How does the adjudication work?
Each group gets the same amount of verbal feedback. Usually this is five minutes from each of the three adjudicators, for a total of fifteen minutes. This is strictly controlled by our time keeper. The order in which the adjudicators speak is rotated for each show. For our last state festival and the regional festival in 2008, EMACT employed “panel” adjudications, in which each of the three listens to the others, thus minimizing repetition and allowing them to elaborate on each other’s comments. Formerly we followed the practice of other festivals, in which they do not hear each other, and are thus not influenced by each other.
