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Date Posted: 09:48:46 01/19/26 Mon
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Subject: 10th of a Point Scoring?? - Grades

Did anyone else’s dancer participate in the Winter/St. Brigid Feis this weekend in grades levels? What was up with the 10th of a point scoring?? Have never seen that before and have been competing for over 2 years. First would get 79 and then second would get 78.90??? How could a judge be that specific in scoring watching a dancer for less than 30 seconds?? If that is how scoring will be it will take forever for dancers to move up. Thoughts?

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[> The raw score is irrelevant except in reference to the other raw scores. -- See inside, 13:31:17 01/19/26 Mon (NoHost/172.56.13.87)

A judge isn’t actually giving a “score” like in gymnastics. He is simply ranking the dancers.

Raw scores can tell you how “close” your dancer was if you look at all the scores. If a judge scores dancers as 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, that tells you they were all close. If he scores 85, 80, 79, 78, 70, iit tells you the judge thought first place was the best by far, the middle three were similar and last place needs needs to do a lot of work.

If a judge gives first 79 and second 78.9, that is his way of saying that it was really close.

At majors, with sometimes more than 100 in a comp, you will see judges score out to the hundredths place in their raw scores. But the score itself is irrelevant. What matters is where that score is in relation to all the other scores. Three judges could give a dancer a raw score of 91.95, but for one judge, that might be first place and for another, it might be 10th, and for another it might be 20th.

There is no science or methodology to the raw scores (although I’ve been told there used to be a scoring system that got dropped way back). The raw score is just a number the judge uses to rank the dancers.

(I’ll add that at the champ level with fixed panels, it is a little more complicated but I’ll save that for another day).

I hope this helps.

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