SC - Re: Judging an A&S, a bit long and windy

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/31/00 12:35:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:

> Judges....Re: SC - Re: A question of re-creation

I wanted to take a bit of bandwidth up in addressing this topic. My post 
added some flame to that fire and I had attemtpted not to. What I wanted to 
mention is that the judges who had comments for me, were doing the very best 
job they knew how. The comments they gave me were constructive and well 
meaning, and I took them that way. I have heard of others experiences as 
being terrible, but lets try to look beyond that for a moment. 

I learned alot that day, I learned that there is alot more to judging than 
meets the eye. I went with some judges (one who was my laurel) to judge 
various entries. It should be pointed out that a decent jugding requires alot 
of thought and analysis, a task that is particularly difficult to do when 
you've been asked to judge something you know little to nothing about. I was 
asked to judge a weaving entry. There just was no one else left. To be 
honest, I barely know a weft from a warp, but did the best job I could and 
gave suggestions on where to find period works that might have enhanced the 
authenticity of the piece.

What we might want to do as a group of cooks is find members of us who are 
willing judges, who will go to various A&S competitions and volunteer our 
services. If we want better judges, we need to teach them. If we want better 
A&S competition, we need to help rewrite the criteria. 

Just my humble opinion, one I hope will be remembered when the next A&S comes 
up.

Hauviette