OotM Problem 3 Review (B)

11. You are a Staging Area judge. The team would like to use the appearance of its statue as a free choice. When discussing with the team, you should:

• a. Do nothing, this is okay.

• b. Tell them to change its style form and then tell them what they should pick since Outside assistance doesn’t not apply to judges.

• c. Write a post-it note for the Style judges to let them know.

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

Answer explanation

Since the appearance of the statue is not being scored in long-term, then it is okay to be scored in style.

12. You are a Long Term Judge. The team’s statue starts animated, becomes inanimate, becomes animated again and then inanimate. The statue’s appearance is different than it was originally. When scoring D8 you should:

• a. Score in the high range because of all the hard work the kids did.

• b. Score in the low range because the solution was too confusing to understand.

• c. Score as is. This is okay.

• d. Score as is and issue a Spirit of the Problem Penalty.

Answer explanation

Even though this is confusing, it still meets the criteria of the problem for the statue going from inanimate to animated back to inanimate.

13. You are a Staging Area judge. The team’s mosaic is not the membership sign. When talking to the team you should:

• a. Do nothing and let the style judges handle it.

• b. Tell the team that the mosaic needs to be the membership sign and give them the opportunity to fix it.

• c. Change it yourself.

• d. Ignore it because you have lunch next and want to make sure you get a cookie.

Answer explanation

Give the team the opportunity to fix an issue in the Staging Area if time permits it. If not you can reschedule or have them perform if the issue is too big to fix.

14. You are a Style judge, the team has a mask to be scored in Style but never put it on. They refer to it as a mask. When scoring F2 you should:

• a. Score as is. This is okay.

• b. Score in the low range because the team should know masks need to be worn.

• c. Score a zero because they never put the mask on.

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

Answer explanation

The problem does not state that the mask needs to be worn. Even though we often think of a mask being worn, go into competition day with an open mind. Make sure that you can reference the problem or the program guide if you think a team's solution has an issue.

15. You are a Style judge. The team would like to use the creative use of cardboard to make the wall. You are concerned that since the wall is being scored for artistic quality it can’t be scored in style. When talking with the other judges you should:

• a. Score in the low range and move onto the next team.

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

• c. Ask your friend Michael because they are always correct.

• d. Do nothing. This is okay

Answer explanation

Since the creative use of a material is not being scored in long-term, then it is okay to be scored in style.

16. Ture or False: After the team performs you can give the team suggestions on how to improve its solution for the next competition.

• a. True

• b. False

Answer explanation

Teams can get an outside assistance penalty if they are given a suggestion by an official, coach, parent, etc.

17. You are a Head Judge. The team’s Greek Chorus performs a song, acapella (without instruments.) The judges remember from a previous year that a song needed to include accompaniment. When talking to the judges, the Head Judge should:

• a. Tell them that singing acapella is okay as long as the requirements of the general clarification are met.

• b. Tell the judges that they are correct and issue a -10 Spirit of the Problem Penalty.

• c. Sing for the judges and see if you can get on a reality singing show.

• d. Do nothing and hope the next competition figures it out.

Answer explanation

The singing must be delivered via vocal sounds as a combination of pitch and rhythm. Please make sure you look at the general and official clarifications the day before your competition.

18. You are a Long Term or Style Judge. The Timer/Announcer tells you the team went over time by 34 seconds. When scoring you should:

• a. Do nothing since problem 3 gets an extra minute of time.

• b. Assess a -20 over time limit penalty.

• c. Assess a -20 over time limit penalty AND do not score anything after 8 minutes.

• d. Yell at the timer/announcer because they should have stopped the team at 8 minutes.

Answer explanation

Both problem 3 and 5 have an overtime penalty up to 1 additional minute, however, that is the only penalty the team will get for going overtime. Everything presented in overtime will still get a score.

19. You are a Problem Captain. The Head judge told their judging team that when the Greek Chorus sings, they need to be all original compositions and that if they are not to give a team -10 Spirit of the Problem penalty. You should:

• a. Do nothing, this is okay

• b. Tell the Head judge it should be -20.

• c. Tell the Head judge that they are incorrect and take away any penalty that was given because of this interpretation.

• d. Give bonus points to all teams that got the penalty.

Answer explanation

Make sure you are up to date on any program guide changes and general and official clarifications.

20. You are a Style judge. After the team performs you realize that the team wants its wall to be scored for artistic quality as its free choice. Since this is being scored in long term, D5c, you should:

• a. Do nothing, this is okay

• b. Give the team -10 Spirit of the Problem penalty and score accordingly.

• c. Go back and talk with the team about picking a different style choice.

• d. Score the wall a zero.

Answer explanation

Even though the team performed, give them the opportunity to change a style item. If it was caught before the performance, we would have given them the same opportunity. Also with the Staging Area judge to look out for items like this so they are not issues in the future.