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Irish Points

Championship competitions are judged by at least 3 adjudicators, and at regional, national and world competitions, there are either 5 or 7 adjudicators. Because of the subjective nature of judging, the varying scales used by each judge, and fact that the scores of 3 dances must be combined to determine overall placing, an additional method of scoring is used where a final placement is derived from each raw score.

Ties in these placings are discouraged but do happen. Each of the placings from 1st to 50th are assigned an Irish Point Value, which when combined with the other adjudicators, determines final placing. The Irish Points per individually judge place are vaguely logarithmic, in that 1st == 100 points, 2nd == 75, 3rd == 65 etc, until 50th == 1. This gives higher marks by single judges more weight than average marks by more judges.

Complete List of Irish Points (Places 1-50):

 1st 100 11th 41 21st 30 31st 20 41st 10 
 2nd  75 12th 39 22nd 29 32nd 19 42nd  9 
 3rd  65 13th 38 23rd 28 33rd 18 43rd  8 
 4th  60 14th 37 24th 27 34th 17 44th  7 
 5th  56 15th 36 25th 26 35th 16 45th  6 
 6th  53 16th 35 26th 25 36th 15 46th  5 
 7th  50 17th 34 27th 24 37th 14 47th  4 
 8th  47 18th 33 28th 23 38th 13 48th  3 
 9th  45 19th 32 29th 22 39th 12 49th  2 
10th  43 20th 31 30th 21 40th 11 50th  1

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 ===Irish Points===
-Preliminary and Open Championship competitions are judged by at least 3 adjudicators (Judges) and at regional, national and world "Oireachtas" competitions, there are 5 adjudicators.  Because of the subjective nature of judging, the varying scales used by each judge, and fact that the scores of 3 dances must be combined to determine overall placing, an additional [Irish Points] method of scoring is used. Each individual adjudicator derives from their own scoring, a final placing. Ties in these placings are discouraged but do happen. Each of the placings from 1st to 50th are assigned an Irish Point Value, which when combined with the other adjudicators, determines final placing. The Irish Points per individually judge place are vaguely logaythmic, in that 1st == 100 points, 2nd == 75, 3rd == 65 etc, until 50th == 1. This gives higher marks by single judges more weight than average marks by more judges.
+Championship competitions are judged by at least 3 adjudicators, and at regional, national and world competitions, there are either 5 or 7 adjudicators. Because of the subjective nature of judging, the varying scales used by each judge, and fact that the scores of 3 dances must be combined to determine overall placing, an additional method of scoring is used where a final placement is derived from each raw score.
-Complete List of Irish Points:
+Ties in these placings are discouraged but do happen. Each of the placings from 1st to 50th are assigned an Irish Point Value, which when combined with the other adjudicators, determines final placing. The Irish Points per individually judge place are vaguely logarithmic, in that 1st == 100 points, 2nd == 75, 3rd == 65 etc, until 50th == 1. This gives higher marks by single judges more weight than average marks by more judges.
+Complete List of Irish Points (Places 1-50):
 st 100 11th 41 21st 30 31st 20 41st 10
 nd  75 12th 39 22nd 29 32nd 19 42nd  9
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 th  47 18th 33 28th 23 38th 13 48th  3
 th  45 19th 32 29th 22 39th 12 49th  2
 th  43 20th 31 30th 21 40th 11 50th  1
-In a 3 judge competition it is almost impossible to '''Not''' get first with 2 judges agreeing that 1st place is warranted, since with 200 Irish points, the 3rd judge would need to place a dance 7th or worse to overcome the 25 point bonus between 1st and 2nd.  This scoring method helps ensure that a single bad adjudicator does not unfairly ruin the results. At Oireachtas competitions, there are 5 judges to smooth out the subjective biases of individual adjudicators. The highest score possible at a local feis is then typically 300, and at an Oireachtas, 500.