Thank you for all those who gave up their time to attend over the two days and put themselves through an assessment. A special thank to John for both organising the seminar and for your usual outstanding hospitality; always a pleasure, cheers mate.

It was great to see some old friends and some new faces. Judging is not an easy job as Phil pointed out and can be a thankless one. Hopefully with continuing understansing of rules and scoring by coaches and fighters judges will get less grief.

The results of the assessment do show how much understanding has improved amongst judges and coaches in Scotland since the last assessment a few years ago, which is excellent news. Out of the 25 sitting the assessment, 14 people obtained the 80% pass mark with 8 obtaining 100%. I think only 7 passed previously (from a larger number of assessments). As John mentioned, Kenny Burnett is holding another seminar in September.

For those not training as a judge the 80% mark is not really important (although it would perhaps suggest that it might be unwise to shout too loudly about bad decisions LOL) but it is just a formative experience that is useful to gauge current understanding and to use as a platform to continue to further knowledge. Certainly a number of people on the assessment a few years ago who only obtained very low marks then got 100% this time around, which is a real credit to them for not being put off but continuing to develop.

Thanks for the seminar plug Farhad.