At 12:30 PM 5/10/2009, you wrote:
This also depends on Judging Style. While I'll put points on the
sheet I rarely use them except as a rough guideline during deliberations.
If you really want me to go through my system of judging (which is
based heavily on Janet Wilson Anderson's methods) I'll expand later.
Pierre
I think when a judge says some entry lost points, it's misleading.
Many judging sheets start out with all the numbers from one to ten
printed on them, so the judges can quickly circle the appropriate
number. So every entry starts out with zero points, and can only gain
points from there. And I've never ever heard of an entry whose score
ended up less than zero.
I can see using "losing points" or "that entry lost points" as a
figure of speech, amounting to "did not gain any points". And
certainly a judge's initial high opinion can fall when some
shortcoming is discovered. But I find it much more positive to frame
the whole situation in terms of lost opportunities to gain more
points. Judging sheets have no point score till the masquerade
begins.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
"Those Who Fail to Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -
Why They Are Simply Doomed."
Achemdro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
-- C. Y. 4971
Andromeda
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