From: reich@cod.nosc.mil (Ronald S. Reich) Subject: Re: Scoring System/Package needed .... Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 21:40:12 GMT >From: grs@werple.apana.org.au (Gary Schmidt) > > In response to the solicitation from Gary Schmidt for a >scoring system, I submit the following. It should be understood >that this is not the currrent system used in the USA, AKA. It is >a system that I have personally been proposing for several years. >But it seems like "I have had my kite caught in a tree" with no >ladder or help. MAJORITY RULE PLACEMENT by RON REICH In an effort to standardize scoring and placement for Stunt Kite competitions I have summarized the National Standard used by the Roller Skating Rink Owners Association (RSROA). This concept has been proven over many years to be the most fair of all methods of awarding places for competitors. The following information describes the exact procedure for determining the placement of contestants by the Majority Rule of the judges. The total score of the judges is only considered as a last resort thus minimizing the influence of an individual judge whose scores are not consistant with the majority of judges. A head scorekeeper will be required to understand and apply the Rules of Tabulating, Ordinaling and Tie Breaking to insure a fair and just placement according to the Majority Rules. The head scorekeeper will be assisted by at least two tabulators. The head scorekeeper will be responsible for the accuracy of the tabulators application of the rules. The tabulators will convert the judges scores to ordinals. Each tabulator's conversions will be checked by the head scorekeeper. The head scorekeeper and the tabulators will then assign the placements according to the Majority Rules. These MAJORITY RULES shall be applied in order: RULE #1 The Highest Open Place shall be awarded to the contestant with the Lowest Majority Ordinal. RULE #2 (1st tie breaker) The Highest Open Place shall be awarded to the tied contestant with the Lowest Total Majority Ordinal. RULE #3 All contestants tied for placements not receiving awards or qualifing to fly in a semifinals or finals will remain tied for the place in question. RULE #4 (2nd tie breaker) The contestant with the greater number of Re-Ordinal 1's shall be awarded the place in question. RULE #5 (3rd tie breaker) The contestant with the Lowest Total Ordinal [NOT Re- Ordinals] shall be awarded the place in question. RULE #6 (4th tie breaker) The contestant with the the Highest Total Score from the Majority Ordinal Judges shall be awarded the place in question. RULE #7 (5th tie breaker) The contestant with the Highest Total Score by the sum of all the judges shall be awarded the place in question. ---- DEFINITIONS ---- ORDINAL : (ORD) An ordinal is a number (1,2,3,etc) indicating an individual judge's placement for each flyer or team in the contest. The contestant with the highest score will receive the number 1, the second highest score will receive the number 2 etc. [The judge's ordinals are different from the majority ordinals, the total majority ordinals, the re-ordinals and the final placements]. MAJORITY ORDINAL : (MO) The Majority Ordinal is the number indicating the highest place for which a contestant or team has been positioned by the majority of the judges. The majority ordinal of three judges will be the largest number of the best two ordinals. For example if the three judge's ordinals are 1,2,3 then the largest of the best two (1,2) is the number 2. Likewise, the majority ordinal of five judges with ordinals of 1,2,4,4,5 will be the largest of the best three (1,2,4) which is 4. Also, for five judges with ordinals of 4,2,3,2,1 the largest of the best three (1,2,2) is 2. LOWEST MAJORITY ORDINAL : When the Majority Ordinals are compared to determine the placement of the competitors, the contestant with the Lowest Majority Ordinal will be awarded the Highest Open Place available. For example, if the Majority ordinals of three judges for 5 contestants are; CONTESTANT A B C D E JUDGE 1 ORD's 3 5 2 4 1 JUDGE 2 ORD's 3 4 1 5 2 JUDGE 3 ORD's 2 3 1 5 4 MO's 3 4 1 5 2 Contestant C has the lowest Majority Ordinal of 1 and is awarded 1st place. Similarly, contestant E is 2nd place and contestant A is 3rd place. TOTAL MAJORITY ORDINAL : (TMO) The Total Majority Ordinal of three judges will be the sum of the best two ordinals. For example, if the ordinals for three judges are 1,2,3 then the sum of the best two (1,2) is 3. Similarly, the TMO for five judges with ordinals of 1,1,2,3,3 is the sum of the best three (1,1,2) which equals 4. The TMO will be required for the first tie breaker. CONTESTANT A B C D E F JUDGE 1 ORD's 3 5 2 4 1 6 JUDGE 2 ORD's 1 6 3 4 2 5 JUDGE 3 ORD's 4 5 2 1 3 6 MO's 3 5 2 4 2 6 TMO's 4 3 Ties Only * PLACE 3 5 2 4 1 6 BY RULE 1 1 1 1 2 1 * Final placement of the six contestants based on the Majority Rule convention of scoring. ---- DEFINITIONS ---- HIGHEST OPEN PLACE : The Highest Open Place is the next available placement. For example if 1st and 2nd place have been determined then the next Highest Open Place is 3rd. RE-ORDINAL 1's Under Rule #4, the 2nd tie breaker, the tabulators will transfer the original judges scores of the tied contestants to a separate sheet and