In the event of a tie - the three confer and choose a winner/loser from the tied contestants. Highest points wins the week, lowest points goes home. That way we know why something makes it through or not. They each score their points and they're tallied. They should judge separately, so they aren't contaminating each others opinions. ![]() This also isn't based on whether something was easy/hard to do with glass, but whether it's something that you even like the looks of. This is a judgement on whether the work was compelling enough to hook you enough to want to learn more or spend more time with it. Rather than getting into the (often pretentious) justification for the art, this is the initial "wow" factor. This judge does NOT hear the backstory either. the bartender, the circus person, etc.) This judge has 10 points. This would be the role of the subject matter expert on functional pieces (eg. This judge DOES hear the artist's story about the piece and what they were trying to achieve/represent, so that they can judge the applicability to the theme, and how well it told the story the artist was going for. Judges on applicability to the task (for "functional" pieces) and/or artistic merit (for artistic pieces). It's solely a judgement on their glassworking skills. This judge (the glass expert) does NOT hear the story about the piece's "symbolism" or what the artist is trying to represent or achieve. Judges only on technical merit (difficulty, precision, etc). That's why the show needs three judges that each judge on DISTINCT aspects: However in prior years, sometimes it felt like they completely overlooked technical merit to let the "art story" have way too much precedence. So, it was really the artistic side that they were failing. They are only impressive from the technical side, because it was a difficult thing to make out of glass. If those sculptures were in any other medium, like clay, people wouldn't judge them as being anything special. ![]() It's hard to sculpt glass, so too much emphasis was given to "that texture doesn't even look like glass, that's really difficult." It was similar to a macaroni sculpture, where when someone says "wow that's amazing" what they mean is "wow that's amazing. I agree the judging is off on the show, but I think your evaluation that there is too little judging on technical merit is why season 3 happened is incorrect.įor S3, I think there was too MUCH deference to technical merit, and that's why he won.
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