When one judge calls the show

[wolfgang]

At last night's WGI Percussion Independent World Finals, an interesting scoring anomoly occurred.

This could happen anywhere in the rankings, but just happened to occur at the top.

Here's the recap:  PIW Recap

They use a double panel for Championships. Notice that, of the 8 judges, 6 had the second place group ahead of the winning group. One of the two that had the first place group on top only had a margin of a tenth. The other judge, however, had such a margin that his spread flipped the outcome.

Now, the DCI question sprimging from this example- Has there been a situation like this in DCI where ome judge was not only at odds with the rest of the panel, the spread in his/her caption flipped a placing?

It may not necessarily be for first; has it happened anywhere in the order? It would be demoralizimg if this type of spread kept a corps out of Finals.

[keystone3ply]

Wow - Pulse over RCC by 0.038?  VIP = 7.2 penalty 🤔

Edited April 23, 2023 by keystone3ply
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[MGCpimpOtimp]

It happens all the time.

[greg_orangecounty]

Looks like Giff Howarth shouldn't expect a Christmas card from RCC this year.

How did a 7.2 penalty happen to that poor group from Texas?  Someone didn't plug something in right resulting in a delay?

[mingusmonk]

When there is a double panel of 8 judges and you're looking at only 2 groups that end up spread by 0.038, it seems odd to lay that on one judge.

Edited April 23, 2023 by mingusmonk

[Hook'emCavies]

Huh, I didn't know Houston had a WGI group.

[TOC]

22 minutes ago, Hook'emCavies said:

Huh, I didn't know Houston had a WGI group.

Tough to see with your Cavaliers blinders on! 😅

[gbass598]

It's life. Opinions are like A-holes. Everyone has one. Some stink more than others. Everyone was fantastic and everyone who performed should be proud of how they ended the season.

With that being said, I think the order of the top 4 was correct. I am a bit shocked Infinity jumped over MCM but things happen.

[Jeff Ream]

The one visual judge had United so far behind MCM it saved from putting MCM in 7th. It happens. But when looking at the WGI sheets, music and music effect have multipliers attached to the sub boxes weighing things in ways that ordinals be ######. 

Edited April 25, 2023 by Jeff Ream

[Tenoris4Jazz]

He didn't just have Pulse in 1st... he had them in first by a couple of points!  That looks and smells really fishy, especially since Carmenates had RCC ahead in composition by 2 points where Howarth had them BEHIND by 2 points.  That would have to be one of two things: judge disliked the music or the arrangement of RCC, or REALLY loved the stuff Pulse played.

Similar thing happened to PR in '89.  The percussion judge at finals had judged them one other time all year and both times gave them significantly lower scores.