Uncle Buds BBQ
is one Smokin' Farker
- Joined
- May 4, 2009
- Location
- Marietta, GA
At all of the contests I have have been involved in I see that most judges hide their score card so that the scores can't be seen by the other judges.
I do the same thing because I don't want my score to influence the folks sitting near me. The downside is that I have no clue what the other judges thought of a particular sample.
I few weeks back while doing the table captain job a judge asked "if the table scores were close?" so I quickly ran through the taste scores. It went something like..."First one got a 9,9,8,6,8,9..second one got a x,x,x,x,x,x..."
I read out just the taste scores and to do all 6 turn-ins it took like less than 10 seconds.
Since then each time I table captain I tell the judges the taste scores for each of the 4 meats. I think it helps the judges when they find out how their score related to the others. And since I read them in no particular order no one judge is getting "called out" for their score.
So in the example above...the guy that gave a 6 will know that the rest of the table thought the sample was better than average. Now...there is nothing to say that maybe that piece of chicken or rib deserved a 6 but maybe the judge was new and now he has some feedback about his score.
What do you think? Any negatives with this?
I do the same thing because I don't want my score to influence the folks sitting near me. The downside is that I have no clue what the other judges thought of a particular sample.
I few weeks back while doing the table captain job a judge asked "if the table scores were close?" so I quickly ran through the taste scores. It went something like..."First one got a 9,9,8,6,8,9..second one got a x,x,x,x,x,x..."
I read out just the taste scores and to do all 6 turn-ins it took like less than 10 seconds.
Since then each time I table captain I tell the judges the taste scores for each of the 4 meats. I think it helps the judges when they find out how their score related to the others. And since I read them in no particular order no one judge is getting "called out" for their score.
So in the example above...the guy that gave a 6 will know that the rest of the table thought the sample was better than average. Now...there is nothing to say that maybe that piece of chicken or rib deserved a 6 but maybe the judge was new and now he has some feedback about his score.
What do you think? Any negatives with this?