As i wrote in my previous post, i would like to share about the unprofessional judges during the story telling national competition in Bandung last july 2008.

To strengthen my opinion, i’ve attached some pictures. Surely, i hope this writing is considered as critics to the betterness for the next national competition. Well, if i may quote one of the spectators saying, i would also like to say..” Secara, ini lomba tingkat nasional gitu lho…”

Ok. Let me start with the technical meeting first. Well, i considered technical meeting is a set of rules given by a coordinator, committee, judges or whosoever lah.. to the contestants and coaches , of course. However, in this technical meeting, i attended a real meeting. That means everything was still discussed, at that time. It created some ‘noises’ if i may say. Everyone wanted to be listened, even they (including me) didn’t agree with the rules given. At last, we were in the same boat to agree with the rules. (I didn’t know, whether we were too tired, or the judge was too tired with us..)

Then, the workshop day. There were two men, delivered a very good lecture about the art of ‘mendongeng’, i supposed they are lecturers from STSI. Those two men were very good, they taught the participants how to make some expressions and intonation. It was told, that story telling is the art in delivering a story in English. So, not only those who are capable in English will win but also those who can ‘hypnotize’ audience with their movement, expression and also intonation. It was great. I did enjoy it.

Now, the d-day. This was the day when elimination began. At the technical meeting it was told that 1 province would get the same number for the appearance. But then, it came out that coach had to get another number in the d day… Hhh.. i thank God that we came a bit early so we knew the newest information…

Not only that, there were three rooms with 2 judges each. But, every room had their own rules. So the rules for the three rooms, in the same competition, were totally different. There were two rooms downstair and 1 room upstair. Let me discuss these two rooms downstair first.

Room A. Downstair. No body but the contestant and the coach were allowed to enter. Whoaaa…. it was totally strange! So, how could spectators know that this one was better than the others? Not only that, this weird thing turned into a deep complaint. Because after that when the final came, all the spectators would say..”hhee… only like this?” I could understand the spectators’ feeling, since it seemed that the not-allowed-to-come-in rule had been viewed as subjectivity.

Room B. Downstair. Well, some people might come in. Ten for the maximum capacity. This room was awful. Do you know. the room next to this story telling room was used to a vocal group. So, the effect was that the contestant delivering their stor telling felt disturbed and annoyed because of this. Then, during the contestant delivering their story telling, spectators were free to come and go. It might annoy the participant a little bit. Rite? Then, the decoration of the room.. Javanese would like to call that as.. lesehan..or sit on the floor.. this is the picture..

In the second picture, they were the judges… he he he…hmmm there was an interesting happening actually, so when the male judge excused to go to the rest room the show kept go on.. actually he missed grading one contestant because of this…and also during the show and their duty grading the contestant.. do you know???? they accepted a call in their cell phone and said ” sorry..bla bla bla” and he accepted the call!! by gosh.. if the call was that important sir, with all respect i suggest you to excuse from the room… do not repeat that again…pffff….it’s so… impolite..

Room C. Upstair. Well, yea.. erm… a bit better. since the judges seat on the chairs. So do the spectators…. In this room c, we had the winner. Not going to comment anything about the winner.. he he he…

Well, let me share about the final stuff. Thank you for the judges because they made a new advantaging rule where spectators only come and go if only the contestant finished their performance. (Dari kemaren bu..) Below are the lists that happened during the final :

1. Stopwatch.

Believe it or not. For contestant number 1 to 5 the time keeper could not use the stopwatch. He used his wristwacth instead. After contestant number 6, he began to ask the judge sit next to him, that was when he started using stopwatch. So, you can guess, the timing for contestant number 1 to 5 were different. I also counted, and using stopwatch of course…For contestant number 2 for example, when the time keeper gave signal that the time was up, which was 6′, then mine was actually 5′. So, can you imagine?

OK. Next is the attitude of the judges.. check these pictures out.

Need a bigger size? Pay attention to the judge..

They were talking not only in 3 to 5 minutes.. but more than that.. keep on paying attention to what these two judges were doing.

Peek a boo.. where was he, the male judge who sat in the left corner? Check this picture and you will get the answer…

Wo.. o..oo… he was busy with his cell phone… now check the lady in veil.. she was so busy with her cell phone too.. check this picture out..

Hmm… so, was it a national competition handled professionally? no need to answer…

well, it’s already late.. may be tomorrow i will add something.. but now, i think it’s enough lah… ok.. have a nice day!