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Originally Posted by Gail White
Anonymous judging would certainly be great if we could figure out how to do it. Last year I devised an elaborate system which involved help from Alex -- I sent the poems with authors' names to him, and removed the names from my own copies. So in the end I had to ask him who the authors of the finalists were. But this is a great deal to ask of Alex every year!
Anyone with good suggestions on this, do speak up.
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Gail, there's no reason it has to be Alex every year. We've had blind judging before by the simple expedient of having
somebody receive the entries, strip the names off, and compile them into a document that's passed on the to the judge(s) without identifying info. I've done it--though not for three hundred entries, I admit. Yes, it's work, but blind judging is a value that I believe people would work for. We just need a volunteer name-stripper/record-keeper.
Editing back to add that Rachael's suggestion, which I just saw, doesn't sound bad either and should be looked at seriously.