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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
The best way to get people to curb bad behavior is to hit them where it hurts.
Teams come to the competition to win awards and I bet they wouldn't act they way they do if there was a judge nearby but the judges have better things to do than babysit unruly teams.
Here's a viable solution: A few years ago at IRI they instituted a Stealth Judge (Andy Baker's brother) who hung out in the stands to see how teams behave (because most teams can the Junkyard Dog act when they see someone in a open collard blue shirt and play nice til they go away. After they go away all bets are off! If they have no idea that they are being scrutinized by an undercover judge who gets to see their bad behavior in full effect they can then inform that team that they will not be receiving any awards this weekend. I bet that'll curb their nasty attitude very quickly and hopefully for the future as well.
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Yeah recognition is nice, but are we are trying to teach our kids the reason to do anything is for the awards? (This is my main issue with some teams chairmans or safety motivation already)
The implementation of this would need to be painfully blunt for most teams to understand why they weren't ever winning anything. "This award would have gone to WXYZ but they are jerks so we are giving it to ZYXW" and that would really make ZYXW feel great about themselves too.