How to fix Pardeeville judging issues

[Anonymous]

I posted a new review a few days ago on Pardeeville. I was hoping to hear from some of the guys that help run this show. I have an idea that could solve your problems of the judging staff being overwhelmed by the record number of cars needing judging. My idea would make it much easier for a minimum number of quality judges to handle an even larger turnout of 1000+ cars. You can go to the review section to read all my review – but here is the main idea behind my idea.

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I have no idea how many cars are in each class so what I will write here is just an example of how to make it work for all classes with the judging you have. When you pull into the entrance line up – a worker will ask you your class and assist a novice driver in getting in the correct class for their car. The worker will than put a post it note on your windshield for your class. All cars in the same class will park in the same area of the park and the post it note will tell parking lot directors to send the car to the right area of the park. Let us say the ball field gets all stock cars in classes A, B, C, D, E, F. – The frog pond has all modified classes G, H, I, J, K – The playground has all convertibles, Corvettes and all Mustangs – the hillside would have all the modern car classes AA, BB, CC, and all truck classes O, P, Q, R – Lake Shore would be all street rods, customs, pro streets classes M, N, S, X

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and like I said earlier – ELITE class would be up front at the tee pee. I know I left out classes, but you get the idea – get all classes into specific areas of the park.

Have 1 judge do 1 class – and since they would all be in one area the judge would not feel so rushed to get the job done. He would not need to search the whole park looking for cars in his class.

Now my best idea, how to give relief to the judges with some participant help. Ask each class to judge another of the same type of class (stock will judge stock — modified will judge modified — ect) by looking at all the cars in the class they are asked to judge and picking the top 3 in that class. Explination: If you are in class A – you will be asked to judge class B – class B will be asked to judge C, C will do D, D will do F, and F will go back to do class A. Since all stock classes will be in the same area, it would be very easy to walk around and see each car in the class you are asked to judge. Participants will need to turn in their judging slips by 1pm sharp. The judges assigned to each class will tally up the participant voting for their class and take the top 5 or 6 cars in their class “narrowed down” for them. Tallying up the class voting should go quickly, say 1/2 hour to do. The judges could then go out and look ONLY at the 5 or 6 cars selected by the participant voting for that class. They could spend 15 minutes if need on each car and pick the best 3 out of the 5 or 6 they have to look at. Judging would be done by say 3pm for sure. Can you imagine how nice this would be for the participants to weed out the best in a class and then the judges to only have to look at 5 or 6 cars?

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[jonmandude]

I do like your idea. It is original and has potential. The only issue I could foresee is the time it takes to go thru all of the participant votes, figure out who the top 5-6 cars in each class were, and then go out and judge. I think that would take hours

[Anonymous]

Good thought!

Couple of ways counting ballots can be done quickly. I will use my example of stock classes A, B, C, D, E, F. My thinking is, judges would be helping to get the cars parked in their respective areas. Once most cars are parked by 10am – this would leave most judges free from 10am to the voting cut off at 1pm. There could be a ballot collection box right in the area designated for these classes (ball field in my example). Only classes A-F should be placed into that ballot box. Ballots could be pulled out, taken to the command center and counting started whenever they wanted – even at 10am. Counting would continue as the ballots were turned in. By the 1pm cutoff time, I would think most would be in already and counted. Then it would just be a matter of finishing off that last 1pm rush. If a spreadsheet on a laptop is used it would all be over with by 1:30pm and the judges could head out to see the top vote getters and make their final pics.

Even without a laptop, ballots pulled out would quickly be sorted into the 6 piles (Classes A-F) and each judge could tally up there own class. After all, how many cars are in a class – 40 to 50 tops, and much less in some others? I think it can be done. A little experimenting would need to be done. Maybe start with just part of the show next year and see how it goes.

[jonmandude]

I guess you never really knw until you try huh?

[circletrack]

I hate to say it, but I would be insulted if my show kept coming up over and over… they know they have issues and will work on them. I do like your ideas, but feel it’s up to the people putting on the show to make decisions, and do the right thing to continue to improve an already great show.

[Anonymous]

The problem I see with participants voting and only going out and judging the top 5 or 6 is that you are still going to get people complaning that they think there car is better than the top 5 or six.

[Xman]

STOP 👿

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