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Re: Cambridge - Judges positioning

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Subject: Re: Cambridge - Judges positioning
From: Maverick <maverick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:55:06 +0100
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Has anyone thought that the three judges were sat in different parts of the
hall and could hear different sounds ? Having listened from different
sectors of the hall there was definitiely a bias from various sections
dependent upon where I was seated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 May 1998 18:44
Subject: Re: Cambridge - 'right bands in the wrong order ?'


>In message <01bd87c2$48ec68e0$0100007f@localhost>, kraken
><kraken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>>Contests finally became a joke today. Arguably any of the top six could
>>>have won, but in practice to win a contest you need to be lucky with ALL
>>>three judges.
>>
>>Got to disagree there - luck has nothing to do with it you have to PLEASE
>>all 3 judges - what's the point having 3 if you only want to take 2 into
>>account?
>
>Actually, luck now DOES play an important role in the new system.  The
>tie break judge is decided by a random draw.  Eric Crees was selected,
>and as a result, we tied for 8th with Ever Ready, they got 8th and we
>got 9th...had Geoffrey Brand been selected instead, these two results
>would have been the other way round.  Regardless of all the advantages
>of this new system, it is now true that there is a totally random
>element to the brass band contest.
>
>--
>Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.
>http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/sov/sov.htm
>
>
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