Re: Perl for Adjudication

How many schools may compete?
How many competitors may a school have?
Is there an ideal panel size that is less than 6?
Are the "monologues" and "duo/trio" separate events or part of the same competition?
Do they interact regarding scheduling?
It seems like there must be more to this if there is to be any kind of winners in so few rounds.
Are these win/lose rounds?
Are random pairings preferred or pairings that force a bell curve?

Sorry all I got are questions.

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Re: Re: Perl for Adjudication by dejoha (Novice) on Sep 27, 2003 at 17:11 UTC
Good questions! Nearly sixty schools from six states are expected to compete. Each school is limited to up to 3 mono acts and 2 duo/trio scenes. Panels should have at least 2 competitors but no more than 6 (more panels may be created to accomodate). Monologues only compete against monologues and the same for duo/trios. The two "events" are scheduled seperately but occur at the same time. Unlike sporting competitions, the rounds/panels do not eliminate competitors. In a drama competition you are judged on specific criteria and are given points. At then end of three rounds, the top-three competitiors with the most points are awarded first, second, and third places. Parings can be as random as needed, so long as the rules are adhered to (e.g. you cannot compete against your own school and cannot compete against someone you've already competed against. It is also useful to know that an automated system is only really helpful where there are over 6 participating schools. Under this number it is easy to do the paneling by hand, partly because it is likely that you will have to compete against someone again.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Perl for Adjudication
by dejoha (Novice) on Sep 27, 2003 at 17:11 UTC

Good questions!

Nearly sixty schools from six states are expected to compete.
Each school is limited to up to 3 mono acts and 2 duo/trio scenes.
Panels should have at least 2 competitors but no more than 6 (more panels may be created to accomodate).
Monologues only compete against monologues and the same for duo/trios.
The two "events" are scheduled seperately but occur at the same time.
Unlike sporting competitions, the rounds/panels do not eliminate competitors. In a drama competition you are judged on specific criteria and are given points. At then end of three rounds, the top-three competitiors with the most points are awarded first, second, and third places.
Parings can be as random as needed, so long as the rules are adhered to (e.g. you cannot compete against your own school and cannot compete against someone you've already competed against.

It is also useful to know that an automated system is only really helpful where there are over 6 participating schools. Under this number it is easy to do the paneling by hand, partly because it is likely that you will have to compete against someone again.

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