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The Judge's Box |
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Question: Do judges have an idea about a band
before they take the field? Either by the band’s name or how they
did they week before? |
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Answer: I’ve always subscribed to the belief that you
judge “the show of the day”. Personally, I DON’T want to know what
happened last week (or last year for that matter). It could’ve been
raining the week before, or possibly East Podunk High School didn’t
perform their closer at last week’s contest. You will sometimes
have bands that are tackling a very difficult program so they may
struggle during the early part of the season. Once their program
begins to improve and their performance level begins to rise, you
would expect their score to rise as well. If a judge is basing
their score on “last week’s results”, this creates an unfair bias
against those bands. Are some judges going to recognize certain
names of schools more than others? Of course. Bands that compete
on the national level (both in the marching as well as the concert
venues) are seen by a wider audience. However, the name of the
school shouldn’t create a different expectation for the judge. |
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