Judging of Cymbidiums at showtime

[Des]

Although I have grown Cymbidiums for some years I have never before become interested in the judging methods at shows However reading an article on the subject the other day pricked my interest . so I asked for permission to observe the judges at work at our show last week (it was my job to tie the ribbons on )
Just prior to the show I downloaded the "principals of judging by the Cymbidium orchid club of South Australia and read that a few times just to make sure that I was not completly stupid ! And in the hope that I could follow the method they used to determine first ,second and third places
To my surprise the judges voted for first second or third First of all choosing what they considered to be the best three plants in their category on the table.Now let me tell you that in most cases I was in agreement with the choices made
But being a practical sort of person I expected the process to be a lot more scientific and I expected that they would give points for things like color,substance shape of flower , number of flowers per spike ,how well grown the plant was etc etc and then total the points to determine the places.
I would be interested to hear just how plants are judged in your part of the world