1. Timekeeper/Announcer

2. Timekeeper/Announcer Role Transition team from staging judge to performance area – Staging judge will tell the Timekeeper if Cost form, OA form, or Membership sign need further attention Keep team calm Let the team know where the outlets are, and where they can place their stuff before time begins

3. Paperwork Style forms to Style judges Lists (and clarifications, if any) to Problem judges Other paperwork – If OK, all other paperwork goes to Scorechecker/Head Judge – If Cost, OA, or Membership Sign needed attention, give that form to Problem Judges/Head Judge

4. Timekeeper’s Checklist Briefly talk to coach – Identify Head Judge – How to find out when score is ready – Reserved seats (coach should now sit down) Talk to team – Checklist questions – Confirm pronunciation of team name – Any questions from the team?

5. Questions to Ask the Team after Transition from Staging Judge

6. Announcing Checklist has a prepared announcement – Modifying is OK Make sure all checklist info is in your speech Keep it fairly short Last things in this order: – Judges ready? – Team ready? – Begin! Keep time (stop team if they have gone overtime - 1 minute on certain problems)

7. Announcing Team to Audience

8. Timing Overtime vs. No Overtime – Note elapsed time on checklist – If overtime, inform Head Judge/Problem Judges DO NOT tell teams their time (or even whether or not they went overtime), even if they ask Judges chat with teams – No more than three minutes – Parents/coaches can help clear the stage afterward

9. Questions?

10. Style Judges

12. How is Style Scored 2 required elements defined by Odyssey 2 free choice 1 overall effect Each worth 10 points 50 points of a team’s total score

13. What is Style? Style defined in the Program Guide as the “elaboration of the long-term solution” Pizzazz factor of the performance Creativity and originality Unconventional thinking that is unique or extraordinary What you remember about the team’s solution 6 months later

14. What Can Style Be? Anything! Except: Teams cannot select to be scored on something they are already being scored on in the LT Problem as either of their “Free Choices” Look at the form and ask, “Did the Long-Term Problem already ask the team to do this?”

15. Required Style Elements Problem 1 1.Originality of how membership sign is designed to look like a driver’s license 2.Trash items used in the construction or decoration of the vehicle Problem 2 1.Originality of the narrator’s appearance 2.Creative use of a trash item in the performance Problem 3 1.Visual impact of the jester’s costume 2.Creativity of the overall use of one specific material

16. Required Elements Problem 4 1.Creativity of the artistic representation and how the components are integrated into it 2.Artistic quality of a costume Problem 5 1. Visual impact of the community setting 2. Creative use of a material in a team member’s costume Primary 1.Creativity of a costume worn by a team member 2.Creative use of how a modern item is made to look prehistoric

17. Overall Effect How do all the elements build to create a solution that is OVERALL more unique? What did the team intend for the four elements to build upon and how creative was that?

18. Hints Take exactly what the team writes and score the item how it is written. Make sure that you can identify the item to be scored – or ask the team for clarification.

20. Overlap Quiz Required in the Problem The Receiver character – Opens three email messages – Overall creativity of their performance Does it overlap? The accent of the receiver character Yes – accent is part of the overall performance

21. Overlap Quiz Continued Required in the Problem The meter – Creativity of the way it operates Required style element – Creative use of trash item The meter is made out of paint can lids Does it overlap? No – Unless the paint can lids somehow affect the way the meter operates, can be use in style.

22. Scenery

23. Costumes or Humor?

24. Themes

25. Artistic Quality

26. Materials Used

27. Other Possibilities Membership Signs Auditory Accompaniment (sound effects, poetry, rhyme, etc.) Patterned or Controlled Movement (dance, marching) Descriptive Prose (story, play, narrative) Mime Foreign Accents Puppets Makeup Lighting

29. Work Aids St. John’s #43258 Blue dog, duct tape, shiny 5 Bradford #2220 Painting of mona lisa 2

30. Creativity of how required information is displayed on sign

31. Artistic quality of a decoration on the vehicle

32. Questions?