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[ppfuf]

A link, gakked from this is an excellent piece on how difficult artistic criticism is
Read it first.
Screenwriter Josh Olson has summed up exactly why I hate judging sca competitions. He's also summed up the parts of my job that I hate too.

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[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with anonymous judging in a case like that.
But I understand your point; it's so aggravating when the shinny object wins over the perfectly historical one.

[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

The judging was at least nominally anonymous - no names on the score sheets, and there may not have been any on the entries (though there was no particular attempt at secrecy in setting things out.) At this remove I don't recall whether they specifically IDed me as the source of the low scores, but there was certainly grumbling about having such low scores submitted.

There was, however, nothing even remotely approaching "perfectly historical". Documentation ranged from pathetic to non-existent. Apparently, though, no one knew any better.