I would like clarification on this excerpt from Section 8 of the Judging Guide:
"All teams being judged for an event must be judged in the same format to ensure consistency in the judging experience, and to remove the potential of format-based bias from impacting deliberations."
Based on this, when I am a judge advisor for an event, I require that the event either accept digital or physical notebooks, but not both. I notice on Robotevents.com that events are allowing mixed submissions as follows:
"Mixed Engineering Notebook Submissions ... Teams may choose to bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges or submit it digitally."
Could you please clarify the requirement?
If judges were allowed 30 minutes to review a notebook and this was consistent across all notebooks, could they be submitted either digitally or electronically?
Much thanks,
Betsy Zinser, Judge Advisor