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<DIV>Keith, Lance, it is the matter of the weasel....</DIV>
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<DIV>A judge should be confident in his ability and proud of his work. In fact, just as confident and proud in judging as he is in his flying. Confidence comes from being a student of the rules and leads to justification for the scores he assesses...he must be able to defend them. The confident judge has no problem at all initialing or signing the score sheet. </DIV>
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<DIV>The weasel might...</DIV>
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<DIV>MattK</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 11/24/2006 2:23:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, tkeithblack@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>No Lance, the point is that our system already has the ability to identify<BR>judges.<BR><BR>The halo factor and judging accuracy/competence is a different topic.<BR><BR>If there is any action item related to our discussion it would be that local<BR>CD's should enforce what's already supposed to happen, which is judges<BR>should always write down either their initials or judge number on score<BR>sheets. However, at local contests even when judges don't write their<BR>initials down it's normally pretty easy to figure out.<BR><BR>Keith<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Lance Van Nostrand" <patterndude@comcast.net><BR>To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:07 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Defensive Judging<BR><BR><BR>> Alright. I'll agree for now. But there is a string attached. The next<BR>> contest where you are in a near tie, and you fly a round you are proud of,<BR>> and subsequently fall behind by 100 points you remember this. Instead of<BR>> bending our ears off on speculation about your flying, the halo for the<BR>> other guy, and judging in general, you must now recite your mantra, "It's<BR>a<BR>> good system and working fine."<BR>><BR>> --Lance<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: "Keith Black" <tkeithblack@gmail.com><BR>> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:51 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Defensive Judging<BR>><BR>><BR>> > If I may be so bold as to summarize what I'm hearing from the opinions<BR>> > I've<BR>> > read, including mine (with exception of Lance possibly... not sure).<BR>> ><BR>> > Keep doing exactly what we're doing at both the local level and NATS<BR>> > level.<BR>> > It's a good system and working fine.<BR>> ><BR>> > Keith Black</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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