[Galum]

I totally agree.

Peer voting has other issues, especially in regionals where animation crews are hard to find (such as Israel). For example, last year the only team to vote was our own! So we lost the regional because there was only one vote, that's hardly fair in my opinion (we learned that from the Regional Directors).

It's really hard on the kids, the worked really hard completely on their own (we couldn't find anyone with knowledge of 3DMax near us) and felt that they were robbed of their fair chance.