{"id":553,"date":"2010-11-08T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-11-08T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T04:12:59","slug":"tiebreaking-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/tiebreaking-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiebreaking judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/CheckMark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-558\" title=\"CheckMark\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/CheckMark-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Challenged by trying to keep the tiebreaker judge a secret?\u00a0 Does the tiebreaker judge need to be briefed too?\u00a0 Try this idea, which I think is mostly within the rules, but no promises.<\/p>\n<p>Put all your judging ballots, including the tiebreaker ballot, into envelopes (one each) and mix them up.\u00a0 Recruit one extra judge &#8212; if you need nine, recruit ten.\u00a0 Brief them all together.\u00a0 Hand out the envelopes randomly, instructing the judges to put the completed ballot in the envelope for pickup.<\/p>\n<p>After the contest, the ballot counters collect all the ballots together and take them for counting.\u00a0 When the tiebreaker envelope is opened, it&#8217;s immediately handed to the chief judge, for use as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>If you felt that not even a ballot counter should have a chance of seeing the tiebreaker ballot, you could discreetly mark that envelope in the corner before handing them out, and then look for it before they&#8217;re opened.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No one knows who the tiebreaker judge is until the ballots are being counted.<\/li>\n<li>The tiebreaker judge gets briefed like the other judges.<\/li>\n<li>No one in the audience observing the proceedings can possibly know who the tiebreaker judge is (out of the other judges).<\/li>\n<li>The tiebreaker judge is randomly selected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenged by trying to keep the tiebreaker judge a secret?\u00a0 Does the tiebreaker judge need to be briefed too?\u00a0 Try this idea, which I think is mostly within the rules, but no promises. Put all your judging ballots, including the tiebreaker ballot, into envelopes (one each) and mix them up.\u00a0 Recruit one extra judge &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[130,104],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-toastmasters","tag-contests","tag-judging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}