[Bards] Judging a bardic competition

[Genie Barrett]

At 04:52 PM 5/2/2007, you wrote:
>snip.  I thought she was the best at the competition, though she 
>didn't win, which made me wonder if I was all at sea about what was 
>expected at bardic competitions.
>
>Susanne of Steppes

Hey Susanne,

I've a bit to say about judging....

It is very relative.  Sometimes the person who wins is absolutely 
sure that some other person has totally pegged the competition.  It 
has to do with emotion, the Judges emotion.  It is so very hard to 
judge between, for example: a poem, a ballad, and a guitar 
piece.  They are so very different.

I have judged only one competition, and am sure that if I had judged 
it with different people it would have ended very differently, or 
not.  It might have ended the same, but just gotten there differently.

As Master Robin says, if the competition had been judged a different 
weekend, but every other factor had been the same, it would have had 
different results.  Never base your value as a Bard against weather 
you won a competition or not.  That is one of the most flexible and 
changing aspects out there.

Just a thought
Maggie
Glaslyn's Bardic Defender