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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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[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the A&S Coronet competition I attended in the Far West. The populace did the judging; while I was scoring by comparison to central kingdom Laurel work I'd seen, the others were apparently going predominantly by "OOH, pretty!" Need I add that my scores across the board were rather substantially lower than theirs? There was grumbling.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Interesting read. I don't judge competitions, either, because of the kicked-puppy look I got from the non-winners. And then one of them wanted to argue with me. Submitted had been three pages of documentation on a fairly obscure art form.

Me: You documented your methods and so on, but did not document the existence of Item X during the middle ages. Did they have Xs in the first place?
Them: But they had Xs! Lots of Xs! I can go get you some documentation!
Me: If it wasn't in your submitted documentation, how is a judge supposed to know they had lots of Xs?