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Helpful Hints in Selecting your Judges Panel

Eligibility

Anyone that is over 25 years of age and who attended the latest MAP judges
seminar is eligible to judge provided that they are not one of the following:

• A provider of goods or services to contestants
• An employee of a provider of goods or services 
• Someone closely associated with a provider of goods or services
• A former contestant that has competed with a contestant in the
  pageant  
• An Executive Director  in which one of the contestants in the
  pageant is his/her former titleholder
• Anyone who has coached or otherwise assisted a contestant in
  preparing for the pageant
• Anyone who judged the same pageant the year before
• Anyone that has judged four pageants in the same year
• Any parent of a young lady that is eligible to compete in the MAP
  system (unless there is a letter of non-competing on file with
  the state office)

Perception

If being on a judge’s panel can be perceived as something other than what it is,
you should not ask that person and they should not accept. Some examples are:

• Their son is dating the contestant’s sister.
• Their daughter is in the same sorority as a contestant.
• They work very closely with the parents of the contestant.
• They are related in any way to the contestant.
• Closely associated with an immediate family member. i.e. attend the
  same church

If there is any question in your mind about someone you are going to ask to judge,
call your field director and let him or her make the decision. If they do not have
the answer, they will direct it to the Director of Field Operations and the MAP
Board. 

Other Considerations

Remember you must have a two-star judge on your panel. This is someone that
is directly associated with the Miss Arkansas Pageant and is on the current judges
list provided by MAP.  It is suggest that you also use two one-star judges. This is
someone that has judged at least two local pageants.  We also suggest that you
use two no-star judges. This is someone that attended the MAP seminar but that
has not judged two local pageants.

It is especially important that you use judges from the MAP list because of recent
changes in the judging and scoring.  Someone who has not attended the seminar
will not be aware of these changes.

Remember you must provide your field director with a list of your judges panel
two weeks prior to your pageant. They will forward the list to the MAP office and
to the Director of Field Operations.

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