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What is involved in KCBS judging classes? Have one coming up in my home town and might like to go.
slat said:What is involved in KCBS judging classes? Have one coming up in my home town and might like to go.
slat said:Next question is, once you are a judge how do you go about getting into a event as a judge. Do you get a call or do you volunteer? I'm sure I'll learn that and probably jumping the gun, but sometimes you just gotta know.
slat said:Well I just finished KCBS judging class. It was well worth doing. Learned a few things and had fun doing it.
Hopefully will be judging an event the end of August. It is hard not to want to compare the meats to each other, but judge them individually. It's a learn as you go process.
FBA states the same thing. I had trouble understanding this concept initially. I thought (and still do) that they were talking about lining up the entries in "quality order", then awarding scores accordingly. Visually--like an actual line-up.It is hard not to want to compare the meats to each other, but judge them individually
kapndsl said:FBA states the same thing. I had trouble understanding this concept initially. I thought (and still do) that they were talking about lining up the entries in "quality order", then awarding scores accordingly. Visually--like an actual line-up.It is hard not to want to compare the meats to each other, but judge them individually
But we really do, in fact compare them.
But the comparison is to our concept of the "standard", what ever that may be in our little minds.
So, we are comparing them, not to each other, but to a conceptual standard.
If this is done correctly, you could line the meats up after scoring and they would be in the same order as if it had been done while scoring.
The only time I wished for a "line up" approach was on Brisket at Barnesville. I awarded a 10 to an entry. As good as I had ever seen and thought that was as good as it gets. Two or three boxes later got a brand new definition of Championship Brisket. Gave it a 10 naturally. So, 2 entries got a 10, which is OK for sure. However, if my experience had included the standard set by the second peice, the first would have got a 9 or 9.5 which would have been more accurate. No big deal, but the "standard" does move in your mind as you see different levels of entries.
Make any sense??
Just a mental exercise.
Really don't mattter how we get there, just so the results are fair and as accurate and objective as we can make them.
TIM