is providing him to send to
the FAI.  It is then up to the contest management to decide who they pick.
Our list is sent in the order of ranking, from first to fifth.  Of course,
they can pick anyone on the list, but would usually take the top ranked
judge.  In this case, it is Don Ramsey.  However, should they decide to take
any of the other four, that is strictly their decision and we have no right
to question it.

However, the change now is that the FAI would like to use a judge several
times for several WC, so Dave has decided that whoever is picked by the
Contest Management for the 2005 World Champs, will automatically be on the
list for the 2007 WC as well, no matter how that judge places in the USA
Judge evaluation program.  The only way that judge will be removed from the
FAI listing is due to poor performance at a World Championships.

This means that whoever is picked will be one of the five names submitted
for the 2007 WC, and the other four will come from the NSRCA judge
evaluation system we are currently using.




Tony Stillman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Lachowski" <jlachow at hotmail.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: Judging Controversy - Part 3


>
>
> I know that who finally is the WC judge is not really the greatest concern
> to each of us, as long as his performance reflects well on us all. But Bob
> Noll has the resume as Team Selection, TOC (including unknowns) and NATS
> Finals judging experience that is required. He also has developed an
> International reputation as a detail builder and accomplished NATS
Manager.
> Plus Bob has the sales and diplomatic skills required for the job. And he
is
> one of the top five NSRCA recommendations for 2007.
>
> But remember, Bob is apparently the one person of the "NSRCA Five" with
whom
> the AMA President is the most comfortable as I have been told that the AMA
> President has selected Bob to judge at the 2005 WC. I am sure that all
five
> of our recommendations would do a fine job. I personally respect each of
> them, would be proud of any of them and wish they all could serve. But Bob
> was already chosen back in 2003, based in part upon the NSRCA's
> recommendations.
>
> In summary, the American WC judge also serves as the AMA President's
> Ambassador to the World's Pattern Community, not just a judge. The AMA's
> professionalism, sportsmanship and competence is evaluated by the World
> based upon our judge's personal skills and performance. Want proof? When
one
> country's judge was removed for bias, it was not the individual judge that
> was banned from the next WC. No, his ENTIRE COUNTRY was prevented from
> sending a judge to the next WC. Because their Ambassador failed in his
> responsibilities, the entire country was punished.
>
> A President always gets to select his Ambassadors. Therefore, the final
> choice is not up to us and never was. But the AMA respects the NSRCA's
> achievements enough that we have now been given a major roll in the
> selection process. We have earned that right by being professional in our
> dedication to the sport. Let's not lose it by reacting emotionally on this
> issue.
>
> Frank Granelli
> D-1 VP
>
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