<DIV>Just curious, do other countries use a judge ranking system? Just wondered whether the NSRCA is pioneering this or whether the judge ranking was modeled after some existing system. Sorry if this has been discussed, I cant recall the details of your articles.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:30 PM, BUDDYonRC@aol.com wrote:<BR><BR>> Pardon me Ron I must have missed it in your column. If that is the <BR>> case then why are we all having this discussion and why is the NSRCA <BR>> submitting a list to AMA for judge selection recommendations by them <BR>> for the 2005 WC If this has already been determined. Or is this list <BR>> for the 2007 WC? Sounds like the latest post's have confused the issue <BR>> for many of us who are on the outside looking in, can you please <BR>> expand on the fact's to explain what is going on with this issue since <BR>> I may need to retract statements that I made in a previous post that <BR>> were the results of me possibly not understanding the issue.<BR><BR><BR>We can do one of two things: We (NSRCA) can either say that nothing <BR>can be done and let behind-the-scenes
politics decide who will go to <BR>the 2005 F3A WC as the U.S. judge, or we can let everyone in the world <BR>know who the NSRCA top-ranked judges are and force the people who want <BR>to play politics with U.S, judge selection out into the open where <BR>their actions will be transparent. We chose the latter. The list of <BR>the five NSRCA top-ranked judges has been sent to AMA's Competition <BR>Department for transmittal to the 2005 F3A WC organizing committee. In <BR>addition, several individuals outside the U.S. have been informed of <BR>our judge ranking process and the results of the ranking.<BR><BR>Ron Van Putte<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>