Hmmmmm

At school this morning Cindy was informed that her second place position in last weekend's First Aid competition may just be upgraded to a first place or shared first place.

At the awards ceremony it seemed a little odd that the person who took first place ran to one of the judges with big hugs when declared first place winner.Turns out that the judge was the instructor of the winner. Protests of conflict of interest and out and out cheating have been filed and the decision is being contested. Now I wasn't there for the competition and saying that Cindy should have won would be well bias, however, why would this instructor not excuse herself from the judging, knowing very well that she had someone competing? Sounds fishy to me but again I wasn't there . I guess that we will just have to wait and see what the board says.

I also hear that this is not the only contested decision. It seems that one girl's father, who is his daughters instructor at her school judged her competition and wonder of wonders she got first place.

Now come on people, even the most Godly person would be bias in this type of a situation, wouldn't excusing themselves from judging be the honorable thing to do ? As you all know my two sons compete in Shoto Kan Karate tournaments. A few years ago Nationals were in Ohio and many instructor and black belts were offered classes to be certified judges. Rule number one was that in any match where you were to judge someone who you knew ( attends the same DoJo, etc), let alone relatives or instructors, you bow out of judging for that competition. I can't believe that these people seen nothing wrong with judging their students and children.It would sure be sad for these competitors to have their metals stripped if they truly deserved to win but come on, even they had to realize that they had an unfair advantage.
I'll let you know when we hear what, if anything the event coordinators decide to do.