competitions, placing is based entirely on a single judges subjective opinion. Ties are common, and can result in slightly skewed final results. For instance, a tie at 2nd place would result in the 4th best dancer receiving 3rd place (1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, instead of 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th). Irish Points Preliminary and Open Championship competitions are judged by at least 3 adjudicators (Judges) and at regional, national and world "Oireachtas" competitions, there can be 5 or more. 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 judged 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: 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 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 a standard 3 judge Feis competition, a unanimous 1st place score is 300 (100 from each judge). At Regional Oireachtas competitions, there are 5 judges who rate