Update on discussion of total deducts for added side exhaust
For the fun of it at my monthly chapter meeting last week, I provided C2 judging sheets to people and asked that they go thru them independently and make deducts for added side exhaust. The goal was to see what people with a wide variety of judging experience would come up with for the total deduction. Twelve people chose to play the game. The range of total deducts was from 69 to 111, with an average of 91 points.
The biggest points disparity among judges came from Ops and Exterior, Body Fiberglass & Component Fit. For Ops, some people chose to deduct all 25 points, while others chose 16, 12, 8, or 0. The zero deduct for Ops was justified by some people based on the situation of indoor meets, where Ops is done first outside, and the Ops team would therefore would not know that the side exhaust was added. The 16, 12, and 8 deducts were defended based on the idea that there is lots of acceptable variability in exhaust tone and noise and only a partial deduct was reasonable to some judges. I was in the 25 point deduct camp, in part based on the full deduct guideline for such added items as described in the Judging Reference Manual. (As an aside, to a person there was no enthusiasm for a full deduct for Body Fiberglass that would have been consistent with a very strict interpretation of the Judging Reference Manual.)
For Body Fiberglass the deducts ranged from 2 each for originality and condition, i.e., a total of 4 deducts, to 10 points each for a total of 20 points.
For those Ops and Fiberglass line items, the maximum combined deduct for the mock judging was 45 points; the minimum combined deduct was 4 points. This 41 point spread largely explains the difference between the low grand total of 69 points and the high grand total of 111 points. It was a fun judging game.
Gary
The biggest points disparity among judges came from Ops and Exterior, Body Fiberglass & Component Fit. For Ops, some people chose to deduct all 25 points, while others chose 16, 12, 8, or 0. The zero deduct for Ops was justified by some people based on the situation of indoor meets, where Ops is done first outside, and the Ops team would therefore would not know that the side exhaust was added. The 16, 12, and 8 deducts were defended based on the idea that there is lots of acceptable variability in exhaust tone and noise and only a partial deduct was reasonable to some judges. I was in the 25 point deduct camp, in part based on the full deduct guideline for such added items as described in the Judging Reference Manual. (As an aside, to a person there was no enthusiasm for a full deduct for Body Fiberglass that would have been consistent with a very strict interpretation of the Judging Reference Manual.)
For Body Fiberglass the deducts ranged from 2 each for originality and condition, i.e., a total of 4 deducts, to 10 points each for a total of 20 points.
For those Ops and Fiberglass line items, the maximum combined deduct for the mock judging was 45 points; the minimum combined deduct was 4 points. This 41 point spread largely explains the difference between the low grand total of 69 points and the high grand total of 111 points. It was a fun judging game.
Gary
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