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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 6713137" data-attributes="member: 67">The single-judge format is nothing new; they (all of the EN World Tourneys, that is) were all done that way back in the day. When IRON DM returned to EN World in 2009, it did so with three judges. It's a good format, which offers a degree of protection to the contestants against bias through the later rounds. It does bring its own challenges with it, however. First, it requires that three judges be available, which, as happened this year, isn't always the case. There isn't much point in running with two judges (no tie-breaker), so, in such cases, we go with one. Another challenge that having multiple judges presents is an increase in complexity in scheduling the later matches. Every year that we use three judges, there is a point when we get hung up. On more than one occasion, we've had to put a call out for an alternate judge--even while the tournament was in progress. Still, we generally feel that that single benefit is worth the trouble, so we do start by trying to pull three judges together. I actually buried a mention of recruiting new judges in the history section of the OP. If anyone out there is interested in being considered as a new judge, send me a PM with a link to at least one previous entry you have submitted (so, yes, you will have to have been a contestant at least once). We (the RBDM Club, that is) will not be discussing the topic until after this tournament, though, so no rush.</blockquote>

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