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Pundits, Punters and Judges

Just how did 4BR's opinion and Steven Mead's Judging Criteria experiment pan out against the official result then...

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Those of you wondering just how the Judging Criteria experiment panned out against the punters views of 4BR and the official adjudicators the box — these are the final results.

Official Result:

1. Tredegar
2. Fairey (Geneva)
3. Black Dyke
4. Fodens
5. Cory
6. Rothwell Temperance
7. Desford Colliery
8. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
9. Grimethorpe Colliery
10. Brighouse and Rastrick
11. Co-operative Funeralcare
12. Leyland
13. Virtuosi GUS
14. Tongwynlais Temperance
15. Hepworth (Cookson Homes)
16. Whitburn
17. Kirkintilloch


4BR’s punters view:

1. Black Dyke
2. Fairey (Geneva)
3. Foden's
4. Cory
5. Grimethorpe
6. Brighouse
7. Tredegar
8. Desford
9. Rothwell
10. Leyland
11. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
12. Kirkintilloch
13. Virtuosi GUS
14. Tongwynlais Temperance
15. Whitburn
16. Hepworth (Cookson Homes)
17. Co-operative Funeralcare


Steven Mead’s Judging Criteria Experiment:

1. Black Dyke
2. Cory
3. Foden's
4. Fairey (Geneva)
5. Grimethorpe
6. Brighouse
7. Tredegar
8. Rothwell
9. Leyland
10. Desford
11. Carlton Main Frickley
12. Kirkintilloch
13. Virtusoi GUS
14. Tongwynlais Temperance
15. Whitburn
16. Co-operative Funeralcare
17. Hepworth (Cookson Homes)

What does it all mean…

4BR Editor Iwan Fox gave his usual observations on the performances in our live coverage throughout the day and opted for Black Dyke as his winner (the fourth time he has done so this season and the fourth time it has seemingly jinxed their chances of victory!), whilst placing eventual winners Tredegar in seventh.

Meanwhile, Steven Mead also had Black Dyke to win with Tredegar in seventh place, although there was some difference between the separate pundits when it came to other placings.

Agreement

4BR ended up agreeing with the three men in the box of Nigel Boddice MBE, William Relton and Ronald Holz in respect to Fairey (Geneva) in second place, Virtuosi GUS in 13th and Tongwynlais in 14th, whilst Steven also saw agreement with Virtuosi GUS and Tongwynlais.

4BR and Steven agreed on Black Dyke, Fodens, Grimethorpe, Tredegar, Carlton Main, Kirkintilloch, Virtuosi GUS, Tongwynlais Temperance and Whitburn – and we didn’t confer – honest!

Both Steven and Iwan had four of the top six but not in the same order as the judges, and nine of the top 10 but in a different order.

More coverage

So what does it all mean then?

4BR will be looking in more depth in the next few days…

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