"Perfect" - A definition

[victorcoly]

I remember a couple decades ago when a judge gave this one corps a perfect drum score and those guys didn't play jack and another corps was playing some of the hardest stuff imaginable and not only that they swept I&E. Ring any bells?

No one should get a perfect score especially if there are still others yet to perform.

It is what it is.

[MagicBobert]

It has been said before and I will continue to say it. Coming from a judges background. No where on a sheet does it ever reference PERFECT. That is a terminology that fans and members have interpreted as semantics for years. It may have meant that back in the old "tic" days if someone would have ever managed to maintain a lack of errors.

The way judging sheets are blocked and criteria are weighed, means that the top end of scores are Block 5 and pushing the limits of the activity as we know it. Obviously both in terms of design and performance. So this would mean that BDs guard was accomplishing things that have not been accomplished up until this point, this season. We see it happen in gymnastics and figure skating all the time and for some reason don't seem to question that - even though we know in another year, what was done then will be topped tomorrow or next year.

As noted on here earlier with spreads. Judges are encouraged not to tie - someone should be noted better or not as good as the next to rank. Even in this case - take the two .1s off BD and they still are going to come out on top. Just saying.

Great insight, thanks!

[Lord Denning]

Webster's dictionary definition:

"perfect" -- being entirely without fault or defect : flawless

Sorry Mr. Carlson (CG judge Thurs) and Mr. Chumley (CG judge for semis) -- BD's guard isn't a perfect 20.0 And it's humanly impossible for them to be "perfect" 2 nights in a row.

Just sayin...

The aforementioned being said -- BD's guard does kick it up a notch!!

Make that 3 nights in a row.

[MikeD]

Webster's dictionary definition:

"perfect" -- being entirely without fault or defect : flawless

Sorry Mr. Carlson (CG judge Thurs) and Mr. Chumley (CG judge for semis) -- BD's guard isn't a perfect 20.0 And it's humanly impossible for them to be "perfect" 2 nights in a row.

Just sayin...

The aforementioned being said -- BD's guard does kick it up a notch!!

Where does it say that a 20.0 means a perfect performance?

[ajwdad]

It has been said before and I will continue to say it. Coming from a judges background. No where on a sheet does it ever reference PERFECT. That is a terminology that fans and members have interpreted as semantics for years. It may have meant that back in the old "tic" days if someone would have ever managed to maintain a lack of errors.

The way judging sheets are blocked and criteria are weighed, means that the top end of scores are Block 5 and pushing the limits of the activity as we know it. Obviously both in terms of design and performance. So this would mean that BDs guard was accomplishing things that have not been accomplished up until this point, this season. We see it happen in gymnastics and figure skating all the time and for some reason don't seem to question that - even though we know in another year, what was done then will be topped tomorrow or next year.

As noted on here earlier with spreads. Judges are encouraged not to tie - someone should be noted better or not as good as the next to rank. Even in this case - take the two .1s off BD and they still are going to come out on top. Just saying.

two or 3 good responses. agree, scores are relative. Unfortunately, 20.0 does not mean perfect even if in mathematical terms it should be.