[karomata]

One thing I have noticed regarding judging this year was that at the NY Tech Valley Regional (which was awesome for an inaugural event) they had multiple streams of judges. This is to be expected knowing that a regional could potentially have over 50 teams needing to present in one day.

From judging FLL locally, experience tells me this is not as ideal as having only one stream of judges. To an extent, the winner will be decided over which stream of judges was most willing to fight for the teams they believe should win.

I'm not saying that in this specific example that the team that won wasn't deserving, and I don't ever see that being the case in scenarios like these. But perhaps there is an extended room for error with this new approach.

For example, if a team is the strongest contender for the Chairman's award, but they select the stream of judges who may be less experienced or more passive when deliberating a winner with the other stream of judges, one could somewhat safely say that that team did not receive an entirely fair shot at the award.

This has for a long time been the case at Championships, but it is also assumed that all of the judges at worlds are some of the most qualified individuals in FIRST.

What have other teams found with having multiple streams of judges?