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21.2.3 Judgment

21.2.3.1 National Competition

As mentioned previously, for national competitions we had two boards of juries:
internal and national. The internal juries comprised of three to five staff of
BAKOSURTANAL who met the criteria as a jury for map drawing competitions.
The national juries comprised of three persons; at least one of them came from
BAKOSURTANAL with a strong knowledge about cartography, and at least one of
them came from an art institute or was a professional artist who had experience in
judging children's drawing competitions.
The mechanism of judgment for national competitions was as follow:

• Before being evaluated by the boards of judges, the drawings were selected by
the selection team of organizing committee based on their administrative com-
pleteness. The drawings that used paper size other than A3, had incomplete
author's identity (such as no address or date of birth written either on the back of
the drawing or on a separate piece of paper) and were out of the predefined
theme, were eliminated. In fact, many drawings did not include maps or only had
maps, so these drawings were considered out of theme.

• If the number of drawings were more than 250, then the judgment would be done

in three steps for every group; the first step was performed by the internal juries
to eliminate about a third or half of the drawings, the second step was performed
by the national juries to select 15 best drawings for each group, the last step was
also performed by the national juries to select the best drawings to be enrolled
into Barbara Petchenik competition and additional three best drawings from
each group.

• If the number of drawings were equal to or less than 250, then the judgment

would be done directly by the board of national juries to select 10-15 best
drawings for each group, then select the best drawings to be enrolled into
Barbara Petchenik competition and additional three best drawings from each
group.

During the selection process performed by board of internal juries, each of the
juries was given an evaluation sheet to evaluate the drawings, as shown in Fig. 21.4
below. The drawings were hung in front of the juries, 20 drawings at a time, and
each of the juries decided whether each drawing had the following criteria: compo-
sition of world map, scale proportion of the map features (applicable for group
B and C), relative position of the map features (applicable for group C only), theme
suitability, color composition, and creativity. For every drawing, each jury put a
check mark on the criteria that existed in the drawing, and let the organizing
committee do the counting.
During the selection process by board of national juries, it is important for the
juries to be able to see all drawings at once (Fig. 21.5 ). Therefore, all drawings from
each group were put on the floor with the drawing side up. The juries then looked