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About Miss Gay America
Judge Etiquette and General Information click here to review the article published by L & T concerning "A Good Judge"
MISS GAY AMERICA It
remains the responsibility of the promoter to ensure the most qualified and
professional panel of judges. The promoter must ensure that the judges
information contained within this manual, is provided to the panel of judges,
well in advance of the pageant to ensure the highest quality in judges.
Additionally, promoters should present this and other pertinent pageant
information, including but not limited to 1)Category Descriptions 2)Proper
Scoring Procedures 3)Scores-heet Instructions 4)Pageant Schedule and 5)referral
of articles published by L & T Entertainment, including category
descriptions. Additionally, the aforementioned should be reviewed in the
mandatory pre-pageant Judges Orientation session. The detailed Judges
Orientation is a crucial part of the pageant, as this helps to ensure
contestants that only the highest quality of qualified judges are serving on the
panel. 1.
There will be no talking to any of
the contestants except for a simple greeting. Avoid contestant contact at hotel,
bar, and /or restaurants. 2.
There will be no talking at the
judge’s table among judges or to anyone around the table. Questions, after a
contestant’s performance (not during), should be directed to the Lead Judge,
unless otherwise instructed. A
thorough judges orientation will alleviate all or most questions. 3.
There should be no comments made by
any of the judges concerning a particular contestant during or after a
particular judging section (i.e. “that was a great interview”) 4.
There will be no drinking of
alcoholic beverages at the judge’s table during judging or any other time
prior to or during competition categories. Judges will not become intoxicated
during the course of the pageant. This
includes having an alcoholic beverage, prior to the pageant and/or during break
from judging duties, during the contest. Remember, contestants are watching you
as much as you are watching them. 5.
Do not applaud or overreact to any
contestant’s presentation. 6.
Focus your complete attention on
each contestant during each category. A judge should not “take his eyes off
of” the performance of the contestant during Solo Talent or Talent Categories.
Notes may be written on the worksheet but do not look away from the contestant
during Solo Talent or Talent categories. 7.
A judge’s valet should be
appointed by the pageant promoter to care for the judges needs. Promoters,
valets, and other persons are never to interrupt the judge’s concentration
while a contestant is being judged. 8.
Tardiness will run the schedule
over the allotted time limits therefore, please be on time for every judged
event. 9.
Do not discuss your scoring with
anyone except the promoter, reigning Miss Gay America, or the official
representative of L & T Entertainment. All questions should be answered by
the aforementioned only. 10.
At no time will judges be allowed
in a contestant’s hotel room or vice versa. 11.
Keep your questions simple and to
the point during interviews. The contestant is not there to hear your
accomplishments. You are there to hear his interview. Promoters are encouraged
to review some of the planned questions. 12.
All judges are required to stay at
least one (1) hour after the pageant ends for contestants “critique”. The
critique is designed to advise the contestants of improvements needed and to
advise of strong points of the contestant’s package. 13.
A judge will not be allowed to
judge either state or regional pageant for two consecutive years. There
will be no exceptions. 14.
A judge may adjudicate no more than
two (2) state and no more than two (2) regional pageants during a calendar year.
Exceptions are limited to former Miss Gay America titleholders and the Miss Gay
America Advisory Board, all of which have unlimited judging opportunity, unless
otherwise declared by L & T Entertainment. 15.
The appearance of the judges must
be professional at all times during the competition. Judges should be dressed in
“business casual” (no t-shirts, shorts, jeans or tennis shoes).
At minimum promoters may wish to require formal or “dress to impress”
attire on the final night of competition. 16.
The official representative of L
& T Entertainment has the authority to question any judge who violates these
rules and to relieve a judge of his/her seat after careful scrutiny of the rule
infraction. The entire score sheets of every category may be removed of the
judge in question however, clear communication must occur between the
representative of L & T Entertainment, the promoter and the judge. 17.
