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Your federation already has criteria. What it does not have is a number attached to them, a rule that stops the panel agreeing before it commits, or a ceiling. This council exists to fix those three, and it is meant to be led by the people who pay for them being broken. That is a claim, and a claim needs a roster behind it.
Your name and address stay with the Council and are never sold, never published and never handed to a federation, a promoter or a sponsor. The only thing anybody outside sees is the count, and the number of shows the roster has between it. What we do with it.
What signing on means
The Council is not a federation. It does not sanction shows, rank athletes, issue cards or take a position between federations, and nothing here affects your standing anywhere you compete.
What changes on the stage you compete on
None of this is about what judges look at. They already publish that. It is about what happens to the number, who gets to see it first, and whether anybody can check either afterward.
A placing says you finished ahead of whoever happened to stand beside you that night. It does not travel and you cannot train to it. Every element you are scored on gets its own number out of ten, against wording published before you entered, so a 7.4 on Conditioning means the same thing at the next show that carries the element. The sixteen elements
The moment the head judge says what they thought, seven judges become one judge and six ratifiers. Every judge locks a score for every element before anybody speaks and before any score is visible to anyone else. The chair does not score at all. Section 1.0, the panel
Where nothing caps conditioning, the only safe assumption is that drier and more depleted scores higher. Named, observable conditions cap named elements at a published number, applied by the chair and never by a judge, and an athlete pulled for acute distress is never scored down for it. Section 1.2, health limits
All three of those are claims about what happened in a room, and a claim nobody can check is not a rule. So the Standard asks for a fourth thing: that a show can show it. When each score locked, that no judge saw another's first, the drop exactly as applied, and every cap with the condition named. Nothing is sent to the Council. It exists so that when you ask, the answer is something other than the promoter's word. What the record has to show, and who benefits from requiring it, are both written down.