General Long-Term Rules Review

1. 1. What judging position is responsible for ensuring that all teams are treated fairly and have a good experience at the tournament?

• Staging Area Judge

• Problem Judge

• Head Judge

• All of the above

2. 2. You are a judge and see a coach and two other adults help the team carry its props to the Staging Area. You should:

• Tell the team that only the coach may help.

• Assess an Outside Assistance penalty.

• Tell the team members that they may not use anything in their performance they did not personally carry.

• Allow it.

4. 3. You are a Staging Area Judge. You receive Style Forms that have category #4 listed as 'Free Choice of Team.' You should:

• Give the form to the Style Judges as is.

• Assess a Spirit of the Problem penalty.

• Ask the Coach to pick some aspect of its performance for the judges to score for Style.

• Ask the team members to pick some aspect of its performance for the judges to score for Style.

4. 4. You are a Staging Area Judge. You receive a Cost Form that does not list the earrings two girls are wearing and the watch one of the boys is wearing. After checking with the team, neither the watch nor the earrings have anything to do with their problem solution.

• Review the problem to see if any of the three team members mentioned above has his/her appearance scored. If so, ask the team to put the value of this on the cost form

• Do nothing. This is permitted.

• Make the team include the earrings on its form.

• Assess the team a 15-point Spirit of the Problem penalty because it did not list the earrings on the cost form.

5. 5. You are a Head Judge. After presenting the long-term score to a coach, he/she questions a penalty given for the use of profanity. You should:

• Refuse to discuss the situation with the coach since this is a judgment call.

• Ask the judge(s) exactly what occurred. Then, go back and explain the situation to the coach.

• Allow the penalty to stand.

• Both b and c.

6. 6. You are a Staging Area Judge. Upon reviewing a team's membership sign you find that it has the membership name and number, the theme of the team's performance and all seven of the team members' names written on it as well as pictures of the team members working on their problem solution. You should:

• Allow this. It is legal.

• Penalize the team because it is not permitted to have a description of the theme and team members' names on the sign.

• Tell the team members that they must have the name of the problem on it and allow them to add it.

• Ask the team members to cover all writing on the sign except for the membership name and number.

7. 7. You are a Staging Area Judge. Upon looking at the team members you see that one of them has no shoes, only socks, on his feet. You should:

• Allow this, as his feet are covered.

• Assess a penalty because the bottoms of his feet are not covered by a non-penetrable material.

• Tell him that he must put a protective foot covering (shoes/sneakers) on and keep them on throughout the performance.

• Tell him that he must put shoes on, but he may remove them after time begins.

13. 8. You are the Head Judge. After presenting the long-term score to the coach, he/she disputes a Problem Judge's interpretation of a rule that resulted in a penalty. You should:

• Explain the reason for the penalty, but do not remove it. The judge's decision is final.

• Tell the coach to talk to the Problem Captain.

• Explain the reason for the penalty. If the coach is not satisfied, ask the Problem Captain to step in.

• Tell the coach to request a Tribunal.

9. 9. You are one of two Problem Judges. In a discussion with the other Problem Judge before competition begins, you find yourself in direct opposition to some of his/her rule interpretations. You should:

• Bring this to the attention of the Problem Captain so he/she can make sure everyone judging this problem is using the same rule interpretations.

• Use your own rule interpretations and allow him/her to use his/hers.

• Ask the Tournament Director to assign you to another judging team.

• Ask the Head Judge to switch judging assignments for you so you can keep time and not judge.

10. 10. You are a Problem Judge. During the performance a team's membership sign falls over when the team has less than a minute to go. You should:

• Tell the coach to pick up and replace the sign.

• Pick up the sign to get it out of way.

• Give a 15-point penalty for a missing sign because it was not up for the full 8 minutes.

• Do not penalize this as the sign was up most of the time.