Quote Originally Posted by Just the facts View Post
Yeah, I'm not a real big fan of competitions that require a non-participant to decide the winner. I don't even watch the singing or dancing reality TV shows.
Sounds conspiratorial. Judging doesn’t equal deciding the winner. It means making sure rules are followed and the system of scoring is adhered to as much as possible. Every sport has ways of cheating or accidentally being outside the rules to gain an advantage. If cheating is okay or gaining an advantage unfairly is your idea of fair competition, then that is telling. That’s where many in our society have gotten….no rules, no judgement, just anything goes to win.

Many or most of the people who think judges are arbitrarily changing outcomes generally have no clue or ability to judge but rather look at the event with biased or untrained perception of what is actually happening. And when mistakes are made are quick to see it as a conspiracy because they’d rather believe that. Fans are emotion driven.