Judging is an elaborate job. It requires doing research in order to check if the movie is optimal, legitimate, and entertaining. It involves helping people develop TAS skills and encouraging them to contribute more, and on a higher level. It's a responsibility of being fair and open while deciding what content should represent the site.
To cover all these aspects, a judge needs to take their time and assess everything that's relevant to a given movie. And to handle this qualitatively, one needs to be sure that fellow judges are taking on other movies in the workbench, and no one is under heavy stress. It's always better to judge less movies with more care (and then recreate if needed), than to have many in your queue, trying to deliver decisions sooner and slowly burning out.
So to help our judges stay more relaxed and focused, I'm calling for new judges!
Here are the role requirements:
http://tasvideos.org/Roles.html#Judge
As my signature says, if you deal with the Movie Rules and try to apply them, you're taking your TASing to a new level. And to do that, you should be able to understand the rules and the principles behind them, judging not only by the letter, but also by the spirit of the law. But don't worry, every time you're not sure about something, you can always ask me and other judges. It's my duty to provide sensible explanations and to help you make a proper decision.
If you have at least a few hundred player points and at least a few movies published, if you're around on the workbench forum and chats, discussing submissions and WIPs, and you would like to take this hobby to the new level described above, please send me a private message on forum, and we'll discuss it!
