Judging at Nationals

[Becky Horat]

How do they judge at Nationals? I think I've heard at one point, but forgot. With 3 judges out there they're not giving each judge's opinion, so how do they come up with the placings? I thought I heard it's computerized somehow??? Really enjoy watching the Nationals at home....although tough to get stuff done.

 

[Field-of-Dreams]

The results are averaged. One judge is a "swing" judge in case of a tie, that judge's pick will win.

 

[Karen S]

It's called the MOS system: Majority Opinion Three-Judge Scoring System...

Here is the link that you can go read all about this type of scoring system that we have been using for a very long time:

www.usef.org/documents/breeds/MOS.pdf‎



Karen

 

[drmatthewtaylor]

The MOS is not a true average and the algorithm is so complicated no one can explain what would happen given particular scores, but it is considered the fairest system available.

Dr. Taylor

 

[Jean_B]

Part of the reason it is so extremely complicated is because one of the judge's placings are "weighted" (i.e., the "call" judge)...and the "call" judge changes from class to class.