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I've been thinking about this and I would like to hear everyone else's thoughts too.
I do both - cook on a couple of teams AND judge. I started judging simply because I realized after a couple of events that I had NO IDEA what it was that we were shooting for (other than simply having some fun cooking BBQ).
As it turns out, I really enjoy judging and I've been doing it for a couple of seasons and I've enjoyed getting to know 'the regular' judges who travel far and wide to provide their services.
One thing that bothers me is that the scores from a "celebrity" judge (like a local radio personality or the mayor or the fire chief, etc.) are weighted just the same as a non-certified judge that are weighted just the same as a 'rookie' judge (say, less than 10 competitions judged) and their scores are weighted the same as 'experienced' judges and all of them have just as much say in their scores as Master judges.
This doesn't seem like a very fair set up.
Couldn't the KCBS do some things to help level this out? For example;
1) Track all scoring by all certified judges.
2) Weight judge's scores by some kind of 'experience factor' giving greater credence to experienced and Master judge's scores.
That way, the celebrity or non-certified judges who are tasting competition BBQ for the first time don't just give everything a 9 across the board - as they tend to do. And the tendency for rookie judges to compare entries against each other could also be accommodated using a system like this.
This would require more data entry time on site by the rep doing the data entry. Are there any other problems this might cause that I am missing?
Thank you for your thoughts on this.
I do both - cook on a couple of teams AND judge. I started judging simply because I realized after a couple of events that I had NO IDEA what it was that we were shooting for (other than simply having some fun cooking BBQ).
As it turns out, I really enjoy judging and I've been doing it for a couple of seasons and I've enjoyed getting to know 'the regular' judges who travel far and wide to provide their services.
One thing that bothers me is that the scores from a "celebrity" judge (like a local radio personality or the mayor or the fire chief, etc.) are weighted just the same as a non-certified judge that are weighted just the same as a 'rookie' judge (say, less than 10 competitions judged) and their scores are weighted the same as 'experienced' judges and all of them have just as much say in their scores as Master judges.
This doesn't seem like a very fair set up.
Couldn't the KCBS do some things to help level this out? For example;
1) Track all scoring by all certified judges.
2) Weight judge's scores by some kind of 'experience factor' giving greater credence to experienced and Master judge's scores.
That way, the celebrity or non-certified judges who are tasting competition BBQ for the first time don't just give everything a 9 across the board - as they tend to do. And the tendency for rookie judges to compare entries against each other could also be accommodated using a system like this.
This would require more data entry time on site by the rep doing the data entry. Are there any other problems this might cause that I am missing?
Thank you for your thoughts on this.