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As long as they were consistant what are you truely complaining about. In all of judging (I agree it should be accurate) the most important thing is that from competitor to competitor it is a consistant trend. You cannot fault a judge for not knowing the actual deductions if in fact he is new and or has never attended a judges seminar. You look at history and you will see (this includes our full scale counterparts) a lack of judges at most events. It is the hardest position to fill and at a local contest you must rely on the contestants. I have seen this in Pattern, IAC, and IMAC...
I remember following a judges seminar for IAC when we did some practice judging, maneuvers were flown and we judged them according to what we saw...Some maneuvers had obvious mistakes such as over rotations, egg shaped loops and such. Yet some looked like a 10 to me..One judge always found errors and even the Instructor "Brian Howard" didn't see them. His statement was this:
" you judge what you see, if you did not see any downgrade you don't give the downgrade. If it looked like a 10 you score it that way. There are no hidden downgrades because nobody is perfect." He finished with the fact the the judges need not be perfect either, just close and more importantly you must be consistant from contestant to contestant.