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As far as slagging CBB, I think DAYV can confirm my scores showed I was not influenced by anything said in this forum.
One of the things I submitted to DAYV along with my scorecards was a bunch of suggestions on how to perhaps modify the contest for next time. I think my best suggestion was to centralize the entry point: each entry should be copied for each judge, and sent to one location. At that location, all the entries should be assembled into complete entry packages, and sent out to each judge from there. This cuts the postage to the minimum (it is much cheaper to send one package with seven discs to one place, than seven packages with one disc to seven places), and it also ensures that each judge gets exactly the same thing, more or less at the same time.
I also figure there should be more detail given in each judging category (e.g. points for more sub-categories). As a judge, I wasn't too sure how I was supposed to judge audio, for example, knowing that the source was DD5.1 but that the heavily-edited result on an edit was only 2.0. Do I judge the technical merit, and say that job wasn't so hot (5.1 -> 2.0), or do I judge the artistic merit (a big change made in the dialogue or music or whatever)? Both are valid approaches, I think, and should be considered separately.
I also think a lot more information should be required of entrants about the raw materials used, the applications and techniques employed, and the specs on the final result -- including a fairly-detailed rundown of what exactly was changed in the edit. In this vein, CBB did a great job: I got a sheet for each film that explained what the point was, and approximately where they made changes. The Cyberdyne T2 edit was also cool for that, especially an extra with switchable audio (!) showing the before/after on the replacement of the G'n'R song.
As it is, I think this contest was still a success. Anything volunteer like this takes a lot of effort on everybody's part to make it work at all, let alone fairly smoothly. Big props to DAYV for doggedly keeping the thing moving forward (even when one of those damn Canadian judges was taking so long) and actually seeing it through! And also much respect to all the editors who submitted work. I figure this is about as bad as we'll ever see: things can only get better! And if this is the worst, then that's not too shabby at all.
