It takes seven plus seven years to make a piper so it’s said, but it takes ten years of accomplished activity at the highest level of competition, a lengthy exam, and the initial approval of an elite few to be a piping judge in the EUSPBA.
Why must this be so? We’ve all done our share of sideline judging and many of us have the knowledge and insight to probably do as good a job as anyone out there on the pitch. So why can’t you be a piping or drumming judge? Is the current EUSPBA criteria really needed in order to make them?
The requirements and criteria to make this list of three dozen or so EUSPBA-qualified judges are clearly spelled out on page 14 of the EUSPBA Policy Manual. The qualifications being what they are, piping and drumming judges are held on a pretty high pedestal by us mere piping mortals twisting our drones on games day. The EUSPBA can lay claim to having the strictest requirements in the world for its judges panel. So strict, in fact, that the panel’s growth has been tepid at best over the last eight years.
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