A lot of this is the new Rubric UIL has imposed. To me...it seems a little too objective. Almost like a tick system where you add up the consistently versus usually and essentially generate a rating on that. The judge gets the final say so, but it feels like keeping score in a very strange way.

I judged last week and I tried my best to adhere to the rubric. After experiencing it as a judge I feel it can most certainly make attaining a first division a bit more difficult. However, at the end of the day UIL has always had that standard.