[Tango-L] Tango World Championship - judging

[astrid]

> I have attempted to develop my own "judging" skill by visually assessing
the
> competitors' performance myself and then comparing my personal assessment
> with that of the professional judges. Perhaps this is how you can develop
> the same skill.
>
Yeah, but what do you do when the judges are corrupt? When a judge in an
Argentina chooses his own song as "the best song of the year" because he got
to sit on the jury which decided which song to choose ? Or when the juges
give the high points to those who took private lessons with them before the
competition, or only vote for those who have the same taste in style like
themselves?
How do you feel when you realise that actually the dancing couples who was
ranked as 10th are much better dancers than the boring number one who only
dance generic tango you have seen a hundred times before in mediocre videos?

I am starting to get the impression that to succeed in the contests is a
matter of knowing the right people, just like succeeding in many job
applications, in spite of a whole week of "preliminary decisions" by
interviews, workshops, task solving and so on which may be as much a farce
as a large part of those dance contests.

Astrid