assembly of judging pairs
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Judging in pairs is usually prefered as X-style offers a big variety off skills and two judges from different backrounds can often have a greater knowledge of a variety of tricks. Often this is nullified because riders often choose a judging partern from a similiar backround which they already know. Judging pairs would have a greater variety of backrounds if judging pairs would be assigned at random of by the chief judge.
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> Judging pairs would have a greater variety of backrounds if judging pairs would be assigned at random of by the chief judge.
I completely agree with you - but the current rulebook already says “The Chief Judge composes the Judging Table for each starting group.” - so it is actually up to the Chief Judge to make a division anyway. The rules do not foresee that the judges choose their own pairings.
However, I don't want this to mean that in reality people don't form their own judging pairs. But in terms of the rules, I would actually say that the responsibility lies with the Chief Judge.
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When I do smaller Xstyle competitions for national events, I usually suggest/recommend that freestyle riders pair up with flatland riders so they can judge more accurately.
Honestly at Unicon I was too overwhelmed and didn’t think to mention this, but I think it could be a good idea to add language where it is suggested that the chief judge attempt to pair riders of varying abilities/styles. I don’t see anything wrong with making this addition.
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It is of course true that a short note on this does no harm. My comment was not meant to imply that I would be against the inclusion of such a note - it was merely intended to point out that, in theory, it is already up to the Chief Judge to decide how to make the assignment of the judges.
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The proposal says "It is also preferred that the Chief judge attempt to pair riders of different backgrounds (ex: Flatland, Street, Freestyle) to foster more accurate judging of skills." - with the exception of the Unicon, it will probably be rare that many flatland or street riders take part in the X-Style (in Germany, for example, this is practically never the case). I would therefore formulate the sentence more generally. So either simply leave out the example, different background can also refer to different countries, clubs etc. or include this explicitly in the example.