Reviews

By Vuk Gavrilović

What is a review?� A review is a permanent document you create in the

Judge Center.

� In consists of you evaluation of another judge, you’re recognizing the good work of another judge and giving advise on how to improve.

� The documents is broken down in “strenghts” and “areas of improvement”

How to create a review in the

Judge Center…

� Log in into the JC and click “reviews”


Judge Center…

� Click on “create”, select “evaluation” and click on “continue”.


Judge Center…

� Top of page -find the judge you want to review, and insert all the data relevant to the tournament.


Judge Center…

� Year issue: select year 2010

� Remember to write “This is a 2012 review” in the comment box

What is the purpose of a review?

� Recognize the good job a judge did.

� To give advice on how to improve!

� A pair of “extra eyes” from outside – no one can improve much all by himself/herself.

� Share our expertise and mentor.

� Write what someone could improve.

� Ultimately: improve the Judge Program as a whole.

Important!

The main purpose of a review is to be helpful!

It should help the judge to realize his/her mistakes and give advice on how to improve.

It is not an exam. No one “fails”.

It should be useful and a source of information on how to improve and do an even better job next time!

Writing a review helps you as well!

� It helps you develop your observation and mentoring skills.

� It will also show that you’re involved actively in the judge community. (Not only the reviewed judge can read the reviews you write…)

� It’s part of the checklist…

Choose your words wisely!

� Be tactful and diplomatic.

� Be careful not to offend someone.

� Keep in mind cultural differences and language barrier!

� Don’t use irony or sarcasm – it won’t work…

� Try to give constructive criticism.

Be very specific in the review

� Write down exactly in what situation you observed a given thing.

� Write the role you and the judge had.

� Put all the details relevant to the situation you’re describing.

� Justify your point of view.

How to observe:

� Shadowing (especially if “buddy system” is implemented).

� Chat – except for real situations, talk about hypothetical ones (“what do you think about…”, “what would you do in this case…”)

� Work together (example: do a deck check together…)

What to observe:

� Interaction with players and judges

� General preparation in rules and policies

� Approach and attitude towards judging and players

� Execution of assigned tasks (remember to write what tasks exactly you’re talking about)

“Role oriented” reviews� A review doesn’t need to contain every aspect of

judging. It can be quite short and specific to a role.

Example:

You can review your TL (even if you’re a L1), considering only the team leading aspects of that particualar judge in that tournament.

Things to remember…

Take notes during the tournament.

They will help you remember what to write after a few days.


If you want to get a review ask for it!

(usually to your “buddy” or TL on a GP,

or the HJ on a smaller tournament like a PTQ)


You can review a judge of any level!

Don’t be shy,

even if they are high level they are not perfect!

…except for Kalle ☺


Language barrier and cultural differences.

English is preferred language for judge reviews,

but if it’s not good enough better write in your native language (if the reviewed judge also speaks it).


Avoid absolute statements

� Don’t say “John IS…” if you observed a thing only once.

� Avoid words like “always” and “never”.

By their nature, absolute statements are bound to be false and inncaurate.

Things to remember…You can write a review to a judge that

performed well.

You don’t need to wait for a judge to do something “wrong”.

Even if a judge does a great job, there are surely ways he or she can do an outstanding job next time!

Even if there’s nothing you can think of as “area of improvements” – write the review anyway!


Before you write the review, talk to the judgeabout what you observed.

This is important: it will help you get a better idea on the judge’s performance.

And sometimes it will avoid you some mistakes or inaccuracies.


If don’t get the chance to talk in person – use some other mean (emails, Facebook, JC…)

It’s important to exchange opinions and have some sort of debriefing.

Sometimes it won’t be possible at the tournament, so feel free to do it electronically.

Your first review� Don’t be afraid to write one. It’s normal, everyone does it.

� Review a judge you know and have worked with on several occasions (this should be less intimidanting than reviewing a judge you just met for the first time on a GP).

� Talk to the judge before writing the review.

� It doesn’t have to be an outstanding review. It can be short and schematic. It will still be useful.

� Good reviews come with time. Don’t expect to be perfect immediately. Everyone needs practice and experience.

You got a bad review. What now?

� Don’t get depressed. Don’t take it personally.

� Learn from it and try to do your best next time.

� Be happy about it! You now have something to work on and become a better judge!

Examples:� Even if you have arrived in the staff of the tournament in run for

before thing you have tried to visualize the situation to try toimprove what it was necessary. Your figure during the whole tournament has been at the most of the professionalism her your knowledge of the policies it is excellent and I would wish me to always work with people of your preparation.

� The only note that can move you is that at times your ways can seem hard as if you had always become rabid with whom is you before.

� I note this during the "Legacy@National" Tournament

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