geordiecolin said:
Having spoken to a slightly irate Pythagoras just moments ago I can reveal a smattering of NEMBBA results;
4th Section
1st - Matlock
2nd - Rolls Royce Derby
3rd - ?
4th - Ireland Colliery
5th - ?
6th - ?
7th - Dronfield :evil: :evil: :evil: :cry:
8th - Tideswell
I'll leave Pythgoras to rant to his heart's content when he gets home and has had a few bevies and has chilled a bit......
Now home and chilled a bit. Still think we got an absolutely disgraceful result but ....... blah de blah de blah, thats of no interest to people who weren't there, I'm sure people have all had their results that were at the most polite pretty unfair, but the point I would like to raise is how to get results above reproach. A few practical suggestions are:
1) At closed adjudications from the time of the last band playing the adjudicators should be locked in the box on their own and ABSOLUTELY NO LOCAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS should be allowed to have contact with them before the results are announced.
2) Results should be announced by adjudicators not officials and nobody but adjudicators should write on comments sheets.
3) If adjudicators are not in a box they should remain visible to the audience from the time of the last band playing and not go into a back room for a conversation with the organisers.
4) Adjudicators should have a home area that they are not allowed to adjudicate.
5) There should be a liason (not from the area) between the local committee and the adjudicators at a contest, between whom there should be NO CONTACT from when the adjudicator has been booked.
I know this sounds like a rant from someone who feels that they have had a bad result, (and I do, I have had results that were felt to be unfair before like everybody else, but nothing like this) but surely all of the things I have suggested above would only enhance the reputation of contests.
Also do people feel that paper shuffling does go on? Does how well you get on with the organisers affect your position once you get past first and last place?
PS We will certainly be looking carefully at the adjudicators comments from this performance and looking how this can improve our performance at the area contest.
Also I will stress again that I am talking generally as to ways of improving credibility of contests and am certainly not suggesting anything derogatory (sp?) about anybody who organised NEMBBA today.
