Creative Competition in Radiosport and Toastmasters Part-8: Decision of the Judges is FINAL

Every NEW Year, the Speech Contest Calendar (Toastmasters) and the Contest calendar
(Radiosport), start over.  In Toastmasters, the International Speech and Evaluation contests
begin at the club level.  In radiosport, we have "warmup" exercises in the form of the North
American QSO Parties (NAQP), and, if you are a RTTY enthusiast, the RTTY RoundUp (RU).

Recently, while musing over the above-mentioned competition events, it occurred to me that:

• In ToasTMasters, the judges use a POINT System to score the winners.
• In Radiosport, our LoG files are eventually transposed into a POINT System.

In BOTH cases, the highest point score wins; the 2nd highest takes 2nd-place, etc.
Of course, there are sometimes disqualifications (DQ's) that remove a score from
being eligible to receive an award.

Therefore, the bottom-line is "cheat w/in the rules" to obtain the highest score possible. 
In Toastmasters, technically, the judges are supposed to be anonymous.  Not knowing who they
are reduces the likelihood of you "playing to" someone because you think they are a judge.  

In radiosport, the [so-called] judge is the LCR (Log Checking Robot) - the software which inhales and categorizes all submitted Cabrillo Log files into a database, verifying the correctness of each piece of data entered.  Incorrect entries or your callsign NoT in the log of the station you claim to have worked will subtract points from your score total.  Depending upon the number of errors, the score you submit could be dinged down by hundreds, if not 1000's of points.

Either way - Decision of the Judges is FINAL.