I sent one of my beers to a semi-local comp. It was a AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition. Four weeks after the judging was final I had not yet recieved score sheets. A friend who had entered, had got his score sheets after a two weeks, so I contacted the organizer and inquired as to the status of my entry. He said there had been some confusion and he would look into it. No problem, mistakes occur.
Five days later I get an email stating my score sheet have been mailed, and many appy-polly-loggies. Today, I recieved the re-sent score sheets, and a envelope from a stranger. The envelope from the stranger was the original score sheets that had been mailed to anouther entrant. She was kind enough to forward the score sheets to me. How she got my address to do so is beyond me.
I don't know how many judges submit a score sheet for each entry, but what I got was two seemingly complete sets of scorings. The original judging set that was forwarded by the nice lady was the current sheet from BJCP, two judges sheets and a cover sheet. The re-sent sheets were similar in that the cover sheets listed the same final score, but the listed flaws were different and the judges for the re-send did not input a Judge BJCP ID.
The original sheets matched the flaws I precieved in my own beer pretty closely. The re-sent sheets reflected the same final score but didn't match the beer I sent.
If this is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition, is there not a standard on the nunber of judges that review a beer and respond to the entrant? Should I get four score sheets? Do more judges judge beer than sheets are sent for?
I'm really excited about entering competitions, be it for good or bad, but does this not smell a bit funny?
