{"id":577,"date":"2016-05-16T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/?p=577"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:27:16","slug":"wave-6-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wave-6-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave 6 Opens!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written by Bryan Prillaman
\nLevel 3, United States, Florida<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, judges of all ages the Exemplar team proudly brings to you…<\/p>\n

Wave 6!
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\nWe are\u00a0hard at work reviewing Wave 5, but that\u2019s no reason to delay the next wave from starting. Wave 6 is open as of right now with an end date in mid-summer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wave 6 ends on Aug 2nd at 23:59PM PST (GMT+7).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before I talk about the slots and other changes, I want to tell one of my favorite “bad jokes”<\/p>\n

Man walks into a pizza place and orders a pizza. \u00a0The clerk behind the counter asks “Do you want me to cut that into 6 slices or 8?” \u00a0The man thinks for a moment and says “Better cut it into 6 slices, I could never eat 8.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Get it? \u00a0Its funny because the size of the Pizza doesn’t actually change!<\/p>\n

Now, back to Exemplar. With waves 5 and now wave 6, we have moved from three waves a year, to four. \u00a0That <\/span>invisibly<\/b> increased the number of nominations a year by 33%. \u00a0So what you are going to see below is the <\/span>visible<\/b> decrease in slots so that the total annual number of nominations is about the same. \u00a0We effectively are cutting the total nomination “pizza” four ways now instead of three. \u00a0Hope you are hungry! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exemplar Wave 6 Slot allocations<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Recognizing Judge’s Level<\/th>\nL1 Nominations<\/th>\nL2 Nominations<\/th>\nL3 Nominations<\/th>\nAdditional “any level” Nominations<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Level 2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Level 3<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RC Extra<\/td>\n\u00a04<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GP HJ Extra<\/td>\n\u00a01<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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You will also notice there are no more slots for L4s and L5s and there is this weird row called \u201cGP HJ\u201d. This is a result of the the recent level redefinition. The advanced role of \u2018GP Head Judge\u2019 is joining \u2018Regional Coordinator\u2019 as roles that provide additional slots. Whereas RC additional slots are predominantly used for \u201cin-region\u201d judges, the additional slots GP HJs get are for\u2026.Grands Prix! (Yes, Grands Prix is the plural for Grand Prix. Yes, it sounds weird. \u00a0Yes, I\u2019m going to keep saying it.) \u00a0I\u2019ll go ahead and preempt the question of \u201cWhat about Program Coordinators?\u201d \u00a0We are currently still working that out. \u00a0However, there are only four of them, so there\u2019s no point holding up the start of Wave 6 for a few random judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

More Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the common pieces of feedback we get is that it takes too long between the end of the wave and when the nominations are published. \u00a0While the review of the nominations doesn\u2019t take a tremendous amount of time, contacting authors and refining problematic nominations does take a tremendous amount of time. \u00a0So we are attempting something new starting with Wave 5, the wave we are currently reviewing. \u00a0We are going to spend less time\/resources on fixing problematic nominations.\u00a0This means that waves will be released faster, but the consequence of that is that t<\/span>he number of declined nominations will go up.<\/p>\n

We still plan on spending time to help authors whose nominations are \u201cclose\u201d prior to the wave being published, but nominations that deviate too far from the published nomination guidelines will be declined and dropped from the Wave. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are a judge who had one or more nominations declined, you will get an email notifying you of the declined nomination(s), pointing you towards the nomination guidelines and informing you that you will receive one additional slot in the currently open wave. \u00a0This slot is intended to give you an opportunity to revise the nomination and re-submit it, or use it on someone else. It will be an \u201cAny\u201d slot, so you don\u2019t have to worry if the judge you nominated advances. \u00a0\u00a0Please note that this is only one additional slot, regardless of how many of your nominations were declined. We feel one additional slot is the correct number. It effectively gives you a \u201cdo-over\u201d, if one of your nominations is off, but it also subtly encourages you to be more thoughtful in the next wave of nominations if more than one nomination was rejected. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you have one or more nominations declined in a wave, you will receive an additional nomination slot in the following wave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we are still reviewing the nominations, the slot won\u2019t be available immediately, but it will be in place at least a week before the end of the wave. Seeing when nominations are actually entered into the Judgeapps, a week is plenty of time. \u00a0Hashtag Winkyface.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m actually really excited about this change, because it will speed up the publications of Waves. \u00a0There are a lot of well written, impactful nominations in this wave, and I can\u2019t wait for you to see them.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s all for now. \u00a0Until next time, stay awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wave 6 begins today and ends on July 31st. Read the full blog post for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"language":[9],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-recognition-windows","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/exemplar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}