<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B> In the 80's it was all non contestant judging, and boy let me tell you about bias, a field had a pattern contest that knew the members and I won the contest not because of my flying but because they all thought I was that good, not a good feeling for me, now I may have won anyhow, but I have felt to this day an unfulfilled victory, system nowadays is much better, I think having non contestant scribes is great, but have seen to many times that they get out of sink with the flier, then while there flying you (as a judge have to try and get them back into sink) doing justice to no one and especially not to the pilot.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial Baltic" LANG="0"><I> Steve Maxwell</B></I></FONT></HTML>