There was controversy when Russia's Nikolai Kruykov lost his place in the final of the men's high bar after his start value was downgraded using a new video judging system.

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On Sept. 15 The New York Festivals announced a new judging system, whereby Grand Jury judges are now allowed to flag a suspected scam ad by checking a box when viewing an entry online.

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Judging a new system on clock speeds alone is unhelpful at best, misleading at worst.

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Jungmin Lee, an economist at Sogang University in Seoul who has studied Olympic judging, suggests a fix beyond the scoring system: increasing the number of judges.

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This may make sense as a way to judge a state (although there may be legitimate questions if it makes sense when moving to a competency-based learning system and away from one based on time), but it creates some problems for judging schools to where students are transferring in the midst of their high school experience.

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