I'm coming late to this party as this weekend was the first time I was able to use the new judging/scoring system that Peter Vogel has been developing. After using it for two rounds this weekend in Victorville, here is my opinion.

Peter has put a tremendous amount of effort and money in to developing this system. He also seems extremely committed to continuing the development of the entire system.

From the standpoint of just being a judge sitting in the chair, I don't ever want to have to judge with a pencil in my hand again. Peter's game controller interface is, at least from what I can tell, just about perfect. It takes very little time to get used to using it. And you now have the ability to never have to take your eyes off the model. It seemed far less tasking both physically and mentally to judge. I personally feel that I was able to do a much better job of judging with this interface.

In all honesty, the system still has some bugs. There were times that things would lock up and Peter would have to get involved getting everything back up. So there is still work to be done. But the advantages are so significant that I feel we should support him as much as we can in getting this to completion.

I truly feel that this could be the biggest improvement to the entire pattern experience that I have ever seen. I know that sounds like a big statement, but you have to experience it to realize the possibilities.

My hats off to Peter for this work! I'm going to push the Donate button on the website to help him the little I can. I urge everyone in pattern to do the same. This truly can be a gamechanger.