Tags
An important part of answering clarifications as an ICM is to provide consistent answers. When 2 teams face-off at a tournament, the appraisers need to appraise their solutions consistently with any clarifications the team has received. They also need to appraise the 2 teams consistently with one another. This requires that the answers to clarifications be consistent.
When ICMs review several hundred clarifications, keeping answers consistent is itself a challenge. Tags are one way to do this.
The idea behind tags is that each ICM team can develop over time a set of terms that describe a recurring topic that shows up in the clarifications they are answering. This set of topics is usually challenge specific. For the technical challenge, the list for a specific year might include:
- vehicle
- battery substitutes
- unopened containers
- OPS
- story integration
Each of these phrases becomes a tag. You can then tag clarifications with one or more tags. To quickly find a set of clarifications that involve this topic, you can search topics by tag.
To define a new tag for your challenge , use the Misc Action pane.
You can associate one or more tags with a clarification when you answer the clarification.
One of the filters on the Answer Clarification pane is to filter by tag.