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Mike:<br>
I started flying the precursor to pattern around 1955. We had entirely
contestant judging. (Although on a slightly different basis.)<br>
The biggest competitor complaint? Guess What? The judging! And, I
remember being the CD at an AVERAGE sized contest. We had 154
competitors.<br>
BTW: The 2 biggest judging complaints were from competitors having to
judge, and the second was about the quality of judging by these
competitors.<br>
Sound familiar? As it has been said, the more things change, the more
they stay the same.<br>
Bill Glaze<br>
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mike mueller wrote:<br>
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<div>I propose that flash cards be brought back to judging. It would
allow judges to be critiqued by their peers. The way it works is the
judge has numbered flash cards on his lap. The scribe sits behind the
judge and records the data. Nothing new here but if a guy is scoring
vanilla it will be detected. If a guy is giving good scores to bad
snaps it would give others the ability to straighten him out. Flash
cards worked in the old days and they are sorely needed now. If you
like the idea and your a CD it's as easy to try as doing it. To the
best of my knowledge there aren't any rules to stop you. Flash cards
made speculating more fun and was educational. </div>
<div> Has anyone done this in recent times? </div>
<div> I'm searching for an answer here. Do you have a better
solution because if your leaving it up to the good faith of others then
you have what we have now? Human nature always reverts back to the
same bad habits no matter how much you beat things into others. In the
end it's a system that fails not humans.Edward Deming stated that 85%
of all failures are due to systems problems and the remaining 15% are
human. I believe he was correct. Our system is flawed and it's keeping
the sport back. </div>
<div> I stated before that I don't like contestant judging. On
average the decline of pattern that started in the mid 80's parallels
the advent of this procedure. I realize that it's too hard to fix it
now but something has to change.It's pretty easy to experiment with
flash cards. I know from personal experience that it works and I can't
see why we got away from it.</div>
<div> It's good to debate, Thanks, Mike Mueller</div>
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