OM Judge Training

You are the Head judge. Your Staging Area judge came to youithinking that the theme of the team’s performance

is a cooking competition. They are concerned because the theme needs to be about using creativity to overcome

obstacles. As a Head judge you should:

• Do nothing, let the team perform and let the long term judges decide what to do next.

• Tell the Staging Area judge that they should tell their team they should rewrite its solution.

• Ask the team if they can make you an omelet with cheese and mushrooms.

• Tell the Long Term judges to give the team a -5 spirit of the problem penalty.

You are a Long Term judge. The team’s trojan horse is a 6-foot penguin. Its obstacle is global warming (The team

has a pool with cotton balls as water) and the penguin helps the planet to overcome that. When scoring D4 you

should:

• Score D4 in the low range because you are not sure.

• Score as is. This is okay.

• Score D4 in the high range because you are not sure.

• Score D4 as is, and then issue a spirit of the problem penalty.

You are a Long Term judge. The team’s trojan horse is a drop of water. The team camouflages themselves to look

like water and then “rides” on the drop of water to get past the wall. When scoring D4 you should:

• Score as is and then issue a spirit of the problem penalty because the team should be riding inside the trojan

  horse, not on it.

• Score in the low range because you are not sure.

• Score as is. This is okay.

• Throw it at the team and see what happens.

You are a problem judge. The team’s obstacle is a language barrier. In the solution a team member has a hard

time communicating, but overcomes this obstacle by learning a new language. The team does not have a physical

representation. When scoring D5 you should:

• Score as is because your parents are from a different country and you can relate.

• Score D5 a zero because the team does not have a tangible representation.

• Score D5c a zero and score the rest of D5 because they do not have a tangible representation.

• Score D5 as is.

You are a Staging Area judge. On the way to the competition site the team forgot its paperwork. When it comes

time to collect the paperwork you should:

• Fill out the paperwork for the team.

• Have the team fill out new paper work.

• Tell the Head judge to give them a Spirit of the Problem penalty.

• Tell the Long Term judges to score in the high range because you don’t like paperwork.

You are a Long Term judge: The team’s obstacle is that a student is afraid of not passing a math test in school. Its

trojan horse is an all-knowing pencil that helps them study and gives them the confidence to do well on the test.

When scoring D4 and D5 you should:

• Score as is. This is okay.

• Score in the low range because you would have rather watched a skit about an English class.

• Score as is, and then issue a -10 Spirit of the Problem penalty because the pencil did not break down the

  wall.

• Score in the high range because you can relate to not doing well in math.

You are a Head judge. The team’s character from the Iliad is not from the list in the problem. When talking with

the other judges you should:

• Score as is because you don’t believe in lists.

• Score D6a & b a zero

• Score D6 in the low range.

• Score as is, and issue a -20 Spirit of the Problem penalty.

You are a Long Term judge. The team has picked Athena as its character from the Iliad. Athena’s costume

includes jeans and a t-shirt which is not traditional Greek attire. When scoring D6 you should:

• Pick some random numbers and write them down since you are only volunteering for the lunch and t-shirt.

• Score as is and issue a -5 Spirit of the Problem penalty

• Score as is. This is okay.

• Score in the high range because you like wearing jeans.

You are a Long Term judge. The Greek Chorus has one character played by a team member in a costume and

another character played by a puppet. When scoring D7 you should:

• Score as is since this meets the requirements of having two or more characters.

• Score D7 a zero because only one member of the Greek Chorus is a team member in a costume.

• Score D7 a & b a zero and D7 c & d as is.

• Score in the high range because you are a member of the glee club and on the weekends you are a puppeteer

You are a Style judge. The team would like to use the appearance of the Greek Chorus as one of its free style

choices. When talking with the other style judges you should:

• Tell the team to change its style choice because the appearance of the Greek Chorus is already being scored

  in the portrayal of the Greek Chorus.

• Score the style choice in the mid range because you do not know what to do.

• Score as is. This is okay because the Greek Course is being scored on its portrayal which does not include

  the appearance.

• Walk out because you never thought judging would be this difficult.