SCQ needs revision!
Published:Friday | March 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
The much-celebrated annual Schools' Challenge Quiz programme has lost all integrity. It's quite clear that there is a need for fundamental change in the management staff and, most important, the judging panel.
At the end of the four-minute buzzer challenge in the recent match between the Wolmer's Boys' School and St George's College, the scores were locked 20-20. In the tiebreaker, a Spanish question was posed. The team from Wolmer's was clearly first to press the buzzer, followed by St George's.
All who viewed this match aired on February 27, 2013 could attest to this, not only the designated judges who sat less than 10 metres away from both competing teams at the studio matchup. The question (whose answer was known by Wolmer's) was, nevertheless, given to St George's College. St George's was declared the winner.
At the request of an in-studio replay (to illustrate this travesty to judges) by the Wolmer's Boys' School, the coach was instructed to have a seat and told by the judges that they had had enough.
The right to an in-studio replay is given to all schools in the competition. In the Wolmer's-St George's match, this right was usurped.
In the interest of viewership, TVJ's management should review the judges' decision.
ANDRE SILBURN
Hampton Green, St Catherine