Yes, always a bit of a problem, that. Still, it's a very pleasant day out.The Lowland and Border Pipers Society have an interesting method of judging their annual competitions. Each performer is marked out of 100. 50 marks are awarded by a judge looking at technique, tuning and so on. The other 50 are given by 5 members of the audience selected at random (marks out of 10 each) based entirely on the musical experience/ entertainment value /whatever you want to call it. Most of the audience are known to each other and the performers, and it makes for a really good atmosphere.Basically "Pop Idol" with beards, isn't it?I've been at a few of these, and it always puts you in a funny position with scoring. When you hear the first performer, you've no idea how much better or worse the later ones are going to be, so the first always get 5/10 and the later ones higher or lower than that to get the ordering you want.
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Richard Evans
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