07-21-2006, 03:41 AM
What will happen if we have five judges is that everyone will judge non-judge entries, but the lowest score will be dropped. Everyone except the judge who entered will review their own entries. This way no story has an edge because it got more reviews (yes, I go to percentages, but more reviews means a more distorted average).
For an example, the judges are:
Knight of the New Moon
Nate Hunter
Herr Mullen
DragonMasterX
Marine
Of these, all but Knight enter (he'll read, but he's not confident in his skills for writing lemons). We also receive entries from, random examples here:
Wisemon
Circeus
Mister Big T
DV85
What happens is that I send on all the entries from the four non-judges to all four of the judges. I also send the three judge entries they didn't write to each of them in turn. Knight, who didn't enter, receives all eight entries for judging, and most likely his score will stay on all of them, since he reviewed all of them. Aside from his, it is likely the lowest score of the other judges that will be removed from each of the other four entries. This is only because Knight has access to all eight for (relatively) objectively comparative purposes. If all the judges entered, then it would be the lowest regardless of who gave it.
It's just an example, though, and if we have six judges, we could say one is there just for grading Judge entries, and he would be, by default, prohibited from entering.
For an example, the judges are:
Knight of the New Moon
Nate Hunter
Herr Mullen
DragonMasterX
Marine
Of these, all but Knight enter (he'll read, but he's not confident in his skills for writing lemons). We also receive entries from, random examples here:
Wisemon
Circeus
Mister Big T
DV85
What happens is that I send on all the entries from the four non-judges to all four of the judges. I also send the three judge entries they didn't write to each of them in turn. Knight, who didn't enter, receives all eight entries for judging, and most likely his score will stay on all of them, since he reviewed all of them. Aside from his, it is likely the lowest score of the other judges that will be removed from each of the other four entries. This is only because Knight has access to all eight for (relatively) objectively comparative purposes. If all the judges entered, then it would be the lowest regardless of who gave it.
It's just an example, though, and if we have six judges, we could say one is there just for grading Judge entries, and he would be, by default, prohibited from entering.