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Joined: Aug. 30 2008
From: Boston, MA, U.S.A
need judges for intermediate challenge!
hey all, we need more judges for the intermediate challenge! the challenge will end on january 5th, and judges will have three days to submit their scores and comments. we need you!
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to at_leo_87)
wow!! can a contestant be a judge at the same time and in the same competition well I might sign up for judging but I warn you I will definitely choose my self as the winner
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to Elie)
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wow!! can a contestant be a judge at the same time and in the same competition well I might sign up for judging but I warn you I will definitely choose my self as the winner
I don't actually think you would, ElieD...
In fact I think the idea of the contestants judging each other is a very good one.
From the time I've been on the Forum, I've always found students to be very fair.
Let's make it that a contestant can't give himself a score. Final scores and comments are sent to a Contest Administrator, not posted directly, with time-lags so allowing for "adjustments" on reading what a particular contestant had to say about "your" entry.
On receipt of all the results, the C.A. uploads the final figures.
Posts: 3055
Joined: Aug. 30 2008
From: Boston, MA, U.S.A
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to mrMagenta)
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besides, since you're not in the challenge.. i can't get payback for the last intermediate challenge. :-P
yikes. I still need to practice that one!
oh yeah! all that hard work and i forgot about those falsetas! shall we do a round two?
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wow!! can a contestant be a judge at the same time and in the same competition well I might sign up for judging but I warn you I will definitely choose my self as the winner
actually i think we did that in the last intermediate challenge.
i dont really remember any benefits or drawbacks. and doit made a chart somewhere with and without the scores of the challengers.
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to Adam)
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But if enough contestants thought this, we'd have a sort of prisoner's dilemma and the worst guy would end up winning.
I think this sort of trick would be very difficult to pull off in an open Forum like ours, which would allow for comments afterwards.
That's why Politicians like things to be kept behind closed doors "in the public interest", even when it concerns their own expenses and other lies and scheming.
Posts: 1156
Joined: Dec. 6 2006
From: Hamilton, ON
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to at_leo_87)
Blast you and your small, open communities!
Seriously though, I'd put my vote against this idea for the simple (and, yes, very selfish) reason that I'm not sure I'd be able to put the time I need into making decisions on the recordings that are both intensive and reasonably quick. My department is comprised of sadists (like Stephen Hawking)* who've decided to make us sit an exam for PhD admissions next month, so I need to spend most of my days over this break studying things like early Universe thermodynamics.
*I'm just kidding. Hawking isn't involved in PhD admissions, so I have no idea if he's a sadists.
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to at_leo_87)
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oh yeah! all that hard work and i forgot about those falsetas! shall we do a round two?
Yeah! We should! I tried playing it from memory just a while ago, it's half gone to oblivion, but I can tell I'm still having trouble with habichuelas part.. I should have kept practicing this one. Remember the compas with the arpeggios going in 16ths followed by a repetition using alzapua? That one is tailormade to highlight the holes in my technique. I have no idea why.. it seems harmless considered to the rest of the piece.
Posts: 3055
Joined: Aug. 30 2008
From: Boston, MA, U.S.A
RE: need judges for intermediate cha... (in reply to at_leo_87)
4 more days! would anybody else like to volunteer to judge? come on, it's fun to pass judgement onto random anonymous people, im sure you do it all the time. except this time, it will actually be constructive.
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4 more days? Time to go and learn it... 
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