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Old 09-06-2012, 11:59 AM   #31
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By shuffling boxes AND moving judges you actually increase the chance of one or more teams being judged by high/low scoring judges more than once.
You're right, but the "good" tables and the "bad" tables are shuffled. The odds increase that any 1 judge sees your Q does go up, but the odds are 0 that the same group of judges judges it. It's about mixing up the grouping and minimizing the effect of good/bad tables. It does this. It doesn't prevent one of the same judges judging your Q again.

Mind you, I applaud the new scoring results posting.
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Old 09-06-2012, 12:06 PM   #32
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This confirms what I have been saying about KCBS contests involving luck. Yes, to win you have to cook well and consistently but you also have to be lucky. Someone commented this solves the problem of guessing what went wrong, but unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem that something went wrong.
This isn't a KCBS problem so much as it is a problem with every cookoff with multiple tables. It's a bit of the nature of the beast. You will have "hot" tables, and you will have "cold" tables. Your entry will land on a table with what should be the top 5 or 6 entries in the whole contest (and they aren't scored that way), and your entry will land on a table where everyone else around yours is aweful (so your good entry stands out just that much more). Your entry will also be tested after an entry that leaves a bad taste in the tasters mouth and yours will get a lesser score as a result. It happens, regardless of the sanctioning body, regardless of the type of cookoff.
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Old 09-06-2012, 12:32 PM   #33
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You're right, but the "good" tables and the "bad" tables are shuffled. The odds increase that any 1 judge sees your Q does go up, but the odds are 0 that the same group of judges judges it. It's about mixing up the grouping and minimizing the effect of good/bad tables. It does this. It doesn't prevent one of the same judges judging your Q again.

Mind you, I applaud the new scoring results posting.
That can be accomplished by sending boxes to different tables, and retaining the opportunity for each team to land on good/bad tables.

I want each team to have the same opportunity to land on the SAME table. Otherwise you just penalized the six teams that landed on a 'bad" table for chicken if you change the makeup for ribs. If you are randomly moving people from table to table there doesn't appear to be any safeguard to prevent the formation of another bad table, which one or more teams from the first category may land on again further hurting their chances. The converse is also true. You may create a judging pool where one or more teams gain an advantage in the event they land on more than one high scoring table.
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Old 09-06-2012, 01:15 PM   #34
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I wonder how this would work out if all certified judges scores were kept and averaged over a period of time or several contests. Judges could then be assigned to tables so that all tables have near the same cumulative average for scoring. If all tables had a close to the same average in scoring, it would seemingly(on the surface) start a contest with a more level playing field. This way you shouldn't get 1 table who likes to score all 9's for practically everything. Just a thought....
I am not a statistician nor do I play one on TV. But several contest would not be enough to draw any meaningful conclusions. Most researchers consider 30 to be a minimum number of participants for a study to have any validity. 100 is better. Given the nature of this beast I think 30 or so is a good number to consider. It will then average out across the board for those times that really good or really bad food crosses the judging table.

And in my opinion the all 9's everytime judge is as much and maybe more of a problem than the lower scoring judge. keith
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Old 09-06-2012, 02:23 PM   #35
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That can be accomplished by sending boxes to different tables, and retaining the opportunity for each team to land on good/bad tables.

I want each team to have the same opportunity to land on the SAME table. Otherwise you just penalized the six teams that landed on a 'bad" table for chicken if you change the makeup for ribs. If you are randomly moving people from table to table there doesn't appear to be any safeguard to prevent the formation of another bad table, which one or more teams from the first category may land on again further hurting their chances. The converse is also true. You may create a judging pool where one or more teams gain an advantage in the event they land on more than one high scoring table.
But shouldn't the objective be NOT to have "good" & "bad" tables? Assigned seating means that a "good" or "bad" table remains as such throughout the contest. Random seating means that the same 5 or 6 "good" judges and the same 5 or 6 "bad" judges do not determine the winners & losers.
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Also, ranking change (approved last year) will happen for next year as well.
Could someone please refresh my memory on what this change is?
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The converse is also true. You may create a judging pool where one or more teams gain an advantage in the event they land on more than one high scoring table.
But, they do now (in KCBS), or negative tables. In the test they had 6 tough tables (dont like the word bad) and they had 10 easy tables apparently. By keeping the tables as-is, there's a good chance that a few of the teams consistently landed on one of those 10 good/easy tables, putting the others at a distinct disadvantage. I'd personally prefer, for lack of a better word, busting the good and bad tables by shuffling judges. JMHO.
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Seeing those scans reminded me of how much we overcooked our chicken. I tried to block it out.
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Are the Judges given similar data? Back when I was judging I always wanted to know how myscores compared
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Old 09-06-2012, 04:57 PM   #40
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Are the Judges given similar data? Back when I was judging I always wanted to know how myscores compared
Excellent idea. As a cook, I don't really care that I can tell who was on the table with me. What I like is seeing the judges avg score. I think that would be good for a judge to see as well
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Mobow,

I write this with all due respect but and I understand what you are saying but it was more about the general concept than trying to get caught up in the details. If the new system won't be effective until 30-100 contests judged then it would seemingly be useless as it takes most folks are really long time to achieve that.
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Old 09-06-2012, 06:47 PM   #42
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A better solution, IMO, is to make certain that boxes don't land on the same table in front of the same judges multiple times.

Gee, I may be wrong and correct me if I am but..... I think this is what they are already doing. Or at least it is what I have experienced in the past six years that I have been a certified judge.
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Old 09-06-2012, 07:26 PM   #43
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Mobow,

I write this with all due respect but and I understand what you are saying but it was more about the general concept than trying to get caught up in the details. If the new system won't be effective until 30-100 contests judged then it would seemingly be useless as it takes most folks are really long time to achieve that.
I think he meant KCBS testing this at 30 - 100 contests. They should be able to knock that out in a few weeks next year. .
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Old 09-06-2012, 09:42 PM   #44
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By shuffling boxes AND moving judges you actually increase the chance of one or more teams being judged by high/low scoring judges more than once.
I think there's some clarification needed to what I was saying. Once the boxes get to the TC they are (at every event I've ever been at) checked for duplication from a list each TC has and swapped out if clam on the tray is from a team that has already hit the table.
The reason I suggested the shuffle of clams (boxes) prior to getting to the TC is to pretty much kill off a fairly easy way to "help" a friend win. Before anyone gets wound up, I'm not saying it's ever been done as I've not been at every event but I know it's possible to do. Shuffling the boxes prior to getting to the TC wouldn't stop clams from hitting a good or bad table, that's not why I suggested it.
Shuffling judges and TC's would certainly help the good/bad,cold/hot table issues.
Just my thoughts, your mileage may vary.
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I think there's some clarification needed to what I was saying. Once the boxes get to the TC they are (at every event I've ever been at) checked for duplication from a list each TC has and swapped out if clam on the tray is from a team that has already hit the table.
Interesting, I've never seen it done at the TC level. That would seem to be a lot of box handling with the potential for dropped boxes. Here the boxes are always shuffled and checked for repeat tables before the TC's get their trays.
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