Yes, Genie, they could look for comparison to the snowboard halfpipe competition or the trick ski and other sports. These competitions have at least a scoring system in which difficulty is assessed independent from human judges and in which it is made clear before the competition what the relative contribution of a specific component will be. They should, as they have now discussed, randomly select from a larger number of judges and they should get rid of the ranking system which leads to predictable injustices.

In addition to that they should make clear for the spectators who is leading before the finals by how many points. In this and in another thread I had the impression that many Mudcatters based their assessments upon the final and nothing else and forgot to take into account the performance the day before. I doubt that many of those who have formed an impression have seen the first part of the competition.

Wolfgang