This section explains how to transform the creative and diverse performances we observe in a tournament into a fully scored competition as accurately and quickly as possible.
Accuracy means making no mistakes in transforming the appraisers’ observations into final scores. Quickness means minimizing the time between the day’s last performance and the announcement of winners at the award ceremony.
This section has the following topics:
Roles and Responsibilities
There are three central roles in scoring a Destination Imagination tournament.
- Tournament Director
- Head Appraiser / Challenge Master
- Score Master
Tournament Director
The Tournament Director is the person in charge of the tournament, whose role in scoring typically consists of providing a score room, selecting Challenge Masters or Head Appraisers for each challenge, and selecting a Score Master for the tournament. The Tournament Director might also recruit the other people needed to run the score room or be responsible for acquiring the materials the score room needs. However, some of these responsibilities may be delegated to the Score Master.
After the Tournament Director has identified a Score Master, the two of them can divide the work. To understand scoring a tournament from a Tournament Director’s point of view, see Tournament Director’s View.
Head Appraiser
Each challenge site at which raw scores are awarded is directed by a Head Appraiser. The Head Appraiser is the domain expert on a given challenge, the manager who ensures that the room is run fairly, and the score room’s chief contact for a given challenge.
Score Master
The Score Master’s role is to collect the raw scores from each of the challenge rooms, combine them according to the scoring rules, and compute the final scores. Score Masters are in charge of the score room. They are the local expert on the process of calculating final scores from the raw scores produced by individual appraisers. They determine the place order finish of each of the teams in each challenge level.
For information about running a score room, see Score Room Procedures.