[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Contest scoring
>Having attended my first contest on Sunday at Basildon, I was wondering if
>someone could enlighten me as to how the scores are decided. Does the
>adjudicator have some kind of checklist to score against? If this is not the
>case, how on earth can he (or she) come to a decision between all the bands
>and manage to place some of them within a single point of each other? I
>would not have thought it possible to make a subjective decision so accurately.
Is this not something that brass players have argued about since time
immemorial?
I wouldn't have thought an adjudicator has a checklist - but any decent
adjudicator will know what he's looking for before he gets into his(or in some
cases her) box.
For instance we were given the impression at the Midlands Area by James Scott
that he was particularly interested in the second (VERY SLOW) movement of Lowry.
So providing you got the basics right in the 1st and 3rd movements it was almost
all on your performance in the second...
For instance my band was hardly criticised for anything in the 1st and 3rd
movements (and there were mistakes) but tuning problems in the 2nd cost us a
better place than the 9th we achieved (which by all accounts was a fair result -
thanks Jimmy!).
Mind you having said all this, I have heard that sometimes it could be a case of
throwing all the remarks up in the air and seeing which order they come down in
- but that can't possibly happen...
Mark Tanser
Flugel Horn (or is it Soprano - who knows?)
Hathern Band
Championship Section 1997 (and now '98 as well)
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