SCORING

In aisling, your goal is to earn a perfect score – 10 points – in each of three different categories:

There are three official judges. Each judge gives the competitor a score in all the categories. The scores can range from 0 to 10. In each category, the scores of the different judges are averaged together into a single number. These three averaged scores – one for Movement, one for Originality, and one for Aislemanship – are added together to calculate your total final score. A perfect final score is therefore 30.

The Movement Score
How good are your moves? Can you dance? Can you do karate? Can you balance ten products in one hand? Show us what you’ve got! You can earn points for athletic skill, grace, technical finesse, rhythm, style – anything that has to do with your movement.

The Originality Score
How creative are you? You can earn points for a good costume, for coming up with a funny idea for a routine, for customizing your cart in an interesting way – for anything that shows off your personality and a fresh approach to aisling.

The Aislemanship Score
How successful is your routine as a whole? A good routine should “take the mundane activity of shopping and turn it into something personal and inspiring”? How well have you embodied the spirit of aisling?

A perfect final score is very difficult to achieve. Note that in an average competition, you usually do not need high scores in all three categories to win! For example, if you don’t feel like you can get many points for your movements, don’t worry. Focus on the other two categories instead. Find some way to show off your creativity – customize your cart, perhaps, or devise an approach to aisling that no one has thought of before – and you can still get very high scores in Originality and Aislemanship. Good scores in two categories are usually enough to put you in contention.

Remember – ultimately, this is a performance. You are doing a routine in front of an audience. It is set to music. Try to show them something special, something inspired, something they will applaud because it is amazing, funny, clever, surprising, exciting – whatever you can come up with! As in any performance, personality and enthusiasm can go a long way. Even though each of the competitors will have different approaches to aisling, everyone is trying to achieve the same goal: to turn shopping into something entertaining and impressive for an audience to watch.

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