On 13 Apr 2009, Chris Ormston wrote: > Andy May, Pauline Cato and I were discussing competitions at the > Whitley Bay residential course last year, and we concluded that > judging - a thankless task in the best of circumstances.
Well I for one am extremely grateful for the positive and helpful comments by many judges over a number of years, certainly including the three mentioned. Not every judge....one soon learns to be strategically absent or indisposed at particular events. > As a competition judge one strives to be supportive while maintaining > the standards of piping one would expect in open competitions. Perhaps that sentence should be required reading by a very few of those asked to judge. Except that the ones who need to read it probably wouldn't, unfortunately. > Constant hassle from individuals accompanying a particular entrant > will not affect the outcome of the competition and is not acceptable. Hassling judges would be best dealt with by either evicting the person (politely) from the venue, or possibly by disqualifying the entrant (after warning the perpetrator) in persistent cases. In my view. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