As there are restrictions on
frequency that an individual may judge, preliminaries during a pageant season,
it remains the responsibility of the promoter to investigate the qualification
of the panel of judges to ensure that the contestant is provided with the
highest quality of qualified and professional panel of judges. Exception to the
judging limitation is for the former Miss Gay America titleholders and the Miss
Gay America Advisory Board of Directors, who are unlimited in their judging
opportunities, unless otherwise directed by L & T Entertainment. The
executive offices of L & T Entertainment shall be provided with a detail of
judges including city and state of residence, telephone number and email address
for each judge. The executive office of L & T Entertainment may send a list
of qualified judges who are available to adjudicate preliminaries. 18.
The pageant promoter is responsible
to ensure that the panel of judges is both responsible and eligible to judge.
Promoters should make the selection of judges while considering reputation,
resume’ of qualifications and to avoid any potential conflict of interest.
Potential conflict of interests include but is not limited to partners/mates of
contestants, current promoters of contestants (example: a promoter of a regional
contest whereby a contestants may be the current titleholder), city preliminary
promoters of that particular state contest or a contestant who has already
qualified, or intends to qualify, for the Miss Gay America pageant, or any of
its preliminaries, during that particular pageant season. 19.
Any
contestant who has qualified or has intention to qualify to any preliminary of
Miss Gay America (i.e State/Regional pageants or on the National level) may not
judge ANY preliminary pageant, during the same pageant season, in which they
intend to compete. This applies to
any official preliminary, (City, State and Regional), that is designated as
a preliminary in the Miss Gay America system. 20.
Judges
should use the “Judges Worksheet” to make notation of the contestants
performance, and subcategory scoring. Then, once completed the scores should be
carried forward to the actual Score sheet which is submitted to the tabulator.
The “Judges Worksheet” remains the property of the judge, for his reference
during critique. Judges should notate positives and negatives, of the
contestants performance in order to provide effective critique. The Judges
Worksheet is subject to review by a pageant official (Miss Gay America, L &
T Entertainment or Promoter) and should be readily available for review, upon
request. 21.
The
identity of the judges will be kept confidential, prior to the contest
registration. That is, judges and promoters should not advertise, either in
electronic, written or verbal communication, to any persons that they have been
selected to judge a particular contest. 22. Judges should not be viewing message board chats/web sites concerning the pageant, while the pageant is in process (from beginning of pageant to the conclusion of the pageant) 23.
Administrative
Point Deductions shall not be the responsibility of the panel of Judges. The
Judges should score according to the category descriptions as applied to the
contestant presentation for which they are currently reviewing. OTHER
JUDGES INFORMATION Any
contestant who has qualified or has intention to qualify to any preliminary of
Miss Gay America (i.e. State/Regional pageants or on the National level) may not
judge (during the year in which they intend to compete in the next level
pageant), any contest, including City, State and Regional preliminaries,
that is designated as a preliminary in the Miss Gay America system. PANEL OF JUDGES: CRITIQUE: PROPER
SCORING PROCEDURES EXPLANATION
OF PROPER SCORING PROCEDURES The scores from the Worksheet should be transferred
to the Score sheet, that is, the scores noted on the Score sheet should mirror
those noted in the Judges Worksheet. CORRECTIONS
AND CHANGES ON SCORESHEETS There are times when judges must correct or change a
score. There is a correct and proper way to do this as shown in Ex. 1, located
on the preceding page of this manual. All scoring should be done in ink only. No
pencils! All changes and/or corrections should have a single line put through
the incorrect score or total. The incorrect score or total needs to be readable
as shown in Ex. 1. The change or corrected total should be written above or
below the previous score. The change should be initialed by the scoring judge,
another judge on the panel, preferably the lead judge, or the reigning Miss Gay
America. All changes should be double initialed. Judges should always sign their
score sheets and date them at the start of the pageant. Tabulators making
corrections to category totals should initial the correction and have the
scoring judge, secondary tabulator and/or the reigning Miss Gay America, to
initial the correction. Scores should never be blocked out, scribbled
out, “whitened out” or written over, on a score sheet or Master Score sheet;
a simple line through the error will suffice. Contest category Sub-Master sheets are used to
tabulate the judge’s scores for each category. When the points are totaled for
the category, they are then transferred to the Contest Master score sheets (See
Ex. 1 in the handbook)
Judge Application
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