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JUDGES’ TRAINING JUDGES’ EXPLANATIONS
– THE ANSWERS
Bernie Woollands.
To conclude this article and the series that has
accompanied it, I asked Mike Harvey (ZNA-CJ South
Africa Chapter) to head up a panel of his choosing to
create the model answers in the same way that these
seminars are conducted in the real world. He chose
two other judges to assist him and they were Alan
Nementzik (ZNA-CJ Singapore Chapter) and Dean Britz
(ZNA-ACJ South Africa Chapter).
The panel’s results are shown on their completed form
(pages 84-85). Mike gave me the option of showing the
individual judges’ scores that led to the final score. I
chose to use it. It demonstrates something I said in the
earlier part of this article – i.e. that the weight that
judges give a particular criterion can differ but the
results can be the same as you will see.
One other note worthy of mention was that using these
graphics caused an issue that commonly occurs in real
life. That of a pattern deceiving the eye. Koi C, D & E
have identical bodies but the pattern of Koi E caused
one of the judges to actually measure them in minute
detail as the pattern of Koi E gave the impression of a
better volume. Unlike the other issues present in the
graphics this was not one that I planned.
To accompany those results Mike has prepared the
following list by way of explanations.
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AND ASSUMPTIONS
Mike Harvey.
At the outset it must be clear that the rankings and
points allocated by the 3 judges are the consensus
reached between them and that some assumptions
had to be made as this exercise differs greatly when
compared to judging actual Koi. For instance the quality
of the Shiroji (white), the true skin quality and lustre
cannot be distinguished from the graphics whereas these
would play an important part when judging live Koi.
It has also been assumed that all these Koi are of equal
size and would fall within the range of Koi measuring
around 65cm. Were these to be Koi of say 85cm or more
the points allocation and ranking would be different.
However, the exercise does give some indication as to
how judges compare the merits of each specific Koi as
well as their demerits. When allocating points to each
criteria (Body, Quality, Pattern and State of Finish) the
judges have used the ZNA formula of marking the Koi
out of 40 points for Body, 30 points for Quality, 20 points
for Pattern and 10 points for State of Finish.
Please see on the following pages our results and
explanations.
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