• Judging Flow: From Start to Finish

    Overview While EVERY part of a drill meet is just a piece of a complex ecosystem, every judge who wants to depart on schedule has an obligation to make the process of receiving a team, evaluating their performance, and moving to the next as seamless as possible.  While the flow…

  • The Point of Judging: Ranking & Rating the What & the How

    Overview This one is short and sweet but if we don’t stop and explore this concept, nothing else is going to make sense.  In this module, we’ll cover the primary role of the judge beyond just the mindset they bring to the table and the scores they assign to the…

  • The Definitive Guide to Judging Drill Meets

    Overview This course is designed to prepare you to be the most effective drill meet judge you can be!  Whether you’re an alumni of a drill team program giving back to your community through judging, a drill team trainer pulling extra-duty to help educate teams through judging, a cadet looking…

  • The Judging Process: Impression, Analysis, & Comparison

    Overview Whether you’re studying up and training for your next judging mission or you’re a school looking to educate their pool of drill meet judges – be they adults OR cadets – understanding the mental process by which we arrive at our RANKINGS and RATINGS is fundamental to doing an…

  • DTD Systems

    Overview “The system you’re using is perfectly designed to give you the outcome you’re getting.”  Chris Voss, Former FBI Hostage Negotiator One of the things that makes drill teams effective is efficiency: the ability to improve in multiple ways on multiple levels at the same time thereby increasing leverage and productivity.  One…

  • DTD Values

    Overview This article covers the fundamental principles that underpin all of our work with drill teams, regardless of service, experience, competitive level, or geographic location.  All of our strategies, teaching methods, etc. proceed from these basic understandings.  If you’ve arrived here from our work together on-site, we recommend continuing to…