SC - Re: Judges....

[Decker, Margaret]

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After this competition, I joked with the baroness of the group, that I'll 
be nice and sit out the next few competitions, and let someone else 
win.  She laughed, and said "well, next time you can judge." 

Now, I don't drink that much alcohol, don't drink beer at all, I'm not a 
big fan of wines, and only occasionally enjoy a good mead.  On top of 
that, my experience making cordials is really minimal.  BUT... they would 
like me to judge their brewing competitions.  

Now from what they have told me, they judge their competitions solely on 
taste. So technically, anyone could judge it.  But I still would not feel 
qualified to judge it.  I mean does the ability to make a good tasting 
cordial mean I can judge others as well????

now apply this to other types of A&S projects.

Kael


This is fairly common and one of the major reasons I don't enter contests.
I've seen too many instants of this kind of thing. I prefer displays with
documentation but even then the flashy with little to no real period basis
seems to come out ahead. I think things are getting better in some areas but
there are still too many folks out there who really don't care about
research who are doing the judging. Margarite