OotM Problem 3 Review (A)

1. You are the Head judge. Your Staging Area judge came to you thinking that the theme of the team’s performance was a cooking competition. They are concerned because the theme needs to be about using creativity to overcome obstacles. As a Head judge, you should:

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

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

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

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

Answer explanation

Without seeing a solution, you don’t know what the team may present. If you have any questions, talk with the team after the performance.

2. 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:

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

• b. Score as is. This is okay.

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

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

Answer explanation

(b) The team can be anything the team wishes, as long as it is tangible.

3. 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:

• a. 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.

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

• c. Score as is. This is okay.

• d. Throw it at the team and see what happens.

Answer explanation

The problem does not state that the team needs to ride in the trojan horse, so it is not required. Make sure that you can reference the problem or the program guide if you think a team’s solution has an issue.

4. 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:

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

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

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

• d. Score D5 as is.

Answer explanation

The team’s trojan horse needs to be something tangible. Learning a new language does not have a tangible element to it. A team might create something to represent a new language, which would be okay.

5. 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:

• a. Fill out the paperwork for the team.

• b. Have the team fill out new paper work.

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

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

Answer explanation

Give the team every opportunity to fix its mistakes before competing. This might mean moving the team to a different time slot, or having a coach come in and help a younger team with filling out the cost form.

6. 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:

• a. Score as is. This is okay.

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

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

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

Answer explanation

As long as the trojan horse and obstacle are tangible they can be represented anyway the team wishes.

7. 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:

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

• b. Score D6a & b a zero

• c. Score D6 in the low range.

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

Answer explanation

Teams that don’t present a scored element of the problem will not receive a penalty, they will receive a zero score for that category.

8. 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:

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

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

• c. Score as is. This is okay.

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

Answer explanation

The problem does not state what time period the team’s solution will take place.

9. 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:

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

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

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

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

Answer explanation

When teams are required to have characters in their solutions, make sure they meet the requirements of a character in the program guide.

You are a Style judge. The team would like to use the appearance of the Greek Chorus as one of its free style choices. Therefore, when talking with the other style judges, you should:

• a. 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.

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

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

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

Answer explanation

When scoring portrayal of a scoring element consider behavior, dialog, and actions.