[Greg Needel]

i was judge coordinator at Long Island in 2003 and i can tell you that the only awards that have seprate judges is the chairmans award. Those judges are completely different but they still are in the room when the discussion goes on about the differnt awards so i guess it is possible that they are infulenced by the discusson but they are soposed to figure out who wins before they come back to the rest of the judges.