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Regional Constraints

He isolates the only concern that I think people have when he writes:
>>>
However, this does breed a potential problem that is avoided by absolute
regional constraints. If you pick an A judge because you really like and
respect her, and I pick the same judge, a regional friend, you and I could
get her as a mutual A and the judge you like and respect generally might be
feared because of local friendship bias. This applies to all who 
believe that locals vote for locals over national unknowns.
>>>>

To me a judge is not preferred if they are the type to vote on local
friendship bias. The only reason I could see this as problematic would be in
a pairing that gets a mutually NOT preferred critic. In this instance Team Y
could get a judge they don't prefer and a judge that is from the same region
as Team X. Of course, I'm not sure that is a bad thing since even though the
judge is from the same region as Team X they chose not to prefer him/her.
This means there are two possibilities either Team X doesn't really know the
critic (even though s/he is from the same region) or they know the critic and
don't want them which means you have Team X with a critic they don't like and
Team Y with a critic they don't know not a real advantage to either side.
Finally, the way I read Prof. Hunt's most recent post teams won't get a
mutually NOT preferred critic from the same region as one of the teams. He
wrote:
>>>
We would still keep regional judges off judging regional 
teams unless it was their choice. 
>>>

This seems like the optimum solution. If both teams prefer a judge then
region is irrelevant. If a team doesn't want a particular judge from their
region then they need only list that  critic as not preferred. This increases
the flexibility of judge selection for all teams, especially those who travel
primarily within their region, which is exactly the point of Pick at least
20.

Tim Mahoney, Pace U.
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