Re: [AGA Contest] various replies, incl judging...

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Roger Miller wrote:

> I don't think that an entry that *no* judge believed was best in the
> category should end up with a first-place win.
>  I don't understand what point there is to getting judges with individual 
> tastes and known abilities, then using a scoring method that cancels out 
> their differences to arrive at a uniformly bland result.   An entry deamed by 
> all judges to be competent but mundane should never win over an entry that is 
> inspired but controversial.

OK, I hear where you're coming from, and it's certainly a more
*exciting* way to approach the judging.  I can live with that, though
I'm curious to hear a few other opinions.

So I actually ran the harmonic mean on the 2003 contest:

  1: No change whatsoever in 1st places in each category, or in suggested 
     best of show.  Good.
  2: No entry that was unawarded would have received an award.  Good.
  3: Four categories were essentially unchanged for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  Good.
  4: In TWO categories, an 2nd place aquascape would have been kicked out 
     entirely, while a 3rd place would have moved into 2nd place and a HM 
     moved into 3rd.  Remember that we gave HM's all all aquascapes that
     received at least one first place from a judge.

I guess it just shows that with five judges the differences don't matter 
so much as with three judges.

Now that I've done the work, I'll just leave both calculations in for this
year.  

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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