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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2007
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- St. Louis
I know there are pros and cons to every idea. That’s the reasons I want to throw this out there. I want to hear people’s thoughts on going from six judges to five judges per table.
I don’t know if this has been brought up before, but I was curious why we have six judges. With five judges you would only need to turn in five portions of meat which gives you more room for creativity in your box. It would also require the judges to eat less food and give them the opportunity to take larger sample bites, thus being able to taste more of the turn-in.
When going from six judges to five judges it gives you one less score. So I figure this would give you more ties, which is not good. So my thought on that is to use the whole range of scores from 0 to 9 instead of using just 5 to 9 like we do now. I’m not sure how many 1, 2, and 3s are given, but I can’t image there being very many.
So really the only negative I see in this scenario would be the number of table captains needed. But really you don’t need that many more. A contest with fifty teams would require nine table captains with the six judge format. The same contest with the five judge format would only require one more table captain.
So that is my idea. Please tell me your thoughts.
Cheers,
Nate
I don’t know if this has been brought up before, but I was curious why we have six judges. With five judges you would only need to turn in five portions of meat which gives you more room for creativity in your box. It would also require the judges to eat less food and give them the opportunity to take larger sample bites, thus being able to taste more of the turn-in.
When going from six judges to five judges it gives you one less score. So I figure this would give you more ties, which is not good. So my thought on that is to use the whole range of scores from 0 to 9 instead of using just 5 to 9 like we do now. I’m not sure how many 1, 2, and 3s are given, but I can’t image there being very many.
So really the only negative I see in this scenario would be the number of table captains needed. But really you don’t need that many more. A contest with fifty teams would require nine table captains with the six judge format. The same contest with the five judge format would only require one more table captain.
So that is my idea. Please tell me your thoughts.
Cheers,
Nate