I feel I should step in here since there seems to be no end to posts on this issue. Blind judging already been discussed ad nauseum. Cathy & Gail have provided responses to several of these types of comments and insinuations earlier on. And I have also provided related responses indicating that this was NOT designed to be a blindly judged event, and that while we acknowledge that blind judging is desirable where feasible, bake-off rules change with each bake-off. And indeed, this may not be the last non blindly judged back-off.
Really, how many more times is the issue of blind judging going to be rehashed and responded to? So, I don't think Cathy is being hyper-sensitive, as has been alleged, in her last comment on this. I mean, how many more times do you have to beat her & Gail on the head with the same point, and then just expected them to just sit there and take it? I can lay the counter charge that the hyper-sensitivity and overreaction cuts both ways given the incessant posts and insinuations aimed at how this event was or was not run ... with the judges, especially, in crosshairs of the volleys.
Again, it's been asked, discussed, opined on again and again ... and also responded to again and again. Any more posts/comments/hinted or overt allegations of such nature just become tedious, irritating and counter-productive.
Cheers,
...Alex
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