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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Lodges sometimes assemble degree teams for a graded Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft or Master Mason degree. Start off with a perfect score of 1000 points, then count off points for errors in the language, floor work etc. To receive recognition in Grand Lodge (and a nice certificate the Lodge can display) you need at least 901 points. On one EA graded degree team we scored 980 out of 1000.
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Well, not to brag (well, OK, I AM..)...same sort of thing - we have six individuals on a ritual staff, individual scores of 100 are perfect, 600 perfect for a team (by the way, "perfect" scores are NEVER attained, much of the judging is too subjective in nature)....
At this year's convention, I scored 99.0417 (personal best), and our team scored 593.9375 (also our personal best).
It's all for bragging rights - and with over 2000 lodges, only 66 teams qualified for international - so it was quite an accomplishment. The only Texas staff (Grand Prairie) placed 5th, and no Oklahoma staffs qualified this year.
We get hits on words (.25 for each one missed, .5 if you need a prompt to get going again), floor work, unison movements, quality of delivery, etc....it can be very stressful, and is EXTREMELY competitive. Our staff has won first place honors three of the past four years (last year we missed two words, the only hits, and that dropped us down to 5th)...so it's hard to stay at the top.
Moose, Elks, and Masons actually compete...are there any GLO's that do this? LXA does not, but you can be nominated to the Ritual Staff that does initiation at our conventions, so that is an honor to participate in, but not much is done by way of competition at an official level....