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Re: Judge Consistency Between Events
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I vaguely recall a webinar floating around perhaps it was IL specific. This is the crappy part, is that judging has significant effort involved. There's a document, video and webinar that you have to go through. Then the day of the event, you show up early and have a few extra hours of training. Then you rush through the judging in one day. As someone who's brand new to FIRST...this is a tough position to fill in. Quote:
First-time Judges: There's unfortunately no way around some percentage of first-time Judges. The solution, specifically for Illinois FTC, is two-fold
No Real Interest: The only way around this is to up our volunteer coordination game. The goal with this is to try and recruit judges at the right time. For Illinois FTC, this just means ensuring our Event Coordinators know this, and it has been getting better. For FRC as far as I can tell, the JA for Midwest Regional seemed really prepared a few months out. Shy Judges: Illinois FTC's way of solving this, is to have well trained Judge Advisors. Ensuring equitable deliberation time and moderating the conversation is the role of the JA. They should bring out as much information as they can. BUT they also need to do it quickly and efficiently (a really hard thing). So we have state-trained JAs (just like FRC has HQ-trained JAs) to make sure we get them communicating about their experiences. Quote:
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For 1) we only have anecdotal evidence, with very many unknowns and a lack of perspectives. In addition, winning awards should not be the end-all for teams. There are probably other team issues that need fixing too. Frankly, what is broken in the Judge Room (at many events) is 2), there's a constant strain on volunteer pool (in some regions), a lack of volunteers, and a lot of last-minute judges. It's why I'm imploring OP to become a judge. Not only will we get closer to solving 2), but we'll also get more perspectives for 1). I honestly see no resolution to this particular case. In my view, OP is probably a tired mentor (long season...) and got bummed out his students got bummed out. It sounds like his team worked really hard and was a great rookie contender, and got beat out. It also sounds like his team is going to be striving to kick even more butt in the second year. This is the best resolution I can foresee. His team got beat out by great teams, and he's going to motivate his students to work hard. Since I still advocate for solving 2), I also hope he takes my advice and tries to judge or convinces others to judge. |
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