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JUDGING
ETHICS
- In the Judging Room
or on the Show Floor, all personnel who are part of the judging team
should:
- If they are making
entries, do so unobtrusively and leave.
- Disqualify themselves
from judging any plant, flower or exhibit with which they have any relationship
that might be construed as an interference with impartiality or a conflict
of interest.
- During judging, direct
their attention only to the activity in progress and establish an attitude
of detachment. This will facilitate an accurate assessment of
plant quality in each step of the fudging process.
- Cooperate fully with
the Judging Chairman and Team Captain in completing and signing forms,
described flowers, insuring that measurements are done and are correct.
Never leave the team or the judging area without being excused.
- What happens in the
judging room or on the show floor remains there. Judging is a
committee activity and only the Judging Chairman should interpret its
result to the exhibitor or the public.
- Outside the judging
Area:
- If asked about an awarded
flower, the judge should discuss it only generally and insure that he
does not second-guess the committee. The applicant should be referred
to the Judging Chairman.
- Gifts, such as plants
or pieces of plants must not be accepted without reciprocation or value
for value.
- Judges should not accept
plants or discounts from commercial growers, unless these are offered
to all orchidists.
- Do not bad mouth any
judging system or award. Remember, only the members who made the
judgment can know how and why the award was made (or not made).
Although photographs can be helpful in studying plant structure and
color, distortion of form often occurs when and if the camera is not
placed directly in front and at the center of the plant.
- In all activities
and discussions within the judging area or outside, a Judge is expected
to conduct himself in a manner, which will reflect credit upon the judging
system, upon himself and other Judges. Thus the individual Judge
brings high standards to the system and the system reciprocates by bringing
elevated status to an individual Judge.
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