What is a 'Field Judge'?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Ashley Weed

I have received a request to be a field judge, and the only description I have thus far is:

"This person must interact with the judges and assist them with the decision making process of which teams should receive the various awards. They are asked to observe teams during matches and report back to the judges. "


Was hoping someone may have experience and enlighten me with more information.


Will post if I get a more detailed description.

Sounds like they want to remove the problem where teams would hype up something about their robot, then it'd fail on the field, but since the judges wouldn't know since they are still interviewing, they'd get the award. Basically the Judges give you maybe a list of 10 robots to watch for a specific technical award, and you tell them which ones live up to what they said, which ones under perform, which ones over deliver, etc.