Bailin, do you mean that Jason cannot judge any Best of Show at ALL or he cannot judge it IF his aquascape is in the running for Best of Show, i.e. it won first place in his category? Cheryl Bailin Shaw wrote: > Cheryl and all. Like was discussed previously, I think we definitely > allow Jason to judge the contest, but as Karen pointed out, he cannot be > part of the best in show and cannot judge his own category. There could > be many complaints from other competitors that I would rather avoid. > Who can contact him? > > Any additional work on other judges? > > Bailin > > > i'm EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me <http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood> > > > > > > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:54:51 -0500 > > From: cheryl@dustyuniverse.com > > To: aga-contest@thekrib.com > > Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] AGA-Contest Digest, Vol 44, Issue 9 > > > > Is there any further discussion on this topic? > > > > Bailin, you're the contest decider. What do I tell Jason? > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > Karen Randall wrote: > > > I agree with Bailin. I don't have any problem with Jason judging > categories > > > that he hasn't entered, and have someone else judge the categories > he IS > > > entered in. The problem is if he ends up in contention for the top > prize. > > > None of the judges know who has entered each tank (unless they've > seen it > > > before, in which case we just need to trust them to judge fairly and > > > honestly anyway) because the names are not revealed until the very > end. I > > > suppose we could do something like, if he DID end up in contention > for the > > > top prize, then he bow out of picking the over-all winner, and the > other > > > judges make that call. Same would be true of Phil, if he judged the > > > categories that Jason was competing in, but he was competing in > Biotopes... > > > If he was one of the top two contenders in Biotopes, he would have > to sit > > > out the final decision making round. > > > > > > I think that would work, what do the rest of you think? > > > > > > Karen > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > AGA-Contest mailing list > > > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AGA-Contest mailing list > > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > AGA-Contest mailing list > AGA-Contest@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest _______________________________________________ AGA-Contest mailing list AGA-Contest@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-contest