I don't, as a rule, attend competitions and definitely never enter, ever! Neither do I have any favourites since over the years I have only known the odd dancer who competes.
But by and by I have racked up seeing a few comps... and seen major mistakes just ignored as if they didn't happen, tangible bias towards London dancers, tangible bias towards 'Ceroc' dancers, selfish leads actually held up as an example of how to dance, a syncronized swimming smile made as important as basic technique... and so on...
I don't know whether I have the qualifications to judge, but fifteen years+ MJ dancing tells me the vast majority of those selected to judge don't either. I can't even post here and say 'the judges do the best they can' when patently some fall foul of such basic problems of bias towards dancers associated with those who appoint them/pay their wages.
I get that judging is difficult, I get Lory's point as well
, nonetheless, in general, if anyone asked me what I thought of MJ judging over the years, I would say essentially 'crap'. Of course, buried in amongst the general crap, there have been good judges, but even so, to answer the original question, IMO no credibility whatsoever.
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