ordinal them as though they had competed against eachother in a separte contest. They will then add the number of new ordinal 1's for each contestant. CONTESTANT D G JUDGE 1 SCORE 75 78 ORD's 2 1 JUDGE 2 SCORE 81 79 ORD's 1 2 JUDGE 3 SCORE 76 77 ORD's 2 1 SUM OF RE-ORDINAL 1's 1 2 Contestant G has 2 Re-Ordinal 1's therefore contestant G will be awarded the place in question by Rule #4 and the contestant D will be awarded the next highest open place by Rule #1. TOTAL ORDINAL : Under Rule #5, tie breaker #3, The original judges ordinals for the tied contestants will be added together to get the Total Ordinal. The contestant with the Lowest Total Ordinal will be awarded the place in question by Rule #5 and the other contestant will be awarded the next highest open place by rule #1. TOTAL SCORE OF THE LOWEST MAJORITY ORDINAL JUDGES : Under Rule #6, the 4th tie breaker, the scores of the judges whose ordinals comprised the Total Majority Ordinal will be added together to get the Total Score of the Lowest Majority Ordinal Judges. The contestant with the highest total score from the lowest majority ordinal judges will be awarded the place in question by Rule #6 and the other contestant will be awarded the next highest open place by Rule #1. For example; CONTESTANT F M JUDGE 1 SCORE 75 73 ORD's 3 4 JUDGE 2 SCORE 74 74* * Use highest score ORD's 4 4 of judges with JUDGE 3 SCORE 80* 84 equal ordinals ORD's 4 3 Total score of MO Judges 155 158 Contestant M would be awarded the place in question by rule #6 and contestant F would be awarded the next highest open place by Rule #1. ---- DEFINITIONS ---- HIGHEST POINT TOTAL : Under Rule #7, the 5th tie breaker, all of the judges scores will be added together to produce the Highest Point Total of the tied contestants only. JUDGES SCORES : The judges will score the contestants according to their performance on a scale from 1 to 100 with 100 being the best and worthy of the highest award. The total of 100 points can be a combination of requirements within the performance such as 10 points for each of 4 compulsories and the remaining 60 points for free style. The Judge should make every effort to NOT allow identical totals to occur. It would help for each judge to have a sheet numbered from 1 to 100 and to cross off each total score as it is used. ---- TYPICAL TABULATORS WORK SHEET ---- TOURNAMENT: _____________________________________ DATE: _________ EVENT:__________________________________ CLASS: _________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTESTANT # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ================================================================= JUDGE initl sc ______________________________________________ 1 ord ----------------------------------------------------------------- sc ______________________________________________ 2 ord ----------------------------------------------------------------- sc ______________________________________________ 3 ord ----------------------------------------------------------------- sc ______________________________________________ 4 ord ----------------------------------------------------------------- sc ______________________________________________ 5 ord ----------------------------------------------------------------- MO ----------------------------------------------------------------- TMO ----------------------------------------------------------------- PLACE ----------------------------------------------------------------- BY RULE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tabulator name:__________________________ date: ________________ ---- TYPICAL JUDGES SCORE SHEET ---- JUDGE:______________________________ NUMBER:______________ EVENT:____________________________________________________ ========================================================== CONTESTANT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ========================================================== COMPULSORY 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- FREE STYLE ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL SCORE * ---------------------------------------------------------- ORDINALS * ---------------------------------------------------------- * Transfer to Tabulators Worksheet It should be understood that each element of the judging factors such as "Artistic", "Technical", and "Content" could be separately ordinaled for each judge and contestant. This would allow more detailed evaluation criteria for the placements. For example, one contestant my be first in the catagory of Artistic but 2nd in technical, and 3rd in content. Different weighting factors can also be applied to the different elements. For instance the Artistic in ballet may be considered as twice as valuable as the technical and content therefore. The first place contestant would recieve two 1's for Artistic, one 2 for technical and one 3 for content. These would represent the ordinals from one of the judges. The contestant would recieve similar ordinals from each of the judges. And So On And So Forth I'm Sorry if this all sounds confusing but It really is straight forward once you understand it. I am currrently tying to revise the presentation to make it more understandable by the first time reader. Good Winds Ron Reich