The Digitizing Olympics

Judging

The event schedules can be found online at http://www.DigitizingOlympics.com simply select the month you wish to review from the events menu.

This is how the events unfold:

Artwork is made available for the Olympians to download on the dates specified per event.

Olympians are responsible for uploading their designs by the deadline. Should any designs arrive late the judges are notified and their design suffers a loss of points.

Once the designs have been uploaded they are assembled in a zip file for you to download, a judges newsletter will arrive via e-mail to alert you when the designs are available for judging.

To download the designs, print run sheets and color sequences, and return to submit your results you will go to http://www.DigitizingOlympics.com/Registered and enter the judges password protected area. Please submit your results according to the deadlines specified per event in order to have your results included in the final tally. You are asked to sew each design and take some notes on certain elements as you watch them run, making your decisions based on your opinion as a professional embroiderer. Just treat each design as if you ordered it from a digitizer.

The Live Scoreboard located in the Registered Judges and Olympians area allows participants to monitor the event results as they are entered. When all results have been entered, the numbers are double checked and the top three are scheduled to receive their medals in the Winners Circle Chat area. Olympians may review their scores in detail by using the Judges comments mouseover and Scorecard mouseover windows, or link to the full stack of detailed results entered.

Scorecard Details

When Olympians enter their designs, they also enter their individual design color sequences which are compiled by design in a convenient page for printing and taking to the machine.
Run Sheets

The following example is the form used for these events. Judges will select each design and submit their scores according to the results they compile when sewing. This is not a working form.

Poor

Satisfactory

Average

Good

Fantastic

Overall sewing quality

(minimal thread breaks, ample coverage with proper densities, design runability relating to fabric)

Rating on design meeting artwork specifications

(proper size, colors, design matches artwork)

Use of pathing, trims and color changes

(additional point deductions for this category are below)

Overall eye catching appeal

(do the results create a pleasing embroidery design?)

Use of special techniques

(use of stitch angles, stitch types or special fills)

Registration

(do all elements of the design register well?)

Technical Merit

(your opinion as an embroiderer to the overall finished embroidery design)

Artistic Merit

(your opinion as an embroiderer to the digitizers creative translation of the artwork into stitches)

Deductions

Excess Trims and/or jumps in design

-1

-2

-3

Improper color sequence submitted

-1

-2

-3

Un-necessary color changes and/or trims

-1

-2

-3

Improper centering of design

-1

-2

-3

Other

-1

-2

-3

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